Moonlight Kiss

It's only taken me 5 months but after winning a $75 Gift Card to Shabby Apple from Talk2TheTrees (back in August! can you believe I held out that long) I finally ordered my Shabby Apple dress.

I really thought I'd have an easier time picking the perfect dress from Shabby Apple.  They have so many pretty dresses it's hard to pick just one dress.  Then you add in my busty disposition and it makes the decision a lot harder than it really should be.

Their last collection Joyful came out not that long ago but they just added a few more color options to some of the dresses I've been looking at.  Having a purple option made my decision a bit of a no brainer.

I don't think there is any difference between the Class Ring dress

Class Ring - Olive Green

and the Moonlight Kiss dress.

Moonlight Kiss - Grey

But the purple is definitely my favorite of the three.

Moonlight Kiss - Purple

Though I was pretty close to picking the Class Ring dress since I really like the olive green color but I decided I had everything I needed to style up the purple so I went with that one.  As I type this I am having a bit of buyers remorse and wishing I'd picked the olive green color.  Oh, well.  

Moonlight Kiss is $85 and because it's my birthday month Shabby Apple sent me an email with a $10 Shabby Apple Dollars code (it actually pays to join email lists!).  So with the $75 GC I won I only paid the $8.95 for shipping.  Pretty sweet, right?!

Now lets hope & pray that the dress fits perfectly so it really is the perfect dress.

Things I Love Thursday

So I've seen a few things around lately that I wanted to share and it doesn't quite fit a Thursday Latelies post (gasp...could I possibly be thinking to starting those up again?!) so I figured I'd try a Things I Love Thursday post (as seen on Little Cheif Honeybee).


1. What EVERY Target shopper NEEDS to know

EVERY Target shopper NEEDS to know this:

****If the price ends in 8, it will be marked down again****

If it ends in a 4, it’s the lowest it will be.

Target’s mark down schedule:

MONDAY: Kids’ Clothing, Stationery (office supplies, gift wrap), Electronics.

TUESDAY: Women’s Clothing and Domestics.

WEDNESDAY: Men’s Clothing, Toys, Health and Beauty.

THURSDAY: Lingerie, Shoes, Housewares.

FRIDAY: cosmetics

Via Thank you, ehretha! 

(stolen from Kaelah)

2. These FANFREAKINGTASTIC shoes/DIY

Via

via

The easy as pie DYI can be found here.  Not that I've ever made a pie or that I think they would be easy to make.  But for those who like pie...or, in this case, comic book shoes...it's totally worth the effort!

3. Rediscovering my Material Issue "International Pop Overthrow" CD (circa 1991)

Since Remington ate my (new) iTravel Friday night (it was only 20 days old) I have been forced to listen to my CD's while in the car.  I decided to grab something I don't usually go for when I grab my CD's.  

Material Issue "International Pop Overthrow

Material Issue "Very First Lie"

Material Issue "Trouble"

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner #21

I haven't done a post like this since October.  I'm not going to say I haven't won something in between then and now but I'm not going to say I have.  Truth is, I don't remember.  I guess if I did I wasn't overtly excited about it.


This weekend I received my "winnings" from an InPink giveaway GrrFiesty had earlier this month.  It was another one of those 50 winner deals.  I honestly figured if I was one of the 50 they'd choose someone else since I'd won from them before but apparently not.


I just checked to see when I won the other InPink giveaway and I am cracking up.  I won a $40 gift certificate for them in January.  I managed to mention it in a WIWW post but never did a WWCD post.  With the timing I'm going to say it had less to do with me not being overtly excited about it and more to do with what was going on at the time.  Losing a friend so unexpectedly and so unnecessarily sort takes the fun out of winning giveaways...and everything else in life.  


You can see me wearing my 1st winnings here, but what I chose was this...

MULTICOLORED CHAINS NECKLACE AND EARRING 

I, also, got a ring with the same "theme" but it is no longer listed on their site.  It's bigger than I expected so I don't wear it often.  


This time with my $40 gift card I bought a set of rings I had my eye on...

TRIPLE BAND SIZED CUBIC ZIRCONIA RING SET

I really really like them.  Plus, they are very versatile.  


What I am most excited about winning is a pair of shoes from B.A.I.T. Footwear off the lovely LoveElycia's blog.  Like squealed, out loud, while at work, after reading that I won.  I think this is the 3rd or 4th giveaway I'd entered for B.A.I.T.  I think the only way I could have been more excited was if I'd won a pair of Blowfish shoes since I've entered at least 20 giveaways for them....possibly 50.  At least with Blowfish it is easier to just go out and buy a pair.  I have yet to see a pair of B.A.I.T. at any stores (except online).  


So after much internal soul searching and asking a few people's opinions I chose the Dennise in RED.  It was between the red and the black but I figured I have black shoes already.  I've been wanting a pair of red shoes FOREVER.  If going bold while getting a pair of FREE shoes isn't the thing to do, then I don't know when is.  I cannot wait to get my red shoes!! 

 

 Now if I could only be this luck when at the casino.  

Remember this and keep it in your heart.

Something I found on Tristan Prettymen's always inspirational blog...

"It is a mystery why we fall in love. It is a mystery how it happens. It is a mystery when it comes. It is a mystery why some loves grow, and it is a mystery why some loves fail. You can analyze this mystery and look for reasons and causes, but you will never do any more than take the life out of the experience.

Love is more than the sum of the interests and attractions and commonalities that two people share. And just as life itself is a gift that comes and goes in its time, the coming of love must be taken as an unfathomable gift that cannot be questioned in its ways.

You need to treat what love brings you with kindness. If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you, be gentle with yourself. There is nothing wrong with you. Love just didn’t choose to rest in the other person’s heart.

If you find someone else in love with you toward whom you feel no love, feel honored that love came and called at your door, but gently refuse the gift you cannot return. Do not take advantage; do not cause pain. How you deal with love is how love will deal with you, and all our hearts feel the same pains and joys, even if our lives and ways are very different.

If you fall in love with another who falls in love with you, and then love chooses to leave, do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame. Let it go. There is a reason and there is a meaning. You will know it in time, but time itself will choose the moment.

Remember this and keep it in your heart. You don’t choose love. Love chooses you. All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away. Give it back to the person who brought it to you. Give it to others who seem poor in spirit. Give it to the world around you in any way you can.

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons for coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. If it chooses to leave your heart or the heart of your lover, there is nothing you can do and nothing you should do. Be glad that it came to live for a moment in your life. If you keep your heart open, it will surely come again."

- Kent Nerbern

Holiday Wish List

I've been inspired by Shelly over at GS Lillian to compile a holiday wish list.  It's not entirely without it's rewards either, by doing so I'm entering a giveaway she's got going on.  Unfortunately, it ends tomorrow...I'm sorta late to the game. 

I was off for a total of 6 days last week.  I was out sick 2 days (food poisoning or the flu) and then there was the Thanksgiving Holiday.  Pretty much the worst 6 days EVER (except for the eating of all the turkey & yummy food).  By Monday I was looking forward to actually going to work.  Crazy, but true.

This week has all been about catching up.  Not much fun going on.  Although, I did get to go to a Pampered Chef party Tuesday night, and now I'm doing this so I guess it hasn't been a total bust. 

My wish list(s) are of things I wish I could have put on my Christmas list but didn't because we're going low key this year.  I tried to go as low key as "don't get me anything" but Santa is sorta stubborn about his job so I threw out gift cards to some places.

Since I couldn't pick just one "must have" item from GS Lillian I just made a separate wish list for GS Lillian jewelry.  I mean, have you seen her stuff?  How do you not want one of everything in ever color?!  If I had made a real Christmas list a GS Lillian necklace would have definitely been on it.

My GSLillian Holiday Wish List by kittykerri featuring gingers jewelry

Holiday Wish List by kittykerri featuring black cocktail dresses

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! #20

Aside from the couple of slips (here and here) I've done surprisingly well keeping to my no spending/shopping ban.  And, yes, I went out and grabbed the shell-ebony stripped Xhilaration Skater Dress from Target for $4.98 (seen here in peacock-navy).  I'm wearing it today and it may be my most favorite outfit ever in the history of ever (photos in next weeks WIWW post).

Until last week the only clothing I've won was a hoodie (here), then within a weeks span I've been lucky enough to win 3 clothing items.  Two from 15DollarStore.com (documented here) and another hoodie off loveelycia's blog.  It's a one of a kind hoodie from Mungo Crafts.  I chose the Bubbly Grape hoodie.  Unfortunately I didn't favorite it on Etsy so I don't have a way to link to it since it's been "sold", and it's not listed under her sold items. 

My first choice was the Weeping Willow but someone snagged it right before I could.  It's okay though because I was totally torn between the two.  

Weeping Willow



I really love what Mungo Crafts does!  Her current stock is pretty (my other favorite was the Beach Party hoodie) but I really love some of the items she's sold already.  She's got nothing but rave reviews so I'm excited to get my hands on my new hoodie. 

Beach Party currently on sale for $63.99



Spring Garden Sold



I'm also awaiting a necklace I won off the lovely Lindsey's blog From the Aisle to Aloha.  The necklace is from LaLuceShop  and I chose the Rosario.  

The Rosario

The Rosario



Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! #19

Contrary to all my "Winner Winner..." posts I do not only enter jewelry giveaways.  I just apparently only WIN jewelry giveaways.  Not that I'm complaining.  I love me some jewelry! 

I'm just saying it would be nice to win something else once in a while. 

Like a whole lot of money! 

Or maybe Jim Sturgess.

At least just for a night or two.

Now where is THAT giveaway?!

I see the logistic reasons why I have yet to come across any Jim Sturgess (or anyone else yummy for that matter) giveaways

but you can't tell me it wouldn't be one hell of a fun giveaway to enter!! 

P.S. I am still not over Jim Sturgess's performance in Across the Universe. 

FanFREAKIN'tastic!!

Anyway, here's what I have been very lucky to have won in the past couple of weeks...

Thanks to E, Myself & I 

I won a LOVE bracelet from

Stella Jewelry

It was a hard choice but I picked the 

metallic purple one with silver.

I should have it this week.

Then thanks to the lovely Tieka at Selective Potential

I won a $35 Gift Credit to

Rebecca.

Here's what I chose... 

Leaf Lariat



Gold Feather Dangle Earring with Your Stone Color Choice

Stone color choice...

Peach!



I'm guessing I'll have my pretties by the end of this week as well.

Both shops have some great stuff in them!!

It's probably a good thing I am on a spending ban or I'd

be buying a few things that caught my eye in both shops.

Seriously, if you are in the need of cool jewelry

go check them out!!

Thursday Latelies #13 (Friday Edition)

Please excuse the Fridayness of this post but it's (belated)

Thursday Latelies time!!

Fridayness??  Yes, I'm making that a word.  Deal.

As always, linking up with Bex...A Style Diary.

Edit/Notes:

* In case you missed it, I rambled on about a story regarding my sisters yummy tacos here yesterday.

* Cyrus...

"STOP what you are doing and PAY ATTENTION to me!!"

* I won the GS Lillian cuff from Chris's blog Chubbette Tails...Life After Spanx.

Shelly of GS Lillian blogs at  GS Lillian Daily

Seriously, CHECK THEM OUT!!

* Fall TV Season is back!! YAY!!

Thank you Hulu for having a way for me to keep

up with all the shows I watch.

*Anyone catch that weird tick I did at the end of talking about

all that TV/Hulu stuff?  Spaz much?!

* Apparently Parker thought it was appropriate for her to

primp in the background.  She may be 17 years old but that doesn't mean she's going to let herself go.

* I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the nature preserve behind the

library in every TL post since I found it.

LOVE IT!!

Adolecent ducks...

*Yes, yes I act out what I am talking about.  It goes well

with the weird ticks.  I try to keep my hands toned

down when I'm videoing myself but it apparently doesn't

always happen. 

Okay, so this is the section I do a public service announcement.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE if you are going to

terrorize fish by fishing please clean up after yourselves

and don't leave fishing line just laying around. 

I know it is unavoidable sometimes, like when your line breaks when it's in the water, but PLEASE do your best to get as much

broken and extra line up off the ground (and or out of the water) as you can, AND THEN PUT INTO A TRASH CAN.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE.

THANK YOU!

The ducks (and any other animal who could be affected by it) also thank you.  How do I know this?  Because they told me.

Scouts honor.

This probably isn't the best time to mention this but I was

never a Cub Scout or anything else that may take the Scouts oath

or whatever "Scouts honor" comes from. 

Wishing I had long nails...

Thanks to GS Lillian Daily & her Midweek Manicure series I now know of the water marble manicure craze.  How I haven't heard of this before amazes me.  Of course, I rarely paint my nails so maybe that's why.

Mostly because they end up looking like this...

Left hand

Right hand

(Anyone notice it's hard to take a good picture of your hands?  They end up looking all weird and alien like.) 

Of course, this is day like day 4 or something but they pretty much looked like this the next morning after I painted them.  Nail polish and my finger nails just don't get a long.  It doesn't matter if I use a base & top coat or how many coats of polish I put on.  It chips & starts peeling off within 24 hours...and by 24 hours I mean more like long before the 12 hour mark hits.   

It doesn't help that I am not pro active when dealing with chipping nail polish, as you can tell from my 4 day old nail polish mess I am currently rocking.  I just plain forget or am too busy (ie. lazy) to remember to take it off right away. 

When I let it sit and continue to chip & peel off it ruins my nails.  How that in itself isn't a motivator is beyond me.  It's a struggle I've been having since Jr. High.  My finger nails just aren't a priority.  If I have any length to my nails prior to polish it will for sure be gone after polishing them.  I have thin nails that peel often to begin with and nail polish just aggravates it.  Right now it looks like I've chewed my nails off but I've never been a nail chewer.  Nope, they've either broke down into my nail bed or they've had to be clipped down that low due to some sort of damage. 

I've tried just about everything to help my nails (except I've never tried prenatal vitamins but that's totally next!).  I'm beginning to think that it just is what it is, just like my super fine hair or my need for glasses. 

Okay, enough of the rambling on about my super crappy nails, which really isn't what I wanted to talk about.  Water Marble Nail Art is what I want to talk about.  It's so stinkin' cool I can't stand it!!  The possibilities of designs and color combos have no end.  If I had long nails (or even nails that were beyond the end of my finger tips) I'd totally try Water Marble Nail Art!!

Seriously, check these videos out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7bwL2S7auk&feature=related

http://youtu.be/1fnjpZ26d3U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WroOdMEjgc0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9A_9FH7e-A

After checking out The Looks For Less: Manicure & Shelly's (GS Lillian) Pinerest nail art collection I am daydreaming of the day that I have nails long enough, the patience, and the ability to try some of this fantastic nail art ideas. 

This may also mean I need a Pinerest account...

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! #18

This was supposed to post last week but for some
reason didn't. 

Thanks to Chris @ Chubbette Tales 

I am now the owner of a GS Lillian bracelet. 

This one to be exact...

Which actuall looks like this...

Via GS Lillian Daily

Seriously, I love GS Lillian jewelry!  

Normally her cuff bracelets run around $72

but she usually has some on sale for $25.

You can also read her blog here.

I can't wait to get my little hands on it! 
Once I do I'll be sure to post pics.

I'm lame because I just now only
 realized it.
Good news is my bracelet is on it's way...YAY!!!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! #17

Today Kaelah Bee @ Little Chief Honeybee let me know

I won a

$50 Gift Certificate

to

Pree Brulee

This is what I picked...

Meadow Necklace

Melting Marble Ring

Porcelain Doll Bracelet

I broke my no spending ban but only because shipping isn't covered by gift cards on their site.  So I had to pay it... $5.99.  The GC code expires after 30 days so I couldn't wait until I was over my ban.  Everything I picked out ended up being $49.50.  Had I been able to put the GC towards shipping I just wouldn't have gotten the bracelet.

I'm bummed that these bracelets weren't on sale instead...how perfect do they go with the necklace & ring I got?!

Purple Stacked Bangle Set

Maybe after I'm over my ban they'll be on sale and I'll get them. 

And Emily @ Mama Days let me know I won another one of her Handmade with Heart Giveaways.  A Doe a Deer(Aluaces) pouch of my choice.  I chose the Bird Spoke Pouch in Grey (small). 

 

Cute right?!

Yesterday I received another one of my winnings in the mail.  Monday Kelsey @ Smitten By a Promise let me know I won a pair of earrings from Beaded Treasures by Sue 

Long Flat Briolette Crystal Earrings in Light Vitrail- Handmade with Swarovski Crystal and Sterling Silver

So I was a bit surprised when they came so quickly!

(I've been waiting for 2 winnings for over a month from personal blogs that said they'd be out by end of the week won & inquiries have gone unanswered)

This was inside the envelope... (minus note card) 

It included a 10% Customer Appreciation Discount Code.

The earrings...

So pretty, right?!

I heart them!!

7 Things

I copied this from Pie in the Sky who copied it from Maie Dae's Blog.  Linking at Pie in the Sky's 7 Things. 

I love lists so it should be no surprise that I would do this...

7 Places I Would Like to Visit:
7. Canada, ah!  There are so many things I love about Canada…like my brother-in-law is from there.

6. Any tropical beach with white beaches & clear blue see to the bottom water.  There are too many places to list that meet the requirements.  Each sound as great as the other.

5. New Zealand… LOTR was filmed there, beautiful land!!

4. Hawaii… ‘nuff said!

3. Italy… I may not be able to eat while there but I won’t care!  Canals, Coliseums…Rome! 

2. Australia… Kangaroos & koalas & hot men with hot accents, who wouldn’t want to go?!

1. Ireland… I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as green as the green in photo’s (or film) of Ireland.  Plus, an Irish accent is fun!

7 Things I Would Like to Make:
7. Another “I would like to make” item for this list.

6. A girls road trip across the United States

5. A garden where things actually grow

4. I’d love to learn how to make tortilla soup like Los Olivos

3. Chocomole. 

2. Something on a sewing machine…like maybe a dress but I think that’s a bit of an over achievement for someone who’s never ever used a sewing machine.

1. Sweet, sweet love to Ryan Reynolds.  Yes, yes, I did just say that!

7 People I'd Like to Meet (Dead or Alive):
7. Ryan Reynolds

6. Gregory Peck

5. Jacqueline Kennedy

4. Audrey Hepburn

3. Joss Whedon

2. Eric Kripke

1. My grandpa.  I know I’ve already met him but I’d like to what he would have been like now what I am an adult.

7 Things I Would Like to Own:
7. A laptop

6. A pair of prettypretty shoes that cost more than a mortgage payment

5. A husky…I’d name him Nanook 

4. Land that I can make a sanctuary for homeless animals

3. A dress from Betsy Johnson

2. A house

1. A new car  

 
7 Things That Annoy Me:
7. People who have to concept of personal space

6. Ignorant people

5. People who are mean to animals

4. People who argue with you just for arguments sake & to poke at you

3. Static noise…like when listening to the radio

2. People who drive sports cars like 2 miles an hour & with their heads up their butts.

1. People who don’t properly buckle their children in vehicles.

7 Films I Love:
7. Mickey Blue Eyes

6. The Fast & Furious movies (minus Tokyo Drift)

5. Music & Lyrics

4. The Pirates of the Caribbean movies

3. The Bourne movies

2. A Lot Like Love

1. Pearl Harbor

7 Funny Words:
7. Thistle

6. Hippopotamus

5. Poppycock

4. Ocelot

3. Cattywampus

2. Swashbuckle

1. Snorkel

Lists not listed in any particular order.