I'm very behind, but very excited.  Three lovely ladies gave me three seperate awards for my blog!  Thank you so much ladies, it means a lot to me!

Follow the 'rules', here are some fun facts about me that go along with receiving these awards:

1.  I have one sibbling; a younger sister
2.  I'm getting married this summer
3.  I have six girls in my wedding party
4.  I speak English and French
5.  I own over 150 pairs of shoes
6.  Rap and hip-hop music is my preference
7.  I'm 5'11

Club Monaco blouse (clothing swap - thnx PK!), Smart Set cami,
Bongo skinny jeans, Gap wedges (also seen here), H&M bangle,
Tiffany & Co. bracelet, gifted necklace from my bff

Happy Friday!  Isn't it so exciting to know that in only a few mere hours it will be the weekend and us 9-to-5'ers will be free for two whole days?  I'm super pumped for this weekend, although I have a ton to do and am pretty much booked solid. 

Tonight I'm going shopping for a birthday gift for my future SIL, tomorrow my fiancĂ© and I are going to our jeweller to start designing our wedding bands (my fiancĂ© designed my engagement ring), then check out tux rentals, and then I'm on my way to the F-SIL's birthday party.  Sunday we are meeting with our reception venue to discuss food, we'll have some dinner and then it's off to my parent's house to meet with both sets of parents for more wedding talk.  Phew!  Exhausts me just thinking about it.  How are your weekends shaping up?


Dynamite top, Le Chateau belt, Smart Set skirt,
Anne Michelle pumps, Suzy necklace (also seen here)
 & ring, Swarovski bracelet

I've been going back and forth between wearing tights and going bare-legged.  I factor this decision in the morning on two things: 1. Whether I've hit the bottle lately (and by 'bottle', I mean self-tanner bottle), and 2. The temperature.  Seriously though, I'm sick of putting on the tights so it was refreshing to go without (even though the self-tanning process seems so lengthy: shower, exfoliate, shave, moisturize, apply tanner, walk around for-what-seems-like-forever until it dries... you get the idea).  Does anyone have a favourite self tanner?


I have added more items tonight to my Etsy Shop including some high-impact simple necklaces.  Here's a sneak peek:






A.Co Designs Blog

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I am loving Jeffrey Campbell studded wedges so much, but the price tag that goes along with them?  Out of reach.  So, I have decided to try and re-create my own version of the studded shoes.

I started with an older pair of wedges from Aldo (which actually, I purchased a second pair the following year at a super discounted price because I had loved them so much the year earlier - and they still had my size, rare and amazing) with a hemp/espadrille base (cork would work too). 

{ I needed 500 push pins }

{ start with the bottom row and push the pins into the wedge along the sole }

{ second row of pins fit in between the first row }

{ thumbs are getting sore at this point }

{ ta-dah! }



* Sorry for the crappy quality pictures. 
My camera died and I was forced to use my iPhone
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