Recap

Style Leopard accessories and Colorful Pants. Alone or combined we incorporated both newfound loves into our ensembles on the regular.

Books This past year, we remained on the lighter side of literacy and funny women were our authors of choice. Occupying our nightstands were Lies Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler Bossypants by Tina Fey and Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling.

Television Game of Thrones, Happy Endings, and the New Girl. We fell in love with Jon Snow, had the hot’s for the Khal, discovered that Penny Hearts was auhmahzing and warmly embraced new best friends Jess and Schmidt into our lives.

Movies Movie-wise 2011 was a tad mediocre, but we were captivated, if not slightly traumatized, by Drive and may or may not have seen Bridesmaids multiple times in theatres; laughing harder each time.

Person Ryan Gosling. A lot of our time was devoted to this man this year, particularly trying to figure out ways to get him to kiss us the way he kissed Carey Mulligan in Drive and/or pick us up dirty dancing style as he did Emma Stone in Crazy Stupid Love.

Music In 2011 our iPods played a lot of The Weeknd and The Black Keys. We also had the pleasure of seeing these acts live. In concert they lived up to all the hype we had independently generated in our cubicles. Their equally original albums guided us through 2011.

Foreign Shopping Lands in Canada We were thrilled when Victoria Secret, Top Shop and J. Crew became a part of the Toronto shopping landscape.

Beyoncé Pregnancy Reveal Arguably, the best pop culture moment of 2011.

Pinterest This past year we were pinning like it is our job. Subsequently we created auhmahzing boards and we even were able to carry out a few DIY’s.

Royal Wedding Despite waking up at an ungodly hour, this event encompassed all that we adore: fashion speculation, hot guys in uniforms, sisters upstaging each other and a kiss of fairytale proportions.

Montreal We had a lot of love for the city this year, as it provided us a much-needed break from Toronto. Montreal manages to combine the old and the new in a very genuine way; the eats and odd ball celebrity sightings (we stayed at the same hotel as the cast of the upcoming Snow White movie!) weren’t bad either.

Style Flowy florals paired with soft neutrals for everyone!

Book Paris vs. New York: A Tally of Two Cities by Vahram Muratyan. After flipping through a copy purchased by a friend from Europe, the February North American release of this book is a highly anticipated event for us.

Television Some of our faithful favorites, 30 Rock and Mad Men have been on a serious hiatus and in 2012 they will be gracing our television screens once more. How about the Don Draper Marriage!? Will Liz Lemon land a hunky boyfriend!? We are in an absolute tizzy just thinking about it!

Movies Baz Luhrmanns take on The Great Gatsby. We have merely seen promo pictures for this movie and already love it. The casting for this 2012 release is amazing, Leo as Gatsby and Carey as Daisy, melt.

Person Again, Ryan Gosling. Let’s face it; we all want to see what he does in 2012.

Music We haven’t heard from Alicia Keys since 2009, and although we are still listening to The Element of Freedom, we are excited to see (well more so listen) to what’s up next.

Favorite Shops Landing in New Locations A David’s Tea opened conveniently close to our office at the end of 2011 and will be stopping in every other day for a brew this year.

Beyonce’s baby This needs no commentary.

Turning 25 We both have reached a quarter of a century in age. We are actually looking forward to it, and feel very adult.

Seeing what Prince Harry does With all the attention off of Wills and Kate, we can once again really focus all of our attentions to the hotter of the Royal brothers.

Oprahs New Show Oprah is back at doing what she does best, interviewing celebrities on The Next Chapter. This might just save OWN or, at the very least, provide us with some much needed celebrity fodder.

Astutely yours,
Us