WHITE SKY
At Coachella I fell in love.
Obviously with the amazing music, the gorgeous skyline of mountains and palm trees, the energy of 80,000 bffs hanging out but I also fell in love with something I never thought I could love….white.
Seriously amazing fashion was all over Coachella. I sadly admit that I was not a part of it. It’s a tad bit difficult when you’re used to freezing cold weather and all of sudden you’re launched into 35+ with no A/C, and showers in trailers. My priorities were keeping cool, not looking cool. I did live vicariously through all the so-cal babes who were rocking runway outfits like it’s no big thang. I fell in love with white & crochet & eyelets. I usually steer clear of anything white as I am one of the clumsiest people you’ll meet but I could not resist. From H&M alone I purchased a white blazer, white floor length skirt, white eyelet shorts & white crochet vest. Don’t judge me if you find me eating with a bib on, white’s worth it.
1. Top Shop- Creamy Lace Flippy Dress £48
2. Zara- Floor Length Skirt $79.90 USD
3. Urban Outfitters- Staring at Stars Crochet Back Flounce Crop Top $44 USD
4. Urban Outfitters- Minnetonka Leather Kiltie Moccasin $48 USD
5. Forever 21- Destroyed High Rise Denim Hot Short $21.80 CAD
6. Top Shop- MOTO White Skinny Baxter Jeans £40.00
7. Mulberry Alexa Leather Bag- $1,260 CAD (net-a-porter.com)
work it,
s.s.♥.
DEAR DIARY #008
Hello sweet ones,
How beautiful life is. Beautiful and ridiculously flying by, and if I dare to blink, I just might miss it. I started this post a week ago after I updated the look on the blog…(hope you love it! and it’s easier to read) but I honestly haven’t had the time to sit down and write until now (which is a 10 minute slot). This past weekend I spent some time with a bunch of sweet people. I’m going to Crimea (south of Ukraine! google it!) in just over two weeks with a team from my Church. The team is small (12) and ridiculously rad. We went up island Friday night and stayed at this beautiful log cabin esque place which is located right on a river. We ate together, prayed together, practiced skits together, laughed together, etc. I hadn’t laughed that much in a loooooooong time. It was delightful. I’m very excited to be serving Jesus with these folks.
Summer has arrived on my little island and I have tried to take the time to soak in every minute of sun. Yesterday I went to Willows in the morning and early afternoon with my moG. He got burnt…I got tanned :) Felt nice to just laze around. We both have insanely busy, beautiful schedules and jump at opportunities to hang out when we’re both not super tired. A few weeks ago we went on a day long date which included, picnic, ferris wheel, outdoor concert, azuma, starbucks and monopoly deal…such a gem day. And this Friday we’re kayaking to Sidney Spit. I’m sooooo excited/ a bit nervous as me & water don’t have a very good relationship.
Another thing I’m getting really excited about is TEEN GIRLS CAMP! I’ve had the honour of speaking at it the past two years and I’m doing it again this year. I have the sermon outline planned but still have so much prayer and prep to go so please pray as I need ALOT OF JESUS.
Well I best be going now but I promise to update you tomorrow too..(maybe some catwalk inspiration?)
hugs & kisses,
s.s.♥.
BUSY BEE
i’ve been a busy bee… as you can see the blog has a new look!! Many, many thanks to my friend Kirsten who helped me with all the html (probably asked a billion stupid questions, thank you for your patience!)
There are a few changes as you can see, the big one being pages. Here are what the pages will show:
archive- self explanatory
random- picks a random post
gems- from videos to random babbles to pictures
diy- recipes, craft, etc (very excited to build this)
diary- diary entries
devotions- thoughts about my Jesus
catwalk- fashion, jewelry, hairstyles, trends (expect more of this!!!)
Oh, and my comment section is back, so please comment! tell me what you want to see more of!
stay gold sweet ones,
s.s.♥.
ps. My bestie, Rachel has drawn some beauty illustrations for page tabs, so watch for that soon!
DIY: TIE-DYE CUPCAKES
Welcome to my first DIY!!! Lately, I’ve become obsessed with DIY and I’ve been mad searching blogs for fantastic DIYs. As soon as I saw these cupcakes, I knew I had to make them. I love pastels. I love painting my nails pastel. I love wearing pastels (always makes you look more tanned!) So obviously I would love eating pastels. Doesn’t the inside remind you of My Little Ponies? awwwwwwwwwwe.
Anywhoo, enjoy! I hope these cupcakes will make your heart sparkle as much as they did for me.
DIY: TIE-DYED CUPCAKES…
1. Preheat the oven to 350°. Line a muffin tin with 12 paper liners. Set pan aside.
2. First things first, mix up a vanilla cupcake batter (don’t you dare use Betty Crocker). I used this one from Annie’s Eats (AMAZING food blog).
3. Divide mixture into four bowls.
4. Food colour it up. We chose four pastels: mint green, pale turquoise, pink and lavender. Only add a few drops of food colouring for pastels. For more vibrant colours you’ll need to add more food colouring.
5. Slowly scoop the batter into the cupcake tins. Be careful not to mix the batter once they’re in. Have fun with how much of each batter you place in each cupcake.
6. Bake for 18-20 minutes.
7. Let cool for 15 minutes before you ice. (Awe, don’t they look like little scoops of ice cream?) We used basic cream cheese icing because anything with cream cheese is always best.
8. Decorate the icing. We just dropped a few drops of food colouring and used the end of the knife to make our own swirl patterns.
Voila! Aren’t they so fun? Oh, and here are some photos of the lovely chefs.
yay tie-dye!
xoxo,
s.s.♥.
MAKING HISTORY
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE AMAZINGLY, TALENTED STEPHANIE CHRISTO.
There’s something incredibly powerful about a couple thousand teenagers singing and dancing their guts out. Arms raised, eyes closed, singing praises to the King of kings.
This makes my heart sparkle to the extreme…
I am seriously blessed. I serve as a youth leader at City Youth and I get to hang out with the most amazing teens. This past weekend we went to Historymaker. It was my 5th year going to this incredible conference and this year our Church took the biggest group that I have seen in the past 5 years. 86 youth and leaders ventured out for a grand adventure on May 20th at 11am.
Now taking that many people across the ocean, highways & farmlands to stinky poo town (Abbotsford) is kind of a crazy thing. Of course we had to rely on God to pull off some miracles. As of Thursday morning (less than 24 hours we were due to depart) we did not have a second bus driver…but the Lord provided in His timing a wonderfully, lovely couple to drive the girls bus. Yes, you heard right. We had a seperate girls and guys bus. At first some teens were mad, but then they got over it in thirty seconds and realized how awesome it was to have seperate buses.
The girls quickly realized that they could sing Justin Bieber as loud as they wanted without anyone caring and that the smell generally stayed a lot fresher than the boys bus. The boys probably realized that no girls meant they could wrestle as much as they wanted.
So away we went to the lovely land of Abbotsford…(I may be biased but I’m pretty figgin happy I live in Victoria). We slept on the floor in a classroom at Summit. We showered in limited showers (four showers for all the girls staying in the classrooms). I mastered washing my hair in the sink of the handicapped washroom. Our bowels suffered from eating mad amounts of fast food. But it was SO worth it.
Saturday night of the conference especially touched my heart. It was a time for me personally that I experienced a whole new level in worship. Leeland was leading worship. (If don’t know LEELAND, look em up, THEY’RE INCREDIBLE!) Amazing time of worship followed by great message from Phil Dooley followed by AMAZING Holy Spirit filled prayer/worship times. I had the honour of praying over my small group girls. Because I was such a mess up in high school it makes my heart sparkle immensely to see teens really rise up and live the life God has called them to.
I just want to encourage all of yall who went to Historymaker to not forget the words/promises/visions that the Lord spoke to you there. Sometimes it’s easy to experience a huge change in life and then go back to school questioning if it really happened, if you can really live a different way when you get back home. The answer is YES. It did happen. Live like you’re called because YOU ARE CALLED! Live with purpose and passion because He has placed purpose and passion in you. STAND STRONG in His strength.
Love you to the moon and back,
s.s.♥.
