Remember what I said about this look
Love this, perfect.
I take back what I said about the stylist intervention. It happened here and it’s still all wrong.
WRONG, Sienna, so very wrong.
UPDATE: Hi BuzzFeed Readers, thanks for coming by. Please comment on the comparison if you feel like 🙂
The Essential Toolbag by S. Stein
I fell in love with this bag which takes on the tool belt and makes it fabulous, such kitsch. I love all the pockets. They are always more of a pain in the ass than anything. I spend so much time looking for my keys or lip balm because of all the pockets. I still love them though, totally makes no sense. The bag is made of industrial strength canvas and has suede pockets.
Inspired by the high functionality and natural materials of classic carpenter bags and toolbelts; reinterpreted for the modern industrious woman.
Not sold in stores here but available online.
via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
images: ssteindesign.com
The upgrade hasn’t gone as smoothly as I would have liked. You will find the comments are broken. I also have to fix some things with plugins. Sigh. My friends list is pooched for now too. It will be back once I fix the widgets issue.
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UPDATE: All functionality should be working correctly now. What a pain in the ass.
Please be patient as I am upgrading to WordPress 2.1
Hopefully this goes smoothly.
UPDATE: Calling this off for now. It needs more planning.
UPDATE UPDATE: I was wrong. Site is now WordPress 2.1. I’m fixing my themes now.
Sometimes readers ask me questions. If they are of value to all my readers I post them online. If you have a question, please feel free to submit it using the contact form. I’ll definitely do my best to answer it.
Dai S wrote:
Hi geekigirl,
I like checking out your blog but it does give me a certain sense of envy. You see, I live in Winnipeg, where there a few fun boutiques and big box and mall stores rule.
My question for you is regarding Canadian online shoe stores. While there are plenty of ones in the States, I don’t like considering the duty and exchange. I am aware of softmoc.ca here shipping in Canada but would love to know if you have come across any others.
Thanks!
Dai
This post needs and update and here I am to do that. Online shopping is getting better in Canada. There are some new additions for online shoe shopping.
Online shopping in Canada isn’t very good most of the time. Things are slowly changing though as one of the big players in Canadian shoes is going online, Browns. They aren’t quite live yet, but if you sign up for the announcement you will get a coupon for $25 bucks.
There are others that offer online service:
NEW – Jonathan and Olivia – Has online shopping and they sell shoes
NEW – SSENSE.com – Has a good selection of designer shoes
NEW – Town Shoes – It’s not exactly e-commerce but you can order shoes online.
NEW – Adidas – Has a Canadian online portal
NEW – Shoebuy.ca
NEW – Locale Shoes
NEW – The Shoe Company
Browns – is now open and not in holding as mentioned in the original post.
Getoutside – Toronto based shop
Canada.Zappos.com They shut down this service.
Reborn – Reborn has a small collection of shoes from brands like Acne, Scott Wilson, Surface to Air and Opening Ceremony.
Sydneys’ – Offers a small collection of men’s shoes
Nine West – Orders taken via phone and delivered via Purolator
Groovy Shoes – Queen West staple
Neon Clothing – Supplier of Dr. Martens
Gravity Pope – They have retail outlets in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. They do online sales but their backoffice is not hooked up to the site. It’s a bit of a manual process but they will take your order and deliver your shoes.
Aldo Shoes – You probably can got the mall and see Aldo, but they deliver too.
Sportmart for you athletic shoes.
Adidas – More sporting needs although they do have cute casual shoes too.
Naturalizer ships shoes via BorderFree, which calculates the duties and taxes at point of purchase.
Tony’s Shoes – They reside in Montreal
Concete Beach skateware
Jeanne Lottie – The handbag queen also does shoes.
Mona Moore – High end shoes to be found here Relocated to the US.
Dayton Boots – From Vancouver, they product motorcycle boots primarly for men.
Ron White – Will soon be opening an online store. Sign up for notification
Nicks Custom boots – He has a pair of beautiful riding boots
Just Black Shoes – Mostly Men’s shoes but small selection of women’s
Sole Stop – Sneakers online
Forzieri Italian Shoes – The company will pay the taxes and duties.
Some shoe store links came from filly.ca a site from Halifax.
There are a lot more stores than I thought. Remember Caveat Emptor, I haven’t used any of these services.
I thought I want – I got had a great boxing day; about 800 people visited the site that day looking for shopping bargains. I knew that the Lululemon warehouse sale would bring people here, but I had no idea how many. Thursday saw about 1100 visitors. My searches were all for lululemon, it has been insane over the last few days. I’ve finally broken the 1000 visitor mark, YAY!. Thanks to all the people who posted comments about their Lululemon experience.
I wrote about wanting this Marc Jacobs cape in the fall. I happened to see a few of them at Holt Renfrew yesterday on sale. It looks like they didn’t sell to well because there were few left over. They even had one in my size, sigh. It was still not cheap enough for me to buy it.
My mission on Boxing Day was to get some cheap Hunter Wellys. Some stores discounted them a little bit like TNT, Over the Rainbow, Aritiza and Capezio. Heel Boy didn’t even put them on sale and they aren’t part of the 2 for 1 sale they are having right now. I almost bought them from Heel Boy until I found out they weren’t part of the sale. I decided to wait it out and I’m glad I did because Over the Rainbow brought out the big guns, 50% off. The last pair in blue were a 38; it was like they were waiting for me.
So, if you are looking for Hunter Wellingtons on the cheap, hit up Over the Rainbow. They had a bunch of green ones left and some of another style, The Hunter Lady N. Get them while they last. There is also a lot of other stuff on sale tshirts, tons of denim and sweaters. If anyone is looking for a full length Triple Five Soul jacket they should go very soon. There are about 6 or 7 left and there are small sizes too. I remember telling one of the staff at the Bata Shoe Museum about the sample sale and gave her my site url. I hope she reads this. 🙂
images: hunterboots.com
I got an email from the Sweetspot people today and they did a spot on Jack&Marjorie, which was very cool. I hope this turns into a lot of handbag orders for you.
Read more about Jack & Marjorie at blogto.com
Designer Files: Meghan Parsons
Y5 Trunk Shows
It started on the radio
Adrian at Fashion.Verbatim has tagged me with the 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me meme.
Ahh were to start.
1. I competed at the Junior National Track and Field Championships, 1994 in Sherbrooke, Quebec. I was an athletic freak in my younger days. I usually played at least 4 sports a year during high school. Now, I just play squash.
2. I wanted to work in the Coroner office when I was in grade 12. I learned you needed a medical degree to be a Coroner. After second year I learned that I wasn’t cut out for medical school. Organic chemistry killed that dream. I didn’t have the dedication to studying that was required, I liked having a social life.
3. I am one of the founders of YAMA – The York University Anime and Manga club. I was an anime freak in university. I’ve calmed down a lot since then but still love my Ghost in the Shell.
4. I work purple platform loafers to my graduation ceremony from York University. It was the late nineties and these things we still in.
When it was my turn to get up and grab the paper I did a quick two step dance slide with arm action on the stage before I started shaking hands with the school president and other big wigs. The crowd loved it, I still regret not buying that ceremony video. Any York graduates from 1998 B.Sc. that have the video, please rip it for me. 😀
5. I almost named my cats Carl and Sagan in honour of Carl Sagan, my favourite scientist. It was overkill though so I just named one Sagan.
I don’t know who to tag right now so it ends here for now.
