good things

Hey guys! 

Things are pretty hectic right now, so here's a quick list of good movies I've seen recently:

Marnie, Hitchcock
The Birds, Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt, Hitchcock
Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen
Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen
In Your Eyes, Brin Hill
The Cameraman, Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton
The Circus, Charlie Chaplin

P.S. these are pictures of my "good things" jar. every time something good happens, you write it down and put it in the jar. at the end of the year, you open it and read all the good things that happened

letting the days go by

Hey guys!

On the 21st, I went to a Solstice party/get-together and it was abso-freaking-lutely lovely!

The ten of us drank tea, made dinner, ate it, played Cards Against Humanity while watching The Grand Budapest Hotel, talked, played hide and seek, had group hugs/sang a High School Musical song, had a cuddle puddle, and overall had a great time.  

My friend Elena took two polaroids, one of which she kindly let me keep. To take the picture, she would stand up, point her camera at us, and wait until we'd actually return to our conversation, and be ~in the moment~ to take a picture. It made us all laugh to see her standing there, waiting for the right moment to catch us in our ~natural habitat~ 

blouse: dennis (old uniform)//crop top: urban outfitters//jeans: pacsun//hat: h&m//boots: doc martens//necklace: gift

Until this outfit, I hadn't layered since the whole wearing a t-shirt over a long-sleeve shirt trend, so this was kind of a change for me... 

Who's that in my necklace, you ask? Oh, no one... Just my husband Evan Peters nbd. Props to Manuela for the rad gift (thank you!)

I finally got my first pair of Docs back in I think November(?) and they were definitely worth the pain of breaking them in. I love them so much! ♡♡
 The title is a lyric from the strangely awesome song/video "Once In A Lifetime" by Talking Heads.

hold on to the dreams

Hello all!

♡ Happy New Year & happy 1st birthday to my blog! ♡

In honour of the new year and my first full year blogging, here's a little list of memorable things this year:

- I moved back to my hometown (6th move in 16 years nbd)
- I made new friends & was reunited with old friends
- I discovered old & new artists (ex: Swim Deep thanks to Victory)
- I drew & wrote a lot more
- I sang alone for the first time at a recital (terrifying/awesome??)
- thanks to your blogs/my friends/my blog, I developed my style & became bolder (ex: chunky heels like Hannah or patterns like Ellie)
- I learnt more about film & visual art
- I discovered the diy garage music scene in LA (aka heard of diy garage for the first time ever hehe)
- I died on stage (I played Beth in Little Women)
- I discovered the music/art scene in my hometown (it was hard to find but once i found one local band it was like a gold mine)
- I went to zine readings
- I made & traded my own zine (also terrifying/awesome)
- My friends & I auditioned AND got into our school's talent show
- I attended an entire music festival (for the first time)
- I felt like I was part of a community through blogging, concerts, zine-offs/readings
- I got my license (aka permit)
- I went to a solstice party (post on this soon!)

hat: h&m // dress: forever 21

The title is a lyric from Honey by Swim Deep.
 Special thanks to everyone who's taken photos for me this year!
Thank you all for reading, commenting, it really means a lot.
And also thanks for just being your stylish and artistic selves and for going on adventures that I can read about because you've all inspired me so much this year.
So all in all, happy New Year & thanks for sticking around or even stopping by!
♡ Here's to many more years of blogging! ♡

we're running out of time

Hey guys!
Sorry for the hella long hiatus! None of my recent outfit pictures have turned out the way I wanted them to so here are some from February (??) when I was still in sunny California and not freezing cold Canada. *dramatic sigh*

shirt: somewhere in new york (gift)//shorts: american apparel//shoes: vans//rings: homemade//bracelets: homemade + gifts

Anyway though, the past four months have flown by so. quickly. Eleventh grade has been so great so hectic so far.
I've been reading so much since September, we're reading a total of 24 for school this year... Yes. t w e n t y  f o u r  b o o k s !

I'm also specializing in cinema and visual arts at school which is a super interesting and hands-on class! We write, film, edit, act, analyze movies, learn about the history and technical side of film-making. I really really love it. 
We recently watched The Birds (directed by Hitchcock) and sdglf just thinking about it makes my skin crawl... It was a terrific movie, don't get me wrong but I don't think any of us are ready to see birds yet. *hides under blanket in fear* I know it sounds kinda silly to be scared of birds but holy crap man watch it and tell me you don't get the heebie-jeebies!

the special effects are pretty high-tech am I right 

I also completed and traded my first zine at a zine off which was slightly amazing and slightly terrifying at the same time??? It felt so great to be in a room full of people interested in zines who wanted support and wanted to support people. Plus it was lovely to just have a free exchange without judgement. It really felt like a community and man that felt freaking amazing. 

I've also been going to local concerts and zine readings and discovering things I didn't know about my town. It makes me kind of sad though that it took moving away and moving back to be open enough to look for and to find wonderful things here, but I guess that's what growing up is all about. 
~life lessons from céline~

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I've been casually re-watching Gilmore Girls (I also got my friend addicted oops) and I didn't think it was possible but I actually love it even more than i did when I first watched it as a kid. And that is because I actually understand the literary, film and cultural references now and my family and I have a similar fast-paced humour/dialogue thing that we didn't when I was seven. 

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Title is a lyric from Twenty-nine by Christmas Island
P.S. it's almost my blog's first birthday which is slightly scary/blowing my mind
P.P.S I GOT MY BRACES OFF BACK IN OCTOBER!!
Are you excited for Christmas or does it still feel like November for you too? Have you seen any good/terrifying movies lately? Do you make zines/love Gilmore Girls? 
P.P.P.S If you've gotten this far high five man you're the cooliest so have some imaginary brownies and presents! (thank you!)

i breathe for you

2B pencil on paper

Hey guys :)

I dunno about you guys, but summer feels like a lifetime ago *sigh*
Junior year isn't exactly what I expected it to be but in a good way. I get to take cinema & visual arts as a class which I'm suuuuuper happy about!

Anyway,  I spent my weekend listening to Half Moon Run's album, Dark Eyes and drawing/painting.

~So here are some more drawings/paintings from 2014~

pencil on paper

acrylic paint on  paper

The top drawing is from august and i spent a long time on it and I'm actually really happy about how it turned out so it's definitely the one I'm proudest of. 

The second one is actually a really small drawing that was for a bigger piece with four other different facial features. I think it's one of the most realistic eyes I've ever drawn.

For the last one, it was originally a light pencil drawing because I was planning on painting it so I didn't shade too much in pencil. I have absolutely no idea why I wanted to paint it because I'm not really good at it so I basically wrote it off forever ago. While I was painting this though I started to actually understand how to shade with paint a bit more so I guess it was to learn technique/practice. So while I'm not 100% happy with it, I'm still pretty proud because it's definitely a step up.

Also, I recently found out about Half Moon Run and I absolutely love them!

Their music sounds so laid back at first but there's actually so much more to it. Lyrically and instrumentally, the songs are so beautiful and interesting.

Plus I like the kind of dark undertone they give off, like a vibe that something's off.

The title is a lyric from Fire Escape which i think might be my favourite right now but to be honest I really can't decide haha

Bonus: their music videos are so trippy/cool/esthetically appealing/kinda creepy & they're Canadian eff yeah

How's school going for you? What have you guys been up to? Also, any art/painting advice (of any kind, especially watercolour, acrylic & gouache)?

the moonlit garden

Wow. August. The way time flies never ceases to amaze me.

I still can't believe we're moving back. Part of me believes it, I guess, but the rest of me doesn't; especially the house and maybe even the school part. Maybe I just needed closure, needed to see the boxes instead of just leaving a full house, still filled with our stuff, our memories, still full of life and of my family. It wasn't just an empty boxed up house -- that is easier to leave, to lose, easier to give up. But this is hard, it doesn't feel real. In my mind, it's like a borrowed house, someone else's house but not ours, someone else's room but not mine. At least for now, I guess.

Moonlit Garden by Amanda Martin

Anyway, I recently found out about this cool new artist: From Us
From Us's genre is electronic/ambient. He only has one song out but it's hella hella good.
The Moonlit Garden has a sort of vintage-like vibe and a really cool drum beat and piano track.
It sucks that he only has one song but since it came out recently, I'm hoping for more to come out in the near future.
Here's his Facebook page and his twitter, please go ahead and like it/follow him!

PS. sorry for being away 5ever

you look so good it hurts*

Hey guys, I know I keep disappearing...  (I'm secretly a spy shh...)

I'm actually mid-move (6th time's the charm right) and living the sweet life of zach and cody aka in a hotel.

On top of that I have a cold that I can't seem to shake (maybe it would help if I didn't go to bed at 3???)

BUT my cousin and I are gonna go location scouting with a bag of my clothes and take outfit photos around the city someday. Hopefully soon...

Also, I recently joined the blogger network which made me discover QUIZ *glitter flies into the air as I ride a unicorn into the world of fashion*

I think I need to stop looking through their site because every time I do, I open a gazillion tabs and then realize that no, I can't buy every single one of their items. *dramatic sigh*

Anyway, so here are "a few" of my favourite items/my wishlist. This list was a lot longer earlier, like a lot. I think I've had to narrow it down five different times. 

Tops

floral crop top

floral crop top

textured check crop top

floral print crepe bralet top

graphic print crop top

floral print bardot crop top

Bottoms/Playsuits/Dresses

gingham leggings

bardot jumpsuit
this one reminds me of 13 Going On 30

honeycomb playsuit

flock leaf print midi dress

aqua and pink two tone mesh prom dress

floral bardot dress

Shoes & Wraps

chunky flatform gladiator sandals

embroidered mesh shrug

I really love the flowers, colours, and summer vibes and tartan. I bet John Mayer wrote Your Body Is A Wonderland after seeing his girlie in QUIZ clothing. It only makes sense.

you gave me a forever within the numbered days, and i'm grateful

Hello again!
Friday was my last day interning at the theatre and I have to say I really did enjoy it and feel like I learnt a lot, so I'm happy and just hope I get a good grade on my report and oral exam. Cross your fingers for me please!

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That night, my friends and I went out and ate dinner and then we decided to head down to the beach. 
The moon was already out and it was dark yet the sun still left an orange-cloud horizon on the ocean. 
The sand was cold and we all expected the water to be freezing as usual but when we stepped into it, it was surprisingly nice. Those of us wearing pants (I was wearing this) rolled those puppies up before going in any farther. 
Three of my friends decided to take one big step in every time a wave washed onto shore and two of them went so far that when one tried to turn around, she face planted into the water and was completely soaked! 
It was hilarious. *laughs maniacally*
(I'm a good friend I swear...)

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After she got soaked, we all started splashing each other more and more to the point where we were all drenched and sandy and the whole rolling up the pants to my knees thing didn't help at all... 
We were all chasing and shoving each other, trying to soak each other and push one another in the water. I stopped for a moment to dramatically watch my friends run around at night on the beach with the pier behind us, -- the ferris wheel lit up beautifully,-- to think of how cool and lovely this whole moment felt and how happy I was to have found them all and how perfect and teen-sitcom-in-california this whole thing was. *pictures whole thing in slow motion with dramatic music and everyone laughing every five seconds*
I love having these kinds of moments though, when I kind of step back and think 'wow. i'm living this. with these amazing people. feeling like a real teenager. it's a good life hazel grace (had to sorry)'

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SPEAKING OF WHICH 
I went to see The Fault In Our Stars and omgomgomgomg it was so good!!!!!!! 
It was so accurate and they mostly just removed things to focus on the love story. They did change one thing at the end, but i won't tell you just in case, but if you do go see it, you'll know what I mean and please let me know what you thought!
The actors seemed so perfect for the characters, and even the sets were on point to me. It literally felt like the exact representation of the book. 
ALSO GUS IS SO CUTE OMG ESPECIALLY THE AIRPLANE SCENE HE'S JUST SO EXCITED AND ALSO WHEN HE SEES HAZEL IN HER DRESS HE'S JUST SPEECHLESS AND OMG I JUST CAN'T DO IT MAN I'M GONNA CRY SO I'M JUST GONNA TELL YOU MY STORY REALLY QUICKLY
~casually just teared up but I'm back now. I'm calm and collected~

So much crying though. So much.
BUT I also started cracking up at probably the saddest part.
~STORY TIME~
So mid-sad scene, we're all crying. The woman next to me even has tissues and keeps sniffling and blowing her nose and  all of a sudden this woman behind us basically yell-sobs and my friend and I look at each other, smiling. 
THEN a few seconds later, another girl starts sobbing veryveryvery loudly and we could hear people trying to comfort her. So all of a sudden, a woman sitting in our row gets up and exclaims *read sassily* "Can you PLEASE be quiet" with all the sass she can muster (which btw was a lot).

THEN probably the saddest scene comes up and the girl starts sobbing even louder than before, and starts hyperventilating/hiccuping and I kid you not I cracked up and had to plug my nose to prevent myself from laughing out loud and looking like a terrible person for a) laughing at the saddest scene ever and b) laughing at this poor sobbing girl 
So there i am, sitting in a movie theatre during the saddest scene, tears still streaming down my face, laughing into my sweater, trying to calm down. I'm terrible, I know. 
But then my friend and her mom start to laugh too, and then the girls in front of us start as well so I guess I'm not THAT bad... (right?)

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During the last scene though, the girl starts sobbing again but not nearly as loudly but I somehow managed to control myself and stay focused on the movie to let the feels out. Pain demands to be felt. (I'M SORRY I HAD TO)
Finally, when the lights go up, the sassy lady gets up and looks in the general direction of the sobbing (yes she was still sobbing) and yells *read sassily* "You're obviously not old enough to go to the movies because you can't be quiet for everyone else" then sassily leaves the room. 
She stood outside the theatre room door though, frowning angrily. (We think she was waiting for the sobbing girl to come out so she could sass her. Again.)
LET THE POOR GIRL CRY IN PEACE
She probably saved me from uncontrollable sobbing too though... 
Such a good movie urgh
I highly recommend you go see it and especially read the book.

Sorry this was so long... Here's an air hug for reading the whole thing!

What have you been up to this weekend? Have you read/seen The Fault In Our Stars? What did you think?

you can ring my bell

Hello dolls!
School's almost ouuuuut!!!! I can't wait for summer so I can lazily watch movies, read and write as much as I want, be stress free, shop, stay up late, and not have to worry about school or homework. 

Yesterday was my first day interning at a theatre and it was really interesting, I made part of the programs for the upcoming shows so that was cool!
After my internship, I go back to school to write the world's longest report on it then have an oral exam on it as well then
I'm freeeeeeeeeee!!!!

Soon, I'll be volunteering at a music festival, going to a music festival, celebrating Canada Day, and hopefully having an amazing summer! 

nail polish - h&m (it lasted 2 days worth of pool & a whole week before chipping)
ring - urban outfitters 

Saturday was one of my deerest (hi) friends' birthday and he had a dance party and it was absolutely lovely! 
The music was awesome for dancing, especially because there were different genres like disco, punk, rock, techno-ish, latino music, basically everything except pop. 
Plus, there was really good food, an adorable dog and a cute roof-climbing cat. 
My friend Chanelle and I recently discovered the beauty that is a slack line and we're slightly obsessed and there magically was one at the party and I'll let you guess what happened...
(hint: we went on it a lot) 
Also, I got to spend time and dance with some of my best friends and who doesn't like dancing or spending time with their favourite people???

~and now, the moment you've all been waiting for...~

~the clothes~

jacket - a generous gift from my best friend
grey crop top - h&m
black skater skirt - h&m
purple shoes - vans
bloody legs - mine thabks

I may or may not wear this skirt basically 24/7 which is weird because I didn't use to be very fond of skirts, but I guess I got more used to them because of my uniform. And also, once I got this one, I fell in love and now I love skirts!
I'm wearing my purple vans because I knew I was gonna dance around and twirl like a princess, woohoooooo!

choker - thrifted
necklace - somewhere in Korea

I love this outfit because it looks so grungy and I feel like a total badass in it. (It's mostly the jacket to be honest)

back of the jacket

Can we just take a second to admire this jacket.
~swoon~

My best friend Christina very (times infiniti) generously gave me this jacket and I lovelovelovelovelovelovelove it, it's so soft and gorgeous and grungy and reminds me of Asia and i just... *sighs of love*

FUNNY STORY TIME
So, walking from the party down a PITCH BLACK pathway to our car, my mom says "step step" so I repeat "watch the step" to my friends after taking the step and thinking "wow, thank god I knew about it, good thing I told them, now they won't fall unless they don't listen, that would be funny" *evilly laughs on the inside* 
Then I trip on the second step, hit the edge against my legs, fall on the steps and now I have the world's biggest scrape on my leg and two smaller ones on both legs.

This may not sound that painful but it bled like a drop so it was obviously super painful and also the scrape is about (casually just measured it for you) 7 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide and hurts even when I don't touch it and stings all the time. *dramatically cries*
After everyone made sure I was ok, we're all laughing (them more than me) and my mom says "I said step step, that's what we told Splash (a blind dog we knew)! Step step means two steps, come on Céline!" 
Thanks mom, I'm clumsier and understand less than a blind dog.
Awesome.

Hope my painful story made you smile at least. :)

What are your plans for this summer? What have you been up to lately? Anything painful yet funny happen to you?

Thanks to Valentina for taking these pictures (and actually wanting to) with her super pro camera

Special thanks to Christina for the lovely jacket
Title is a lyric from Ring My Bell by Anita Ward (piewwww)

there's a whole world out there (washington dc)

Hellooooo darlings!

I feel like we're all traveling these days, and since you were all kind enough to share pictures of your trips, I thought I'd share mine too! This is kind of a photo heavy post but I picked my favourite of the gazillion I took so bear with me please. :)

smithsonian

national building museum

Two weeks ago, I went to Washington DC on a class trip and it was amazing and kind of crazy!

The organizer was really... well disorganized so we walked in circles and got lost a lot (even though she was looking at a map. On her phone. Which just by the way was in her hands). Also, the food was mostly salad and burgers but other than that, the trip was full of really cool museums, walking, a lot of monuments, and going from room to room in the hotel. It was delightful to see so much grass and greenery and have it actually smell and feel like spring as opposed to summer 24/7, even if that meant putting my sweater on then taking it off then wearing three sweaters then none again.

national building museum

The really really fun part though was that, when we got to the hotel every night, the teachers would lock themselves up in their rooms and let us run around to each other's rooms, to the gym and anywhere else in the hotel. Some people had a pillow/candy fight the first night and -- don't ask me why -- but someone brought out a cheese grater (???) 

In my room, my friends and I built a fort, had a dance party (loud music, bed jumping and all) and laughed at reality tv shows. We also went to the gym once to play with the machines, got pranked called by the guys a million times, played an intense game of uno which led to a short pillow fight (me attacking my friend and then people throwing pillows at me) and played ding-dong-ditch. 

I know, I know, you're wishing you could be as mature as us! 

(You probably can't, sorry...) 

national building museum

arlington national cemetery

arlington national cemetery

If you go, I really recommend going to:

the Holocaust museum (they have a four floor exhibit so make sure you plan enough time to see most of it), 

the National Museum of American History, 

the Library of Congress (the architecture inside and out is beautiful), 

the Air & Space museum, the White House, the Capitol, 

the National Building Museum (the architecture is beautiful and they had fun activities but the tour was a little boring), 

the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and going on the Ford Theatre Detective McDivitt Investigation tour (an actor plays the detective in charge of Lincoln's assassination and takes you to all the different places where the events happened), 

 and seeing all the monuments during the day and at night.

Have you ever been on a class trip or to DC? What was your favourite trip?

library of congress

mount vernon (george washington's estate)

the white house

the white house

smithsonian american art museum;
the piece is made of lightbulbs, aluminum and other everyday objects

smithsonian american art museum

library of congress