I’ve had a bunch of my Mom’s Holt Renfrew capes (circa early 90’s) for years now. They’ve just been hanging on my door waiting to be used…I think the last time I used this one was in first year when UBC hosted it’s annual ‘welcome’ party on Wreck beach (nude beach here in Vancouver). It’s perfect really. It’s like a luxurious snuggie (cape is made out of cashmere) that I can freely walk around the city in (and look relatively sane). I think being a smaller framed individual, layering can be your best friend, and I can’t believe I haven’t layered this more in previous years! I will admit: I was totally inspired to whip this out after trolling ASOS’s website for days and seeing nothing BUT capes!

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Just two days of shots for my blog, one we were back in my favorite place in the city for food and pictures–Chinatown!!! It’s the only place in this increasingly concrete metropolitan that you still see some real character. Next, Tessa and I went out to Richmond right by the air hangars to take in the beautiful sunset and roaring jets as they flew overhead (747’s are fucking scary when they’re that close!). Enjoy!!!! Music by Fol Chen (Primary 1 Rework). I love this song by the way.

Video taken by myself, Dan, and Tessa

I’ve been buying a lot of lingerie jackets lately. Probably not the most practical–but meh! I bought this purple one from Salvation Army and am really enamored with all the silk, velvet, and shiny beads. There’s a certain whimsical quality to it, which makes me want to sashay and twirl around my room with abandon! Most of the pictures we ended up taking were me running around or flipping the back of the jacket as if it were a cape. Luckily for you, I’ll spare the masses from my embarrassing attempts at moving gracefully—this despite several years of ballet training! Heh.

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I bought this crazy victorian blouse about a few months ago and *almost* had to duke it out with a grandma to get it. I’m actually wearing it backwards because the front is a little too figure skater/white wedding for me. I don’t think I have ever owned anything so aggressively tacky–fake pearls, lace, mesh, ribbons–essentially a smorgasbord of bad-ness. But for one reason or another, I saw something redeeming about it…it’s shockingly pretty almost! hahaha

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I just rejuiced my old ipod nano, which has the bulk of my music on it–including a huge ass collection of Queen–so be AWARE, a lot of future titles may be very queeny. As the title alludes to, I’ve been trying to break free of a lot of things lately: bad habits/negative thoughts/negative people/bad blogging practice. The last one especially. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about blogging and how to take one’s site to the next level. Because serendipity rules my universe, I’ve become pretty good at this sort of thing (who woulda thunk it?), and LOVE to help people. I wasn’t going to mention anything, but my mentor and I are currently working on a 5-chapter booklet on how to achieve just this. How to get people to follow you without asking. How to grow your site by virtue of it’s content. How to interact EFFICIENTLY on social media networking sites. Ok I’ll stop. It’s just REALLY exciting!

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I haven’t been able to function all too well with the recent heat wave. I was telling Tessa earlier that the only thing I can bother putting on is a tank top and cut offs. I can’t even wear real clothes in my apartment because we live on the top floor–so I’ve been walking around in my bikini! Oh! and as I mentioned on twitter, I made lemonade a couple days ago…it’s the perfect antidote to heat-strokey symptoms. I highly recommend you make it because it’s super easy. It was so delicious that I’m contemplating making my own passion tea lemonade at home. Can you believe those are almost 3 bucks???? Gah. But so delicious.

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Crochet is so timeless. To me it screams free love, indian summers, and general hippie-dom . I received this recently from my friend Elissa (aka the beautiful brains behind Shop Calico) and love it immensely…thinking that it might just bring me into fall and even winter layered over something more substantial than a bra (mwahah). I like the ease of sweaters and if I could, I would live in knits ALL THE TIME.

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I swore to myself that I wouldn’t buy anything *new* unless I really, really loved it. Well, apparently I love this little quilted jacket because I found myself visiting Aritzia 4 weeks in a row, touching it, trying it on, and then reluctantly putting it back on the rack. I’ve become so incredibly cheap that I’m even uneasy when it comes to spending money that isn’t mine (HELLO giftcard!). I gave in after yoga on Friday. Maybe it was the hunger. Maybe it was the slight fatigue, but it’s mine now…and I’m thinking my gut was right: this jacket belongs to me. There’s a certain whimsical way about the jacket that I just don’t have in my closet already. (I can justify anything…and yes ‘whimsy’ is a valid reason)

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Ok so I’ve started video-taping my jaunts around Vancouver, because I love video and want to learn more about how to make vlogs. This week’s posts, but in MOTION! Hope you guys enjoy it Have a great weekend! Big hug.

It’s no secret I’ve been living in my military jacket for the last little while. I love all the pockets and random patches of velcro for badges and of course the little green Canadian flag on the right arm. Tessa and I wandered down to Chinatown to check out an area that she saw a while ago. I love Chinatown so much. I mean minus the random urine odors that seem to assault your senses when you least expect them, it’s a great place to chill and do some tourist-y photography. It’s funny that we came down here because my grandfather (who just came back from China) was telling me about growing up in this neighborhood and the crazy shit he and his friends would get into–namely the massive turf wars with caucasian youth. When my grandfather Ken regales us with these stories, it just makes me think of how fleeting youth is. One moment it’s all you know and then the next you’re grown up with kids and cars and dogs. Eeek!

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