She's not broken, she's just a baby

I thought I'd squeeze one for post before the end of the year, and it's a quicky... although I haven't got anything else to run off to do. It's Almost 7pm and I'm still NYE plan-less, and frankly I'm too tired after working all day to even give a hoot. I'm so down to just sit with a cappuccino (did I tell y'all I got an espresso machine for Christmas? SO much fun) and read my overdue library books untill I hit the pillow at 12:01.
On with the post! An outfit I wore the other day, in 3 parts:

My sheer and velvet cutout Topshop top, layered over a black tee. I love this top but deciding what to layer it with is proving to be harder than I thought. Wore it once with just a bra underneath (teehee), but other attempts proved not as successful. Layered with the black t-shirt looks good enough, I like that you actually have to look closely to see that I'm actually wearing 2 shirts. It also kind of looks like a bodycon dress like this, come to think of it!

Faded American Apparel African print leggings. Oldie but a goodie.

Topped off with my really old Urban Outfitters moto jacket.

Something that's not so old, these NEW Jeffrey Campbell "Mummy" wedges. Now, let me just say that I wouldn't consider myself a JC fan. Making your buisness by blatently ripping off other designers just doesn't sound like a very good buisness strategy imo. But I came across these on Solestruck's Cyber Monday sale and I liked them... a lot. Plus, as far as I can tell, they're not a direct copy of any shoes I've seen before (feel free to prove me wrong!). A second plus, they were %50 of the already reduced price of $99. So yeah, score.

Oh and remember that little claw-nail idea I had two posts back? I went through with it! Last night I bought some extra long dollar store nails, used cuticle scissors to cut the corners, then filed the ends to a perfect pointy shape. Then I glued them on my nails and finished it off with this perfect shade called "Lily" from Revlon's new Top Speed nail polish.
(note: I know I'm crap at painting nails)
I rocked them all day today, and guess what... so wierd looks or comments. I guess they're not as freaky as I make them out to be in my head, haha. Love them!

You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel

A super quick post to say Happy Christmas to everyone who celebrates it! And if you don't, well I hope you had a fab day anyways and enjoyed a bit of peace and quiet. It's 11 pm now, and I've had a full day of jumping from house to house, opening presents, drinking tons of coffee, and eating many chocolates. Tomorrow I might sneak in a bit of Boxing Day shopping in the morning, but the majority of the day will be for two more family gatherings... and if that's not enough, I've got yet another on New Years Day. Oh the joy never ends...
I'll leave you with some holiday outfit details that I wore to a friend's Christmas party the other night. If I can muster up some creativity I might put something new together for tomorrow. If not, I'm going to be a total outfit repeater.

(The dress I bought secondhand months ago and hacked off the bottom. Cute, right?)

EDIT: I almost forgot that I wanted to use this post to just make a huge thank you to all of you out there, my readers. This time last year my blog was 1 1/2 years old and barely verging on 100 followers, now another year later and I'm at 420 followers and I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. I can't beleive how much my blog has grown in the past year, and at this point I can no longer deny that it really has become a part of me. It has changed my life in so many ways, but the best thing has been all of the online and real-life friends I've met through blogging, both abroad and right here in Winnipeg. I hope I don't sound too sentimental, but seriously just THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for reading my blog and supporting me, and keep on reading... I'm not going anywhere! xx

I'm at that slumber party sippin on that fizzy chrissy

umm, hi? HI! It's me! Yessss I'm still here, but this whole waiting a month between posts needs to stop I think. In my defense I've been working a lot, watching Misfits a lot, painting, searching things on eBay, checking then re-checking my Google Reader, trying to make hair appointments, discovering Harry Potter tumblrs, pretending to read books, and in general the holidays have been just been crushing me. Lucky for me I got my gift shopping ALL DONE today (probs a record for me) and now I am so ready to be on the receiving end... of gifts... did that make any sense?
OUTFITS! I completely forgot I took pictures of a few recent outfits, and now that I think about it I wish I took more cos some of my looks lately have been pretty good (trust me?). This one is to show you a crop top I bought in the states a few weeks back (or ONE post back, in terms of my horrible blogging agenda). It's just a basic black, cropped t-shirt, but what I love about it is that it's got this really cool texture... almost like cracked leather.

Worn with high-waisted H&M jeans and leather cross necklace from a shop in Toronto (sup Isabel! If you're reading this, I wore my bloomers the other day and thought of you! We still need to take a picture of us wearing them together!!)
This next look is very Proenza Schouler pre-fall 2010, imo. Although I can't put a name to my stunned expression and strange camera claw-hand I'm donning in the photo...

Deets: I love how the holey sweatshirt and buttoned up shirt just mesh heavenly together.

Wearing a sweatshirt from Aritzia, shirtdress from Uniqlo, leggings from AA, and thrifted satchel-purse.

And lastly, my current nails! Leopard print in [whatithoughtwasbrown] pink, white, and black. I'm thinking of filing some fake nails into a more claw-like shape a la Gaga, in a really innocent colour like beige or lilac. Think I'll be able to pull it off?


p.s. - I'm going to be re-opening my shop, Modernity, to sell off what's left of the stock... about half of what was originally in the shop. I'll be re-pricing everything as well (SALES!!), so come back and reward yourself with some endofchristmasshopping gifties!

I'd rather give you the world or we could share mine

This weekend I went on a mini-getaway to the states with my mom, aunt, and grandma for some good, old fashioned money spending! I'm talking about shopping, on Black Friday of course. For those of you who don't know, Black Friday is a huge shopping day in the U.S. that takes place the day after Thanksgiving and lasts the whole weekend. Canadian Thanksgiving is in October (when it SHOULD be!), so we left for for the 10 hour drive on Thursday morning and then started shopping when we got there at midnight! It's so strange how people were all shopping in the middle of the night... I like that it doesn't get that mental in Canada.

Some literature for the road, although I always pack too many things to read and I just ended up looking out the window the whole time, listening to Pink Friday.

I actually didn't end up scoring any major deals. I think maybe only one thing I bought was on sale? At least I got to hit up H&M, albeit a very poorly stocked one with nothing very exciting. Here are some of the things I tried on.
I ended up buying the maxi dress and the velvet mini-dress... although now I'm thinking I quite liked the jumpsuit? Oh well, too late now. While in the dressing room, I realized how much I love this leopard tights/Dad socks/creepers combo that I had on that day.
Oh yeah, that right there just turns me on.

We went out for dinner that night, and this is what I wore. Keeping the tights on, I just pulled on some panneled leggings and this asymmetrical top. The heels are pointy toed platforms that I bought there (on sale), which I almost didn't buy but I'm glad I did (or my mom did, rather... I was about to put them back and my mom's just like "well I'll just get them for you, that way I can wear them too", haha).

With yet another maxi dress in the wardrobe, I've got to start getting creative with the things! I just noticed I've got a few maxi dress inspiration photos in the ol' fashion folder. Here's a few ideas I love for wearing a maxi:

Left from Style East, right is Jazzabelle in a photo from I want you to know. A knotted t-shirt over the dress. So simple! Yet SO GOOD. I hope I look as amazing as these two when I try out this look.

Left's source is unknown, right is from Drop Tokyo. I love the belted button-up shirt wth the maxi, it gives a little more shape to the sometimes overwhelming silhouette of a long dress. Plus, the girl just looks amazing. On the right, I just really think these two look wicked, non? The guy's look is giving me the idea to hike up the skirt on one side, revealing some leggings, trousers, or great shoes... wow I really am starting to sound like a horrible fashion advice column: "complete your look with a punchy scarf and piling on the bracelets!"... And on that note, I'm out!

I've had the same jeans on for four days now

... actually it's only been two days, and they aren't actually jeans, but disco pants. I just really wanted that song to be my title...
I wore this on Sunday to go see Harry Potter AGAIN. It's so sad, during the movie I was just thinking "I can't wait to see this again!!"... I think I just have an addiction to going to the cinema.
Now that I look at the pictures of this outfit, I'm not sure if I actually like it that much... whatevs, too late now! I do love this purple blazer though, thrifted over a month ago. It was like 4 dollars or some ridiculously cheap price at Goodwill, and then at the counter I found out it was on discount and was like $2.80. Cray cray! It's such a cool piece, I took a picture without flash to get a better idea of the colour... it's still a bit more purpley in real life, but you get the idea.

Next day I wore the disco pants again, this time with a thrifted acid wash tee and denim Uniqlo mini dress over top.
Took the dress off later and tucked in the t-shirt. Jeez now that I have a tripod set up in my room it's just way too easy to take outfit pictures, I'm doing multiple per day! I hope I don't overdo it though... I know a white wall can lose it's touch after a while... in my opinion, anyways.
After getting a little Christmas shopping done I decided to reward my hard work (HA!) by buying myself a lipstick. This Revlon colour was nice purple-y, berry stained kind of shade. Not sure if I like it on yet... defo looked better in the tube.

In boredom, I also bought this clip-in bangs thing off ebay.... has anyone tried these things before (and have it actually look good)? I got it in the mail today and the colour doesn't match my brown perfectly, but I was thinking it might be okay if I wear it at night. If anyone has tried these before let me know any tips, then MAYBE I'll show you mine, haha!

No regrets, just love

Well looky here, an outfit post? What do you know, I'm not dead after all.



Haven't got much to say, other than to show you what I wore to go to the midnight show of Harry Potter last night. A few friends had started lining up at 7:30, then the rest of us got there at around 8 so there was a wee bit of a wait. Everyone was sitting on the floor at first, but then they made us stand up, packed against eachother like sardines for the last 2 hours of waiting.... so that was fun! I love strangers breathing down my neck! Some guy near us in line randomly started doing magic tricks, which was cute but also slightly awkward in the squishy-ness of it all. I spent a week convincing my friends that dressing up was a GOOD IDEA, then once we all agreed on costumes one girl texted me on Tuesdays saying she wasn't feeling it anymore. There will be no avoiding it next year though: last movie means the last chance to let all the nerdiness out of our systems!
Quick outfit recap: H&M leopard print dress, vintage flannel from a shop in Camden, Andrew's thrifted creeepers, and my NEW thrifted jean jacket that I found in the kid's section at Goodwill. I was pretty happy I found it, I think it's the perfect length and is just begging to be customized. Might need to add a part II to my ongoing denim customization project... which, unsurprisingly, hasn't really gone anywhere since that post.

Oh, and incase you're wondering what I thought of Deathly Hallows: I loved it! Don't want to go into specifics for those who haven't seen it, (which will be most of you. It hasn't even been out for 24 hours yet!) but it followed so close to the book that none of you diehards will be dissapointed. Oh, and Rupert kicked ass in the acting department... Weasley is our King!!

I'm a bad ass chick, yo my black magic

Before I dive into my Google Reader for all the Halloween posts I'm about to read, I thought I should quickly post mine... if I didn't I probably would never get around to it, tbh...
First off: my Goth Tea Party! I had a little shindig at my house on October 16th, telling all my friends on the invitation (which I made, and looked like this fyi) to "dress in your Gothic best.. no excuses!". I was glad to see everyone show up in proper attire. Even if that meant just throwing on an all-black outfit, then hey, I'm happy.
If there's one thing you should know about me is that when I do something, I go ALL THE WAY. Exhibit A: The setting

Complete with dozens of lit candles, a pentagram below our feet, roses with their heads cut-off (À la The Adamms Family), and plenty of lace on every surface.

Exhibit B: The food

Everything had to be black, white, or red. This included voodoo doll and black cross cookies, homemade rasberry chocolate macarons, white chocolate dipped strawberries, and of course red velvet cupcakes (via THE GODESS that is Paula Deen).

Exhitit C: My outfit, y'all!




Okay okay, so I swear this didn't all start out as just another excuse to dress as Gaga. In my mind the concept was "Queen of the Goths", which I just happened to think of Gaga in the Alejandro video. Under the cloak I was pretty much just wearing underwear with lace tight overtop, and finally get a chance to wear my thrifted stripper boots! I made both the crown and the special made black version of this Alexander McQueen cloak, which she wears in the video.

So this costume was special not only as I dressed as my favourite woman of all time, but as I got to do my own kind of tribute McQueen, who also stands as one of the most influential people to me, as well as an incredible artist who will never be forgotten.

The coat was so special that I just HAD to wear it again on Halloween. It wasn't actually finished at the time of the party, as I didn't have enough time to do the gathering at the train. I did get it done though, unsurprisingly ON the day I needed it again.

I had a last minute change of heart before going out on Saturday. I was planning on wearing the same Alejandro Gaga outfit I wore to my tea party, but then changed my mind THAT DAY and decided to do something a bit different. Still Gaga, just something a bit more comfortable than hauling around a 5 pound headpiece the whole night.

Graphic from Pull Teeth

As you can see, I skipped the wig and just used my own hair for this look. Again, I pretty much just wore underwear under the cloak, haha! Whatevs, in my defense I kept the cloak on the whole night and the most anyone would have see of me was a flash of granny panties... scandalous. The stripper boots got cut off because, well, I just really wanted ankle booties. And the eyepatches? I feel like I want to rock them on the regs.