Vlog: Boxing Week Shopping in Seattle

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for the outpouring of support in the blog comments and on Twitter. While I'm keeping busy with my new job, Solo Lisa is kicking off 2011 with a vlog recapping the spoils of a Boxing Week day trip down to Seattle. The mission: hit up Madewell, J. Crew, and Anthropologie. The result? Well, you'll have to watch the video or refer to the collage below to find out. (I realized afterward that you can't see the Anthropologie pieces properly, so I found web images for each item.) Enjoy!

Did you find any great deals during Boxing Week? Please do share in the comments.



P.S. In case you haven't seen it, gorgeous blogger Kelsey of The Anthology asked a bunch of Vancouver bloggers what their stylish New Year's resolutions were for 2011. Click here to find out mine.

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Vlog: Things I Bought After New York

In today's haul video, I talk about the purchases I've made since coming back from New York. (You can see my fave buys from that trip in this video.) It's a pretty eclectic mix of items including:

• Sophie Kinsella's latest book. I finished reading it after shooting the video and it's definitely a worthy giggle-inducing entry in the Shopaholic series.
• Gloves to get me through the winter. Find out what "text gloves" are by watching the vlog.
• A seventies-inspired blouse from Zara.
• Boots from Joe Fresh. I've worn them a couple times since shooting the video. The leather uppers are well-constructed and the insoles are comfortable enough, but the outer soles don't stand up well to walking on pavement. In fact, after wearing them twice I had to bring them to a cobbler and get a rubber sole put on the bottom to prevent the shoes from getting ruined.

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Vlog: Favourite NYC Buys

In today's vlog, I'm highlighting my favourite purchases from my recent trip to New York Just a couple of notes:

• My enthusiasm about the "Holy Grail of denim leggings" and "the perfect Thanksgiving pants" may have eclipsed my attempts at being articulate. The "bulge" I talk about is that annoying bulge that a zip fly creates over your abdomen when you wear longer tops that cover your skinny jeans.
• As much as I love how the drawstring waist on the Uniqlo denim leggings feels, I hate the way it looks. These leggings can be worn as pants, but only with longer tops or tunics that cover the waist.
• The video compression may have obscured the leggings and made them look a lot darker. For a better look, here they are on the Uniqlo website. They're $19.90 US.
• I have a pet theory based on the Pythagorean theorem that the heel height (a^2) a woman can tolerate is based on the length of her foot (c^2, or the hypotenuse). Since I have small size 6 feet, in my experience I can't do heels more than 3" high, and even then the sole needs to have some sort of platform. Hence my remarks about the Prada heels being an engineering miracle.

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First Vlog Ever!

All the cool kids like Erica from The Style Spy and Nicole from Le Mode du Jour were doing it, so why not? Shooting the video was a lot of fun...uploading a 783 MB file over the course of several hours and having it fail the first time around, not so much.

In this video:

• There's a shout-out to Nicole.
• You'll be hearing my voice for the first time (if you've never met me before, that is). How weird is that?!
• I blather on about why I tend to buy two of something.
• You can hear my mom yelling something about dinner at one point. Try to pinpoint the exact second this happens.
• I sound more obsessed with socks than I actually am.

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