Royal Wedding: Firefighter Style.

You’re invited to…
The most elegant(hah) party of the season:


The boy, and his crew of forest fire fighters hosted their very own royal wedding themed party last weekend. And if you thought last year’s theme open the opportunity for cross-dressing, well just you wait! (what’s with that anyways?)

The musts:

-Come as a royal wedding themed guest. Somehow this ended up including, The Burger “King”, Elvis the “King”, the Queen Mum, The Prince himself, and a myriad of wonderful and questionably-related costumes. Made for some awesome laughs!

-Bring your dancing shoes (or just suffer through the rest of the work week with blisters, like me.)

-Have the most ridiculous facial hair you’ve managed to grow over the fire season so far.

Exhibit A: boyfriend’s mutton chops. What do you think? Do we look like an old English couple attending the wedding? I think so.

-Bring your booty, and be prepared to seriously shake it-- which we did, for most of the night.


...And, for the record, I think one of the most wonderful things about the party was that the day after: we spent the day alternating between sleeping, movie watching, and maybe squeezing a couple chores in there. Don’t you love when you can get away with Saturday’s like that?

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Oh, and a lovely start to my work week was my good bloggy friend, Gentri Lee, featuring me in her lovely space. You’ll love her blog if you aren’t already a follower-- check her out here.

Hope you all had a booty-shakin’ kinda weekend.

Get the Picture: Theme Announcement

Hey Shutterbugs!

I'm happy to announce the third edition of Get the Picture!
This month’s theme is: Challenge.

|ˈch alənj| noun
a task or situation that tests someone's abilities.

Get the Picture is a monthly photo share; all readers are welcomed to share their photos relating to the month's theme.

Can you guess what my recent challenge is? :)

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Here’s how it works:

1. I will open this month's theme from July 1st-7th

2. Post, in any manner you'd like, with a photo representing 'challenge' on your blog

3. Include a button or a link to Outside Voice in your post {thank you, sincerely.}

4. Come to my "Get the Picture: Challenge" post that will be created on July 1st and use the linky tool provided to link up!

{This way people can come visit your blog by clicking on the thumbnail of your photo. I promise it's easy to do!}

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Now... get creative! Gather/ take some photos and show us your 'challenge'. What is challenging? What challenges you? The link up will open July 1st-7th, at this time you may post about the theme on your blog and link it here.

I’m honoured to have you all involved:)

I heart libraries

Erica and I at our old University Library

...do you ever just wander through the library and thumb through books you dream of reading one day, listen to the tapping of pencils, and feel minuscule against the backdrop of millions of written words?

I loved this create-your-own library call card site. Ever tried it?




Photo Credit: Scott Jennings (2009)

Ballerinas

After attending the year-end recital of my old dance school this weekend, my ballerina heart strings were pulled tight.

...and I may or may not have come home, put on my old pointe shoes, and just wore them around my house for a while. Can you blame me??

Alas, as a few years have passed, so have the times of grace and flexibility.

But, flexible or not, it didn't stop me from drooling over The Ballet Project on tumblr: it's a creative dance/ photography project set against NYC city scape and it's wonderful.
Check it.
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Find rest of the collection here.

Happiest of Tuesdays to ya, dudes!

bloom

"Bloom where you are planted."

This weekend was a total girls weekend. And, oh how I needed that.
We curled hair for dance recitals, had fun going to dance recitals, then of course celebrated the dance recital by going out dancing! And, you should know, this girl can't turn down a reason to shake it.

me and A after her dance recital

I'm realizing more and more how deep my roots are growing into this small down. This is the first time I've felt sad about digging those roots up and temporarily transplanting them to Australian ground for my teaching term this fall.

I feel like that will be a bit more painful than I thought when I made the decision--drunk with excitement of adventure. But, I suppose, it's good to plant little seeds of experience all over this world. And this week made me excited to return from Aus and cultivate my small-town-BC roots some more.

a moment in the life

Last night the boy and I were happy to drive home together (before he's being deployed on another forest fire today, ugh.) and admire this fiery pink sunset. I wish we had more than his iphone to photograph it! But at least we got to sit and admire it for a while:)

This weekend I'm looking forward to:

-a recital put on by my old dance company
-lunch with a friend that just returned from traveling abroad
-farmers marketing and breakfast with a friend
-visiting the travel agent to discuss travel plans to Australia!

Anything special you're looking forward to this weekend?
I hope it's a good one for you all, see you back here Monday.

cabin-ing

You know it's summer when: nights can be swept away spending nights at the cabin; getting lost in water reflections, canoe trips, and cute boys on docks.

can you tell who the the paddling power house is? (there's a correct answer to this...)

... and that's the summer mantra that I got to recite this weekend.
What was yours?