birthday princess*

nineteen years ago today i waved my little hand hello to the world for the first time. it's my birthday! this really is one of my favorite days of the year. wishes and hugs, cupcakes and bubbles, post and packages!

my little mail box has been stuffed full all week. full of wishes from aunts, nans, parents, brother, sister.. even the little girl my sister babysits send me some birthday crafts she made! how sweet.

thursday brought me a big parcel in the mail and look at how wonderful it was! packaged with love from my mom and sister, they wrapped almost every little trinket individually.

red paper full of glitter, pink napkins, valentine plates, homemade rice krispie treats, kisses and chocolates. i couldn't resist opening a few at first - i got a teeny black coin purse for my little change, yummy watermelon gum, valentine window stickies, a tin with kisses inside, little valentine dish cloths with hearts and love! today i opened the rest, they were full of tiny heart candles, shiny heart stones, more chocolates and candies and two silly movies! my family is so sweet.


i've also gotten lots and lots of cards in the mail, silly ones from my brother and sister and mom and dad, sweet ones from my nan and pop and aunt, and even a few valentine cards! each envelope was full full of hearts and kisses and love that spilled all over my bed and floor, it was raining valentine love all over. also my nan always has put little stickers all over her cards and envelopes, ever since i was a tiny girl (since my very first birthday!) and this year was no different. isn't her envelope sweet? pooh bear!



i treated myself to a little birthday gift with some money that i got (the rest is going to savings!!) i bought two little adorable cupcake shirts, oh they are so sweet! at first i was just going to get purple but then i saw the creme and couldn't not get it.



i also bought myself four books with a gift card from chapters. i could live in that store, really truly i could. surrounded by stories and lives and tragedies and comedies.. just the smell of books makes me happy.

they are just four short reads, but they all seem very girly and every now and then i need a little girly read in my life! i read the one called wish, it was very sweet. and also a tiny tinkerbell tea-set, for tea with fairies and mice and ladybug friends.


on friday night my friends and i had a little dance party to celebrate for my birthday! i got lots of birthday kisses and i wore my cupcake shirt and pink nailpolish and we stayed up until four in the morning. you can only imagine how tired i was come saturday!


but i will talk about two weekends ago for a minute. it was so so fun. glow bowling and valentine decorating. heart-shaped cupcakes with pastel pink icing and sprinkles. movies. wonderful friends.

we made our dreary lounge look so pretty with pink and red and hearts everywhere!



look at me gushing and gushing! how are you all, sweets? i hope you are having as wonderful a day as i am!
stay sweet, always
xx

cherry-chip and thursday shoes

hello gorgeous!

well, i can't believe it. another week has gone past!! where does the time go? i have no idea. in just two months and a few weeks i will be home again for four lovely months. i'm looking forward to that so so much! it has been snowy each day here, and i am ready for summer now.

this week was the battle of issos and mythical knots. it was writing a paper on a lovely poem. it was reading of italy and germany and letters between men. then it was script reading and play-flirting with a boy. we were so so so silly rehearsing!! laughing between every line we read! it's a good thing we are supposed to be new loves in the scene, because we sure were acting like it! it was little notes in the mail from home. gummy candy.

today is buying treats for valentines day! it will be decorating with hearts and sparkles everywhere, and pink and red and ribbon. pink heart cupcakes, with cherry-chip inside. i can't wait for valentine's day. then, tonight, i will be glow-bowling! i'm excited, it's been so long. i'll make sure to wear white so i glow like a starry starry night!

i'm going to do something i have not done before. here are some pictures of what i was wearing this week! it was surprisingly fun to just take pictures of what i was wearing. ps apologies for the messy room!

my weekend past was spent at my nans. she spoiled me so so much with treats. raisin bread and homecooked meals. hot homemade bread from the oven. ice cream. misty mints. my aunt gave me some cookies to take back as well! chocolate oatmeal, yum!


i was tagged by the lovely rosie posie to do the honest tag. thank you, doll! so here are ten little (random!) honest things about me:


1. - i thought when i was eleven that my letter would come from hogwarts. i was disappointed when it didn't, but i got harry potter stationary and a green pen and wrote my own! i also wanted to audition for the movie as hermione, because i always thought the description of her was just like me! i practiced my british accent for months alone in my room. now, i look at emma watson as a style icon and could not imagine anyone else as hermione!


2. - this one is hard for me, because i only just started to admit it to myself, even: i am not entirely happy with my major. i love theatre and acting, but the classes for acting i am taking at school are my least favorite classes here. i don't want to tell my parents because i know how bummed they will be that i am unhappy. i just want to act and not be swayed by techniques and forms and strict rules.. i want to be free to play a character as i interpret them.


3. - that being said, i realized recently that what i want to be doing is traveling. i want to see the world and meet people of differnet cultures and take pictures of everything and write down EVERYTHING i see and learn and hear. i want to experience so much that i am missing by living in the province i grew up in.


4. - i love journaling! so much. i could spend all day writing in my journal and drawing and doodling and crafting.


5. - i love taking walks alone, with my music. i could walk for hours and hours just listening and seeing and taking in everything around me.


6. - i want to have long long hair in the summer and wear pretty dresses with ballet flats while getting strawberry ice cream with sprinkles on top.


7. - my birthday is one of my favorite days of the year. i love being the birthday princess and wearing a tiara and blowing out candles on my cake! it makes me so happy to hear birthday wishes from friends i don't talk to often. i also love that my birthday is so close to valentines day, because everything is pink and red and pretty and girly


8. - i love reading prose and poetry. some things people write are so, so beautiful. someday i hope to write something that other people think is lovely.


9. - i wish my eyes were green!


10. - i love love love learning about the ancient greeks. their gods, goddesses, rituals, conquests, religion.. everything about them is so interesting and beautiful to learn about. they were so complex and determined! i feel like the amount of bravery and risk back then was immeasurable. their lives, their clothes, the food they ate, the sacrifices they made, the wars they fought - everything was done so grandly and proudly. i hope someday (soon, i wish!) to go the greece and see the places heracles and achilles and alexander walked and lived.

(i realized that a lot of these truths start with i love! i sure do love a lot of things hehe)

none of those pictures are mine, in the truth tag, by the way! i just found them all over the spiderweb. i tag whoever hasn't done it and would like to!

i'm up early this morning. i had a good night in my dreamworld of grassy fields and blue skies and cotton candy clouds and baby deer. laying in the warmth of dreamsummer with lilys in my hair and stars in my eyes. pink cheeks and small smiles.
i hope you dreamt lovely things
<3>

a package for sophie (don't read if it's you!)

new pen pals, new maybe-friends.
homemade watercolor stationary, polaroids, valentine pins, tissue snowflakes, stickers, e.e. cummings poems, envelopes with locks and secret keys..
so so nice to make up a package for someone.
to tell a new friend about myself felt strange but good.
have a look before it heads across an ocean:

small words, small stories

bowls of cereal with vanilla and crystal almonds and raspberries. mugs of milk. the snow is coming down but the sun is peeking through the white blur. dreamt of tiny ballet slippers and a big field of daisies. polaroids taken out windows in summers past. missing my dearest friend and picnics in fields with lilac breezes and cakes on pink napkins.

small mice have been turning up, with pink pink paws and skinny tails. scuttering through the cupboards, looking for a cracker crumb or a bit of peanut butter. listening to their tiny feet pitter-patter across the linoleum.

soft music in the background as i read of goddesses and their golden hair and beauty. wishing to dance in the clouds and watch beautiful lives unfold before my eyes. to sleep in a sky castle with sparrows and fireflies and the stars as my nightlight.

tea in chipped cups by the pretend fire as the sky darkens and a snow mist rolls in. the snow mist is really a queen and i am the princess laying in the cold with nothing but ballet slippers and a white dress.

a whisper of a kiss.