Butterick's Early Summer Collection 2013 - Vintage Up-date!

Through their Early Summer collection, Butterick has made a new "Retro Butterick" patterns and two new "by Gertie" pattern available.

 

B5880 - Dress with "volant" and belt

 

B5882 - Dress with "shelf bust"

B5895 - Short shirt and high waist-pants 

I love the pants of that last pattern, this definitely goes on my "to-do" list!

Aldo's "Kustes" Unboxing and Review

Aldo is what Zappos used to be like in Canada. Great website, good sales and free shipping! Aldo started out as a regular shoes store back in 1978 with it's headquarters in Montreal. Before then, the company it self stared distributing their products in the Le Château stores in 1972. Anyways, I like what they do and I think we need more stores like that!

As part of their current half-price on sale items special, I got myself this adorable black pair of sandals. The style's name is "Kustes". They have a velvety like finish and cute cut-out heart on the front! I generally wear size 39 (or a wide size 8), but I went for size 38 for this one as I don't plan to wear them with socks. The fit is great! I'm glad I got them! And the shipping took an amazing 48 hours. Yes, I'm counting this in hours. It's fantastic! I'll definitely buy from their web store again.