Outdoor photoshoot: with Emily Johnson

This beautiful model is my cousin! Emily Johnson, whom I'm pretty sure just started pre law. Atleast I hope so or else I'm a really bad cousin. 

I took this with a Canon Rebel xs, and 55mm f1.4 lens ( I LOVE this lens for portraits and landscapes) I enjoy these two particular photos together (above and below, there is so much contrast! These were taken a while back for the photography courses I was taking. Emily was one of my favourite models, she knew exactly what to do in front of the camera.

Sadly, I've really gotten out of photography the past two years. I almost even sold my photography gear ones . *gasp*. Hopefully there will be more to come soon! Maybe I'll even meet some nice new people in my area to shoot portraits with. Enjoy!

Rowan

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Etsy Roundup: Pink Edition

I love window shopping online, there are so many beautiful and inspiring items to be found. My favourite place, Etsy!  Personally, I'm not much of a pink person, I think I own three pink things in my entire apartment, and one if them is my toothbrush. But I love looking at pink things! Hopefully you enjoyd these as much as i did!

 This beautiful pastel deco 

this lovely vintage poetry book

This geometric necklace

I love this organic fold over purse

And my favourite photograph print

I don't know why, I just love looking at pastel pink things. Hope you do to. Which one is your favourite?

Peace.
Rowan.

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Spring Cleaning Round up: Tips and Tricks

So it's been spring for a while, but I don't know about you...but I still havn't done spring cleaning yet! If you're in the same boat this post is for you! Here are a few super easy cleaning tricks I use.


I hate cleaning, I'm pretty sure if my partner wasn't a clean freak I probably wouldn't keep my apartment so clean. *sigh*

Cleaning walls:
This one is easy, Just use cold water and a clean sponge or wash cloth. Tada!

Fake Plants:
Hose 'em down in the shower! Get's rid of dust buildup in all the hard to reach places.

Small and narrow vases, bottles and glasses:
water and denture cleaner! Put some in and cover the lid and shake.

Tiles:
Baking soda in water. Tada! Toothbrush for hard to reach corners and creases.

Lamp shades, fabric blinds, wall canvases:
A LINT ROLLER. This excited me when I found this out, so simple.

I'm usually really good about doing a really good clean once a month, however, I don't think i've washed my walls before! ah well. Hope this was some help to you!

Peace.
Rowan.

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Today is my birthday!

It is the first day of my being twenty years old. That's a pretty scary thought. So here are twenty things I have accomplished in my measly twenty years!

1. Started my own business.
2. Saw a Broadway show and walked in Times Square.
3. Moved out and am supporting myself and paying for university all by myself.
4. Shaved my head for no reason but that I wanted to.
5. Had bright blue hair for three years straight.
6. Went swimming in the ocean.
7. Travelled 2300 miles in ten days with a guy I had only known for two weeks and we were set up by his mother.
8. That guy ended up being the love of my life.
9. I have a cat, so that's pretty exciting.
20. Started an awesome blog.


Looking back at my life, I have done a lot. There are things I regret and things I should regret but would do over in heartbeat.

I'm often scared of what I'm doing with my life, I'm sure I'm not the only one! Hands up if you've ever wondered if you should be doing something else at some point in time.

So I would say I am happy with my life and what I have done. Here's to another year of adventures and memories!

Peace.
Rowan.

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I know, I know, I'm getting overwhelmed!

I've been getting overwhelmed this past week or so! I know my posts have been lagging...starting next week we will be back on schedule!
For those of you who don't know, I work as a florist but am also a student. This time of year is when we starting opening the garden centre, meaning we lose employee there for the summer. Meaning we work double shifts. Yikes. Double shifts six days a week and being a student suck majorly.
So, as opposed to lose my career I decided to spend less time here.

I hope you all understand! I havn't forgotten about anything.

Peace.
Rowan.

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Things I like: flower farms

Let's all just take a moment to appreciate flower farms. And just think, all these colours are natural! It's very rare to walk through nature and find such an abundance of such colours! Atleast in Canada, hello green!
Anyone who says these photos aren't breathtaking, are just wrong!

All photos courtesy of Because I'm Addicted

Peace.
Rowan.

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Etsy Round up: Notebooks

I am a huge fan of notebooks, I have about two dozen notebooks, some have two pages written on, some are empty, some are filled with the same stuff repeat, but I still buy more!

Etsy has the greatest collection of notebooks, 

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Recipe Finds: Dessert Edition

Today's recipe finds is desserts! Hmmm. I know I'm trying to be healthy and all, but I'm a sucker for sweets and desserts. Here are some recipes I'm droolings over:

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes


Baked Apples


Red velvet waffles with cream cheese icing


Mini blood orange meringe pies

I'm especially eyeing the mini blood orange meringe pies, or would they be cupcakes?

Peace,
Rowan

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DIY: Liquid Handsoap

I've been trying to make our apartment more environmentally friendly. First stop: homemade liquid hand soap!


I know what your probably thinking. "But Rowan, if we're making liquid hand soap, why are you showing us a picture of a bunch of soap bars?" Well, liquid hand soap can be made from soap bars - mine sure are!

What you will need:
- a 4 ounce bar of soap
-2 quarts of water
-a metal grater
-a large pot
-hand mixer or wisk
-1 container for dispensing
-1 container for storage of extra



1. Grate the soap into a fine pile.
2. Then heat the water and as the water begins to simmer, mix in the grated soap and mix well.
3. Remove from heat and let sit for 15 minutes. Mix it well again!
4. Let the mixture sit over night. Then stir it to test consistency, if it's too thick you can reheat and add more water, and if it's too think you can reheat and add more soap. Don't forget to keep mixing it well.
5. Pour it into you're lovely soap dispenser, and store the rest in an the container

It's cheap, easy, fun and eco friendly - I don't think you could beat that unless you robbed a Walmart.
Don't forget, you can get all kinds of colours and smells by buying the different types of soaps. Etsy has tons of handmade soaps that have all sorts of soaps. Turkish coffee soap is one that stands out to me.

Hint: Within the next few weeks i'll be posting a how to on making mason jar dispensers.

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Peace,
Rowan

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