apples, cheese and wine - oh my!

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 Over the weekend, my family & I took our annual apple orchard, winery, and cheese factory visit to one of the local towns (2010 visit here - not sure what's going on with the formatting). Although we didn't actually end up picking apples we did buy three 1/2 bushels: Empire, Spartan & Honey Crisp (my favourite). Apples didn't have a good growing season so they found it was taking people twice as long to actually pick the apples so we decided not to pick. I also tried a new type of apple or new to me at least, called Cox Orange Pippin which is big in the UK and New Zealand. It was delish and something different with a bit of a bite to it.

 

There are some other photos at the winery and the cheese factory. The winery is such a nice place; this year they were growing a bunch of different varities of trees like Temple Orange Tree (pictured above), Meyer Lemon Tree, Olive Tree, Fig Tree and a Pomegranite Tree. At the cheese factory they were sampling certain types of cheese - I love the Maple Cheddar so I usually get a block of that and Dill Mozzarella. I don't really eat much cheese but both of those are delish!

 

What are your favourite types of apples & cheese?

 

Wearing: sweater (Wilfred), scarf (Joe Fresh), jeans (Joe Fresh), boots (Miss Sixty), bag (Marc by Marc Jacobs), sunnies (Simply Vera by Vera Wang)

 

 

 

 

take me out to the ballgame

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Happy 1st week of fall everyone - I hope you are having a fabulous week!

First thing I would like to mention is my amazing new blog design! I always told myself that once I reached 100 followers that I would get a custom blog design - so thank you to all of you for helping me get to that and thank you to Tricia Nae for doing such a wonderful job! Let me know what you think!!

 

Now onto the photos, these were taken a couple weekends ago. My mum & I went to see a Blue Jays game (represent!!) against Boston - even though they lost we still had such a fun girls day out! I ALWAYS love going to Toronto, it's one of my favourite cities. Of course, I had to get a pretzel during the game - I just love them!! I was also so happy that I was able to score one of the polka dot sweaters from Old Navy before they sold out, they only had 2 left in this colour and I almost bought the beige one too!

 

Check out the last photo, somewhat hard to see but some people were out in the red suits doing the EdgeWalk where you walk around the edge of the CN tower which I think would be so cool to do!!

 

Wearing: Blue Jays fitted (Gift Shop), sweater (Old Navy), jeans (Mavi), flats (Joe Fresh), belt (H&M), jewellery (Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co., J.Crew) bag (Michael Kors)

 

cut-offs

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I’m back again (woo)! One of my new years resolutions was to blog more and I have obviously been failing at that so I am really going to try to keep this updated for the rest of the year to say that I at least ½ way accomplished my resolution! lol I can’t believe my last post was in April (!!!)

Anyways, these photos are actually from the Canada Day long weekend - one of my FAVE holidays by the way! Geoff was home for the weekend and we did lots of fun stuff like drink beer, eat BBQ’d food, watch fireworks & get super duper sun burnt at the beach!

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What is your favourite holiday?

Wearing: tank (Abercrombie & Fitch), diy cut-offs (Levi’s), belt (Joe Fresh), shoes (Rock & Republic), jewelry (Michael Kors, Tiffany & Co., J. Crew, Material Girl)

striped

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Happy Easter!! I hope you all had a wonderful day! We spent the day with my family, we went over to my mum's house where we ate lot's of food and had lot's of laughs! && lot's of chocolate of course - way more then I needed lol

This blazer is a fave, I have had it for a while now and still love it! I scored the jeans at Gap in the Adirondacks for like $10 I think - great find!

Wearing: blazer (F21), white tank (PINK), jeans (Gap), shoes (George), belt (Joe Fresh), clutch (Simply Vera by Vera Wang), Sunglasses (Rocawear)

jazzed

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I just entered Chictopia's Spring Bloom contest and it would mean the world to me if you helped me win!! Click here to vote, favourite and share my entry - the most voted, favourited and shared entries will be finalists!

I am soo in love with these H&M floral pants - I have been seeing them all over the blogosphere & was so happy when they turned up at my H&M! This is also my favourite blazer, I love the dusty rose colour! The weather here has been so nice but all of a sudden it snapped back to typical Spring weather - hoping it warms up again!

How was your weekend? Do you like the floral trend?

Wearing: blazer (H&M), blouse (random brand), tank (J. Crew), pants (H&M) pumps (BCBG), clutch (thrifted), sunglasses (Rocawear), trench (Joe Fresh - also seen here)

spring is right around the corner

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Some photos from last night on our way to the movie store. It was so nice out, it feels like Spring is finally on the way. I just hope this nice weather sticks around!

wearing: trench, scarf, & tights (Joe Fresh), shoes (Simply Vera by Vera Wang), bag (Michael by Michael Kors)

things that ..

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new purchases - black, stripes & silk patterns (Joe Fresh)

gossip girl season 4, vogue - september 2011, elle - october 2011, cooking light top-rated recipes

praline's & cream ice cream

carmalita cakelet

ps. if anyone has any tips on how to make your pictures bigger without messing with the sidebar plleassee lmk in the comments! :) thanks!

You are a special kind of one-of-a-kind

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These are some photos taken on Saturday - we went to Toronto to do some shopping at the Yorkdale Mall which is one of my favourite malls. I got an invitation for the Aritzia private pre-sale event so I knew that I definitely wanted to check that out plus it was a good reason to make the 2 ½ hour drive to do some shopping. Aritzia is a Canadian stored that has slowly been setting up shop in some US locations, they carry brands like Marc by Marc Jacobs, Rag & Bone, Rock & Republic, Acne, J Brand, Mink Pink, Winter Kate, etc. As well as in-house brands Wilfred, Wilfred Le Fou, Wilfred Free, TNA, T. Babaton, etc. When you got into the store you let them know you were invited and showed them your invitation then they give you a card with all the sales listed. The top half was categorized by percentage discount then listed by brand; it went from 20% - 40% off. The bottom half listed the pre-sale items by brand, original price, sale price and item name; at the back of the store there was a sample rack of all the pre-sale items. It was a great sale and I found some really nice pieces. I have been searching for a nice dress that I could wear to dinner dates, weddings, etc. that was not cotton and luckily I found one which also happened to be my best deal of the day. It’s a pink 100% silk Wilfred tiered dress that was retail $198 but was marked down to $99, I had actually seen this dress before and really liked it but I just didn’t want to pay $198 for it. I also got another pair of Wilfred trousers that are actually the same ones as the olive green trousers in the post below except a deep blue colour. I loved the green ones so much I knew that I wanted to get another pair, the fabric is so comfortable.

The day was full of my favourite things: shopping (of course), Aritzia, Yorkdale & Milestones – were we went for lunch! They have the best bellini’s there, I’m not usually into those sugary alcohol drinks but I love a good bellini. I got the lunch trio which included a grilled portobello mushroom ciabatta sandwich, roasted red pepper & tomato bisque and a watermelon & roasted beet salad. The soup and salad were delish, the sandwich was just okay.

I hope you all had a great weekend! I will be back with another post of my Aritzia purchases!

Wearing: 100% silk gray talita kimono (T.Babaton), black tank top (Jacob), gray skirt (Wilfred), white belt (Joe Fresh), brown sandals (Aldo), brown bag(Marc by Marc Jacobs), white bow headband (PacSun), sunnies (Armani Exchange)