Autumn Has Arrived

Wow, it's been forever since I've made a post! Please accept my dearest apologies - I'll get back on track I promise! School has officially commenced, as of last Wednesday. It's always a scary thing to start, but I think this is going to be a pretty good semester. Last year, I was way too stressed out and had a lot on my plate so I've made a promise to try really, really hard to give myself time to relax this year. It seems to be working out so far, because I had no homework today and therefore made snickerdoodles with Georgia, the sensible thing to do on a chilly autumn day :)

I've been getting so inspired by fall fashion, especially anything knit. Check out this great sweater... I'm IN LOVE!

Now with the cold weather, I can finally wear these boots I bought in Paris this summer :) It was their 'sales week' so they were actually not very expensive. Check out the snickerdoodles fresh from the oven in the background...

I have a VERY drab planner from my school that I need to add a little more interesting... this idea of using a vintage book cover is such a good idea. Might try it this weekend.

I wonder if I could do this myself using old sweaters.

At the moment, I'm listening to the soundtrack from one of my favourite movies, Les Choristes. Just thought I'd add that in here, since it is such a charming and fantastic movie, I can't talk about it enough :)

Have yourselves a great day!

Thrifting the Mennonite Way

A few days ago, my cousins, sister, aunt, mom, and I took a mini fall road trip to a festival in a small town nearby. We stopped by a MCC (Mennonite Central Commitee) Thrift Store on the way and looked around for a bit - it was fabulous! I have Mennonite roots although I am not religious, but it was still really neat to see the Mennonite tradition of saving everything put into practice.

I loved this vintage orange chair - only 15 bucks!

 

 I was tempted to buy this clock for $3.      Even yogourt containers are reused!

              You can always count on finding a good Christmas sweater...

Vintage suitcases = looove.

Stay tuned for my next post about the festival!

xo, Jade 



Newspaper Nails!

So here it goes for my first post! I really wanted to share with you these neat designs Georgia (my sister), my cousins and I painted on our nails.

We started out by painting our nails with white nail polish. Once that's completely dry, dip your finger into rubbing alcohol for 5 seconds and then press a piece of newspaper onto the nail for 30 long seconds. Seal with a clear coat (wait a bit so the print doesn't smear) and do the same thing with the other nails!

It was our first time trying this out (we got the idea here - CutePolish's channel on YouTube) and I'm super happy with how it turned out! Apparently you can do it with comic strips too... some other possibilities I wonder about are sheet music, images of flowers or vintage fabric printed onto plain printer paper, sudokus or crosswords, images from old books like Alice in Wonderland... I'll be doing some experimenting in the future! Hope you're all getting as much as you can out of these last few days of summer.

xo, Jade

P.S. My blog is still under construction so it might look a little "un-proper" for now!