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This past weekend I spent my entire Saturday and Sunday devoted to re-arranging and fixing up my apartment. Sunday night was spent picking out black and white photos from a stack of old Vogues, then framing them in matching black frames, (see above). A few of the frames feature one picture with a dash of hot pink in it for a little needed color. The three pictures at the bottom are images I took out of a vintage Versace book I found in Brooklyn! All of my furniture has found a new home in my living room, which made room for the new table and soon-to-arrive new, and much anticipated, chairs! It also allows for space for a coffee table and perhaps another comfy chair. Or not, apparently there isn’t a money tree growing outside my balcony. But one day I will have all my dream furnishings!
Nothing like fresh flowers in the summer time!
If you live in the downtown area of Vancouver, I highly recommend visiting the flower vendor at the corner of Burrard and Dunsmuir. Unlike other flower vendors, their prices are quite reasonable and they provide an excellent selection of flowers! Today I chose a bouquet of a dozen yellow roses, then carried them all about town as I did my errands. I felt a bit like a pageant queen.
A table teaser!
This is the year I decided to grow up; I’ve finished school, taken on an internship, (with Andrea Baxter of Bratface Marketing), gotten my apartment in order and I’ve stopped the late nights out, (save for a few dancing nights out with the ladies!). I buy real groceries, like fruit and vegetables and other various ingredients with which I actually cook and bake and I do house work – almost every day, there’s 3 loads of laundry in right now. Oh, and sweatpants are now strictly for at-home only, which of course is very adult of me. And then there’s Marie, my little sweetheart. I’m having a bit of a proud moment that life is starting to straighten out into a more predictable path, rather than the hap-hazard path it used to seem like. Now I’m rambling, anyhow, you get the point. : )
Now I must go take out my laundry, sort it and put it all away. (Oh the joy.)
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Hot pink leather Kate Spade bag, all the way from Palm Dessert!
Recently I was the lucky recipient of this beautiful bag, which has quickly become one of my favourites! I take it everywhere, from photoshoots, (it held my Nikon on the day of the Kensie shoot), to Starbucks to school, (at school it sits proudly, though kind of in the way, on my desk). It is just exactly the right shade of hot pink! And I have been searching for a pink bag for years, it’s hard to find one that is the right balance of cute pink and sophisticated pink, seems bag designers out there want to make all pink bags out of pleather, or cheap vinyl, which is like handbag suicide. And the gold accents are so beautiful, it really makes me very happy to carry it around town.
Outfit I wish I’d captured: Last week I went to meet with the lovely lady I’m currently interning with, Andrea Baxter of Bratface Marketing, and wore a navy and cream striped knit blazer, a light pink ribbed cotton tank tucked into super dark, super long Fidelity jeans that have this fantastic wet-look waxy finish to them with my Chanel platform sandals and this bag! I felt FABULOUS! Though, I spent the majority of that day traipsing through the city, walking city blocks, catching a bus and then another bus to get to all my appointments. In the afternoon, after I finished my hair appointment, (got a little blonder, LOVING being blonde!), I had to walk through this unpaved alley, it was like off-roading in Chanel. I nearly broke my ankle on those 6 inchers trying to make my way over a seriously uneven road. I must have looked ridiculous, but I’d wear them for a day of adventure again!
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On Monday morning dozens of entrepreneurial women joined the CRAVE Vancouver team at Heritage Hall on Main St. for the CRAVE Symposium; an event held to support various local business women and help them figure out how to grow their existing businesses. There were 8 businesses chosen that needed support. The attendees, about ten to a table, sat with one of the designated businesses and bounced around ideas that could help each business with marketing, branding, the financials, team building, etc. There were also a number of mentors at the event, who led each session. Andrea Baxter, of Bratface Marketing and Smart Cookies was a mentor in marketing, as was Heather White of Ghost CEO and 20/20 Communications. I have never learned so much in just one day. Some pics from the event! (Photos by Candice Albach of Albach Studios).
From the top: 1-Arpen Thandi of CRAVE Vancouver, 2-Danielle LaPorte of WhiteHotTruth.com and Cortnie Clarke of Crave Beauty, CRAVE Founder, 3-Melody Biringer looks over one of the business sessions, 4-marketing mentor Andrea Baxter, 5-Heather White, a marketing mentor weighs in on local biz Urbanity, 6-the CRAVE books.
If you are interested in learning how to grow your biz, then I highly recommend attending the CRAVE Symposium next year. It seemed it was best to come if you were a business owner, or on the verge of starting your own business.
A FABULOUS CONTEST!:
Now for some exciting news for you, the reader! Would you like to own a CRAVE book?? This book is wealth of knowledge of many, many local businesses, (owned by women!), from retail to marketing firms to aesthetics, the entrepreneurial women of Vancouver are documented in this book! To enter, just leave me a comment about why you think CRAVE is great, or tweet it to me at @StyleStruck! I’ll have a winner picked by next week and will send you the book! Good luck!
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