I don’t think I’d kick either of those two out of bed.

We watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall last week, as we found it for cheap on Blu-Ray this weekend.

I knew I wanted to watch it again, but I had forgotten just how much I liked it. It’s got plenty of those classic, hilarious, gross-out “Judd Apatow” moments, but for the most part, it’s probably the sweetest of those movies.

(via thoughtful day)

You already know that I love carnival and and circus imagery, and that I think it’s even more lovely when it’s used for a wedding. Well aren’t these invitations just the prettiest you’ve ever seen?

Ultimately, I’m happy with what we had, because they were so “us,”  and these are a little, well, neon and girly for us. But I’m still a bit jealous.

I bought that lovely Pentel tradio fountain/marker pen a while back, and started doing all my inky black outlines with it (a characteristic of my drawings that I have stuck with since middle school).

I love the delicate, organic lines it creates, but I have recently gone back to watercolours to colour things in on top (also something I started to do around the 6th grade). I noticed my colours were getting muddy and gray. The lovely pen, which should be waterproof, bleeds! Alas and alack! This particular drawing caused me some consternation in particular, as the preliminary sketch was so nice… until I got water near it.

This makes me sad, as the pen was not a cheap investment, and it works so well in so many other instances (in fact, it refuses to budge when I use other solvents, like markers). I’ll have to come up with a new solution.

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(via twitchfilm.net)

This is a knock-out clip from the new movie by the director who made The Triplets of Belleville.

I’m personally astounded by the movement in it – the way the bodies of the characters moves, the way the fabric swishes, the expressions on the faces. The animation is so evocative, an almost tangible recreation of reality.

(via Polyvore)

This is the winsome new Anthropologie dress I got this weekend. It’s called the “High Seas,” and it’s by We Love Vera (and yes, I do love Vera – I always search thrift shops for Vera scarfs, but I have never been lucky enough to find any).

I’ve never bought clothes from Anthro, but we’ve got a sort-of-belated-wedding-barbecue-thingy coming up this summer, all the way back in Liam’s hometown of Thunder Bay. I figured I could splurge a little since I was so reasonable about clothes all through last year (my J Crew wedding dress actually cost much less than this – on sale).

I was worried nothing would even fit me, but I walked in, saw this hanging on a rack, and knew it was meant to be. Sure enough, it fit like a dream.

So this is – ideally – how I’d like to style it. Though I’ll probably end up wearing it with things I already have, because that’s the kind of girl I am.

(via TOMS)
I really love these espadrille style wedges from TOMS. I just bought the cutest dress from Anthropologie for upcoming summer barbecues and weddings, and I think these might be just the ticket to go with them.

But… Did I mention TOMS makes environmentally AND ethically sound products? Yeah, they do. So that’s just more reasons to run out and find them.

• Ughhhhhhhhh allllergies head hurt. #
• I’m not sure what lessoned my head pain, the gardening, the sun, the sugar, the steroids or the 600 mg of advil. But it is indeed lessened. #
• Recently, I have been learning to ignore my perfectionist side, and heed my introverted side. These are hard lessons. #
• Why don’t more of you use Google? Especially Google Reader? It has changed my life! If you have it you should add me. My profiles public. #
• That’s it Jezebel.com. You don’t make me happy anymore. We’re breaking up. For good this time. #
• Back when blogging was very new, I followed this amazing ballerina. She stopped so she could dance 24/7. I Wonder what happened to her. #
• Ok, so: I updated my links page which I haven’t done in years. Which is why you probably weren’t on it before. #
• http://www.bethmaher.com/blog/links/ If I am still forgetting your blog/site, just tell me and I shall rectify it. #
• Not, that I really think people are using link pages much anymore, but, you know, it’s a nice thing to do. #
• Finally seeing Micmacs!!! So excited!!! #
• Video: Micmacs: trailer HD 1080 (via jaumem9) I have been waiting to see this movie for what seems like… http://tumblr.com/xvoav343n #
• WordPress: why are you stripping out punctuation from my syndicated posts all of a sudden? Why? Why? #
• Today we went to Anthropologie, and I bought a fancy dress. The very prettiest dress, ever! It fit me fine too! Soooooo happy! #
• Then we went to McEwans and I got fixins’ for choucroute: local weisswurst and Quebecois kraut, pickles & baguette. Soooooo good. #
• Really, I should be kept away from Anthro, so I don’t go bankrupt looking like a combo of Zooey Deschanel and a kooky kindergarten teacher. #
• Hrrrrmmmm. I’m thinking of switching from Tumblr to Posterous. Seems waaaaaay more robust. And: titles!!! #
• We’re @ queen margharita here in Leslieville. It. Is. Amazing. I’m gonna say it: best pizza in town! Everything not pizza is good too. #
• Golfing! Or rather, driving range-ing. I don’t suck as much now! Perhaps we’ll go more often. Compared to Liam I still suck a lot though. #
• Seeing Get Him To the Greek, because every time I hear Brand say “I’m a motorist,” I giggle. #

I made this toad-a-hole with Japanese taro bread I got from my local Asian supermarket, so if the bread looks purple, it’s because it was! Naturally purple bread!

Toad-in-a-hole is pretty much my favourite breakfast. It’s even more delicious with taro bread.

Rhett Miller – Come Around (via paradisedub)

This is actually one of my all time favourite songs.

I think it (and this sweet and simple little video) has an appropriate feel for the weather we’ve been having. So hot that the heat is heavy and palpable, something you can kick around. Long faded from the sun.

Micmacs: trailer HD 1080 (via jaumem9)

I have been waiting to see this movie for what seems like forever, and last night I finally got to watch it. When we were in Paris, it had just opened, and we really wanted to go see it, but were worried we wouldn’t understand enough of it. That was 7 long months ago!

It was directed and written by Jean-Pierre Jeunet – who is the guy that also made Amelie – and who is the guy that also happens to be my favourite director of all time.

I’ve had people brush me off when I tell them that, because all they know of Amelie, is that it is some twee foreign movie that is every lonely, sixteen-year-old girl, and lonely twenty-something-year-old guys favourite movie – mostly because they think Audrey Tautou is sooooooo pretty/hot.

I do love Amelie, and when we were in Paris we hunted down all the spots in the movie… but Jeunet is so much more than Amelie!

He is dark, and twisty, in the best possible way. That unexpected way that juxtaposes the beautiful, the adorable and the unassuming; right next to the black, the creepy, and the weird, which makes his movies all the more intense an experience. That creepy/cute way that I’ve mentioned I love before.

A great example of this is the fact that Jeunet’s first movie was set in a post-apocalyptic world where everyone struggles to survive, to the extent that people start eating each other. Yeah, it was about cannibalism. French cannibals! How can that not be awesome!

Jeunet also has that great French cinematic ability to take Hollywood films, and filter them through his own sensibilities, and come up with something totally fresh and new. It’s the same thing that made the French New Wave so great – the ability to both comment on, and be approachable to audiences of, Hollywood movies.

So, Micmacs in some ways was a return to form for him. It’s definitely a black comedy. At it’s heart, it’s a classic Hollywood band-of-misfits caper/grift film, and in my experience those are pretty universally entertaining. In other ways though, it inhabits a much more real world than he’s ever dealt with before. A world with collateral damage, in the most bloody, depressing, ripped-from-the-headlines sense.

However, within that world where innocent bystanders get shot for no-reason, Jeunet tells us we can band together, create our own family, and fight against it in our own way. That’s actually the message at the core of all of his movies – that being unique isn’t just a-ok, it’s a weapon we can use against things like mediocrity, boredom and even evil. Which is yet another reason why I love him so much, because he doesn’t just believe that, he lives it through his movies.

So, if any of that intrigues you (and it really should), you should go check out Micmacs. I don’t think I loved it quite as much Amelie (but there is little in this world I love more than Amelie) and it was still a lot of fun. It would be a great introduction to Jeunet for the Jeunet-neophyte.

red and white polka dot wellies

(via Cath Kidston)

These wellies are the archetypes of rubber boot perfection, in my mind.

I had a pair just like them when I was about four. My Australian cousins, visiting from afar, brought them to traverse the wet and cold wilds of Canada. They left them behind for me.

I have been searching for the perfect adult sized pair ever since, but every time I find them, they are far too expensive :(

veggie bowls

(via Craft)

I was surprised by how pretty these clever little bowls are. I especially love their vibrant, yet natural, colours.