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The engagement celebration!

NO! Just wanted to make that clear… I am NOT the one engaged haha.  Two of our friends got engaged last weekend at the football game and so I decided it would be fun to throw an engagement celebration!  Let’s define that, shall we?  An engagement celebration is NOT a shower, there are no gifts, it is just a party to celebrate the fact that they are engaged.  So I had roughly three days to plan this event.  It was going to be at Nick’s apartment and we were decorating and having some finger food.  I invited about twenty-five people, of which I only knew like 6!  I, being the wonderful planner that I am, turned to pinterest for some pinspiration!  It wasn’t super extravagant, and believe me, I wish I had a fabulous budget to go all out with or the fabulous time to shop for decorations and get it all together.  I was pleased with what I was able to do working full time and getting it all organized though.  {Last week was WAY stressful!}

This was my outfit that day (I’m terrible with lighting!)
Shirt: Ohh La La, a boutique
Pants: LA Green, a boutique
Boots: Khols
And a starbucks goes with any outfit!

The lovely couple and I (in the middle!)

We strung lights on the ceiling and I put tealights inside of apples

On the menu: avocado salsa/blue corn chips, nutella cookies, pumpkin cookies, pimento cheese finger sandwiches, chicken salad sandwiches, peanut butter and chocolate popcorn, and cocktail sausages

The pumpkins we carved for Nathan and MK!  They turned out the best, everyone loved them!

We strung lights outside of the apartment, it really looks beautiful y’all, pictures do not do it justice!! Besides, I’m no where near a great photographer!

A solid look into the apartment!

The party turned out great, we had a great showing, plenty of room for people to mingle and chat and we played the Mumford and Sons Pandora Station (score!)

Now, I’ve decided after what I could whip up in 3 days, I’m going to throw a Christmas Party and I have so much more time to prepare!! Pinterest is getting hit hard right now!! 

Hope you’re having a wonderful Monday, this week is proving to be already super busy for me, so I promise I’ll try to keep up with what I can on the blogs!! 

P.S. Be sure to check out my NEW link-up that I started this week, you can read about it {here}

My very FIRST Link-up!

Hello fellow bloggers!

I’ve announced a few times this week that I’m starting my very first link-up!
Let me explain: I haven’t been very motivated to dress up a lot lately and I wanted a reason to put time and effort into my outfits each day, so I thought a link-up would be fun for those other bloggers out there who feel the same way I do!  We will link up the next FOUR Saturdays and post the outfits we wore that week!  If you can only post one pic, that’s fine, and if you can post a cute outfit for all seven days, that’s even better!  So join in on the Outfit Challenge of Fun and link-up with me starting NEXT SATURDAY!

We will link-up on the following dates: 
Oct. 27 (for outfits Oct. 20-26)
Nov. 3 (for outfits Oct. 27-Nov. 2)
Nov. 10 (for outfits Nov. 3-Nov. 9)
Nov. 17 (for outfits Nov. 10- Nov. 16) 

Grab the button below:

From Here to There...
At first, I was going to give away a Starbucks Card, and I know that would be fabulous for everyone, but the oh so clever boyfriend pointed out that I should probably give away clothing or jewelry since it is a “fashion” link-up!  So I thought that was a brilliant idea!  I’ll be shopping around this week for the perfect thing to send your way!  For every time you link-up and for every picture you post in each link-up, your name will be put in a drawing for that fashionable item!  I’ll have a picture of the item by the first link-up post, so be sure to link-up next week and see what you could win!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday and I look forward to seeing everyone’s outfits next week!


Totally Awesome Letters… AND JOIN MY LINK-UP!

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Dear Friday, you should have been here on Monday, where have you been!?  Dear Insanely long week, thank goodness you are over, can I just say that this has been a combination of the busiest work week, personal planning week, and just stress week ever!  Dear Engagement Celebration I planned in 3 days, yes, you ROCKED, and the bride and groom said thanks like a million times, which was awesome!  Dear boyfriend, you seriously did a slammin’ job carving that N and MK into those pumpkins, thanks!  Dear weekend, let me go ahead and inform you of the tasks that will be had: 1. clean room 2. do LOTS of laundry 3. catch up on the 255 unread blog posts in my google reader 3.5. Schedule all my posts for next week (In case another busy week pursues) 4. clean up the party that happened last night 5. relax 6. watch How I met your Mother 7. catch up on sleep 8. relax… again, and again, and again 9. Take it slow so Monday doesn’t arrive too quickly!  Dear Mississippi Delta, I’m already falling in love with all that you have to offer, people should totally want to visit the Delta!  Dear Dark Chocolate M&M’s, you are so delicious.  Dear Spanish, I’m getting better with you, but this may just be a love/hate relationship to be honest.  Dear Disney Savings Fund, I’m so happy to deposit some more money into you, January is going to be FABULOUS!  Dear Disney, you think you may be sneaky, but we know the tricks and tips, and we know the best time to come so there are no long lines and huge crowds that will make it almost impossible to run (yes, RUN!) from one ride to the next.. we take this pretty seriously, so don’t think you’re going to pull a fast one on US, we will conquer!
 
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend my sweet dear followers!  I hope your weekend will be as relaxing as MINE!
 
P.S. If you want to join my NEW, and totally AWESOME, link-up, then start taking pictures of your ridiculously adorable outfits TOMORROW! and then we will all link-up NEXT Saturday!  A button will be on the blog tomorrow (should have added that to my to-do list above!) It’s the “27 Day Outfit Challenge” PLEASE JOIN ME!!!
You can check out the details and the PRIZE {here}

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