Fall Plaid

Ok guys so I have a love hate relationship with fall. I love that you get to dress up a little bit more, start pulling out your fall boots, the air is a lot more crisp (good for breathing), the nights are a lot more cooler (good for sleeping) but when it starts to get colder that's when I start dreading fall because I know winter is around the corner and I have to start pulling out my heavier coats and boots, besides that I'm never warm. So this look was inspired by Fall, the plaid shirt is trending right now actually everywhere, almost every store you look at has some form of plaid going on. I know it's not specifically an entire new trend because plaid seems to be out at the beginning of fall every year, but for some reason this year is an exception.....(here we go I'm straying from the topic.. I know this because I purchased a beautiful but simple plaid short/mini dress from Guess years and years ago...I remembered wearing it to see JLo an Enrique (my boyfriend) in concert when they came to Toronto about two summers ago but I actually had it longer than that but just really had no where to wear it until the concert. I'll actually be wearing that dress again soon in an upcoming event in October and I think I might take some photos of it for the blog.... we'll see...).

So this look is pretty simple, as you all know by now (from my instagram) I live in denim. It's the casual looks that I love the most. It's easy and fast to put together so I thought that if I layered this army green vest over the plaid shirt it'll complete this look and it did for me. Don't be afraid to layer your clothing, if it doesn't work you can just take it off and try something else that might just do the job. I love this particular vest because it has that lace detail at the bottom of the vest which makes it a bit girlie for me and best of all this shirt is so so  soft, it's 100% Rayon (no ironing needed).

Plaid Shirt : Garage || Vest : Target || Watch : Guess || Hand Band : Stella & Dot

Boots : Aldo (I've had this for years but you can find lots of them out there)

Last Summer OOTD...

So now that the summer is all gone I had to get just one last outfit in. I like wearing shorts but they have to be the right length for me...I'm not a short shorts type of gal...you get me right...I don't like when my butt cheeks is hanging out I personally don't think that's attractive. I need to have at least 3-4 inches of fabric past my butt cheeks and when I tried these on at Forever 21 I just had to get them immediately, there was no way I was leaving these behind because every time I would see a shorts they would be way too short for me. Anyway I think shorts are a staple for every one when the hot weather comes around(who doesn't own a pair of shorts in their closet). Simple pieces are also a must for the hot weather but since it was coming closer to the end of summer I needed a little cardigan and this cardigan just spelled my name. It's a light airy cardigan and the whole back is of the same lace detail on the shoulder...perfect right...So now that summer is over lets take on fall....

Cardigan: Urban Planet || Tank: Old || Shorts and Necklace: Forever 21|| Sunglasses: Betsy Johnson

Hand Bands: Stella and Dot and Kate Spade

 

Shoes are from Forever 21 (old)

Yet Another Denim Post

Ok so by now I think everyone knows that I practically live in denim...who doesn't...right...I love to pair up my denim with different bottoms or vice versa...you got me....I had this skirt a while now but never bothered using it. I knew in my mind how I wanted to style this but just didn't come around to actually styling it. When it comes to denim shirts there's basically no rule. It's an item that's pretty simple to style...no brainer....since the top and bottom is plain or bland I decided to throw in a pop of color with my shoes. My style is pretty simple and cheap, I like dressing in affordable pieces (not saying that I don't splurge sometimes on other brand name pieces) and these looks that I blog about are very affordable for pretty much everyone.

Shirt : American Eagle, Skirt and Bangle : Forever 21, Belt : Garage Clothing, Wrap around Watch : Winners (Guess)

 

Shoes : Winners (Steve Madden)

Vacation.....

Hi guys, I'm finally back after how long.....yah I know I'm slacking on my post but good enough explanation. So after my last post my kids were off from school and I thought to myself....ok good...now I have more time to go places to take photos for the blog and my photographer (my daughter) will be readily available to take photos and we can go different location to take some really beautiful photos and not have the same background all the time, but unexpectedly my kids wanted to go on vacation back to Trinidad (where I'm from) for the summer holidays, I really wasn't too excited nor did I really wanted to go because we have a wedding coming in October and instead of spending that money to go back home we can use it towards the tickets to go to the wedding, but instead we went on vacation and hence a big gap in my blog (if you follow me on my instagram http://instagram.com/2402shell you will know where I'm at). Anyways....so now that we're back home and my kids are back to school it's time for me to stop slacking and get cracking (nice one, right)...so here's just a few photos of my vacation. I didn't take much photos this time because it seems the photos are basically the same each and every time we go back home...so I hope you enjoy what little I have for now and hope to get back to posting real soon, so the first few photos are at the lookout overlooking Maracas Bay. All visitors and tourist to Trinidad must visit this beach and also try out the most eaten Bake and Shark. Then as usual there's always a wedding to attend. The last few photos are on the air plane leaving Trinidad after a month long vacation heading back to Canada....


Here I'm at Tyrico Bay sporting my Victoria Secret beach coverup....