Friday, July 3, 2009

Grommet Chic

Gotta love these, yes? So easy to wear (with the one inch wedge), strangely comfortable (especially when invisible blister bandage is worn under grommet near the large toe) and tough!

They appear to go with everything. Found them at Winners for $39.00 a few weeks ago.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Scott's Cell Phone Camera Kind Of Sucks

You know how I promised you those fabulous white jean photos from Mtl. Well, they really didn't turn out at all. They were fuzzy and the colour was off and the lighting insane. I did try to adjust them and these are the only 4 I could save. Alas, they don't really show the ensemble...

This is also a good time to mention that I appear to have completely misrepresented the outfit in the White Painter post. I am not dressed monochromatically and I'm not wearing tall heels and they aren't purple. Let's see this as a gentle homage, yes? The monochrome is in the bottom half of the look - white pants evaporate into pale sandals - improving the elongation effect. I do bring the berry tones into the outfit via the sweater.




All that matters is that I looked rather metropolitan sophisticate in white denim with a black shell, blueberry cardi (around shoulders here) and my champagne coloured shoes. I suggest you do this same.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

True Patriot Love

Happy Canada Day!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Blue Ice



Note to self: Don't allow photography "from below" ever again. Pls. disregard the chins.

This dress doesn't photograph as well as it hangs. Trust me, the adorable mini bubble skirt and exaggerated cowl exact mucho attention from elderly, retired European men and their disapproving wives.

I got it last weekend when camp shopping for M at Dufferin Mall. It was $39.00 at H&M. Seriously, with its beautiful drape, sheeny fabric and rich slate blue colour, it looks like it cost a fortune.

Wait till you see the shoes I wore it with...

Monday, June 29, 2009

White Painters

Photo courtesy of FaceHunter (I love that guy.)

Just so we're clear, if I woke up looking like this one day, I wouldn't exactly complain.

Here's what I love about this outfit:
  • Monochrome is so chic - so elongating!
  • White is so chic - so elongating!
  • Those purple heels are so chic - I think you see where this sentence is going...
You could actually recreate it very easily. Of course, you'd have to walk in those shoes so I suggest you recreate it for an elegant lunch at some be-seen restaurant (the kind with really great food and impeccable service). Doncha know one of our young 'un fashion bloggers is going to write a post on those shoes describing them as "comfortable"! (Ah, youth...)

Oh, I know, someone's going to suggest that wearing all white is hideously impractical and tends to make one seem a bit wan a la "veal sausage link". I really never got the appeal of white jeans (despite years of Liz Hurley being photographed in that garment exclusively) until I tried them for myself.

They truly are FLATTERING (not to be confused with flattening). And I am the palest - though hardly flattest :-) - woman you will ever hope to meet.

My husband took a photo of me in Mtl. wearing my own version of this look - it's not monochrome so it's really only half the look. Whatever. As soon as I can convince him to download the picture, I will post it for y'all.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Courage

It's a hideous day here - damp, cool, raining like a banshee. One of the fringe benefits of recording my every thought in this blog for the last couple of years is that I've come to understand how fully my mood depends on sunshine. This is more than slightly unfortunate given my geographic location.

At any rate, we've just returned from dropping M off at the school bus. She's on her way to camp!

I've spent much of the last decade acting as educator (along with nurturer, protector, disciplinarian, conscience, nag), so it's a table turner what M has taught me today. This little 9 year old just got on a bus with a whole bunch of kids she's never met to go an hour and a half away from home (and keep in mind she gets so carsick that Gravol and bags play a part in every road trip) to see a new location she can barely imagine with no hope of return for 2 weeks. She's never been away from us before (save sleep overs). She's never been to camp. She's such an urban kid that cows and silos are the stuff of movies where spiders talk to pigs and eventually come to an untimely demise.

Talk about defining the spirit of adventure. Every person who's ever undertaken a great risk for a great gain learned that skill through early experience. I'm so hopeful that my baby will be rewarded by some fabulous memories for her courageous leap.

(Now on with the debauchery and dining out!)

Little Buddha

M applies the art of serenity in the garden while her mother freaks about the likelihood of rain

Adorable, if I do say so myself...