CASIE STEWART

Casie September 28, 2011 Contests

A prize for you from us & @Marks. Come get it!

Over the past year I’ve gotten to know Mark’s as they’ve been changing their brand and TBH, they’re way more stylish than I remember as a kid. Yesterday they had a fashion show and we couldn’t make it but we’re giving you a $50 gift card so you can check out their new Fall Lookbook.

This time last year I went on a mega shopping spree before New Zealand Fashion Week and picked out all my favourite things.

In other words, if you have been paying attention, winning this contest will be easy for you.

Here’s how to win:

Click here or the image below to see the lookbook & comment your pick. Good luck 🙂

I will send the gift card in the mail with a little note with hopes to make your day. Good luck!

Casie September 27, 2011 LIFE

Nothing

So many things happen in a day.
When someone says whats new,
I think “how long do you have?”
Then I say, “everything”.

Feel It From The Inside

This one time I tried to do a cleanse. I made/drank the cayenne pepper, lemon, honey, water blend for about 8 hours. I hated it. I was so hungry after a long starving day at the office that I grabbed a big mac on the way home.

I used to work in an office in the financial district and wear a suit every day. I had a meeting each morning called “Red Zone” where we went over accounts and urgent business. We had “Red Zone” again at 2pm and I worked really long hours.

One day my boss called me into his office and said something like “Case, you don’t seem like you’re having fun anymore?“. I wasn’t. I was doing freelance PR on the side, I had a blog, I hated my job. I told him I didn’t like what I was doing and I thought about quitting but needed my two weeks pay. He said I could take my two weeks and be done end of day. I was thrilled! Freedom at last.

I worked at Hemingways for a few months, a well known Kiwi restaurant in Yorkville. It was way more fun and I made the same money. Anyhow this whole story started with the idea that I am once again revisiting the idea of doing a cleanse this week. Starting Thursday, Total Cleanse is sending me 3 days of juice to drink and I’m kinda excited about it. (Starting it right after a Wednesday’s Jack Daniels party.) Our condo gym gets new treadmills Friday which is good motivation to finally get back to the gym. Yippee.

Have you ever done a cleanse? Tips, tricks. Anything is appreciated. I know some of you kids out there are real healthy.

What’s in YOUR tickle trunk?

Redefinition: A re-definition can change the world.

This year’s TedX theme was Redefinition “A changing definition can be the most powerful force on Earth. A re-definition can change the world.”. Great job by the entire team. I left Friday feeling inspired, that we are the future and we are changing the world around us.

Took some street style to see what the smart kids were wearing Friday at TedXToronto.

Lots of babes in the house. When I say house I mean Royal Conservatory of Music, Telus Centre.

Awesome work by the organizing team (below). See the guy on the far right? Co-Chair Ryan Merkley and I served as founding members of the Youth Advisory Committee Council in Cambridge 10+ years ago. I was Director of Public Relations, he was Chair. We governed youth issues that affected Cambridge youth with the City Council. That was my first real experience with PR!

Dr. Draw was amazing on the violin. Dancers were great too.

Sep 23, 2011 | Source: Keek.com

This performance was controlled by words used combined with the #tedxtoronto hashtag.

VIP

Loved this kid, Nicholas, 17 year old math whiz who’s invented a new way to micro search the web. Fascinating.

Great talk by David Miller.

Afterparty was at Steamwhistle! Lovely to hang out with my kiwi girl Kristen.

O’Nizz and I love photobooth.

Speaking | Connecting Digital Women & Brands

Thursday & Friday this week Toronto hosts the She’s Connected Social Media Conference which brings together hundreds of women from across Canada who have a passion for digital, social and all things online. Friday at 1pm I am speaking on a panel called “Social Media Rock stars: Veteran, New and rising stars” with a whole bunch of successful Canadian women in media.

Panel includes:

Carrie Burrows , Proud member of the Walt Disney World Mom’s Panel
Casie Stewart , Lifestyle Blogger, Personality & Co-founder GenYTO
Christine Cushing , TV Personality, Chef & Entrepreneur
Tracy Moore , Host, CityLine, City TV
Lianne Phillipson-Webb ,Founder, Sprout Right
Shannon Mischuk , Blogger, Shasher’s Life
Moderator Tom Gierasimczuk , Editor in Cheif, Marketing Magazine

Unfortunately, the event is not open to the public but I do have a public event coming up October 6th at Workplace One that you can attend. I’ll get details about that out to you today or tomorrow. Hope you are having an awesome day 🙂

life outside the internet

It’s mega rare that I spend a whole day without working, tweeting, blogging or my computer and yesterday, it happened. I spent 12+ hours watching movies and it was quite wonderful. We watched Lord of the Rings 2 AND 3, Get him to the Greek, NY, I Love You and heaps of Youtube shorts. Sammy showed me this epic “Taking the Hobbits to Isengard, it goes for 10 hours. Seriously.

The other day we stalked a sidecar on the highway. She WAVED at us! Yeahhhhhhh.

It’s Heaps Good n’ That – AOFL Grand Final

Babes Shan & Barbie <3

Look close 😉

Was soooooo nice out today. Like SUMMER!!

Blonde in the hat was a hottie.

Is it butterfly season? Seen heaps today.

Sammy is #18. Last time I had a number was in a pageant and I was #18 too.

His team didn’t win 🙁

But… tonight we party! 🙂

High Park Devils lost to Etobicoke something massive like 68-17. Sorry boys.

The boys will be at South of Temperance tonight if you wanna console them for their loss.

I love this city.

Kate attends The Greatest Make-up Event Ever

Today I braved the rainy rain and marched down to Yonge and Dundas Square for The Body Shop and Virgin Mobile’s Greatest Make-up Event Ever. Celebrity Make-Up Artist, Chase Aston did a little demo and talked about the new Body Shop “Extra Virgin” products. They’re “Extra Virgin” because they contain fair-trade extra virgin olive oil. Cool right?