Sunday low energy mood

 

This is my favourite iteration of the lo-fi girl. I could live in this image with this music all the time.

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I love cooking reels, especially as I haven’t been doing a lot of cooking lately! The windowsill, plant, and dolsot pot are a dreamy combination.

favourite YouTube channels

☁ Tirion Law is a second soloist with the National Ballet of Canada and I love the behind-the-scenes look at her life.

☁ cari cakes reminds me of someone I could’ve befriended on LiveJournal when I was in high school who has gone on to live a beautiful bookworm life in Seoul.

☁ Kathryn Morgan is a blessing. Who else is putting ballet barres that good on the Internet for free??

☁ Michelle Choi is a forever favourite; her two most recent vlogs were absolute gold.

latest roll of film

 

There’s something uniquely beautiful about picking an old hobby back up where you left off to find that no matter how your life has changed, it still feels the same.

“‘Finding yourself’ is not really how it works. You aren’t a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people’s opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. ‘Finding yourself’ is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.” 

 – Emily McDowell

birthday weekend

 

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Celebrated with seaweed soup 미역국 and pointe shoes. Here’s to another year with more watercolour paintings and deeper stretches.

If there’s one thing this past year has taught me, it’s that time moves far too quick not to prioritise the people, hobbies, moments and dreams that bring you joy, love and peace of mind. And that it doesn’t matter, not even a little bit, what other people think about what those things are for you or how you do them – you’re the one that gets to live with your choices. ♥

all is never lost

I’ve begun the process of re-scanning and re-uploading my old film photos to a new Flickr account. Starting with some of my favourites from a trip to New York in 2013...

 

“I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 

‘What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?’

‘The way I want it?’

‘Yeah. The way you want it. Don’t you want it to be something more than what it is?’

‘What’s the point? I can’t change it.’

‘That’s the point. If you don’t, it will change you and it’ll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.’

‘Mess it up how?’

‘Forgot it.’

‘Forgot?’

‘Forgot it was mine. My life.’” 

―Toni Morrison, Jazz

retrouvailles

 a weekend moodboard 

So much has changed since I was here last (and so many images look like this ). Time to rebuild.
Sometimes you end up right back where you started. I’m still the girl I was in 2011 – maybe more like her than ever.

Sunday: links I love

• Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71, interviewed by Linda Kuehl for the Paris Review
“I don’t know. I could say that I was writing to myself, and of course I was, but it’s a little more complicated than that. I mean the fact that eleven million people were going to see that page didn’t exactly escape my attention. There’s a lot of mystery to me about writing and performing and showing off in general. I know a singer who throws up every time she has to go onstage. But she still goes on.”

• A Window Into the Real Lauren Bacall, The New York Times
“‘Literally every tabletop had things on it,’ said Jon King, a vice president and the director of business development at the auction house Bonhams New York, describing the 4,000-square-foot apartment in the Dakota building on 72nd Street in Manhattan that Ms. Bacall bought for tens of thousands of dollars in 1961 and crammed with art and antiques including (and this is but a small sample) Henry Moore and Robert Graham sculptures, David Hockney photographs, Picasso pottery, Chinese bronze figures, Congolese head rests, Louis XV bureaus, Edwardian bamboo, Victorian needlework and Majolica china...”

• The Edwynn Houk Gallery’s selection of photos by Gail Albert Halaban on Tumblr
 

• Michael Salisbury’s industrial, architectural and cityscape photography on Instagram
  

• Hee Seo, principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, on Instagram
  

• Girls Against Humanity


• Mirko Rotondi’s Timeless Hotel photo series
  

sun and ocean blue / life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue

things i love lately:
♥ Sofia rosé – I thought I hated rosé until I tried this one.
♥ Lush twilight bath bomb – pretty pink and baby blue that turns the water glittery dusk-violet.
♥ TonyMoly & Peripera (and South Korean cosmetics & skin care products in general). AmorePacific’s Future Response products are crazy expensive but crazy effective – i.e., 100% worth it if you can afford it, especially this one (and it smells divine, like a green tea latte).
♥ Aritzia’s blanket scarf.
♥ Pinning dream-like architecture & interiors on Pinterest.
♥ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal. I don’t really have words for how magical it was. I took a lot more pictures.
♥ essie’s winter 2013 collection. I missed out on buying them in winter 2013, but recently found all six shades at TJMaxx for less than half of the original price – they are the most perfect colours!
♥ Lunar New Year – I was born in the year of the sheep, so I was particularly excited about this one. I spent the day and night in airports, but I got a fortune cookie from Panda Express that said “Avoid unchallenging occupations—they waste your talents.”