An art gallery in my house

My friend, artist Matt LeBlanc, and author/singer, songwriter Rémi Boudreau are currently bringing their INSPIRATION tour to cities in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Ontario. Kinda like rock stars, but minus the roadies and the groupies ;-) On Tuesday night, Matt and Rémi brought their tour to Ottawa, and I was lucky enough to host my first-ever art party. An hour after they arrived, Matt had transformed my house into an art gallery. A very clean and tidy art gallery, if I do say so myself – and it only took five straight days of mega-cleaning. UGH! Anyway, everywhere I looked, there were fabulous pieces of art…

As the host of the party, I had a tough act to follow. Monday’s party in Westmount included guests like Debbie Travis and billionaire Guzzo Cinema owner Angelo Guzzo.

Sadly, I don’t know any famous designers or billionaires. But even so, I think the party at my place was pretty cool & fun – how could it not be with the best party girls in town in attendance? YAY TBBs! And where there’s TBBs, there’s wine…

And there were cupcakes…

…lots of cupcakes…

This picture just cracks me up. Can you see why?

At first, it looks like a room full of girls. But there’s Jackson on the sofa, looking all serious and like he’s thinking about what painting to buy! The dog thinks he’s a human :-) And here’s Matt with Squirt (he thinks this picture is terrible, but I like it). I bought the paintings you see behind him way back in 2007. It’s really cool to see how his art has evolved since then.

Rémi sang a set of five songs, which were very touching and meaningful, because they’re about his life.

Many lessons, hard lessons, had to be learned for me to be able to take my previous life, which was motivated by the outside, and transform it into a life that is now “Inspired from the Inside”. This album is, in many ways, a personal diary of this rewarding journey of mine. All that I hope is that it will inspire you to live the life you were born to live…YOURS. ~ Rémi Boudreau ~

 

It was great seeing my friend Matt again and meeting Rémi for the first time. They’re both so friendly, warm, and fun, not to mention extremely talented. Matt & Rémi are bringing their tour to Toronto and London next – if you have a chance to attend one of their parties, don’t miss out!  You can find the information on Matt’s web site.

And on a totally different note, now that I’m back to blogging here at JAX regularly, I’ve decided to make some design changes. So if things look a little wonky at times, that’s me playing around with the HTML code and probably messing things up ;-)

Happy weekend!