Goddess of .. My Cherry Blossom Girl !

As you know, I recently won the It's Unbeweavable & jkldesign giveaway (Yay!) .. and well, it took a little uhmming and ahhhing .. but I made a choice on the print I wanted .. and got it in the mail yesterday !

My Cherry Blossom Girl

She's absolutely as gorgeous in person, and truly inspiring.

I love her.
 

Thanks again to the wonderful Elizabeth Marie @ It's Unbeweavable and Leigh @ jkldesign etsy shop (and her blog : CREATE) for making this dream come true !

Kisses,

Goddess of .. Inspiration for new beginnings !

• I just saw Julie and Julia. Totally loved it, of course, as most bloggers / foodies did and I feel very inspired at the moment. I must get up and do things. I must start a countdown of something exciting on my blog.

• There is the Martha Stewart's baking handbook that Lolita gave me on christmas 2 years ago .. and I haven't tackled more than 3 recipes in there. Maybe I could try that. Perhaps Martha is the Julia to my Julie, the butter to my bread, the breath to my life.

• Or it could be totally non-cooking related.

• Ideas ???

Goddess of .. a JKL Design piece of amazingness!!!!! Yay!

No matter how much I complain all the time at times, I must ALWAYS remember this :

I AM THE LUCKIEST GIRL EVER !!!

Thanks to Miss Lizzy Marie @ It's Unbeweavable!, bloggie extraordinaire, super badass flirt and totes BFF material (take notes Liz, I am demanding that we be BFFs sooner rather than later).. I won her latest (and bestest) giveaway, an item from Leigh @ JKLdesign (Etsy shop) !!!

Leigh's work has been featured on-
the cover of Dujour Magazine April/March
Forever 21's Blog The Skinny
Will be seen on the set of "The Roommate", with Leighton Meester coming out in 2010.

This post is not meant to rub it in anybody's face .. it's simply me trying to be grateful for what I receive and to share my excitement ! Because I am BEYOND excited !!!

I looooove JKLdesign and all of Leigh's items .. so I think I already know which one I want !

She has many pieces involving the Eiffel Tower, and well, if you'd met me IRL.. you'd know I am a hardcore Tour Eiffel lover ! In fact, I love it so much, I could've been the woman who married the Eiffel Tower (yeah, check that out, it's worth it!!!).

And, I appreciate art, like no other. I paint and sculpt .. although "being a lawyer and all" takes up most of my free time, lol.

Here's a few of my coup-de-coeur design pieces @ JKLdesign

I weave-adore this one !

Paris truly is the city of love..

Simply gorgeous

I love rainy days and the eiffel tower, this was meant to be !

My bed on any given day

Can't pick one ... must pick one ..

P.S. I'll post my reply to Rami's message later and also, what I've been up to lately !!! Yay ! Get excited, life is beautiful !!!

Goddess of .. My very first award: Over The Top!

This has made my hour, day, week, month, year !

After 5 months and 9 days of blogging, 68 posts, 302 comments and 19 AMAZING followers ... I've received my VERY first blogging award :)

The very sweet, soulful, honest and generous Deva from "Always carried away" has blessed me with this award and has called me a "new and fabulous discovery" .. which is really REALLY great to hear !!! Thanks a million Deva !

Now everyone, go over to her "Always carried away" blog or her "Bochenko Artdeco" deco blog .. discover her amazing-ness and immediatly, FOLLOW HER because she's amazing and inspiring!

I will pass on the Over The Top award in just a minute, but first, let me fulfill my duty as a award recipient and answer this little quiz :

Here’s how this one works: USE ONLY ONE WORD! It’s not as easy as you might think. Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to use only one-word answers.

And now, bloggies and gentleman, the moment you've all been waiting for : The Award Ceremony !

1. Where is your cell phone? handbag
2. Your hair? blonde
3. Your mother? generous
4. Your father? ---
5. Your favorite food? sushi
6. Your dream last night? scary
7. Your favorite drink? bailey's
8. Your dream/goal? love
9. What room are you in? office
10. Your hobby? painting
11. Your fear? rejection
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? beach
13. Where were you last night? ikea
14. Something that you aren’t? fake
15. Muffins? cupcakes!
16. Wish list item? confidence
17. Where did you grow up? city
18. Last thing you did? work
19. What are you wearing? pearls
20. Your TV? weeknights
21. Your pets? none
22. Friends? essential
23. Your life? beginning
24. Your mood? daydream
25. Missing someone? always
26. Vehicle? Lucy
27. Something you’re not wearing? jeans :(
28. Your favorite store? Madden
29. Your favorite color? p-i-n-k
30. When was the last time you laughed? noon
31. Last time you cried? tuesday
32. Your best friend? Lolita
33. One place that I go to over and over? Starbucks
34. One person who emails me regularly? Lolita
35. Favorite place to eat? downtown

I know many amazing bloggies and all of you are very dear to my heart, so it's a hard decision to make .. However, I've decided to pass on Deva's compliment to my own "new and fabulous discoveries" because they deserve your precious reading time :

- Andy from "Too Wity To Be A Lady"

- Sarah from "He Loves Me Not"

- Tiffany from "Confessions of a Chicago Girl"

Have a good and crazy weekend bloggies !

Goddess of .. Jogging makes me want to kill myself !

Ahem. Yes, it's true.. jogging makes me suicidal.

*Okay, okay, that may be a teeny tiny wee-bit of exageration but you get the point : I HATE JOGGING (and I'm pretty sure Jogging hates me)...*

I went jogging with Lolita last night .. and it just confirmed how badly out-of-shape I am.
I stopped going to the gym around the time my parents separated and I started my internship (so around Christmas '08-January '09).

That was the BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE !!! I'm telling you, if you're on a good work-out schedule .. DO NOT EVER stop. If you do eff up like me and stop, you're an idiot. Simply because when you do muster up the courage to start again, it's going to hurt, I mean like really H-U-R-T .. like death on a stick !!!!

You know I cultivate the impossible (for now) dream of running a marathon or half-marathon and you may also know that, even back in May, I couldn't run without getting the feeling that I was getting choked to death.

Anyhow, my lack of motivation is obvious and all I could think, the whole time I was running, was how much I hate running. Lolita reminded me I needed to push myself more and that I need to do it a few more times before I start to feel better about it. And well, I agree, I've been there before.

So, I tried to think happy thoughts ... *cricket sounds* ... nothing.

I tried switching the song on my iPod everytime I thought of something negative .. which worked a couple times .. but only ended in a furry of button-pressing madness until finally, I just couldn't switch the songs fast enough anymore. I had had enough.

I can't say that I felt better afterwards and I am sore this morning, but I'm not giving up on physical activity. I still love to ride my bicycle, I love kayaking, I love yoga (not HOT yoga though.. remember here and here) and more.

Lolita and I went cycling last weekend and have more plans to go bike by the water this weekend, I am looking forward to getting a tan (ahem. it's an illusion, my pale skin can't tan) and a workout ! Yay, I'm really excited !

P.S. That's my old hand-me-down bike on the right ! I need to get it checked .. I noticed last sunday that I have a flat tire (possibly both, actually). Until then, I'll use Lolita's instead because she prefers rollerblading anyway.

Goddess of .. I'm The Law, Bitches !

Yup, yup, yup. As of 3pm today, I'm a lawyer !

I can run naked in fields of corn
and
still be a professionnal

(although the Bar probably wouldn't recommend it).

That's right :o)

I thought you should all know that I am The Law ..
and nobody's gonna change that
(except the Bar, if I fuck up) !

Alright, now that I'm feeling like I'm on top of the world,

let's all remind ourselves that I use to shit my pants in a not-so-distant past..

some 20 years ago :o)

!!! POOP !!!

As you can see, I've come a long way since.

Goddess of .. Uppity pricks and snobs !

Of course, things are never rarely the way you envision them.

Last night was no exception ..

The "hip club" as I remembered it.. was really just an outside bar on top of a skyscraper. Sure, it sounds cool but the sky looked like it was about to pour, it was chilly and windy (i.e. tangled hair).

Picture them just like this, except they were wearing suits! Silly, uh ?!

The "cool crowd" was really just a bunch of uppity pricks and snobs. In typical high school fashion, everyone stuck to their cliques. Every law firm had its clique.. there wasn't any mixing really. I actually saw a guy I knew from high school who, apparently, now has a french accent .. how f*cking snobbish is that !?! OMG ! Thank Lil' Jesus, I was with Lolita (Mr. Unreliable didn't show up .. see how he got his nickname!?!) so at least she introduced me to the peeps from her firm.

Thanks for the support, as usual, you are awesomeness in a bottle !!!

Goddess of .. Hot Yoga & sweaty shirtless men !

Bloggies, I tried something new last night.

I've been wanting to go back to the gym for a while now and didn't do anything about it. Being newly single and not having that someone "who accepts you as you are or who knows your flaws" has made me want to better myself.

Lolita and her cousin talked to me about Hot Yoga so I decided to jump on board last night.

Hot yoga "is a style of yoga developed by Bikram Choudhury and a Los Angeles, California based company. Bikram Yoga is ideally practiced in a room heated to 105°F (40.5°C) with a humidity of 40%. Classes are guided by specific dialogue including 26 postures and two breathing exercises. Classes last approximately 90 minutes. Beginners may take Bikram's yoga classes."

Thanks Wikipedia.org

After 20 minutes, I wanted to run out of the room screaming and gasping for air. It was suffocating. Don't get me wrong, I've taken yoga classes but this ... well this ... was like trying to breathe under water. Your chest feels constricted and the warm air is everywhere (around you, inside your throat, everywhere). There's no breeze, no cool air, at all.

After 30 minutes, we were done with the standing postures which required the most balance. They're the thoughest ones for me, I can't stand on one leg so it was a major challenge (not even talking about the suffocation here).

I got nauseous and my heart was racing so fast that I sat/laid down for the next 30 minutes. Even after laying down for 10 minutes my heart was still racing. This sh*t is bananas, bloggies.

I did manage to pull myself together for the last 20-30 minutes of the class which included the floor postures, my favorites.

Before, I never would've imagined it could be this warm, it was like a sauna in there. Everyone was sweating like crazy and all the men were shirtless (which I cannot complain about, miammm).

Overall, I guess I'm proud of what I accomplished and it helped me deal with my Break-up feelings but during the class, it made me want to kill myself ! Lolita and her cousin insisted I give it another chance because the first time is the worse apparently. So bloggies, I'm going back tonight !

Breathe deeper. Aim higher. Be better.

Goddess of .. Dreaming an impossible dream ???

I got a call today, from the Team in Training chapter in my town, because I registered online to get information about Nike's Women Marathon in San Francisco..

It's been a dream of mine for almost two years now. I've been wanting to raise money for the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society since my uncle passed away, from a lymphoma disease, in July 2007.
They just sent me the information package via email .. and it says that I would need to raise over 5000$ (for my expenses to be covered) by October 2009. Oufff .. that's a lot of money.

I'm thinking, last year, my mom and I did the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life and together we raised 1000$ .. so 5000$ by myself sounds IMPOSSIBLE right now.

And, I would have to train very hard to get in shape .. to run a marathon or half-marathon by October.

AND, I need to decide by tomorrow 5pm.
Ugh, this is so discouraging. This is one of my dreams right now and it's not looking good. I knew it wouldn't be easy but still .. it sounds totally impossible, right ???

Goddess of .. Playing Interior Designer - Part 2 !

Could also be titled :

Goddess Of .. Dreaming out loud and Designing from the Heart !

This week-end was BIG design-wise.. I devoted all of my time to Lolita and shopping for her new appartment !

She bought a dark purple fabric cover (for the futon bed she already owns) which is going in the living room as a sofa and totally follows the grey, cream and purple theme for the room.
The zebra cushions will go on this sofa. She also bought a tv unit to go in the living room and it's a light wood color that will match the adjacent dining room set that she's getting from her mom.

And a cute purple lamp too !

For the bedroom, Lolita picked this bed with the attached side tables that are really simple and modern.

Also, got her comforter which has really thin little stripes on it, in the shades of beige, baby blue and brown.. and latte sheets.. and two brown silk cushions for the bed. As for decorative pieces, we're still working on it but she got a beautiful blueish-green ceramic vase to put on the floor with decorative twigs in it.

A lot more was accomplished this weekend but these are the big pieces ! I will keep you updated with more :o)

And now, a little bit of design pieces from my heart, if I could describe myself with three images they would be the following :

How would you describe yourself, bloggies ?

Goddess of .. Toys from my childhood !

I guess I'm feeling nostalgic today because I feel like posting about my childhood and the games that made it what it was !!

I was browsing t-shirts on Busted Tees and came across the following designs :

Classic yet revolutionnary at the time, the pogoball !

I loved this toy so much and played with it all the time.

Being the klutz that I am, it's kind of a miracle that
I was never injured while operating said ball..

Oh, the snapping bracelets, how I loved these bracelets ! I felt so cool, so stylish when I wore 'em..Nowadays, I must resort to stilettos to get that same feeling :) Much less comfortable, mind you.

Oh and the others :

I loved these little creatures and still think they're über cute ! I taught my mom a lesson with those, or actually, I reminded her of a lesson she taught me.

I asked her to buy me a troll (or a dozen of them) and she said : "But honey, they're sooo ugly" with the most disgusted expression on her face. So I said : "But mommy, you told me to love all people/creatures, no matter their differences" .. Needless to say, I got a collection of trolls now :o) Yipee !

I hope these little anecdotes satisfied your late friday need-to-waste-some-time ! It sure occupied a lot of my afternoon :o)

What were you favorite toys as a child ?!?

Lolita arrived @ my house 30 minutes ago. She and my Mom are going shopping. Tomorrow is Mr. Unreliable's moving day .. Lolita and I are finally gonna get to meet his girlfriend (of over a year) and hopefully, it'll all go smoothly !

Happy weekend bloggies,

Goddess of .. Got it ! The perfect cushions !

Got it ! I found the perfect cushions for Lolita's living room.

They have the perfect shade of warm grey I want for the accent wall .. and they're just down-right sexy!

Hopefully, I'll find the purple silk cushions I really wanna pair these with ..

Lolita is one lucky lady, hahaha :o)

Goddess of .. Playing Interior Designer - Part 1 !

Here's my latest project bloggies :

In the weeks to come, I will be playing interior designer for my BFF Lolita who is moving back in town (and in style) on june 1st and getting her first apartment on her own.

I think maybe (just maybe) part of her figured out how jealous I am and offered me this job out of pity. Anywowzer, I took it and ran. I'm so excited to do this !

The apartment is basically a blank canvas that I can just paint all over :o) She's got a bedroom, a dining room / living room, kitchen and bathroom that need love and decorating.



So far, I've been picking out colors :

Bathroom is white so I will accent and decorate with creamy latte color and turquoise !

Living room will be painted off-white / cream color with a warm grey accent wall and purple accessories.

The adjacent Dining room will also be off-white and warm grey for the walls but the accesories and decorations will be either a light apple green or soft coral pink.

Kitchen is painted white but accesories and decorating items will be cherry red ! F-i-e-r-c-e !

Bedroom is more personal so I will leave much of it up to her of course, but it will include brown drapes which she already owns and are perfect because they keep the light out .. and some shade of blue.

We're going shopping this weekend, I'll keep you updated :o)