Current loves: lots of ♥♥!

Hi everyone! How has your Valentine's day been? Mine was everything I could've asked for :) I never got to spend it with someone special before, so I wanted to go 'all out' for once! It involved making a cake and valentine's day cards in secret, getting beautiful pink & purple flowers with starbursts and chocolate + deep dish pizza, chicken & watching the first Harry Potter movie. Omnomnom!

Other little things making me happy...

♥ waffles with canadian maple syrup ♥

♥ My new wallpaper ♥

♥ Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2! I think it was even better than the first one. ♥

♥ Practising to paint with watercolours ♥

♥ Zorro the cat sleeping with us every night (after some jealousy issues) ♥

& Rolo ice cream ♥ long morning cuddles ♥ MTV's The Challenge ♥ endless Pinterest browsing

Hope you're having a great week so far c:

Cats can say hi.

Hello lovelies! I'm still in Canada and it's still cold and snowy. Right now I'm sitting here with a showercap on my head waiting for my hairdye to be done :) Live has been pretty 'slow' lately, which makes sense since I'm basically re-starting my life! I'm already pretty used to everything, but I still feel like everything is settling and we've got plenty of things to take care of before things can start picking up again. I still freak out every once in a while when I start thinking about everything that could go wrong. What if I still got to go back home in the end? What if things aren't as simple and easy as we think they are? etc. etc. Things aren't so slow that I have a lot of time to worry about all that though. So far everything is going great! Here are some random shots of the past few days...

I've been using my mini instax polaroid camera a lot since I got here so we had a bunch of polaroids just lying around. I decided to do something with them and made this cute heart on our wall!

My latest obsession: gel manicures! It lasts for up to 3 weeks (even longer if they didn't grow out) and makes your nails super strong. It's the greatest thing ever. I never got my nails done 'professionally' before, but yesterday I went for a second time and now I'm officially hooked haha

I do try to keep up with drawing/painting/being creative even though I'm not in school right now. Sucks that so many of my supplies are still at home in Rotterdam.. just got to start hoarding here n.n

Zorro the cat loves to help me

Skype is my (and probably everyone else's) hero when it comes to long distance calls! I love skyping with my family back home every once in a while and see their faces :) and my mom enjoys taking pictures of me when we do lol. The cat here even got to say hi to my own cat thousands of miles away!

And obviously, this is a shot from today. My favorite part of dyeing my hair is definitely mixing the colors. It's like a mix of art and cooking! I always want to eat it.. somebody make edible hair dye please..

Now it's time to get this dye out of my hair and watch new Regular Show and Shameless episodes. Hope you're having a wonderful week so far!

Cupcakes and Canada!

WARNING: lots of cake and other sugary sweetness was involved in the making of this post.

Hello again! Yet another update from yours truly. These will mainly be pictures of my first (and last, more about that later) few days in Baltimore... The first week of classes was quite... intense. It was really different from what I'm used to. Lots of strict rules and expensive supplies that you MUST buy.

View from one of the classrooms...

And the view from our little kitchen...

My birthday (January 24th) just kinda... went by. I don't even feel 22 now haha! Despite all the birthday wishes and sweet presents from my friend it was pretty much just another day. This was my birthday cake: a very, very dry and overly sweet chocolate cake from the school cafeteria :P

The next day we went over to Target for some shopping.Valentine's Day products are EVERYWHERE right now and it's all so cute! Loving all the lovey dovey themed baked goods!

Spongebob was creeping... hehe

Talking about Valentine's Day sweets... I forgot to share these pictures I took in Canada! So much Valentine's Day themed candy! SUGAR!!

Back to Baltimore... There was a cupcake shop called oooh So Sweet which we definitely wanted to pay a visit! How cute does this look? All that pink! All those cupcakes!

We decided on a Pink Velvet and Pink Coconut cupcake! They were really good and, obviously, very sweet. Sometimes you have to indulge ;)

And then I was back at the airport. What!? Yes. I tried staying in Baltimore for two weeks, but despite all the sweet people and cupcakes and everything, I just wasn't happy and my heart wasn't in it at all anymore. I just felt like it would be a waste of time and money staying there.

So I decided to go back to Toronto to be with my boyfriend and start our life together. We'll have to take care of a lot of things, and it's going to take time, but I'm planning on staying here and eventually go back to art school here. Things happen and plans change :) It definitely feels like home here and I don't want to be anywhere else right now ♥

Under the sea... ♥

 ep into the ocean at Ripley's Aquarium (didn't I just come up with the perfect transition, mmmhmmm). Apparently it's one of the biggest in North America, and they definitely did not disappoint! I simply couldnt stop taking pictures :)

This is an octopus. It just kept chilling against the glass like that.

The tropical fish tank was so pretty! Rainbow colors everywhere!

This fish was so weird.. YES that weed like thing is a fish. I still think it's a Pokemon though.

They also had this crazy wall/tank filled with jellyfish that changed color. It was mesmerizing (and hard to take pictures of haha)

They also had various tanks where you could pet horseshoe crabs and sharks!

Does Sarah dare to pet a shark as well???

Yes she does!!

 I think my favorite part was the big tunnel you could walk through. I felt like the little mermaid n.n

These guys were just chillin on top of the tank the whole time.. Everyone thought they were dead. Or fake.

 Fishies getting fed! Look how big they are

All we missed was a big sea turtle! So we went back through the tunnel to look for one and finally I spotted one right at the beginning, stuck under a piece of coral. Poor guy.. Sea turtle butt!!

I think that afterwards we went to get dinner (including some amazing peanut butter dessert. omg.) And then went to see the 2nd Hobbit movie, after which we got locked inside the theater and had to escape through the roof exit. Adventures!

Definitely one of the best weekends of my life, with the best boyfriend in the world. Okay I'll stop now before I get all sappy.