Client Love...

After almost 8 months of thinking and planning and working and more planning a little more working and a lot of sweat and tears...

It's time!

It's finally here!

A life-size Hot Wheels® Colour Shifters^TM car!

The Hot Wheels® Colour Shifters^TM Road Trip is kicking off bright and early tomorrow morning.

6 AM @ Yonge & Dundas Square.

Hope to see you out there!

x' & o's,

Leslie

Change...

Love it or hate it, we can't seem to get away from it.

Sometimes it's quick. Sometimes gradual.

Sometimes we don't even realize it's happening until it's too late.

Or maybe until it's way better.

We've changed a lot.

Sometimes we're scared of it. Sometimes we welcome it with open arms.

Sometimes we need it, but we just don't know how to make it happen.

We can change our hearts. We can change our minds. We can change our future, but we can't change our past.

So we learn to embrace. Our present. Our future. Even our past.

Because our past created who we are. And our future remains filled with hope. And our present is, truly, the best gift we will ever get.

x's & o's,

Leslie

Stolen Photos...

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless." - Bill Watterson

x's & o's,

Leslie

Tribute to my Life BFF...

On her last day as my work BFF...

x's & o's,

Leslie

Let's do it now...

Before it's too late.

Organized activities. Spontaneous reactions.

Let's do it all, before it's too late.

Dance, sing, laugh, cry, giggle, yell, live.

Let's do it before we get old and jaded.

Let's never get old and jaded.

Okay, maybe old. But never jaded.

Let's fall head over heels, in love, out of love. Back in love.

Let's do it now, while we want to. While we can.

Work hard, play hard.

Play fair.

Enjoy the moments.

Right here, right now.

Forever and always plus a day.

But especially right now, because you never know.

x's & o's,

Leslie

Stolen Photos...

We heart weheartit.com

We also heart sleep.

x's & o's,

Leslie

A Letter To Myself...

I've been inspired by Fashion Magazine. Beyond the beautiful pictures. The May Issue included a feature where inspiring women wrote about the following:

What would you write if you could write to the younger you?

Where would you hide it?

So here we go...

"Wise us" (that we know is just around the corner!) would write that we shouldn't judge others. That we should stress a little less. Because judging is mean. And stressing doesn't solve anything, it just causes odd grey tinted hairs. That we shouldn't engage with people that make us feel small. Because those people usually don't change, and they definitely aren't worth it.

But it would be a waste. Because we do all of the above, and clearly we haven't learned our lessons yet.

So instead we'll write to have fun. To be spontaneous. To be proud. Self confident. And to never stop thinking.

And we think that'll do.

And the where. Where would we hide it? We'd keep it in the open. To remind us. Because we're constantly hiding things in wicked cubby holes and then promptly forgetting where they are. And our junk drawer is jammed.

x's & o's,

Leslie

ps. We did once write a letter from our 15 year old self to our 20 year old self. We hid it with our thousands of volumes of diaries, under the pool table, in our parents basement. It may not be the work of a genius, or a poet, or even a wise us, but it was lovely and it makes us laugh. And that's what life is about.

We Don't Believe in Multi-Tasking...

We do not believe in multi-tasking. We just simply do not believe that juggling multiple tasks helps us achieve said tasks in the most efficient way. Or the most effective way.

We believe in setting aside a specific time every hour or even every couple of hours to check our email. We do not believe in the 5 minute refresh.

We believe in checking our FB, Twitter, fave blogs, our blog in the morning, at work, but before work. We do not believe in tweet deck. (We occasionally believe in the mid-day blog, whether it's because we're inspired, or in dire need of some inspiration!)

We believe in being there. When we're in a conversation, we're not on the blackberry. When we're on the phone, we're not watching TV. When we're working on one client document, our mind isn't drifting to the other client's meeting.

We don't believe in multi-tasking relationships either. Our new boyfriend isn't waiting for us outside our ex-boyfriends place (thank you Greg & Amiira!).

We don't believe in multi-tasking jobs. While we should know our options, and be happy with the ones we choose - mulling, rethinking and stressing overtime is a dead end.

We think it's all a circle.

We think we need to pick and choose who, where and what we want to be. And then just be.

We don't believe in multi-tasking.

x's & o's,

Leslie

ps. Direct from Canadian Business:

Studies suggest that the average working is interrupted once every 11 minutes; it takes on average about 25 minutes for that worker to get back on task.

Mistakes...

Big. Little. Huge. Miniscule. Humongous. Diminutive. Life-altering. Petite. Gut-wrenching. Trivial. Gigantic. Minor. Immense.

Mistakes.

We preach about perfect prose everyday, but we're not perfect either. (We had a typo in last night's blog post that a friend kindly pointed out!)

But whether they are large or small. A mistake's a mistake, and too many of the small mistakes chip away at trust.

We see a lot of mistakes. Seems to us, we see more mistakes more often. Rather than less mistakes. Or even new mistakes.

Is it the fast paced life we live?

The so-called laziness of generation "why me"?

Whatever it is, whether they are in good faith or bad faith, mistakes are inevitably leading to no faith!

Don't get us wrong. We're not saying we can't ever make mistakes.

We're just saying it may be a good idea to take that extra two seconds to pause. Review. Potentially grab a second opinion. And never make that same mistake twice.

x's & o's,

Leslie

ps. One mistake we absolutely positively despise? Spelling our name wrong. There is no n. There is no t. Let us be clear. When we spell your name wrong, we're doing it on purpose.

Stolen Words...

Lyrics actually!

Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying, each night of his charms that won't get you into his arms, so if you're looking to find love you can share, all you gotta do, is hold him and kiss him, and love him and show him you care.

x's & o's,

Leslie