Monthly Archives: November 2011

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Gotta love Rosie

November 25, 2011

Inspiration, lust-haves

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And how fabulous is that Alexander Wang leopard print bag? I’ve been dying for the Brenda.

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Holiday Nails!

November 24, 2011

Cute!, Inspiration, lust-haves

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Do you wear nail polish? I never wear it – I’m far too clumsy and impatient to let it dry, and when I do, it chips within an hour of application! But this gorgeous nail polish from OPI is enough to make me re-think it. Am loving all the awesome nail polish ideas lately!

PS. Two more nail polish posts. 1. 2.

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Ballet Bonanza – The National Ballet of Canada

November 24, 2011

Inspiration, Photography

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The Covetuer shot this at the National Ballet of Canada. How gorgeous are the costumes? It’s so fascinating to read about some of the crazy things ballerinas have to go through – respect, man! For example, did you know that dancers go through 120-150 pointe shoes a year? They cost $85 each, and for performances, a ballerina may have to wear at least two pairs!

The dancers wear about 120 to 150 pairs of pointe shoes a year. When I order, I order in lots of thirty and it will take about four months for those shoes to come. They are $85 a pair and they last about eight hours maximum. – Lorna Geddes

We have done several ballets in which the shoes have been dyed. The dancers have to sew their ribbons and elastics on themselves. That’s not done for you. You usually see dancers on the side sewing. – Lorna Geddes

This is Tybalt at the ball. It’s kind of like an 80’s Chanel look. – Grant Heaps

The shapes and the size of the costumes is really amazing. The height of hats, its not an exaggeration. It was a sign of your wealth to show off how rich you were by the voluptuousness of your costume. –Richard Hudson

This is the black swan queen and the white swan queen from Swan Lake. There is one move every black swan does, this one trick, they do thirty two fouetté. In the film, she didn’t do a single one, even the body stunt didn’t do a fouetté. She did zero fouetté. – Grant Heaps

This is the Sugar Plum Fairy. The black swan tutu’s are from Swan Lake. They are made of all net and are sewn to a panty and then are all connected together. There are usually 16 to 18 layers. – Grant Heaps

Happy Monday – A New Puppy!

November 21, 2011

Cute!, Puppies

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Greetings everyone!

How was your weekend? Hope you guys had a great one. We certainly did – we drove 1.5 hours and bought a gorgeous Miniature Schnauzer puppy! She is so beautifully adorable, but boy does she have lungs! Can’t wait til she settles down and we can finally have some sleep! It’s so hard to be mad with her though, you look into those gorgeous eyes and you can’t help but melt .

I’ve been reading frantically on the internet on how to settle my puppy at night – she’s great during the day but at night as soon as we turn out her light she carries on like a mad chook. So tonight I’m going to try the following:-

Wearing an old t-shirt and putting it to bed with her
Playing with her until she’s exhausted – my parents’ Samoyed came over yesterday and played with her so last night was relatively peaceful (until 5am this morning!)
Giving her a warm blanket – I read that it’s best if we have a blanket with her mum’s/littermates’ scent on it, or a blanket with a hot water bottle, but we have neither so I’m going to try putting her blanket in the clothes dryer tonight and giving it to her to sleep on.

Great, I sound like a crazy dog lady, haha! But she’s so worth the effort – this is my first day back at work and my heart aches for her already!

Hollow Book Safes

November 21, 2011

Cute!, Etsy, Hehe..., Home is where the heart is, Inspiration, lust-haves

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Did you ever read the Babysitter’s Club series? I read every single one as a kid…those books are the reason why I am very shortsighted today! I used to read them in the car, in very questionable lighting, in the dark, over dinner…everywhere I went I would read!

These amazing “safes” totally remind me of Claudia in the BSC series – she would hide her junkfood from her traditional Japanese parents in hollowed-out books just like these! While I don’t have that problem, having moved out of my parents’ house, I’d probably gift these to someone and put some knick-knacks inside. This shop even does custom books, so if you’re a creative guy with a bookworm girlfriend, you could get one of these made with her favourite book and pop some (engagement?) bling inside!

Hollow Book Safe - Harry Potter (Deluxe Edition)