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	<description>The frugal fashionista - merging the fashion and money sense.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Moved!</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/10/moved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have moved domains - please point your pretty ways to prettycupcake.com! I needed a new name and a new energy - but the new blog isn&#8217;t nearly as pretty as I anticipate it will be :) soooooon enough!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have moved domains - please point your pretty ways to <a href="http://prettycupcake.com" target="_blank"><strong>prettycupcake.com</strong></a>! I needed a new name and a new energy - but the new blog isn&#8217;t nearly as pretty as I anticipate it will be :) soooooon enough!</p>
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		<title>links for 2008-10-16</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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BlackBerry Fitness Manager - Ascendo Fitness - Manage Diet and Exercise &#8230;
(tags: blackberry)


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<div class="delicious-link"><a href="http://www.ascendo-inc.com/Fitness.html">BlackBerry Fitness Manager - Ascendo Fitness - Manage Diet and Exercise &#8230;</a></div>
<div class="delicious-tags">(tags: <a href="http://delicious.com/fresh76/blackberry">blackberry</a>)</div>
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		<title>Makeup &#038; Beauty blog poll</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/makeup-beauty-blog-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From the lovely Karen (Makeup and Beauty Blog). 
Mood:
Content - ready to buckle down and kick off the week!
Outfit:
Grey cashmere quarter-sleeve sweater, black &#38; crystal beaded long strand necklace, dark blue hudson jeans. 
Shoes:
Black wedge shoes
Lips:
MAC lipglass in Pink Lemonade
Best thing about last weekend:
Buying an Eve Gravel jacket (MSRP $450) for $75 at the Clothing Show [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>From the lovely Karen (</strong><a href="http://www.makeupandbeautyblog.com/" target="_blank"><strong>Makeup and Beauty Blog</strong></a><strong>). </strong></p>
<p><strong>Mood:</strong><br />
Content - ready to buckle down and kick off the week!</p>
<p><strong>Outfit:</strong><br />
Grey cashmere quarter-sleeve sweater, black &amp; crystal beaded long strand necklace, dark blue hudson jeans. </p>
<p><strong>Shoes:</strong><br />
Black wedge shoes</p>
<p><strong>Lips:</strong><br />
MAC lipglass in Pink Lemonade</p>
<p><strong>Best thing about last weekend:</strong><br />
Buying an <a href="http://www.evegraveldesign.com/" target="_blank">Eve Gravel</a> jacket (MSRP $450) for $75 at the Clothing Show (free tickets care of the wonderful <a href="http://bargainista.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bargainista</a>!) then celebrating with Halusky @ <a href="http://www.theprague.ca" target="_blank">The Prague</a> with the boyfriend.</p>
<p><strong>Nails:</strong><br />
Clear nail polish</p>
<p><strong>Hair product I’m loving:</strong><br />
Nice &amp; Easy ColorSeal conditioner (fixed it right up good!)</p>
<p><strong>Book I’m reading:</strong><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Monsters" target="_blank"> Invisible Monsters</a> by Chuck Palahniak</p>
<p><strong>Body Lotion:</strong><br />
Neutrogena Body Oil (HG!)</p>
<p><strong>Goals for the week:</strong><br />
Write my first comprehensive report at work.  </p>
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		<title>Bargain lookout! USB drives at Futureshop</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/bargain-lookout-usb-drives-at-futureshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month or so ago, I bought a 4GB Kingston flash drive at Future Shop - for $10! There must have been some crazy sale going on and I (regrettably) only purchased 1. They are now selling for $40! FORTY!! Insane!
If you&#8217;re looking for a cheap flash drive, head on over to Future Shop [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>About a month or so ago, I bought a 4GB Kingston flash drive at Future Shop - for $10! There must have been some crazy sale going on and I (regrettably) only purchased 1. They are now selling for $40! FORTY!! Insane!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a cheap flash drive, head on over to Future Shop - they still have one of them on sale - the <a href="http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&amp;langid=EN&amp;sku_id=0665000FS10073343&amp;catid=" target="_blank">2GB version for only $6.99</a>! They&#8217;re perfect for school and work. Stock up!!</p>
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		<title>Sometimes, warranties are fabulous.</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/sometimes-warranties-are-fabulous/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I purchased this pair of Bose headphones:

I loved them dearly - until they completely went kaput today in the middle of my workout. How infuriating! I bought them for $130 at the time, and that&#8217;s way more than I am willing to pay this time around.
Luckily, when I purchased them, I also bought [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last year, I purchased this pair of <a href="http://www.bose.ca/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&amp;product=triport_ie_headphones_index" target="_blank">Bose headphones</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bose.ca/controller?event=VIEW_PRODUCT_PAGE_EVENT&amp;product=triport_ie_headphones_index" target="_BLANK"><img title="bose headphones" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bose.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="188" /></a></p>
<p>I loved them dearly - until they completely went <strong>kaput </strong>today in the middle of my workout. How infuriating! I bought them for $130 at the time, and that&#8217;s way more than I am willing to pay this time around.</p>
<p>Luckily, when I purchased them, I also bought the extra Warranty that Future Shop was providing. This covers a lot of things that are under $200 - they will replace it within the warranty time. So, I trekked on downtown and complained about how I had to finish the stairmaster without any (good) music (okay, I didn&#8217;t, but I did whine a little, I&#8217;m sure). They quickly replaced it with a brand new package of the same pair of headphones. Relief!</p>
<p><strong>Pros:</strong> They replaced it with no questions asked.</p>
<p><strong>Cons:</strong> Apparently, after you fulfil a &#8216;replacement&#8217; credit during your warranty time, if your item poops out on you again before your warranty is up, they will give you store credit instead. Wtf?! Didn&#8217;t I pay for 2 years? Isn&#8217;t it called a &#8216;Product <strong>Replacement </strong>Plan&#8217;? D&#8217;UHRRR.</p>
<p>Oh well, at least I have a new pair of headphones! I lost a couple of the in-ear covers during a snowfall (and mysteriously found it on the sidewalk after the snow had melted) anyways.</p>
<p>So with that - maybe it&#8217;s worth spending an extra $15 on a Warranty on beloved items. Oh how I love thee!</p>
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		<title>Fancy new MK shoes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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I haven&#8217;t purchased anything in the last few weeks (aside from Lush&#8217;s Mask of Magnaminty - which I totally recommend!) due to lack of motivation, but I had to have these! Mmm, I love Michael Kors!
Also, I will be posting more of my mobile photos from now on - I don&#8217;t take nearly enough and [...]]]></description>
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<p>I haven&#8217;t purchased anything in the last few weeks (aside from <a href="http://www.lush.ca" target="_blank">Lush</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://ca.lush.com/cgi-bin/lushdb/00411?expand=FacialCare" target="_blank">Mask of Magnaminty</a> - which I totally recommend!) due to lack of motivation, but I had to have these! Mmm, I love Michael Kors!</p>
<p>Also, I will be posting more of my mobile photos from now on - I don&#8217;t take nearly enough and I have this fancy thingamabob phone that just kind of sits around. I love her, though. I should name her. Phoney.</p>
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		<title>Chuck Palahniuk on the big screen again</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/chuck-palahniu-on-the-big-screen-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I read the book Choke by Chuck Palahniuk - and while it was a fairly messed up book, I was pretty happy when I saw a poster on Queen street advertising it&#8217;s movie version. As soon as I got home, I searched for the trailer:

I&#8217;m not really sure how great this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few years ago, I read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Choke-Chuck-Palahniuk/dp/0385720920/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1221255236&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Choke</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk" target="_blank">Chuck Palahniuk</a> - and while it was a fairly messed up book, I was pretty happy when I saw a poster on Queen street advertising it&#8217;s movie version. As soon as I got home, I searched for the trailer:</p>
<p><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HPjVMADisoU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HPjVMADisoU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not really sure how great this movie is going to be. I think <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fincher" target="_blank">David Fincher</a> did such a great job on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(film)" target="_blank">Fight Club</a> that this might just fall short. The trailer seems to portray the main character as a more comedic person - when I really got the sense that he was a lot darker in the book. I&#8217;m afraid that the director, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Gregg" target="_blank">Clark Gregg</a>, will miss that important tone that went throughout the book and make this some movie I&#8217;m going to skip over at Blockbuster. That would be a damn shame because I think Palahniuk is brilliant (though pretty effed up - his novels are usually very dark and he had a pretty dark past - his father was murdered and burned).</p>
<p>Regardless, I may go see this in theatres. Maybe. Probably.</p>
<p>In other, completely unrelated news, I bought a pair of Michael Kors pumps and I can&#8217;t stop wearing them around the apartment. Whatevaaaah, they&#8217;re gawgeous.</p>
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		<title>A brand-spankin new layout!</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/a-brand-spankin-new-layout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be too long before I had to re-design. I really dig it (for now) and am really excited to decorate the header a little more :)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I knew it wouldn&#8217;t be too long before I had to re-design. I really dig it (for now) and am really excited to decorate the header a little more :)</p>
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		<title>Completed: #31, #32</title>
		<link>http://froo-gal.com/2008/09/completed-31-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Completed: Visit St. Lawrence Market, Visit the Distillery District. 
I don&#8217;t have any photos of St. Lawrence Market, but it was a quiet Sunday morning that was spent there a few weeks ago. Boyfriend &#38; I grabbed some brunch, walked around and gazed at all the merchants and their goodies. The only purchase made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/distillery-shoes.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-114" title="distillery-shoes" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/distillery-shoes-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a> <strong>Completed: Visit St. Lawrence Market, Visit the Distillery District. </strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t have any photos of <a href="http://www.stlawrencemarket.com/">St. Lawrence Market</a>, but it was a quiet Sunday morning that was spent there a few weeks ago. Boyfriend &amp; I grabbed some brunch, walked around and gazed at all the merchants and their goodies. The only purchase made that day was a $5 necklace that I really dig (picture to follow).</p>
<p>This afternoon, Boyfriend &amp; I spent a good few hours walking through the <a href="http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/">Distillery District</a>&#8217;s cobblestone streets. Tasty panini&#8217;s, and even tastier homemade ice cream! Mmmm, PB&amp;J ice cream!</p>
<p>On a non <a href="http://froo-gal.com/101-things-in-1001-days/">101-things</a> topic, things have gotten a little less hectic in my life, and I am finding a LOT more free time on my hands. I plan on taking advantage of the great weather we&#8217;ve been having as well as diving straight into a few books that I have been meaning to indulge in. Toodles, Summer! You have been an interesting one&#8230; now, on to the boots and the wonderful jackets of Autumn!</p>
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		<title>Kate Spade shoes - I am impressed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>froogal</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not generally a Kate Spade fan - I don&#8217;t really like her handbags all that much - and because of that, she is one designer that I am quick to pass through. That is, until I saw a few of her shoes! Now I&#8217;m really dying for a pair! Or five :)
Check them [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am not generally a Kate Spade fan - I don&#8217;t really like her handbags all that much - and because of that, she is one designer that I am quick to pass through. That is, until I saw a few of her shoes! Now I&#8217;m really dying for a pair! Or five :)</p>
<p>Check them out after the jump!<span id="more-100"></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/karolina.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-101" title="karolina" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/karolina.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/halle.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102" title="halle" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/halle.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sassy.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-108" title="sassy" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/sassy.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/puzzle.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-107" title="puzzle" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/puzzle.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lina.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-106" title="lina" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lina.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lacey.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-105" title="lacey" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lacey.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/hera.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-104" title="hera" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/hera.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/coralee.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-103" title="coralee" src="http://froo-gal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/coralee.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></a></p>
<p>So, with that, I think I want to invest in a pair of her shoes! Perhaps the last ones or the first ones (the first ones come in a whole lot of other colours!). All shoes (and MORE!) can be found on <a href="http://www.zappos.com" target="_blank">Zappos</a>.</p>
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