Here Come Peter Cottontail

Easter is literally just around the corner, which means that parents will be filling Easter baskets full of goodies, dressing up their families in their extra special Sunday best, and preparing yummy feasts complete with ham and sweet potato casserole. So in honor of Easter, here are some Pinterest-ing ideas, from fashion and “bunny bait” to some great ideas of what to put in those plastic Easter eggs. You don’t have to just put small piece of candy in those plastic eggs. Here are some other great ideas that fit into those plastic eggs. Photo Source: growingupajeweledrose.com I enjoy yummy […]

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The Glitz of The Great Gatsby

“I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby “I knew it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love…” -Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby Photo Source: Rotten Tomatoes The grandeur of The Great Gatsby is captured beautifully by director Baz Luhrmann, with all the glitz and glam of an era where there was a stark contrast between elegance and poverty. The 2013 version of The Great Gatsby has been airing on HBO this past month, and […]

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Wishing for the Opportunity of a Lifetime

Every month I flip through a sundry of fashion magazines, and every year I dream of attending Fashion Week in New York City, London, Paris, or Milan. I dream of wearing designer clothes, and rubbing shoulders, elbows, and knees with celebrities, magazine editors, and designers. But most of all, I dream of seeing all of the beautiful, and sometimes avant garde, fashion that the many talented fashion designers send out onto the runways. Photo Credit: oscardelarenta.com I was flipping through my InStyle magazine the other night and came across Erdem’s literature-inspired embroidered outfits. Being an English major in college, I […]

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Wanna Be Fashionista in the Making

At the beginning of last year, one of my first posts was about my being a “wanna be fashionista”, which I still am! (You can read about it here, and I wrote it almost one year ago to the day!) Now I can be a “wanna be fashionista in the making” because I got a sewing machine for Christmas from my husband and my parents! I AM SO EXCITED! Ok… I haven’t actually taken it out of the box yet, but this weekend I have some major plans for that sewing machine… I wanna make a dress! I wanna hem up […]

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