the big t.

Tomorrow Riis and I are going to Toronto.  I have been waiting for this trip for five months, and let me tell you....my Visa card is about to get an ass kicking unlike anything it has ever seen before.   

I can't wait!

welcome to margaritaville.

With summer fast approaching, I dug deep into my vast pool of cocktail knowledge and pulled up a cocktail recipe sure to please any margarita lover. 

A huge fan of the classic lime margarita, I figured that this Blood Orange Margarita would be a nice change of pace from the original.

Besides, after a long hot day at work, there is no better way to  unwind, than to kick off your shoes and enjoy a cocktail, jimmy buffet style.  

 

To start, salt the rim of a set of rocks glasses using a lime wedge, and very course salt. 

To a cocktail shaker, add:

- 2 oz tequila (Silver tequila works best for margaritas, try Sauza Blanco or Sauza Hornitos)

- 1 1/2 oz fresh lime juice

- 3/4 oz orange liqueur (I like Triple Sec)

- 1/2 oz simple syrup (make this by boiling one part sugar, with one part water, until sugar dissolves and a syrupy consistency forms)

- 3/4 oz blood orange puree

Garnish with a lime wheel, and a blood orange wheel.

Put on your summer dresses and enjoy!

fashionable to a "tea".

Always one for horoscopes and believing in destiny, I daily check my Tazo tea fortune, while having my Awake tea every morning. 

Today it said: "The journey will be long, wear sensible shoes."

I laughed out loud. I don't own sensible shoes. Even the shoes I wear to work aren't that sensible and this is probably why  my back hurts and my feet are covered in calluses and blisters, but so what. My shoes are fabulous and I don't care.

I was a little excited about the message though. I know that this coming year is going to be a big one for me.   New city, new school, new opportunities, new friends.  Trying to find  a balance between embracing these changes, and holding onto the things, and people I hold closest to my heart. I have a lot of insecurities, a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of fears, but so much excitement that I can hardly bear it. 

It's not just Toronto, the most fantastic city in the world, it's the fact that I am just one small step closer to being the person I want to be.  One step closer to having that dream job, and being completely, well, complete.  

I know that it's going to be a long journey, but I am positive that it will be a fabulous, fashionable journey, chalk full of very insensible footwear.

Because fashion, well, that's my destiny.

I really like the transition hollywood it girls are making these days.   It seems that all the former hard partying socialite/movie stars are trading in their heroin for chic style and grace. 

Nicole Richie went from being a spoiled, drug using wild child, to a loving, doting mom to her fifteen month old daughter Harlow Winter.  Now pregnant with her second child, it appears that Ms. Richie has shed her party hard ways for a sober life of domesticity, although never compromising her killer style.  I remember seeing pictures of her when she was eight months pregnant with Harlow, still sporting the 4 inch Louboutin heels.  She has an unwavering ability to look completely pulled together, whether she be rockin the red carpet, promoting her House of Harlow 1960 jewellery line*, or walking in LA with Joel and Harlow, she's rarely a fashion miss.  

Drew Barrymore was another Hollywood wild child.  In the public eye since the age of two, Drew was in rehab even before she turned twenty.  After a string of failed relationships, she has finally come into her own, and into her own style as well.  She has shed her hippie look for a more mature, bohemian meets rock and roll glamour that is entirely her own.  Instead of cringing at what Drew was sporting on the red carpet, I now look forward to see what she's chosen to wear.  As the face of Covergirl, she finally seems a lot more comfortable in her own skin.

I am so glad that these ladies have trading partying for fashion, because I love seeing what they will come up with next. 

*House of Harlow 1960 is now for sale at Holt Renfrew on Bloor Street, Toronto.