December 23rd, 2009
Candy (2006), starring Heath Ledger & Abbie Cornish ♥
(Image via thelovelybones)
“Here is the deepest secret nobody knows. Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud, and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide. And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart. I carry it in my heart.”
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December 9th, 2009
Welcome to The One Hundredth – my 100th post! I’m so thrilled! It’s hard to believe that only 3.5 months ago, I reached 50 posts. And a few short months before that, back in dreary February, I revived this itty bitty little blog from its year-long hiatus. I’m so glad that I did, too. In fact, knowing how much this blog and the people I’ve met through it mean to me now, I only wish I would have brought it back to life much sooner. Hello, sappiness. ;)
But anyhow, when faced with the task of coming up with “the perfect” topic to celebrate the 100 post mark, I had so many different ideas of what to do, but nothing seemed quite right. Until I found the photograph below. And then it just clicked. After all, that’s what this blog is all about in the first place: anything and everything that I love and find inspiring. My favourite things.
(Image via tieperfume)
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes,
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,
Silver white winters that melt into springs,
These are a few of my favourite things…
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November 4th, 2009
Well. It’s been an eternity and a half since I’ve posted an IAD Adventures update. I suppose I’ve just been so overwhelmed with university these days that the last thing I’ve wanted to post about is … university. My blog has become more my escape than anything else. But I want that to change.
So to make a long story short: My second semester of study as an Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) student started back in early September. I’m taking 3 studio classes. Two are IAD classes, and one is a required foundations (FND) course in drawing. For now, I’m going to delve into one of my IAD classes: Design of the Built Environment A. This class is pretty much my first strictly design class. Conceptual Design, which I took in the summer, was the pre-requisite to this course and it essentially taught you how to work through the design process to give whatever you were designing – be it a light fixture, a piece of furniture, a room, or even an entire building – meaning and significance. DotBE is, in a nut shell, an extension of that class. However now, we’re actually designing structures which is super duper exciting! (It’s my favourite class.)
Our first assignment of the course was to create a fully functional shelter, meaning our structure had to run entirely off of solar/wind/water power and use no electricity.
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October 16th, 2009
When I was younger, I always wanted to live in a tree house. A place all my own nestled high above the trees with rope bridges connecting haphazardly placed rooms, look out towers, curling staircases, hammocks, ropes and pulleys… all the bells and whistles. That was my dream. I remember going to Disney World in Florida for the first time when I was in the fourth grade and seeing the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. Flying Dumbo ride aside (:P), that was the highlight of my trip there. It was the most amazing thing I’d ever seen. My mom insists that I made my family go through the treehouse twice and tried to guilt trip them into letting me go through a third time. I was such a well-behaved kid, eh? (For those who’ve never been to Disney World, there’s a few more pictures of the treehouse on this website.) I was just so enthralled with it.
The Swiss Family Robinson treehouse at Disney World
(Image via Wikipedia)
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