How to Style Your Coffee Table!

My coffee table is the hub of our apartment, it's where everyone gathers! It's always in use whether we are eatting dinner, watching TV, playing board games or working on the computer. I try to keep it looking nice {at all times} but....it's next to impossible. I love this video that Emily Schuman over at Cupcakes and Cashmere posted on how to style your coffee table!*

How To: Style a Coffee Table

People Choice & Critics Choice Awards Best Dressed!*

Award season has arrived everyone! So far the PCA's and CCAs have aired and I'm not too excited about this seasons dresses, hopefully the Oscar's deliver! Here are the best dressed {in my opinion} and Did you tune in? Don't forget the Golden Globes are on THS Sunday, January 13th!*

Peoples Choice Awards

Brittany Snow

Kaley Cuoco

Lea Michele {i love sparkle}

Mary Rickards {more sparkle!}

Taylor Swift

{i'm really not a Taylor fan...but she looks stunning in this dress}

Rumor Willis {i love anything Alice & Olivia}

Rachel-leigh Cook {love this colour}

Critics Choice Awards

Amanda Seyfried 

{i love the top of this dress..the bottom not so much}

Helen Hunt

{she's smoking for her age love the lace cut-outs on the side}

Jennifer Lawrance

Nina Dobrev

{Sparkle!!}

...and the nominees are!

Today, Emma Stone and Seth McFarlane {the host of this years Oscars} announced the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards! See the list below, for the complete list at the link at the bottom on the post*

And the nominees are…


Best Actor In A Leading Role:
Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis in Lincoln
Hugh Jackman in Les Misérables
Joaquin Phoenix in The Master
Denzel Washington in Flight

Best Actor In A Supporting Role:
Alan Arkin in Argo
Robert De Niro in Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master
Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln
Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained

Best Actress In A Leading Role:
Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts in The Impossible

Best Actress In A Supporting Role:
Amy Adams in The Master
Sally Field in Lincoln
Anne Hathaway in Les Misérables
Helen Hunt in The Sessions
Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook

Best Animated Feature Film:
Brave
Frankenweenie
ParaNorman
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Costume Design:
Anna Karenina Jacqueline Durran
Les Misérables Paco Delgado
Lincoln Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Huntsman Colleen Atwood

Best Director:
Amour Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi Ang Lee
Lincoln Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell


Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
Hitchcock Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Misérables Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Best Original Score:
Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli
Argo Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi Mychael Danna
Lincoln John Williams
Skyfall Thomas Newman

Best Original Song:
“Before My Time” from Chasing Ice — Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
“Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from Ted – Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
“Pi’s Lullaby” from Life of Pi – Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
“Skyfall” from Skyfall – Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
“Suddenly” from Les Misérables – Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best Picture:
Amour
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

For the complete list of the 2013 Oscar Nominees click {here!}*

Holiday Highlights!*

Our Christmas Holiday's this year were so crazy busy! So busy in fact we forgot to put the turkey in and ate dinner ar 10pm....ooops! My family flew in from Ontario for 5 days and it was pure craziness hosting Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Years Eve, I feel like I blinked and it was all over :( Here are a few IPhone snap shots of our Christmas Holidays!

wrapping complete*

Christmas Eve Cheese Board

{Bouclair Home $7.99}

Santa Came!

YEEEHAW! New boots from Santa

Turkey's Done! at 10pm....ooops!

Banff Beauty....

snuggle time!

giving snow-shoeing a go....

3...2...1

                                                                        Happy New Year!

Aritzia Covets*

Happy Happy 2013! I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Chirstmas and New Years! Let's start off the year right with some covets! Thanks to a very generous boss, I received a $100 gift card to the mall downtown for Christmas! So, we all know what this means…. I will be hitting up the Aritzia winter sale on my lunch break to pick up a few items I’ve been coveting all year and can FINALLY afford to get! WOOOO! Here are a few items I’m looking to score!*

T.Babaton Bobby Pant: $145 $72.50

Wilfred Noisette Dress: $145 $85

Wilfred Iris Blouse: $125 $75

Talua Juilliard Dress: $75 $60

T.Babaton Logan Blouse: $145 $85