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01
Aug
2014

The Sprinkles Dress

categories: Favourite things, Love at first sight, style

Katherine Barclay floral abstract print shirt dress — Dress, Katherine Barclay; belt & earrings, J. Crew Factory; shoes, Zara

Warning: this will be a photo-heavy post. I just love this dress so damn much. (Humour me, it’s mah birthday.)

Can we start by stating the obvious? Impulse buy. Total impulse buy. You might remember I refrained from buying a cute, yellow shirt dress from Gap last month, on account of the (admittedly problematic) shirt dress I already have in my closet. You know the one – the granny dress. Turns out, resisting one cute shirt dress is my limit. So, this one came home with me.

You guys know I’m addicted to colour, and this dress has colour … in spades. The tag called this a “floral print”, but to me it looks like sprinkles, especially up close. (Or maybe a colourful scaly lizard? Um, sprinkles it is.) Appropriately, I think, I wore it to my son’s 3rd birthday party.

Like all my other technicolor dresses, this one is a cinch to accessorize. I can pretty much close my eyes, walk into my closet, pull out the first thing I grab, and bam. Outfit. Now that is my kind of dressing. (I wore it on its own for the inaugural outfit because, obviously, it needs to be seen in all its glory. Bam!)

31
Jul
2014

There and Back Again

categories: Uncategorized

J. Crew brown chino shorts; Gap Palm leaf print clutch — edit

I don’t know why I bother packing for these short road trips. Guaranteed that, on the second day, I’ll wear all my shopping spoils from day 1. I’m just that impatient. So, hey, check out my new shorts, belt and clutch.

J. Crew brown chino shorts; Gap Palm leaf print clutch; Gap hook belt — Holiday shopping spoils

Altogether, these set me back about $35, which is the chocolate sauce on top of this sundae of an outfit. (I’m trying to say that I really like how this outfit came together. Basic? Yes. Cute? I stand by it.)

pave X ring, Gap plam leaf clutch — Ring, Winners

I even splurged on some joolz; the ring cost more than all the other new pieces combined, but it was still under $50, so yay. More chocolate sauce. This is an awesome sundae.

30
Jul
2014

Half a Decade (Minus One)

categories: Life, style

Moschino floral dress; Minkoff Cerulean MAC — Dress, Moschino; shoes, Ivanka Trump; necklace, Hudson Bay; bag, Rebecca Minkoff

This is what I wore for an extra special date night with my husband in Calgary. The “extra” we were celebrating that night was our 4th wedding anniversary. Can you handle a throwback on a Tuesday?

I’d show you a photo of the both of us, but my husband is internet-shy. (Or so he claims; I think he just like to be mysterious.) Looking back over our wedding photos, reminiscing style, I was struck by how – before house renovations, and babies, and sleepless nights, and all the rest of the suburban dream come true – we looked like such kids. I still feel like we’re kids (playing house till the real parents show up), but we don’t look it anymore. So … yay?

So, yes, anniversary dinner. I went kinda all out. I get so few chances for even regular dressing up that I seized this opportunity with more gusto than a dinner at a steak joint would otherwise conjure up.