Massive Glasses

These vintage shades are pretty ridiculous, but I love them and can't help wearing them a lot now that the sun is out and shining. I'm not usually a fan of huge glasses but these just got somethin' goin' on. I'll probably look back on these photos in twenty years and think I was crazy haha...

Top - Custom print

Skirt - Thrifted from Value Village

Moccasins - Sears

I drove out to a friend's to pick up a little loveseat today. The drive was nice, I always love driving on beautiful days, with the windows down and music loud. It felt almost like summer rather than spring, it was so warm today.

Now I'm going to curl up on my new couch, with the last coffee for the day, and do some reading. I hope you all had a great weekend. Cheers!

Today before Yesterday

Because I really want to share today's photos and the ones from days prior can just wait. It was another lovely day today and I spent the afternoon cycling up and down my long driveway, fine-tuning the gears on my bicycle. My yellow sweater seems to have become one of my favourite items this spring, which makes me glad I decided to keep it. I just couldn't bare to part with its cheery yellowness.

Sweater - Thrifted from Value Village

T-shirt - No idea anymore

Skirt - Gift from Heather

Moccasins - Sears

The landscape is still pretty drab and brown, but the pussy willows will soon bud out into leaves and fresh green grass will sprout through last years dry dead stalks. Spring peepers and other frogs are already singing happily outside, and I'm seeing little spiders scurrying about. The world is warming!

Tomorrow will be another gorgeous and warm day, and now that my bicycle is all in order, I'll probably go for a nice little ride. I'm also hoping to go pick up a little loveseat a friend of mine is giving me, so I'll finally have a proper couch in my living room. I hope you all had a lovely Saturday. Cheers!

Floral Maiden

Why I've never worn this red skirt with this top before is beyond me, because it looks lovely. If I may say so! I've already fallen behind in posting my outfits - big surprise - so this is from a few days ago. I didn't do much that day, just went to another small town with my grandmother and great-aunt. The later got her hair permed while my grandmother and I tooled around wasting time. It's nice being near family again, even for simple stuff like that.

Blouse - Purchased from Aliya & Lucas on Etsy

Belt - Gift from Heather

Skirt - Thrifted from Value Village

Moccasins - Sears

It's a gorgeous day out today, sunny and comfortably warm. I might get out for a short bicycle ride later this evening, after my father and I go for a chip. It's just too bad with all the rain we've been getting lately, the water is so high, but the lake still hasn't broken its ice. It's messing up fishing opportunities. Apparently the smelts have already begun running but trying to catch them in an overflowing creek isn't exactly easy. Looks like I'll have to wait another year before I can go smelting. I hope you all have a great Friday! Cheers!

Beautiful Tarantula

Most people would never refer to any spider as beautiful, but I really think my big boy deserves such a word. He's got such lovely colours, he really is pretty. My male Pamphobeteus sp. platyomma molted a few days ago, and I've just been waiting until I could get a good shot of him post-molt before showing you all the photos. I feel oddly proud, like a mother I suppose. The first photo is of him pre-molt on his back, preparing.



There you have it, a metallic purple-pink spider bigger than your hand. My handsome lad! It's taken four years for him to reach maturity, and he started off the size of a quarter. I'm a little sad that the darling turned out male since that really shortens their lifespan. Females can live up to twenty years, but this fellow only has a year or two left to go. I am definitely going to cry when he dies. I hope at least some of you can appreciate these photos. Cheers!

Spring Flowers

Unfortunately it's still too early - and mostly too cold - for real spring flowers, but I sure looked and felt springy in this outfit yesterday! The sunshine and warmth was lovely after all the cold rainy days we've been having lately. I was even able to go bare legged! This year's first bare-leg day!

Cardigan - Thrifted from Value Village

Dress - Thrifted from Value Village

Mocassins - Highway Trading Post

Vintage Glasses - Young Jane's in Ottawa

It's set to rain again this evening and into tomorrow, but I don't mind too much. I'm happy because my landlord's given me permission to make a little garden and set up a compost box. Already I've got the box set up - just an old wooden rabbit hutch from which I ripped the bottom, and hauled into the yard from the back field. If it weren't windy as hell and about to rain at any moment, I'd be out piling stuff into it already.

I'm trying to fill my spare time best as I can until I start working at a local bakery in a few weeks - if nothing changes between now and then - but I can't keep baking so much! I'm packing on more weight than I'm happy about and having tasty sweet things laying about doesn't help. I still feel good about my body, but if I get much heavier and bigger, I won't for long. I'm feeding myself plenty of tasty fresh veggies and trying to enjoy more time outside. No punishing myself, no depriving myself. I'm just giving myself more of good things, because my body and mind respond better to that. I hope you're all having a good week. Cheers!

Mustard Greens

Tomorrow I have an interview at a local bakery, which if I'm lucky will lead to a good job. I've got my fingers crossed! They were looking for someone with two to three years experience but I'm hoping my Basic Pastry certificate will help me out there. Clearly I'm good enough to at least call in for an interview. We'll see how it goes.

Blouse - Thrifted from Value Village

Skirt - Thrifted from Value Village

Belt - Second-hand shop

Shoes - Bayshore Mall, years ago

It's raining like mad outside, has been since last night, and it's supposed to keep raining for several days. My front door has been leaking too, which is rather unpleasant but at least it's nothing extremely serious and it should be fixed soon enough. I just wish it would stop precipitating long enough for me to go biking again! If it's not snow, it's rain, and if not rain, snow! Bleh!

It was a gorgeous day yesterday, but I woke earlier than usual to spend time with my friend and her baby, and after a large sushi meal that evening all I wanted to do was nap. I slept right through the time I'd planned to go biking haha, but ah well, I guess I needed it. There's a whole summer ahead for me to enjoy outdoors. I hope you are all having a good week. Cheers!

Just Peachy

Not a whole lot to say today, but at least I've got an outfit to show you. If I hadn't slept so late - again - maybe I'd have more tasty food photos to share too, but I'm slowly turning nocturnal. Waking up at noon really puts a wrench in food-related productivity for me.

 Sweater - Thrifted from Value Village

Tank top - Fairweather

Pants - Thrifted from Value Village

Mocassins - Sears

I might get ambitious a little later and whip up a batch of croissants dough, to shape tomorrow, but we'll see. Putting on a full face of makeup is accomplishment enough for this lazy Sunday. I foresee plenty of hot coffee and an afternoon of gaming and not much else today.

These photos were taken in my newly set up living room. I have a lot of knickknacks and strange collectibles and tons of stuff up on the walls. It may seem a little overwhelming to some, but this is what feels like home to me and I wouldn't have it any other way. I hope you all had a good weekend. Cheers!