Like my bear?

The madness of Black Friday shopping has slowly spread to Canada. On the front page of my newspaper there was a full page ad for Rogers. The front page! I find that quite tacky. Anyhow, it's raining in Victoria so I'm just having a nice lazy day testing out my new wireless remote for my camera. These pictures are the result.
Happy weekend everyone :)

Outfit Details
Headband - DIY, but supplies from Micheals
Sweater - Consignment store in Sidney
Tights and Socks - Sears
Shoes - Bliss Boutique

Dare to dream

Hey everyone! My latest lookbook.nu post was actually for a school project I had to do. I was inspired by Mike Q look Cause there will be no sunlight. He always has the best surreal photos. Should I try to do more surreal photos? Cleary, I have have mad photo sherpin skillz.

Final Product.

Original images.

In the field

So I'm in a field by my house in these pictures. There was a family walking through it and I always feel pretty self conscious when I'm getting my picture taken simply because it seems quite vain. But I have started this blog about myself so I should just accept the fact that in a sense I am vain. 

I'm wearing my favourite pants from Mango and my sparkling loafers, both of which I got in Las Vegas this past summer. The shirt I saved from my best friend Lauren's "giving away pile," but it's a petite and I'm 175 cm tall. It gets untucked a lot. 

Have a great weekend!

Sunglasses and Necklace - Decade
Shirt - Lauren
Pants - Mango
Shoes - Las Vegas
Bag - Thrifted

Turned upside down

So Halloween was last night and these are the pumpkins I craved. We got tones of trick-or-treaters at our house! My mom was getting mad at my dad and I for eating a large portion of the candy, but who can blame us?
I know this is kinda late but here is an article about Halloween costumes I wrote for my school's newspaper Nexus. It features the owner of Victoria Costumes and my stunning photography ;). Click here to read the article online.

Ahoy matey

So as I was typing "Ahoy matey" into google to double check the spelling as I often do (my spelling is terrible), the definition came up, so I had to click on it. Basically "ahoy" means "hey" and "matey" means "sailor" or really any type of person. Since I dressed up as a pirate for Halloween I think the title is quite fitting.

My friend Nicole had a Halloween party at her house this past Saturday and this was my exciting Jack Sparrow inspired ensemble. The sad truth? I owned probably 95% of this stuff before deciding to be a pirate. If you look at my past lookbook.nu post you'll probably spot some items...

These pictures were taken at a lovely beach in the rain on the Saanich Inlet.

Outfit Details
Scarf - Aldo
Feathers - DIY
Earings - Icing
Jacket - bought in Amersfoort
Leather Belts - my Dad
Elephant Belt - the Victoria Vintage Fair
Pants - the Salvation Army
Boots - bought in Amersfoort
Bangles - too many places to count!

Welcome to Kate Leola

So I have finally started a blog. As many of my close friends know, I have wanted to do this for a very long time. Back in January 2011, I had arrived home from a hectic and fun year as an au pair in the Netherlands.  I came home to no job and busy friends, so in other words I had oodles and oodles of time to waste. In this time I discovered lookbook.nu and fashion blogs and quickly became addicted to them.

This blog mostly reflect my fashion and my fashion inspirations.

wedges - old h&m, skirt - forever21, top - plen+y, crown - michaels, bangles - too many places to count