Had to venture down to Point Roberts a while back to pick up a parcel I had delivered there. Ended up having a brunch and an adventure with one of my closest friends, Khayla. 

Started our brunch off right with a nice warm beverage at Caffe Capanna. I'll link their Urban Spoon page here. I think I had the Caramel Macchiato that day. 

And of course a delicious breakfast sandwich with shredded potatoes. My obsession with shredded potatoes are very real and very serious. Need to see if I can find out if I can make them myself quick enough for breakfast in the mornings. 

And then I had this heavenly creation. This is the French Onion Soup... I would 10/10 recommend and return to Caffe Capanna just for this french onion soup. It was just fantastic. The cheese, perfectly gooey. The onions, melt-in-your-mouth softness... ugh. Just thinking about it makes me wanna go for a drive. 

Stopped by the beach afterwards. I've been told that the beaches down at Point Roberts are worth checking out. It wasn't the sunniest day, but it was still absolutely serene and relaxing just to slowly walk along it. 

One thing I couldn't help but notice was how smooth and beautiful all the rocks were. Weird, I know; who the hell goes to a beach to admire rocks? Answer? I DO. I used to collect rocks when I was a kid (huuuuge loser I know) but yeah. 

While walking we discovered that someone else had clearly also been enjoying the rocks cause we found this little display on one of the logs. Needless to say, I took a rock home. 

While exploring the rest of the town, we met some friends ! This little guy took a special liking to Khayla. 

We also thought it would be a brilliant idea to buy a disposable camera and take pictures of the Point Roberts that we fell in love with, so that we could print the pictures out and keep them. Yes I realize that we could've just printed the pictures off our iphone, but the novelty of getting an actual disposable camera was too irresistible. 

We also discovered that day Khayla is a creature of nature, and has a "picture-taking pose" that she sticks with. If it works, it works eh? 

We ended our little trip deciding that when we are older, we will buy a vacation home in Point Roberts together. Everything about it was just... amazing, and gorgeous, and awe-inspiring. 

If you live in Vancouver and you just need a day off from the hustle and bustle of the big city, take a drive out there. It definitely was a huge stress relief for me. 

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I haven't posted a tutorial, or a how-to for quite some time now, so I thought I would hop back on that train and teach you guys something new ! 

There's a million different ways to do this, but this is just how I distressed my jeans, with some tools that I had lying around at home. 

So of course, start out with a pair jeans that you want to give a badass edge to. I chose this pair of blue jeans that I picked up from the thrift store. They're originally from guess. 

It's a little hard to see but on my right knee (in the above picture) I used a sharpie and drew two black lines. This is how large I want the distress to be. For this specific one, I lined it up with my knee. 

Then, you can pick another place you want distressing. I ended up only doing two holes, one on the knee, and one on my left upper thigh, as you can see above. 

So here are the tools I used. A pair of sharp scissors or fabric sheers, tweezers, and a nail file. It was definitely quite a bit harder to work with the nail file, so if you want the job done quicker and easier, opt to go out and buy some sand paper or a sand block. I just didn't want to spend extra money on this project, so I spent a little extra time and effort and used my nail file. 

So the first thing I did was take the nail file and sand down the fabric where I want the hole. Make sure you sand around the two lines (above and below) and not just within the lines, because once you start making the hole, the roughing will not show anyways. The reason you want to sand down between the lines is just so the threads might pull out easier. You'll see what I mean in a bit. 

So with our scissors, cut along the two black guidelines we drew. This is where the sharp scissors come in. 

And then between those guide lines, start cutting the fabric into strips. You can do as many or as little as you want, it will all come out to the same result. Here is where you decide the width of your hole and the shape. If you want a certain part to widen then make the cut longer, and vice versa. 

So here is the tedious part. You see that little blue string that's on my middle finger. You're going to pull all of those strings out of the pants. So you see where the bottom of that peice of string is? there's a little gap in the blue jeans. A long the edges of all the cuts you made, you'll see little blue strings fraying out. Take your tweezers and your time to pull out each individual blue bit. 

Jeans are made by these little vertical blue strings being woven into horizontal white strings. By pulling out the vertical blue strings, we are leaving the horizontal white strings intact, creating the "distress" look. 

Take your time pulling these strings out. Don't try to pull out too many at a time. I usually do one at a time or two at a time. When you try to be hasty and pull out too many at a time, you can accidentally rip the horizontal white strings, which will mess up the distressing (if you rip too many).

NOTE : don't do this on your bed. It took me forever to clean up all the little blue strings afterwards ): 

And after all the pulling of strings, if there are still edges that look a little too straight, I would go back in with the nail file and rough up those edges a bit. 

Go ahead and also rough up the edge of your pockets and put some distressing in the back pocket as well to complete the look. 

So this is the end result ! the whole on my upper thigh, aaaannnnnndd....

... the one on my knee. I made this one a little more open and 'exposed' just because I really love the look of big distresses at the knee. 

Hope you guys enjoyed this little how-to, 

more soon, 

My workspace is far from perfect. I live in a small room, in a small apartment, so my room is actually very cluttered. I have moved many times throughout my life, and despite having to rid myself of junk each time I moved, it still seems like I own way too much 'things' for the space that I have. If I had it my way, I would move out to my own apartment, and rebuild my space to be something amazing, and beautiful, and timeless. BUT, I am still just a broke ass student with slim-to-no savings, soooo that'll just have to wait a little longer. 

One thing I adore about my room however, is its windows. My windows take up the entire south wall of my room, so my room is always brightly lit. But I have these stupid shitty-ass blinds that break and hang haphazardly or fall, and it is not a good look. 

My desk also gets to look distraught quite easily, simply because I just don't have enough space. There are things I keep on my desk that I wish I didn't have to (like my dried flowers) but there just isn't enough space in my room to fit everything the way I'd like it to. 

Did I ever mention that I bought a $40 dollar agenda? Well I did. It's Kate Spade, and I love it. It is quite large for an agenda to bring around with you, but I couldn't even care less. It's so beautiful that I had to have it, despite all the inconveniences. 

As the fall is starting to settle in, I'm starting to burn more fall/winter scents in my room. One of my favourite is this one from Walmart. The scent of it is Apple Garland, and oh my god it smells heavenly. It's the perfect blend of cinnamon, and apple, and pine and holiday cheer. This is definitely one of those scents that I will be burning all through out the cold season to warm up my soul. It's little things like this that make me excited for the winter season. 

These are the roses I  was talking about, the ones I would rather not keep on my desk. I actually have good reason to keep most of these roses. They either remind me of someone, or a date/event or something, but they were all bought for me from someone important in my life and some important point in my life. 

And then of course I have my little succulent. I named him Otis. I think he is a magnificently handsome young lad, and me and him have a great relationship. Oh and if you were wondering, that rock was also from an adventure of mine. 

More soon, 

Was looking back at my posts and realized I never wrote about this day, so here I am, throwing it back. 

As y'all may or may not know, I'm a part of a student club down at UBC. It's called CCS and we do events, volunteer and some other fun stuff through out the year. At the end of this past summer, our senior adviser, Johnny, invited a bunch of us to enjoy a day out at sea on his beautiful yacht and jet-ski. 

It was honestly such a magical day. Not to mention the perfect ending to my summer. This day was definitely, hands down, the best day of my summer. 

Here's my beautiful friend Jenny sitting on the side of the yacht. The weather was absolutely PERFECT for a day out at sea. It was hot but not scorching, the waters were calm but exciting. 

As we rode away into the waters, I felt all my troubles, stress, and negativity drift further and further away. 

The front of the yacht has this great little area with cushioned padding for lounging around. It was the perfect tanning location. 

Thankfully I was smart enough to bring my camera that day and I got to take some really amazing snaps. This one is of my friend Brian doing a handstand! Funny thing is, he actually didn't do a very good handstand. But luckily, I snapped the picture at JUST the right time so it looks sick. 

And of course, me being a huge poser, I had to sit at the captain's seat and pretend like I was king of the sea. 

We had a BBQ going, we had drinks, fruits.. You want it? We got it. The captain and Johnny cooked most of the food, and it was absolutely fucking delicious. 

Our little jet-ski ! This one specifically is actually large enough to seat 3 people. Except it made turning a little more difficult when there was actually 3 people on it. I know, because we flipped it at one point. Oops :3

Jetting around on this thing was so much fun. It was my first time jet-skiing and I fell in love with it. The speed, the ocean views, the salty waves.. everything about it is just perfect. 

This picture was taken shortly after Ryan (the guy infront of me) threw us off the jet-ski. He was pushing the limits and decided to make too sharp of a turn and we got thrown into the ocean, far away from the Jet-ski. Thankfully I had a life-jacket on because (fact) I CANNOT SWIM. It took him seconds to swim back to the jet-ski and I was struggling the whole way back. I was probably in the water for a full 4-5 minutes before I finally somehow made my way back. What's worst? He was just sitting on the jet-ski laughing at me the entire time. SOME friend. >:(

Here's a picture of me and my bae. I've talked about Cathleen in some of my previous posts, and this is her ! 

Being the cuties that we are, obviously we had to pull out the classic Titanic scene at the front of the yacht. Much cute, so romance. 

AAAANNND of course I had to include a typical "look at my legs and the view" photo. 

This picture is a little blurry but I thought it was an awesome shot nonetheless. It was actually screen shotted from a snapchat video one of my friends took. But seriously, how cool of a photographer do I look like? 

Anna, another fellow CCS had her camera on-board as well, and she takes beautiful pictures. She took a lot of candids of everyone and that's where most of these pictures of me are from. The pictures on this post is probably half hers half mine. Thought I would try to include as many pictures as possible considering how special and memorable this little party was. 

The three musketeers enjoying the waters. 

Another couple of cool shots by Anna. I wish she could just follow me around all day and take pictures for me. I would have way better posts on here if that was the case :<

I adore this picture she took of me. How my tattoo looks, the lighting, my hair.. everything. I swear I've posted this probably on every social media platform I own by now LOL

Here's our captain. Not gunna lie, he's a total cutie. AND he cooks, AND he knows how to drive a yacht, AND he fishes, AND did I mention he's cute? 

Here's some of the crew that was with us on the yacht. 

And the GIRLS. Can't help but to feel some serious girl power everytime I look at these photos. WHO RUN THE WORLD? GIRLS. GIRLS. 

God, how I want to re-experience this day. Everything about it was breathtaking. I can't wait until next summer so we could do this again. That day not only relieved all my stress and worries but also just reminded me of how totally blessed I am. Having the connections and friends that I do, and being a part of something that could make THIS happen. Makes me feel pretty damn good about my life. 

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