Thursday, December 9, 2010

Girls Day Out!!

Today was girls day out on the town!! We headed to the big outlet mall by our school enjoyed a day of shopping and dinner at one of my favorite restaurants.  I had two really great finds that I will take pictures of and post tomorrow.  While we were shopping I noticed a ton of cool home decorations that lead me to thinking about how I want to decorate my first place.  Here are some of my inspirations. 

Forever 21 $7.80
H&M 7.99
H&M 9.99
Kohl's 207.99
IKEA $349

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Blackberry Bling

I've recently discovered a new kind of accessory that I had completely overlooked, the cell phone cover.  It makes complete sense, my phone comes everywhere with me why not make it work with my outfits? Well maybe not every outfit, but it should at least look good!
letscrystalit.com $22.46 
crackberry.com
shoponline2011.com

Happy Wednesday!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Going Out With My Boots On

It's finally here, my last official day of college.  After today all I have left is finals and packing. While the day is sure to be completely bittersweet, I thought I'd make it a little bit more pleasant by wearing my favorite shoes.  I love a great pair of heels, adore comfy and stylish flats, and have almost worn out both pairs of my suede boots. However, none of these hold a candle to my signature shoes... Have you guessed it yet? Of course the Urban Cowgirl is talking about her cowgirl boots.  I've had mine for five years now, and they are by far my favorite shoes.  So I figured I'd make my last day memorable and rock the boots! Unfortunately I can't get a picture of my own boots right now but here's a pretty close match.

Durango $93.99

I wish I had one of these dresses to wear with my boots tomorrow.  I love the look of a girly dress paired with worn in cowboy boots. It just screams Urban Cowgirl!!
Forever 21 $19.90
Forever 21 $24.90
Here's to the end. 

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

 

Alexander Graham Bell

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Oh We Need A Little Christmas

After surviving senior comprehensive exams, I have found myself in the middle of Christmas party season (I had two this weekend already!). After the test I was able to relax at our annual drumline Christmas party. It was great being able to spend some fun time with my fellow drummers before I graduate in two weeks. My roommates and I decided to through our party last night.  Everything went off really great.  We had lots of food, friends, games, ugly sweaters, and a new twist on the old white elephant gift exchange. The only thing that could have made it better was if we had some treat bags! Do you remember when you would go to parties in grade school and leave with a treat bag, well I think it'd be fun to do at an adult party too.  Furthermore, it would also double as a Christmas present and cut down on holiday shopping.  Here is what I would put in my treat bags

Fred Flare $12 for set

Fred Flare $10

Target $6.99 Lady Antebellum Christmas Album
Homemade Recipe here

I think these three paired together with some homemade truffles would make awesome treat bags!  Enjoy your party planning, I'm working on a holiday gift guide to post soon!

Friday, December 3, 2010

Still Studying...

Still plowing through to philosophy comps on Saturday.  Here are some funny philosophy comics, well maybe they're only funny if you've been studying philosophy intensely all week.  Whatever the case enjoy your weekend free from philosophy comps you have no idea how lucky you are.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Sick of Sweats

Although I have essentially become a hermit, never leaving the study lounge except for food and classes, I still feel somewhat obligated to look presentable.  I used to attempt to study in my jeans and nice sweaters, but sitting in jeans for hours on end results in two problems 1.) it's incredibly uncomfortable 2.) by the time you stand up your jeans have stretched two sizes bigger and the knees are baggy.  Then I switched to studying in sweats and t-shirts, but that's just embarrassing when people stop by, and if you need to run out to grab something you lose precious time changing into more presentable clothes.  It's taken four years but I think that I have finally found the perfect comfortable yet presentable study outfit. 

H & M
An extra long button up cardigan. It's long enough to be a dress, but comfy enough to spend hours in. 

Target

Leggings, as comfy as sweatpants but much less I just rolled out of bed.  (Make sure that the sweater is long enough to come past your rear to avoid the leggings as pants phenomena.)

colettafazer.com
Layer your favorite cotton v neck underneath, and you are ready to study in style.  Now if only senior comprehensive exams were this easy...

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Study Study

So just to fill you in the rest of the posts this week (and possibly next week) will be pretty short.  I've got to take my comprehension exam (two hours of essays over every topic in my major), an ethics paper, two senior capstone thesi, and three final exams separate me from the "real world".  Well I better get back to studying because I don't want to end up like this guy...





Oh and I thought I'd show you my awesome glasses that are getting me through the all nighters,

Coach
Who said nerdy couldn't be fashionable!!