Daily, Fashion, NaBloPoMo, No Buy Month

I love booties

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Booties being shoes. Not bums, that is ;)

Well, it’s safe to say I’m obsessed with looking at shoes online.

I still have a pair of Tory Burch flats bookmarked for 6 months that I check on a weekly basis to see if there’s a sale going on. Oh I lust after thee.

Zappo’s now ships to Canada.

$59.95? Not bad, and not as high as my 4″ boots. These are only 2+ ish..

The reviews on this bootie says they’re not 2 inch heels but rather 4 or more! Dang.

Aren’t these mummy-inspired booties cute too? Too bad they’re sold out of my size (8.5).

I also recently found this online store called Urban Og, which are amazingly priced if you just want some inexpensive stylish shoes. Except the shipping to Canada is about $17 per pair. They have some pretty stylin booties as well. I’m wearing a nice sage green dress to my companies Christmas party next month, as well to a wedding when I go home for Christmas. I’m looking for some tan/nude maybe suede booties (like the mummy one’s shown above) to wear to both places.


These are a bit crazy high for me. 4.5″ with a 1″ platform. $24.80 for them though!

Could be cute? $25.20

Guess it’s safe to say I love  booties this season.

What kind of shoes do you wear on a regular basis?
To work I wear fancier shoes than I do on the weekends. As you can tell I’m getting into fancier footwear like booties, boots and heels. I think it’s because I don’t really want to dress up on the weekends and want to relax a bit more with a jeans and a tee.

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Contests, Fashion, NaBloPoMo, No Buy Month, Photos, Reviews

American Readers, pipe up!

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Get this — I was contacted by a company in the States even though I’m in Canada, to do a contest for my American readers! That’s pretty cool hey? A woman from the online store Fashion to Figure contacted me and we both agreed that I’d do a giveaway. While I did ask that if my contest could be available for US and Canadian readers, unfortunately it couldn’t happen as they can only ship to domestic US addresses.

I’m not sure how many American readers I have but I’m not about to reject a good giveaway that I feel some people would be interested in. In the past I have shrugged off (and of course replied kindly) to a few companies saying I am not interested in certain giveaways as it doesn’t flow with my blog. But I think people will appreciate this one.

Fashion to Figure is a women’s full-fashion company who carries trendy and of course fashionable clothing for plus size women at a good price. They’re offering my readers in the United States a pair of cute jeans. They gave me a list to choose from, and I thought that the jeans were the best prize. Don’t you agree?

Are you eligible to win these jeans from Fashion to Figure? See the rules and regulations below!

Easy Rules & Regulations:

  1. Contest closes on Friday, November 5 at 3pm EST.  (I beg you, do not enter once the contest has closed. Please? That’s just disrespectful since it shows you didn’t read the easy, simple rules.
  2. Contest is only open to USA readers.
  3. Comment as often as you wish.

Pamper yourself, and have a look at what they have available. Remember — it only ships to domestic US addresses.

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No Buy Month, Photos, Triathlons / Duathlons, Vacation

Saving money on vacation

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Last year the boyfriend and I went on a “vacation” together. I put it in quotes because he completed his very first Ironman Canada in British Columbia last year. So it wasn’t exactly a vacation for him in the beginning. You can see the post re-caps here (1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6)! Yes I wrote a whole six posts about the BC and Alberta excursion from August 2009. This was our very first getaway together as we usually fly back home each year to where we are from, Newfoundland. Which isn’t really an exciting one since we’re actually from the place. You know?

We booked out flights again for this year, and after the Ironman Canada race we’ll be flying to Edmonton. This gets me a little giddy inside, as West Edmonton Mall is notorious for its monstrous shopping mall. It has a water park inside the damn place. Even a hotel! I know I’m going to go wild if left alone for a few hours, and I already viewed the shops that I want to visit on West Edmonton Mall’s website. Level 2 — Anthropologie.

Last year we ended up spending about $2,400 each on the vacation. Which included hotels, air fare, car rental, gas, food and not much shopping since we were there to see the mountains. But we paid to go up on the gondola rides in Banff, and paid to enter the parks, and all that other expensive stuff.

I know this year may end up being more expensive due to the fact we’ll be flying to Edmonton (well, it was only fifty bucks with the seat sale) and I wanted to try and make things cheaper. But I don’t know how to go about this.

When we were staying in the hotel when Ironman Canada was on, we stayed at a place with a kitchenette so we made our meals instead of going out most nights. But I need to save a lot of money to go on this extravagant vacation of ours coming up again towards the end of summer. So I’m wondering if you have any suggestions on how to save more dollahhhs? I guess I’ll first start by saying I need to book hotels in advance to get the best bang for my buck. Right? See if there’s a continental  breakfast, and when I arrive as for a free upgrade? lol. I’ve heard that works. Pretty safe to say that I need to do one or two “no buy months” prior to my vacation. Huh!?

Suggest away please!

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