15 días / 2 miradas, my experience.

In January I made a post about this collaborative project called 15 dias / 2 miradas (15 days / 2 looks) created by Arlette Montilla, which consisted in portraying the Venezuelan's daily life outside the country and each participant has to take one photo for 15 days. Then she will try to look for similar situations for a comparative of our lives.

From April 17 to May 1 it was my turn, I believe our results were pretty interesting. A lot was happening in these 15 days so I had some cool stuff to document. I loved the challenge, and it seems that I can't stop taking daily pictures. 

Here are all the pictures we took, tell me what do you think of them in the comments :) 

Hope you enjoy them.

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My life lately... (Part 1)

It has been a couple of months since I last wrote on this blog, and now that I have time to finally dedicate myself to it, and I wanted to tell you what have I been doing lately. My life is not that exciting but I want to write this post in parts so I have a reason to write again :)

I'm going to start with Melissa Araujo, she is a Brazilian fashion designer who contacted me to collaborate with her. I am taking pics of her style for her blog, we have been meeting frequently, and I would like to show you some of my work. 

She's wearing: American Apparel Wool Club Jacket, Disco Pants, Beanie + Polka Dot Socks and Splendid Men's Sweatshirt.

She's wearing: Cyeoms Chiffon Jacket, Melissa Araujo Skirt (from new collection coming soon), American Apparel Beanie & Tights, H&M Clutch and Leather Vintage boots.

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Spotted: Heyvero!

It just so happened that this tiny balloon was floating around the convention center at Vancouver downtown, and I took some shots at it for one of my best friends and awe-inspiring blogger heyvero.

Behind the scenes

And of course I got a "fashion" shot. I have to say my style is improving by the day, and these are all my clothes I brought from Venezuela, minus the coat. I guess I'm starting to learn how to put things together. 

If you are one of those who'd like to know what I'm wearing: Coat: Vero Moda (coincidence?); 

Sweater: I have no idea, pretty old; Shirt under sweater: Bershka, Jeans: Aishti (A boutique in Venezuela), shoes: Breckelle's

Then, we went inside the convention center where there was a Yoga convention and the Christmas Market. Both huge. My lovey and I got to pose in front of the enormous earth globe and so did the heyvero's globe.

 


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Adventuring Granville Island

It was our second time adventuring the very chic and warm (even though it was freezing) place called Granville Island. We decided to go through a different route and found the most beautiful stores I've seen. One of them was Paper-Ya, my heart melted every step I made into the store. It's a must visit.

Then we went to the Public market wanting to eat everything at our sight. We bought some delicious and fresh ricotta and sun dried tomato raviolis to die for. And there is actually buffala cheese, but its too damn expensive -sigh- one day.

I leave you with this cute pics I took at the market. 

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Vancouver events in November 2012

There is a lot of fun to do while it's raining. Christmas events are starting along with a lot of markets. Also,it's Red Hot Chili Peppers Month, Gian and I knew about this concert months ago, but we are not going to make it, there are so many crazy concerts going on it's not fair.

The list below is a compilation of some of the many events going on in Vancouver. Be free to add any in the comments below.

Events

Nov. 6 - Cesar Millan Live at Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre 

Nov. 10 - Instameet Vancouver at 30th and Ontario st.

Nov. 10 - Metric at Rogers Arena

Nov. 17 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Rogers Arena

Nov. 29 - Annual Tree Lighting Celebration at Jack Poole Plaza

Nov. 23 - Dec 30 - Amaluna by Cirque du Soleil

Market events

From Nov. 7 to 11 -  Circle Craft Christmas Market: showcasing of local artisans, crafters, designers, and DIY ideas for the holiday season.

From Nov. 8 to 11- Make It Vancouver: Vancouver's largest art, fashion, music & craft market

Nov 10. Vancouver flea market (antiques)

Nov. 18 - Village shop: Hand-made crafts, apparel, jewellery & accessories market. 

Nov. 24 - Dec. 24 -  Vancouver Christmas Market: Annual Vancouver Christmas event.

Conferences

Nov. 19 to 25 - Living the New Economy: Converging ideas, resources, and people to help you

thrive in the new economy.

Nov 24. Marketing Mastery Summit at UBC. Learn, practice and experience the techniques that most successful experts use to build their businesses.

Nov 24. ME & The MEdia: Advancing Youth Media Literacy: YWCA Metro Vancouver is launching its first annual Youth Conference on November 24 to educate students about media literacy and empower them to take ownership of their online identities.

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NaNoWriMo is coming

NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner! It's held every  November and the goal is to write a 50,000 words novel in a month (or 1666 words in a day), without obsessing over quality. If you are interested sign up here.

I tried it last year, but I didn't make it, I think I just did three pages or something. But I feel I can do it this year, and If you like writing (even if it's gibber gabber) then you should give it a try. How cool it's to say "oh, I'm a novelist".

If you are a planner freak, you can plan what you want to write before this event starts, it's not against the rules. Here are some prep tips to help you develop the novel.

As for my novel, I'm just going to write it but I'm not going to show it to anyone, not even my husband, it's going to be a total piece of crap but I don't care. I'll probably place a widget for you to see my word count.

Here in Vancouver there are groups that get together in quiet rooms and to try to get to the quota.

Let me know what you think about this event! Do you think you could make it?




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Geese insanity

Last week the most crazy thing I've seen happened, right outside of our apartment, thousands of crazy geese that I suppose are migrating. Gian and I took some pictures.

I know this one was plotting against us. 

These two already had their halloween costumes

Watch this video of more geese arriving. Nuts!

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Instameet Vancouver in October

Yesterday was a really fun day, I finally got to meet cool people from instagram. This instameet it's organized every month as a photowalk. I brough my camera with me and these are my favorite photos, I didn't take that many because Gian and me had to leave early to the whitecaps game :)

The fashionable girl bellow @beyunique was posing for me, loved her animal print hat.

I've been following @bryceevansphoto since I was living in Venezuela, it's nice to see one of your favorite insagrammers in action.

We went to the Science World and got cool shots there.

Sick photographer @artfuldesperado, @girloclock (organizer) and @bryceevansphoto

Captured @lisawoodenshoes taking photos of the fall. She was an interesting subject to photograph.

And this was the whole group, the pic was taken by @girloclock in front of the salt building near Olympic Village station. Hope I can see them all again next month.

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Thank you for reading!

As you know (or don't know) last Sunday the Venezuelan elections were held, Chavez won... again. I'm not going to talk about politics because I kind of hate that topic.

Ironically the Monday after that was Thanksgiving Day here in Canada, but I could only be thankful for one thing only, being away from my country, being safe. I'm not going to be a downer here, but I'm going to focus on the thanks thing.

At one of my bus rides.

Canadians are famous for being very sorry or very thankful. In a normal day I hear people say sorry or thank you about 10 to 20 times, so this guys are very polite. Even when they get off a bus they scream "THANK YOU!" to the driver, and funnily enough they sometimes say "YOU WELCOME!", and I sometimes do it too.

So I was wondering how many times did I hear someone saying thanks to their bus driver, did I ever say it back in Maracaibo? Of course not, those are radically different cultures, but what if you start saying thanks to someone who don't get that too often?

I don't imagine people in Maracaibo saying a legitimate "Hey! bus driver, thank you for not letting us all get killed this time!" because let's face it, its hot as hell, there are like 100 sweaty people touching you and the driver is a maniac, but it could be fun if we start being polite to everyone around us.

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Day 3 and 4. BUSY!

Believe me when I say we don't have the time to surf the web,  next week I'll start with the regular posting most probably.

Gian and I went cellphone shopping and apartment hunting. So I don't have Lots of pics to show you other than these.

The place we are staying at live a Shih Tzu and yesterday the brother went to visit him. They were playing right next to me and Gian took this beautiful photo <3

Also went to a supermarket, and read this where they put the meat, this Spanish is funny and horrible at the same time.

The family that lives where we are staying held a BBQ party, it was so nice to meet people from all over the world, the food was incredible and sitting by the fire is always the best thing.

See ya :)

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Day 2. Around Vancity

Yay! a beautiful and sunny day in Vancouver, hot for vancuverites but chilly for us!

How about this Christmas tree for our place?

Went to my school which was pretty neat

 Downtown day, went to Canada Place and walked A LOT!

All day walking makes you want to eat everything and what better that poutine?

We've been VERY busy so bare with me! See you tomorrow!

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Day 1. We are finally here!

We are finally here!! 0 days! which converted to Day 1, that means I'll post my tiny adventures every day for 365 days. At least a tiny pic per day.

Our big adventure started at 2am and ended 24 hours later. Here a few pics Gian took :)

@Dallas airport writing to my family we were alive 

Posing for my hubby

With my favorite chubster at the chocolate factory

It's kind of blurry but I have a pic finally entering to Vancity!

See ya tomorrow!

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