099: terrariums

I'm big on DIY projects & I'm a liiiiittle bit of a green thumb, so I wanted to try out making a little diy terrarium. These are little self-contained environments that require very little care and look so gorgeous when they're in ornate apothecary jars. I was really excited to be outside this weekend & I found tons of mossy spots in my garden, so I collected a bunch of things to throw into a mason jar to test out a mini terrarium.





I put in some coarse rocks at the bottom, a layer of soil & then some moss & some hens & chicks. I know that by mixing moss (which require a moist environment) and succulents (which hardly need water at all), I might have messed up a bit... but this terrarium is just a test & we'll see if the delicate balance is maintained or if it's a fail.

Anyway, here are some tutorials I've found:
- how to make a terrarium from found objects
- home terrarium how to
Let me know if you try it out! I'll update you on my terrarium's survival.

xoxo

098: we pray for japan

We've received our Lady Gaga bracelets! This was just one of the Gaga items Syl surprised me with for my belated birthday present. :) If you're a little monster, pick one up from Gaga's site because all proceeds go directly to Japan relief efforts.
 


The sky looking fabulous tonight =)

097: take me out to the ball game

This past weekend, my boyfriend took me out to the ol' ball game. It was opening weekend & we were going to see the Toronto Blue Jays (his fave team!) and we were going early to make sure we got some commemorative bobble heads.


OH SNAP. 54 home runs baby.


Anyway, I try REALLY hard to love baseball...
a) because the leafs (hockey) are my team & they've been *ahem* disappointing me
b) I love my bf and I want to be interested in things he's interested in... That sounds ridiculous in writing, but it's what you gotta do if you're together forev-evz.

But really, it's not too hard to have fun when they do things like... making you dance like Will & Carlton. (aka WILL THE THRILL & BOOGALOO SHRIMP)

best thing ever.


my only beef is game-day fashion. Sports attire is not so cute & when they try to make it cute & girly, it's soo frickin tacky. rhinestoned logos? C'MON!!! I have this one baseball tee & my only way of really jazzing it up was to wear it with my high waist cutoffs, knee socks & litas.


TRYING to be fashionable (but forgetting that short-shorts mean sticky thighs on those plastic seats)


Whenever I'm picking an outfit for a game, I think of that episode of Sex and the City & wonder if I should just say 'eff it' & wear what I usually would...


or if I should think "Gaga" and at least show some team spirit & get on that damn jumbotron. hahha

What the hell do YOU wear to sports events?!

xoxo

096: advanced style

Have you ever checked out the blog Advanced Style? It's an amaaazing blog on street fashion on elderly ladies. WHAT. I love it so much & recently just watched this vid collab with nowness.com . These ladies are an amazing inspiration to dress fearlessly. I love the lady with the blunt bangs that loves rodarte. That's future me, okay?


Advanced Style: Age and Beauty on Nowness.com.



And last night at 3:30am over here, the Britney vid for til the world ends was released! & Not to be outdone, Lady Gaga released episode 41 of her youtube webisodes Transmission gagavision. You see a snippet of the choreo for Judas and you get to just see her being her. loved it. Thoughts?!

fave moment, lol:


xoxo



ps, thanks for your lovely compliments on my brassy-ass hair! ahaha I can guarantee that the coppery blonde is not as cute as you think. I'll post pics soon with what I'm doing with it! DID YOU KNOW: Sam also has done some bleaching but has stayed pretty quiet about it ;)

095: black and yellow

Okay, so my post yesterday was a bit deceiving because I only showed a blonde chunk of hair. I didn't go ahead & bleach my entire head of hair or anything... I just bleached a hefty chunk of it.


prescription sunglasses from zenni, leather motojacket from ub, jumpsuit from H&M, dany shoes by jessica simpson

Those of you who know me (or have followed my blog in the past) know that I easily get bored of my hair styles & have had my hair every colour of the rainbow before. I'm currently growing out a very awkward style (with very short & very long sections doing their own damn thing) and I was just really itching for a change. The last time I actually had coloured hair was in 2007, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I've had my natural hair colour for almost 5 years! So some of my commenters are right... this was bound to happen ;)



Going into my hair adventure, I has thinking of doing an "ombre" effect (shown above). I LOVE this style cause you never have to worry about roots, so it's pretty lazy & easy & cheap... and I am so totally all of the above.

But when I noticed the bleach lifting so quickly, I got a bit excited & decided on the spot that instead of a gradual 'ombre' from black to brownish to blondish, that I wanted that high contrast black & blonde.

Obviously, my hair shown here is NOT the finished product; I hate when my hair is bleached & not toned (to get rid of that coppery yellow tone). I mean, I could pretend it's supposed to be like gaga's dyed-yellow hair, but I just feel like I look like an asian dude that home-bleached his hair wrong, lol. So I've just decided to keep it like this for a couple of days to see how I feel about the blonde & then I'll either:
- tone it so that my hair is black & platinum (whiter blonde)
OR
- go for some crazy colours so that my hair has a "dip-dyed" look
I'm leaning towards the latter. Sonic Green is calling my name.

my DIY spirit, willingness to improvise & fearlessness of looking ugly are a bad combo for the health of my hair. Oh well, It'll be fun for you guys to watch. hahah

xo