Birthday Boy

Never to old for a birthday party right!? It was Jordan's Birthday, Taylor's Boyfriend, and we all came together for the surprise. Taylor baked some delicious treats, including mini cheesecakes, can we just say, “YUMMMM”. Although most of us can handle our sangria the birthday boy was off to bed before the party was even over.  Surprise parties are the best despite being a lot of work for the person planning it. Taylor’s backyard is the perfect setting for many summertime hangouts.

G Frands

3 amigos

Happiness is

I do not enjoy taking pictures at night most them turned out like the ones below. Taylor and I want to take a photography course but they are so expensive! We are hoping to find someone who loves taking pictures so we can make the lesson more of a hang out and learn a little more about our cameras. 

Happy Birthday little J.

E.

Still Growing in Guelph

I love love love my backyard. This year there is so much going on back there. We planted a garden that is growing beautifully. The only downside is every week there are tons of weeds that we need to remove so they don’t take over. Its exhausting. Next year we are planning on putting hay down because midway through the season some gardeners were giving us tips. Not the be negative but where were you guys when we were starting this little adventure.

I hope everyone is getting time outside because it has been the perfect temperature!

Top: J crew (on sale) Bottom: Forever 21

Straight lines are everything

Zuchini are growing so well! 

Green peppers

The rabbits have been helping themselves to our lettuce but that's fine, there is a ton so we will share

Erika gardener extraordinaire

Just the Girls

Everyone should know this past Friday the Faults in Our Stars came out and if you do not shame on you! My bffl and fellow blogger Taylor had been bugging me for a couple years to read it and it took the commuting life for me to finally get around to it. The stone that I am did not cry as hard as the women around me, Emma's faucet (her nose) started about 30 minutes into the movie and didn’t stop again until we got to the subway while Shauna although beautiful put Oprahs’ ugly cry to shame. I shed some tears but I was not unaware to trek home and makeup of the night. When we left everyone’s eyes were red and looked exhausted, I am assuming from emotional drain. Overall, it was a great movie.

Prior to the sob fest of 2014, we picked up Shauna at work and made our way to Yorkville where we ate dinner at TrattoriaNervosa aka Café Nervosa aka the restaurant Beyonce ate at when she was here last summer. 

Enjoy the day visually below.

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We decided gaining 10 pounds each would be perfect for this shot

Kipling Station

Two beauties

Always E

Hello I live here

This week I took a long weekend and went to Montreal! Although the overall goal of the trip was to help my sister move from one apartment to another it was so much more. The weather was gorgeous. After the move, which was a pretty early morning after going out the night before, we went to the Atwater Market and on a walk through Mount Royal. Despite the fact that I lived in Montreal when I was young and have been there countless times since, there was something about this trip that was different. I attribute it to the weather and my beautiful family. My new obsession with gardening is evident in my pictures below. 

Just like Carrie walking into Heaven on Fifth I took a deep and breath and echoed, "Hello, I live here".

making use of an awesome panoramic moment 

Re-found love for this beautiful city. I highly recommend Montreal in the summer so much to do (and there are no mosquitos)!

E

Intern Life

I have just finished my first internship. Mejuri is an online jewelry store that connects jewelry designers to jewelry lovers. It is like no other jewelry company I had ever heard of. My role among other things involved connecting with designers who hopefully would one day design a piece of jewelry for Mejuri. Mejuri uses a crowdsourcing concept to decide the winning designs. Thanks to Katherine and I and the rest of our amazing team Mejuri received the most submissions per design challenge to date. I am happy to have had a hand in its success. Mejuri also has a blog I encourage you to follow. 

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The Earring Charms was the on going design challenge during out time at Mejuri. We saw it go from concept to completion. We went to sell our products in the CIBC offices in Toronto which were extremely well received.   

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I even did a little hand modelling thanks to our amazing photographer Amanda Source

I think internships are an interesting experience and I am glad I was able to work with a friend. I learned a lot and I am happy to have had the experience. I wish continued success to Mejuri and all of their designers.

In our final days, Katherine and I made a stop motion video to show off the beautiful earring charms!

E

Home Garden Centre

This summer with my lack of substantial work I have been finding other ways to keep myself busy. For some reason gardening has become a surprisingly fun pass time. There is just something about seeing your hard work have such a beautiful end result.

My 10 acre property has a substantial amount of weeds on it but there are little gardens around that can look magnificent after some well deserved attention

We bought some cheater plants so our garden is growing pretty well. We have a little green house that we are going to use next year so we can create our own cheater plants and not have to buy them. We have already enjoyed many zucchinis and salads thanks to it.

I couldn’t get it all done without my amazing team, gf t-swizzle, bf jmac, mommy dearest and the master of the house.

Flower Power or should I say tomato, lettuce, zucchini, potatoes and pepper power 

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Just the Beginning

So, it is the Monday following the last week of classes. Eight AM rolls around and I am not in marketing/IMC... I am not looking at a tired yet well dressed group of people and I am sad. During my undergrad I was a number not many people knew my name and I came in and out of class as I pleased. On the other hand at Humber almost everyone in my class knew my name and I am leaving there with a group of friends I know will remain close despite us not being in school anymore. I can not thank everyone in my class enough for helping make this time not only memorable but enjoyable. I have to stop writing now because I am getting sad thinking about it. I wish everyone nothing but success in whichever direction they choose. Our graduating class was remarkably talented and it is an honor to know them all.

After our final exam we went out to breakfast at the Good Fork on Bloor near Jane station. Im going to miss these ladies. Cally, Katherine and Kaelin have been my go-to's for eight months but I feel like I've known them forever. Click on their names to check out their personal blogs!

I love eclectic picture frame displays, I want to make one myself one day  

Champagne with breakfast.. why not!

I wouldn't trade this year for anything and I am excited to see what the future holds! Now lets bring on the 30 degree weather and get this summer started! 

Stay cool.

Always Ayr <3