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Saturdays and Nights

I am by no means a fashionista, nor do I suggest spending silly amounts of money on clothing -- I can respect quality, but in some cases, come on people!  No shirt is worth $800, even if it is spun with gold thread!  Buuuuuut, from time-to-time it is fun to create mock-up outfits.  So here are some of my wish-list outfits -- watch out thrifty stores, I'll be hunting down these look-a-likes, or one day I'll learn to sew better and I'll just make them myself!

Comfy boyfriend jeans and floral shirts, oh yes!  And when the sun slides down behind those hills, change those chucks for a sultry pair of yellow heels, ow ow!  And who doesn't love a fedora?  Simple, pretty, comfortable -- a perfect outfit for a quiet, slightly overcast day such as today was.

This little ensemble was put together via polyvore.com.

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I just scrolled down through my blog and discovered that somehow my post from Wednesday and my photo from yesterday got deleted!  Anyhow, I guess I'll save the post for next week.  As for the photos, I'm just going to repost the photo from yesterday and add a second from the same day for today's photo!

I was lucky enough to get to visit my wonderful big sister while she was living in Dieppe, New Brunswick -- my first trip out to the east coast.  And holy cow, that place was made for photography!  And even though my sister is back living in the west, I promise I'll go back some day...

Photo Fridays!

I could spend my days (and nights) taking photos, editing photos, looking at photos, talking about photos -- let's put it this way, I REALLY like photos.  Everything from wedding and family photos to fashion and landscape -- I love it all.  So for my very first Photo Friday post I'd like to feature my lovely friend Edie (her real name is Alicia, but she's my Edie and I'm her Andy -- for any of those Warhol fans out there, haha) -- she's a graphic designer/photographer out of Vancouver and she is seriously talented and has a lovely eye for design.  She also recently got herself an iPhone and has become a serious addict of the instagram app!

Check out her photo-a-day blog or see what she's been up to at summer of ali.

DIY - Moss Frames

So we know I'm a DIY lover, and there are many projects I come across that I want to do, but just can't seem to justify where in my home I could put the project... This is not one of those projects!  I could fill my entire home with these -- Oh, I can see it now... moss frame collages... ahhhhh yes...

Stay tuned, I will most definitely be making some of these for myself, aaaaand will be so proud that I will not be able to keep myself from posting photos!  I discovered this lovely DIY (tutorial included) at Ruffled.

365 Photos

Well, I wanted to do a photo-a-day section to my blog, but it doesn't seem to work that way, so my photos are going to get thrown into the mix with all my other tidbits!

This is my city, and the view from my 3rd story balcony.  The hill to my apartment may not be a delight to walk up, but it has it's rewards.

Taken with my mom's old film Minolta -- film is not dead!  One day, I will have my very own dark room *love*

I (heart) DIY

I don't just love DIY because I have a crafty nature, and a 'I could make that' attitude (even though sometimes I can't, or just don't, haha), but DIY often means being on a budget, which often means wanting to reuse or buy once-loved items.  I'm a strong believer in not being wasteful, reusing what I can, and not buying new if possible.  Let's keep this world beautiful not only for ourselves, but for the generations to come!  So, here's my first found DIY project for all you DIYers!

So simple!  Just find yourself some glass vases (think REUSE), some white glue, and some of these lovely sheets of vegetable paper (or other paper of your choice).  Make sure to brush the entire surface of the paper and apply to your vase carefully, making sure to smooth out any bubbles!  And voila!  You have yourself some new, pretty little vases to fill with flowers, twigs, bamboo, or even tea lights!  This could make for great centerpieces at a wedding reception, or just around the house.  Happy DIY!

I discovered this lovely DIY project at iDiY via Natural Home and Garden.

Well hello.

I’ve been sitting here for what seems to be a very long time, trying to figure out how in the world to write my first blog post.  And then it dawned on me, “who in the world is going to read my first blog post other than my loyal sister and Andy's Edie?”  So ladies, here it is!  If anyone else stumbles upon this first post, my apologies, haha.  I promise someday I will write my posts with much more eloquence and grace, or at the very least, better flow! So here goes:

Six months ago, while I sat in my university English class, amongst too many freshly graduated students where my twenty two year old self felt old for the first time, we discussed punctuation.  Yep, punctuation.  Exciting, right?  BUT our professor posed the question, “Is punctuation going to one day die out of our language?”  She went on to further explain that many forms of punctuation, such as the colon or semi-colon are rarely used in language anymore, but that was not always the case. So is the same going to happen to the punctuation we sometimes use today?  But that’s not what I found interesting.  What was interesting is this: she explained punctuation as a way of clarifying what was being written, and not only that, but it was part of the expression – almost the ART of LANGUAGE.  Then she asked, “Will the apostrophe die?”  And for some reason that stuck with me. 

I’m a lover of all things artistic, old, and hand-made.  Photography has my heart. Travel has my soul. And this blog, well, it’s going to be my place to let it all out. 

Love Andy...