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Ria goes to her First Ever Baby Shower!

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Today I went to my first ever baby shower & it was a lot of fun! I don’t have a lot of friends in Toronto who have kids so I don’t really get invited to a ton of baby showers!

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The radiant mom to be and CAKE! OM NOM NOM!

It was a baby shower for one of the nicest, kindest souls that I have the pleasure of being friends with. Emily I love you so much and you are going to be an incredible mom!

I met Emily about 4.5 years ago now through twitter. She is a Toronto based jewelry designer and all around awesome lady! Check out her creations —> HERE <—

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It’s blurry but just LOOK at me having a really good time :p

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One of the many photo ops

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Up close and personal with the cake because that’s just how I roll! 

Straws

gaaaah how cute are these straws?

Cupcakes

baby shower favours!

Baby shower favours for everyone to take home – handmade soup that says from Ruby Shower to yours! How cute!

If you haven’t guessed by now, the theme of the shower was flamingoes and it is a girl! Congratulations Em and Alan! I can’t wait to meet your little bundle of joy and babysit her!

P.S: We played games and I actually won one of them! HUZZAH!

Pixie-licious Giveaway!

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Here’s what you can win!

 

VEGAN LEATHER HANDBAG!

Interested? Then read on…

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I haven’t done a contest in a while and that’s because I am broke as hell and I’m running low on savings but that doesn’t mean I can’t share other fabulous contests!

Jack at Oh wow you wore that, (which is a lovely site by the way do check it out!), is having a contest over at facebook. It’s open to everyone and I mean EVERYONE because he will ship internationally! How cool is that?!

All you have to do is take a picture of your favorite outfit, accessory or a piece that you just can’t do without and post it either on Facebook or Twitter. Oh come on! I know you all have an outfit or accessory that you ADORE so why not win something?

Contest Rules:

1) Only one entry per person but you can post it on both Facebook and Twitter.

2) Link for Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/OhWowYouWoreThat?ref=stream. For Twitter, direct your tweet @wowyouworethat and use the hash tag #OWYWT

3) It will probably take you less than a minute to upload a picture so do participate!

4) What? you are still reading this? Get snapping!

5) I adore you guys! All right Bye now! Please excuse me as I drool over the rest of their offerings!

5 Things That Girls Do Post Break Up That We Shouldn’t Be Doing!

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So the title is a tad long but this has to be said! 

I get it… heartbreaks SUCK! You want to cry, you want to throw a tantrum or in extreme cases, ruin his life but HEY! heartbreaks are a part of life and SHIT JUST HAPPENS!

I remember my first major heartbreak…couldn’t eat for days, was distraught, blamed myself for everything and just freaking WANTED him! In short, I was going nuts!

And I know that I am not alone, a lot of us go through this but it’s time we stopped behaving stupidly due to heartbreaks! Below is a list of 5 things that girls do post break up that we shouldn’t be doing or at least be doing them in moderation!

1) Retail Therapy:

Hollywood has really glamorized this but just think about it for a second, so he broke your heart and the only way you think you can get over a heartbreak is by breaking your bank? Real smooth move!

Also, this is bad cause personally I have bought a lot of useless shit this way that I had no idea what to do with later!

 2) Haircut

I have not done this myself but just explain to me, why? Is he attached to your tresses? Your hair is awesome! Don’t cut it. Period.

Also, change is good but this could happen! 

3) Binge Eating

Ice cream is great but HEY GIRL! He is not worth those extra calories!

4) Turning into philosophers

Tweeting or blogging pictures like this. Need I say more?

It’s as if, ‘A heartbreak is like gaining a direct PhD in philosophy! I ain’t going to school for that sh*t!’

5) Behaving as if he is the only guy in the world!

He isn’t! Someone else is going to come along and chances are that he may be a douche as well!

This is how I look at it, being in a positive, good relationship is like achieving Nirvana and most of us are going to be stuck in this cycle for quite some time, so might as well BE AWESOME and logical!

STAY AWESOME!