Design, Photos

Wanna see how I like to decorate?

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Big surprise, I went shopping again. I ended up snagging some free products using coupons at Superstore and Walmart, so that was decent. Check out those deals on my coupon site: Locupleto.

But I’ll show you the more exciting things on this site. Because that’s what I’m all about.

I ended up going to the outlet malls in the next town (city?) over, and to be honest I’ve never really went to the outlet malls there because I honestly thought they sucked. NO WAY. They do not. I found an amazing store called Urban Barn, which — before I entered the building I totally thought it was going to be  a sister-store to Urban Planet, because that store is right next door.

Oh brother. It’s a home decorating store and I should have really taken photos of everything I saw. I was there for a good hour looking around this one place. I swear the 4 lone employees working there thought I was up to something, so I ended up telling them that I’ve never been in there before and I was overwhelmed and excited and wanted to buy everything, lol.

Those are fake plants! They look so real, ha!

This umbra chest of ‘drawers’ was on sale and I decided I’d use it as a jewelry box.

Golden apples. I picked up one, and it said $8. I picked up another and it had an orange sticker saying $5.00, I tried my luck and picked up the third and it said $3.00! Ha! I ended up buying 4 of these goldens for $3 a pop.

Tiny silver rabbit (I bought two) to hold rings on its little ears! So cute. These were from Bed, Bath & Beyond.

This wicker type of basket didn’t have a price tag on it and I thought that it was the same as these baskets I bought last year, oops guess not. Either way I ended up asking the guy who was working the department how much it was. He asked me how much I wanted to pay for it, lol. But then quickly said not to go too low. I said “uh, I dunno five bucks?”. So he gave it to me for $4.94. Sweet!

Everything all set up.

I put the jewelry box, the fake orchid and the two rabbits in our bedroom and I finally hung the charcoal drawing my classmate made me twelve years ago back in art school! I had it hung up when I lived in Newfoundland. But it has been packed away since I moved to Ontario almost 5 years ago. I really need to frame it. It’s time. lol

This is a temporary set up for the fake bonsai as I’m not sure that the whole thing works here on the ottoman.  I decided to buy the faux bonsai since I already killed a few real ones. Guess it’s time to go plastic!

So this is how I kinda like to decorate. I think I’ll start doing this more often — I’ve been living with the boyfriend in an undecorated apartment for way too long. If you take a sneak peak at Urban Barn, that’s basically my entire style. I didn’t dislike a thing in there. Love that store. I’ll be back.

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Daily

Random thoughts

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As you may already know, I work at a financial institution and I’ve been there at the same job since 2007! Safe to say I definitely love it. While I’m never really dealing with the public up front, I’m still designing to make those potential members/clients some eye catching designs since I do work as a Graphic Designer and a Marketer.

I have to read and get to know all of the documents that we hand out to the public. For instance, you don’t want to design a brochure that has the topic of life insurance for children, and then have a car on it. What does the car have to do with a kid? Unless the kid is potentially going to get run over. But I mean, that’s not how I design, lol. Perhaps some parents holding their kids, smiling. Something of that sort. Right? I’ve been told I have a very corporate design side to me. I tend to not follow trends and go for insanely bright colors. However, I really do admire a lot of the designs out ther and wish I could’ve thought of using that crazy bold color for my last project.

I have a folder on my desktop at work that I named “inspiration” and I look back at it and use the same colors and incorporate it into my next design.I remember when my boss first hired me, she asked me where I find inspiration. I get it from looking at photos, I get it when I’m at the mall and see a top in a nice color, and then I get it when I’m driving down the road and I see a pretty flower. Inspiration happens anywhere.  I’m sure a lot of designers can attest to that.  My next project is about BurialInsurance.org and working on designing a poster for elders — retirement savings, that sort of thing. Back to work tomorrow!

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CrossFit

My CrossFit Journal (week 11)

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It may be easier for me to find videos of the workouts. What do you prefer, photos or videos?

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Week 11 Day 1.

21-15-9
Overhead Squats (35lbs)
Burpees

That means 21 overhead squats, 21 burpees, 15 overhead squats, 15 burpees, and so on. I ended up not being able to lift the 35lb bar at first, overhead as I was wobbly. I practiced a bunch of times with the 15lb bar until the trainer said go back to the 35lb bar. It was doable! I finished my WOD (workout of the day) in 9:50! The OH squats killed your wrists though.

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Week 11 Day 2.

5 Rounds
5 Over Bar Burpees
5 Clean and Squat
5 Ring Dip
5 Thrusters
5 Dive Bomber Push ups

By the third round I thought the workout would never end. I ended up doing 50lbs for the Clean & Squat, and Thrusters. It was more than enough weight (for now)! Gotta say dive bombers are harder than they look. I face planted the first time, even while my trainer was holding my hips and shoulders up to help me, lol.

I got the Thrusters move, and the PushPress move mixed up. I have it all figured out now with this little mind-trick. You thrust your hips, lol… so you go down into a full squat and thrust your way up. PushPress is just a little dip then you power your weight up. Ah, good to know.

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Week 11 Day 3.

21-15-9
Box Jumps (20″)
Power Snatch (35lbs)
C2B (Chest To Bar) pullups

Box Jumps:

Power snatch:

Chest to Bar pull ups my favorite:


I did alright in this workout, it immediately worked up a sweat. At the start of the second round of box jumps I almost fell on my face. I raced over from the pull ups to do the jumps. Take your time foo’!!

Every time I’m driving home after CrossFit, I feel like going out and running a marathon. Okay, never really that far.

But I felt like running today and I decided to go. I ended up doing a 1.7k out and back, so a total of 3.4km’s, which took me 22 minutes (pace of  10:24, very slow for me but again it’s one of my first runs since last October when I “quit” lol)

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I really disliked this week since I didn’t have much time for anything. I went to CrossFit on Tuesday, Wednesday and today (BIRTHDAY!!!) Next week will be better.

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