The Petit Plume Giveaway Winner is......

PetiteXXS!!!!!!  

 I used www.random.org but had no clue how to copy and paste the results here, so I hope you will all trust in me!


Congratulations PetiteXXS - I will email you for your contact information :)

OOTD: Wardrobe Dissection

I hope everyone had a great weekend!  It was a beautiful weekend here, sunny and Fall like.  There are a lot of crunchy leaves on the ground already though eeek!

This outfit is of a shirt I've had for a really long time.  I forgot that I had it as it was waaaay in the back of one of my drawers.  I decided to pull it out and start wearing it again.

Shirt:  Le Chateau size XS (really old!)

Jeans:  Good old Gap Jean Leggings - I think I'm wearing these too much!

Get them here and here or here remember I'm wearing regular length in 00!

Booties:  Me Too NY size 7

Necklace:  Avon

Not sure why I'm making such a strange face here!   Do you guys have trouble smiling for the camera?  Every time I think I'm smiling I'm not or it comes out all goofy like this!

Here's the back view - I'm don't think this top is exactly petite friendly - I'm not sure about the length and the chest area is definitely too big!   But this shirt is really lightweight and I find I can easily tuck it into pants and skirts without any bulge.  

Thoughts?

Often my hair does really funny things, and on days like that up it goes!   But I was feeling a little fancy so I threw on my Petit Plume Simone headband.

Remember....Tomorrow is the LAST DAY to enter my 

Petit Plume Giveaway!!!!!

Enter until Monday October 18th midnight EST!

OOTD: Subtle Accents

Does anyone else feel in a rut or is it just me?  I'm going to blame it on the weather.  The past few days in Toronto have been gloomy and cloudy and cold!  All I want to do is stay in my pj's all comfy and cozy in my bed.  But unfortunately I have to pay the bills and as casual as my work is I'm not sure pj's would cut it!

This is an example of an outfit I didn't really put much thought into.  Basic jeans, simple top.  To make it more professional I threw on my new favorite LOFT blazer.

Blazer:  LOFT size 0P (as seen here all dressed up)

Top:  Mexx XS

Jeans:  Aeropostale size 0 short

Bag:  Coach

Shoes:  Liz Claiborne size 7

oops!  Wasn't ready for the shot!

Without the blazer (boring!)

So because the entire outfit was VERY neutral I wanted to add a splash of colour with the bag (this is one of my favorites even though it's so big!)  and the shoes:

These shoes are my only other item in leopard print as I mentioned in this post.

So that was my attempt at some subtle accents when I wasn't feeling all that hot.  My hair was even doing some weird thing so up in a pony tail it went.  Speaking of hair for anyone that has bangs how do you get them to not split like mine do???  I assume I need to "train" them to stay in place?  The problem is my hair is curly so I don't always wear them down and have to blow dry them straight to look like that.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Oh and if you haven't done so already, please enter my first giveaway featuring Petit Plume.   And please (without sounding too desperate :P)  Tell your friends about it too! :)

 **** you have until Monday October 18th - midnight EST to enter!****

Petit Plume Giveaway!!!!

I was so excited when Eugenia of Petit Plume agreed to sponsor my first giveaway!!!  I was thinking I should do a giveaway in honour of my 50th post, or getting 50 followers or something significant.  But I'm really bad with getting my posts up on time so really this is just a giveaway because I feel like it LOL!

If you remember, a while back I ordered a few items from Petit Plume and did a review in this this post and I wore one of the items to accessorize my belt seen here.

I fell in love with almost every piece - I had to hold myself back from ordering everything!  I love that her pieces are completely handmade and so unique.

Here are the items up for grabs - note there will be ONE winner and they will receive BOTH items:

Hair pin / Brooch

Hand drawn screen printed T-shirt - pictured on Me!

The t-shirt is a size large, so may be big on many of the petite ladies, but as you can see it's not huge on me, and it's really comfortable!

Here are more pictures of the giveaway items:

You can check out all of Eugenia's creations at her etsy store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/petitplume or on her website: http://www.petitplume.com/home.html

How do you enter?

Mandatory Entry:  Be a public follower of my blog and follow Petit Plume through her blog, facebook or twitter.  Visit Petit Plume's website and let me know which is your favorite piece.  Leave a comment below letting me know which way you are following Petit Plume and also a way for me to contact you.  If you don't want to leave a comment but would still like to be entered email me:  curls(dot)pearls(at)gmail(dot)com.

The winner will be chosen at random using random.org

For extra entries:
(+1) Blog about this giveaway.  Leave a comment below with a link to your post
(+1) Follow me on Twitter!

**** you have until Monday October 18th - midnight EST to enter!****

New twist on an old discovery

So the other day I was going through my closet and found this lovely shirt dress that I forgot I had!  I put it on and the fit was great, but I remembered why I didn't wear it very often.  Because it was a shirt dress with buttons going all the way down I wasn't comfortable wearing just my underwear and bra underneath.

BUT upon further inspection of my drawers I found a slip that my mom gave to me.  A little big but only I new that and it did the trick:

Dress: H&M size 2
Slip:  mom's
Belt:  Danier
Flower clip: Petit Plume (see review here)

Not really sure if being able to see your slip is a faux pas or not - I'm sure my mom would think so, but I kind of liked the slip peaking out from this dress.  Hey it's better than exposing myself, right?

I initially wanted to wear the flower in my hair that day, but I was lazy to put my hair up so I decided to clip it to the belt.  I like how it turned out.  Adding a new colour and pattern to the outfit in a subtle manner.

That's all for now!  Had a crazy busy weekend but it was super fun celebrating a close friend's upcoming wedding :)  Hope everyone else had a great weekend too!

OOTD and a Petit Plume Review

Being the non-creative person that I am, I can't think of anything clever for this blog title so I'll just call it what it is!

Here is what I wore to work today (remember, my work is SUPER casual - this outfit is actually dressed up for most people at work!)

Top:  Banana Republic PXXS

Capris:  dcasual (Dynamite) size 1

Earrings:  Avon

I picked up this top on my last trip to the states back in June.  It's super comfortable and I love the colour.  Even though I was too lazy to make any real effort with my outfit at least I felt bright and cheery!  The capris are REALLY old, I honestly can't even remember when I got them.  They are from a Canadian store called Dynamite.

On to a more exciting topic,  I received a wonderful package in the mail today from an Etsy seller Eugenia of Petit Plume:

Isn't her card so cute?

Top:  Simone headband (different jewel)

Right:  Delaney hair clip

Bottom:  a gift!  flower pin

Here are some close up shots:

Unfortunately the wood the delaney flower pin was clipped to broke during transit :(

And the lovely note Eugenia sent with my purchases:

I CANNOT wait to wear all my new items!  Thank you so much Eugenia :)