h&m sale haul***

so i woke up this morning, totally excited to post again. it was the same feeling i got when i used to read the gossip girl books. i was always so excited at night when my parents told me to go to bed because that was when i would get to read the books. i would think about it all day, and reading the next chapter always made my day complete. i think my blog will be the same way, which i am very excited about^^

yesterday i headed out to work an hour early and decided to shop around a bit. i work in the mall and in order to get to my particular store of employment i have to pass through a bunch of other stores, one being my favourite: h&m. i love h&m, it's definitely one of my top ten favourite stores to shop in. i usually just pass through the sale section because 1) it isn't very big and 2) i nearly get killed every single time i DO try to venture into the masses surrounding it. in the end, the sale section just does not work out for me. ever. however yesterday it was actually ... like, ok. not too, too many people and i was able to pick up a few items and take them back to the fitting rooms.

i ended up liking pretty much every piece i had! i really have been trying to watch my spending habits lately so i sat myself down in an empty corner in the children's section and just stared at the clothes i had in my hands. i ended up going with three pieces (i'll probably end up going back soon and purchasing the stuff i left behind, if they're still there). here are the items i chose, all on sale :D





1. super cute dress. could be born formal or casually. i've always liked this dress, even a long time ago when it first came out. i remember liking it from the start. it was originally $49.95 CAN and i got it for $15 CAN!





2. lace coverup. can be born undone or tied at the waist. it can really go with anything, probably even denim. i got it for $20 CAN.





3. black maxi dress. I LOVE THIS ONE. i wore it to work today and everyone else seemed to like it just as much. funny thing is it wasn't my intention to even try it on. i ran into a coworker and she was the one who told me i could pull it off so i tried it on, and i'm so happy that i did! it was originally 59.95 AND I GOT IT 50% OFF! i remember saying not too long ago that i hated any maxi-length dress. i take it ALL back now ;)

overall, very happy with my purchases from ye ol' h&m. i can aways trust them to make me feel good.

xoxo^^

bowbands~*~

oh i am so very excited to post today! i actually cannot even believe that i remembered to do it. while i was on my hour and a half commute home from school last night, i was beginning to think that i would fail at blogging once again. i would forget to post today and the next day, and after a week, i would just abandon it altogether. but no! never! i am much too dedicated to do that! PLUS, i could be sleeping right now, another sweet two hours of sleep before i should be waking up to get ready for work but instead i am sitting on the toilet, writing my blog :)

so just the other day, i believe it was on monday that i was downtown and broke (as always!), but i felt like buying something (tell me if you know the feeling!) so i went inside of the ardene on yonge street, THE HUGE ASS ONE (i know, i'm pretty much a twelve year old stuck in a twenty year olds body, shuddup!). i went with the cheapest deal there that i could find: 5 for $10. i decided on 1 pair of knee high black socks for the winter to go over my already thick dance tights, a pink headband for those girly days, and some plain hair clips to keep my baby hairs from flying all over the freaking place. i only needed two more items and then i would be cashing out with FIVE ITEMS FOR $10!. only, i couldn't decide on what to pick. i thought about just getting more hair clips, you can never have enough black hair clips. that's when i came across these little beauties:



of course, right off the bat, they do not look like little beauties. at first they sort of look like things you use to torture people with. no, OH NO! they do so much more then that! THEY ARE AMAZING! they are long pieces of material with, get this, A WIRE INSIDE OF THEM. so you can tie them around your head, anywhere you want, however you want, and they'll stay right in place for you :)

BEFORE (boring, sad, tired looking bun)



AFTER (fab, pretty, girly looking bun!)





i know, right? they're great. i pretty much wear them every day now. i can't wait to get more. is ardene the only place you can get these things? i don't even know what they're called! i'm calling them ... BOWBANDS! bowbands, because whenever i wear them, i tie a cute little bow in the front, you know, because i'm cute like that tee hee :)

xoxo^^

ps. PLEASE IGNORE THE SAD LOOKING FACES IN THOSE PICTURES. it is currently 9:23am, so i'm a little tired, just a little. please don't judge meeeeee!

IT'S ALIVEEEEEE!~~~~~

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is anyone there? oh, hey, sorry. i didn't realize that you were still around. you know, because its been about five months since i last posted anything on here. i pretty much fail at this whole blogging thing, don't it? i wish i didn't though. i wish i didn't suck at it so much. i really wanted it to work out for me this time. you know, after i changed the layout and everything. but i guess the appearance of my blog doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that i'm a lazy ass who doesn't know how to stick with something once she's started it. should i even try to start this thing up again?

i'm thinking i should, but my only reason being that i miss talking about fashion. i am currently working in retail, which is bringing my love of fashion back to life once again. seeing what my co-workers are wearing, seeing what the customers are wearing, being around so many beautiful pieces...it brings a tear to my eye just thinking about how incredibly BROKE i am at the moment and how much i want to buy absolutely EVERYTHING i work around. but i don't like to talk about money in relation to fashion. it just depresses me. what i enjoy to focus on in those situations is if i love the piece, i buy it. that's why i love fashion. i love fashion too much to not spend hundreds on it :) but this is also the reason why i'm BROKE all of the time! no more, no more of this talk. BLAH!

so i'm currently in class right now, so this is sort of a bad thing, restarting this blog right now. it will probably be filled with spelling mistakes and terrible phrasing, but oh well! who cares! fashion!

i will post again asap (only one more week left of the semester, week off, finals, BREAK).

xoxo ^^

ps. my obsession and inspiration in life (other than my parents!): susie bubble of style bubble. she has been my idol in terms of fashion since ... i can't even remember. maybe 2006 or 2007? i'm not sure. anyway, enjoy this adorable picture of her in her element: BLOGGING.

clothing haul: jun 22/10

it was raining cats and dogs this afternoon so my family decided why not go to the mall seeing as everyone was home. i made purchases at four main stores: american eagle, ardene, bluenotes and stitches. my dad helped me out with my purchase at ae but i bought everything else on my own. i'm trying to save money this summer for the fall so i was being as money conscious as i possibly could today and with positive results :D

for a very long time now i've wanted to get a small purse for just money and maybe a tiny lipgloss for when i go out with friends to lunch or for walking around with. something cute with a long strap that i could swing across myself. luckily today at ardene they were having a 2 for $20 sale on all of their handbags. i bought these two lovelies and am completely in love with them!







i recently saw a friend of mine wearing a really cute, simple white bikini with flowers on it and thought, that is so cute! nothing crazy or complicated. just a white bikini with a simple flower print for a little something extra. since then i've been keeping my eye out for something similar because i've never really owned a swimsuit that i was head over heels in love with ... UNTIL NOW! i found pretty much the exact same bikini at bluenotes today for around $14 tax included! i am so happy with this purchase and cannot wait until i can show it off at the beach this summer!



i don't usually shop at american eagle because we didn't have one in town until recently. now that there is one so close, i feel the need to pop in their every so often to check out what they've got. i wasn't planning on buying anything today but by surprise i found this amazing jacket hidden in the sale rack. it was on sale for 20% off of the already marked down price! my dad bought me this, which i am very grateful for :)



my last purchase was from stitches. i don't remember the last time i bought something from stitches to be completely honest. i used to be in love with it when i was a lot younger, like ... grade 9? something like that. today however i found this lovely dress for around $17. they were having a sale which was something like buy one get another for a penny. i got this dress and my sister picked something up as well.



overall, today was an amazing clothing haul. i haven't done any serious shopping in a very long time. i won't be going again for a long time. i think i'm fine with that though ;)

xoxo

pretty pictures.

i've been looking at a lot of blogs recently that only display pictures and i'm quite fond of them. sometimes i don't feel like reading a bunch of words and just want to be visually appealed.

today i've decided to copy some of the greats and simply post some pretty pictures that i've had saved in my pictures folder for some time and that i think deserve to be shared with all of you. enjoy it my lovelies and i will see you next time ;)

"a new way of style"

sooooooo long time no see. miss me? yes or no? of course no! no one reads this. who cares though? NOT ME. let's go!

so i've always loved shopping online but not actually buying the stuff. you know what i mean? like you feel like buying new clothes and you're bored but you have no money so you just go onto your favourite clothing store's website, look through some things, find some really nice things that you really like and would like to "buy" and drop them into your little shopping cart, having no intention of buying the items for real.

my favourite online store at the moment is YESSTYLE.com. my gawd this place is like a heaven on earth for people like me, and by people i mean obsessed with asian fashion and cutsie shit like that. this website ships clothes from around the world to you, mainly from asia though. south korea, hong kong, china, taiwan, you know! lots of my favourites like oversized hoodies with cute characters on them and shoesssss. what's great about this website for me is that i love oversized clothes and luckily enough, current asian style is basically all oversized! this means that all of the stuff that i'm interested in and want to "buy" is almost always one size fits all ahahahahaha so i never have to worry about sizes when picking stuff out! my fat ass will fit into everythingggg! muahahahahhahaha! i know, it's really not that funny, but i think it is so shush!

here are some of my absolute favs which are currently in my cart where they will gather dust but will forever remain beautiful.

http://www.yesstyle.com/en/coolhada-v-neck-print-cardigan-ivory-one-size/info.html/pid.1022428247




http://www.yesstyle.com/en/black-queen-cowl-neck-fleece-top-light-pink-one-size/info.html/pid.1021691112



everything is relatively cheap on the website and if you spend a certain amount of money on all your items, you get free shipping which helps A LOT... maybe i might just consider buying these things. i do have the money ... nah, i'm too cheap for online shopping. plus i don't have a credit card and in order to buy these things i would have to use my dad's which would never ever happen.

nice talking to you all again. to be continued? (i'm currently reading looking for alaska, you know the one!) xoxo

giles spring 2010 triceratops handbag.

now i saw this bag on a post from jakandjilblog (http://jakandjil.com/blog/) but i completely forgot to post about it until today.

you gotta love this bag. it's the most adorably, trendy little thing. i know it's a little weird looking and may not fit a whole lot of stuff in it, but look at it! it's simply marvelous. i can totally see a bunch of trendy hipsters carrying this bag around to concerts or whatnot. or even little rich youngsters carrying these off to school or to the mall. i want one so badly but i doubt i'll ever be able to get my hands on one. i can't imagine what the price tag on one of these little darlings is like. oh well. one day maybe.

until than however, i'm hoping to make my own triceratops handbag. i found a diy on a website recently as i was looking for photos of the bag to post on the blog. here's the link to the diy:

http://www.styleite.com/runway/dinosaur-diy-the-giles-deacon-triceratops-bag/

it's rather brilliant actually. i hope to make one following these instructions very soon. i'll post right away once i'm finished!

xoxo