This past weekend, I attended an out of town wedding (okay, slightly out of town, it was about 45 minutes away from me in Chatham, Ontario) with my boyfriend Logan. It was the first time I met his extended family and it was quite a hoot! I didn't take pictures of them (because that would be weird) but they are a bunch of pranksters. I see where Logan gets it from. They spent most of the night pulling my leg and laughing at how gullible I am.

Later in the night, we retreated back to where we were staying, the bride, Stacy's house (or was it her husband to be Donnie's house? I wasn't sure. Either way it doesn't matter.) The ladies stayed inside and drank copious amounts of wine (and juiceboxes for me) and the men partied outside in the shed. However, the one bridesmaid, Melinda is in my camp and is not a frequent drinker. She uh... got tanked and went outside to try to party with the gentlemen. My boyfriend, a bouncer, tried to throw her over his shoulder bouncer style, and being too drunk himself, dropped her into a bunch of tools. So the matron of honor had a black eye for the big day. Oh, and my boyfriend also fell asleep completely naked (being drunk, he lost his clothing piece by piece throughout the night. I urged him to at least sleep in his boxers but he didn't seem concerned.) Sleeping on the basement floor in an open area with 3 teenage children, girlfriends sleeping over, and bridesmaids crashing for the night made for lots of laughs in the morning... because I'm a total covers hog.

Now for the wedding itself, I was in LOVE with the location. It was at the Retro Suites and the place is totally up my alley. I took a few pics but realized mine are really crappy compared to what the Retro Suites has posted on their Facebook and business page so I decided to borrow some of their's. Check this place out!

We actually never saw the front (that's the back pictured above) but it looks pretty cool.

My boyfriend and I are thinking maybe for our anniversary next year we'll go here. They have a bunch of different themed rooms and it seems really fun. Who would think that someone would intentionally travel to Chatham?

Outfit Details

Dress - Prettiest of All Dress - Modcloth

Shoes - Mel Shoes
Necklace - vintage
Coat (further down) - Miss Patina
Jeans - Stitches
Purse - vintage

I don't know about you, but at weddings I take tons of selfies. I just don't know what to do while I'm sitting there. I look like crap in these. I didn't even try to edit them to make myself look good. I wanted to show how tired I was. I had my dog earlier in the week and he's a pro at keeping me up. So no sleep while he was visiting.  I didn't get much sleep with the drunken shenanigans (my boyfriend crawled into bed at about 5am and then the ladies were up at 7am to start getting their hair done.) I was so, so tired. But I'm pretty sure I always am at wedding. Most weddings, I sneak out and nap in the car.

I amused myself for awhile with the jelly beads from the centerpieces (what IS this?) and then looked terrified when my boyfriend caught me. Haha. I think this should be my Facebook profile picture. I still have my Wednesday Addam's look posted as an homage to Hallowe'en.

We didn't take many photos of the bride and groom (seriously, most of the camera were of my boobs.) I am narcassistic. And Logan's a pervert.

Photo Credit - Retro Suites

Photo Credit Retro Suites

Photo Credit Retro Suites

Right before leaving, I snapped some shots of the lobby. They have so many cool things! The red thing in the Retro Suites photo was this really old flip book type thing. It looked pre-1900s. You cranked it and it would flip images of a girl dancing. So cool!

That's all for me! Talk soon!

Meanwhile on Instagram...

I'll be honest - I only opened an Instagram account once I started blogging. When I hired Joyce to do my blog design, she asked me what existing blog designs I liked and what I liked about them. I pointed out a few blogs and said, "I like these types of social media buttons! Just make it like these exactly!" So she did (in my colours.) Problem was, I didn't even have existing accounts on some of those platforms. Uh, oops? But it's made me expand my online socializing so that's always a good thing! And even though my Instagram postings are boring and infrequent, I've been so inspired by what I've come across on there. So many dreamy photos! And not all cats and food photos as I had been taught to believe.

You can follow me @coinforthewell if you like!

Now for a little bit about each one!
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1) At Thanksgiving, my Uncle Jeff and Aunt Susie had a million kittens running around. Over-exaggerating a little bit, but there were 8 kittens and 4 adult cats that were still pretty small (much smaller than my fat oaf of a cat!) They were trying to get rid of them and were joking they were handing them out as party favours. I was quite smitten with them but I don't even take care of my own cat - he currently resides with my ex, Mike.
2) I tired of my bulletin board display (it originally looked like this) so I decided to re-vamp it a little. Hurray for rampant Modcloth obsessions!
3) When I first started blogging, my parents were totally on board with the idea, and purchased me a tripod. Unfortunately, it was $9 and the legs only extended about a foot and a half. I have it propped up on my dining room table here attempting to try it out. I guess you get what you pay for!
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4) My boyfriend and I being losers.
5) More kitty action at Thanksgiving. I brought my more compact camera and it was really slow at taking the shots with the flash off, so I typically caught the kitties just out of frame and many, many blurs. However, I thought this little mid-pounce shot was really cute!
6) There's a new shoe store at the mall that has huge stuffed sheep at the entrance. I think it's really creepy.
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7) Trying out new promotional tactics for Factoid Friday. Plus, I just love trivia books that much.
8) When I broke the news to my boyfriend that he could no longer borrow my laptop to take to his parents when he went to visit them, he asked if he could take the TV instead. I obliged. I thought the empty space was hilarious though (because I'm random?) and had to share it with the entire Instagram community.
9) Wore this monochromatic outfit out to Acapulco Delight (a Mexican restaurant) with my friends, Candice and Kevin. Meant to take pics while we were actually out instead of selfies at home, but we called it a night early. Probably a good thing though - there ended up being multiple stabbings right outside my building!!!
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10) Just a fun promo pic that I opted to use on Instagram instead of the blog, mostly because my mom cut my shoes off anyways.
11) Guess who's being a burger for Hallowe'en? THIS GIRL!
12) More blog/Pic Monkey fun.

Speaking of Hallowe'en, the lead-up to Hallowe'en is always a fun time to reflect on favourite costumes of years gone by. My absolute favourite costume ever was a Titanic victim. I rocked it when I was 14, 15 and 16 years old and then brought it back and made it a couple's costume with Mike, my ex when I was a 23 (did I mention that I went trick or treating all 4 of those years?)

Another couples costume I did with my ex was Slave Leia and Jabba. All I can say is I'm happy burgers don't have to go on diets.

Photo Credit Sergio Mazzotta

I won't be able to do any fun couples things this year because Logan works at the Loop, the bar we frequent (he would have made such a fun hot dog! Or ketchup bottle!) but it's okay. What are some fun costumes you all have been? Are you all prepared for the big day? For those who aren't, stock up on Hallowe'en goodies at the Hallowe'en sections in these stores!

Modcloth

PlasticLand - Skeleton Section and Zombie Section

Romwe

DollsKill

KarmaLoop

ASOS

Nasty Gal

Unique Vintage (Be sure to check out their flapper section too!)

That's all for me. I promise to be back with some proper shenanigans soon! 

Happy One Year!!!

It's my one year anniversary today! Not of my blog (it's still very new!) but with my boyfriend, Logan. Which makes me laugh because we always joke we wouldn't get past the 3 month mark because we are complete opposites, in literally every way you can imagine. Just about the only thing we have in common is we both like board games. In fact, that's kind of how we fell in love last summer! I'd always be hanging out at his house, and his room mate was worried about internet overages. Since we were limited with our Netflix usage, we defaulted to all the board games in the house (and there were many.) Many nights of Monopoly, Scattergories and Risk led to many candid conversations, cuddling, and eventually dating.

I thought I would post a few pics of our year together. He doesn't pose for pictures very often, so getting these shots was asking a lot of him!

Attending my brother's wedding reception as friends (Modcloth dress)

Photo - Sergio Mazzotta

Celebrating New Year's with our friend, Elly (Modcloth dress)

Being a weiner on his birthday (Modcloth dress)

We only did a little bit of celebrating of the anniversary so far. We both get paid Monday so we are going out to dinner at our favourite pizza joint, Terra Cotta on Tuesday (they have 2 for 1 pizza! Perfect for date night.) We went out Thursday night just for a night out (and some foosball) but the Loop (our regular bar) was having their special shindigs for the university law program. They let in people who aren't in the program, but the music is all bad rock cover bands and everyone is 19. On a typical night, only half the bar is that young. It was a mostly annoying night so went home and watched Dexter and tried to digest all the Taco Bell and doughnuts we pigged out on earlier (an anniversary treat from my mom!)

Then because we are cool, we took a million selfies. Woot! Shenanigans indeed.

This is Logan's imitation of girls who do super serious sexy faces.

This was actually my "WTF" face but it turned out kind of nice (Modcloth shirt)

Kissy faces!

You lick my face, I lick your's!

Then he went back to playing Skyrim, haha.

Well that's all for me folks! Hope you all are having a good weekend!

Mini Shenanigans

Not too much in the way of shenanigans this past week! My dancing buddy, Elly was away in Grand Bend, Ontario and many of my other friends have moved on from the bar scene. I think I am getting old. Most of my friends are spending more and more weekends at home instead of out partying. Even I'm frequenting the bar less and less. I've never been one to drink, but I like to get dressed up and see my pals. I'm not sure how much longer Shenanigans Saturdays will survive! My boyfriend, Logan has already started working again at the bar and I've put in my name to do coat check for when winter comes.

However, here are some pics for now!

Mmmm, crappy phone mirror pic. Only pic of the night where I got my gold Ferramos in the shot though.

My boy was not so impressed that I wanted to take a bunch of selfies while he was working.

I asked my boyfriend to take my picture and he sort of just waved the camera in my direction, snapped a shot and went back to work. I gave him such crap after for cutting off my shoes, haha.

 I also had my friend, Brandon take this shot. It's a painting my friend, Sergio did to deck the bar out Hallowe'en style and they left it up because it's AWESOME. I can't believe I never had a photo op with it before.

Outfit Details

Dress - Louche - Joy the Store - $48

Shoes - vintage Ferragamos - similar ones here 

Purse - Ardenes

Earrings -  Modcloth - discontinued   

Here's to more shenanigans!