TEENAGE KICKS

Boy do I ever look moody today, I've been waiting for people to get up for almost 3 hrs now. I'm going to see a few different bands tonight. I have to make the most of my Saturday because I was sick yetserday. So I started working on a song and made a new blog post and now I'm basically chain smoking waiting for the day to begin.

button up shirt - h&m, vest - DIY, sweater - h&m, jeans - from paige, creepers - demonia, twin peaks patch - gift from jody

YOUR SHIT SUCKS

Yay I finally have photoshop on my new laptop, I haven't been able to use it since September, thus the lack in quality posts lately. 

I've kept sorta not really busy in the past month or so. Christmas and New Years were fun, I had the flu for a big part of it though which was a bummer but didn't stop me from going out too many nights! Next month I'm putting together a show on the day after Valentine's day, I'm very excited and scared! So much planning that I didn't really expect, but I like it. I like having projects to focus on, it's just the part of following through that I get hung up on, oops.

So I'm putting together my own band for the show because why not? The B-52's played their very first show on Valentine's day and they're my favourite band, I've envisioned myself playing my first show on Valentine's day as well, it works out nicely this way! Also the show is going to be a fundraiser for a girl-guts zine!!! aaahhhhh!!!

Anyway, I wore this to band practice last night and since no one saw me but Alex, I wore this again today. Outfit repeater, everyone's guilty.

sweater - forever 21, shirt and shorts - thrifted, tights so old i can't remember, tie - gift

I made a really cool playlist that everyone should check out, you know if you're into good music that is.

TEEN SEX PARTY from toridori69 on 8tracks Radio.

As well as a pretty cool outfit on polyvore, see I'm totally doing stuff. No, I'm making things on the internet so I don't have to stress about the show that's in less than a month!

velocity girl by dearwind featuring round earrings

FAREWELL DEAR ALBATROSS

I've just had two cups of coffee, and after one I get a little weird. I'm not going to get into the details of our trip, but here's an outfit from the past week!

It was my friend Aylssa's 22nd birthday on Sunday so we went out for nachos and sangria at Foundation! Emily and I decided to dress to the 9's, but I'm having a problem putting outfits together so I wore a t-shirt.

hat - vintage, shirt - hunx & his punx show, pink button up - tessa's, sequin bow - topshop, skirt and heart tights - forever 21, shoes  - army & navy, mink coat - thifted

Skull

So my opa ordered this dress for me well before my birthday and it only just arrived today. I had to pay $28 for duty fees, which sucks. I hate DHL.

dress - lazy oaf, fur thing - a gift, laura palmer pin and special agent dale cooper ring - my shop, tights - forever 21, pink bow - goodstuffonly, shoes - army and navy

Ghouls and Ghosts

Halloween was the best! I loved every minute of the week, minus when I was working. I suck at bringing my camera out, plus I lost my flash so I relied on other people to take pictures and shitty webcam pix.

Friday Jody and I worked on my costume all day, but it wasn't ready for the night so I quickly threw on a bunch of black stuff and went as a goth. Pathetic, I know. I had on a giant black tinsel spiderweb, it looked like I was black Christmas. Met up with friends to go to 360 Glen, a night of covers of course! The Minutemen, David Bowie, B-52's (!!!), and a lot more but we had to leave half way through the B-52's set sadly. Seriously so sad about missing my favourite (cover) band, but the thing didn't start till 1, and people gotta sleep/work.

Saturday night was the big night. We finally finished my costume, and Jody's. We headed over to a house show for more cover bands!! I got super intoxicated and only remember Peaches and Britney Spears covers, then ending up at another party across the street.

Everyone thought I was a unicorn, or Nicki Minaj, or Katy fucking Perry. I was cotton candy, goddamnit!

Notice the mess of skeleton and fluff stuff we left around Jody's place, pretty sure it still hasn't been cleaned up. Oops.

Once I'd gotten completely inebriated the wig had a hard time staying up, plus it was pouring rain so my cone that I worked so hard on had completely folded over and I ended up looking more like a pink smurf.

Sunday and Monday I stayed home and recovered. Then Tuesday I was back out there! I hadn't thought much about costumes for the actual week of Halloween, so I quickly whipped up a Heather Chandler costume for a show at The Astoria on Tuesday.

I couldn't find any corn nuts.

That costume was fun, but no one knew who I was. Sadly I'm used to this.

Wednesday night I had work and didn't plan my costume before I went to work so I used what I had at work to make a Laura Palmer costume. I think I slay costumes on the go.

An Honest Weekend

Last weekend Jody and Vicky came over for fittings, we had a shoot to do the next day. Jody came over and I bleached the inside layers of her hair and dyed them blue/purple. We went over to their new house and watched My So-Called Life because they have American Netflix, which is amazing.

toque - thirfted, scarf - forever 21, skeleton sweater - DIY, pants - from paige, shoes - army and navy

On Saturday we headed downtown to an outdoor show on possibly the last day of real summer. It was beautiful and warm out and the bands were really good. Plus I had a pizza sub from Subway, it was yummy! I had to leave the show early to get to work on time though, which was sad, I missed jelly boyz.

Sunday was the day of the shoot, I'm not going to say much about it, we're just waiting for the rest of the film to be developed and then I'll be putting up all the photos on girl-guts. But I'll leave you with these two previews which I'm sure you've already seen on tumblr.

 

The Start of Something Awful

So begins the 8 month long rain. Good bye tamable hair, good bye thin tights, good bye heels with no tread, good bye suede shoes, good bye cotton satchels, you will be missed but not forgotten.

hat - thrifted, cape and heart tights - forever 21, shoes - army and navy, purse - marc by marc jacobs, umbrella and socks - unknown

Be Kind To My Mistakes

I tried to wake up early on Saturday morning so I'd actually have time to do stuff. On Friday when Carmelle and I were on Commercial, we went into Barefoot Contessa, one of my favourite clothing stores in Vancouver, and spoke to the girls that work there about getting a job there. It's an adorable boutique that specializes in all things girly and beautiful, the owner shows off her various collections between the store's two locations, including Victorian doll houses and tea cups. Apparently they're hiring and are desperate for employees. I've applied there in the past, but that was before I had any retail experience. I was going to go there before work today and drop off my resume, but the night before I was up till 5 AM watching Quantum Leap on Netflix and didn't wake up till about 1:30.

This outfit was planned to make an impression at Barefoot Contessa, but I suppose I'll just have to save it for another opportunity. However I still wore this to work. There's a dress-code at my work, but it's not enforced.

Lacoste polo - Buffalo Exchange, sweater - unknown, necklace - forever21, skirt - forever 21, shoes - mom

I Disconnect From You

I've had a busy couple of months, what with moving and a new job, I've had little time to spend with my loved ones. I hate to admit this but I hadn't seen Carmelle in a month. She's been working two jobs and just started school again so it's been hard to find time to spend together. We've both been feeling very alone lately and have been fighting because of it. We knew come September, we wouldn't be seeing each other very much, but we had no idea how hard we'd take it.

On Friday we finally were able to actually meet up and spend the day together. I was late (as usual), and it started raining as we met up so we decided to get some lunch at Sorry Babushka's. Its an alright breakfast place, I was highly peeved that they ran out of hollandaise sauce, I really wanted eggs benny. Instead I got a Montreal smoked meat sandwich, it was nothing to write home about.

Carmelle's happy veggie burger

After lunch we walked around Commercial Drive, checked out the book store where Carmelle bought me one of my birthday presents (the third in C. S. Lewis' sci-fi trilogy), which she's wrapping up and not letting me read until my birthday. I picked out it out, I'm annoyed!

We decided to head over to Prado Cafe, since it was raining and we hadn't made any real plans for the day. I got a mocha with beautiful latte art on the top and Carmelle just got a black drip coffee.

I'm not sure why I look like such a weird baby in this picture, why do I do that face? Carmelle was telling me that her brother has a similar pin to my 'V'one, apparently there are victory pins that look like that that were made for WWii veterans. My mom gave me mine for my 8th birthday, it's probably the one piece of my own jewellery that I've kept for that long (almost 13 years!!).

t-shirt - disasterlife, sweater - marino wool, skirt - forever21, doc martens - thrifted, marc by marc jacobs purse - aritzia

Would You Love Me If I Was Dead?

Today (yesterday, thanks auto-post) I was feeling pretty down, I spent most of the day crying and feeling horrible and wishing to avoid everything on the internet. It wasn't a good day to not be working. So my mom decided after she got off work that she'd take me out to dinner at The Boathouse, a seaside restaurant that mainly serves shellfish. It was delicious and definitely lifted my spirits.

The butter for our bread was green! I think it had pesto in it.

I had the best crab soup ever, it came out in a something similar to a gravy dish, and they actually poured it into our bowls that had crab meat and sourdough in it. Spectacular!

I spent most of the day in my pajamas, but 15 minutes before my mom got home I quickly put some clothes on and did my make-up, I knew it would help me feel better.

everything from forever 21