A Barbie Princess

As a little girl I loved barbie, she was awesome I could create the most amazing outfits on her! I always dreamed about being in a barbie commercial one day but living in L.A. there was sooooo much competition I was at a audition for something Mattel not even barbie and a girl had driven up from Vegas. Thats a five hour drive! Crazy much. When I moved back to vancouver I auditioned for this one barbie commercial, i remember curling my hair which is never easy b/c it doesn't hold curl well but my agent suggested it. Well that was a mistake but I'll get to that later.

I don't remeber the details excelty but I think I went in for this same commercial a few times and on the last call the directors/ produced were flying in from L.A. but they were super late and I was freaking b/c I had planned a dance that day and was going to miss it! Oh the worries of a seventh grader.

I got it! I had the most amazing dress all i'm saying is that the silk used to make my dress cost 80$ a meter. I really felt like a princess and we filmed in a studio with dirty floors so I got carried around all day by Andrew (i believe thats his name). It was sooo totally worth giving up singing in the remebrance day ceremony at my school. Oh right the hair thing my hair does not hold a curl so inbetween each take they were re-curling and re-curling I would come in extra early to work on my hair. OMG.

Oh and also it was barbie's birthday I believe her 50 but I'll have to check my facts. One set on day we had a Barbie cake! Now I have had barbie cakes before but when you playing a barbie princess, you have the people you are from Mattel there, and your being carried around in a floor length gown with swans, horses and other majestic animals floating around no other barbie cake can live up to it!

Now your most likely wondering why am I talking about this it happened years ago, well i recently found my commercial online but not in english but atlas finnish, danish and some other random language I don't know. I thought I just have to blog about this! Its my proudest moment as an actor! Seriously!

-S.

xo

if you click on the title you will be directed to the finnish youtube vid but here are the other links

danish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_jL-6je9w

random language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A003Qz327TU&NR=1

finnish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9AsGXUmL8

"Last Night"

Yesterday as I waited to hear from my friend as to what time we were going to met up, I decided to play around my hair. I also decided to wear a strapless white dress that was not totally appropriate for the fall and for walking around the eaton center (a mall in toronto). In true "samantha fashion" I wore what I wanted too. As we walked down to the bay at Queen we passed by the Elgin theater and I saw a Tiff film was playing there and thought that looks fun. Nida and I were only together for about an hour she went to help you cousin move into and res and find dorm stuff. After we said by about 15 minutes after passing by the theater I decided to go back and see what would happen.

As I walked up I noticed the rush line was significantly longer. Dang! Also they don't take visa or debit which means I would have to get out 40$ for a ticket that cost 21.75$ don't you just hate when you don't have change on you? I do. As I was standing in line someone called my name, I always think its strange when I run into people I know in toronto. I feel that I haven't lived here long enough for that to be happening, plus T-dot is HUGE! Anyway Derek is from my brothers girlfriend work. That was cool and helped pass the time. Anyway to the exciting stuff now.

I'm standing in line thinking I mostly likely not going to get a rush ticket and then a lady comes up to me and asks if I want a ticket and I was heck yes! Then she said 43....$ when I gave her a shocked look she said it was the same price inside. Ummm no its not I'm a student so it's waaay cheaper! I turned to the lady standing in front of me and said "if I had an extra ticket I would just give to someone". Well two seconds later this lady walked upto me and handed me a ticket. I was like are you serious?!?! She said yes my son bailed and figured why not. I replied with you rock! I started walking into the theater with them and she said "enjoy" or something along those lines. I said umm I think I'm sitting with you, the last time I was at the Elgin thats how it was but turns out at TIFF its open seating unless you have reserved spots. LOL I walking into the theater with them. I'm just going to say I totally deseved to get that ticket! You when great stuff happens and you think to your self "I really needed that" That was totally me yestereve.

Now as I'm walking into the auditorium I'm thinking where am I going to sit I hate looking for spots in theaters some how the empty seats seems to disappear. I walked up to where the volunteers where standing and asked where could I sit/ I need help finding a seat. Also the film was about to start so I was a little rushed and frantic b/c this all transpired soooo quickly. Well all they could say was "sit where ever" As I looked around this older man, whom I thought probably worked at the elgin said here and took off a reserved sign and sat me in the second row after where the theater breaks. I was a serious prime seat! I throw my coat on it and headed to the washroom. Also have a pit stop at the washroom before you see a movie or play! Very important tip.

As I fly down the stair franticly looking for the washroom this man points straight ahead. The minute he speaks I recognize his voice. It's this guy a met this summer doing background work. It was the most hilarious situation, how do you act polite and talk with someone when you really have to go to the washroom and your movie seconds from starting. OMG It was quite hilarious! I felt kind of bad as I headed back up stairs, how much would that suck being stuck directing people to the washroom. Whilst everyone up stairs gets to enjoy the film.

Now back in my seat, since it was the première screening the co CEO of Tiff comes on stage to give a speech. OMG that was the guy who sat me!!!!!!! I MET THE HEAD OF TIFF AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT!!! I love my life. Then the director said a few words and Eva Mandes and Sam Worthington were introduced. Now I can say I went to the movies with Eva & Sam! :)

The movie last night was great. I had heard that it was basically about a wife that thinks her husband is cheating, blah blah blah. BTW I had no idea what this film was about when I was waiting in line, but yeah throw in Keira knightly and you got me. Anyway as the film started out I thought oh no this is one of those depressing films about people and when their lives fall apart. Great. Well guess what it was quite good. I see so many films that sometimes I wonder what makes me like a film or not. Well I know this film was good because there was no action, tricks or glamour. It was very real and I was very intrigued to see what was going to happen. I also have a soft spot in my hear for anything french, there was a totally fabulous french actor in the film. Or maybe I was just overwhelmed from meeting the TIFF CEO and being at the festival but all in all I had great night. I also liked the fact it was something I normally wouldn't see but thats the excitement and power of spontaneity!

After that I headed home. I love how I thought I was just going to have a regular saturday and it ended soo wonderfully.

My outfit:

Dress: Fire from L.A.

Tights: Hue

Shoes: joes fresh, yes I buy clothes from the grocery store.

-S.

xo

A French 1980's Preppy Ballerina?!

Say What?

How could all of those combine and work out, well they did and I made them work. My blog was suppose to be about me and my adventures but then I got thinking about how when I was younger. I used to take photo's of Fabulous outfits for reference. I thought I should start doing that again and since no one reads this blog anyway I can store my photo some where convenient and more eco friendly (no printing of photos). Also in a perfect world my tight would be black.

My Outfit from head to toe:

Barret : Bros from when he played violin

Blazer : Family Friend Real Vintage

Vest : Forver 21

Blouse: Gap

Pants : Nordstrom dept. Store

Shoes : Bloch

XO

-S.