Summer Fun...

This past weekend rained, and poured and just when you thought you were drowning, it rained some more.

I spent the weekend up at the cottage with a few of my girlfriends.  We spent the weekend eating chips, reading five gossip magazines, and watching the entire season six of Sex and the City.  We laughed, talked men, chilled, and above all got in some major girl time battery charging.

This is pretty much what I saw all weekend.

Onto the other note that filled my weekend curiosity.  The Kim Kardashian wedding.  No matter what your personal views of her and her brand and her family, there is no denying that she is beautiful.  When it comes to celebrity weddings, red carpets, I can never wait to see what the ladies would wear.  This wedding was no exception.  I kept hitting refresh on my sisters computer trying to see if some sort of website even got an aerial shot of her in the Vera Wang dress she was going to wear.  Now of course most of the pictures I cannot right click on and save, lol, but this one I got from {E!Online}.

I believe she went for the Armenian princess look (that's her background) and WOW, that headband is gorgeous.  Her make up is simple, not too much of a smokey of an eye, which is what she normally does.  And I think her choice not to do large earrings or a necklace was a fantastic decision since she had the headband on.

Rumour has it she changed two more times thru out the night.  {People Magazine} has the rights of the photos and is said to hit newsstands on Friday.  For more of the wedding pics click {here}.  And the 

E! two day wedding special will air Oct 9th and 10th.  I know I will be TiVo’ing it.  I mean, anyone who has that much money to spend on their wedding, I want to see what it can buy, lol.

Hope you all have a good start to your week.  No Monday Blues here!

Summer Fun...

First, HAPPY FRIDAY!  Second, sorry for the delay on the posts.  I took the day off from the office, and well, I slept in!  This weekend I am heading up to the cottage with some girlfriends, and I am very much looking forward to re-charging the batteries.

Since you all check out my blog so faithfully I am going to try and make this blog more personal.  I am still trying to find my stride in this blogsphere and I appreciate the dedication and support you have all been sending my way.

Something I started as a new years resolution was to do something every month I had never done before.  Mission accomplished so far. In July I blogged about the country musical festival I went to {here}; that was July’s something NEW.  I had never been to country festival, now I can say I have.

For this month I had been struggling to find something.  Then some of my guy friends invited me to a Toronto FC game; for those who do not know, thats the Toronto Soccer team.  So last Saturday I boarded the bus and went off to the game!  The vibe was amazing, the boys let me ask all the technical questions I needed too, I met some great people, cheered by butt off, and most importantly, THEY WON!

I have loved this personal challenge of trying to do something every month.  I have had such great experiences and have been pushing myself consistently to better my knowledge of things, and to have even more fun in my life.

Here are a couple pictures from the game.  I challenge you all to start to try something new every month.  It can be simple things like, new cleaning products, read the new genre of book, try octopus (which by the way I plan on doing before the end of the year), visit a new city.  Open your eyes, get out of your groove, 

there is so much NEW around you to enjoy.

 the game

 the boys

Jamie, and a very sweaty me! :(

Finds...

The look seen here by Hilary Duff is sooo easy to re-create.  I have chosen pieces all from popular Canadian stores, and the whole look WITH the UGGS is just over $300.  Click on the images to see where the items are from.  Now I know that seems like a lot, but, everyone has these pieces in their closet already I am sure!  So put them all together and you too can look like a casual celebrity out doing your errands!  This is look is effortless yet very much put together.

Adore...

As a follow-up to this post {here} on the ALDO Capecoral, I was recently browsing the online Payless store and saw they had their version too! But HALF THE PRICE!!  Perfect right!  They carry the shoe in a variety of colours, blue, nude, black and gold.  Now I haven’t tried it on to see if it is as comfortable as the ALDO version, but for half the price I would put up with some toe pain.  Fashion is pain right!? Hahaha

 {Payless}

So Happy when the impractical shoe is affordable.

Field Trip...

Already in love with the {Maddee}, then this shirt was posted on {Forever21} I thought where/how can I wear them together.  Then the idea of putting together an easy look that’s casual enough yet pulled together to wear to a brunch meet up with my girlfriends, and this is how I would pair them.  Great skinny black jean/pant, a great congac bag, some light gold jewelry and then some wicked blue nail polish to spice up the fun level.  Cant wait for fall brunch in the city with my girlfriend Kristy when I can wear this outfit that is effortless chic as I would put it..lol 

Now I am craving spinach eggs benny!

Adore...

print by {nickagin}

Love this print.  Most definitely words to live by.  And today is one of those days that I am battling the work computer and printer.  Just have to focus, and pray to the Microsoft Gods!  Hope your days is better!!!

Gripe...

Oh Christian Siriano how I loathe you right now.  WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!  

The winner of Project Runway has been designing shoes for PAYLESS for a couple years now.  Most of his shoes have been a great way to get a brand name for a great price and have been stunning and very fashion forward.  Then these came.  UGH!

 {Payless}

Seriously!!  Furry ankle boots…. Ugh… these are ugly.  The fur, the zipper the gold reflective heels, too much fug going on! lol  Yes, these technically are the type of shoes you find in a Walmart or Payless so don’t be surprised there.  However this is a prime of example that even though they are a ‘brand’ name it does not make them good.   

Sometimes great people make ugly things; these are that.

Enjoy the GRIPE!