StyleLikeU

A few months back Elisa and Alley joined us at our home for an evening of conversation and dress-up. It was a pleasure hosting them and Landon and I were honoured to share a bit of our wardrobe and stories. You can see more pictures and read their (really very generous and sweet) write-up of our time together here.

All photos courtesy of StyleLikeU.

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flash, lights

Around the house with Pippin and Bobo on hot summer nights. Sorry for not being the attentive blogger that I promised in my previous entry. Our final scheduled guest for this month just left moments ago and my free time is now clear as can be. I'm ready to internet party for the rest of the summer!

Shop goods update after the jump :D.


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home sweet home

Landon and I celebrated our 5th year of marriage last Saturday by purchasing a much needed sofa (poor friends, how you have suffered our floor and old springy seat for so long)! It's amazing what more of a home a comfortable "chesterfield" (as my 8 year old brother calls it) makes.

We are at this moment engaged in old married activities including lounging on sofa watching America's Got Talent with fan and pupusa carnage spread about us moving on shortly to eating leftover cupcakes and watching Ancient Aliens in bed. Thrilling! Really it is a most ideal evening after months (it would seem) of non-stop social and work activity. All I want for the remainder of the summer is to hide out on my new sofa reading and watching period pieces, pettin' the cats and enjoying an occasional sunny, grassy dining experience. Maybe just for this week, or until the next house guest arrives which is in approximately two days O_O.

Thanks so much for all your suggestions in my last post! I am plotting all sorts of blog posts for this month (including a timeline of style blunders made by yours truly throughout those wonderful high school years, hopefully will not be alone in sharing these? I love nothing more than peeking in on young friend photos)!

Once again I've no mix to share with you of my own making but currently this one has been on repeat over here!

ps. I just learned about instagram thanks to Lisa and Kennedy and have been obnoxiously documenting hot dogs, cats and boys hanging out in my livingroom since! You can follow me at hannahkristina on there :D I've also been updating the old tumblr loads more lately here! Wearing some goodies that I'll be listing in shop soon.

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get cozy

(wearing wonderful knit scarf by favourite knitting babe, Tara-Lynn!)

Just a quick post to share a new mix and some exciting news!

New mix: here!

Exciting news: Thanks to all of the generous beings that helped spread the word (see the wonderful and complete list here) and backed us our kickstarter project was a success! I'm up to my neck in bows and am putting pen to paper to get all of our rewards finished and sent off in a timely manner, whew. In a few weeks I'll be joining Elvia in LA to start the hunt for fabrics, meet with the sewers and start plotting our next collection! I plan to document this process to the best of my ability so keep an eye on our tumblr for frequent project updates should you be curious! I can't express just how enthralled we are that the project was a success! Thank you so, so, so very much! You guys did it!

scenes from a marriage

Earlier this month Landon and I celebrated our 4th year of wedded bliss. I feel sometimes almost ashamed of our good fortune, as though we've hogged up all the love and joy in the world for ourselves! I am a very lucky being having found a partner so kind, intelligent, creative and (I daresay) incredibly good looking.

I'm sorry I've not been of many words lately - I'm afraid the hot sleepless nights and even hotter days have not been kind to my brain powers. In the meantime I recommend my link list to the right for loads of food for thought reads!

ps. I added more pictures to this post as I've had quite a number of wedding picture requests lately! I promise to add more once I've located our album (lost under our bed where the bugs with many legs that give me the creeps reside).

a very thin mustache

Much of today was spent reclining as pictured above with what feels like an exploding head (do you remember those cold medicine commercials where the people were walking around with huge heads? I've never seen a more accurate depiction of the common cold). My languid state no doubt the result of a busy week of visitors and filling my shoes with cold wet slush. Last week we had the pleasure of hosting my most beloved brother Liam (Guy Smiley plus Shaun White) and his wonderful girlfriend Ali (who has the best cat ever). There is nothing I enjoy more than spending time with my family and so I happily embrace runny nose, achy cheeks and leaky eyes (lack of taste-buds, I do not embrace you). I would like to write a bit more but brain is failing me and desires more sleep (I have been writing this sentence for a good five minutes). I hope you are all well! I've not found my brown dress girl just yet, but I have hope!

07/02/06

Today marks the third year of our marriage! What a wondrous trip it's been. I can't express well enough how lucky I feel everyday to have found him, my best friend, to spend my days with. Landon is endlessly inspiring, supportive and kind and I'm so glad to have him with me always. I'll share with you a bit about our wedding day since I so love talking/thinking on it! Initially we plotted a private union, possibly even a date at the courthouse followed by an extravagant party sometime later in the year however about two weeks prior to the date that we set I got swoony outside of holt renfrew and declared that I needed a lady friend by my side for this event to which Landon responded he would need a man friend and that man friend would bring his ladyfriend and my ladyfriend would bring her man friend and so our little wedding party began! During the next two weeks we invited friends we happened to bump into and who did not have plans to leave the town for the holiday weekend. In the meanwhile sneaky father of mine caught wind of our growing party and booked us a glorious yacht complete with open bar and delicious grub for post-vow partytime. I was now in need of a dress and so I drew up a little sketch and sent it away with my wonderful talented friend who sewed up my adorable little dress to perfection (even adding a "something old" - her grandmum's buttons). It had all come together - only I was missing my bosom buddy who had recently moved out of our home and back to ottawa, I couldn't imagine the day without her and we spoke on the phone two nights before lamenting her absence. The night before the big event we had a joint bachelor/ette party/canada day party and in the middle of our festivities a very familiar face came through the door! My darling Rebecca had joined us after all! My sneaky dad delivering the best wedding present of all. The morning of we went for brunch and then lazily made our way home to prepare. I was dizzy with excitement and hardly remember getting ready at all except for making up my ladies faces and drinking a good amount of the wine our friend had made for us. I rode to the beach with Rebecca and my dad and I'm pretty sure as the three of us made our way towards our spot people thought that it was Rebecca and I being married that day as we were both in white and dad was looking suspiciously priest like (save the badass skull tie). The rest of the story is better told in photos I think (but also because it's time for me to go and make eyes at Landon). It was magic, I wish I could live this day over and over again! The best advice I can offer any bride to be is relax. I think people get their panties in a knot about this day but it's way too wonderful to worry about anything other than maybe having enough food?

why yes, that would be my tooth trying to escape my mouth.


me and "momai".





we were hopeless at taking any "nice, traditional" style photos so we took ones like this instead.








 (hehe, WHOOPS, after reading this a year later I realized how riddled with errors it was! While I can't say anything in favor of my grammatical choices I will say that I hope I've caught (or rather, the little squiggly red lines have) all the spelling mistakes! :D)

abode

our new home!