Oddly Enough

I love when Chad takes pictures of me and I end up looking 4 feet tall and preggers, both of which I am not. Interesting…

We spent the majority of the day out at my cousin-in-laws house, with friends, eating food and watching hockey. I need to wear something I knew would be comfortable. Sometimes I wish I owned sweat pants that were classy enough to wear out of the house. I guess my only option would be to buy Lululemons. I should probably do that.

I wore an old printed v-neck t-shirt layered over a long cami and my grey Plum sweater. I opted for my favorite pair of Mavi jeans, the ones with all the ripps, and subsiqently, the only ones that currently fit me. I really need to patch up the back ass hole. Ha.

CHECKERED VANS. I love days spent in Checkered Vans.

It’s hard to tell the colour of my hair in these pictures, but you can tell that the length is definitely shorter.

I looked cuter in person.

Cute but Not

First off, I would like to start this post by saying, what the hell happened to these jeans? It wasn’t until I saw these photos that I realized how ill fitting they are. When you are use to skinny jeans like I am, these jeans just don’t cut it. They make my butt and hips look HUGE. Ugh, I hate it. I need to put my sewing skills to use and take them in.

I really liked todays outfit, despite my crappy jeans (sorry Mavi).

I can’t remember where I got this short black jumper from. It’s too short to be a dress but it works as a cute long top. I love pairing it with a white scoop neck t-shirt and great jewelry. Today I wore it with my fuchsia retro sweater and a great sea foam green beaded necklace from Anthropologie.

I paired this all with my pink Keds, because sometimes I like being matchy matchy.

Le sigh, these jeans just ruin this outfit for me :(

The End of the Week

This is Friday. This is a casual Friday. Story of my life? Maybe. Story of this week? Definitely.

All I wanted to do today was nothing. It kind of happened and it kind of didn’t. It was like the big sigh after an intense workout. Everyone was kind of mellow at work.

We skipped dinner and went to see Avatar. I went in not expecting much and I came out loving it. I can’t believe how much I loved it. Was not expecting that at all.

I ate a lot of nachos and candy.

I fell into my typical Lazy Danielle trap today.

Mavi Jeans
Long white v-neck t-shirt from F21
Grey v-neck sweater from Kersh
Grey checkered Vans

I made the outfit cute by wearing a gold headband in my hair and a silver and gold charmed necklace.

I think its adorable.

Sunday Lalala

I finally had time to sit down and do a little bit of research for our trip to Italy today. It felt so good to finally start some. Our parents have been doing most of the work, but I have been itching to get started on some of my own!

We spent most of the day watching TV and hanging out at home. In the evening we went to a Thank You dinner put on for volunteers of this Italian organization Chad and I are a part of. Nothing like free home cooked Italian food for helping out every year! After dinner we went to Dario’s for a quick glass of Scotch (which I didn’t participate in) and then back home to veg on the couch.

Weekend comfort consisted of my ripped to shreds Mavi Jeans, a black scoop neck t-shirt from Esprit, my teal boyfriend cardigan from Kersh, a multi coloured scarf, and my grey knit hat. Everyone at the dinner thought I was trying to be Bob Marley. I’m surprised old Italians even know who that is!

Ahh, I love lazy Sundays!

Isn’t it still the Weekend?

“Weekend wear” carried over from Sunday to Monday, today. I just couldn’t shake the comfy bug. Plus is was so rainy and gross this morning, all I wanted was to be cozy and relaxed.

I wore my Mavi Jeans, and my American Apparel crew neck sweatshirt. I layered it with a long white t-shirt and then wore Chuck Taylor’s to complete the casual work.

To add a bit of interest I wore a little hair pin with a turquoise flower at the top of my pony tail that I got at Forever 21, and a pair of square bangles I got at Value Village.

I felt casual, but cute, which is the perfect way, in my books, to transition from Sunday to Monday!

No Hot Water. Ever.

I’m pretty sure we have the most schizophrenic water system ever. I couldn’t even get the water hot enough to wash dishes tonight. I let the tap run for 5 minutes on max heat and nothing but cold water came out. Thank you crappy apartment building! I’ve even started to time my showers so that I have one at the latest possible minute thinking that no one else is having showers/washing dishes/doing laundry at 10pm. Yea, that doesn’t work either. I go from scalding to cold to scalding to cold in a matter of 5 minutes with out ever touching the tap. I just don’t understand what’s going on!

Today was a pretty chilly day (hence why I wanted a hot shower) so I wanted to stay warm. I wore my over sized, dolman sleeved sweater I got at our Sample Sale over a basic white t-shirt. I layered it with my multi coloured handkerchief scarf to add a bit of pizazz.

Down below I wore my ‘ripped to shreads’ Mavi jeans, which I noticed today, are started in to shred right where my bum is. I guess I’m really going to be forced to retire those soon. Le sigh.

Hey look! It’s my grey checkered Vans! Been a while since we’ve seen those guys.

I’m usually not a dangle earring girl, I’m more about the studs. I always feel like dangle earrings are way to fancy, so unless it’s a special occasion I never wear them. For some reason I always feel awkward about it. Today, however, I decided to get over my dangle earring mental block and wore these cute spiral ones I bought at Plum.

The spirals are probably a symbol of how loopy and crazy I am becoming over this whole ‘no hot water’ thing! Ha!

The Big Brown Sweater

One of the best parts of my job is when I get to participate in a buying appointment. However, the worst part is when these buying appointments are unplanned and I am not dressed for the occasion. Now, I obviously try and dress my best every day, but since I usually never meet with anyone, I don’t worry TOO much if I am having an off day or bad hair day. And obviously if I do have a planned meeting, I dress appropriately for it. I like to be prepared and well put together.

Yesterday I got called at the last minute to join my coworkers at an appointment with Dish Jeans, which just so happens to be located down the street from us. I was more then happy to obliged, I just felt so uncomfortable in my outfit because the Sales Reps always dress so cute and funky and here I was in a giant brown sweater. And we all know, when you don’t feel comfortable and confident, you don’t look comfortable and confident. I probably would have felt better if I was wearing heals.

I thought it would be fun to belt this big Kersh sweater, so I wore a white long sleeve shirt underneath, wrapped the sweater around it, and then belted it just under the bust line. It looked better in person; these pictures are kind of goofy. 

I was feeling kind of lazy, so I wore my Mavi Jeans and brown flats, for a more casual look. I think had I paired this outfit with skinny jeans and boots it would have looked better. But then again, everything looks better with skinny jeans and boots and we can’t wear those everyday now can we.

I really need to learn to wear more heels.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Monday Monday Monday

It was a chocolate covered Monday for me, clothing wise.

A stripped two tone brown t-shirt from Plum lead the outfit inspiration today. I love the deep rich colour and fit of this top. It is a great Summer piece that convert easily in cooler weather by adding a sweater.

A white camisole and sand coloured Kersh sweater layer this top. I adore the colour of this Kersh ribbed waist cardigan. It is the prefect colour to match with brown and to lighten any dark outfit.

As for jeans I have my Mavi patch pocket jeans, with my brown flats from Target. Brown always goes with brown. I have this weird thing with not mixing brown and black together, unless its in the combination of black with brown leather, like a belt or boots. Other then that, black and brown should never be seen except for in a washing machine!

My golden strawberry heart was a gift I got a few years back. The warmth of gold always works well with brown tones and I tend to use this combination a lot.

Now, if only I had some real chocolate covered strawberries!

Pink and Fuzzy

 Today was one of those days where I woke up and I had no idea what to wear or what I was doing or what was going on. My mind was totally blank. I call that a Monday Morning alright. It might have been the fact that I had a little bit of a Red Wine headache, and Chad had to get up at 5:30 so my sleep was totally disturbed. I was totally being whiney when he woke me up, haha!

So my Monday Morning Disaster consisted of the purple Plum top that I’ve worn before. The one that is all rouched and cute. Yes, that one, exactly! I layered it with a white cami, because you know I am obsessed with doing that. I threw on top my grey Kersh Boyfriend Cardigan with the 3/4 sleeves. This is the sweater that I also wear as a dress sometimes.

I was freezing cold so I grabbed this giant chunky scarf I bought from Bootlegger when I use to work there, many, many moons ago. It is very warm and cozy and was at the height of my PINK obsession. Everything I owned was pink. It was very strange. Anyways, it worked well because the yarn has lots of different shades of pink in it, as well as purple. It kept me warm and looked fun.

I wore my silver bulls horned necklace as well, just as some visual interest to the middle of my top, and to break up all the colour with something silver.

As for my bottoms, I wore my Mavi Jeans and my grey sparkle flats that I actually got at Walmart. They were 10 dollars and pretty cute which made it very worth it!

Kind of a random outfit for a Monday Morning, but then what more do you expect from me on a Monday!

Wednesday into Thursday

After posting last night, I went and had a quick shower, and then headed off to bed. This meant very wet hair + sleep = very back hair day. I was so cold last night, probably due to all the wet hair, that I piled all the sheets on top of me and slept in a heap. This obviously added to the very random and bad hair day.

To add insult to injury, I woke up with a pretty bad stomach ache, that didn’t go away until lunch time, and when I don’t feel good, I don’t look good, and I don’t dress good.

With this theme of me freezing my butt off carrying over to this morning, I opted, for what I like to call, my Aspen Sweater. As soon as I saw it I thought of Aspen, which then made me think of Dumb and Dumber, but that is besides the point. The print of the sweater is so ‘grab a hot chocolate and sit by the fire in your log cabin while looking our a great big window to the snowy mountains ahead’. The shape of the sweater is also really fun. As you can see it is a big rectangle with sleeves that drapes when you let it down. It is pretty fun to play with and oh so cozy. I figured, with the Winter Olympics one day away, pretending I was on a snowy mountain in a log cabin was the right thing to do.

I kept the rest of my outfit pretty simple, since I was pretty lame this morning and just wore a basic crew neck t-shirt under neither, my Mavi jeans and checkered Vans. I also grabbed Chads belt at the last minute since I wasn’t wearing any jewellery. Chad now hates how obsessed I am with his belt and has laid claim to it again.

Let’s hope tomorrow is a better day :)