In December I shared my Holiday Lookbook, attended a Christmas party at my grandparents' senior residence and my family surprised Marco with a birthday treat. I picked up some new shoes, ate more Pho than normal and surprised my Dad with a 60th birthday party.
I shared a video on how-to create a messy French twist, spent an evening with friends celebrating Marco's birthday and took a cupcake decorating workshop with a bunch of girls for a friend's birthday. I scored some boots I was covetting on sale, got sick with Laryngitis and met a new friend in the elevator of my apartment who made me a knit headband.
I grew out my nails--a Christmas goal--and celebrated Christmas with my family and Marco's.
| CLICK HERE to see every monthly recap I did this year.
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Keeping with tradition, I've pulled together some of my looks from 2013 to rally up a little fashion recap. 2013 turned out to be a really great year, and an extension of the great second half of 2012. I'm a firm believer that if you put positive energy out into the world you will get it back, and while that's not always possible--we're all real here--if you make a conscious effort to do so, it will eventually come natural and great things will begin to happen.
I set a few New Years resolutions for myself this time last year which were:
* Post more spontaneously--complete;
* Do my hair more often--versus just throwing it up--complete; and
* Become better at doing my make-up--complete (I have become a blending pro. Okay, pro might be a strong word).
Resolutions don't have to be big or un-accomplishable, they can be small, mini accomplishments you make throughout the year, not necessarily with a deadline. For instance, two years ago I set up monthly resolutions, with more attainable goals like sew a top, floss more and wear clothing that I had purchased that still had tags on it.
I will be back in a few days to share my resolutions for 2014, so stay tuned while I fine tune that list.
As always, thanks for reading and being here, whether you're a newbie or a long-time friend, I so appreciate you coming to my little corner of the Internet to check out what I'm up to. Your support and the friendships mean so much. Seriously, every. single. one of you.
Happy New Year!
Annual recaps from years past:
* 2012
* 2011
* 2010
Sarah and I had our annual gift exchange between us at work this year since it didn't work out to get together over the holidays. I brought the camera, set it up to record a video and didn't realize until now that we only got 2 minutes of footage out of 20! Such a bummer because you don't get to see what we got each other, but I was able to salvage a few fun screen shots from our lunch hour (click over to my Facebook page to see the silly photos).
This year, we decided to lower our limit to $50 and I'm proud to say we both stayed within it and scored awesome gifts (or at least I love my gifts, ha). Scroll down to see our gifts before they were opened a list of what we got each other.
For Sarah:
* Essie Nail polish, 'Come Here'
* Mexx wool coat (in forest green)
For me (hello amazing gift basket):
* OPI nail polish, 'Over the Taupe'
* Smart Set necklace
* Pier 1 jar candle in, 'Ember' (my fave)
* Four decorative Christmas plates
* Mighty Leaf peppermint tea
* Guess leopard wallet/change-purse
| See last year's gift exchange HERE.
Since I fell ill with Laryngitis that's turned into a cold--that is still kind of holding on--I missed the weekend before lasts' iPhone Snaps, but that's because I pretty much spent it in bed watching YouTube and being bored. I've compiled a bunch of photos I took over the course of the last few weeks so we'll call this a Weekend+ Recap since it's more than this last weekend.
Since there's so many photos, I'll put the majority after the jump if you'd like to see…
My goal was to have long nails for Christmas--mission accomplished! I'm so proud because I'm a chronic nail biter so this was tough but makes me so happy.
Nail colour: N.Y.C. (not sure the colour name)
I met a girl in my apartment building one evening before I got sick in the elevator. We were both wearing headbands and I complimented her on hers and she offered to make me one! A few days later I found this beauty on my door handle.
Pho, one evening in Chinatown.
Outfit deets: Bench jacket, Club Monaco scarf (old), Walmart leggings, Jacob leg warmers, Spring boots, F21 cross-body and Jules & James hat and mitts.
More photos after the jump…
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas, I know I shared the little video from Christmas Eve and Christmas day but thought I would recap with some photos if you'd like to see.
On Christmas Eve, I travelled with Marco to Kingston to spend the evening with his family. We had a great meal and opened gifts late into the night. This was the first time I'd ever been away from my own family at this time, but I had a great time. After the gifts were done, the nieces and nephew gone, everyone got ready for bed. Marco and I decided to do stockings for each other this year--a first--and did that in private around midnight. It was fun and perhaps the beginning of a tradition.
The next morning we woke up and had breakfast with his parents. From there, we packed up and travelled the two hours back to Ottawa to spend the afternoon and evening with my family. My parents were busy cooking in the kitchen upon our arrival we settled in with some drinks and snacks to pass some time.
Around 4pm, my sister, her husband and my nephew arrived and we opened our gifts--also a first for this sort of thing as we normally do this Christmas morning--which was really fun. We didn't finish before my grandparents arrived for dinner, so we took a break to visit and eventually eat a turkey dinner (my fave!).
I'm going to do a full post and video on some of my favourite gifts but here is a really cool one my sister and brother-in-law gave me: a mini pie maker! As some of you know, I'm a huge pie lover and this baby whips them up in 10 minutes. This could be dangerous, but I'm really excited.
Later on in the evening, we finished opening our gifts and spent hours chatting, eating and trying to solve little metal mind-twister game puzzle things (above) Santa gave us. We left after midnight, tired and happy.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
Other posts you may have missed:
* Christmas 2012
* Christmas 2011
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