$100 Shopbop & Diane Von Furstenberg Giveaway

Mr. Diabolina and I are officially ELDERLY.
Exhibit A: We are all about driving vacations lately.

Last month, we flew out to Montreal, then drove up to Quebec City for a day trip.

Absolutely loved it. The old walled city is like a little slice of Europe without the expense of leaving North America.  So charming and picturesque and all the turrets!!! I'm a sucker for turrets. I think it's an English major/princess thing ;)  

Highly recommend Quebec if you are looking for a little old world romance.

DON'T recommend that you dress old world though.

My designer of choice when I travel? Diane Von Furstenberg

DVF dresses, DVF blouses & tops, DVF clutches---I pack them all on trips.  

The prints always make you look fabulous, feminine and pulled together. The shapes are comfortable and the materials aren't restrictive---they move with you as you get your nerdy tourist on :)

This Shopbop sale is one way to get your DVF on. But since I love anyone who is still reading my very sporadic posts, I'm giving away a $100 giftcard!!! 

Before August 29, leave a comment below with your email address and/or Twitter handle so I can reach you if you win. Let me know what types of blog posts you like the most or fashion questions you have so I can focus on those in upcoming weeks. Good luck and big kisses!

Restrictions:

•  No affiliate codes. If you're part of Shopbop's affiliate program, you can't get credit for this post.

•  No Pennsylvania bloggers may host the giveaway. The contest is open internationally though.

Sequins and Simplethings

The Outfit

Diane Von Furstenberg dress

Forever 21 vest

Burberry trench

The Accessories

Black scarf

DKNY tights

Tory Burch heels

Vintage purse

Forever 21 bracelet

The Grade

A

The Commentary

Wanted it so desperately to be spring today hence the floral dress.

Added the sequin vest because I'm ridiculous as are my hips so I wanted a bit of drape to disguise them.

Covered it all up with the trench and added the tights and tiny quilted bag.

Felt very Parisian. Which always equals an A.

The Inspiration

The Food

Dinner with little Miss MBA. She suggested Simplethings, sandwich and pie shop. She had me at pie.

Almost keeled over when I saw the sea of cute savory and sweet little pies.

And a weekly schedule for pie nomnoming

And a little heart in my latte next to my itty bitty blueberry pie

Cherry on top of a tasty meal was wonderful conversation with one of my oldest friends. We met when we were both journalism grad students. Ten years later, we both work in social media. Me at a tech nerd company, her at Smashbox. She wins.

Or maybe I do. After all, I was the one who left dinner with swag!!! LOOOOVE!

New Shiny Toy: Diane von Furstenberg Marla Bis Top in Posey

A few weeks ago Australia-based The Fashion Loving Stylist emailed to let me know she would be in L.A. styling a movie and wanted to get together for a girls night! We invited Fashion Intel and InnyVinny to make it a fabulous fashionable foursome and hit Bottega Louie for dinner and Seven Grand for after-dinah drinks.





















































My first fashion blogger meet up was everything I hopped it would be. Let's start with the fashion faves of the night - Fashion Intel's TDF Alexander Wang bag with secret pockets, my Forever 21 ring, Fashion Stylist's Chanel earrings and Inny Vinny's "Tribute Tributes." A+ to ladies who bring it. Especially for first in person impressions ;)



















































































































































































The four of us laughed pretty much non-stop the entire night. Mostly about the best TV show EVER, RuPaul's Drag Race. You see, Fashion Intel brought up this amazing RuPaul quote that had been circulating the Web that day. So I just HAD to tell the girls how I spent that Monday night sitting next to Ru at a mutual friend's house previewing the second season of Drag Race!!!!!!

Love that they all almost fainted when I told them; I almost fainted when I got invited! Adore me some ladies who can appreciate them some man ladies.

For the record: I made Ru laugh 4.5 times and yes, his friends call him Ru and I think he is seriously the least pretentious queen ever, and I've got my money on JuJuBee this season.


The girls and I also talked shop. We swapped stories about cool and not so cool fashion bloggers. And shared tales of busting shitty anonymous commenters with good ole IP targeting. Yayayayaya to being blogger narcs and booooooo to readers who player hate.

And finally, like all good bloggers, we took waaaaay too many pictures.







































































































I taught them the good ole Mr. Architect head trick.













































And my cure for a case of ass face and bangs. A condition I've been suffering from ALL THE TIME lately. F.























Love these ladies. Love the interwebs for bringing them into my life.
























Also in looooooooooves with my new shiny toy: this Diane von Furstenberg Marla Bis Top in Posey. Scored it resale at Designer Labels for $50ish.













































Remember how I spent most of last year gaga over the Spring 2009 DVF prints? Despite the fact that sociopath Olivia wore a multipletude of them.

















































































































































Today I channeled Whitney crossed with Ongina





































































But next time I think I will play it a little less safe. Want to try the print on print trend that I am HOT TO TROT for this spring. Will start off slow since I don't want to fuck it up, have to lipsync for my llllllife and be forced to sashay away.