Bad Blogger pt. 603

outfit details;
blouse: UO
skirt: thrifted
tights: UO
shoes: ASOS
sunglasses: from Rehoboth Beach

As if I wasn't already bad enough about updating this thing and replying to comments with school and a recent job change keeping me busy, then the world decided to throw apartment hunting and some sad family news in the mix. On top of all of that the internet connection we were stealing from our neighbor recently became password protected, so now I can only update my blog from work, if I think to bring my laptop with me!

I guess it isn't all so bad, this time of the school year (exams, essays, readings ah!!!!) always gets to me and I start to go a little crazy.
One thing the lack of internet at my apartment has done for my life however is made me take advantage of my downtime a little more though! The other day I made tea cup and mason jar candles with Yana (I wanna be neighbours forever!!!) and we went over some exciting photos and fonts for the final prep stages of my upcoming Etsy project! And besides that I've been lucky enough to find time to go thrifting three times in the past two weeks! So I guess it isn't all bad!

I am always really torn about posting really personal news on my blog, because while I know all of your comments will be sweet and supportive and make me feel better, I get a little creeped out about people I don't know are reading this, reading about my personal life....but we recently found out my Grandmaman has liver cancer and while she's 87, and still very healthy aside from this, we're all really hoping she won't suffer too much from this, and if it isn't too much to ask, I'd love if you could include her in your prayers, or just maybe think positive thoughts for her and send some good energy her way. She's a really special lady, and a big inspiration to me!

I hope you all had wonderful sunny weekends. Montreal is predicting gorgeous warm sunny weather this week, and right now I'm staring at just about the most perfect sunset I've seen in years, and wishing Mike were here with my camera so we could capture it! Oh well, I'll have to take a picture with my mind instead!

Imaginary Shopping on Etsy

War Effort dress from Nineteen Thirty Five Vintage
Leather Wedges from Skin & Wood
Straw Hat from Looks Vintage

I think I'd wear this outfit on a bike ride somewhere out in the country. I'd throw a quilt in my front basket and somehow have Robert Johnson playing from the air. It would all be very cliche. But perfect.



Silk PeterPan Collar Blouse from friends of mine at Young Captive Vintage (modeled by my best friend!)
Black ankle Boots from Principessa Micranie
Floral Flouncy Shorts from Allen Company Inc

This would definitely be a weekend outfit. Some slouchy off white socks popping out of the top of those boots, and maybe a brooch and a side pony tail. It makes me think of drinking iced coffees and walking around Mike's (soon to be our shared) neighborhood!
Also, two Montreal girls joined forces and put together Young Captive Vintage on Etsy which has got loads of perfect scarves and sweaters and blouses like this one! The pretty girl modeling this shirt is my long time best friend and old roomie, Stef!



One piece Swimsuit from Fraulein Caroline
Patchwork Skirt from Persephone Vintage
Cream Colored Cable Knit Cardigan from Thrush

This is, to me, the ultimate hot-sticky Summer day outfit, and the cardigan is perfect to transition into a night time campfire! That bathing suit is so good I might just buy it even though I can't afford it!



Frilly flowy perfect Summer dress from Young Captive
Suede Mod Boots from Lapine Ours
Brown Leather Satchel from Allen Company Inc

Another vision of beauty fro Young Captive Vintage, that dress makes me swoon! I think I'd wear this to walk around out in the country somewhere with Mike and Lola. But just so I don't look too frilly and girly, I would throw in some leather and suede to roughen it up just a little!



Americana Sleeveless Sailor Blouse from Decades Baltimore (SOLD)
Wooden Platform Shoes from Beekeepers Vintage
Hawaii Straw Bag from Ring and Crow

And finally this outfit, which I think is absolutely perfect for weekends at the beach and fourth of July holidays to New Hampshire....well Iguess I just said it all right there. It deserves some cotton candy, or a lobster roll, or maybe just some sand and a bucket!

Supayana Spring 2010 & a WORN contest!

I promise not to get all gushy and sentimental here, but somedays I have to stop what I'm doing and pinch myself to make sure I'm not sleeping! Since I started this blog a couple of years ago, it's taken my in ten million directions I never ever dreamed I'd end up going, and introduced me to some of the most wonderful, talented and amazing people I've ever met! Every once in a while I get e-mails from people saying they've found me through my blog, and offering me opportunities to work on really wonderful projects, and every single time that happens I get all giddy and disbelieving that I am lucky enough to be able to work with all these awesome people!
Well this time around it was Yana (who I actually approached a few months ago to interview her about her awesome line Supayana....and who also became my neighbour this Winter!) who asked me if I'd be willing to model for her Spring line, to which I responded a nervous, but whole-heartedly enthusiastic YES!

I am not even sure how to put this collection into words,except that it's got everything that a Spring line should; ruffles and pom poms and vintage floral fabrics and charm coming out the ears! We were originally looking to take photos in a nearby greenhouse Yana discovered recently, but it was being renovated, so I was lucky enough to peek into her awesome studio (and act totally goofy and starstruck when I met Angie, the awesomeness behind the brand Norwegian Wood!)...where we ended up shooting the outfits!

I'm so excited that I got to work on this with you Yana! And even though I was still painfully shy and awkward through most of the shoot, it was easy to have fun because I loved every single piece and because Yana kept cracking funny jokes and making it all seem like we were just hanging out!

Anyhow I'll leave you with the pictures of her Spring collection. You can shop the collection through Etsy, or look at her exciting new website for retail locations!
You can also find Yana on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or through her blog!

And while we're on the topic of awesome opportunities afforded to me thanks to this blog, I've still been working as a (bad) monthly contributor (my monthly contributions are always late, I'm sorry Serah-Marie!) for the WORN magazine blog, and I think all of you online vintage sellers should take a gander at the awesome contest they recently posted!

If you’re an online retailer with style for sale (including clothing and accessories, cosmetics, and books and magazines about or related to fashion),YOUR Picture is Worth a THOUSAND ADS…
(More, if you’re feeling literal.) Get your camera, your markers, your mirror, your neighbour, your mom – whatever you need – and get ready to give a shout out. This is your chance to win a spot in WORN Fashion Journal’s issue 10:
Just recreate the cover of WORN issue 9.

Your ad will appear in print in our own Maynard Street Market, putting it into the hands of readers in Canada and the US, the UK, Europe, Japan, and Australia just in time for a little spring shopping.

Your options are wide open: reinterpret the image any way you like, and with whomever (or whatever) you like. Just make sure your entry (and your ad design) hits our inbox by midnight on Sunday March 28th.

THE RULES:
1) Contest submissions must be digitally submitted in print quality size (minimum 1000 pixels wide).

2) By submitting entries/images, contestants consent to give WORN Fashion Journal permission to reproduce said images on the WORN website, in print, or for promotional purposes.

3) All entries will be judged and a winner chosen by WORN staff. The winner will be notified by email.

4) Contest deadline is midnight, Sunday March 28th, 2010

5) SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS AND AD DESIGNS TO dearworn @ wornjournal.com

6) Winner must submit their ad design within 5 days of notification. Winning ad will be printed in full colour in the WORN issue 10 Maynard Street Market ad pages.

Westmount Park

outfit details:
navy jacket with perfect striped lining: H&M
sunglasses: Rehoboth Beach, MD
70s blue floral dress: from Certex and soon to be added to a Spring shop update!
creamy sheer tights: U.O.
Tan wedges: Modcloth

I can't believe it's already been a week since my last post! Its officially that time of year again, when exams and essays and piles of school readings are upon me, and I don't even notice that a week has gone by since the last time I had time to sit on the couch watching Arrested Development and blogging and eating grilled cheeses with Lola by my side! I spent the most wonderful afternoon visiting possible future apartments with Mike today! Which we followed up with a picnic in the park! And coffees and a walk around his neighborhood looking at bikes and guitars and vintage shops that are filled with loads of charming (albeit overpriced) junky goodness!

We ended up in Westmount Park right around sundown when the light was so pretty we would have been crazy not to stop and take some blog photos! Plus I was wearing my brand new Modcloth shoes which just came in the mail yesterday and which are so much comfier than I ever expected they would be! I guess I thought that such a slanty wedge would sort of make my weak and whiny ankles wobble and that I'd stumble and fall down a lot, but I felt ever so graceful walking around on grass and climbing big oddly shaped trees in them! And they're the first really spring timey pair of shoes I've got this season, and with the miraculous weather we've been having here (no snow in March!) I sort of had to wear them out right away in case a mid March blizzard hits and ruins all my Spring time hopes and dreams!

Anyway it was just one of those wonderful days when even the pile of school work in the back of your mind doesn't really bother you because you're just having so much fun! Both Mike and I have been so deep into work and school obligations recently that we've barely had time for things like walking through parks making inappropriate jokes in front of children, or driving around the fancier neighborhoods and scaring old snobby rich ladies by pretending to yell at them from inside our car when they cut us off! (They're so easy to get a rise out of!)....It was just a totally spontaneous Wednesday afternoon, and although it was fruitless as far as apartment hunting goes, it was totally wonderful in terms of perfect Springtimey afternoons! I don't know if it was a little bit of St Patricks day spirit that had the whole city sort of buzzing today, but there was definitely a little extra skip in everyone's step!

Thanks Libby!

I suppose that this post requires me to admit that I'm absolutely horrible at keeping up with music. I should probably be better at it, seeing as Mike is a musician, and he is always discovering new artists, but I'm just so lazy and I never go to shows and I don't have a radio, or cable, so I don't really even know where I'd find out about all the great music there is out there, and that is why I rely on dear friends like Libby! Libby is the one who introduced me to two of my most favouritest bands a couple of years ago (though I was extra late on discovering these bands too) Matt Pond PA and The National, and just today she sent me an e-mail with this video attached and I haven't been able to stop listening to it since!
So a big old thank you is in order to Libby for sending me tunes that I quickly add to my roster of ten artists - now eleven - which I over play on repeat and drive Mike crazy with!
And while we're talking about this video....could it make me want Summer to come any faster?

My Hometown

Outfit Details:
Red dress: Bedo, thrifted
Shoes: gift from Quincy
Socks: H&M
Cardigan: Forever 21
Nautical scarf: thrifted

Last night Mike and I headed to the airport at 2am to pick up my folks on their way back from a week in Cuba! Today, I made the sleepy decision to skip my classes and do some online shopping! I was good and widdled my massive topshop shopping spree down to just one pair of shoes from endless.com! Now if that isn't discipline I don't know what is! I think I'd like to save some of my tax refund money to pick out one of my favourite pieces from Nadinoo or Dear Creatures though, since their Spring and Summer collections are just too good to be true.

Anyhow, tonight we went to my parents house for dinner and I think being there and smelling Spring time in the air (even though I know I can't set my hopes too high on Spring really being here....it's nice while it lasts!), and walking Lola around my old neighbourhood made me miss living out in the sticks a little. City life is great for all the conveniences and how much shopping and original stuff there is to do, but sometimes I sort of miss having to drive everywhere and being able to walk Lola down a quiet street and hearing birds chirping....Montreal is gorgeous as far as cities to live in go, but I'm starting to get anxious to finally be done with school and be able to explore other places....or maybe even settle back into my little small town....we'll see!

This week is a busy one, so I won't have time for much in the way of posts, but I think I'm due for an imaginary Etsy shopping spree and maybe I'll post some pictures of a fun fashion related event I'll be attending on Thursday night with my friend Lindsay!
Hope you all have a lovely week!

Another Special Lady!

You'll have to forgive me if this blog is becoming something of a diary about all the new friends it's lead me to making, but I'm endlessly amazed by all of the friendly, beautiful, intelligent and stylish girls there are out there who I never would have had the chance of coming across were it not for this dreamy interweb-blog-land!

On that note, I'm excited to finally be able to post about the wonderful lady behind the blog Faux-Naif! A couple of months ago I received a very cryptic comment from Faux Naif saying she had some exciting news to share with me, and exciting it was! She secretly revealed her long hidden location to me in an e-mail, and it just so happened to be...Montreal! Not two streets away from my first apartment, and only a couple of miles from my current one!

It took us a little while to finally set up a meeting (two full time students, even when they do live in the same city, are not always the easiest people to get together!)....but we finally went for a delicious breakfast at Cafe Joe on St-Antoine on Thursday morning and enjoyed some really delicious grilled cheeses and fried potatoes for breakfast! We reveled in the sunshiney warmth that is so unlike Montreal in March and walked to my very favourite park to take some blog photos together!

She was so sweet, and showered me with endless and way-too-sweet flattery, and she made me feel so good I had an extra skip in my step for the rest of the day! And if you haven't already started following her blog you absolutely must! She's witty and eloquent and poetic and beautiful and sort of sarcastic and self deprecating in the best way possible!
After leaving Quincy's house and coming back home to Montreal it made me sort of sad for a few days to think about how far away my new friend is, and how I wish all of us bloggers could be closer together so we could do fun blogposts together and go on thrifting adventures all the time and just sit around drinking wine and watching old movies, and it sort of feels nice to know there's a likeminded, wonderful girl like that right in my own hometown!

Thanks for the meetup Missy!
(P.S. Quincy I still miss you so much!)

Rehoboth Beach

I'm so excited about this post! This video means the world to me and I've already watched it about a hundred times now! It's just about the best memory of my trip to Quincy's place that I can imagine! I won't blab for once, I'll just let the pictures of warm, sunny Rehoboth Beach speak for themselves....enjoy!

Photos by Mike & Jonny
Video by Jonny

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