walking along this road

Last Sunday one of my friends and I went to downtown Toronto to do some shopping and sightseeing on a street known as Queen Street West. It's a rather popular street due to it's highly...er...unique choice of shops. There are a variety of shops, such as vintage and thrift stores, current day stores (Aritzia, Aldo, Zara, H&M, etc.), record shops, stores selling various trinkets made by artists trying to break into the artistic career, small restaurants and coffee shops, some 18+ shops (if you catch my drift), street vendors; as well as the CTV station building and the Much Music building. There is simply just a HUGE variety of stores, and strolling along the street and popping into various shops is a lovely way to spend one's day.

Anyways, while there we visited a tons of shops, my favourites being a very small and cramped antique shop that housed various marvelous treasures, and a thrift store full of wonderful clothes. Since I've put myself on a budget I only purchase two dresses, both very lovely, that will be seen in future outfit posts. The day in general was very good. We both received free bottles of Vitamin Water (delicious), we saw a Harry Potter themed car that stood in front of a building that looked abandoned, but when we peered through the window we saw that it was decorated to look like a room that would be seen at Hogwarts; furthermore we both had fun doing some sightseeing and took lovely pictures in front of a very architecturally beautiful building. Since, we didn't have a chance to do everything we wanted, we're going back this weekend.

If anyone of you ever decide to come to visit Toronto, I highly recommend visiting QSW.

Ps. I thought I'd mention my reason for the gaps between posts, and that is simply due to the fact that I work full time during the week and my work clothes are certainly nothing blog worthy, so I'm spacing out my updates so I won't go 5 days without a post.

pomegranate-blueberry flavour.

shirts, Forever 21. skirt, Eddie Bauer. shoes, Birkenstock. bag, unknown. jewelry, gifts. belt, vintage.

"yes sir, i quite agree...good use of colour and oh, the concept is divine"

Today was extremely hectic, but an overall good day. My best friend and I started our day off with a quick trip to the mall to pick up some heels that were being fixed, and than we headed down to the cinema to see Confessions of a Shopaholic, a very funny and entertaining movie. After that, we went down to the Art Gallery of Ontario where we spent time looking at numerous lovely paintings. I have to say that I'm not very much into modern art, I don't understand it, and it's completely not my style, therefore, I was kind of disappointed that there was so much of it in the gallery. I prefer works of art depicting landscapes, and people that have been drawn from Shakespear's plays. It was fun to look at the works of art, but somehow my friend and I found the HUGE spiraling staircase the best form of artistic expression. It was terrible to climb up it, but really spectacular at the same time.

Only four days left of spring break!

dress, Forever 21. tights, unknown. shoes, Aldo. vest, vintage. all jewellery, vintage.
Here is the staircase that we climbed. It was really hard to take a picture, but it's extraordinary in real life.
I think I should mention that when we got to the top of this staircase, we were really dizzy and we felt sick to our stomachs. But right at the top we saw a huge wax head that was stretched out. WE felt as if we were hallucinating. Unfortunately, I couldn't take a picture, but if I ever find a picture of the head, I'll be sure to post. It was really really strange.