here's to the meantime

These photos were taken for an issue of Japan's Glamorous magazine. I have no idea if it's out yet (where on earth does one find Japanese magazines in Toronto?!), but I thought I'd post them while the weather outside is frightful, making taking any outfit pictures absolutely impossible. I'm eager to post some pieces I got for Christmas / Boxing Day, but they may have to wait until I'm in sunny Palm Beach one week from now. How was everyone's Christmases? I hope everyone had a lovely time with family and friends, and that Santa brought everything you wanted!

xo E

it's time for mistletoe and holly

Today I went to a Christmas party and wore this vintage dress, which I'm totally obsessed with. I'm having such a lovely time on my winter holidays, staying at my parents' house, seeing friends I haven't seen in ages, and finally reading all the books that I've been dying to read all semester. Currently on my nightstand: Life by Keith Richards, Blow By Blow by Detmar Blow, and The Little Distrubance of Man by Grace Paley. The coat I'm wearing in these photos is one I used to wear as a child. We found it in storage, and before giving it away I tried it on. It is the PERFECT cropped sleeve coat, made even better when I attach my fur collar. I'll try to post again before Christmas, but if not, I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

Wearing: Vintage everything, my childhood coat, a vintage Coach purse, my Godmother's charm bracelet and Ferragamo shoes

xo from E and puppy Bella T. Clark
(p.s. I got a lot of questions about what nailpolishes I was wearing in my last post, I was wearing OPI's "Mod About You", and today I'm wearing "Smitten with Mittens", possibly the best nail polish name of all time)

goodbye ruby tuesday

Hi All.
Lately I've been:

• studying for my final exam en français
• finishing "Just Kids" by Patti Smith. It's probably one of the best memoirs I've ever read. I highly, highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the early 70's scene in NYC. It's so inspiring to follow her journey with Robert Mapplethrope, and absolutely heartbreaking towards the end. It's a beautiful elegy to the true ground-breaking genius that he was
• emailing back and forth with my love miss Frassy. Check out the new ad on my sidebar for her blog and amazing vintage shop Frassy Rags!
• kind of changing up my look. I'm not sure if I've caught the Alexa Chung bug or if I've been listening to too much France Gall, but something about looking a little more girly and put together is really appealing right now. Give me princess cut coats, pleated skirts, peter pan collars and anything velvet and mini. I tend to dress a little more ladylike when I'm in Palm Beach, and since I'll be heading there again in just a few weeks, maybe the trend is just starting early.
• going to afternoon tea with my Mum, at the same tea room we've been going to ever since I was a toddler. It's in a restored house built in 1885, and it serves the best scones as cream tea.

(wearing NastyGal Vintage "Alexa" dress, vintage Dooney & Bourke purse and vintage Ferragamo oxfords)
xo E

LouLou Beauty Challenge

Hi All,
A few weeks ago, I mentioned taking a quick trip to Montreal, and now I can finally tell you all about it! LouLou Magazine flew Cindy from True North Style and I to Montreal for a night for us to be featured in their beauty challenge! 3 bloggers and 3 editors from the magazine were given one of 6 famous celebrity looks. I was given Blake Lively's golden waves, which I was super excited about. I don't often have hair envy, but I've always loved Blake's beachy waves.

If you head over to the website, you can see the exact steps for achieving the Blake Lively look here: www.louloumagazine.com/beautychallenge. And click here to see a video of the process: HEREWe had to wake up at 6 am for our 7 o'clock call time (the earliest I've been up in years!). When we checked in the night before, it was dark, so it was amazing to open the drapes in our hotel room the next morning. The sun was barely up, but the view from our room was so gorgeous.Sitting in the makeup chair. You can't tell, but I'm actually sleeping in this picture. Almost. LouLou asked us to try and recreate our looks this weekend based on the instructions in the video. For a girl who only likes to spend 5 minutes on my hair, the process took a little more time than I'm used to, but I love the look. It didn't turn out quite as well as Amelie did it, but not bad for my first try! One of the best parts of the trip was getting to meet some of the bloggers I've been in contact with since almost the beginning of my blog like Stephanie from Le Cheap C'est Chic and Stephanie from Modern Antoinette, as well as meeting and travelling with Cindy from True North Style. We had a great dinner out at La Salle a Manger the night we arrived and a great time shooting the next day, despite the early hours! Thumbs up for a fun shoot. Thank you so much LouLou, Steph and Rosalie!