September 2011
2 posts
INSTAGRAMMIN' MY MANIZ
Basically once a week (usually while watching Sunday Night TV - Breaking Bad, True Blood, Curb and now BOARDWALK EMPIRE - or playing video games, since I can use an xbox controller without gunking things up) I give myself a manicure. Sometimes I go plain jane, sometimes I let my nails trip the light fantastic. My secret is Nicole by OPI’s DRYING DROPS. I’ve tried other drying sprays...
GOODBYE SUMMER
I’ve made a lot of promises I can’t keep about blog updating lately, but life has gotten in the way of things. And I’m gracious for that. I start school on Tuesday, so you can expect an even slower trickle of posts from me in the future. Summer was good to me. And a little tough at times and maybe somewhat confusing. But I’m nothing but optimistic for autumn...
July 2011
1 post
SEASON OF THE BITCH
I just thought that I should try to do a quick little post while I still can. This isn’t even a very well conceived “outfit”, but I felt so amaze-a-crazy in this dress that I had to get Andrew to snap a picture. I saw this dress all over the editorials this spring, but I didn’t think it was ever even a possibility for me. However, when I passed it in a shop, I...
June 2011
5 posts
I’ve been preoccupied with gardening lately. And I don’t believe I ever posted a photo of my DIY front door window. Static cling “frosted” window film + stencils + exacto knife! Anyhow, I thought I’d mention that a number of you have been sending me messages through tumblr’s “ask” feature. Thank you all for your sweet messages! However, while...
RIOT GEAR
SUNNIES: Karen Walker NECKLACE: House of Harlowe T: H&M SKIRT: ASOS SHOES: Minnetonka BAG: Thrift …Just kidding. Too soon? Actually, this is what I wore to go eat farty hippie food with my boyfriend, but a riot happened to break out while we were eating dinner (these photos were taken before dinner, just to be clear that I’m not like… gleeful about what happened or...
ON BEING BALD
So the other day I half-spontaneously decided to shave my head. I guess I just reached some kind of boiling point where I was sick to death of my hair taking upwards of three hours in order to look presentable enough to leave the house (I have LOTS of incredibly thick, wavy, wiry hair in addition to it having been RUL damaged and too layered to wear wavy — necessitating deep conditioning...
ROUTINE & DISTRACTIONS
I’m sorry I don’t update so much. I keep having these grandiose plans for a super regimented blogging schedule with super quality content, but the fact is; even without a job or school at the moment, my days get eaten up by routine and distractions. Also, summer’s here, so all I can say is I’ll do my best. PS: I’m planning a trip to NYC with my girlfriends in...
May 2011
6 posts
OLYMPUS E-PL1
Guys, I really am having a love-affair with my Olympus E-PL1. I already wrote a bit about it, and have used it for roughly 50% of the photos I’ve posted since right before Palm Springs. But every day I learn to love it a little bit more. It’s so nice not to have to carry the 5D and its ridiculous suite of lenses around (although don’t get me wrong, I’ve never...
CROP TOP SEASON
Today was the first nice-esque-ish day of the season, so I decided to throw on some “size-inappropriate” clothing and go out with Andrew to drink hibiscus lemonade while he ate a burrito (I’d already eaten lunch, FTR). I’m not going to pretend that I’m always happy being a chubby babe… And for me, if I adopted a healthier lifestyle I would probably lose weight...
DRIP DRIP
I got better from my “mysterious” illness and back pains, thanks to a combo of anti-biotics and liquid magnesium (this stuff deserves a post in and of itself, seriously!). But then I found myself in a rut. It took all I had in me to leave the house for an hour or two to go draw in a cafe with Andrew. But I wore my nice new ASOS raincoat, anyway! I am not totally cool with still...
ASOS HAUL
Hey! I don’t normally make these kinds of posts, but I’m sick and kind of bored, and I love copying Bronny because she’s a Baberaham Lincoln. This is what I just ordered from Asos!!
a) Plastic Rainmac ! Ok I live in Vancouver, OK? I need a raincoat. I have a decent one that’s pretty ugly/utility from North Face that I wear to like the gym on the rare day where I...
K.I.S.S
So I guess, in a way, to dampen the resounding douchechill we’re feeling as Canadians right now (and in my case to forget about what an old lady I feel like since my back is really REALLY bad right now and how I’ve woken up incrementally more crippled with each passing morning and I’m afraid to go to a doctor), Andrew and I went to check out Nuba’s new location at The...
TREVOR & MAREK
I hung out with Trevor and Marek for a few sunny hours yesterday while they played chess in Marek’s mom’s backyard. These were edited with K.Miller’s photoshop actions + a few of my own sneaky tricks.
April 2011
4 posts
SPRING RAIN
It’s easy to miss all the changes going on outside, because the unrelenting drizzle inspires a certain hibernation-mode. It’s a time to put your nose to the grindstone, but don’t be afraid to pop your head out every now and then. Summer’s coming and it will be here before you know it.
Also; it should be noted that all tortiose-shell and calico cats are named...
FACIAL PRODUCTZ
Hey! Someone, somewhere asked me to do a post about beauty products. Since I am lazy and still (still!) busy setting things up around here, I thought I’d just write really quick and dirty about my skin care “regime”. There exist a number of catch-22s that one comes across when “trapped” in the “misogynist” “prison” of “performing...
MISC DEBRIS
Hello! I’ve made various ambitious promises of specific posts, but I haven’t made good on any of that yet. I’ve been really distracted with (still) getting everything set up here, various projects and trying to keep it positive and fun in the face of certain adversities~! I found out a little while ago that I didn’t get accepted back into Emily Carr University of Art and...
Hey dudes! We have been so insano-brain busy setting this place up. It has exceeded my wildest (well, not really my wildest, there is no TV in the bathroom and my bed doesn’t fly, like in Little Nemo) expectations. I really thought I would miss having old fir floors, a cute little balcony, skeleton keys, a clawfoot tub and HEATED honeycomb tiles in the bathroom… But really as soon as...
March 2011
8 posts
A QUICK ONE WHILE HE'S AWAY
As I wind up to move, I thought I’d squeeze in one more update because it may be a while before I’m organized or motivated enough to do it again. I have a lot of packing, moving, unpacking, building, organizing, decorating and adjusting to do. Probably a lot of chain smoking, aggressive music listening and exhausted drinking too. I am actually, legitimately sorry that all I make time...
PxNxW
I am loving the weather and atmosphere these days. Sometimes I start getting wanderlust or wanting to move, and then days like this happen and I’m reminded of the moody, magic beauty of the Pacific Northwest. It’s all Gus Van Zant movies and Nirvana songs and teenagers drinking and screwing and holding satanic rituals in wet cedar forests and rainy and moldy and gloomy. I know it...
SIX FEET TALL
I’m really taking this “updating more often” thing seriously. VERY SERIOUSLY. I built this outfit around a bump-it today, which I maintain are not just for Jersey Shore cast members and Texan prom queens. I wore it out to get some painfully fresh and delicious Sushi from Zipang (and if I’m being real, to buy toilet paper, because it may or may not have been the kind of...
The Ace Hotel & Swim Club, Palm Springs
I promised a little bit about our stay at The Ace in P-Sprangz, so here you go! For the bulk of the vacation we stayed with our parents in a two bedroom condo they rented out for a month in La Quinta. It was really nice and comfortable but we liked our stay at The Ace in Seattle so much, and I was itching for some poolside bar service, so we decided to stay for one night (also, my dad is...
ANDY ANDY ANDY
Hello. I’ve been back from my trip for a few days, but if I don’t BLOG IT right now, I’m going to forget about it forever and that’s precisely the kind of thing I’m trying to avoid these days. So I’m drinking yerba maté now and here we go. Andrew and I spent 9 days in the Coachella Valley, in California. Both of our respective parental units wound up spending...
Desert Outfitz
Lately I think my fashions have been taking on a slightly more demure/relaxed/less ridiculous bent. I dunno why. I just turned 29, so maybe that’s it! It’s seriously such a huge deal for me to even be wearing NAVY and TAN!! Part of me dies inside a little every time I pick out something “pretty”, because my inclination is to always dress like a teenage boy circa 1989, but...
December 2010
1 post
November 2010
5 posts
I finished Alexa’s cowl in a record three days, and we had our first snowfall on Friday night. These two things combined put me in a ridiculously, uncharacteristically good mood.
a note about comments...
Also, I received my first trolly/sexually harassy comment the other day. It saddened me. Please don’t sexually harass me on my blog. I get enough of that shit on the street (most women do, so cut it out!), my mom reads this and doesn’t like swears or lewd comments (even though I have a bad swearing habit) and it makes me disappointed in the human race. Given that; if you still insist...
Yarn fever
Hey, sorry my posts have been so few and far between. But I guess that’s generally how I roll, so I’m sure that even though you may be disappointed, at least you’re not surprised! The truth is I have been kind of holed up working on projects and trying to tie up all my loose ends before I leave for the holidays (we are headed back to St. John’s for a big family Christmas!...
I haven’t done an outfit post in a really long time. I still wear clothes though, I promise. I dunno why I don’t bother sharing what I wear anymore, I’ve gotten some really nice things that I love in the past several months. Anyway, I made Andrew take these photos of me last night, because I liked what I was wearing (even though I think I look like a weird corpse here - we had...
October 2010
6 posts
Some photos from lately! I’ve been painting some new Matroyshka with a “Mutant Kats” theme, Making tiny pizzas for me and Andrew, noticing evening light dancing off the shiny things on my desk, being bewildered by all the boilers, taps, woks and fire behind the glass at my favourite mall Thai place, and having a hard time not anthromorphizing the fall mushrooms that have...
Hi, I got a request on my secondary Tumblr for a list of favourite blogs. If I listed all of them it would take all day, so I picked only the best of the best, and left out any I have already linked to on here. So these are my most recent favourites (subject to change, um… constantly!). (Also that is pretty much exactly how I look when I’m on the internet!)
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My very good friend Alexa (who I have known personally for perhaps around 5 years! Above are photos I took of her on a visit in 2005) has started a blog. She is a really excellent photographer and has really good taste, so you should follow her!
85mm composite
Today I tried out “The Brenizer Method”, which I learned about through K. Miller’s terrific blog. I was so excited about it today that I pretty much forwent all of the plans I had to clean my apartment. Andrew had to go to the park to record some ambient noises for something he’s filming, so I took advantage of the nice trees and warm fall light. I used my Canon 5D Mark ii...
Every single pair of shoes that I own
(click for bigger!) From top left to bottom right: Illse Jacobsen lace-up wellies, white 8-hole Doc Marten boots, black 10-hole Doc Marten boots, thrifted suede ankle booties, Opening Ceremony deerskin platform wedge lace-up boots, knee-high italian leather slouchy boots, electric blue Uggs (!!!), Osborne Guatemalan fabric oxfords, Vans saddle shoes, Fred Perry mocs, white leather Camper elastic...
A story about a dress.
So, for the past, like EVER (possibly since I first fell in love with Peter Pan collars, prim dresses and Enid Coleslaw aesthetic in 2001, or possibly ever since I first fell in love with Courtney Love in like 1994 — AUTHENTIC), I have been searching high and low for this very dress. I have come across a few vintage versions, which are usually either very expensive or way too small. About...
September 2010
7 posts
I’m finally getting around to editing photos I took this summer. There are lots, and I’m picky and overly critical of myself so editing is always a chore! All of the photos I uploaded of my late summer trip to the Richmond Night Market are here {click!} (and you can view them at a larger size). Some of the people in the photos are friends, but most are secret spy photos of...
Hey guys, I felt left out, so I created a separate tumblr to use for run-off/tumbling stuff. It’s here: be-bop-a-lu-la.tumblr.com (Be-bop-a-lu-la was my nickname when I was a baby!) So please add me!!! I’m still going to use this as my main bloggy.
GPOYW - I haven’t participated in god knows how long, so here a bunch at once (right to left: fall look preview edition, “Alas, poor Yorick” edition, what-i-look-like-when-hungover -at-Andrew’s edition, mod-as-fuck raincoat edition, fake pleasant edition and clashing prints & towering wedges edition). And here are some links to things I’ve been kinda into...
DREAM ROOM
I had this goal of completing all the house stuff I wanted to do, which mainly meant hanging a lot of shelves. At any rate, towards the end of the summer, Andy helped me out with that and who knew all it took was to hang two shelves & a uten-silo to have a magic wonderland of a bedroom that I never want to leave!! My friends Lori and Pax built this shelf and gave it to me when they no...
… I just can’t seem to grow up, and I am slowly coming to terms with that (yes, that is a sweater dress with intarsia pterodactyls).
In case you needed solid proof of my burgeoning senility, I purchased the following two items this past week:
The shoes make me six feet tall (and in reality are olive green /w leopard print), and the leggings are from APPLE BOTTOMS and feature two metallic pink apple appliques flanking either butt cheek, festooned with RHINESTONES. Should whatever oversized t-shirt or sweater I happen to be...
Hey guys. I don’t even know what to put on the internet anymore. It’s almost fall now and at the moment, to be perfectly frank with you, I’m feeling tired or slightly depressed with the shift in seasons. It’s not even that I dislike fall or feel really sad that summer’s gone. I dunno what it is. I dunno! I don’t know how to dress anymore, I don’t know what...
August 2010
5 posts
I finally picked up my Solair chairs yesterday (click the link for a bit about their place in Canadian design history!), from Vancouver Special. Comfortable, durable, cheerful and relatively inexpensive; as soon as I saw these I knew they belonged on my balcony. Luv u, Solair chairs.
Teenage flophouse
Since I’ve been back, I’ve been consumed with the idea of getting my apartment sorted out before I go ahead and get a job. I’m in this weird drifting period between wanting to have a really mature, austere home and being a rotten teenage scumbag with dubious taste and the tendency to never finish what I’ve started. The home I’m living in now is the nicest I’ve...
We just got back from our trip (as it turned out we departed from one of the westernmost points of Canada, flew to the easternmost point and stopped just a few kilometres shy of the longitudinal centre of the country on the way back). It was the best trip of my life, by far and I couldn’t have been happier to share hometown/family experiences with the person I love most. These photos are...