A Beautiful Winter Day

February 6th, 2010

The weather outside is unusually gorgeous! The sun in shining bright, the sky is blue and overall a lovely day :) I wish I had somewhere to go to enjoy it, but instead I’m sitting here in my room, blogging (which isn’t that bad, I suppose.) I can kinda see the sunshine from my tiny window :)

Today I had a little bit of time to take some photos of new clothes I purchased using gift cards from Christmas. I was hoping that $100 would last me at least a couple visits to the store, but I was soo wrong. Let’s just say that $100 can buy you anything these days..

And it’s official: My new favourite wardrobe colour is Navy Blue :)

Navy Blue Sweater – Esprit
Ruffle Skirt – Forever XXI
Black Tights – Gap
Navy Shoes – Keds

I also bought this really cute treasure box. Again, with the Navy blue! I’m not sure what I want to put inside of it yet, maybe potpourri of sorts or loose buttons from my sewing box. Either way it will be filled with something fun, or cute.

Dace x Dallas Shaw Promo

January 31st, 2010

Happy Sunday! Hope you guys had a wonderful weekend. I know I did! It was a weekend full of shopping with my lovely Mummy. Clothes, more clothes, accessories and books! I have lots to read and wear this week (and hopefully photos will be taken!) Time seems to be zipping by these days. As my good friend Betty said “I need more than 24h/day to complete my “responsibilities”. That statement seems to be the perfect description of my situation at the moment. There are plenty of delightful stories I would like to share with you and will write them down once I have a second to catch my breath. But while I am online, I’d like to pass on some cool promo news:

Dace has commissioned Dallas Shaw (www.dallasshaw.etsy.com) to create 5 different fashion illustrations of models wearing Dace pieces from their Spring 2010 collection. Tomorrow Dace will launch their first spring delivery and will be giving away these prints to everyone that purchases something from the new collection online (while supplies last). The first 3 to purchase something after the mailer goes out will receive original artwork! :)

I think these illustrations would look amazing framed in my room! :)

Hello! I’m back.

January 20th, 2010

Yesterday evening I staged a rather quick & dirty photo shoot for my purple Kersh dress. As you can see below, I’ve only managed to edit one photo from the batch, and it surely doesn’t do the dress any justice. Please excuse my pose – I’m still learning how real models do it :P

Anyway, I haven’t put much effort into this blog lately, mainly because I was a little distracted by another website I recently signed up for, and also because I’ve been focusing on doing more real world things and less sitting in front of the computer. But this week I intend to divert my attention back to this blog and put up fun stuff, like my on going battle with the sewing machine and some new books I purchased!

I am also making it a goal to hit the mall at least once this week. I haven’t set foot in a store for 1 whole week, which is equivalent to an eternity if you were me.

New York Fashion Week is coming up too! Are any of you attending? I’ll probably be following through FashionWeekDaily.com. So excited to see what everyone comes out with!

Dace Spring 2010

January 12th, 2010

DACE Spring 2010 from Dace on Vimeo.

Trailers are definitely an art form in itself! I just came across this lovely little video from Dace and can’t wait to check out their Spring 2010 collection! I absolutely love the cinematography, especially the colour treatment :) When the weather gets better here in rainy Surrey, I’m hoping to try out shooting some short trailers, as a special alternate, but definitely not a replacement, for the outfit photos.. yes. That is the goal!

Video + Photos are from www.dace.ca

Too Dresses!

January 11th, 2010

This weekend I made a couple little purchases! One being a navy blue Lady Dutch dress, and the other a dark purple button up dress from Kersh (photos of this one didn’t turn out well, so I’ll repost those later). The mall had racks and racks of pretty little dresses on for 40% off, and I just couldn’t resist! Photos of me wearing them will have to wait though. Right now, I’m sitting comfortably in sweats and a baggy t-shirt because I’m too sore to move after my training this morning. It is only day 2 and my arms feel like they are going to fall off! But that’s a good thing :) (not the falling off part – the sore part).

I also picked up a cute, but quite large, jewelry stand from Bijoux to hold all my necklaces :) It’s made out of metal and seems more sturdy than the tiny one I bought from Forever21 (which tumbles easily at the weight of a few headbands).

That’s pretty much all I did this weekend, including training and finishing up a few design projects for some clients. Boring as usual! :)

Tegan & Sara @ The Orpheum

January 8th, 2010

Two nights ago I went to downtown with a couple of friends from work and watched Tegan & Sara at the Orpheum, the first date on their Sainthood tour. I remember in 12th grade I was really into their music, but somehow stopped following them during uni. So as you can imagine, 98% of the songs they played were off the new record. Not knowing the lyrics to all the songs, except one, I sat there most of the time and just bobbed my head :) I hate not knowing lyrics to songs!

Overall, the show was really good and better than I had expected! All songs were performed at a faster rate than normal so they could fit in as many as they could within the 2 hours, which was really cool :)

Tegan and Sara – Call It Off

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