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Eclectic stamp collection from www.cutetape.com

Ladies in waiting dinner plates, from Antropologie

Benefit's so hooked on Carmella perfume. 

A poem to describe Carmella... when it comes to carmella don't ask and don't tell, a light touch has admirers under her spell. her sweet sensuality no one would guess, so exquisite, enticing... "an intimate caress."

Erica Domesek's DYI book P.S. - I made this....

Katy Perry's OPI line, with a black shatter lacquer. Too bad it's not even released until January.

Seasonal Stephen Ave

Last year I featured a post about the beautiful festive aesthetic on Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary. This time I actually took photographic evidence. So let's all forget about exams and credit card debt due to Christmas shopping, and feel warm and fuzzy, damn it!  

The Spirit of Christmas is haunting us all, so you better be holly jolly. 

Ave Maria

I think Ave Maria is one of my favorite/most romantic holiday songs. A little belated perhaps, but here are Beyonce's Ave Maria lyrics and song, for the holidays.

She was lost in so many different ways
Out in the darkness with no guide
I know the cost of a losing hand
Never thought the grace of god go high

And then here this voice inside
Ave maria

I've been alone
When i'm surrounded by friends
How could the silence be so loud
But i still go home knowing that i've got you
There's us when the lights go down

You are my heaven on earth
You are my hunger, my thirst
I always hear this voice inside
Singing ave maria

Sometimes love can come and pass you by
While your busy making plans
Suddenly hit you and then you realize
It's out of your hands, baby you got to understand

You are my heaven on earth
You are my last, my first
And then i hear this voice inside
Ave maria
Ave maria
Ave maria

Music Playlist at MixPod.com

I <3 the holidays.

Sea-foam Nostalgia

I want you to come to the beach!

I always forget how much I hate winter, until it comes. Although playing around in the snow and drifting every street corner is gleeful, nothing is fun when it's -25 outside. Since I have just finished my two hardest finals, amidst the liquid nitrogen conditions; I feel like I have no excuse not to be fully amped for sunshine and surf! I don't know if it's the lack of vitamin D, or the fact that my facial complexion is better when I am tanned, but I crave scolding sun rays. I would take being incredibly hot to even slightly chilly any day. Slightly ironic that I am so against global warming.  Forget Christmas, I am more excited for January 2nd and the start of  my trip to Mexico. I find that the higher the temperature the more elated my mood becomes. Here's to drinking mojitos and making snowmen in the sand!

Plus, a childhood dream of mine will be fulfilled on this trip: Swimming with dolphins!

Do things that make your happy, and charge it on your credit card!

Stephen Avenue

This is very similar to what our lovely Stephen Avenue looks like this fine Christmas decorating season. I finally felt a warm fuzzy feeling while standing outside in the snow. Looking up at these  'dripping icicle' lights, I felt a sense of romantic holiday spirit and appreciation (and sugarplum fairies danced on my head, after I just had my hair done, so I got pissed and asked what kind of fairies wanted to represent sweetened dried fruit anyway). It goes against my nervous system reaction to like the cold weather. But really, I figure the icicle lights are just depicting something that is freezing; they're probably nice and warm themselves, since they give off so much inefficient heat loss. :)