San Francisco Bound

I am so excited. I have my ticket booked and am heading to San Francisco in September.  I haven't been there for about a year.  There are several places I always hit when I'm there:

Number 1 Favorite and MUST go if you haven't: Cafe Gratitude
Its the best raw food cafe ever and you can spend the whole day in there, I LOVE it!!

Number 2 : DSW
Shoe shopping here is awesome and I always come home with several new pairs of shoes. The challenge for me is that I buy fancy shoes that are too fancy for work and then I don't end up wearing them that much

Number 3: Anthropologie
We don't have some of these great stores in Canada, at least not where I live, so its always fun to go to this store.  Even more than the clothes I love the collectibles they have.

I also saw this site on San Francisco Street Fashion.. some wild outfits if you ask me.. and so great!!!

I will add more to this list later, but for now:
 
What are YOUR favorite places to shop or visit in San Fran??

Daily Outfit: Coral kinda day

Sun today!! I love the color of this dress- it's coral. Everytime I wear it someone comments on the color.  It comes with its own belt but I like the pop of a wider dark colored belt instead.  I feel abit matronly in shirt dresses so this style is not top on my list- I prefer flowing movement, or straight and fitted.

This wall was painted by the kids at the elementary school and I am beginning to get more adventurous with locations for pictures and opportunities for playing with the camera.

I'm thinking about organizing a clothing swap sometime in the fall and having a girls get-together where we can drink some bevvies (read WINE) and swap out clothes.  Am off for a run and then back for a nice BBQ Salmon dinner.  Later Gaters.

Daily Outfit: Blue jeans

What is with the weather in Victoria? It was cold and like fall this morning so I had to pull out some long pants. 18 days until my big Ironman race. Part of my fashion dilemma is that my quads are getting too big and my skinny jeans are getting too tight in the upper leg.  The waist of most of my pants and shorts are too big and the butt is all saggy.  A good problem to have, I guess, but not when I comes to pant-wearing.

We canned about 50lbs of peaches this weekend so here I am modeling the peaches and a  random black bird...

Daily Outfit: Blending in

Today I wore this really comfy dress which I thought looked good in until I saw myself in these photos. My inside voice is saying " this looks like a dull green sack".  At lunchtime, in the rain, I went to the park with  my tripod so I could play around with whitebalance and other settings on the camera.  I am posting my outfit despite what I think about it.  I was wondering if it were the color, but even at that, I dont think it would be much different.  I am not creative enough at this point in my fashion journey to see what could enhance it.  Any comments?  Team Keep-it or  Team Chuck-it?

This is my little buddy.  He knows how to wear color well!  I asked for some fashion advice and he just ran away from me saying something about 'frumpy'...

How to determine your body type

Taken from thechicfashionista:This is a very generic approach, and is meant to have you focus on your overall frame.  It is best to do this with no clothes on and use a full-length mirror.

1. Step a few feet away from a full-length mirror and blur out your boobs, neck, the length of your legs and arms, and observe your overall body shape. Do this naked as underwear can also disguise what's really there. For example: Wearing boy shorts can emphasize your hips and make you look more bottom heavy ;-)

2. Now, focus on the shape of your torso. And visualize a dress form -- shoulders to hips.

It's the contours of your silhouette that will determine the line and the clothing shapes that are best for your body.

Note: If you gain weight, pay attention to where the pounds get stored, because that's often a clue to what type of body shape you have.  And now let's look at which category your body falls into:

The Body Shapes -- there are 5 main combinations of torso proportions:

• Pear: Torso and upper body smaller than your hips -- with waist definition
• Inverted triangle: Torso and upper body wider than your ships -- with little waist definition
• Rectangle: Torso and upper body are the same width as your hips -- little waist definition
• Hourglass: Torso and hips are approximately the same width -- with waist definition
• Apple: Torso and upper body wider than your hips -- with little or no waist definition. You might have weight surrounding your waist.

Me personally would consider myself an hourglass shape since I know I look better in belted waists, fitted clothing etc.

Daily Outfit: It's a pink thang

Casual Friday.  I felt like I was wearing pj's to work today, oh so comfy.  I really love these pants actually.  I bought them last year and only wore them once- I never knew what to wear them with.  Here's me and my beloved kitty, the one I have to hold real tight while getting photo's taken :) or as my fiancé says " it looks like you're holding her hostage".

Saturday we have a big ride and run- 5 hours on the bike and followed by a 50 minute run. Can you say LEGS!

Daily Outfit : I match my bike

Today I had to ride my race bike up to the bike shop to get some adjustments to it.  I must mention that I LOVE my bike-- it is the bestest bike in the world, and following Rita's love of pink, my bike has pink on it as well!!

 

I had to wear something I could ride my bike in and the easiest option was walking shorts. While I should have been excited, I was rather frustrated this morning- let me tell you why.  I have about 4 pairs of cute walking shorts and when I tried them all on, they were WAY too baggy in the hips and butt.  Losing weight means that pants and shorts don't fit the same.  I ended up going with the black ones and using a belt that is even too big and grabbing my pair of Shoppers Drug Mart flip flops.  So girls, beware- this one is nothin fancy- but in the end, I actually match my bike (shear coincidence).

Look at MS Grouchy-face.  A bit of an aggressive model 'pout'...good thing I am my own photographer!!

Lovely Ladies: Rita

My favorite colour in the whole world (besides black) is pink.  All shades of pink, all contrasts having to do with pink.  I have pink sweaters, pink t-shirts, pink socks, pink scarves, pink undies (tee hee) and even pink shoes.  5 pairs to be exact.  I don't tend to wear them all the time, and sometimes I can go days without wearing the colour pink at all...but I love it.

My sister asked me awhile back, "why pink?" and I think because it is such a girly colour.  It has a "softness" in any shade.  It speaks "girl" to me.  I spent so much of my early adult life hiding behind big sweats and dark colours that when I finally emerged as this "butterfly" I found I actually liked being a girl.  I wanted people to see me as soft and strong at the same time.  That might be why I started wearing pink..but it's not why I continue to wear it.  The sweater in this photo is one of my new favorites.  It looks great on me, and works well with my skin tone.  It's bright and it makes me smile when I see myself in the mirror.  The more I smile at myself, the more I smile at the world and the more the world
 smiles back.  That's reason enough for me.

As for the necklace..it is one of my favorites.  I bought it on a flight from London to Vancouver, somewhere over Greenland to be specific from the duty free.  It spoke to me like only one other necklace has.  The fact that it says "dreams come true, forever" on it, that's my slogan for life.  And I figured if "they" put it on a necklace, I could certainly wear it proudly...although I think that slogan would look pretty darn great on a pink t-shirt too.

Daily Outfit: Skirt makes my eyes hurt

I wore my new skirt today and I love it!! Can't wait to wear it with pink.  When it comes right down to it, I do love black and white.  Not much to write tonight as I have to get into my grubbies and get busy canning peaches with the fiance.  Sounds fun doesn't it?

Daily Outfit: Red wrap take 1

Blue-Red is one of my favorite colors and so are wrap dresses.
What I Wore Today has some awesome tips on her blog. She has 2 posts in particular on wrap dresses:

• Multiple looks with one wrap dress
• Accessorizing a wrap dress

I am going to have to try some of her tips.  My other fav is a Zebra stripe wrap that I picked up in San Francisco.

 

This is my naughty closet-organizer look :)