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1. A couple weeks ago I ordered a camera strap cover for my camera and got it in this week. Isn't it adorable?! Ordered it from veryjane.com, but email me and I can give you the shop owners info.
2. My boss was in town this week, which means we went to Ruth's Chris for dinner on the company dime. #winning #foodcoma
3. In case you haven't noticed, I got a new blog design and I LOVE it!
4. In regards to #3, my friend Beth, just set up her website and we are hosting a giveaway for a custom blog design! Check it out here.
5. I gave in and ordered a custom Molly bag from Better Life Bags. So excited!
Since it's been such a looooong week, I'm offering ad spots 50% off today! Use code "TobyForHire" here.
There's a new and final design on Blop today! Isn't she a beaut'! I'm in LOVE and I can't quit looking it!
Guess what???
You're in luck because my old roomie, Beth (designer of this blog) has decided to giveaway a custom blog design to one lucky reader!
Beth and I go wayyyy back! She's a graphic designer and has a ton of experience with website design. Although she's new to the blogging world, I asked her to make me a custom blog layout and it took her two days to figure out how to install and create everything for it. She's a pro! She does this for a living!
If you're new to the blogging world and don't want to pay for a custom layout quite yet, she makes and sells premade designs at a decent rate. Say you want a custom design, she works with you to achieve your dream design. I am NOT the easiest person to work with, but she pushed through it and produced this awesome design.
To enter to win a free custom blog design from Beth, use the giveaway tool below. In the meantime, check out her portfolio (which is still in progress) here.
Please note that you can earn an automatic $10 credit to use on any of Beth's services for just blogging about this! (And you earn 10 entries on top of that).
The winner will be verified and emailed the day after the end of the giveaway.
I figured I would give in and make a gender nuetral nursery since the majority of society is having babies right now...but seriously.
While waiting on that RING, I'm focusing on building my prestige, olympian cat collection. Toby's out, but Tillie's still in. The only olympic trait Toby has, is his gold-medal worthy timing of holding his poop in all day until I get in the shower to wash my hair. Thanks Toby. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is...
Why fill this glorious nursery with babies, babies, babies when you could be filling it with cats, cats, cats??? I mean, I'm just saying...
What did Chris and I do this weekend? Well, let's see...we went and saw a couple movies; one of which was Spring Breakers.
The previews for this movie made it appear to run the same lines as the movie Savages with Blake Lively.
Chris and I thought, "what the heck, let's go see a couple movies on Saturday and Spring Breaker's looks pretty good." Little did we know.
All the reviews for this movie said that it was James Franco's best performance yet and that the Disney girls have "gone wild." Let's just say only one of those are true.
In order for you to understand the disappointment and resentment in spending a whopping $6.75 for a ticket, I will summarize the entire movie for you.
1. Starts with about 15 minutes of spring break "girls gone wild" footage. Ladies, if you have a significant other, you will spend the duration of the movie resisting the impulse to cover his eyes.
2. Four trashy girls decide to rob a restaurant for money for spring break. Then, because of the "artistic" direction of the movie, everything that was said was repeated throughout the movie.
3. Drugs, alcohol, nudity, and cursing were the focal point of this movie. Between that and Vanessa Hudgens hair screaming to get her roots touched up, there wasn't much more for you to focus on.
4. They spend their money on scooters, so when they get arrested, they have no money for bail. Scooters?! Disney much?
5. Creepy drug dealer (James Franco) bails them out, sends Selena Gomez home, gets pink haired girl shot, and screws Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson in a pool...together...for five minutes.
6. In retaliation to pink haired girl getting shot, Vanessa, Ashley, and James go on a killing spree of the opposing drug dealer. James is shot by the first guy they see. Ashley and Vanessa then continue on killing all 25 people at the house each using a pistol. I mean, I'm no gun expert but I'm pretty sure they didn't have enough bullets for that...but what do I know.
7. If this wasn't enough, the entire movie consisted of snip-its of "girls gone wild" footage, James Franco saying "Spring break forever", and weird lighting clips that would only be acceptable if you were high or drunk while watching.
Why am I telling you all of this? We had people walk out of the theater. We stayed because we had paid to see it. If you were even considering going to watch this movie, DON'T! I'm just trying to save you the money, time, and water bill you will incur from trying to clean yourselves from the disgust you will pick up from watching it.
Hope this helps you make an informed decision prior to spending the money at the theaters.
1. I show up to work on Monday to find these two lovelies sitting on my desk. Thank you Amy for picking these up from the beauty store at a discount!
2. Toby and I decided to keep the chair we were asking about on Tuesday. If you missed it, catch it here.
3. Chris is in town for spring break so that meant a full week of boyfriend time :)))))
4. We date night-ed it up last night with dinner and a movie. Silver Linings Playbook was great and worth the money! Mom, if you're reading this...you would hate it. But everyone else, it's great!
5. Chris was kind enough to help me pick out a new lipstick from Bare Minerals this week. Review to come!
What did your weeks look like? Linking up with Lauren for H54F!
Long overdue, but here it finally is..an easy, cute coffee mug DIY.
Supplies:
Red fine point oil based sharpie
Black fine point oil based sharpie
Two matching porcelain coffee mugs (Target/TJ Maxx)
Paper, double-sided tape, scissors
1. This is optional, but Lenae and I found it was easier to do this than free-hand. We printed outlines of our respective states, cut them out, and taped them to our mugs.
2. Draw around the paper outline with the black sharpie to create your state outlines. Pull the paper state outline off the mug.
3. Using the red sharpie, draw a heart in the area where you live and where the receiver of the other mug lives.
4. Draw little red or black dots in the form of a line from one heart to the other.
5. Write "Miss" and "You!" on the inside of the mugs.
6. Optional: turn the mugs around and draw the opposite state on the other side of each mug, connecting the dotted lines to the back side of the mug. Now the mugs don't have to be together to get the full effect.
**Note: if you mess up drawing with the sharpie, simply wipe off with nail polish remover.**
7. Put mugs in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Voila! You're done! I would handwash your mugs for the first couple washes just in case the sharpies don't stay.
So, this weekend my mom and I went to the TJ Maxx Home Goods store to shop around a little. I am NOT an impulse buyer. I actually sit and think about how one purchase will affect my entire budget for the month. Typically, I get what some might call...buyer's anxiety. With buyer's anxiety, you are more susceptible to buyer's remorse. Thus, creates our post for today.
Check out the adorable little chair we found at Home Goods. Ultimately it's perfect for my ideal bedroom/office. If you missed my bedroom tour, check it out here.
Alright, so what's my problem you ask??? It's basically my entire office area in my bedroom. The desk I love but it's dark compared to the rest of the furniture in my bedroom.
Ideally, I would love for my office area to look like this. Moodboards are great for giving you a glimpse into how you could decorate your space.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand...was this chair worth $130? It's cute and perfect, yes. However, should I have spent $130 on a chair? I'm having a horrible case of buyer's remorse. This chair would be the first piece in the ideal bedroom office I want. Help! Take it back? Keep it and continue pursuing this ideal office?
With spring break coming up for all of you lucky teachers and students, and other countless vacations during this upcoming season, I thought I'd share my must-have vacation pieces. Granted, most of these are for a beach or summer type vacation, but they are all still on my "to buy" list for this summer.
1. Momsy is coming to visit today! I don't know how this weekend could get any better...oh wait, Chris is coming to visit too! I'm beyond thrilled right now!
2. This week has been long and hectic, but I really can't complain about free, company meals-especially steak with a bourbon glaze.
3. Tillie loves helping me with blog posting and they sure do love each other. Kitty kisses :)
4. If you missed it yesterday, I'm doing a giveaway for an Alice in Bloom headband. Go register here.
5. Umm, for those of you that are having as long of a week as I am and haven't had a chance to notice, I got another new blog design by my friend Beth! She's building up her portfolio using my blog as a host! There will be lots of new designs coming across this bad boy. In the meantime you should go check out and follow her blog/design website Beth Bradford Design.
{Also, in case you've missed the blog breaking news for the past few days...please refollow Toby's Tails via Bloglovin' because GFC will soon be a thing of the past}
