I Challenge Thee

Morning Beauties,
I'm I the last person on earth to find the awesome shoe collection of Jeffrey Campbell?! At my 4:30, unplanned, wake-up I spent the time between awake and alarm going off, browsing his collection while drooling. I must thank the beautiful Doe Deere for that find. She has cleaned out her closet and has put her feminine & colourful items on eBay, it's great for me because we have the same size in shoes and clothing measurements... Not so great for my credit.

Kay, now to my point of this post. I've been doing some guest blogging for Twenty York Street. One of my posts is a fashion challenge which is super easy, called the Twenty York Street 10x10 Challenge.

I challenge you to this... Umm, challenge. Rules found at 20YS. You can do it over a 10 day span or even "cheat" by playing dress up one afternoon. Just leave a comment here or at 20YS.

Better Late Then Never, Right?

I have a good reason for not writing about out my night out with the some blogging beauties... Since 3:20 yesterday afternoon I've been on strike.  No mental power was to be exerted from this brain and writing isn't a skill that comes naturally to me.   Really I always have good reasons, Chris says I should write them all down because I could easily have a book in a few months. Some would say that's rude & be offended, me: I laugh because he is speaking the truth.

Dinner with Beautiful Bloggers

Lovely Em from Tinfoils Tiaras arranged dinner at the very trendy Avant Garde.   When Em arrived, she  brought a wonderful present.  A book, Elle Style - The 1980s, it's the very first giveaway I've won. Em, being the sweetie that she is, also threw in some adorable Vogue buttons.  Receiving the book in person just added to how special winning my first giveaway was.  Like her blog, Em is fashionable and entertaining... she's a person who could keep conversations going strong all night. 

{Alice in Wonderland t-shirt & stopwatch necklace c/o my sister from Urban Behavior, skirt - thrift}

My A.D.D., movies & Much Music is preventing me from giving the night justice, a summary: laughs, drinks, most embarrassing confessions, more laughs... so here's the shout outs to all the beauties:

The fashionable and sweet, ML from Twenty York Street was great.  As always, so stylish & classy.  She really got us to open up with a round table introductions.  It was nice to doing the "Hi, I'm Ashelle and work at.... and the reason I got into blogging/named my site is because..." in a lighthearted situation, usually those introductions are in tense workplace situations.  I can't wait for the next time we get together. 

I met Julia, The Fashion Keepr that night, she's a beauty from Russia who has style & intelligence.  A fun fact that I learned from her is that in Russia, caviar is super common and not a luxury like in the Western countries.  Cool.  If I ever go to Russia I'll make sure to get my fill if the salty treat. 

I'm uber jealous of the talent Justyna from Chichichic (pronounced she*she*chic) has for pairing great vintage items, she is always looking so beautiful & chic.  The best thing I learned about her is the love she has for Aqua.  The bar was playing music & videos by the 90s pop artists... it really made me want to dust off the old CD I have.  Recently Justyna posted an amazing Holiday 2010 Lookbook showcasing just a few of her amazing items from her online vintage shop, Chicshop.  I've already sent my mom a few links to my favorite items and hoping that they are waiting for me under the tree. 

Also, I got to apologize for freaking Justyna out... before leaving I told her of a dream I had that her store was located in a mall. Weird, but I usually have very vivid dreams and I like to talk about them since it's fun & silly... so this dream was walking about in a mall and saw a very boutique style store beside a major department store with a pink sign, white lettering saying "Chichichic Shop". As a kind person Justyna smiled but I think it was a nervous "you are freaky" kind of smile.  Sorry Hun!

Julie from Pop Champagne is hilarious!!!  Her blog always entertains me, but  in person I couldn't stop laughing at her jokes.  You'll also recognize her as the model in the Chichshop's Holiday 2010 Lookbook. Besides being incredibly witty, Julie has a natural talent for modeling.  Check out the Lookbook to see for yourself.  There's two favorite photographs of mine from that series: 1) the confetti and 2) the white dress.  All of them are beautiful.

It was great meeting Katarina from LoveK, now I'm her newest follower. She was a total doll and I regret not chatting it up with her more.

Another new blogger that I met was, Angie the head designer from Demu Label, she was incredibly nice!  Honestly, she has my dream job... to be able to design clothes (or anything to do with fashion) for a living would be just wonderful *sigh*.  She had a fashion show the next day in Quebec which I'm sad to say that I missed out on.  But now that I'm following her blog, hopefully I'll get to go to a different event. 

I regret leaving the party so early (maybe I would have had more stories) but any more cosmos & lack of sleep would have impacted me while writing the final exam.  Habits for blogging that I need to get into are: 1) taking more pictures!!!  ML was sweet enough to take the picture of me above and a few others... but I must take a page out of one of my best friend, Krista's book and be less camera shy... & 2) get informed consent from people to post pictures... I'm such a sucker for informed consent... 

Next get-together, Em was thinking about Karaoke which would be tons of fun!  Especially if we all glammed up for the night and just rocked out on stage.  But there's no way I will sing because that's not a good scene. I am the definition of tone-deaf. 

A nice ending to my week was coming home after the exam to full mailbox with not one bill. in it  The two items for me was an invitation to a wedding shower for my dear friends Krista & Brian and my order from Lime Crime.  Recently there was an huge sale at Lime Crime, so I had to buy the wonderful colours plus knowing that they are vegan makes me smile.  Then the vegan thought makes me wonder, what's in other makeup to not make it vegan?! Honestly, I don't think I want to know because if it's gross I'll toss out my makeup. 

To be a Witch? or not?

I tried my hand at doing some dramatic make-up... Usually I don't wear much because my skin is super sensitive and loves any reason to break out.  So I used some  pictures from one of my favorite fashion/make-up bloggers: Doe Deere Blogazine. She's a super beautiful girl who's very creative and talented.  I definitely need some practice and liquid black eyeliner.  

I messed up the bottom lines... I should have brought her picture and tutorial with me while trying out the new style.  It's makes me envious when girls can do such amazing make-up.  Make-up always seems to make me  look more tired and old.  I need help with make-up application!!  The goal was too look like a gothic witch. 

I usually have big issues with people dressing up as witches for Halloween because I feel like it's stereotyping.  But right now all I have available at the low cost of: $0 is an old black dress, black gloves, a black wig and a borrowed cape.. plus some crystals to accent the costume.  So I'll be hypocritical this year.  

Halloween is fast approaching and so is the first party that we'll be hosting in our new home.  Decorations were needed!  Chris and I hit up some dollar stores, to do a little bargain shopping and I realized that I'm a skeleton-kind-of-girl.  The only Halloween decorations that I liked were the creepy bones ones... at least we have a theme throughout the home now. 

It's the little things that make a house a home...

Last week I was full of stress, mindless and bitchy moments. The midterm was over for me by 2:30 p.m. on Saturday.  I emotionally and mentally crashed that night...

 

But Sunday was a new day. Full of friends, love and pie.  The cutest moment of my weekend was watching a friend's little boy loving the motorcycle.  This 5 year old, adorable little doll, just jumped at the chance to sit on the CBR.  With no fear he learned how to turn it on and what handle makes the loud noise.