thrifty

Remember your first vintage/old purchase?

12:09 PM
Some of my most treasured possessions are of the tchotchke, knick-nack, whos-its whats-its galore, thingamabobs, ugly, and old category. I've always loved collecting and I would always like to get all of whatever was in the "set" or "collection" including all of the color variations. This method of collecting little treasures has adapted into my "grown-up" life, and...

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daily life

Love: at an extremely affordable price.

12:34 PM
If you know me, then you know I love nail polish. I have tons of different brands, but I must say that e.l.f. polish is top on my list of favorites for the quality, color selection, and of course it's practically free price tag. It recently went up from one dollar to two dollars but... THAT IS STILL...

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baking

Peanut Butter & Nutella Cupcakes

10:03 PM
I have ended up doing way more cupcake and baking posts than I ever thought that I would. I blame my new red hand mixer and cute cupcake papers, but who knows. Maybe I just like having baked goods with my coffee for breakfast. I'm not sure where the idea came from but I urgently needed to make...

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fashion

Window Shopping Accidents

12:52 PM
Sometimes my online window shopping turns into accidental purchases. Here is what I accidentally bought today, on sale. Oops. First I fortuitously bought *this* sale cardigan from FreePeople. I can't wait to style it in basically an almost identical way. I am SUCH a sucker for drapey and oversized layers. I can't help it. I love them and...

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daily life

2011 : My Year In Review

4:57 PM
Oh 2011, you were absolutely jam packed with work, craziness, shock, and awe. Where to begin!? In mid January I actually had a whole entire weekend off, so the beard and I scooted up to Niagara Falls on a whim. We pulled in around 2am, got our hotel then went to the casino! Ross was playing blackjack while...

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