Fashion, In the Kitchen, Photos, Videos

My Birthday night!

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I finally got a birthday weekend! My boyfriend was away the past two weeks and we didn’t get a chance to go out and celebrate. Saturday night we drove to Burlington and shopped around at Ikea and went out to dinner! I have to ask before I write anymore in this blog post. Is my dress too short for work? Answer honestly! A few people have said it’s okay, but maybe since I’m asking it is too short. What do you think? Not to worry, no hgh supplements were taken to wear this dress.

At Ikea I purchased a few random things for the house but I’m most proud of the bed linens. Ugh, so gorg.

New duvet cover, soft white blanket, and the back pillows — they’re velvety feeling, and so big!

We ended up eating dinner at my co-workers recommendation: The Big Tomato. The restaurant is located in downtown Burlington downstairs of another restaurant called La something or other. The upstairs one looked elegant and fancy.

The atmosphere when you first walked in was very nice and cozy. The music they were playing was definitely a hit with me, since I was humming along to it all. Fats Domino, Ella Fitzerald, Sinatra. All the oldies but goodies in my books!

I wasn’t really feeling like an alquie drink so I stuck to ol’ faithful a diet coke.

Scott got the same. A rare photo of him on my blog. He likes to remain anonymous. Not this time buddy – it’s my BIRTHDAYYYYY!

We glanced at the menu and being a Graphic Designer I notice certain things about fonts. Mainly, how you should never ever use the font Comic Sans as it  gets a bad rep for being so ugly, juvy, and unprofessional in the greatest (there’s even a documentary about banning comic sans). Comic Sans was used everywhere. Menu fail on their part. I felt so bad. lol.

I think the same person who designed the menu using comic sans ended up clearly making the dessert menu. Why is New York spelled as just one word? So weird. Not a fan in that sense either.

While the looks of the place was nice, and it was quite empty when we arrived at 9pm, we couldn’t help but think that it’d get quite loud if we were there at an early / normal supper hour. The acoustics were lacking as we could very clearly hear the other customers talking and we felt as if we had to whisper.

It seems as though I’m making fun of the restaurant quite a bit. But it made up for it with the food, and the service that we received. I thought the mini pizza cutters on the table were a nice little touch that you don’t really see at every Italian place.

I ended up ordering a two course dinner where you chose a salad and a pizza or whatever else was on that red block on the menu shown above. I chose the pizza, and got some hot pepperonis on one side for Scott. Burn the mouth right off yass they would.

Chomp chomp, I took a few bites out of the pizza before I remembered to take a photo. Scott got a pasta. It was tasty. I have to say the crust on the pizza was incredible. Very thin crust, and didn’t flop down when I picked it up. Right sturdy it was. Such a nice crunch to it too. The plate was SO oily though, I’m glad I had a bunch of napkins. However the pizza was not oily or greasy at all.

I’m glad we went somewhere completely different for supper. Usually we’d stick around in our tri-city area. But we traveled a good distance to shop at Ikea and eat out at this place. We were really lucky with the weather too, as it was a really warm evening out and I didn’t feel chilly at all with my dress on! I had a nice Birthday evening, even if it was 2 weeks late :)

I ended up filming a YouTube video of my outfit that evening as well. Watch it below!

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Fashion, OOTD, Photos

OOTWW

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The ceiling in our apartment is now on the floor. I haven’t been blogging much because we’ve been cleaning. I don’t want to get more into depth just yet. Thankfully our desktops have been covered up with plastic. I also witnessed a dog peeing off its 3rd floor balcony last night. So can’t wait to report that one. Filthy disgusting and ghetto. The dog was huge! Changing the subject here: I have a post coming up tomorrow about my week 13 in CrossFit. Maybe I’ll explain exactly what it is. Are you interested in knowing more about CrossFit? Here’s my OOTWW. K Bye.


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Fashion

Pretty yet pricey purses

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So, get this. I have a thing for shoes and purses. I will spend money on something that I will use/wear for years to come. However, that doesn’t mean I’ll spend $500 on a purse either. We have a store here called Winners in Canada. It’s the equivalent of Marshalls (brand name prices for less) in the States. The most I’ve ever spent on a purse was $120 which gave me heart palpitations.

I’ve only purchased about 3 or 4 purses in my entire life and then I use purses those for years and years. Swap them out once in a while.

Last summer I purchased a $30 faux leather bag from H&M that I absolutely adore. Sure it stresses me out when I lose my wallet in the big bucket bag, thinking someone stole it — it’s a bit too wide but other than that it’s a perfect size.

I’ve noticed that I flock towards brightly colored leather bags. The H&M shown above is my latest addition to my ‘collection’, and rarely do I look twice at canvas, or brand names all over the purse. Which is why I’m not a fan of coach, LV or chanel. I like plain looking bags that look great, without showing the name.

Not a fan.

I am however, a fan of Rebecca Minkoff purses. The plain leather hobos shown on her website specifically. I’ve stepped into Holts twice, once to try on a size of Tory Burch flats to see exactly what size I was to see if they ran true to size before I stalked my python flats online for 7 months. That same day I went into the purse section and adored RM purses. The second time I stepped into Holt Renfrew wasn’t that long ago. I just went into the cosmetics section and walked straight back out — I knew if I went over to the purse section I’d regret it and buy something significant which my poor wallet would despise me for, for months.

But check out these bags. They’re definitely a style that I like. Nothing overbearing or bam in your face, and not a lot of bling. But you sure do need a lot of dough to fork out for one of these babies. Each one is about $500. Ouch. I guess I won’t buy one, only because they don’t come in my favorite neutral color: brown ;)  Haha kidding. Though if all of the purses shown above actually were in brown — I’d be seriously thinking of getting one. I do love the bottom right hand one – except I think it’s “old” ie: you can’t get it anymore. I also love gold hardware on purses.

Are you a purse fan? I’ve written a few blog entries about purses before (I <3 expensive purses anyone?). I’ve even found some great Etsy purses that I wrote about here.

Linea Pelle is a really great brand too — I’ve never heard of it before I blogged about it last year but it’s also expensive, lol. You can find Linea Pelle purses at Winners.

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