This beautiful suit will be auctioned off for an amazing charity, stay tuned for your chance to snap it up.
suit from: Women In Need
shot on location at ma-luxe studios
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xo Alana
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Enjoy your moment in the sun – learning their tides, their reflections, their depth, and bless their journey as they disappear with the current.
photos: by me
makeup & hair: Carly Flint
model: Bethany Skorepa
all makeup courtesy of Lancôme Canada
shot on location at ma-luxe studios
The wall was a group effort, many evening were spent with scissors, glue, wine, fabulous women, and we began to create our own methods and species of paper flowers as time went on. Below you can find the directions for the three main flowers I created. The rosebud, the waterlily and the dahlia.
Tools needed:
- a ton of paper, colour of choice
- scissors
- hot glue & glue gun (for the wall we used about 80 glue sticks)
The rosebud:
- begin by cutting a paper spiral
- start curling in from the centre, glueing as you go.
- play with width of the spiral and size of the paper for variety
The waterlily & the dahlia & everything else:
- begin by cutting several pointed petals for waterlilies and rounded petals for dahlias.
- curl the first piece and glue
- working in pairs, add dots of glue to the bottom corners of each petal and starting building out the flower
- to build lots of volume glue the petal sides close together, making a more curled, petal like shape.
- I used this method to create roses and all sorts of flowers. It’s very very easy, and each flower will look different depending on the shape you cut the petals.
The wall behind the flowers was half wood / half canvas so I used a combination of hot glue and a staple gun to secure the flowers.
I can’t describe how amazing the flower wall looks. With the morning sun it shines golden, and in the evening the reflection of the exterior brick wall makes the flowers glow pink.
It took many many hours and so many helpful hands, but it was totally worth it. WOuld you guys attempt a flower wall? Let me know if you try!!!
xo Alana
(created at ma-luxe studios with help from the studio collective)
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What’s better than champagne on a bed of roses? Nothing comes to mind!
xo Alana
(shot at ma-luxe studios)
]]>“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Summer is long gone, and looking at these photos from my last collaboration with Guess reminds me that its damn cold out now. In my day dreams, the end of summer plays out like a Shakespearian story, ending in Ophelia-esque tragedy as I fling myself into a river, or something equally dramatic and angsty.
Summer will come and go, taking a little part of my soul with it, but I’m going to let winter bring new inspiration and colour, instead of summer sadness.
xo Alana
dress: DIY Zimmerman appliqué dress, shoes: DIY Chloe braided sandal, clutch: le château, watch: Guess
yup…this is my attractive face, don’t act like you’re not impressed!
So long summer, I’ll see you next year.
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What’s a girl to do when someone leaves a very expensive Louis Vuitton purse lying around? Turn it into a vase of course! What started as “that would be a cool picture,” turned into a DIY that I really love! It’s a great way to display vintage purses that might otherwise be left on a dusty shelf somewhere.
You can display it on a desk or counter…
Or stack on top of vintage suitcases / old chairs to brighten up a corner.
tools needed:
- a vintage purse
- a few books
- loads of flowers! I used three vases and several loose flowers. Have fun with colour and texture!
1. Take a few old books and lay them on the bottom of the purse, this will add height and weight to your arrangement.
2. Add the vases of flowers to the purse, you want them to fit snug so they don’t fall over and spill water.
3. Have fun adding single flowers into the arrangement, I made sure to add some to the very sides so they appear to be spilling out.
4. Display your arrangement for all to see!
Would you guys try this? Let me know!
xo Alana
Louis Vuitton purse courtesy of WIN
shot on location at ma-luxe studios
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When I’m not drinking glittery coffee or making crafts I’m lucky enough to work at an incredible studio collective, ma-luxe studios. I can’t even remember life before I met these incredible women, but I can tell you it was far less exciting and beautiful. Yesterday we launched our online magazine mal-uxe mag and I’ve never been so proud of a site. I also filmed a video for the studio’s 2014 alumni shoot which really captures the hard work, resilience and fierce beauty of these women. Check out the video and be sure to visit the site, it’s beyond inspiring!
xo Alana
]]>A rose with no petals would smell as sweet!
I love noticing the unnoticed, and the beauty that resides within that space. I’d love to know what unwanted but beautiful details you guys notice and love.
xo Alana
(shot at ma-luxe studios)
]]>It might be a good time to confess, I’m basically a three-year old. I love board games, cartoons and anything that makes me believe in magic. One non-inspiring monday morning I started wondering how to make Mondays more exciting. I had some left over edible glitter and decided to make my own sparkling coffee sweetener, because…..why not!
There are a lot of edible glitter recipes on pinterest, but they are basically coloured sugar, and didn’t have that sparkle that I really wanted. This is how I made my morning disco drink!
tools:
- American Gold edible disco dust (find here or here )
- Powdered sweetener (I use stevia because it doesn’t kill you slowly…although who knows about the glitter)
1. Mix 1 part sweetener with 2 parts disco dust.
2. Sprinkle immediately over your morning latte or store in a small container and use on days when you just need an extra sparkle! The glitter has no flavour but stevia is very sweet, so sprinkle with restraint (easier said than done.) If you’re like me and need to drown your drink in glitter, use less stevia in the mixture.
3. Watch out for a glittery milk moustache.
4. If you’re SUPER nerdy, make your own sugar packets out of paper like I did :)
Let me know if you try it, and if it made your day extra awesome!
xo Alana
(photographed at ma-luxe studios)
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