This cover-up/dress: cover-up or dress? Not that it being both isn't okay, but I might lean more to the dress side of things. Would you?
I am back in my desert hometown for some much needed and awaited family and Erin time. As I write, all I can see is LAKE, SAGEBRUSH and POPLAR TREES. The life of a British Columbia desert local... aaaah!
Presently I am: - moving the couch out of the middle of my living room - putting my hair in pin-curls - nailing a single nail in the wall - setting up my tripod
These are ridiculous clues. What's official. My Etsy shop. Opening later today! I'm so excited and nervous but here goes.
The Swiss boy and I went to Lighthouse Park in WestVan at the beginning of May. It was probably warmer then than it is now. Do you realise that tomorrow is JULY? Do you additionally realise that tomorrow Thom & Garth are getting back from an entirely-too-long band tour? Do you lastly realise that tomorrow I will be earning time-and-a-half at work? That is very cool/useful.
I took my 70-210 mm lens and went wild with its telephoto wonders.
All thrifted.
H&M cut-offs, UO shirt, thrifted boat shoes.
It's really adorable when I see Cyril pedaling into our back alley on his way home from work. With his little helmet on. On his little Free Spirit 10-speed. With his little AA backpack. In his dress pants & loafers.
There was a really sweet video on Face Hunter a while back, a mini interview with the filmmaker who did this video. She said she fell in love with every one of her subjects and said it so sincerely.
Off for a morning of shopping & brunching with my little sister and then to work. In my new shorts. Even though it isn't too warm today. What's that all about anyway? July is in two days.
I'm still. Around. Working my Summer (what Summer?) away, but the bills gotta be paid, friends!
For a desperately anti-climactic return, I give you a YouTube video! Of Jason Schwartzman in Slackers - VERY high on the Every Jason Schwartzman Film Ever Made In The World list. According to IMDb I have experienced 10/27, although that includes TV.
What a dreamy dream Dream Boat.
Turns out this is an homage, because I really need to tell you all to watch the HBO series Bored to Death, if you aren't already. I can't wait for the next season.
While we're at it, just going to go ahead and ask: anybody know about that designer collection video starring Jason Schwartzman and Kirsten Dunst, directed by one Gia Coppola? I remember watching it in February, found on a blog, and I want to say it was Clever Nettle, but alas I cannot find such a thing.
LORDY I am rambling tonight. Time to get my 1960s nightgown-ed behind to bed.
When my mum was visiting, we took a trip to the Van Dusen Gardens on Oak St. It. Was. Gorgeoussss. Hard to believe we went at the beginning of May, wearing shorts, and now the Pacific Northwest is plagued with 13 degree temperatures and rain for days at a time. I hope June treats us better.
My sister and I are heading out of the big city to visit our family tomorrow. It likely won't be that relaxing, but such a nice getaway. And I haven't seen my dad & brothers in a while!
EDIT: from now on, I am uploading photos to zee blog in a slightly larger size than before (more detail!!), so be sure to click on the images to SEE. THEM. BIG.
It was my parents' 29th wedding anniversary recently. I had a phone chat with my mum just now and she told me all about their adorable anniversary gift mix-up:
They decided together that they weren't going to buy each other gifts this year but my mum spotted a gorgeous mantle clock that she couldn't resist and bought it as a surprise for both of them from both of them for their anniversary. The chiropractor, Martha, ran into my mum at the jewelers, saw her buying the clock and my mum told her what it was for not realising that my dad had a chiropractor before their anniversary. When Martha sees my dad later on, she gushes about how perfect the gift is and my dad says... what gift? So she says... oh dear, you weren't supposed to know about that were you? Anniversary morning my mum finds a little box on the table and says... we decided we weren't exchanging gifts this year! And my dad says... well I heard from a fairly reliable source that you got me something as well. He buys her a gold necklace and they both get their mantle clock.
1981
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Although you can't see it in its glory, the gown was my Grandma's (mum's mum) from the 1940s and I hope to wear it in turn as well. When I visit my grandparents at the end of the summer for their 90th birthdays, I will dig up the first generation of the dress!
Last summer when I was living with my parents, I took the liberty of paroosing through my grandparents' family photo albums to scan and pillage as many photos as I could get my grimey little hands on.
Having already posted one of these (in the form of the most handsome picture known - ever) , I think I feel a series coming on...
Fashion inspiration-wise: can we please just take a minute to drool over the lady on the right's dress? The detail at the neckline is gorgeous. And how adorable is the little girl smack-dab in the middle of the frame, in the tie-up short sleeved cardigan? So proper. The girl in the same row on the far left, what a stunning face - I wonder what she looks like now...
Oh, my dad is the rascaley-looking one second from the left in the second row.
There is presently a back-log of unpublished photos on my computer spanning five months. Friends' visits to Vancouver in DECEMBER, fondue and cheese parties, outfit post ideas, Switzerland AND Austria... I've been keeping this all (and more) from you.
(I really don't know WHAT I was thinking not buying this. Who knows.)
Well, here's the explanation: a few weeks behind in photo editing, hooray, really - I love tinkering about in Photoshop. A month behind, yikes, but I can deal because it's still enjoyable... Five months of photos that need editing? Now it just seems like work - and not fun. Needless to say I'm overwhelmed.
(Our new old sofa. She fits so well in our tiny, white apartment.)
WELL THIS IS WHINEY OF ME.
(Outfit deets include: thrifted & altered dress, thrifted girl's jean jacket, AA over-the-knee socks. And our sofa, Jackie. I just named her.)
So, friends. Help me to stop feeling sorry for myself and get me pumped to share photos with you.
Vancouver! Parties! Europe!
And remind me that photos from five months ago are better late than never and that they are still fun to look at even if they are ancient.
Summer in Vancouver has finally decided to arrive. Fashionably late.
As evidenced by this total babe spotted by Style Quotient.
Starting to know more people in this fair city (after 4 years...) it's somewhat of a game to look through this site - even more so as the photographer seems to stalk mostly downtown (where I live). I almost always see some familiar, pretty little faces that have rightly caught SQ's eye as well.
Because aaaall that made it seem like the total babe & I are bff's, fyi, I do not know her. Not that it matters. She knows where it's at, it's Summer in Vancouver and we shall leave it at that.
