Monthly Archives: January 2012

SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW

This is just a QUICK post! The expo and conference the team and I have been planing for the last year of our lives ended yesterday, and I couldn’t be more proud or happy!! It went off without a hitch, apparently twitter was abuzz and we were a trending topic! NOTHING warms my heart more than to know hard work has paid off. Now I am off to get organized for 2013, and concentrate on the content that was provided and making sure it is available throughout this thing we here call the interweb.

Besides that, BNO is in full swing for February. Details will be released next week so please stay tuned! LOADS of love to you, my friends, family, boyfriend and readers for putting up with my lack of blogging over the last three months.

Now that I have a segment of my life back, I will get back into the groove. Loads of love.

LIPSTICK:  MAC Cosmetics | Half N Falf
HAT: Vintage
DRESS: Worn as a skirt | Vintage  
BLOUSE: Wilfred | Aritzia
SHOES: Nine West

LETTERS & PAGES

HOLLA! So, – like always, so much has happened with my life since my last post! Let’s see – one of my best friends in the entire universe asked me to be her maid of honor, the Bloggers Night Out team has been so hard at work planning NYFW for Feb, as well as for Charleston and Miami, my apartment got robbed [insert long dramatic sob story here], and finally, just finally, the last nine months of my life are finally coming full circle as the event [I work in events for a living] that we have been planning, is to happen next week!! BAH!! so much excitement …

I mentioned to my mum [whilst sobbing] on the phone, that twenty twelve is going to be a year of learning for me – I can just FEEL it, nothing ever comes easy for me, but fuck it [yah you read that], I would rather things not go easy, and I have the chance to learn, grow and get through it – in return for the amazing opportunities, friendships, family, blog and work success. It is a fair trade in my opinion because these are the most important things to me.

I hope twenty twelve is a year of learning for you too, [although I subtract the disadvantages that come with it, I wouldn't wish the crap I go through onto you lol] – I hope you push yourself and grow, meet new people and ask for things you never dreamed of receiving.

Beyond that and getting back to, er … me… this outfit may look a tad familiar … [hello post below lol] – that’s because it’s the same shirt … just in a different colour. I am obsessed with mustard right now, it is a problem. The tweet skirt was a thrifted A-line haggard knee length that I copped into a mini … and of course, 90% of the jewels here are stolen from my mum [thanks mum!]

LIPSTICK:  MAC Cosmetics | Half N Falf
KNIT COWL: One Stop Shoppe in Yorkville  
BLOUSE: Mustard F21
SKIRT: Thrifted Tweed Mini
SHOES: Emmanuelle Pucci Mary Jane’s [the heels are slaughtered from the cobble stones in NYC ... sigh]

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

I am in shock of how fast twenty eleven blew me by. When I think about it, this past year was such a huge part of the foundation that is, and will be, my career. I have chosen the path I want – and am perusing it – guns’-a-blazin. If I could offer you one piece of advise, is to tell someone who you admire your dreams – and they will, hopefully, help you make them come true. Twenty twelve is only just begun, and already I can feel the heat from the kitchen!! I am part of an amazing team and we are throwing a major conference here in Toronto surrounding digital media – it is inaugural but also has a ton of buzz and press about it already, it is something new for Canada – and something that will explode with the amount of dedication and love we have put into it. I cannot wait! Come February New York Fashion week will take over, and the Bloggers Night Out team is in full swing of planning several events across several states for the twenty twelve season. Last year this time I imagined what twenty eleven would look like, like Geneva from a pair & a spare, I too make a different type of resolutions list, more like wishes, hopes and dreams – and all but three last year came true. I highly encourage you to do so, I never would of if a friend of my own didn’t encourage me to do the same, and it is simply mind blowing what you achieve.

HAT: Thrifted from my Mum 
LIPSTICK:  MAC Cosmetics | Rebel
NECKLACE: Thrifted from my Gran circa 1960′s
BLOUSE: Kelly Green F21
SKIRT: American Apparel PVC
SHOES: Thifted Leather Oxfords {a steal!!}