Merry Christmas!

erry Christmas to all my readers! And sorry I've been away. I've been extremely tired… the reason being I'm 2 months pregnant! My due date is on July 20. That's my son's birthday! Isn't it strangely ironic? I was tired during my 1st pregnancy in my first trimester, but this is at a brand new level. I just can't seem to stay awake past 3pm. It's supposed to go away once I enter my second trimester, but I'm just so exhausted.

Anyways, I'm just starting to tell my family and friends. Oh, and the silly photo up top? It's me and my friends a few days back. My friend Julie, bottom right, invited us to her new house for a housewarming slash Christmas dinner. She bought an older house and gutted it top to bottom. She just moved in 2 weeks ago. I think her kitchen turned out beautifully. It kind of makes me want to renovate mine. I hate my kitchen. However, we're planning to renovate our basement in the spring. I'm excited for that. I have all these ideas in my head on how I want to do it.

Although she had a lot of clutter on the counterop it still looked good because the finish in her kitchen
was so nice.

She has a galley kitchen that is really big. I think she knocked down a wall to make it bigger.
My dream kitchen is an all-white kitchen with white Quartz countertops and an apron sink. I also love
the look of white subway tiles. Oh, and I would hang industrial pendant lighting over the kitchen island.
Love! However, my husband likes the dark kitchens.

Julie also made us a fabulous dinner. We started off with homemade mushroom soup and phyllo
pastries.

We also had a delicious salad with sweet onion dressing.

I think Julie's husband's family is from Jamaica so she served us jerk chicken. It was sooooo good.

We also had stuffing. In the background is her homemade (or what's left of it) artichoke/spinach
dip with baked pita chips. They were my favourite. I'm trying to get the recipe.

Amrita Singh from Enviius & a vintage necklace

apologize for the lack of updates. I've been extremely sick the past 2 weeks and I've been super busy at work. I'm still not feeling myself, but I thought I would share with you my Amrita Singh haul that I got 2 weeks ago from Enviius. I usually order my Amrita Singh jewelry from Hautelook, but I recently came across a Canadian online store that worked in the same way as Hautelook. I decided to give it a try. I figured I would get the order quicker. Well, let me say that I'm never ordering from Enviius again! As soon as I put my order in I didn't even get an update for a week to say that they shipped out my order. Instead, I had to email the customer service to find out what the status on my order was. One thing I like about Hautelook is that their website gives you a step-by-step look on where your order is at. You can see when Hautelook receives the items from the vendor to when it processes/ships out to when it's delivered to your door. Enviius didn't do that. Plus, it took the customer service person almost a week to get back to me. Then, they kept saying that their warehouse didn't get the Amrita Singh order and I had to wait another week or so. When it finally did arrive I got an email from them that my order was shipped. So I assumed all the pieces I ordered had shipped. Unfortunately I only got 2 things out of the 3 pieces that I ordered. The missing item (my favourite one too at that) said it was 'short shipped'. I had to email customer service again and it took them another few days to get back to me. Basically they said that the item I ordered was no longer available (what the hell!) and that I would get a refund on my credit card. It took another week for that credit to go back to my account. I'm so disappointed with this whole experience that I don't think I'll ever order from Enviius again.
However, I thought I would share with you the pieces that I did get.

This is the Erivor necklace. I do love this necklace. It's very heavy and makes a lot of noise when
I wear it, but it's such a statement necklace. 

I wore it once this week. I was in such a rush to get out the door that I'm not in love with my whole
outfit choice. 

I do love the layered look to this necklace.

Overall, I'm happy with this one.

The Clara earrings were a total miss for me. They are HUGE.

Look at it against my hand. It looks ridiculous on my ear. 

Plus the back are clip ons, not post back. I'm still debating how to pull this off. I might give this one
away. I'm so sad that I didn't get the other pair of earrings. I was looking forward to that one. ;-(

On a happier note, I bought a vintage necklace on eBay today. I only got it for $25 (that includes shipping!). It's much cheaper than some of the jewelry pieces that you see in stores and the one I got looks like it's really good

quality. The necklace is 20" in length.

Look how many layers of chain it comes with.