day nineteen: blogaroos...

Day 19, Sunday: Five of your favorite blogs and what you love about them.

This is hard!  I read so many blog every day... I feel like, no matter who I write about, I'm going to wish I had also written about someone else!  I'm probably going to break the rules, and tell you about more than five blogs... no one call the blog police!

Well, here we go!

Maddie at Head High Heart Strong.  She has a really cute blog about living in Korea, and I love reading her stories about what she does over there.  It definitely gives me a hankering to get back as soon as possible!

Violet at Violet LeBeaux.  This girl is so adorable, and she is so talented!  She has the most unique fashion sense, and she creates really awesome DIY tutorials!

Elycia at Love Elycia. A really lovely lady who is currently pregnant with her first child.  She has really fun craft and DIY tutorials, and she is an awesome photographer, too!

Kaehla at Little Chief Honeybee.  Super adorable posts about awesome stuff she finds on the internet, and her MASSIVE and so unique clothing collection!  Also, a fantastic photographer.

Michelle at Creature Type.  A super talented artist!  I LOVE looking at all of her designs that she posts... she makes me wish I was more creative!

Jasmine and Angela at The Happy Sloths.  These two girls post really great beauty product reviews, and have started delving into more personal material as well.  I love their writing styles!

Jordyn at The Fairy Princess Diaries.  This girl is HILARIOUS!  Every damn post she makes makes me smile.  I love everything she comes up with!

Rachele at The Nearsighted Owl.  This girl is an amazing fat activist, and one of the more inspiring people I have ever come across.  She has the greatest self-esteem ever, and I love her!

Crystalyn at FlavorPink.  Another amazing artist!  She works with watercolours, and makes me wish that I could pull off the amazing work she manages to create.  I love seeing the new artwork that she posts!

So, yup... definitely more than five... oh well.  I hope you check out all of the lovely blogs that I let you know about today!

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Toodles, lovelies!

day eighteen: the fish...

Day 18, Saturday: Tell a story from your childhood. Dig deep and try to be descriptive about what you remember and how you felt.

My family used to have a trailer and a lake lot out at Lake Isle, here in Alberta.  We used to go quite often in the summers, and it was always so much fun!  One year, when i was probably in Kindergarten, we went up there, and I remember the weather being amazing.  It was so sunshiney out, and the water in the lake was warm.  I was wading in up to my knees, and chasing the little minnows around, when I managed to catch one!  I was ecstatic!  I ran over to show my mom, and that was about the time she decided we should head back to the trailer.  I remember being so proud of my fish, and that I had caught it with my bare hands, I knew I wanted to take it back to the trailer to show dad.  So, I kept a firm grip on my fish, and we all walked back down the trail to the trailer together.  We got about halfway there, and I looked down at my fish, and noticed that his eyeball had popped out of his head.  I was DISGUSTED!  I immediately threw him into the bush, and was super pissed that my fish decided to be disgusting, so I couldn't show my dad.  We got back to the trailer, and I'm sure I told my dad, but I don't remember much about that.  I just remember being super disgusted that my fish had the audacity to pop out its eyeball when I was carrying it back.  Odds are I had probably squeezed it too hard.

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big news...

I'M GETTING MARRIED TODAY!!!

I can't wait to share all of the photos and details from our special day with you all!  Wish us luck!

Toodles, lovelies!

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day seventeen: self portrait...

Day 17, Friday: A favorite photo of yourself and why.

I took this picture while I was living in Korea, in front of my favourite wall stickers in my apartment.  There's nothing really special about the photo, I just like it.  I think my skin looks nice, and is kinda clear, for once... and I like how big my eyes look.  Now, it just reminds me of living in Korea, and I keep going back to this photo as one of my favourites of myself.  I feel like I just look really happy.  And I remember being really happy at that time.  I kinda used to love my self-cam photo sessions... taking a tonne of photos to get just the right one, after getting all dolled up to go out somewhere.  I kinda miss my Korean haircut, too... I thought it was pretty cute.

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day 15: a day in the life

Day 15, Wednesday: A Day in the life (include photos from throughout your typical day - this could be "a photo an hour" if you'd like).

So, this is clearly a day late... hahaha.  With good reason!  A day in my life, lately, has been really boring.  I'm unemployed... so, my day is occupied with a lot of random, boring crap.  However!  As luck would have it, yesterday was a really busy day with wedding stuff, so I figured I would document THAT, because it was actually a pretty fun day!

Without further ado, a day in the life of someone finishing their wedding preparations!

I woke up at 10, and Robyn had stayed home from work (because he is still sick), so, after taking a shower, I asked him if he wanted to come to the mall with me, and keep me company while I got all the crap done that I needed to do.  And, because he is the sweetest dude ever, he totally agreed :)

My mom had sent my sister to the mall on a mission to pick up a guest book and a cake knife and serving set for us, so her and Robyn decided that they would do that while I did my girly prep stuff.  Bonding time!

First, I went and got my eyebrows waxed!  Hallelujah!  They FINALLY look nice, again!

 After this, I walked across the mall to Studio Nails, and got some nice gel nails put on, since my natural nails are all shitty and broken, and I want nice nails for the wedding!

I've never had this type of gel nail put on before, and, I gotta say... IT FUCKING HURT!  Ugh, when they put the gel crap on, and you stick your hand under that UV light, and it bakes the nail on... ohmygod... so much burning.  I had to take my nails out and put them back in a few times before I could sit through it.  Cheese and rice!

I forgot to snatch a picture of the cake knife and server set... they're really pretty, though!  I'll take a photo of them at the wedding :)  They're getting engraved with our initials right now!

We also got our guest book, from Papyrus.  I LOVE that store!  I'll take a picture of it at the wedding, too.

Next, we went for lunch.  I had mall Chinese food... yum :)

Robyn and I went home for a little bit, and then we went to meet my mom and my sister's family in Fort Saskatchewan, at Tim Hortons, for my "last mother/daughters coffee as a Smith gal."

The rest of the night was filled with completing wedding preparations.  I finished putting together the origami flowers and making the name plates with them, Robyn put together the favours, and we finished setting up the centerpieces for the tables.

Also, there was Merlin.

I only have a few things left to finish prepping for the wedding... mostly just downloading the music for the reception... I can't believe Saturday is coming up so soon!

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