Creative Ideas: video diaries!

Just this week I hung out with my best friend, and after a few wonderful adventures, we thought of an ingenious idea: (how we never thought of it before, I do not know) Documenting our many experiences and funny stories through a video diary! we just started shooting with my camera (the new Canon Rebels have video!! :D) for about two minutes or so. If you balance it out with friendship journaling in a real journal, it makes for great memories to last a lifetime! Just thought I'd share it with you all!

London. Paris. New York. Audrey.

After our family trip a few weeks ago, I received this gift from my mother, you know, a random "hold out your hands and close your eyes, and you will get a lovely surprise" kind of gift. Actually it was kind of a "thanks- for- being- a-flexible-kid- on- the-trip" kind of gift, but that is on the DL around here. :)

Anyway, it's just the perfect kind of gift for me! I love all those places, and I will probably have visited all of them by the time I'm 30. And Audrey... well, Audrey is just my all-time favourite actress. What can I say? She was a very inspiring lady with a big heart, and her influence has inspired me a lot to be who I am. All that to say, surprises are lovely. :)

A Few of My Favorite Things (bargain vintage edition)

These are just a few of my many favorite vintage items. I try to only buy them when they're a very good deal, but once in a while, there's just that one thing that I have to get, whether it's a good deal or not. :)

Aqua cup and saucer: 10c each, garage sale (how much cheaper does it get?! I bought them three days ago and have already used them a dozen times!)

camera: junk sale, $3

flashlight: junk sale, $1 (my favorite flashlight EVER!!)

owl: junk sale, 75c (an adorable addition to my collection!)

typewriter: goodwill, $5 (awesome! I can still remember the obfuscated look on the cashier's face when she asked 'what do you want a typewriter for??' I told her that 'I just liked them.')

Different.

Just this week, a Latin teacher of mine dropped by with some awesome fabric, buttons, and sparkly embellishments. I was speechless at the amount of pearls and sequins I kept pulling from the sack- it felt like a never-ending supply! Anyhow, yesterday I was sorting the buttons and took this picture. I printed it off and had typed in the bottom right corner 'different'. That's how I feel sometimes, but I love it because I'm okay with myself. I don't need to be like everybody else because different is a good thing! In fact, different is what changes the world. So I'm just going to keep being my different self and try to change the world a little bit each day. So if you're like me, I encourage you to keep being different despite what people think. The way I see it, it's usually only the truly different people who inspire me to change or to keep being who I am. Be who you're called to be and you never know how many people you will inspire.

Here is a list I made a few months ago about being different when I was struggling with it. (I'm not really that discouraged anymore, don't worry!)

Different...

Is hard to be.

takes courage.

isn't bad.

has rewards.

is confident.

doesn't care what they think.

changes the world.

Yes, I made a fairy house.

Inspired by my friend Effima, who had an adorable fairy garden, I decided to make my own fairy house. And I must say, it might be one of the most whimsical creations I have completed. The process is fairly simple and the true art of it is that it is very imperfect, so if you'd like to make your own, just follow the pictures! (I used an assortment of sticks, twigs, hot glue, twine, thread, sequins, ribbon, and lightweight fabric- and the beauty of fairy houses is that they are very imperfect, and that's what makes them so interesting!)

Five things that make me happy

Vintage roller skates from my mom. :)

Delicious food from our garden

Happy breakfasts

Painted toenails

Random assortments of unique objects

Changing it up

Hello, friends! After viewing a blog that gives me energy, simply by looking at it and being inspired, I have decided to change up my style. Hopefully what I post will an improvement!