I'm taking a ride with my best friend

Some more catching up and hopefully I'll be back on track next week with the regular blogging.

First though I want to post a video of Martin Gore from Depeche Mode. He sang this song last Sunday at the concert and usually I'm not a fan of his songs (they're so sad and mushy) but he stole the show with this song.

I've kind of been watching this video obsessively. Depeche Mode should really consider releasing this as a single.

I wore this way back on August 22.

Dress: Lilikoi from Chartreuse Style (last worn here)
Shoes:  Fluevog Half Truths | Tanya (last worn here)

Black dress, black shoes, black cami underneath.

*smoldering stare*

This ends a long line of black, black, black.

August 28 - BOOM! COLOUR!

Jacket: Vintage. Gift from my coworker!
Dress: Meg (last worn here)
Shoes: Fluevog Integrity | Amie in Neon Orange

I had to give a presentation at a workshop so I went for something peppy.  I began my presentation with "ARE YOU READY TO WORKSHOP???????"

I'm not sure if they were ready for that.

Today I'm actually wearing a similar amount of colour.

Happy Friday everyone.

Thursday, never looking back

So Monday was a little exciting here in the big city. After work I started walking home and ended up ducking into a building to escape a rather dramatic rain storm. Turns out Toronto received 90mm of rain in 2 hours. The average rainfall for the month of July is usually 75mm. Unfortunately I left the windows of my apartment open and had a wee bit of water to deal with when I got home. Then I lost power for about 24 hours and wasn't able to deal with the water in my carpet. Today I got home and my apartment smells like a swamp.

The worst part was almost all of my shoes were stored under my bed in fabric storage cases. Many were soaked and I have yet to determine the full extent of the damage. Hopefully they will be ok.

Here's what I wore on Monday before the drenching.

July 8

Dress: Lilikoi from Chartreuse Style (last worn here)
Shoes: Fluevog Swordfish | Postmodern Slushy (apparently sold out!)

I bought these shoes my second day living in Toronto and this is the second time I've worn them. The first time was out for drinks with a former coworker from Halifax.

I'm glad I got them when I did since they aren't on the Fluevog website anymore.

They're pretty comfortable though they did rub a bit on my right ankle. I just slapped a bandaid on and carried on with my day.

Luckily I wasn't wearing these during the extreme deluge.

I didn't take any pictures on Tuesday or Wednesday since I was looking less than camera ready.


























July 11

T-shirt: Club Monaco (last worn here)
Skirt: Twig and Hottie in Vancouver (last worn here)
Shoes: Aldo

These shoes were thrown in the garbage when I got home. I'd only worn them about 4 times and a lot of the glittery bits from them had fallen off. Plus they made my feet sweat terribly. Life's too short to wear crappy shoes.

I love this skirt but it wrinkles easily. It has a nice drape though.

A new pair of shoes was waiting for me when I got home so throwing these ones out wasn't such a hardship.

Tomorrow is Friday! I'm in love!

Rewind to Friday

This is what I wore on May 31st. Friday after work I went out with a friend for A drink which turned into THREE when it started to pour rain. After the rain stopped I tawdled home and found myself eating tacos at a wine bar after I stopped to pat a dog in a doorway. Whoops. Hence, this post is a little late.

Dress: Lilikoi from Chartreuse Style (last worn here)
Shoes: Alexander McQueen (last worn here)

I decided to wear a tank top underneath this to provide more coverage without having to wear a cardigan like I did last time.

I love how flowy this skirt is. This will probably be my favourite summer dress.

I could wear a nice crinoline under this on days that aren't 30C, as it was on Friday.

And since these shoes have skulls on them I tried to make my bling match.

Embrace peculiarity indeed.

I hope everyone had a great weekend.

I love the night life, I've got to boogie

This is the other dress that I bought on Sunday at Chartreuse Style.

(Excuse the *DUH* look on my face)

Cardigan: worn a zillion times
Dress: Lilikoi (I believe it's the Bethany Dress)
Shoes: Fluevog Wonders | Ayers (last worn here)

I was going to wear my Fluevog Impulse flats (worn here) but I noticed that the upper had pulled away from the sole on the right shoe! Quelle horreur! So at lunch time I went to the Fluevog store (which is about a 5 minute walk from my office - EEEP!) to ask about where they send shoes for repairs. They said that if I brought the shoe in they could send it out for repair (I'll pay) but it will save me making a trip out to who knows where.

I may have bought something while I was there.... *whistles*

I like this dress because the waistband is quite wide and since I have a long torso, its more comfortable.

This dress made me feel like a Disco Queen all day. The low cut front and back and swingy skirt has a 1970s Studio 54 feeling. Or it would if it was gold lame or covered in sequins. Then it would be EPIC!

See why I wore the cardigan? Too much skin for my new job. I'm not quite ready to start pushing boundaries.

Someone came into the unused kitchen while I was setting up to take pictures of my accessories so I skedaddled!

I have a full weekend planned meeting up with some bloggers! Should be fun fun FUN!