i have been feeling a little bummed out. and tired. with lots to do and so little time. i need two of me. i need sleep.
but then there's those little moments in your day that help you bear things and make you lighter inside:
- the lovely way the sun hits the tops of trees as it rises
- strangers that help you with doors
- strangers that give you a little smile as they walk onto the elevator
- the violin guy at the train station playing pachabel canon in d
- an unexpected email from someone you love
- catching the bus to get home
- and videos like this. this makes me so happy. enjoy :) i hope you all have a good day full of little moments.
Showing posts with label l'amour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label l'amour. Show all posts
Thursday, March 26, 2009
i love.
Friday, March 20, 2009
je l'adore.
i finally bought it. :)
the scent lasts longer.
and the bottle is just so adorable.
looking forward to:
- 5:00 pm, friday
- dinner party tomorrow
- a weekend of crafting
- sleeping in on sunday morning and waking up to my dad's banana and blueberry pancakes. yum-o.
here's to a sunny weekend! happy spring everyone :)
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
dream big.
it remained secret because i never thought it would come true.
but it will!!!
i bought tickets to see elton john, live with billy joel (!) on may 30 for their face 2 face concert!
oh elton, you had me at goodbye yellow brick road.
i am so happy.
ps: as morbid as this sounds, i've requested my sister to have them play this song and skyline pigeon on my funeral day.
pps: what was your favorite concert? the best ones i've gone to so far are dashboard's dusk and summer tour & spice girls (and i am not ashamed to admit it!) world tour.
ppps: i would love to see enya or yanni or sara brightman one day. that would be lovely.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
a summary of 2008
anti-val celebration and dinners with les filles
winterlicious
spice girls world tour
late night timmy's runs
salsa dancing
last exams and essays
convocation
twenty 101
"catering" for TRENDS events
discovering my inner craftiness (still in the works though)
formals & dances
packages and love letters
california trip avec la famille
expensive splurge at the paper rabbit
first sewing machine
classes at the workroom
piano lessons
the big move
ballet & interpretive dancing
misery with A
misery with A
lots of soul searching. hardeehar.
meeting wonderful online, blog friends
impromptu dinners
realizing who your real friends are...
...and who are not-so-real.
dinners+game nights with the three
ottawa/montreal/quebec city trip
awful haircut
i [heart] my new job
canoe
gossip girl nights
a lovely thanksgiving
a lovelier christmas
happy new year everyone :)
Monday, October 20, 2008
hohum.
sigh.
john flew back to north carolina yesterday and i am feeling quite sad and bummed.
john flew back to north carolina yesterday and i am feeling quite sad and bummed.
but i do have pictures from saturday's downtown (again) excursion. it was a really beautiful day.
we had breakfast at the gladstone hotel's ballroom cafe. (the gladstone is a boutique hotel)
gladstone hotel
1214 queen street west
toronto, ontario, m6j 1j6
416 531 4635
gladstone hotel
1214 queen street west
toronto, ontario, m6j 1j6
416 531 4635
because i had wanted to try something different, i had eggs benedict for the first time! i don't know if it was because of the heightened anticipation, but i was a bit disappointed. i thought that the eggs were a tad overcooked and i couldn't really taste the hollondaise sauce.
john ordered a frittata. now this one was really good: sundried tomatoes, pesto and parmesan.
i have to say that the coffee was very, very good though.
the cafe also has a nice vibe. there was a lady doing some watercoloring a few tables away. i'd go back again, and just order the frittata. hehe.
i wish i had a teapot like this. so cute!
other little discoveries:
* this sewing machine store on ossington and queen which sells $6.50 yard sticks. fabricland sells them for $30!!! of course i got one and it was one of the best purchases of the day. it's wood and it looks really vintagey to me. i also bought gray knit fabric which i will be turning into another dress soon!
* i miss you vintage
where i got two pairs of shoes, with the right heel height and the right fit. i'm still searching for the perfect brown shoes, but these black ones (and one with a bow) are a good start.
* this sewing machine store on ossington and queen which sells $6.50 yard sticks. fabricland sells them for $30!!! of course i got one and it was one of the best purchases of the day. it's wood and it looks really vintagey to me. i also bought gray knit fabric which i will be turning into another dress soon!
* i miss you vintage
where i got two pairs of shoes, with the right heel height and the right fit. i'm still searching for the perfect brown shoes, but these black ones (and one with a bow) are a good start.
* this:
"i am more than the square heads that live here"
muahaha.
* this:
it makes me want to go to the market and buy a loaf of baguette and tomatoes, even though i hate tomatoes.
i did a lot of crafting and fabric shopping this past week and i'd like to show you once i have everything uploaded!
and that is all.
have a good week everyone! :)
i miss you miss you, my dear.
ps:
* i was thisclose to buying a gocco printer for $300. after much pondering and weighing out the pros and cons, i came to the conclusion that it was too much to spend on something that is being discontinued and nearing obsoleteness. there may be an alternative though...rebecca from mon petit lapin made these classy teatowels with her screen printing kit. hmmmm...
* i was thisclose to buying a gocco printer for $300. after much pondering and weighing out the pros and cons, i came to the conclusion that it was too much to spend on something that is being discontinued and nearing obsoleteness. there may be an alternative though...rebecca from mon petit lapin made these classy teatowels with her screen printing kit. hmmmm...
* i am now up to date with gossip girl. i love blair. i hate serena. period. i prefer bitchy characters with hearts of gold.
* saw nick and norah's...it's a bit like a cute teenaged (and very drunken) version of before sunrise
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
friday's excursion
i must talk about downtown t.o because it is one of my favorite places to be in. beware, this is going to be a post of pictures!
when john comes to visit, i like to take friday off and we just spend an entire day shopping, looking around, and of course eating (john's fun to eat with because he eats my tomatoes and always saves me the last bite. and there's just lots to talk about!)
instead of doing our usual thing, that is, going to ikea for breakfast, we went straight to downtown and had breakfast at sunset grill.
sunset grill
1 richmond st. west, toronto, ON M5H 3W4
(416) 861-0514
7 AM to 4 PM
john, being the tea lover he is, wanted to try out the the red tea box, which we discovered while walking to the workroom on queen street (one of my favorite streets. there's just so many things to discover each time). i don't like tea at all (except for bubble tea. hehe) but the display window boasts of fondant covered cakes and cupcakes...that of course drew me in.
red tea box
696 queen west, toronto
416 203-8882
it also seems so idyllic and tranquil, but this whole experience was ruined by two things:
1) the very rude manager - who totally lacks people skills. she is actually quite notorious. i've read plenty of reviews and everyone complains about her.
2) the nasty, overpriced cake that we ordered for dessert (yes, the ones that drew me in in the first place). we got a chocolate malt layer cake and that was disgusting. it was mostly made of fondant and the insides were crumbling as if it was baked a week ago. all for the price of $11.
we got mushroom soup and this beef sandwich. it was tasty and herby, but the soup was obviously reheated and the beef was cold.
sigh.
one thing i liked though was the cantaloupe infused water our waitress gave us. just simply cut up large slices of cantaloupe (they didn't even peel it. that's where a lot of the flavor is, that's why) and leave them in your water pitcher. it's supposed to cleanse the pallet.
i'd go back there, as long as i avoid dessert and that awful lady.
here are more pictures from friday (hover over "notes" to see notes):
this is the dress i made, by the way! it has imperfections, but i love it and will wear it again! :)
i made this with the built by wendy pattern 3964, without the inset.
Friday, October 3, 2008
wearable patchwork and miscellany
i don't normally talk about fashion, but when i saw this comme des garcons dress, it made me think of paper piecing.
from Coutorture
English Paper Piecing, originally uploaded by the workroom.
anabela from field guided (a blog that i just recently discovered!) makes the same observation:
from here
from here
ever since i discovered ayumi's blog and her wonderful logcabin pouch, i've been wanting to try quilting. going to the workroom makes me want to start as well, but it just seems so daunting. i suck at measurements and sewing straight on the machine, and am not very patient - which i think are prequisites to making something so beautiful and grand like a quilt (am i right?).
anyhoo...in other news:
* it amuses me that "vegan" is now the new adjective for synthetic leather
* john is coming for thanksgiving! yay! this means long walks, long talks, movie nights and lots of holding hands. sigh.
* i am hoping to get some sewing and crafting done this weekend. my energy's just been really low nowadays. but i do miss my machine!i'm planning to make my littler sister a crayon roll.
*my laptop has passed away. it's only two years old, but i guess that's the maximum lifespan of any techie thing now. things are just not made to last anymore. disintegration is the new thing. this is why vintage is awesome.
have a beautiful friday everyone!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
i would like...(and other things)
* to live like this
from here
their pictures together always make me smile because they're oozing and radiating happiness and love for each other. le sigh. it makes me want to hug john.
* these cute vintage looking valises. perhaps for old letters.
from here
* a vintage fan, comme ceci
from here
it won't be living out its purpose in life though (i don't think i'd want it to anyway...its blades look really lethal). if i had one it would sit prettily on my shelf, with the rest of my non-operational things.
this "hobby" of acquiring things solely for aesthetic reasons is something i got from my mother. she once bought a huge, beautiful glass jar (with a wooden lid). in it were the most delicious looking biscotti. we weren't allowed to eat it. it sat for the longest time on our baker's rack. i wonder if, like wine, it improves with time. probably not. i guess this could be said for a lot of things too: bath oils (the ones that come in balls...those always fascinated me. not the balls but the bath oils, hardeehar) in decorative bowls that never hit the bathtub. jars of jelly in the pantry (too pretty and good to use). what else?
my room holds objects of obsoleteness:
* a typewriter sans ribbon (i tracked down a typewriter store in toronto but they have no ribbons specific to my typewriter)
* a teapot that i snagged from the neighborhood thrift store (this was more expensive than the pair of shoes that i bought with it!)
* holga and polaroid cameras (one has never been used, the other is broken. sigh. poor arthur)
* and the newest addition, a cake stand that my aunt purchased for me from a store in niagara on the lake.
i suppose it does serve a purpose, but not the right one. no cupcake, no cake has ever sat on it before. instead it houses my earrings, my favorite bracelet, and the pocket watch that john gave me for my birthday.
speaking of cupcakes, another cupcake that i made, for a birthday card that i'm making. don't mind the sucky embroidery. and the purple ink. it'll disappear. and the wrinkles. it will be ironed later on. you'll see :)
have a happy middle-of-the-week day :)
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.
i am, always have been and will always be a romantic.
a movie didn't interest me unless it had some love story between a girl and a boy. my dad used to bring us home so many movies to watch. the following are videos of the most romantic scenes from movies i saw as a kid. do you remember any of them??? and come on, you've got to watch them :)
a dream worth keeping, from ferngully. my sister and i thought that this was pretty romantic too. but now that i look at it...jumping from puddle to puddle is quite cheesy. but it's still good :) and scandalous for little children to be watching...batting eyelashes...swimming in the dark...in a two piece. haha.
kiss the girl, from little mermaid. my MOST FAVORITE disney movie. the very first one i saw too. yes, call me lame, but i had a crush on prince eric. i blame this on my lack of exposure to guys, being in an all-girls school and all during my developmental years. ha. ariel, btw, is 16 years old while she was doing all this. she wanted legs, i wanted guys. muahaha. jk ;)
let me be your wings, thumbelina. i remember when my dad first took this home for us to watch...it was on beta. hehehe.
far longer than forever, from swan princess. :( sob. it's like my theme song. i saw the real ballet of it when i was young. i loved the part when odette transformed into her evil self. all they did was wrap her in this cloth and from a white tutu she emerged into a black one.
remember me this way, casper. the most romantic scene ever. except, the following doesn't really make any sense:
casper doesn't look anything like devon sawa. or sound like him either. and why did bill pullman look like bill pullman as a ghost? (i hated him for dying. if he didn't die, casper and christina ricci would have been together forever. (i had the hugest crush on him, btw. i loved him in little giants. i used to imagine that i was becky) Thursday, February 14, 2008
happy love day
Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.
eternal sunshine.
today is the day ofeternal sunshine.
* illicit affairs, as my dad calls it
* bouquet-ladened guys
* extra happy girls
* public displays of affection. too much of it.
augh. it's just another day, and tomorrow these couples will be resuming their regular fighting (yowza)...but sometimes you just can't help but get sucked into it.
yeah yeah. i'm just jealous. but it's only natural. i am a girl after all.
i heart martha stewart.
i want to be martha stewart.
so i decided to make white chocolate brownies for my co-workers. i individually wrapped them with parchment paper and printed out little labels with an ingredients list. and because i'm such a brown noser i'm giving my boss three brownies in a cute chinese takeout box.
i tried making little envelopes out of doilies but they didn't really work out so i just made hearts out of them and sealed the flaps of the parchment with little stickers (25% at carlton's :) )
white chocolate brownies with walnuts.
all 19 of them for work.
suckity-sucks. no fine-tipped marker.martha stewart would never be this unprepared!
i also made garlic pasta for tomorrow's v-day potluck. i wanted to do feta puffs, but this one is simpler to do.
garlic, olive oil, parsley, bacon & parmesan cheese.
Friday, October 21, 2005
descriptive conjugation.
the moon spills its milk
in the dark
illuminating our intertwined fingers
until we're no longer just a sentence,
but the purest form,
the smallest meaningful unit,
no strings attached
an act of simple resonance
a morpheme.
Monday, October 17, 2005
reciprocity for as long as we both shall live.
we'll dance
in dimly-lit church basements
to the classics of our time
with a 50-year old disco ball hovering over us.
and i'll remember back in the day
when i sat and watched
and smiledat the exchanges of existence
as if they were all alone,
as they swirled to the music
unaware of the sighing watchful eye.
this will be our happiness:
built by dinner dances in basements,
quiet restaurants with torn leather seats,
moonlight patio dinners,walks in the fall,
good mornings and good nights,
kisses and raspberries,
and a word unspoken but often understood,
and a look that forever redeems.
and as we slowly amble back
to our white plastic chairs
you'll look down at me,
smile and say,
we've still got it.
and i'll lightly punch you jokingly,
as i've always had:
yes indeed.
Friday, October 14, 2005
moi, renversée.
a whisper
spreads a thousand beads
across my spine
my toes
until i have to breathe
quietly
softly
suppressing, repressing
so the tell-tale
oohlala
won't escape my chest,
my mouth,
into your ears
so that your eyes
keep me unfocused.
Tuesday, August 9, 2005
strange boy.
when we're done being stupid and quiet, maybe it can happen.
maybe if we grew up a bit, learned more and waited.
so many things that need to be said and kept quiet until they're ready to surface.
so much understanding, linked up, telepathic and weird.
eyes that lock and wish could rest that way.
echoing plangent melodies reverberating and are played over and over again...
each note memorized. we know how to sing it, but refuse to.
the cadence brings us forward, but each daring step does not pacify.
the volcano will errupt before we know it and it'll send out a host of fireworks into the sky,
we are hypnotized, enthralled, enchanted, spellbound.
it surges and quells simultaneously. x marks the spot.
and it is found.
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