this week in instagrams

All of these photos have a theme: summer! The weather was so nice last week (now it's all yucky tonight and suppose to snow tonight). I am super ready for summer, sunglasses, dresses, and craft projects!

(left to right) 1. Taking a break from washer toss on the front lawn because it was so nice out! 2. Doing some work on the front porch with my tv tray! 3. Opening my window for the first time this year. 4. This is a shirt I really want to make this summer. Took this photo of a poster on my wall from the Across the Universe movie. 5. Making popcicles with my zoku! 6. Instant photos taken this weekend with my instax camera.

Did I ever tell you ... Duvet Covers

Did I ever tell you I am obsessed with duvet covers? I currently have three which I interchange, usually by season. I think it is boring to keep them the same all the time. Anyways, I was looking through urban outfitters (one of my fave duvet places) and saw that they got a bunch of new ones in! .. So I thought I would share some of my faves right now!

1. Blue 2. Aqua 3. Pink 4. Yellow 5. Crazy Colour 6. Circles

HBD

Photo taken 4 years ago when we started dating in grade 11 :)

Finally..

It has been a long couple of weeks! I have had soo much work to do and it is FINALLY spring break! Leaving here in an hour to take the ferry home :) I just thought that I would share that I am done my work.. because I am sooo excited!! Hope you all have a lovely weekend! ldc

5 Ways I Stay Motivated to Exercise

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Lately I have been working to keep motivated with going to the gym. I have been going every other day for about three weeks now. There have been many times that I have started going to the gym and promised myself I would keep up with it. Unfortunately, I have always failed at that up until now. So, I started thinking about what it was that kept me going this time that I wasn't doing the last million times I tried going. So here are the five ways I am staying motivated to go to the gym (this time):

1. Make yourself feel guilty: Along with going to the gym I am also trying to eat less and healthier. When I miss my gym day or eat something fatty and greasy I make a point of making myself feel guilty about it. This probably sounds weird, but it seems to work for me. I hate feeling guilty thus I go to the gym.

2. Keep track of your progress: This does not mean check your weight every day and write it down. Thanks to my boyfriend, I have started to write down what I do at the gym, how long I am there, how far I ran and how much weight I lifted. By doing this I can see what I did the week before and then I know if I am doing better or worse.

3. Find the right person: It really helps when you can exercise with someone else. You can motivate each other and bug each other to go to the gym. You have to choose the right person to go to the gym though, you don't  want someone who you are going to feel like you need to compete against, or someone who isn't as motivated as you and wants to leave halfway through your workout. When you do find the right person to workout with it really helps you to stay on track.

4. Get a routine: Many people know that it helps you to go to the gym if you work it into your routine, but what about your gym routine? My boyfriend recently became a physical trainer (yay!) and so he has the knowledge to be able to create a gym workout for me. You may not be able to do this, but it doesn't mean you can't make one yourself. If you write down what you want to work on and what machines/exercises you want to do then you can keep a gym routine. Then what I do is keep track of how long I run and how much weight I lift on those exercises each time I am there. This helps me to keep on track and motivates me to do better the next week.

5. Don't get discouraged: Just because you are not loosing weight does not mean it is not working. If you are exercising then you are getting healthier. My first week I lost five pounds, now I am not loosing any. I am still doing the same thing but I am building muscle, therefore I am getting healthier, just not lighter.

So, there are the five things I do to try and keep myself motivated at the gym. Although, another great thing to do is look at the fitness section on Pinterest.. that really helps too hehe. Let me know what you do to stay motivated, or what you find keeps you from being motivated!

My First "Voluntary Quarantine"

Hey! So when I wrote this post I was half way through my trip in BC for a student journalism conference. What ended up happening was not expected at all! Novo Virus (also known as Norwalk Virus) broke out at the hotel resulting in a "voluntary quarantine."So at first we were not able to leave our rooms and had to separate the healthy from the sick. Then we watched the twitter updates roll in to see what we were going to do as most of us were flying out the next day. Later in the afternoon some guys with masks came to our door and said "if you aren't sick then you need to leave the hotel." I was like what? I have no where to go! I ended up leaving with another girl I met at the conference and we found a hotel near the airport where we could stay. So it ended up being quite a memorable trip.. to say the least.

You can read the details of the outbreak here. 

Below is what I had started for this post before the virus broke out.. I thought I would keep it there anyways :)


Hello! So I have not been blogging much since I have been trying to get back into the routine of school and am now currently on the other side of the country in British Columbia. I may have mentioned before that I am the Photo Editor for my school news paper. So there is a conference for the Canadian University Press (CUP) going on in Victoria BC this week that I am partaking in. I thought I would share a few of the photos I have taken so far while here.

Who says girls can't grow moustaches?

As some of you probably know, the month of November is also known as Movember. This is where men grow moustaches to support prostate cancer. Kaila and I decided we also wanted some moustances, so we grew our own.. took about five minutes. Then we did a photoshoot wearing them :)

I think I have mentioned that I am the Photo Editor for my University news paper. There was an article about Movember, and I used this as the image. :)

Boys are wishing they could grow a stach like that..

So those are my faves from the photoshoot! Do any of you participate or know people who participate in movember? xo ldc

Well Hello There Monday!

Hello Everyone! Today is my last Monday of classes of the semester, and also probably going to be the worst week yet. I can't explain to you the happiness I will feel Thursday night (I have no Friday classes). This has been a crazy semester since I am in my third year and just beginning my minor in Business. Also being part of the school paper has added to my busyness, but in a good way. I wish I had the time to do more crafty things and more photography, but someone once told me school work comes first and for some I listened (well.. partially). So when Christmas break comes, aka the light at the end of the tunnel, I will start to do much better blogging, and more pretty crafty things, I really will try. But until then, you will have to deal with this lovely photo of me:

This was from our first day of snow this year! It was also a huge amount of snow and they cancelled some classes. That twas a good day! Ps. Hat credit goes to my boyfriend.. While walking down the road a cab driver stopped to tell me he liked my hat haha! Anyways, that's it for now. It is time to study...

When you are addicted to fonts...

Sometimes when you are addicted to fonts, you'll do anything to use them.. such as this pictures I made. Today I found THE BEST list of vintage fonts, and I love each and every one of them. So I really wanted to try them out, which is how I came up with this. I also love to scroll through the fonts at dafont.com. They have so many great ones! Are any of you addicted to fonts like me? xo ldc

Halloween as a cupcake

 I decided to pull out the old instax camera for halloween! We took photos of everyone in their costumes at my house. We had a fun time. Then we had a nice little dance party in the kitchen (below). My roommate and I were cupcakes and our friend Hill was a skittles package :)

To make the cupcake costumes we used the sun reflectors for car windows and then cut a cupcake shape out of a bag and added pretty "sprinkles". Then we had to duct tape them to ourselves! We had cherry clips in our hair too!

BTW.

When I am having weeks like these....

Seriously school... two midterms, two huge assignments, three group projects, and four meeting? It's going to be a crazy week...

However, it is true that in between chapters and such I like to go off to Pinterest and take my mind off my studying for a few. I think it helps me refocus (as long as I'm not too distracted for too long).

If you would like to contribute to my procrastination by following me on Pinterest, I would love to follow you back to see all of your lovely pins! If only I had the time to make all the things I love on Pinterest.. wouldn't life be grand. Anyways, it's back to Financial Accounting for me. xo ldc

Bullying Awareness Week at Acadia

Hello! So here are a couple pictures that I took at the Bullying Awareness event put on by Acadia Pride. Today a lot of people on campus dressed up in purple to support bullying against the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community as well as anyone else who has been bullied. They had all these balloons with hurtful words on them that they cut and let go, and then there was one balloon left with a positive word on it after the others had flown away. It was really cool to have something like this on campus! xo ldc

First Day of School for Lil' Sis

 Chloe started grade two last week. She was all decked out in purple and lookin' cute. It's fun being 12 years apart because she starts school and then I go off to university right after. I actual started university the same week she started kindergarten. She sure knows how to make me feel old : She once asked me "Sis, when I am 20 how old will you be?" I answered "32..." haha. It's fun to have such a little sister, although we do have our share of fights, she hits me and it hurts, I hit her and she laughs.. there's something wrong there. But I still miss her when I am away at school!

Here are some of my fave Chloe quotes:

"Mom, why are you drinking and driving?" Mom: "It's coffee, it's allowed" Chloe: "oh"

"Sissy, is disco stick a bad word?" (referring to the Lady Gaga song of course)

"Today it was sooo hot in the gym that my eyes were watering, and there wasn't even any onions around!"

Can't wait to see her cute little face in October! Miss you Chloe. Love Sissy.

What I Have Been up Too :: According to my iPhone

Hello! So I have been a little absent in the blogging world lately and it is because I have been so busy lately getting ready for school! So I thought I would share some photos from my iPhone to give you an idea of what I have been doing.

A few weeks ago I went boating with my Dad and my Step Mom. We took supper with us and ate while floating in the middle of the river. It was a perfect day! I have some nice photos of this that I will hopefully share soon!

I spent a lot of time at the lake with my dad this summer since our family has property there and it's halfway between my house and his house. While we are there we do a lot of canoeing (but not your average canoeing, photos to come!). We also seem to do a lot of eating ha! My dad has been going to this spot on the lake since he was little. So while I was there one time this summer he found his old goggles! I thought they were pretty cool so I took a pic!

This is Sunni, I just think she's cute so I took a pic of her! ps. we have the same birthday :)

This is Peanut. She is Sunni's aunt. Don't worry, she always looks sad like this. We used to call her Eeyore dog cause she hunches over all sad haha.

So this is a photo of myself and all of my bags that my grandmother sells for me at the market. I don't think I ever really explained what LDC Designs is, I should probably do that, but in short it is the name of my tiny sewing company. I sell my things in two different stores as well as at the market where I got to school, and my grandmother sells my things at a market she goes to. I will work on doing a post to explain this better! I just thought this photo was cool because it had all the pretty fabrics in it!

Last week my friend (and co-worker) Lauren and I went to Campobello for the day. For those of you (which is probably most of you) who don't know what Campobello is, it's an island where FDR had his summer cottage. Now it is a park where you can visit. It is actually in Canada but very close to the US, so they have American and Canadian people who work there. It is a super pretty place with awesome flowers! I actually have no digital photos of this trip because I forgot my camera battery, but I happened to have a film camera so when I get that developed I will share!

This is a photo of the wall paper in one of the cottages on Campobello Island. It is now my phone background. Pretty funky ha!

So now we come to this photo! As I said above I have been busy because I have been getting ready for school. So, to get from my house in Maine to school in Nova Scotia it takes about 6 hours of driving, a little more with stops and what not. So when you enter Nova Scotia it's about the halfway point, so that is what this photos is of. I will share photos of my room soon!

So throughout the next couple of weeks I will be posting photos of some of the things I did this summer that I didn't have time to post about before! I am also starting classes tomorrow at school so I will do some posts to let you know a little about my school and what I am doing this year and what not! I hope you have a lovely Tuesday! xo ldc

Dreaming of a Hippie Van

I love Hippie Vans so much! I have always wanted one and I believe that I will have one someday! I think it would just be so much fun to bust it out and go camping for the weekend! I always imagine myself having one of these sitting in the driveway when I am older making all the neighbors think I am a weirdo haha.

I thought I would share with you some awesome Hippie Van inspiration!

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New Room ::

So, as I mentioned before, I have a house rented in Nova Scotia where I go to school. I am staying home in Maine for the summer so I just got up to spend some time with my friends and decorate my room a bit last weekend. I am super excited to really decorate my room and I have been thinking about what I am going to do constantly! So far I just have my furniture rearranged and a few posters up, nothing fancy. Do you guys have any great inspirational photos of rooms? I would love to see them!

I bought this black shelf from my friend. I love it so much! I can't wait to put all my pretty fabric and craft supplies on it! I always wanted a shelf like this and my friend was selling it so I jumped on that quickly! I wasn't sure how well it would fit in my room but it ended up fitting perfectly! I was so happy!!

Here you can see my closet and desk across from my bed. I also have one of those super comfy basket chairs at the end of my bed and my dresser is behind my door. I really am amazed that it all fit together so well! I can't wait to move in! I can't stop thinking about decorating! I really want some kind of canopy or something... hmmm.... xo ldc

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Canada Day Shenanigans

Hello! Happy Sunday!

Canada day was Friday so I went up to Nova Scotia to spend the weekend with some of my friends! I rent a house there for school so I had a place to stay (I will show some pics of it later this week). We spent the day hanging out on the front lawn of the school. I took a bunch of photos and we just fooled around and ate snacks all day. I had lots of fun with my Fish Eye Lens. There are a few of the photos I edited of the day!

we took a billion jumping pics hehe. So fun!

We were hemping a bit, making some bracelets but we had no beads so we used fabric to make them look pretty instead. So this is just some pretty string from ripping the fabric.
I can make this into a DIY if anyone is interested?

Joshua and I :)

This is three photos overlapped to make this weird effect. Kaila looks like a ghost in the back haha.

And more jumping....

I really like this last photo. I like the colours a lot!

All in all this was a fantastic day! I can't wait to go back to school and spend more time with my friends in our awesome house! I took some photos of my new room there that I will be sharing in the near future! I started to decorate it a little and I am super excited about it!

xo ldc