My Closet Dreams

So it's May 31, I totally made my goal of writing a blog post every day for the rest of the month. I think I'll give myself a new challenge next month too, possible a harder one.
We can officially start moving into our new apartment tomorrow which is so exciting! We are only doing a soft move at first, so we be painting tomorrow morning and Saturday but hopefully we will be sleeping there by Sunday.
I will post some pictures once we get some stuff set up, probably won't be for a while so don't hold your breath. I still have to figure out what do about one big problem with the apartment: no closet. I've decided to maybe do an open closet which will force me to keep my clothes neat and it will kind of be like shopping in the morning.

I thought I would share a few pictures of my favorite open closet images and hope my looks something like this when I figure out what to do.

Friendship Bracelets

So I love that this super nineties trend is coming back into style. If you grew up in the nineties (like me!) you might remember spending hours making these for you and your friends in any colour you desired. I think I use to wear at least five on my arm at a time, I loved. them.

I've decided to give myself a little DIY project and try to create some for myself. I decided to be a little bit more subtle with my colour choices and choose some that are also on trend and go for an ombred effect with m colours. I remember it being fairly easy to make these, so I hope I'm right.

Humid days and Maxi skirts

I promised to post everyday for the rest of the month so today I have a quick outfit post. It's been so humid here lately and a chiffon maxi skirt feels SO good on your legs. The fabric stays cool and allows cool breeze to get through. I love this maxi skirt because I feel really effortless in it. It's such an easy look for the summer. I can't wait to get my sewing machine so I can create some new ones.

skirt, crop top American Apparel/ shoes Somewhere in china town

Lazy Girl's Summer Essentials

Summer is fast approaching but the weather here has been so hot recently I thought it appropriate to share my summer beauty essentials. I'll quickly explain why I love all of these products and most of them are because they make things quick or allow me to skip other steps in a normal beauty routine (because I'm lazy especially in a hot summer!)

1. Neutrogena face wash. So crucial to have a good skin care routine for a lazy girl like myself. If spend a couple of minutes at night washing away the day's dirt and oil then it saves me time in the morning for when I do my make up and my skin is blemish free. It's extra important for the summer since you (and I mean me) spend the day sweating, not so good for the pores.

2. Cake hair and body powder. While washing away the sweat is important I sometimes need help to cover it up through out the day. Cake is a powder I can sprinkle in my hair when I need to absorb some extra oil. It's quicker then another shower and smells great.

3. Big by Lush. The best shampoo ever and extra wonderful during the summer. It's made with sea salt so it  helps create beach-y relaxed waves with body without styling( no sweating while blow drying your hair!)

4. Almond oil. I purchased this at a health food stores and it's amazing. If you have thick lushes hair then you can use it on that, I don't so I use as a quick summer moisturizer. My skin is dry and in the winter I have slab on lotion alot. Summer isn't do bad and oil is enough, just rub some on your skin after your shower and let your body absorb it.

5. Hawaiian Tropic SPF 30 sunscreen for your face. I shouldn't even need to explain this one. Everyone should be sunscreen everyday and this one is perfect is hydrates and protects.

Cupcake Sunday

The Cupcake:
This is a bacon and maple cupcake my brother-in-law made from scratch. He's an excellent cook and it's been awesome staying here with him and my sister, however I will be glad to go back to having pants that fit!

A little bit about me:
I move into my new apartment next Friday which is so exciting. I bought a bed and mattress today from Ikea which is nice, my old mattress was so uncomfortable. I still have so much stuff to buy for the apartment I can't wait to decorate it super cute.
I'm also excited to have a nice place to take outfit pictures, I think I'm going to paint the apartment sometime this week or early next week before all my stuff arrives from Ottawa. I can't wait to get the rest of my wardrobe and actually be able to have a place to put it. I'm also very excited to get my sewing machine. I have a few things I can't wait to make, including cat shorts (not shorts for cats, shorts with a cat pattern, sounds ugly will be cute) and an a-symmetrical dip dyed/ombred maxi skirt. I also want to make some more crop tops because it gets so hot in Toronto I need more of them!
Once the apartment is furnished though I think I'm going to treat myself to a little shopping spree. I have worked so hard these past few weeks but all my money has gone towards the apartment so far, which is still awesome and I will be happy about it soon, but I can't enjoy any of it yet it.
I also realized that I suck at blogging this month so I'm going to try and post something every day for the rest of the month (which I know only has five more days but better then nothing.)

Cupcake Sunday (on Monday)

The Cupcake:

Ice cream cupcakes from Baskin Robins. So cute!

A little bit about me:

I'm so sorry I have barely wrote anything this month, it's hard to keep on top of things lately because I'm living out of a suit case with maybe half of my wardrobe, most of which tends towards a little more winter clothing. However, I have some very good news! I found an apartment, we move in June 1st. I'm so excited. That's all for now. 

Cupcake Sunday

The Cupcake:
This was taken a while ago during a visit to Toronto, I didn't eat it but it looked delicious.

A little about me:
We may/hopefully found an apartment. It's a super cute little place close to where we are staying now. The apartment isn't very big but it's clean and bright and cheap! I really hope the landlord liked us enough!

Kensington Thrift

I've been pretty busy working so much so I'm sorry that I haven't been posting very much.

I did find time to do some pretty cool thrift-ing. I found this shirt in the Kensington market for $12! It's a boy scouts of america shirt with a few badges on it. I think it's pretty cool, and they had a bunch of other cool stuff there, I'm going back for an army jacket!

I also found these tennis shoes in China town for three dollars. I was about to purchase to my third pair of Keds, but since they don't last very long and cost 13 times what these ones cost I decided to go for it and see how they work out. So far, I'm very pleased, they are more comfortable then Keds, my feet must be Chinese.