Exciting news, you guys! I've teamed up with Place d'Orleans (PDO) again to share with you a wicked contest. All you have to do is create a Pinterest board with all your favourite Fall fashion trends (see mine HERE, and I even created a mini one for the boys HERE).
Up for grabs? One of 10 pairs of tickets to the PDO VIP Night on Saturday, October 5th and a $100 gift card for the mall!
The VIP Night will include a cool fashion show, swag bags, food, drinks, demos and discounts. There is a huge grand-prize valued at $10k up for grabs too! Tickets are also being sold at guest services, and all proceeds go towards Dress for Success. Additionally, I will be hosting the event! So come out if you're in Ottawa as I would love to meet you!
How to enter:
Simply fill out the form online and get pinning. It's that easy! Good luck!
I'd love to see your boards, so tweet or instagram me (@acoest1984) & Place d'Orleans (@placedorleans) with the hashtag #MYVIPNIGHT and your pinterest link.
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Look what just arrived in the mail! I ordered these back in August after coveting them all. summer. long. but they've been sold out since Spring. I would check back every week and submitted my email twice to be notified if they came back in stock.
So, really late one evening, I was in bed and decided to quickly check my email as a last distraction before falling asleep, and in came the email, 'Romy, back in stock!' I did a little squeal, jumped out of bed and whipped open my laptop.
I actually debated for a solid 30 minutes if I should actually make the purchase; I felt a little guilty, to be honest. However, I found a promo code and ended up hitting the purchase button. Unfortunately, they took over a month to get here and now it's flipping cold and I need a pedicure. Oh well, still stoked to have them and if I get sick of the nude colour, or they get dirty, I plan to paint them olive green or black with fabric paint.
* I promised myself I would practice my photography 15 minutes a day and it's been four days since my course and I hadn't practised once. I must have taken 40 frames to get these two shots and I still don't know how to fix the yellow-ness of the majority of the photos I got, but these two turned out okay.
Happy Thursday!
Friday night, birthday dinner for a friend.
Outfit deets: Winners jacket, Club Monaco scarf, Jacob sweater, Urban Planet leggings, Joe Fresh necklaces & Aldo boots (new & I'm in love!) & purse.
We went to Big Easy's for the birthday festivities and I ordered the sesame seared ahi tuna with grilled veggies and coconut rice. The large pot of mayo on the side was still almost full when I was done but I thoroughly enjoyed a large Ceasar & glass of red wine.
When I got home, I was craving something sweet so I made a new healthier fave treat, which is similar to the coconut oatmeal bites you saw in my Recent Eats post (#28), but I don't make the balls and just eat it from the bowl. Here's how:
1/4C oatmeal, 1/4C unsweetened coconut, 1tbsp honey, 1tsp cocoa, 2tbsp coconut oil, sprinkle of cinnamon, a few drops of vanilla & mix. Enjoy.
On Saturday, I attended a five-hour beginner photography class that I purchased through Living Social back in August. I have wanted a DSLR forever but have no idea how to use it. The course focused on aperture, shutter speed & ISO. I learned so much and am going to try and 'practice every day for a week or two'--our homework--to lock the basics in my memory.
During the second half of the class, we went outside to put our new knowledge to the test. We had to complete an exercise where we photographed something three times at three different aperture settings and something in motion at three different shutter speed settings. I took over 70 photos before narrowing it down to the six I wanted to use to be shown to the class on the projector screen.
Outfit deets: Ashley B jacket, Olivia Sky thin-knit sweater, C'est Moi trapeze tank, Sirens leggings & Spring boots (last year).
Saturday night Chinese take-out & a movie.
Sunday morning I hit the gym and grabbed tea afterwards. Then it was home for breakfast and a relaxing day inside.
Outfit deets: American Eagle sweater (old, thrifted), Bongo jeans (old & DIY distressed, which you can't really see in the photo but a more detailed shot HERE), Spring boots folded down (from last year) & Urban Expressions bag.
Sunday afternoon: football, Apple products (ha) & working on a video.
This vlog is super short and just shows a good 24 hours of last weekend. Sorry this is up so late, haven't had a chance to edit and upload it until now; I almost considered just scrapping it, but, alas here it is.
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THINGS I MENTIONED
See more of Peanut HERE.
Similar sunglasses to mine.
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MUSIC | Ta-Ku - Higher (Flume remix)
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CONNECT WITH ME
EMAIL | acoest1984@gmail.com
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CAMERA / EDITING INFO
VLOG CAMERA | iPhone 5 & iPad mini
EDITING SOFTWARE | Adobe Premiere Elements 11
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This video is not sponsored...clearly.
Thanks for watching!
Sort of?
I excitedly picked up my three-year-old-only-worn-twice Aldo boots from the shoe repair last night and I know I promised you all a blog post, but, this is not the final one.
Basically what happened, I picked up the boots and while I hoped there would be even less platform than there is, I was really, really pleased with the results. Alex from Bells Corners Shoe Repair did an amazing job and I was so excited to just be able to wear these beautiful boots, finally. I took them home and wore them around my apartment while doing stuff and realized the left foot felt less stable than the right (pictured above). Then I realized that while the heels matched in height, the platforms did not and the left foot's platform was about half an inch taller.
The right foot felt so good, stable and comfortable while I could feel the difference in my left foot. I thought perhaps I could just get by it, but over the hour I decided that no, I would have to bring them back and get it fixed as it would always bother me.
So, I've taken them back to the shop and they are going to get them to match and even shave off more so that there is barely a platform remaining at all--which is perfect! I will have to wait until next week to get these back but wanted to share some sort of an update with you. I did take some real photos of the boots before hand and will take some pictures when I get them back on Monday to share. This process is so exciting, I can't believe I never looked into this before; I didn't know this existed and I'm going to get a ton of wear out of these boots now. Hoorah!
Additionally, I took in these boots as I totally forgot about them and rediscovered them in my closet last night! I have worn them twice--purchased within a month of the ones above, three years ago--and put them away because they were unstable and far too high. I've decided to get them lowered as well so I'll have some pictures to share of those next week too!
UPDATE | September 15th
I created a video explaining the situation and showing a few more pictures.
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