On July 30th, join me and a whole bunch of other awesome peeps at The Mod Club in Toronto to kick Cancer’s Ass. My friend Carolyn Van was recently diagnosed with Lymphoma and we’re throwing a fundraiser to help her out and to raise awareness about Lymphoma Cancer.

Watch this video and I dare you to not have some feels. Scroll down to pick up tickets and/or make a donation to the campaign.

• DONATE: Carolyn’s Fight Against Cancer, Let’s KICK CANCER’S ASS! 
• GET A TICKET for July, 30th

<3 With Love,

CASIE

Today life game me a lemon.
On my way to the office I crossed the road to find one single half lemon, squished, and all alone in the middle of the road. What did it mean, how did it get there?  I don’t know, I’ll never know. I decided to take a photo and have a little laugh to myself. It wasn’t like I was going to make lemonade or anything.

Did some research on where this saying came from and many attribute it to Dale Carnegie from his book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living. Carnegie’s version reads, “If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade.”  BUT, 8 years before Carnegie’s book the phrase made it’s way into the mainstream via this poetic rendition of the phrase entitled The Optimist which appeared in a 1940 edition of The Rotarian:

“Life handed him a lemon,
As Life sometimes will do.
His friends looked on in pity,
Assuming he was through.
They came upon him later,
Reclining in the shade
In calm contentment, drinking
A glass of lemonade.”^[10]

In the spirit of Throwback Thursday, here’s a photo of Jenie and I at the house where we grew up in Cambridge. Did had a hot rod shop called Toys for Boys so really rad cars were always around. We used to play in the garage w/ Dad and pretend to drive the cars around. Ahh, the good ol’ days.

Remember, when life gives you lemons, you have lot of options of what to do with them. Do something that will put a smile on someone’s face, even if its just your own.

With love, 

CASIE

Picked up a few things from Target on Sunday. Was not feelin’ so hot and thought a trip there and buying things might make me feel better. It did! I discovered a partnership between Pinterest and Blogger/Top Pinner Joy Cho and Target so naturally, I had to support.

I also got a new camera.

Garden is now in bloom and I’m feelin’ pretty good about it. I absolutely love spending time in my garden. I only wish it was bigger! My best friend has got a huge backyard because she lives on a farm. The last time we spoke she told me that she had just purchased a steel building to use as an annex. One of my first questions was “How much does a metal building cost?”, but when I found out, I was impressed with how affordable a building made from steel can be. Anyway, I cannot wait to pay her a visit soon to discuss her plans for her steel annex!

Had some of our peeps over for a little visit in the evening and camera was a hit. Wanted one for ages so pretty stoked!

Feeling better today. Hope your week is off to a great start!

? CASIE