BHD SUITES: bands + brands + bloggers

This week is so exciting. I’ve got events every night, all kinds of fun stuff each day and NXNE & MMVA to cap off the weekend. The Broken Heel Diaries magazine is hosting a gifting lounge MMVA weekend and I’m one of their bloggers. I’ll be working with the BHD team & awesome bloggers  Coco&Lowe , HustleGRL, JayStrut and Marcus Troy. Woo hoo!   Have you ever been to a gifting lounge? It’s totally awesome. Last year at TIFF was my first time and it’s like your birthday. Hair, nails, clothes, games, makeup, shoes, products galore. You get hooked up with stuff from cool companies. Some of the brands are Bench, Converse, Toms, Jeffrey Campbell. Stay tuned on how you can win a ticket to attend BHD SUITES June 18. Gonna be  real FUN 🙂

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a good team is a family, a family is a team – Kyle Benjamin

Dad loves racing so to be working with a race car driver is pretty neat. Especially an epic, race winning child prodigy one. Sky & I were twerkin’ hard in the office aka the rig. She is 11. We were tweeting our hearts out during the bike race portion. She is a riot.  RA RA RIOT. I was telling Kyle how he’s gonna have ladies all ova’ him. He’s so dang cute. Any of you out there 13ish? He’s single. Gettin’ ready. Talladega styles. Race time. Team #71. Was a totally crazy race. Started with 25 drivers, finished with 16ish. About 20 cautions, three ambo’s. This one went straight to hospital, back injury. Hope you’re ok man. Waiting for the track to be cleared then take a few laps to warm up the tires. (Get’s easily distracted) HAHAHAHAHAHHA. What a winner this stud. Kyle took 3rd. Nice one buddy! Kyle loves Gatorade. (wink wink nudge nudge) Sky, you are the cutest ever. Check those tire marks from racers bumpin’ him. Bump & grind fo’ realz His shirt was actually soaking wet. We were laughing. Dang hot drivin’ them cars. (Clearly I’ve been in the South, I’m typing with an accent.) Impressed with how well spoken you are Kyle. Nice twerk. Good interview. Night was fun. Brekky & travel home tomorrow. I miss my own bed. I like being away but I love coming home. Next trip is Boston in July. Next week is busy with NXNE (music & interactive), MMVAs & more. Gonna be real fun. Have an awesome day 🙂

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he can drive better than all y’all

* worst screen grab ever. YouTube you are assholes, let me upload a photo please! I was in Florida to meet Kyle’s race team & family to chat about his personal brand. He’s a totally awesome kid who is racing against people twice his age and winning. Started Kyle’s Twitter today, follow him. He’s gonna be a star @kylebenjamin71.

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girls on bikes

The Margaritaville gave us the media inside yesterday before bike rentals start today. Thanks guys! Got ’em comped too. Media VIP FTW. GIRL ON BIKE. We cruised Pensacola Beach baby. Pensacola Pier. GLITTER. Behave yourselves now. I love biking. Gonna to to Curbside Cycle this week & get the Pantone gem. Had lunch here. So lovely. I’m 58.3% awesomerrrr each day. Glitter me timbers! Guess who took her beerski shopping? Oh yeah. I do what I want! Back to home base. This has been my office view for two days and today we leave to go to another hotel for the race etc. I have so many great pix from race practice yesterday. Have an awesome day & happy Friday! <3

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some people claim that there’s a woman to blame…

But I know…. this Margaritaville place is PRETTY AWESOME. My office is here till Saturday. Chantelle too. Roof pool beside the ocean. You can hate me now, but I won’t stop now. Our room is gorgeous… …and beach front. Mural wall with waves & beach on it. Photos on that baby tomorrow. I am so excited to be here. Today I had fried green tomatoes! And obvs a couple of these babies 😉 Shower to the left is big, open & glass. Copy of this in every room. TOLD YOU I WAS A MERMAID. SUN LOVE.

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dear blog, today i did this. love casie

Stopped by the park after a meeting today. Was real pretty, hot & relaxing. Stopped into Bicyclette. Noticed my tan is getting serious. WEAR SUNSCREEN. Paige I would like to read this book. Thought it was for sale! Book is all stories from author “Dear [company] about his life, him being over qualified. Basically, how cover letters are BS. Inspiring blog posts in the making here. This is what I got. It’s handmade in Bolivia. Look who it is! My babe Lynsie Roberts photography. The shop is so damn cute. Every time I go there I wanna get like 10 dresses. I want this next time. Was on hunt for a patio where you can get mani/pedi AND have a beer. There isn’t one. I went to 10 SPot which was totally lovely. They have wifi so I could work & get nails done. Total win! Me, working. The result! I will deff be back. Hope we can chat about working together. Having a go-to nail tech would be AWESOME. The lovely babe who did my nails was a total sweet. Thank you! Dinner tonight then I really have to pack for this work trip. Clean clothes mountain is resting on my bed. Meh, that can wait, too many things to be excited about including sunshine & warm weather.

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some things i love (right now)

Sun on the face & warm air when I roll outta bed and go to balcony. First thing I do is check phone, get up, check computer, grab camera, go outside. The Lake, the Airport, the many people on their travels to work. This vintage Lion Breweries New Zealand Olympic Team shirt that was Mum’s. Buckler Men’s undies. SO COMFY (even if you don’t have a package to fill them out but probably more comfy if you do). Have been using some really great products lately and figured it was about time I share with you. I always test things out for a before I tell you about them and I only talk about what I like [DISCLAIMER]. You’ll notice I enjoy products that don’t have too much scent, are clean feeling & soft on the skin. L-R: Dermaglow Oil Free Cleanser – soft on face, gentle, hardly no scent Dermaglow Daily Moisturizing Lotion – soft, no smell, clean feeling Dermaglow Wringle Release Serum – see how young I look? Yeah. Use it all the time. Goldwell Ultra Volume Leave-In Boost Spray – good volume, doesn’t make hair icky or greasy Cheeky Monkey Nailpolish in Party Whore – Yes, that’s the real name. Colour is my fav! Redken UV Body Rescue – Stuff is amazing is you love sun like me. Treats skin post tanning & has a soft glistening glitter. Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Antiseptic Cream – MOSQUITO BITES. I hate them. Lotion is cool & soothing w/ tingle. Givenchy Play – Smell is soft, feminine & good for summer. Bottle is metal so great for travel, throwing in purse etc. Givenchy Blush Gelee – Hot pink jelly blusy, one colour for all skin tones. First blush I’ve used on regular. The Body Shop Body Butter Duo in Vanilla…

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yeah baby i wanna party with you.

You know I love Gaga. I’ve told you a bunch of times before. Remember the MMVAs last year? Kingi from Peach Berserk made me a custom dress with all the big performers on it: Bieber, Katy, Drake, Miley.  I was excited. I worked with some really great people at Much & MTV last year, the MMVA experience is very memorable. My job was Social Media Queen and it was super fun to say the least.  Blog post from MMVA Day 2010 is here. I’ve got a couple things planned for MMVA weekend this year. One is a party w/ Gaga’s DJ, Lady Starlight. 🙂 Starlight will be rocking The Velvet Underground (510 Queen St West) after the MMVA’s June 19 in Toronto. Doors open at 11. I have a list. Do you want to be on it?

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it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood

I love this city. Have I told you a million times yet? I will. Beauty dress from Bicyclette. Spins real nice. Nice bathing suit. Vintage cowboys, kinda hurt feet sometimes although cute. My glitter is still here. There. Do you know where? Here. Near. Light beer or Beveldere? Boats. Grass. Sports of all sorts! fun 🙂 Enjoy the day. You’re younger today then you will ever be again! xo

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parkdale princessery.

Parkdale Princess office w/ Raymi @ Chez Teacher. Raymes posted some pix of us working here. My old office in the Carpet Factory, Liberty Village.  Worked here for two years before CTV. So much has changed since that job. It was a god job, I had a cool boss. Now I have a cooler boss, ME! I spy my house in the distance. It looks so far but you can walk it in about 40min. Hot werk. Lunch time. Raymbo made Teacher & I some nice snacks. Cold bevys too. This was a Greyhound (my fav) with some other stuff. What was it babe? We went to the Robyn concert in the evening. It was so much fun. Heaps of photos from that comin’ up next! Bon weekend.

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