that dude.

diamond rings - runaway love

5 seconds - twin shadow

jams

a few songs i'm jamming to lately...

the little white dress

it seems that people are getting married or engaged left right and centre! so maybe this will be a post of interest to some gals [and guys!] out there.

 i was browsing the web and came across this sweet little website for 'vintage' dresses called for her and for him. although not real vintage, the dresses are actually hand sewn from scratch once ordered, and are available in a nice variety of vintage style dresses as well as more contemporary. now it's primarily for wedding wear [with a small everyday wear section], however there are so many cute dresses that it would be great for cocktail parties or other more formal events! or just for those days when you feel like putting on a pretty dress! also, when available in whites, i think a lot of them would make sweet little wedding dresses as well!

what's really cool is that the dresses are done in a pretty timely manor and seem to be ultimately customizable: colours, hemlines etc, AND for a fantastic price...all are less than $200.

FOR HER AND FOR HIM

here are a few that i would dress not only my bridesmaids in, but myself too!

a canadian playlist

a small mix cd i put together for a lovely friend in mexico featuring some of my favourite bands and 100% pure canadian talent. many of these bands hail from the eastern provinces of canada - extra special.

fill your ears with joy. 1. 2. 3. GO!

wintersleep - weighty ghost
twin shadow - castles in the snow
willie stratton - november
timber timbre - black water
sunset rubdown - us ones in between
said the whale - the light is you
purity ring - lofticries
owen pallett - the cn tower belongs to the dead
joel plaskett emergency - happen now
james phillips & mike dixon - jellyroll soul
humans - horizon
human highway - the sound
gypsophilia - agricola & sarah
feist - graveyard
crystal castles - not in love ft. robert smith
constantines & feist - islands in the stream
classified - the maritimes
chad vangaalen - clinically dead
caribou - irene
bruce peninsula - shutters
broken social scene - i'm still your fag
bedouin soundclash - until we burn in the sun
arcade fire - sprawl II
yukon blond - water

english national ballet

rebranding of the english national ballet with vivienne westwood. wow.

black betty

on a black, navy blue and leather high lately...well, like always i suppose. these shall be arriving on my doorstep in no time!

pixiemarket

aldo

zara

band of skulls - death by diamond & pearls

hinterland - icarus

i must have this loungey gigantic totoro pillow!

ritmo cubano

gathered, mixed, with a pinch of spice, ready to serve - a great 51 minute long compilation of digitized cuban vinyl by cj plus.


"...digitized by a music producer and a vintage vinyl collector of 2nd or 3rd generation. the mix is put together using a collection of vinyl produced in cuba between 1960 and 1980 and brought to a friendly country of USSR,namely the port of odessa, by the soviet navy marines of the time." music sent to me, and russian sub text translated for me by a lovely ukrainian girl named sasha. 

C.J. Plus - Ritmo Cubano Vol. 2 (Vinyl Only compilat.) by C.J. Plus on Mixcloud

purity ring

i've posted a few things here about the incredible canadian duo purity ring.

finally they have a video for "lofticries".  a little peice of me just died and went to music video nirvana.  and i am still in shock that i have seen this performed live, about 5 feet away from my face [ya i was a crowd-pusher, certainly worth being that asshole!] just one of those songs that gets under your skin in the very best of ways.

dulce neves

dulce neves - n'tchanha

sucker for this song

bitchin'

i was leafing through old photos with my grandfather the other day. we came across this one. we don't know who she is, but she is somehow related to us. this gal is on fire. too cool not to share!

dia de los muertos 2

another halloween costume. 

& a great claymation production from the mexican institute of cinematography

"hasta los huesos"

a-maze-ing

about a month ago, i took a very lovely festive fall trip with some fantastic ladies. we headed to the cornmaze at riverbreeze farm. 

our first assumption was that the maze would be super easy because a. we had a map, b. the walkways were wide and c. there were children racing around [if stupid children can do it, then obviously we could]  we were kinda wrong. we ended up losing our map [much to emma's dismay, thanks kathleen] and getting disoriented so many times that it was actaully pathetic, and we even had to ask about a 'corn-undrum' joke posted along the way. {the answer was 'redneck'.. for any of you fellow corn-mazers that were really confused.}

the day was followed by petting some cute animals and trying out anything we could that was of 'adult' size at the small park. we then drove to a farmers market and filled our stomachs with some tasty homemade treats like fudge, oh-henry squares {AMAZING}, ginger cookies and the likes. 

it was a really nice day, and the scenery driving from halifax to truro area is absolutely gorgeous. anyone who's driven that route knows exactly what i'm talking about! it was also nice to introduce new friends to old friends.  here are some pictures :)

dia de los muertos

this years halloween costume

do's

i get some people emailing me about what i do to my hair. usually, i don't do anything to it.  but i have a few different methods i use for when i do decide to do something with it.

here is one SUPER EASY trick to manage long locks and give them a bit of a wave, or that 'beach' look as many call it.

- after a shower, towel dry your hair.
- put in some curl enhancing gel [fructice curls & shine curl enhancing gel is what i use] - it gives it a loose
  hold and doesn't make it 'crunchy' feeling like extra hold hairspray can
- use a blow drier and as you go take sections of your hair and crumple them up in your hand and hold the
  drier to it for a few seconds.
- do this all around your head until your head is dry and VOILA.

**if you don't have gel [which i usually don't], just use hair spray as you go. for dry hair, a blob of regular conditioner works too, and makes it smell super nice.

purity ring

maybe i've posted this song before, but i saw them live this past week.
(snapshot from the night)

i would certainly wear a purity ring for this canadian duo.

purity ring "lofticries"