More Blog Theft

LOVE: This photo Sarah took in Vancouver last week. Perhaps one of my favorite photos of all time. 

Love: homemade planters made of coffee cans, how cute! 

Hate: everything about this chick. Bitch please!

Love: how cute this is / Hate: the creepy pedo kidnapping victims subtext

Love: this girl. I want to adopt her.

Love: these high-waisted jeans

Wish: I had Alessandra Ambrosio's legs / Love: the look on that dorks face in the background

LOVE:....you guessed it, the shoes. o..m..g.

Love: chunky pearly jewelery

Love: the cut of these shorts

Love: this stairway. clean, fresh yet magical

Love: another little girl I want to adopt

Love: January Jones, one of my faves / Suspicious: that her legs were lengthened in post

Love: Blake Lively's dress from the back

Hate: Blake Lively's dress from the front

Love: this breeze / Dislike: paisley print comforters

Love: that I bought Casey a denim dress shirt last summer and now know how I'm going to wear it.

Love: homemade costume wings / Worried: at the way this photo makes me want to abandon my plans and make a baby right meow

Love: this quote

Love: bunched pale colored flowers in spring

Love: her bag / Wondering: why there are sandbags on the side of the road

Hate: Gwenyth Paltrow's apartment in Tribecca makes me ill with jealousy

Ahhh! a swinging sofa even!

Love: this photo my brother took for his blog in Winnipeg

Hate: repeated attempts to make fanny packs stylish

Love: stripes

Love: the hair

Love: White, sunny bathrooms with giant bathtubs

Love: open bright spaces

Love: early 90s flashbacks of my childhood. I remember looking up to this.

Hate: that there is a blog for girls with hairy pitts and that I found it.

The caption under this one said "my boyfriend loves my hairy pitts"

Love: this, another photo from Sarah's blog taken in Vancouver

Love: tiny shorts and clunky black shoes

Love: obviously

Love: This Vancouver cowboy, last photo from Sarah's blog, Sarah Inspired

Love: homemade bedroom bench made with an old suitcase

Love: granny panties made cool again

The "Little" Things in Life, Summer Patio'ing and Skyping my Dog

I had a realization the other day after a long afternoon of working out and running errands around the city. I came home exhausted, showered, got into my favorite sweat pants, grabbed a peanut buttery snack and plopped down on the couch to an Oprah show I'd been looking forward to. Ahhhhh! Then, an epiphany- I suddenly realized what an amazing moment this was, and not just in a 'the little things in life' kind of way. To me, as ridiculous as this sounds, this moment was truly as amazing as any other. 

The big moment on my wedding day, the moment I give birth to my first child, the moment I am nominated for an Academy Award..those will all be big amazing moments. But those kinds of moments are few and far between. If we can really appreciate the "small", every day life moments in the same way and on the same scale as the "bigger" moments in life, every day is amazing. What can seem like the small, relatively insignificant joys in life, I think are the joys that should be appreciated the most. 

You're laughing at me. 

No really! I'm beginning to take as much joy in: 

catching an awesome Oprah show in my pijamas or 

seeing this beautiful fluffy-pink sunset the other night while sipping on a hot foamy cafe laté or 

sinking my teeth into a soft slice of Brie or 

dancing to the Sister Act soundtrack in my kitchen or

laughing at a hilarious, unexpected joke

... as I do in anything else that would seem more extravagant. Maybe the level of exhilaration is different from "bigger" moments. But the amount that I appreciate and cherish those moments are more the same.

...ok maybe giving birth is on a different scale from the Brie. But you get what I'm saying. 

I think it has to do with mindfulness. Anyways, I just feel so lucky and appreciative for everything and everyone that I have and I am thankful to come away with this lesson, among others, after these last couple months away from home and I felt the need to express it.

How beautiful is this sky btw?

Summer is upon us here in Montreal! Annick and I have been spending a lot of time on the patios, including our own here, which Anne is pointing to.

How cute are we?

Snow's all gone in our yard and the grass is already getting green!

Walking to get groceries, really starting to look summery..

Stopping for coffee at the market. (Ugh, I dont like the way these sunglasses look. 

I'm never going to wear these again)

Annick pis son fameux thé 

Antipasti and wine on St.Laurent on the first day that hit +20 in Montréal

ECT...

Section 1 at the new Browns-all shoes between 800-1700$...insanity. 

More of a museum experience than shopping.

LWD Summer 2011? Didnt buy it......yet.

Hmmmmm.....yes or no? yes or no?.. Keep in mind, it has POCKETS.

Trial street-style snapshot-

Annick Marion, age 25

Occupation: Director of Photography

Black lace shirt and white beaded scarf: Club Monaco

Jeans: Gap

Jacket and purse: Rudsak

Boots: Custom made in Nicaragua

Golden pearly broch: Grandmother's

Motto: Harry?....I took care of it??!

My first Skype date with Bosco. Do you think dogs 'get' Skype?

Countdown to the 7D re-vamp of this blog-3 dodos.....