ALDO Accessories Opens In South Africa + A Giveaway

Hello guys! I trust that everyone had a stunning weekend- I had to mostly study for my upcoming tests this week and in between that I renovated my blog- what do you think? The design is very simple and clean to put the focus on the content of the blog.

Anyone that knows me knows how much I love shoes and accessories. One of my favourite books (and movies) is “In Her Shoes” and in the book the main character, Rose says one of my favourite quotes of all time – “Whenever I’m sad I like to treat myself. Clothes never fit, food just makes me fatter, but shoes- they always fit”. And it is the same with accessories- my bag doesn’t care how much chocolate I ate on the weekend (which was a lot by the way), it will look gorgeous on my arm anyway. ALDO has long been one of my favourite destinations for shoe and accessories shopping (see my latest post about Winter Shoe Trends from ALDO here) and now ALDO is taking it up a notch by opening up an ALDO Accessories store!

ALDO Accessories is a shop that is purely focused on the accessories- bags, jewellery, scarfs- anything you heart desires –they will have. ALDO Accessories is young in spirit and is on the cutting-edge of style. Aldo Accessories has just opened up at the Menlyn Shopping Centre in Pretoria and is set to open at Sandton City on the 18^th of March. A shop full of gorgeous accessories- doesn’t that just sound like a little piece of heaven?

Now for the good news- to celebrate the opening of the new ALDO Accessories store, I am giving away a R1000 gift card to one of you! This is one of those moments where I wish I could enter my own competitions, but alas I will have to settle with making imaginary shopping sprees for you.

It’s In the Bag

1. R850, 2. R699, 3. R650, 4. R699, 5. R499, 6. R629, 7. R449, 8. R650

I Am OBSESSED with bags and especially clutches and change my bags up every day to match my outfits. An outfit is never complete without bag ladies, and if I was you (and by you I mean the winner of the lucky gift card) these are the babies I would be looking at. I am getting myself number 5 as soon as the store opens in Sandton City(apologies to my credit card).

All things sparkly

1. R129, 2.R129, 3.R399, 4.R129, 5.R169

Who doesn’t love a nice pair of earrings or a shiny stack of bangles? I love being a girl and being able to wear cute earrings, necklaces and bracelets all the time. I would add these gorgeous items to my collection.

 SO the all-important question is- How can you stand a chance to win the R1000 gift card and go on a real-life shopping spree and not just my imaginary one? It is super easy!

1.Follow Aldo Shoe South Africa (@ALDOShoes_SA) and I on Twitter and tell us why you are excited about ALDO Accessories stores opening in South Africa! Use #AldoAccessoriesSA in your tweet.

      2.Comment on this post with your details

And that’s it! It is easy as pie, so get entering! The competition will end on the 23^Rd of March and it is only open to residents of South Africa. I will pick the winner via a random draw on the 24^th of March.

Next week I will be visiting the Aldo Accessorize in Sandton City and will report back with the pictures of the new store and my “must-have” items.

Good Luck!

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Outfit Of The Day - Black And Gold

Hello guys! Aren’t you all happy that it is FINALLY Friday? 

Last night le bf and I attended the launch of the Bellfield brand in Stuttafords followed by a “date night” dinner. We try to go someplace new and nice every couple of weeks and last night I insisted on Papas which is a Mediterranean restaurant because I am Orthodox which means I started fasting this week (no meat or dairy for 40 days!). Papas offer a variety of yummy vegetarian dishes and if you have given up meat for lent this year definitely check it out at Nelson Mandela Square! 

I never miss an opportunity to dress up, and date night is no different. In fact, I think there is something special to still dressing up for your boyfriend/spouse even if you have been together for a while. I even always get ready in a different room (now I have a separate room for my clothes and shoes-post to come soon). I picked up this lace River Island dress while overseas in December and I love the turtleneck and the sheer details on it. River Island has always been one of my favourite brands, and I am so excited that Edgars is bringing them into South Africa this July! Eeeep! The combination of black and gold has always been one of my favourites and this Topshop necklace and glasses are so chic! I took a page out of Anjas style book and used my spikey bracelet as a decoration for my bun. I normally always wear my hair down so it is nice to have a bit of a change. To complete the outfit I added my favourite gold accessories- bracelets, my dear Forever New clutch and Steve Madden Heels.

 

I hope everyone has an amazing weekend, and keep dry if you are on Johannesburg as the weather man predicts more rain this weekend!

Dress- River Island

Shoes- Steve Madden

Clutch – Forever New

Bracelets- Zuri (Sass Diva)

Earrings- Mr.Price

Necklace- Topshop

Sunglasses- Topshop

Brand Spotlight - Love My Lace

 

Every now and again I come across a brand or a product and wonder- how the hell do people not know about it yet? There are so many hidden gems all over the place so I have decided to start a new section on my blog where I feature brands or products that others might not be familiar with yet, but they are pretty awesome. Please note, these are not sponsored posts, it is just something I would like to share with everyone. It will most probably be something that I was gifted,won, got in a goodie bag or went out and bought myself.

I was gifted this "Love My Lace" bag for winning a blogger competition at the Wedding Expo(don’t ask me why I was there-can’t a girl look at some dresses in advance?)held at the Maslow Hotel. I know you are wondering what the hell this is (it looks like some rather large breasts ;)). "Love My Lace" provides ladies with stylish and sexy travel bags! As an avid traveller myself I am always in need of a bag to put my lingerie in while travelling- we have one for our precious shoes, so why not our lingerie? Pretty bras are few to come by in my size so I look after mine like gold!

The texture of the bags is very hard- you know your lingerie will not be creased or worse, destroyed, during your travels. The bag will fit about four-five of your favourite bras- depending on their padding. Love My Lace offers a variety of different designs of the bags and two different styles- the normal and the buxom (for ladies like me)). They also have matching underwear bags that can fit all of your pretty lingerie in it.

I think this would make a terrific gift for any traveller or at any bachelorette party! It is sexy yet very fun and useful. The bags start from R700 and check out their website and Facebook page for more info.

This gorgeous thing is coming with me to Russia next time, that's for sure!