Seductive Life Recap Part 2: Journey to AUSTRALIA!

So getting to Australia takes a long time. A LONG time. We arrived at the Toronto airport at 3:00pm on February 4th and didn't land in Brisbane until 12:30 on February 6th. We lost Tuesday!!

We had a lot of wait time in the airports, we flew from Toronto to LA, LA to Sydney, and Sydney to Brisbane.

This is on the long flight from LA to Sydney, we made ourselves miighty comfortable.

No furbees?!

On the flight from Sydney to Brisbane we met a nice man named Frank who told us all about his favorite places in Aus and gave us $20 to buy beers!

I even had to pee in the yucky airplane bathroom.

  

I love the view from the plane, so pretty :) 

Griffo driving the luxy home!

Me and TJ in the back seat being goofs as always!

The cute couple reunited at last!

Recap part one here!

Seductive Life Recap Part 1: CUBA!

 Wow, life has been pretty hectic in the past couple of weeks. And by hectic I mean in the best possible way!! I quit my job in the mountains, flew back home, vacationed in Cuba with my bestest friend and then hopped on another couple of planes and flew all the way over to my new home in AUSTRALIA! 

I'm super beyond excited about living in Australia, but first be jealous of my awesome vacation in beautiful Cuba!

Due to the best mix up ever with the booking agency, we were upgraded to the beautiful Paradisus Princessa Del Mar in Veradero. Five stars, amazing pools and all inclusive. Although, for two single girls under 40, maybe not the ideal vacation spot but it suited our relaxed vacation needs just fine!

 

We spent almost every day either at the beach or by the pool except when it rained :( Even then we sat underneath the umbrellas and enjoyed the warmer weather! I may have sun burnt a little tiny bit but I used up 2 bottles of sunscreen... pale girl problems!

  

We had some really amazing street food in downtown Veradero. This giant plate of chicken, salad, two different kinds of rice and potatoes only cost 3 Pesos, or about $3.25 Canadian Dollars!! We followed the locals to see where they were eating and there was a line of about 30 people in front of this little street stand! Mmmmmmm can't stop thinking about it. So. Good.

We drank...

A lot. (World's biggest wine glass?! It was actually the size of my head!)

I had an amazing vacation with my amazing best friend!! I would tell you go go go and get your butt to Cuba!  

Way Back Wednesday...

So, chillin out maxin on my computer and I found my old xanga blog. Oh my gosh. So in honor of all of my feelings and over dramatic self in the summer between grade 10 and 11, I thought I'd blog the way I used to...


Dear whoever isn't reading,

Whaddap. I went to the mall with cassafrazzle (shoutouts, yo) and spent way too much money but had a bombdigg time and am super stoked to wear all my new clothes. not like i even look good in them anyways... azn tear.. xD

lately i've been listening to a lot of MCR, thats my chemical romance for those of you not fortunate enough to be a fan... tragic. 

Zanana is coming over tonight, pretty awesome to see her face. my room is messy. i should clean it.

"hmeneanana annmennsnme huuummmnanananananaaa dum dum nanahahhan blahhhh"

those lyrics have so much meaning to me. i just really feel cold inside like no one really knows me. who am i? and what am i doing on this earth?

i am sooo confuuuuseeddddddd.

peace.

shout outs to z-anana, ca$$tran, and mah mom. word. 

ps, i'm only making fun of myself. but really. this is like a summary of my whole blog. yuck :p

Happy New Year!

Hiiiiiiiii, it's me again. Your friendly oh so scatterbrained blogger friend. But it's a New Year, we all survived 2012 and the end of the world and lived to tell the tale! My last month has been full of working. And more working. And more working. I've been working like crazy to get through the holiday season alive, AND because I'm saving money for a very exciting life changing event. I'll let you in on that little secret soon though! :)

Now if you've been reading my blog ever you've probably seen my write about "Project Life." Project Life is basically the coolest way of scrapbooking your life.. without actually scrapbooking. And it's all started by a different badass named Becky Higgins. Now I'm calling this project of mine project life, but I'm actually using knock off supplies because it was super difficult for me to get Becky Higgins' products in Canada. 

click the photos to see a larger version!

The basic premise of project life is putting photos, notes, and other memories in photo sleeves, and eliminating all of the complicated time consuming nonsense of trying to compose a full scrapbook page. It's fun, it's easy, it's a way of preserving memories.

This is my very first project life page. My 2013 New Years Resolutions. I'm using a 12"x12" binder with multiple photo sleeves.

Along the side I put one of my favourite quotes from Ms. Oprah Winfrey (who by the way *unpopular opinion* should really put someone else on the cover of her magazine. I mean it's already named after you!). It says "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right!"

At the bottom of the page I cut out ugly stars from the band of a party hat from New Years Eve and wrote 2013 inside of them to add a little bit of sparkle, because what's NYE without a little bling!!

At the very top I put together a bunch of my favorite pictures of the night!

I love this project. I am having soo much fun already thinking about what I'm going to do next week. I'm going to post my new project life pages every Wednesday hopefully for the rest of the year!!

 *This is not a sponsored post I really am this excited about Project Life!*

New Years Resolutions!

Hellooo 2013! 

We survived! I've been working my turkey dinners off (just kidding I was working so much I never actually got a turkey dinner) which is why I've been 100% MIA for the last month. But hey, this is my blog I DO WHAT I WANT. Just kidding I'm sorry I love you. 

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My NYE consisted of work until 11:45, making myself 10 minute pretty, and getting absolutely hammered with a former CFL player. I had a way better time than I expected and I seriously love all of my co-workers, they're like a second family to me, living and working together has made us so close, especially in this past month! 

The next day was basically a blur of work and coffee, but I did manage to jot down my resolutions for the upcoming year!

So these are my Resolutions! In case you can't read them they are:

1. Take 1 photo/day! I have a lot of exciting plans for the future, and even an instagram photo would do. I want to remember everything about 2013!

2. Blog once/week (at least!) I was trying to set reasonable goals. I want be more consistent with you little blog!

3. Get out of the country! So many plans, so little time... We'll see what the future holds ;)

4. Keep doing project life (2 pages/week) I just finished my cover pages and have started working on my pages for this week and I'm already freakishly addicted to this project!!

5. Work on my fitness once/week! Again, reasonable goals. I'm actually really happy with my body right now, you can check out my fitness blog and see how I do with this goal!

6. Skype/call/email the family once/week! I love my family sooo much, but I am the worst at keeping in touch!! I hope that will follow through with this one, it's probably the most important of all! 

7. Experiment more with fashion! Jeans and tshirts are getting boring. I've already started to branch out of my sweatpants bubble, but expect more OOTD posts in the near future!

8. Make the most out of 2013!! I want to live life to the fullest and take every opportunity that gets thrown my way! 

I am super excited to be starting a New Year, and I have a super positive outlook on the next 12 months - and beyond!! I hope everyone had an amazing night, a hungover next day, and are looking forward to this coming year as much as I am!!

21 Days of Christmas: Snowflake Tree!

Do you remember yesterday when I reminded you how to make snowflakes? And some people probably read that and were like "duh Bex, who doesn't know." But in my defense, my Aussie friend didn't even know what a paper snowflake was! Poor TJ...

Well here's what you can do with all of those snowflakes! Another quick, easy, and painless DIY!

Okay, so start with a big pile of snowflakes. A skewer, a flower pot (or something equal to a flower pot) and some floral foam. 

I'm sure you didn't see this one coming - put the floral foam into the pot. Yay! Can you guess what comes next? Stick the skewers into the floral foam. Then build up the snowflake tree!

I'm not sure why my .gif is backwards, but I hope you get the idea!

And there you have it, snowflake trees!

The smaller one is made out of scrapbook paper, it looks fantastic!

16 days until Christmas!

21 Shades of Christmas: Snowflake 101

Today I wanted to make some snowflakes for my room, but to my surprise, I had completely forgotten how to fold and cut snowflakes! After a little help from my friend Google, I came up with this Snowflake 101 for you!

First, turn your paper into a square. That's steps 1-4. What you want to do is take one corner of your paper, and then fold it diaganally across your paper until it makes a smooth top edge. Cut away the excess. 

Fold your paper in half, and then in half again!

Now fold your paper in half one more time, but diagonally this time!

Round off the top corner to make a rounded snowflake!

Snip snip snip away, and you have one beautifully unique snowflake!

Here are a couple of snowflakes I busted out this afternoon!

Now get creative and make some snowflakes!

17 Days until Christmas!

21 Shades of Christmas: Merry Christmas Banner

Guess who's back... back again. Becky's back. Tell a friend... (Eminem fix of the day!)

Okay you ready for this one? Ready? Let's gooo! We're going to make a pretty little banner. Yours can say whatever your pretty little mind wants it to say, but mine says  I used red, green, and cream felt. Cream for all the letters. But really, rules suck, do whatever you want. Seriously. Orange and blue and purple? Do it. 

I also picked up one of those nifty letter stencils at the dollar store ON SALE (did you know dollar stores had sales?) for 50 cents.

Okay so see what I did there? I traced out all the letters and then cut them out. No way, right? Who would have ever thought that step came next. But seriously. Look at at that. So easy.

Okay, now cut the red and the green into whatever shape you want. I wanted triangles but since I didn't have a ruler I was like F THAT, let's do some squares. Squares. Woooo! Now glue everything down. I didn't take pictures of that step, although my pretty pink glue gun could have used some close up shots!

Cut some holes, string some string, and baddaboom baddabing you've got a banner! Christmas-y and perfect and cheerful! 

17 days until Christmas!