Echoes of Opal curated vintage & design

It was probably appropriate that while visiting Echoes of Opal for the first time, I missed the alley and found myself seemingly locked into a secure parking lot. There were automatic gates that closed behind me. Jamie noticed my plight, somehow, and after she stopped laughing yelled out from the friendly side of the large fence, “What are you doing?!” I’ll never know what prompted me to ride my motorcycle into that sensitive, secure parking lot (the actual alley was right there!) and get temporarily trapped, but thinking back, it was akin to Alice going down that rabbit hole. Echoes of Opal is a looking glass. It’s an art studio, a working shop, a laboratory. Once inside, you will discover all manner of wonderful things. Antique cabinets. Boxes. Figurines. Candelabras. An old brass bed that’d be perfect for a couple newlyweds up there in Toronto. Or, a pile of old wheels. (If you ask Jamie about them, she’ll say something like, “Landing gear for a Zeppelin.”) She and Billy scour the roads for nuggets so we don’t have to. They’re damned good at what they do. Go there. Tell Ms. Jamie I sent you. If you just wanna poke around by yourself, that’s no problem. If you have ideas for a certain something, she’ll either have it or she’ll work on getting it. She IS Alice in Wonder Land. She just has wood stain on her fingers and/or chipped paint flakes in her hair.