Espresso-thon
31 01 2008Posted by Robert @ 5:29 pm
My good friend and awesome freelance photographer Geoff Howe is coming to Vancouver for a visit and wants to check out a few cafes. He is a convert from the Starbucks nation, but when living in Saskatoon there isn’t an abundance of choice available to him. So come February we’re going to take Vancouver by storm and check out as many cafes as we can.
You can read about our miss-adventures here
One for the Road. . .
I am also going to try and blog throughout the day. This is a new experiment for me and I won’t have the help of some sites like Twitter (We finally broke down and are now on Twitter)
We’re also going to hit a few haunts that I have been hanging out at but haven’t written about due to pressure from my homework load.
We might have a few more friends coming along for the ride. Leave a comment if you have any suggestions or want to come along. . .
Bump in the Road
A while ago I blogged about Bump and Grind’s refusal to give out coffee sleeves with their coffee. Apparently they made the nightly news and they haven’t looked back since. In fact, according to Josh, they haven’t been busier, and oh yeah they are just as sassy as ever!!!
A Little Bling Goes a Long Way
The Coffee Cuff
And while Bump and Grind is going sleeveless, a company my sister started will allow you to stylize your latte a bit while you’re helping to reuse & recycle.
The Coffee Cuff was created in Vancouver B.C. by myself, Loreen Dall, a Mompreneur who saw an advertisement for the “super rich” with a fur coffee sleeve and thought why can’t we all have a chic Coffee Cuff that we will actually use and help save the environment at the same time? A couple years later, the Coffee Cuff was born.
~ Loreen Dall ~
They have a wide variety of colours and one size fits 12, 16 and 20 oz. cups.
And yes she is my sister so I might be a bit biased, but I did try out a beta version of the cup and it fit nicely in my hands and it’s completely machine washable!
Check out their Web site
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Love the Bump n’ Grind. It’s one of those “I insist” stops I bring out of town visitors to these days. Love Josh’s nervous tick!
After 1996, when Koffee Kompanions (http://www.koffeekompanions.com) added the original Kup Kollar as a second product along with the Koffee Kozee for French presses, other reusable cup wraps came on the market in leather, foam, fleece, and spandex. The Kup Kollar, in two sizes, is the only cup sleeve to use Thinsulate Insulation by 3M–used in winter clothing and ice coolers, so it works on hot and cold take-out cups, beverage glasses, some beer bottles, and water bottles.
Of course, I might be a bit biased because the owner is my Mom!