queen B

Last weekend was a total girls weekend.  I spent Saturday with some ladies shopping our hearts out, having some great sandwiches for lunch, followed by some more shopping, all before getting ready for Beyonce in concert.  Wow.  That woman is filled with magic.  If you've heard the quote, "you have the same amount of hours in a day as Beyonce". followed by seeing her perform live, you might not think this quote to be true.  Two words....Sequin.  Onesie.

We had amazing floor seats and got a really great view of the gorgeous lady when she flew over the crowd to a little mini stage.  There were three people between her and me, I may have been a teeny bit excited. Check out the video to see just that!

Ashly was kind enough to take a few photos of my concert outfit in her beautiful living room.

Girl time was definitely needed and appreciated.  Thanks for the fun day girls!

dress: Phillip Lim x Target

booties: Topshop

gold chain: H&M

watch: Walmart

i shot this on my iphone, sorry for the shaky hand! enjoy!

Squamish Style - day 3

t shirt: skater store in Washington state

shorts: American Eagle

booties: H&M

necklaces: Aldo and Helloo Sailor

bracelets: Helloo Sailor

So, the third and final day of Squamish Valley Music Festival was a long one, but a good one.  I wore my hair in a bun, mainly out of necessity, camping, no showers, hot weather, and dancing too much = top knot.  

We arrived on Saturday in time to see Diamond Rings, followed by Divine Fits.  Both bands starting with the letter 'D' were delightful.  Next up was Gogol Bordello, and the crowd loved it.  The stage was covered in people playing all kinds of different instruments, doing all kinds of different dances.  

But my favourite show of the whole festival was Fitz And The Tantrums.  I met up with a friend to watch them and we had a great time.  That friend left the show early so she could catch another band, and the Bf was supposed to come find me for the second half, but no one found me. So, instead I watched the second half of Fitz And The Tantrums by myself....and it was awesome.  I danced my ass off.  

Next we watched Childish Gambino.  One word, Community.  If you watch Community, than you know my love for Troy.  Then we caught the big headliners Queens of the Stone Age, but I couldn't stay to watch the whole thing.  As I mentioned in day 1 coverage, food trucks.  I had to have the 'slumdog millionaire' mac and cheese from the Mac and Cheese food truck a second time.  I just couldn't get enough of it!!  

We finished off the night with some Pretty Lights, and not only called it a night, but called it a festival.  

Squamish Style - day 2

hat: gifted

top: Lauren Moshi via Hudson's Bay

shorts and cross ring: Forever 21

purse: Pendleton 

sunnies: H&M

sandals: Aldo

The second day of Squamish Valley Music Festival was the day I was most looking forward too.  The line up was filled with some of my favourtie bands.  And what a day it was!!

We arrived in time to see Deap Valley, a two part, girl grunge band, who pleasantly surprised me.  The amount of sound these two ladies can conjure up, paired with a killer voice, it was pretty much a dance party and totally got us pumped up for the day.  Next up was a must see for me, Dragonette.  The lead singer, Martina Sobara, was my choice for best dressed artist, with her high waisted denim shorts, striped blouse and black studded ankle boots. Then followed by, what must have been an audience sing along, with Dan Mangan. At this point our group split up a bit and some went to watch Jurassic 5, which is rumored to be one of the best shows of the entire festival,  and some, including me, stayed to get a good spot for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.  You'll be glad to hear the Macklemore didn't disappoint, and in the near future will have dual citizenship to Canada.  I think he's pretty stoked about that.  Last was Vampire Weekend, and let me tell you, the crowd was loving it! I had so much fun, that I came home with a tshirt! 

With all that being said, it was a looong day.  We went to watch A Tribe Called Red, but I didn't last more than fifteen minutes, before heading to bed.  

Festival goers do have the luxury of sleeping in, seeing as most things don't get under way until the early afternoon.  And sleep in, I did.  Muahahahah! 

Squamish Style - day 1

acid wash denim dress: Target

booties: H&M

handbag: Coach

necklace: Anthropologie

sunnies: H&M

bracelets: Helloo Sailor   

feather headress: diy

 As my first music festival experience has come and gone, I can't wait until next year!  

The amazing music, great people watching, drinks, food trucks....more about that later.

The day 1 line up was short and sweet.  We arrived just as Portage and Main ended, next up was The Belle Game, they were pretty chill, great for the first night.  We heard a bit of Dustin Bentall & The Smokes while getting some dinner, and finished off the night with Matt Mays, whom I didn't know much about, but was super impressed!

Stay tuned for day 2!

diy: feather headdress

With Squamish Valley Music Festival starting tomorrow, I thought it would be fitting to share with you, one of the key pieces to one out my planned outfits.  The feather headdress.  

I was inspired by this one, and thought I'd give it a go.

I picked up some scrap leather at the local fabric shop, 

and luckily a piece was long enough to make some straps.  

Here are the super easy steps:

1. Cut out your leather pieces to make some sort of rectangular shape.  

As long or as short, as wide or as thin as you want.

2. Glue down your straps.  

3. Create a soft seam by folding over the edges and gluing them down as well.

 4. Lay out your feathers and arrange them however you like.  Then with a strip of glue, lay then out lining up to the half way point of the width of your leather.  

5. Then glue down the bottom half of your leather creating a center fold.  

6. Voila! 

The Big Show

Wow, what a week! Apparently life taking over sometimes, means neglecting blog world. We all do it, and sometimes need too, ya know, a little break. Well, here it is, a couple of photos from Britney Spears' Femme Fatale Concert. It was such a good night. I can't lie though, no videos to share, you can here me singing along on almost all of them, and I just won't put you guys through that torture.

Britney

So, the most amazing thing happened to me yesterday......I met Britney Spears!

She's in Vancouver for her concert tonight (which I'm going to!!) and she arrived yesterday. I guess she wanted to do some shopping, and decided to come into Anthropologie......Thank goodness I was working. It was a really intense, surreal experience. I might have struggled to keep my composure, but I needed to keep as much professionalism as I possibly could,

I think I did ok ;)

We didn't get too much interaction with her, I said 'Hi' and she smiled at me, but it counts!!

This experience got me soo pumped for her concert tonight!

My words can't even describe my excitement. Love her!!