Travel: Sayulita, Mexico ♥

     

  Sayulita is a little tiny surfing/fishing village in the Riviera Nayarit, Mexico off the coast of california. It is not far from the puerto vallarta airport. We fell in love with this town. The culture, the food, the weather... Everything. It is not your typical tourist town, but a lot of the locals speak some english. There is just too much to say about this trip to write it all in this post, but here is the website... one of the most fun beautiful places I've ever been.

Tea for two.

Theres this cute little place tucked into the middle of young street in aurora called Bonsai Hill. They have over a hundred, carefully selected loose leaf teas from major tea producing regions of the world. Many of the teas are organic and fair trade products. Tea is served traditionally in-house and available for purchase so you can take it home too! Theres also coffee, homemade sandwiches, pastries...

& even traditional English afternoon tea, high tea and tea tastings made by reservations on sunday afternoons.  (ooh, fancy!)

The walls of BH are decorated with different types of vibrant original oriental artworks and gifts such as traditional Chinese brush paintings, Chinese folk paintings, paper cuts, bamboo carvings, handmade Yixing tea pots, 100% silk scarves, and some simple jewelry.

"At Bonsai Hill, you will enjoy nature, green, peace, and culture..." 

If you are in the area, I highly suggest giving this place a try. 

P.S Excuse the bad quality photos, they are from my blackberry! 

10 Things To Do This Week, From 'Here Comes the Sun' Blog...

Things to do this week: reblogged from another Amanda at Here Comes The Sun

SUMMER 2011 was one for the books...

In the words of My best friend in the whole world...."We covered a lot of ground this summer missy; beaches, cottages, boys, 80's partys; nights out in town, down town and up north; roller coasters, road trips, co-ordinating outfits, lazy sundays; learning how to pump gas, play beer pong and drive on highways; burns, brusies and sunburns where there shouldn't be, camping, countless shots, hangover caesars, patio beers, bottles of wine... and lots and lots of pickles."  I love you best friend ♥

Pretty much sums up my summer. Add a little country music and cowboy hats in there....  a lot of barefoot, blue jean night's? ;) a little bit of weird tan-lines, calls to CAA, setting up tents, roasting marshmallows and making the perfect smore, too many freckles to ever count... and too many memories. 

it was hard to choose the photos to go in this post because theres so many I want to share.... 

& now its september and Im bundled up in a sweater, preparing for my classes that start tomorrow. 

how many days until next summer? 

OH... I don't know if I can wait 289 days

Cottage snapshots, One summers day...

May & Mothers Day

French toast, strawberries & fresh orange juice with a gift from Banana Republic for mom... As the blossoms bloom and the sun comes out, the sweaters come off and I start having sneezing attacks that scare people.  LOVELY. ahah

xo

Tea lattes & Textbooks

Just around the corner from my house is a coffee culture, soo convenient for when you can't get any work done and are in need of a chai latte. Or a brownie.... 

me and leslie decided to go there last night for a much needed pick-me-up.

:)

yum. 

p.s what do you think of the new banner!? 

Travel: Spring Break in Dominican

   I'm Back!... The past few weeks couldn't have gone any better, I have had some of the best days {and nights} of my life.  Met a ton of really cool, nice people and made too many memories that I won't be able to forget. Including meeting and partying with one of my favourite bands The Dirty Heads...I'll post pictures later! There music was also the perfect soundtrack to our Dominican Vacation. Leslie {sister} Ashley and I are freckled and relaxed... depressed to be back home after living in the ocean in our bikinis for a week and eating pineapples, its so weird to be bundled back up in our usual t-shirts and hoodies... It feels so suffocating.

 But, I have been doing what I said I would do... {here} that I was going to start living my life a little more  and Im proud for that. But as I have most recently just learned, life can't be rainbows and sunshine all the time. It's Karma I guess.... or just the way life is? haha. Somethings going to happen sooner or later thats going to kill your buzz, But It's how you deal with it that matters most. To my disappointment when I came home, the Job position that I interviewed for and was hoping so much for was filled.

 :(   *sighhhh. All well, who knows...hopefully I will find something just as amazing somewhere else. Get back on the horse... plenty of fish in the sea.... & all that jazz.. haha

:)

Around the house...

a dreamcatcher, scented candles, random trinkets, an unmade bed & a romper from aerie

xoxo