Just Natoya

Category: Randoms

  • “You’ve come a long way baby.”

      When I was a girl, I remembered my aunt Dorret would visit us on her holidays from her home in Connecticut.  She would return to Jamaica once or twice each year. These visits would also mark a coming together of all our family members.  In the early years we spent this time at…

  • How to wear your vintage blazer.

    How to wear your vintage blazer.

    Mixing vintage peices with ready-to-wear fast fashion peices is not for everyone. Style comes naturally to some of us, but for people like me… We need a little bit of help mixing and matching the old with the new. I bought this awesome houndstooth blazer at a thrift shop almost…

  • BANGin’

    I’ve always wanted to try bangs! but naturally i was afraid they wouldn’t fit my face. So what better way to go about changing up my do. Get a weave! I decided on getting hair extensions with bangs! and the results were amazing. I’m especially proud since I did it…

  • Subscription Box Issues – Ipsy

    I decided to try the new craze of subscription boxes. Ipsy and Birchbox seem to be the two that people go for so I subscribed to both. I was excited eagerly awaiting my subscription boxes. Ipsy came first In a bright metallic pinkish/purple bubble envelope. my excitement was short lived…

  • Spring is in the air

    I love Vancouver when the streets are damp and coloured pink by a sea of evenly fallen cherry blossoms. There is a certain stillness, a certain calmness as if you’re the only one experiencing this beauty. I can get lost in these blossoms forever.

  • From my Sketchbook

    In my last post I commented that I had found this old sketchbook in my storage and I’ve been going through it. I think It’s pretty amazing to go through the old sketchbooks and see what  was going on. For me my sketchbooks serve as a kind of visual diary…

  • Use what ‘cha got.

    To get into my creative process I have to do a series of random experiments. Which always involves me finding something and working with that. I found this old sketchbook I had in my storage and on it It said “NEVER HIDE” I suspect I ripped that out of a…

  • not quite votive

    If you know anything about candles and making candles…you’ll know there are several different type of waxes to be used accordingly to the candle you’ll be making….container wax for candles in containers and pillar wax for free standing candles made in molds. I was making some container candles and had…