Archive for July, 2009

A Day In Vancouver (timelapse) Video

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This timelapse video from the past weekend (July 25th) has been making the rounds on the internet – and we though we’d share it one more time in case you missed it.

This KatKam.ca camera captures the scene across the Burrard Street Bridge every 5 minutes, and on this day the weather turned wild. Vancouver started with a beautiful sunny day, collapsing into a rain storm, then had one of the most majestic red sky sunsets ending just before the HSBC Fireworks finished off the night. Amazing.

It’s great to see how lucky we are to live where we do.

Interview with Victor Cuevas Jr… Owner of Rain City Bikes and Rain City Salon

Friday, July 24th, 2009

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Victor and his wife Julia are long time supporters and clients of dandelion, (Victor is also my hairstylist and now Stefs too!). Victor was just interviewed on a local cycling blog, talking about his love of cycling and hairstyling. It’s great to see our friends getting this kind of great coverage and wanted to spread the word.

From Bespoke:
Victor Cuevas Jr, owner of Rain City Bikes is almost certainly Vancouver’s ‘new man’. Not only does he own Vancouver’s nicest city bikes, he also sports Vancouver’s nicest hairstyle. It helps that he owns Rain City Salon and Rain City Bikes – a strange, but prescient combination. Victor is a familar face riding around Vancouver, tie and hair in the wind on his luxurious Dutch bike. As a hair stylist, Victor has the advantage of seeing things from outside of the box. In fact, what was missing in his eyes was nothing more than a box, in this case, the popular Bakfiets (literally: box-bike) bike which he imports into Canada. Today Victor sells a ton of Euro bikes to regular folks who just want a comfortable, safe, and durable bike that they can wear their regular clothes with. He’s making Vancouver more beautiful one bike – and one hair-style – at a time. Eric Kamphof, editor of bespoke (and a former Vancouverite) conducts the interview.

You can read the rest of the interview here: http://bespoke.onthefourth.com/?p=426 (http://bespoke NULL.onthefourth NULL.com/?p=426)

Evian Roller Babies commercial

Monday, July 20th, 2009

If you haven’t seen this commercial… Too cute for words.

Protect your child's ears with Peltor earmuffs

Friday, July 10th, 2009

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Rock into summer and outdoor concerts safely with these protective ear muffs. They are adjustable, perfect for your 3-month old along for the ride, to the big kid rockin’ out in the basement!
If you’re heading out to any of the many festivals or sporting events, you’re going to need these.

Here are some links to a few of the events around town that you might want to have your ear muffs handy for:

  • Vancouver Folk Festival (http://thefestival NULL.bc NULL.ca/)
  • Vancouver Giants Official Website (http://www NULL.vancouvergiants NULL.com/)
  • Vancouver Canucks Hockey (http://canucks NULL.nhl NULL.com/)
  • Vancouver Canadians Baseball (http://www NULL.canadiansbaseball NULL.com/)
  • Virgin Festival (http://www NULL.virginfestival NULL.ca/bc/)

Encourage your child to wear their muffs – maybe even have them customize them with stickers to make them even more fun! Also, great for wearing if mom is vacuuming or if there’s some screaming brothers or sisters around.

You can find the Peltor Earmuffs here on our website (http://shop NULL.dandelionkids NULL.ca/a097070 NULL.html) if you’d like to learn more.

Welcome to the Dandelion KIDS blog

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

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We’re super excited about our blog! We’ve been debating it for a few years now. Should we? Shouldn’t we? So, finally it’s here. We’ve mainly started this blog so we can hear from you – our clients. We also wanted to share other things that inspire us in life and to let you know about new and exciting developments and products at our stores. Please feel free to leave comments for us and let us know what you’re thinking, what you’d like to see more of, or even products you’d like to see us carry. Also, if you haven’t signed up for our E-mail newsletters, you should sign up for that right now!

Oh, and of course…we’re on Facebook (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/pages/Vancouver-BC/dandelion-KIDS/12275586017), too. Sign up to be a fan and check out some other cool pictures of our storefronts over the past few years, as well as all kinds of other cool stuff.

Thanks for your support!
- Stef and Maria

PS. We’re going to upload some of the press coverage we’ve received over the years, so you’ll see that going up over the next little while.