goodbye raquel

i went down to los angeles area this weekend to move my sister into her university this weekend. i'm going to miss her! while on the trip, cameron took me to a boba cafe. it was the first time i ever had boba tea. it was yummy :o)at the hotel, we were all so sleepy & everyone fell asleep on my bed. i thought it looked a neat photo, how they were all curled up together.i just got home from the trip & am now watching this movie called uncertainty. so far it's pretty good! i love the colors in the film. plus joseph gordon-levitt is in it, so.... : )thank you all so much for all of the awesome music suggestions! they really made the long drive down south bearable : )

i'm headed back to my new place tomorrow. i really need to go grocery shopping...

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dandelionkisses: oh i love the album cover too! aaahhh radical face : )

amy: awesome list amy! thank you. since you were the first person to list songs, i downloaded them & put them all on my ipod for my trip right away. they were perfect. i especially love plane & in our talons.

pauline: really liked wasted hours! it's like really...chill : )

liska cole: girls have so many good songs! i really liked lauren marie.

shelbyisms: "a fine frenzy had a baby with mumford and sons and i am so ok with that" - love this!! haha. i tried to find the music on the myspace, but i couldn't... :/

natalie: hello! oh i am so flattered! you are so sweet : ) i love how there is like this whole blog family around. black coffin was just a fun song! & fun is awesome!! i love all the pretty girls. thanks for the suggestions :D

carissa clark: we do have quite a bit in common : ) i'm so sad about castledoor too! :/ i love love laura marling. thanks for recommending her! oh & grouplove, just listened to them - amazing! thanks hun!

abbie's house

here are photos of abbie's new house! she lives there with five other people. the home is very environmentally friendly : ) & the house has the nicest garden of fruits & veggies.

this hammock is in the front yard! & it's so pretty.they keep their totes for shopping by the door to go outside.the living roomrecord player!abbie's room door is on the right.her door has a beautiful antique doorknobher roomthe kitchen! i love the windows by the sink.the gate to the gardenthey even have chickens for fresh eggs!the patio & gardenthe garden, complete with mural i was so happy to spend time there. it was a relaxing house : )

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g: hello! eee! i know, i was thinking the same thing while i was sitting there. hehe. it was totally surreal : )

melly: yeah, they did put a plaque on it! haha. i like what it says "tom's favorite place became one of summer's too." tamales! hehe. & no they weren't filming. it was just this creepy guy who walked around the streets by the museum, posing & stuff. there were people walking by & taking pictures.

inna karenina: it totally was : )

new & improved

hello everyone! i am sorry i haven't been blogging in quite a while & have not been commenting on your lovely blogs as well. i have been quite busy lately. a few days after i got back from visiting abbie in los angeles, i moved out of my parent's house to a different city! i've been busy settling in my new place & going to my graduate school classes. life has been pretty hectic! but i will try very hard to keep you all update like before : )


as you know, i went to los angeles for a week to visit my dear friend abbie. it was quite an adventure! we did so many cool things. abbie had the whole week planned out so perfectly. i want to show you ALL of the photos i took, but i believe that will be a tad overwhelming & take too long! so, here is the edited version of my trip:

i'm so light compared to abbie : )the cool walls inside the metroabbie surprised me & took me to the places in downtown la that they filmed 500 days of summer! this is the iconic park bench.& this is where tom met autumn at the end of the movie.i thought the ceiling of the observatory we went to looked neat.& of course, a vacation would not be a vacation for me with out some tasty vegetarian food! abbie took me to some of her favorite veggie places & some new ones. i'll link you to the places, if you are ever in the area : )

this is cafe muse. it's a really chill cafe with a mini art gallery & night time entertainment. serves only vegetarian food.mama's hot tamales cafe has some of the best tamales i have ever tasted.after a recommendation from liska, we checked out elf cafe. the food was absolutely amazing! & the place had a great atmosphere. serves only vegetarian food. (sorry the photos are bad quality!)the lights outside of lacma were so cool!i'll leave you with this creepy photo. i was taking pictures outside of lacma & the guy dressed as jesus was walking around posing. it was pretty strange. haha.

i'll be back to show you photos of abbie's awesome house!

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jessica: oooo! a book that is going to be a movie? awesome. i'm going to check it out. thanks for the suggestion!

pauline: oh i'm glad the got to you ok! i'm so happy you love them! & i'm happy i made something that will help you both have sweet dreams : )

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i'm leaving today to visit abbie in los angeles for a week. i randomly bought a plane ticket to los angeles about a week ago. it's my one last hurrah before starting graduate school. wow i feel old.

anyways, i can't wait to see her house. she said she has a little garden too.

in other news, i am in the long process of putting tags on all of my 300+ posts. so now you will be able to see similar posts grouped together for easy subject viewing.

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rachel / red lips vintage: oh yes! you definitely should make one. & then blog about it!
anna katrina: hello! hehe. it does : )

visiting raquel

in case you can't read the bunting, it says: "WELCOME ANGELINA"
my sister made it with her friends for me & hung it right above the bed she made for me in her dorm room. it was one of the first things i saw when i arrived & i loved it so much. thanks raquel : )

these two above photos taken by sammy.

i 'm so happy to be visiting my sister! i have not seen her since the first weekend of this year. too long for me!

she had the whole weekend planned with fun. she took me to a photography museum. i loved the work by mirjam droege & the collection of old cameras.
she took me antiquing & i found this little guy for my fawn collection. at first i thought he looked a little ugly... but he grew on me : )
i got to meet up with one of my favorite persons, abbie, for some time as well. she went with me, raquel, & sammy to unique la.

unique la was amazing! so many booths of crafts, clothes, jewelry, & much more. there was free drinks, free crafting workshops, & free tote bags that we could fill with all kinds of swag, including a t-shirt : ) i bought two zines: arts & crafts revolution vol. 2 by terri anderson ($4) & stolen sharpie revolution: a diy zine resource 3rd ed. by alex wrekk ($5). i just started reading them & i already love them both.

& a weekend of photos by lina is not complete with out some food photos! we found this really good indian food restaurant. i love my indian food : ) i leave tonight to fly home. it's been a good weekend, but now it's time for the last two/three weeks of my bachelor degree/college career. i think i'm going to go crazy with the amount of projects, papers, & finals i will have to do & turn in soon. aaaahhhh.

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brit, dandelionkisses, & mike: for the bread on a stick - all i used was some pre-made biscuit dough you get packaged in the refrigerated section of grocery stores. i rolled it into a long line & then twisted it around a stick. then just held it over a hot campfire & rotated it so it would cook on all sides. it's super easy!

elizabeth johnson: hello! i had never heard of it before either! but it was part of a requirement for the youth group to earn a honor patch : )

dandelionkisses: hehe travel cover! i like it. yeah, the hike was so crazy.

-alaina: yes, i definitely love camping for being in nature. i'm off to check out your to do list right after i finish this post : )

brit: thanks brit : ) it's hard keeping this blog up to date with all of the mini trips i've been going on lately!

amy: it was super! thanks amy : )

inna: woah! how cool! thanks for sharing that. i love little infos like that. thanks a bunch :o)

mike: hello! yup! i hope you gave the photo credit & i would appreciate a simple asking next time :] i'm glad people like the idea.

sarah: woah awesome! it seems there are many different versions of bread-on-a-stick around the world : ) climbing mont royal must have been a huge adventure!

hat: hehe. its so quirky!

allison: it makes me feel like i actually do & complete big things!