I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it.

I'm going to walk up to my hairdresser and tell them to make my hair look like this.

Aaaaah Zooey.

This is exactly what I want! Eeep! I am even going to get some highlights in this color ^_^

Eeep! I don't know when I will get my hair done.. maybe next week.. but this IS what I want *huge smile!*

I hope I can get it cut in Grimsby! Oh yeah! I'm going to Grimsby for 5 days with my mom while she puts up her art show at the gallery there! We get to stay in a really nice hotel! It has a pool! Me and my mom will be relaxing next week while we put her show up so I don't think I will be around here on my blog much *boo* :( buuuut I will take TONS of photos so you can expect a huge post when I get home ^_^

in the mean time, if you have not yet entered in the giveaway here on 'a girl named astrid' I think you should ;) you could win some pretty cool stuff!

xox

what I'm loving today

I just discovered 'we heart it' today.

What a smart idea! It's like a little land where you can 'heart' things and be inspired at anytime of the day.

I have not yet made an account but I think I might very soon (as in probably after I write this post, teehee).

Sooo, While I was browsing this magical site I found this person^_^ all her photos are just fantastic!

So I'm still trying to understand the idea of the website and who the original people that take the photos are, so if I have put one of your photos on here and you would like me to take it off I would be glad too.

So with further ado! Here is what I'm loving today.

tee hee the first photo makes me giggle ;)

xox

its giveaway time! Eeep!

Todays the day I hit 50 followers here on 'a girl named astrid'!

Eeep! This is so exciting!

It makes me so happy to know that people enjoy reading my blog ^_^

It really puts a huge smile on my face when someone says they love to hear about the things I write.

Ok I'm so excited right now I'm going to get to the giveaway part!

Alrighty!

So this giveaway is open to anyone, does not matter if you live in the north pole or even pluto!

And you don't have to do any silly things. All you have to do is comment with your favorite thing about 'a girl named astrid'!

Oh and don't worry for those of you that don't have a blog you can enter by commenting too!

SO! Heres what you could win!

A hand embroidered wall hanging made by yours truly.

Two vintage spools of thread in a turquoise blue and a light purple.

Five pins (buttons) with various vintage images.

A little container with four of the most darling erasers- cake, donut, ice cream cone, popsicle.

And a vintage pearl necklace out of my collection!

Look it's a fawn! *swoon*

Oooh I do love these little erasers <3

Vintage pearls! (they go with ANY outfit!)

Pretty vintage spools of thread!

Buttons, buttons BUTTONS! ^_^

So what are you waiting for?!

Comment with your name, favorite thing about this blog and an email address so I can tell you if you won! The contest ends December 18.

xoxo

good morning sunshine

Goodness I do love a nice shower in the morning!

But last night I stayed over at an old family friends house and when I woke up everyone was gone. Kids at school, parents at work, quiet.

So I strolled down stairs in a sleepy state and went to have a shower.

I had forgotten they had the most lovely shower/bath room in the world.

Bright bathroom, light blues and whites, old bathtub pretty wood floors.

Everything you could ever want on a sunny monday morning ^_^

Lots of love, the girl with hair smelling of flowers.

red and black

On this lovely Saturday (It's so warm! I was hot in a sweater!)

I decided to have a little photo shoot ^_^

I chose the dress my mom got for me at a vintage store in Owen Sound. It's a gothic-ish red dress with a black lace trim! It's rather strange for me to love such a dark dress but I just adore it!

So I put it on with my favorite pair of tights heels and sweater.

Brought my polaroid, tripod and I was on my way!

xox

astrid

I got chased by ghosts

Today while I was painting something happened...

*gasp* *drops paint brush*

They were after me.

The Ghosts!!

Fact: I love pac man.

xoxo

ooooh how I do love watching a good movie!

As I promised, Here are my top five favorite movies (well for now, they change about once a week haha).

First up is 'Coraline'. I say 'Coraline' is one of the most scary children's movies I have for SURE ever seen! I read the graphic novel before I saw the movie, I say they are about equal for awesome-ness :)

SUCH a good movie!!!!

Next is 'Scott Pilgrim vs The World'! Oh.My.God. I LOVE this movie! And everything about it! I wish I could live in this movie, have hot pink hair that I change once a week, get little gold coins and have a kick ass boyfriend.

I have read two of the books and I highly recommend them to any comic book lover like myself :)

Next on the list is' the life aquatic'! Oooh I love this movie. I just saw it for the first time last night and it truly is magic *huge smile* I love all the tacky tech-no music, random cuts, dreamy sets, lovely scenery and fantastic sea creatures.

This movie *swoon* makes me, the girl that does not like water, (love to swim, HATE deep dark water it just freaks me out) want to live on a boat *smile*

next is 'fantastic mr. fox'! Eeep! I don't even know what to say about this one. Its by far for sure one of the best movies of all time in my opinion! I've got nothing else to say about it ^_^

Aah 'breakfast at tiffanys'. I adore Audrey Hepburn so, so much. I chose this movie in my top five because its just such a darling movie! I love her cat with no name, her small cute apartment, her most amazing couch made out of a bath tub, her outfits and how can I forget the name lulu-may?!

So, If you have not seen any one of these movies go! Run to where ever you get movies and rent or buy these!

What are your favorite movies?

xoxo

links to pages

audrey hepburn

fantastic mr fox

the life aquatic

coraline

scott pilgrim vs the world

Annika Alek and I

Yesterday Alek came home for the night!

(if you don't remember who Alek is check out this post)

And he came with his best friend Annika! Last night we watched The Life Aquatic together, it was an incredibly amazing movie and it has for sure made my top favorite 5 movies!

Then today we went to show Annika some of our hidden little places we like to go to, to walk, talk and enjoy the view :)

Me and alek trying to take a photo of us, but he's just so darn tall!

Alek takes amazing photos :)

(my bad, I look like a sleepy head)

Goodness what a pretty place!

There is a dog named Arrow that lives by the water in one of the cottages, she loves to walk around and say hi to people (too cute!)

Alek and Annika by the shoe tree! One day I would love to add on to it with some loved shoes.

It was an fantastic day full of eating waffles, watching movies and walking around *smile*.

xoxo

Back tonight with my top 5 favorite movies!

dear loves

'here comes the sun'

by 'The Beatles'

today I have a bad case of allergies (boo *sad face* ) but I have managed to still have a wonderful day full of sitting in my comfy cozy chair in my room listening to old records, reading blogs and other happy things.

Right now the Beatles have stolen my heart with their darling songs ^_^

What are you enjoying today?

xoxo

I miss you my dear brother

My brother Alek moved out a few weeks ago to the lovely Toronto for a new job.

Alek and I are very close to each other.

This is my post of the fantastic times we have had together, and don't you worry, I will take lots of photos next time I visit him :)

The time we went for a long walk in the woods and took photos.

The time we went to Haliburton in a snow storm and took snowy photos :)

When we went to So You Think You Can Dance Canada together and had to wait half an hour in line for autographs so we sang and danced.

When we went to see Down With Webster in the summer.

When we went to Carens and sang an entire album (well the best we could ahah)

Oh I miss you so much Alek! Come back one weekend and we can bake cupcakes!!!

xoxo