So, our drop-dead gorgeous and totally amazingly accommodating friend Sarah agreed to be the Shoebox model for this summer’s photo shoot. 

And by “photo shoot”, I mean that P-Hops, Tammers and I went to the alleyway behind my building with my Canon and giggled and took random pics and went mental. 

Can you believe we got all this amazing photography within about 2.5 hours for FREE??? 

I do want to apologize to everyone because I was a basketcase trying to get the shots done before the sun went down.  When I get down to business, I GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.  Everyone totally put up with me, though.  And we got amazing shots.

What made it really funny was that some other Queen West store had decided to use the same alleyway that night for another photoshoot.  I WISH I had taken at least an iPhone snap of the outfits and set-ups they were using, because they were VERY DIFFERENT from ours.

There’s a motorcycle repair shop-slash-garage-slash-man-cave-slash-dirthole-shack in the alley behind my place, and they were photographing a chick in a LEATHER BATHING SUIT straddled on the back of a motorcycle wearing huge platform heels.  Suffice it to say, the boys in the motorcycle repair shop were preeeeeeetty happy that night.

I also wish that I had taken some more shots of us behind the scenes taking the photos and giggling and laughing.  We had a picnic lunch in the middle of my living room…

…and I had been kneeling on the ground so much to get the right angle for the photos that I had some maaaaaad blackened dirt stains on my knees.  Like a slut.  Blowie Nat.

All the help from Sarah and Tami was HUGE.  You guys are the best.  P-Hops and I love you. 

Like Sarah’s outfits?  Amazing pieces from each outfit will be on sale at our pop up shop starting this weekend at Russet and Empire. 

YOU SHOULD COME.

Can you tell that I’ve discovered pastels?  This past week I have been MELTING over pastels.  I bought this mint-green skirt on Monday while scouring through Value Village for some goodies for Friday.  4 bucks, sucka.  PASTELS!

I had this whole outfit planned last night, and I was so excited, then this morning I tried to find this damn pink silk shirt from Banana. 

I looked and looked and looked, and I couldn’t find it.  Then I got mad because I couldn’t find it.  Then I started pulling EVERY ITEM OF CLOTHING out of my drawers.  When I become fixated on something I HAVE TO HAVE IT.  I become one of those insane, obsessive-compulsive people who decides that nothing else on Earth is allowed to happen until I get what I want.

Finally, after about 25 minutes of looking through piles over and over and over, I found it stuffed behind one of my drawers, between the back of the drawer and the wall.  Success! 

The lesson here is: Obessessive-compulsive behaviour inevitably leads to success in everything you do in life.  WORD.

 Oh, one more thing:

Minty button-up shirt = Business in the front…

Red, red hair = Party in the back.

…and we’re spent.

Hey!  Tammers!  I saw this and thought of you:

Hey!  P-Hops!  I saw this and thought of you:

Hey!  Sarah T! I saw this and thought of you:

Hey!  Sarah C!  I saw this and thought of you:

Hey!  A-Balloons!  I saw this and thought of you:

Red hair lookie nice with blue top.

Let’s just sit back and admire the perfection of this sailor top.  It’s perfect.  The collar?  Perfect.  The little buttons?  Perfect.  The blue piping? Perfect. 

Why has this been in my closet for about 1.5 years without me even considering it, you ask?  Idiocy.  Plain idiocy.  That’s the only explanation.

Shoebox Vintage and Russet and Empire are having a steamy summer love affair.  It’s pretty hot-n-heavy.

The fabulous and extremely brilliant Micah is collaborating with Shoebox Vintage to put on a vintage clothing pop up shop at her store Russet and Empire in the junction!!  EXCLAMATION MARK!!!!

WHAT:  Pop Up Vintage Shop AND Launch Party!!
WHEN:  Pop-Up: July 22 to 31  /  Launch Party: July 22, 7 to 1o pm
WHERE: Russet and Empire, 390 Keele St., M6P 2K8

We have SO MUCH FACE-MELTINGLY COOL STUFF to sell.  It’s going to be ridonkadonk.  In addition to some of the wonderful things I managed to pick up in San Francisco (cough*Christian Louboutins*cough), P-Hops and I have managed to source practically a whole new wardrobe’s-worth of vintage stuff that YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. 

• 1970s long hippie dresses?  Oh yeah. 
• 1980s cocktail dresses?  You know it.
• 1960s sheath dresses?  OF COURSE!
• Leatha leatha leatha?  WE HAVE SO MUCH LEATHER, YOU’LL FEEL LIKE EDDIE MURPHY IN DELIRIOUS.
• Levi’s?  Lee?  Bill Blass?  Wrangler?  We have that s**t in spades.
• Designer items?  Yesyesyesyesyes!   There are items from Missoni, Marc Jacobs, Betsey Johnson, and… wait for it… the most amazing, beautiful, stellar, wetness-inducing vintage Prada coat you’ve ever seen in your life.  Here is a sneak pizzeek:

So yeah.  You should come.

The launch party will also be a blast… there’ll be delicious snacks, music, fun decor, and drinksdrinksdrinks! 

SO COME.

If you haven’t been to Russet and Empire, get your buns down there now.  Micah’s curated this AMAZING collection of eclectic new and vintage Canadiana items, as well as kitschy little gifts and use-ables.  It’s so totally cute.

YEY!  Stay tuned for updates!

I was pretty worried about coming to my uber-conservative workplace today with my red hair.  So I tried to hide it by putting it in a pony tail.

And I tried to dress it up all fancy-like with a suit.  But I couldn’t resist adding some peachy-pink in there for a bit of hair-clashing… tee hee hee…

Whatever.  My hair looks awesome.