Home Sweet Home

I love going on holidays but getting back home and sleeping in my own bed is the best!!  This past weekend, mom and I went to Edmonton to watch my cousins year end dance recital. While we were there, I of course made sure to go shopping at the West Edmonton Mall.  I'm such a tourist.  I've been there a million times but I can never get enough.  I love this mall!  We even got to see Two Toed Sloths:

Who knew they could be so cute?  They were totally performing for the crowd.  Hanging upside down and chasing one another.

And of course we had to hit Whyte Ave.  my other favourite place.  Among other things, I managed to go to a cool candy store:

and get my fortune told by Zoltar:

I also went to a cool cupcake shop called Fuss Cupcakes and had an outrageously good vanilla bean cupcake.  Yummy!  Funny how my favourite stores usually involve food!  I'm making it my mission to visit every cool cupcake shop in any city I visit from now on.  When I was in Vancouver in March I went to the Original Cupcakes shop and it blew my mind.  I'm thinking of dedicating a journal strickly to cupcake shop reviews and consumption logs.  Whaddya think?

Since I've been away for a few days my postcrossing cards have made it to their destinations so now I get to send out more!  I love mail.  Speaking of which, right before I left, one of my happy mail partners sent me a card.  Thanks Cristina!

Hope you are having a great Monday.

Miss Doe

P.S.  Tonight I am going to see this movie.  So excited!

Dear John

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Wow.  I thought this movie was going to be really sweet and sappy but again I was wrong.  I think I actually read this book awhile back because a lot of the story seemed familiar to me.  Anyhoo, I went because why miss a chance to see Channing Tatum, even if the movie sucks? 

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Well I was pleasantly surprised.  Not only was it a great love story, the whole underlying plot (war, autism) was really interesting.  Also I am a huge fan of snail mail and most of the movie was based upon the main characters writing back and forth to one another; that really sold the movie to me!  So if you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch.

In other news, I wanted to upload pics of my art journal this weekend but it probably won't be happening due to my sketchy internet service.  A tech is coming to check on it Monday, so hopefully I will be able to get some pics up.

Have a great weekend!

First Entry into my Passions Film Moleskine Journal

So this afternoon, mom and I decided to go to this movie.  It was so good.  It was scary but you have to really think about things and listen hard or you will  miss things.  The movie was longer than most at 138 minutes but I didn't feel like it dragged at all.  The music alone was enough to put me on edge!  Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo did a great job. Leo even had the Boston accent down (or at least what my Canadian perception of a Boston accent is!) and those boys are not exactly hard on the eyes.  Ben Kingsley played the role of cheif Psychiatrist and he did it creepily well.  Love, love, loved it!  I'd totally recommend it.  Martin Scorsese has done it again.  Brilliant movie.  I can't say too much more because I don't want to spoil it for anyone.  Go and see it and you'll know what I mean. 

In other news, tonight, the girls and I went to my friend Lea's house for a Phillipino feast.  It was beyond delicious.  I should have written the names of all of the dishes down so I could tell you.  Mmmmm.  I took some pics but honestly, I'm too stuffed and too tired to upload them.  Maybe tomorrow...  Until then, have a great Saturday night!

Crazy/Beautiful

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With all this excitement over art journalling (see last post) , I remembered one of my favourite movies.  Crazy/Beautiful.  Kirsten Dunst stars as a troubled teen who looks for attention in all the wrong places.  From what I can remember, the story line was pretty okay but what I loved about it was that Kirsten Dunsts' character is constantly taking pictures and glueing them into her book and writing captions.  Back then I knew nothing about Art Journalling but was intrigued by the idea of keeping a record of my life like this.  I might have to watch it again.  If you haven't seen it, you should check it out. 

Love this quote.