I Am Me..

"I am me, natural, free. I grow like all wild things, the flowers, the trees. I dip in the rain, stretch in the sun. My wings resplendent, my spirit strong." (pinterest)

Turtle Pond

It's so hard to get great summer weather, so when it comes along, its time to explore in nature!! Made friends with a sweet turtle..she or he let me pet its head and I helped it crawl under the fencing so that the turtle would be safer there..this tribal hut is my new home! Discovered a giant sized sumac plant or whatever it was? Lots of irises blooming everywhere and I wish I could have a perfume with their scent! Doing kundalini on the bridge..cute frog in the swamp area..these amazing lilypads are almost as big as the ones in the Amazon rainforest! And I made Flash in the Pan mint chicken with honey and I did serve it with couscous. Yum!

DIY Project + Hula Hooping Fun!

It's been okay weather..went hulahooping at a friend's place..i still can't hulahoop..I think you need a long waistline to do it properly!! My body is all wrong for it.:( Then I did a DIY project with a wooden storage box that I got thrifting a while ago..i waited for the right summer weather to do it outside..i think it turned out way groovy! I used Artist Loft acrylic paints (these are the best to use on wood), and then I sparkled it all over..including the sides, and in the back I drew mandala design with black marker, the actual box drawers (3 in total), was very difficult to paint..i had to go over at least 5 times with different colours until it worked! The material on the front of the drawers was a weird type of plastic and it was black making it really hard to go over! But it finally worked, not too sure if I like it or not..i did a mushroom, then moon with stars, then a sun.  I'm liking the sun part a lot! I did go over with a gloss varnish finish.  I discovered my love for Quinoa lately..made a lemon and chives quinoa with red bell peppers and tomatoes..yum!! You can eat this hot or cold.  This quinoa craze started when I ate a power salad bowl at a cafe which had avocados, chick peas, cucumbers, wild Cali mix salad, couscous and of course quinoa..the only thing I didn't like was that there was way too much almonds in it..i'm not a fan of almonds, I love cashews!

Meet Marley

Marley is our beautiful grey/white tabby cat whom we acquired on June 7 and he was born October 7..how freaky deaky groovy is that?? He is the sweetest 8 month old cat ever!! We watched the film "Marley" just a day before, and being a huge Bob Marley fan, its a perfect name for this sweetheart!

Over the Hills and Far Away

Hippie Daze Outfit: tie-dye harem pants (Soul Flower), brown plain t-shirt (H&M), earrings (thrifted), coin belt (Forever21)..finally summer is here!! Yesterday we went to the adoption center and picked up the cutest kittie ever!! Its been a year since we lost our other cat, Bobby and we missed having another cat around.  I did fall in love with a bearded dragon too, its amazing to hold this lizard so much! However, the cat won out again..we just love cats a lot!! I will be posting pics of Marley
soon.

"Lanky Lizards!"

"They didn't care that Marilyn's prints were practically in their backyard at Graumann's; that you could buy tomahawks and plastic palm tree wallets at Farmer's Market, and the wildest, cheapest cheese and bean and hot dog and pastrami burritos at Oki Dogs; that the waitresses wore skates at the Jetson-style Tiny Naylor's; that there was a fountain that turned tropical soda-pop colors, and a canyon where Jim Morrison and Houdini used to live, and all-night potato knishes at Canter's, and not too far away was Venice, with columns, and canals, even, like the real Venice but maybe cooler because of the surfers." - excerpt from my fav. book ever Weetzie Bat - Francesca Lia Block..

Cafe Marrakech

My outfit of the day: Indian sari top (thrifted), beaded Tropicana earrings (Forever21), mushroom necklace (rave festival), Chinese sandals (thrifted)..

Fav. candy at the moment..Laffy Taffy in strawberry, banana, and cherry flavours..new succulent friend..i heart these tube plants so much coz they look like they came from another planet!

Some more new plant friends..this gorgeous Bromiliad, Ivy - nature's air purifier, spider plant, and tropical palm..

Whoops I love vegan/vegetarian dishes but sometimes I stray badly..yeah, I had to make this delicious Moroccan chicken with red bell pepper, almonds, Spanish green olives, raisins served on couscous.  I prefer couscous to rice!