Thank you to everyone who entered the Kate Spade Handbag Giveaway!
The randomly selected winner is Susan McGregor!
Congratulations! I will be contacting you shortly to arrange shipping out your new awesome bag!
The Viva La Juicy Couture Overdose Event at World Mastercard Fashion Week
I was lucky enough to be invited to a brunch celebrating the launch of Viva La Juicy Gold Couture and Noir at World Mastercard Fashion week on Tuesday.
When I heard the event would be put on by the Candice & Alison Events Group, I knew I had to attend because I’ve seen photos of some of their previous glamorous parties.
I usually attend shows at World Mastercard Fashion Week each season, but this year I haven’t been able to attend any shows, so this was my only event with Fashion Week this year.
The brunch featured the hashtag #coutureoverdose, and if you snapped a photo via Instagram with that hashtag and tagged @JuicyCouture then a photo printer at the party would instantly print your photo for you. It was really cute!
The food and signature cocktails were provided by the Ritz-Carlton, and it was one of those parties where people were actually eating because the food was so good! I feel like at some of the events I go to I’m the only one hovering around the food – this was a nice change. It probably helped that the Ritz was catering.
Models walked around with custom cakes, Macarons, and other treats from Cake Opera Co., and they were pretty amazing just to look at, let alone eat. Even though they were pretty, and I ate a lot of Macarons anyway!
Each guest received a full size perfume of either Viva La Juicy Gold Couture or Noir. I received a bottle of Viva La Juicy Noir, and I actually really like it! It’s very light with a sweet berry smell. I thought it was surprising it was so light since it’s called Noir. Plus the bottle is freaking adorable and looks cute on my counter, so there’s that!
To learn more about either fragrance, visit www.juicycouture.com.
It’s sparkleshinylove’s 1st Birthday! Plus a Sweet Kate Spade Handbag Giveaway!
This month marks the 1st anniversary of sparkleshinylove!
It’s been a really fun year and I’ve learned a lot along the way. There have been some really late nights, grammar mistakes that have haunted me, and technical issues that have dumbfounded me, but somehow I made it to this point.
Thanks to all of you who have been reading my blog this year – I appreciate it more than you know!
I love writing this blog, and I hope that you enjoyed visiting the site over the past year.
Hopefully the next year will be even better!
To celebrate I’m giving away a fabulous Kate Spade handbag! It’s pretty, pink, and I really want to keep it.
It retails for $398.00. CDN, and you can enter below via the Rafflecopter App.
This contest begins today, Monday, October 20th, at 8:00am EST 2014, and ends Saturday, October 26th, 2014 at 12:00am EST. This contest is open to all residents of the US and Canada.
Good luck to everyone who everyone who enters!
What to Expect at This Weekend’s Delicious Food Show
This morning I was lucky enough to attend the media tour, breakfast, and press conference for the Delicious Food Show. I previously posted about the show and what to expect, but now I’ve experienced it first hand and I can tell you what not to miss.
This morning we met with Chef Chuck Hughes as he was prepping in the kitchen for a workshop he would be doing with a small group of people who purchased tickets for the Exclusive Chef Series. He was super nice, and very animated! It made me wish I had signed up for that workshop!
We did a tour of the show, and I got a great overview of which booths were there. We were treated with breakfast done by one of my favourite restaurants, BUCA. Everyone was raving about breakfast – it was amazing! I had a caprese-style breakfast sandwich, fresh cheeses and cured meats, and lots of their baked treats.
Next up we had the press conference featuring Chef Mario Batali, Tyler Florence, Chuck Hughes and BUCA’s Rob Gentile.
One of the most interesting topics for me was what the chefs feed their children. They were saying they didn’t have kids menus at their restaurants because they though kids should be able to enjoy their regular menu items. Mario and Tyler were saying that they thought if you offer you kids chicken fingers and fries all the time, that is setting the course for how they may want to eat in the future. I found this so interesting! I always thought if restaurants didn’t have kids menu’s, then kids weren’t welcome. I may have been totally wrong!
If you are planning to go to the Delicious Food show today, Saturday or Sunday then make sure you visit some of my favourite booths!
Jacqueline Poirier creates custom ceramic art, and the plates she had on display at the show were really pieces of art! I loved the pizza plate!
I couldn’t help but stop at the booth of Sophia Saunders because I loved her prints! She can put any of her designs on tea towels as well, and I thought the Toronto-themed ones would make a great gift! Everything is hand-printed, and no two pieces are the same.
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I seriously don’t think I’ve had a good cannoli since my vacation in Italy, but the one I tried today may have changed all of that. Holy Cannoli makes fresh Sicilian cannoli’s that are totally delish. At the show you can purchase fresh cannoli’s, or they have cute little packs of cannoli pieces with dip as well. What I really loved were their take-home kits! You would get a packages of shells, and the filling separately so you can make them fresh in time for a party.
I’ve blogged about one of my trips to Rock Lobster before (which I loved), and their booth at the Delicious Food Show was one of my favourites today! They are serving up some of their signature food on one side, and their is a bar serving Samuel Adams on the other side.
I really liked the art by Hanna V. for the kitchen! Hanna and her husband actually make the frames themselves too.
The prettiest booth has to go to Anet Gesualdi Macarons! It looked like a cute little boutique, and it was very busy! I sort of just wanted to hang out there all day because it was so cute.
My favourite doughnut of the show had to be from Von Doughnuts! I had an amazing monster doughnut that pretty much made my day!
The Delicious Food Show runs from Friday, October 17th from 10am – 9pm, Saturday, October 18th from 10am – 8pm, and Sunday, October 19th from 10am – 6pm at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto (Direct Energy Centre, Hall A, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Toronto).
For more information on the Delicious Food Show, check out these links below:
www.facebook.com/deliciousfoodshow
www.twitter.com/deliciousshow
www.instagram.com/deliciousfoodshow
www.pinterest.com/deliciousshow
The Toronto Lifestyle Market at the Gladstone Hotel
The Gladstone Hotel in Toronto is hosting the Toronto Lifestyle Market starting today until October 12th.
Not only will a number of brands be selling their goods at the market, but there will also be nightly events. So shopping and partying – sounds fun to me!
The retail market will host lots of different brands including:
Bohten
PKG
Felony Case
Marshall Artist
Daniel Wellington
Triwa
Skultuna
Publish
Daily News Project
All Day Apparel
Classified Apparel
Vitaly
Matiere
The Baitshop
The Escape Movement
Local talent will be performing in the evening, and there will be food, drinks, and the shopping even lasts into the night as well.
The Gladstone Hotel is a fun place to eat and drink on a regular night, so the event would for sure be worth going to.
To attend the evening events you need to RSVP here, but during the day it is open to the public! More details on the event can be found on their website here.