Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't really had any updates in the last few weeks. My university is currently on strike, so I all students are boycotting class this week. Montreal has also had beautiful weather this week, so my roommates and I have spent our days reading and napping on our balcony.

Speaking of my roommates, above is one of my roommates singing one of her original songs! You should all check it out, it's really beautiful!

I finally handed in my short story on Wednesday, so I feel pretty relieved at the moment! Now for the workshop this week. I'm really hoping it goes well. I've been feeling pretty crummy all week, I think it might be my iron but I am going to go to the school clinic on Monday morning to hopefully get a blood test. It just makes trying to work so much more tiring right now.

My school also may be going on strike at the end of March. It's pretty much the only thing anyone is talking about around the campus. There is going to be a huge General Assembly on Wednesday so it should be interesting to see what everyone thinks about the situation. Selfishly, the week strike would really help me get on top of my work, hahah! So we'll see what happens.

I'm going to go make some sort of iron filled food and watch some Whose Line, maybe it will motivate me to get some work done?

Also, the photograph above is from last year, but Montreal is so snowy right now so I thought it was fitting.

Have a great weekend! 

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I've been stressing for the past two days, I left all of my work until the weekend.... Will I ever learn?? Anyway, my poems that I thought were due Monday ended up being due like during the week and I hadn't started until yesterday. So I had to write two poems that I'm not proud of at all and send them in. I'm pretty frustrated with myself. And pretty nervous for Monday when they have to be workshopped. Oh well. Today, I need to write a really good draft of my Short Story since it's due on Wednesday.. It's going okay so far, not great. Definitely have some major edits to do, unlike my last story which was pretty easy to write once I started.

Anyway the main reason for this blog post is that I can announce my open project that I mentioned a little while ago! My group and I are creating an interactive zine for our final project, and we would love submissions (from you!) Click here for more details! I've also attached the poster I made for the submissions. The deadline is March 9th and it would be great if you submitted! 

Sorry for the lack of updates this week. I skipped a whole day of classes for the first time (in university) last monday because I felt dizzy for two days. It was so strange! I'm taking my iron pills more regularly now and I think that it was my iron deficiency acting up (life of a vegetarian!) Regardless, last weekend was lots of fun, on the friday we had a party at our house for one of my roommates and then on Sunday a few of us went tobogganing before a huge group dinner at a Mexican restaurant called Three Amigos that has 69 cent tacos on Sundays! We took full advantage.

I decided to spend my first weekend of reading week in Montreal to hang out with my roomies! We went dancing on the Friday and then had a movie night on Saturday. And I finally got some things in my room organized (you can't tell from the photo above, but my room has been in serious disarray).

I'm now back in Toronto, I left at 6 in the morning and got here at 9ish. Our kitten is so big! Every time I come to visit it's like she's doubled in size. And I also came home to my mom cleaning out our house, and she's decided to get rid of all of my grandmother's clothes! I saved it all and am now hoarding it all in my room. There are some awesome things! I'll post pictures next week (forgot my digital camera in Montreal), but I'm getting a really nice cardigan, this cool blazer, a salmon blazer and skirt, lots of velvet, and potentially my future wedding dress hahah! It's beige with a blue bow and it's so lovely. A little too big on me so I'm either going to hem it and also get it taken in, or wait until I know what to do with it.

I'm also pinning like a crazy person right now! Does anyone else have pinterest accounts?? I'm so obsessed. Anyway those are my only updates for now! I'm planning on getting lots of school work done this week as well as getting some shopping done. I need new basics desperately.

Also everyone should stay tuned! In my intermedia class, I have started my final project, and my group will be asking for submissions soon! I just finished designing and printing the poster, and we are working on the website right now so I'll definitely post it when everything is up and running! I would love for you to submit!!

Sooooo this week has been pretty brutal.. At least it's almost over. Just a few more nights of no sleep left. Anyway I just wanted to let you know that I was featured on the website College Fashionista! My friend Camille is now a "Style Guru" for the website, and when she came to visit me in Montreal, she took a few pictures and interviewed me. Here is the link in case anyone was interested!

I am usually soooo not a "photoboother" but I wanted to show off my new hair, so here is a picture! I got my hair ombre-ed and I think it turned out pretty well! I was apprehensive since my hairdresser didn't really know what ombre was but she made it really subtle and I really like it!

I'm back in Montreal, I was in Toronto over the break. So many projects due this week, I'm so stressed! I also recently got the Designer position at this magazine at my school, so I've been designing a submissions poster for them this weekend as well. I'll be sure to post it when its actually approved.

My grandpa also gave me his old film camera when I was back home, I'm so excited. It's a Canon AE-1 which I've been trying to hunt down on craigslist, and he also gave me three lenses and a bunch of expired film. So hopefully this weekend I can shoot some things and have more photos to post.... It's been pretty sparse recently.

I should get back to my short story.. It's due tomorrow! But let me know what you think of the ombre look! Something you would try on your own hair?

Bye Hair (as I know it)! Tomorrow I'm dying my hair ombre! I really hope it turns out. But I figure it's at the length anyway that if I hate it I can just cut it. This weekend is insane work wise, so obviously I'm procrastinating by posting on the blog haha! I just want to get to Tuesday so my life can go back to normal.. relatively. Back to my short story and never ending projects! Hope everyone has a better weekend than mine! 

I'm going back to Toronto tomorrow morning. I'm betting I'll be seeing a much larger kitten. This photo was from my week home in November. It'll be nice to be home and be able to focus on studying because I definitely have not done much of it in Montreal this past week. I also need to get my Creative Writing pieces in order (and actually start writing).

On Sunday I'm going to this Craft sale in Toronto that I am really excited about! I have already planned to get all of my Christmas gifts there. More info about "City of Craft" here if you live in Toronto and are interested in going!  

Soooo I haven't exactly been making good on my promise to post more often, school has been completely hectic the last few weeks! I did get a chance to go back to Toronto for Thanksgiving which was really nice, I'll have photos from that as soon as I can get myself over to the store to get them developed. The weekend was so beautiful and surprisingly warm, so I was busily running around the city to take advantage of the amazing weather.

I've been thinking that since my whole life revolves around school right now, I should start posting some of my design work that I make in class. For my last intermedia assignment, we were given the task of creating a typeface. Being creative with our materials was highly encouraged, so I decided to use 35mm film to create my alphabet. My idea of collage quickly evolved into 3D letters and I used a light box to capture the traces of the photographs on the strips of negative. Anyway here is my completed typeface:

You can view the full version on my flickr account if you are interested! Anyway that took up wayyy too many hours of my life these past few weeks so I just wanted to share.