2013 in pictures ...

I'd like to share some random and some of my favourite photos each month of the year, 2013! Enjoy :) x

JANUARY

HAPPY NEW YEARS 2013! I screenshot this right when the clock strikes 12 on Jan 1!

 The night before my winter semester in uni starts, I slipped and fell and scraped my shin pretty bad I needed to go to the ER and got 4 stitches. Yup, this is my first time I've ever had stitches mind you, I was not impressed.

FEBRUARY 

 Valentine's Day 2013 :) My first Edible Arrangement. I wasn't disappointed! :)

The MAC Marilyn Monroe collection also came out. The only thing I bought was this lipstick that I am still obsessed with until today!

MARCH

We went on a construction site to see our new place we were moving into. I wanted to keep that hot pink helmet haha who knew construction can be trés chic?

I dyed my hair the darkest shade of brown this month. I naturally have really really dark hair (almost black) so this was almost as close to my natural hair colour as it can be. I don't normally dyed it this dark, but for some reason this month I decided I missed my dark hair.

APRIL

My birthday present from my friend, Jessica! She works at MAC now as a makeup artist and we both have a huge passion for makeup! :)

At the end of April-beginning of May, we were given the clearance to move into our new place! We finally got the keys to our apartment after a year of waiting. We were so happy!

MAY

This is our view from the roof of our new place! Breathtaking <3

And I celebrate the first night of moving in by taking a much needed and long awaited bubble bath

JUNE

It's officially summertime and I love that we have a balcony that I can tan on. Charlie likes to tan as well haha

We went out to a restaurant on the harbour one night. It was absolutely beautiful and the weather was amazing. I snapped this beautiful sunset and city/skyline with my phone of the city.

JULY

Me rocking my red and white on Canada Day (July 1)

And we went to a beach once that month. We don't go that often because it's always too crowded as you can see from the background haha

AUGUST

Poor little Charlie got sick so he had to wear the cone of shame for almost a month!

We took an end-of-summer vacation to PEI (my first time there!). This was taken on their famous red sand beach. I want to take my whole family to PEI when they come to Canada for my graduation. It is such an amazing vacation place and I loved it!

SEPTEMBER

I went lighter again with my hair and this is my 'Brat' beanie appreciation pic. I'm obsessed.

This month, I also interned for the Special Events team for the Atlantic Film Festival. I had to make flower arrangements and table and entrance decor. This masterpiece you see is the entrance to the Opening Night Gala. This is my biggest flower arrangement, my decor, my idea. I received so much praise and compliments and I was really, really proud :)

OCTOBER

Next to Christmas, Halloween is one of my favourite holiday ever! This year Mike dressed up as a Muskateer (he took pride in growing his moustache since the summer), Charlie is a little dinosaur or dragon (we couldn't decide), and I was a flight attendant :) (We always say we were going to dress up matching as a couple but we never ever do!)

Charlie the dinosaur/dragon

NOVEMBER

I dyed my hair bright red (the reddest I've ever been) and I loveeeee it!

We started decorating our place for christmas. This is our bedroom. I am obsessed with fairy lights. And I also had a baby white and pink christmas tree on my night stand :)

DECEMBER

This is my favourite pic of Charlie and I. We had a mini photo shoot one day and I was able to capture many silly faces Charlie always make. I friggin' love him!

Our little family on christmas morning. This pic sums up the whole year. It has all of us, my little family, and our silliness.

Thank you so much for taking time and journey back through this year with me! Until next time :) from Film with love, xx

Haul: The Body Shop, Lush, and Victoria's Secret

Hello, hello! Today I have a beauty haul for you from The Body Shop, Lush, and Victoria's Secret!

I stopped by The Body Shop because I haven't been there in so long and they were having these deals (buy 1 get 10% off, buy 2 get 20% off, buy 3 get 30%) so of course I had to take advantage and picked up some new things to try!

The first item I got is this Banana Conditioner. First of all I love the smell of bananas and I have never seen or heard of this product before so naturally I have to try this out! They also have the shampoo version of this but as I am currently using my Redken All-Soft Shampoo (and I'm loving it .. as much as my hair needs it), I only wanted to try out the Banana Conditioner. (I found out that the Banana Shampoo is actually a bestseller so I'll have to pick it up the next time I go back to try it out!)

The next thing I got is this Mini Shea Body Scrub. This is actually for my boyfriend because he wanted a "hand exfoliator" (LOL) so he picked this one out in the store as it smells really nice and works really well!

The last thing I got from The Body Shop is the Honey Bronze Shimmer Lip Balm. (I don't know if this is a limited edition product because I couldn't find it anywhere on their website.)

Can we please just take a look at the packaging of this little thing? I love it so much! It is mostly colorless (a teeny bit bronzy in color but does not have any honey scent) and has really subtle gold shimmer! It is a lip balm so it is very moisturizing! I almost want to go back and pick up another one of this just in case it is limited edition.

Next I went to Lush. They just brought back (by popular demand) Let the Good Times Roll Facial Cleanser.

I have never tried Lush's face products before (I've only been in love with their Bubble Bars, particularly Ma Bar - something about this scent gets me every.single.time. After I'm done taking my bath using the Ma Bar I used to drop my puppy in after so that he smells freaking amazing afterwards haha don't know if you can do that but hey, the scent lingers on him for 2 weeks after so I'm not complaining!)

Let the Good Times Roll smells like cookie dough. I don't know how else to describe it. It is actually quite a gentle exfoliator as well so I use it in the shower (on my body) as well as my face and I smell like a walking dessert! I highly recommend you to go to Lush and take a big sniff and try it out!

Next I went to Victoria's Secret to check out their makeup & beauty department. I haven't been there in a while as well so I am curious to see if they have any new products out. I saw these two in store, swatched it on my hands and then I was sold.

The VS Pro Magic FX Transforming Pearl Eye Quad is a beautiful eyeshadow quad containing 4 soft, pastel pink, gold, lilac, and green colors to be used for layering on top of other eyeshadows, to wear on its own or as a highlight. They are opalescent, light, and shimmery. I don't own anything like this before and I thought they are way too beautiful to pass up!

 

Here is a swatch of the colors. How gorgeous and unique are they?!

The last thing I picked up is the VS Pro Magic FX Holographic Lip Shimmer. It is light-reflective, shimmery, and duo chrome-y .. I just had to!

Once again I don't own any lip glosses like this, so I wanted to try :)

There are 3 different colors: Prismatic Gold (which is the one I got), Prismatic Lilac, and Prismatic Pink!

 Doe-foot applicator

 A swatch of the Holographic Lip Shimmer!

I think it is safe to say I'm a sucker for anything duo chrome and prismatic! They're honestly so pretty and surprisingly non-sticky! I had a hard time deciding between this gold one and the lilac one because I fell in love with them both equally but I ended up going for the gold one. I think it will look soo good if you dab this in the center of your lips for that extra umf, don't you think? ;)

Once again I hope you enjoy my haul! I really need to stop shopping but who am I kidding? hahaha! what's life without a bit of fun! Thank you so much for reading and have an awesome, be-youtiful day ;)

Until next time,

from Film with love xoxo