Just because summer is almost over doesn't mean you need to pack away all of your summer clothing just yet. A maxi dress can easily transition from summer to fall with my suggestions above. You can also change out the sandal wedges for closed-toe, lace up booties and add a scarf. Guys, I am holding on to summer like it's my last meal. I don't want it to end! What about you? Are you ready for fall or are you hoping the summer weather lasts until October like me? ; )
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prior to the skating seminar he co-taught with Miki Ando
Wednesday evening as part of the public relations activities
of the American Center, Fukuoka / U.S. Consulate in Fukuoka.
Exclusive photo courtesy of Shannon Lenihan.
Aaaaand that's pretty much all I know about that, other than the photos we ran yesterday, but yay there's new
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Recently Ms. Wenxia Yu from The Peoples Republic of China was crowned Miss World 2012 out of 116 contestants. The top 2 runners up were Sophie Moulds of Wales and Jessica Kahawaty of Australia. The top contestants of the 62nd Miss World Pageant put on a stunning display in all areas.
Background & Style
The Miss World Pageant is one of the oldest and most publicized international beauty pageants in the world. "Beauty with a Purpose" is the Miss World Pageant’s motto and banner program. Along with creating an international beauty contest, the pageant supports charities around the world.
Speaking Styles
The Miss World beauty contestants use a formalized speaking style when creating statements or answering questions. Let’s take a look at a few ‘moments in time’ from two of these extraordinary winners of 2012.
Winner of The Miss World Pageant
– The Peoples Republic of China – Wenxia Yu
"When I was young I felt very lucky because so many people helped me, and I hope in the future I can help more children to feel lucky," Yu, a 23-year-old aspiring music teacher said when asked why she should be crowned.
Although this is an answer to a question, Miss World Wenxia Yu creates a formalized statement. It is powerful yet subtle. The new Miss World is essentially saying, “I was lucky and now I hope to create luck for others” or “I was given help and now I hope to give back”. Instead of just an answer, Wenxia Yu has created her own personal media label in one short positive message.
2nd Runner-up for The Miss World Crown
– Australia – Jessica Kahawaty
Here is an answer from Jessica Kahawaty when she was competing in Australia to become Miss World Australia.
Question: Are pageants still relevant in this day and age?
Jessica Kahawaty’s Answer:They definitely are. Pageants are an opportunity for women to be ambassadors for their countries and use their title for beneficial social and charitable purposes. Pageants also yield self-confidence for women. Miss World in particular does so, as it allows contestants to demonstrate their talents and fitness abilities.
Jessica Kahawaty’s answer is succinct and logical. First, Jessica answers that pageants are definitely relevant in this day age. Next, she supports her idea with 4 reasons: (1) opportunity for women to be ambassadors, (2) use their title for beneficial social and charitable purposes, (3) yield self-confidence for women, (4) contestants can demonstrate their talents and fitness abilities. Also, because Miss World is her goal, she highlights the singularity of the Miss World organization as being a self-confidence booster and a demonstration of talent and fitness ability. Moreover, these ideas speak in a positive way to the negative nuance of the question, which infers that beauty contests are relics from a crass, male dominated society. Jessica Kahawaty finessed the question like a pro speaker.
A final key element that can be seen in both of the ladies speaking styles is 'formality'. Unlike a speaker using a more casual style to communicate, they implement a
formalized presentation style that might also be found in high school, university, science, or business. You won’t hear the contestants using speaking fillers/pauses such as aaahhh, ummh, well, let me think, or let’s see. These are considered errors in this style of speech. The answers need to be strong, logical, and without pause. Casual speaking fillers and pausing don’t convey these speaking/presentation ideals.
Congratulations to all of the Miss World participants!
See you next week,
ALEX!
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So I finally picked up the September issue of Vogue last night. It literally took me five minutes (not kidding) to find the Lady Gaga interview thanks to all those ads. First it took me a couple of minutes to find the damn table of contents because there are soooo many pages in between each page of table of contents and when there are four pages listing those contents, by the time you get through them all you've flipped through 70 pages!! Shouldn't they be at the beginning of the magazine?? It was frustrating because I was in the bathtub at the time (where I do most of my reading), trying to hold up this magazine that weighs 4 lbs. 10 oz. (I measured) so it wouldn't fall into the water, flipping through hundreds of pages, some of which don't have any numbers on them by the way, trying to get to the interview. I didn't need a workout yesterday either, all I had to do was hold my copy of Vogue up in the air and my arms got toned. Don't get me wrong, I love all of the gorgeous ads in each September issue but I don't think a magazine should ever weigh more than a newborn. It's uncomfortable trying to read it! Especially when you're in the bathtub. Anyone agree with me?
P.S. The Gaga interview was fantastic.
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OK, we've just got a mishmash of things this morning that are in no particular order because part of what we have are random photos from the skating seminar Johnny already conducted with the fabulous Miki Ando in Fukuoka on Wednesday at 6:30 pm which hasn't
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Johnny greets fans at Narita Airport, Tokyo, on Monday.Exclusive photo courtesy of Ineko Nakagawa.
OK! While everyone else was busy doing whatever it is normal people do which I don't even know what that is, Johnny became a rhythmic gymnast, completed Champs Camp, contemplated a run for the presidency, flew 8,000 miles, greeted 8,000 wonderful fans who gave him 8,000 bouquets and who also all
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pants - Joe Fresh, blouse - Moon from The Bay, heels - Zara, jewelry & clutch - H & M
Yup, I bought these pants for seven bucks at Joe Fresh this past weekend. They were regularly $49. I know! Score!! Well that depends if you like them or not. D. told me these pants remind him of a "snake from the seventies." I then wondered how snakes looked different from 40 years ago than they do now and I tried to get him to elaborate on his description but he couldn't. Go figure. But I love them. They're so soft and a very comfortable fit. And they were seven dollars! For those of you who don't know, in Canada most Joe Fresh stores are located inside a huge grocery store and on Friday I went in to buy some protein shakes and apples and came out with these pants and a bunch of fall essentials. It's safe to say my closet is now 1/4 Joe Fresh after adding those items to what I already own in my closet. But I'm not complaining. I love their clothes. And gosh darnit, I LOVE THESE PANTS! But enough about them, how was your weekend?
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Johnny unveils Poker Face for the very first time at the VMAN Magazine launch party, NYFW, Feb. 2009. VMAN blogged about his "bravura performance" in a brief piece titled,"Johnny Weir Can Skate a Little."
It was a program born out of one of the darker times in his career, after a disastrous 2009 Nationals and subsequent controversial snub by USFS, who left him off the Worlds team despite having
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maxi dress - Target, blazer & rings - H & M, shoes - Spring, clutch - thrifted
If you're a huge Aerosmith fan like me you will notice the title of this post is from a line in their song "Pink," which is one of my faves. I edited these photos singing it from the top of my lungs, much to my cat's dismay....So I bought this glorious fuschia blazer a couple of weeks ago at H & M after I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more clothing until the fall. Oops. But I think it's a closet staple I'll keep forever and get lots of wear out of so I didn't feel too bad about my purchase. And I think Steven Tyler would approve ; ).
Happy Almost-Weekend!
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The Albino Peacock has landed. First appearance of Johnny at Champs Camp 2012. Photo tweeted by U.S. Figure Skating on Tuesday. Best caption, from dethspiralz on Tumblr: "He’s not gonna wear your shirt, or your cowboy ensemble, or take off his sunglasses. And you’re going to accept that."
So as usual, U.S. Figure Skating and I are experiencing a tiny communications lapse. Because when they
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Beauty & Glamour are constantly talked about on TV, in magazines, and with friends from the block. Jennifer Lopez, recording artist, actress, businesswoman, and mother, exudes Glamour and Beauty. She has been a trendsetter for many years and is considered by some to have redefined beauty in Hollywood. Jenny from the block has become a Glamour & Beauty Icon for the ages!
“The 40+-year-old says she loves to get glammed up but looking good is hard work. I don't want anybody thinking it's easy. It does take time and it's hard work. HDTV wide-screen is nobody's friend!” ~ Jennifer Lopez - Glamour & Beauty Statement ~
Interview
Interviewer: What is your beauty routine?
J-Lo (Jennifer Lopez): My routine is really basic. I don't have any crazy secrets, like sleeping upside down or whatever! I just try to take care of myself, because it's so easy to get lazy, and not cleanse your skin and not put moisturizer on before you go to bed, or not use conditioner on your hair when you can.
Interviewer: What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?
J-Lo: I have a shower to get that fresh, clean feeling I love, and then I put on my moisturizer. I always use lots of moisturizer.
Interviewer: How do you get that wonderful glow to your skin?
J-Lo: I've always taken good care of my skin. I protect it from the sun and, because it is normal to dry, I try to keep it moisturized, especially when I'm flying. To get a natural, radiant look I choose neutral shades of make-up for my lips and eyes - the more nude, the better.
Interviewer: What products are always in your beauty bag?
J-Lo: I usually have lip gloss in there, and perfume, mascara and moisturizer. That's about it. Oh, and I love bronzer too.
Talking Style
Jennifer Lopez has a reputation as being a Diva but in an interview she comes across as very down to earth, friendly, and approachable. J-Lo is enthusiastic and happy to share information about the topic of Glamour & Beauty. She gives lots of detailed information about her techniques. Jennifer’s speaking style is as smooth as her skin and glows with a natural beauty that the listener can relate to even if we aren’t glamour and beauty icons.
For example:
“The 41-year-old says she loves to get glammed up but looking good is hard work.”
~ In other words, no untouchable Celeb magic just hard work. You know the feeling. ~
“My routine is really basic. I don't have any crazy secrets, like sleeping upside down or whatever!”
~ In other words, anyone can follow my routine. I am not hiding any beauty secrets from you. ~
“J-Lo: I usually have lip gloss in there, and perfume, mascara and moisturizer. That's about it. Oh, and I love bronzer too” ~ In other words, nothing exotic. Any lady can have these beauty tools in their beauty bag. ~
Relating to the listener or your audience is an important point in presenting yourself in conversation or to the public. When the listener feels they are relating to your ideas, then they listen more, want more, and ask more questions. It also creates a sense of empowerment, for those listening, that you can do it too! It’s not magic or out of reach. It is just good old fashioned, down to earth, hard work. But at the same J-Lo gives the listener a boost by sharing her thoughts on Glamour & Beauty. It is nice to hear this advice from a pro because, for most of us, we struggle on a daily bases about how look good! Jennifer Lopez is reassuring and empowering at the same time.
Strategy
The above ideas can be transferred -super effectively- into conversational situations if you are the speaker. It will make people want to listen to you while feeling good about themselves. This strategy is creates a type of magnetism around the speaker. The listener feels they can trust the speaker or relate to you because you are like them. However, consciously or subconsciously, the listener feels you (the speaker) are in some way ahead of them or doing better than them in some aspect of life. Listeners will be drawn to you. With this feeling developed in the listener, the speaker can then create a sense of empowerment: ‘You can do it to!’ or ‘You can be like me! It’s not impossible!’ With these emotions established within the listener, the listener will listen more, want more, and ask more questions. And if they try and use your ideas successfully, they will come back for more. As adult relationship research has revealed, people tend to respond positively to people they feel are similar to themselves even if they are not in reality. J-Lo is a master! The listener feels like J-Lo and is empowered to become like J-Lo without even knowing it. And of course, in reality, not many people in the world are even close to having similar lives as J-Lo. J-Lo is a superstar celebrity that is off the charts in music, acting, beauty, glamour, and a thousand other things! However, we will happily come back for more!
Give it a Try! Let your J-Lo loose!
Try it out with a friend! It can be a lot of fun! To come across smooth, confident, and enthusiastic, a speaker’s answers must be practiced and detailed. Over time you will refine them to suite your style!
Here some fill in the blanks with your own Glamour & Beauty Style. Fill in the blanks might feel a bit weird or phony but, in reality, celebrities also script their answers for the media.
Question 1: What is your beauty routine?
Your Glamorous Answer 1: My routine is really basic. I don't have any crazy secrets, like __________ or whatever! I just try to take care of myself, because it's so easy to get lazy, and not ___________________________________________________.
Question 2: What is the first thing you do when you get up in the morning?
Answer 2: I ___________________________________________________.
Question 3: How do you get that wonderful glow to your skin?
Answer 3: I've always taken good care of my skin. I ___________________________________________________.
Question 4: What products are always in your beauty bag?
Answer 4: J-Lo: I usually have lip gloss in there, and ________, ________ and ________. That's about it. Oh, and I love ________ too.
If you are finding it a bit difficult try what J-Lo does, make a Glamour & Beauty statement. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar! Just write an idea or two. Don’t stress out about it! Leave it for a day and then look at it again. It will help you to rough out your own personal ideas of Glamour & Beauty!
Take care Glamour & Beauty Icons and I will see you next week!
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maxi dress - Obey, from Bamboo Ballroom, chambray - KUT from Black & Bold, sandals - F21, all accessories - H & M
I wore this outfit to meet my friends at a chocolate cafe this past weekend. Yes, you read that right - a CHOCOLATE CAFE, aka HEAVEN! It's called Cocoo Chocalatiers. Although I didn't have any chocolate while I was there (I know, am I crazy??) besides a tiny truffle sample, I opted for the vanilla cherry gelato which was amazing, just like it sounds. It was so hot that day, like 30 degrees celsius (side note - when I was eight years old I swore I'd name my future daughter "Celsius," luckily that was just a passing phase along with wearing my clothes inside out and backwards, a la Kris Kross circa 1991) but there was air-conditioning inside the cafe so I had to make sure I was prepared for the difference in temps. So I opted for a slinky, breathable mid-maxi dress for outside and a light, chambray shirt to layer over it when I was inside. It's all about the layers! Especially when you live in Canada ; ).
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With the advent of Champs Camp this week, it has suddenly dawned on me that he is, in fact, truly, actually, seriously, you know, COMPETING. THIS. SEASON.O.O(Original photo tweeted by Victor on Saturday: "@JohnnyGWeir buying stickers. Didn't realize this would be such an event." I have no idea what the stickers were for, but I can completely understand spending hours at Staples debating the
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Johnny and Victor at the Jaguar CHILL NY event on Friday.
Yes! Victor's wearing skates!
And Johnny's wearing attractive shoe covers
to aid in navigating the artificial skating surface,
or "plice," but whatever. THIS PIC. ♥
Well. We had hardly recovered from the fabulousness that was Jaguar meets Johnny aka Sparkly McSparklepants (thank you, @zhonnika) at the CHILL NY event last
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Johnny at the Jaguar press conference at The Highline in NYC on Thursday.Would you buy a new or used car from this man? Absolutely. And whatever else he's selling. We'll take five.
So a few months ago when Johnny joined Instagram, some of us were amused to see that on his Instagram profile, he described himself thusly: "Two-time Olympic figure skater, Reality TV Star, Movie Star, Recording
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really he could sell us anything from cars to vacuums to ice cream at the North Pole yep we’ll take it all /
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Okay, so I have to say that I just love this couple! Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux both seem like really cool, down-to-earth, genuine, fun people. (Did you see Justin breakdance on Ellen???) I was so happy to hear of their engagement this week! I think Jen deserves the world after that one-legged home-wrecker (what's her name? Angelina something??) stole her husband years ago and left her broken-hearted and humiliated and then Brad and Angie started adopting and pushing out a village of kids and I felt so sorry for Jen because she said she wanted children so badly and she dated a lot of guys but none of them stuck - including John Mayer who ended up being a total douche - and the media and everyone else felt sorry for her because she seemed destined for singledom for the rest of her life and it was always "Poor Jen Aniston, she can't keep a man" and I was like, "Leave the girl alone! As long as she's happy it doesn't matter! Fools!" But I won't get into that, what I really want to highlight here is Jen and Justin's effortless style. It's so casual-cool and laid-back! And it seems like since they began dating, Jen has started to dress a bit edgier, like her stylish actor/director/writer/buns-of-steel fiancee. I'm loving her relaxed outfits and the way she accessorizes. I don't know about you but I can't wait to see what they wear to their wedding!
Which celebrity couple's style do you most admire? And if you say Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton I'm sorry, we can no longer be friends.
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So I had two giveaways going on at the same time so I thought I'd announce the winners of each contest at the same time as well. First I'd like to thank all of you who entered these giveaways! And thank you of course to Cara Cotter of So Pretty Jewelry and the kind peeps at London Drugs Cosmetics for being so generous and sponsoring them.
Congratulations!!! I'll be getting in contact with you both via email shortly.
Have a great day everyone! And by 'great' I mean AWESOME.
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Photo tweeted by Johnny last Saturday: "Loved my night at @PushkinNY with @vitya_zvesda @prncessjax and #Jared." And we love this pic.
Oh hai!
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I'm just now digging out from under the avalanche of messages, emails, DMs, etc., generated by last week's fan-tastrophe known as That Thing That Happened Of Which We Shall Never Speak Again, and so today we get to catch up on
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With 22 Olympic medals, Michael Phelps has set a new record! Michael also now holds the record for having the most gold medals – 18. He is truly an incredible aquatic athlete getting a lot of world attention!
This week let’s take a look at one of Michael’s key supporters – his mom - Debbie Phelps. I always find it interesting to take a behind the scenes look at people who achieve greatness. Specifically, I am interested in language and ideas. So, this week is an excerpt of Debbie Phelps’ parenting ideas and talking style.
Interview
Interviewer: What types of ideas do you feel are important for raising a child?
Debbie Phelps: Kids, they need boundaries, limitations, routine and consistency. That’s what I tried to do with Michael. Every day after school, he would put his back pack in the same place in our house, maybe go shoot some hoops, come in for a nutritious snack, and then pack his bag for swim practice. He followed his daily schedule on a regular basis. He knew his stuff had to be done in order to go swimming.
Interviewer: So did you say to him "Michael, you can't go to swimming unless your stuff is done?"
Debbie Phelps: The words "no" and "can't" aren't really in my vocabulary, so I would just say, "before you go to swimming, you need to do your work. Are you able to accomplish that?”
Interviewer: So swimming helped him get organized.
Debbie Phelps: Absolutely. Any sport teaches kids the characteristics and strengths they need - respect, responsibility, getting along with others, success, and taking unsuccessful moments and turning them around to something positive. The pool was really good for Michael. It's a huge rectangle with boundaries. In a pool, there are only so many places you can go. Just back and forth, back and forth. So he was always within his element, within his comfort zone.
Ideas
With regards to raising a child, structured consistency in a safe environment seems to be one of the more important ideas for Debbie. Debbie feels that the sports, and particularly a swimming pool setting, are ideal growth environments along with ideas such as respect, responsibility, socialization, success, and creating positive situations from negative ones. Moreover, setting boundaries with a positive question style is another corner stone to Debbie’s beliefs. Debbie uses swimming as a reward tool. If your work (school work) is done, then you can go enjoy swimming.
Language Style
“The words ‘no’ and ‘can't’ aren't really in my vocabulary…”
Debbie presents herself as a positive role model in that she avoids the use of ‘no’ and ‘can’t’. Michael was always told that he needed to finish his work first and then he could swim. An interesting, positive question Debbie used was: “Are you able to accomplish that?” In other words, Can you handle school and sports commitments at the same time? School comes first and sports next in Debbie’s thoughts. She could have said, “You can’t go swimming unless you finish your homework! or “No swimming until your homework is done!” Instead she talked to her young son, as a young adult. Debbie is firm but fair and positively oriented at the same time. Pretty cool! She is probably quite a positive, social person herself.
How about you? What do you think?
1.What do you think are important ideas for raising a child?
2.What are your personal experiences with sports and personal growth?
3.What are some positive ways we can ask or get people to do what we want/need without saying ‘no’ or ‘can’t’?
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dress - Asos, wedges (otherwise known as my "Barbie shoes")- Spring, necklace + rings - H & M, gold cuff - Banana Republic
I hate to say it (like reeeeally hate to say it) but the end of summer is near and I am trying to squeeze every last, itty-bitty drop out of the season by getting as much wear as I possibly can out of summer dresses I won't be able to slip into in a month when the temperature slips and dips and all I'll want to wear are cardigans, jeans, boots and scarves. I love the fall but love the summer even more and I don't want it to end! Especially since I live in a climate where winter can last 8 months a year! Yes, you heard that right. O, Canada.....
I wore this dress to my cousin's birthday celebration at my aunt's house. Somehow the party ended up with me and my relatives searching and watching funny Youtube videos on a big-screen TV.Most of them featured animals, like this one.Who says we don't know how to have a good time?! ; )
I hope you all had a great weekend and I wish you a wonderful week!
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LOL. I love this meme so much. Original photo courtesy of Anastasia Pryanikova. If you haven't yet caught McKayla-Is-Not-Impressed fever, here's a quick primer: It's the first Internet meme to come out of London 2012, based on the reaction of US gymnast McKayla Maroney to just missing the gold medal in the ladies' vault final. You can read about the meme here, and see 8 million hilarious examples
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4. Boat ride on the lake, before a nasty storm. Luckily we got to shore in time!
My cousin's cat gave birth to six adorable kittens a couple of days ago and I went over to see them yesterday! Aren't they the sweetest? This is kind of a gross story but my cousin and his girlfriend were sleeping in their bed and the Mama cat was in between them and all of a sudden my cousin wakes up and the Mom is giving birth in the bed. I guess she was comfortable enough right there to pop out her kids one by one ; ). It scarred my cousin for life however! Anyways, I just realized this post has a lot of pics of cats. I swear I'm not a crazy cat lady! I only have one cat. And I'm allergic to her so I couldn't have 10-plus cats even if I wanted to.
All photos via instagram @mariealamode
Thank you to those of you who voted for me in the Vince Camuto Canada's Step Up & Style contest. (You can vote here if you haven't and would like to, all you have to do is 'Like' my photo on Facebook. Thanks guys! I appreciate your support!)
And thank you to The Backseat Stylers for featuring me in their lookbook last week! You can check out that post here.
Happy almost-weekend : ).
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(I usually don't post this many pics of one outfit but Harvey did such a good job with the photos that I just had to! He found this abandoned television set in the middle of nowhere. It's probably still there.)
Good news for Canadians! Vince Camuto is coming to our homeland this fall with a complete life-style collection including footwear, ready to wear, handbags, jewelry and sunglasses! To celebrate, they are sponsoring a contest called Step-Up & Style and I'm a part of it! If you like my outfit I would so appreciate it if you would vote for me and 'Like' my look on the Vince Camuto Facebook page between August 7th and 13th. Four winners from across Canada will be chosen based on the amount of 'Likes' they have as well as their creativity and how well the look reflects the Vince Camuto design aesthetic. The prize? A generous gift card to Vince Camuto. So if you'd like to vote for me please do so here! Thanks so much! I will love you forever ; ).
How was your weekend? We had a long weekend here in Canada and I spent most of it at my family's cabin at the lake. It was so relaxing and we spent a few hours cruising on my Aunt's pontoon boat, basking in the sunshine. D. caught two fish but the animal-lover in me convinced him to release them ; ).
Have a great week!
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