The Happy in Holidays

Now that I spent almost an entire post bashing the retail industry for their mistreatment of Christmas.... Have some photos and such.


My friend works at a Bakery called River and Rail in a little part of town called Heritage Village. There are lots of neat businesses including Finds & Designs (vintage shop), a wine and cheese place, a gift shop, and many others.

The "buildings" that now house the bakery, visitor's center, and gift shop were once train cars and the environment is very peaceful and overall wonderful. The bakery has delicious coffee and treats and open mic every Saturday beginning at noon.



I went down one weekend to hit up Finds & Designs and eat a Blueberry muffin. (I could seriously eat a million of them!)
(The hat in the picture above is vintage from F&D btw)

Because I had to deliver some Christmas cookies and treats today, I opted to deliver my friend's to her at the bakery (excuse for goodies? maybe...)
My husband was super awake and even though it is my first day off of a 4-day weekend (woohoo!), I woke up at 8:30...

So I had a nice morning date with my husband, we went downtown and enjoyed some coffee and I had some breakfast.


Cinnamon Roll with Orange glaze and Mochas! The roll was huge AND delicious. Those two adjectives go fantastic together.

While the barista was making my mocha, I was admiring Lissa's handiwork on these adorable gingerbread cookies:



After our breakfast visit, Chris hit the hay (if you don't know, he works night shifts so he sleeps during the day).

I delivered cookies to another friend who I had lunch with, but while I waited for her to get off work for lunch, I went to Dressbarn. I saw this dress on the website on Tuesday and have looked at it everyday since... multiple times a day to be honest. I have thought of trying it on EVERY. DAY.


I was absolutely pumped to try it on... until I discovered that the store here didn't have it.
I literally had a pouty lip while I tried on other dresses.

I caved and bought it online. Now paranoia will ensue until it arrives as I don't know how it will look. I tried to find one that was at least similar, but had no luck. I'm worried it will look horrendous on me.

If nothing else, I might return it and grab this:


I thought it would look stupid, but tried it on anyway... Despite the fact that I apparently got one that was 1-2 sizes too big, it wasn't that bad. I think I need a second opinion. I just need to get my other dress in before the sale is over so I can get it for $30.00!

I have to say... I love Dressbarn. They have beautiful dresses and I always see something I like. While I was there I tried on another dress I liked and saw a sweater that was fantastic.
It's not safe for me to go there unsupervised.

I also had my eye on a little clutch on their site. I've got my fingers crossed that Santa has it under the tree for me.

I leave you with a picture of my furbaby sleeping on me after licking all my makeup off.


(PS: I adore my outfit today. I wore it even better earlier this week, but every picture I had taken looked awful. I'll get one eventually!)

WWU: Fireworks & A Flapper

Happy Independence Day!

The weekend is too short. I found myself thinking about getting away for a few days this past week. I don't care where. Just me and my husband going somewhere that isn't here, staying in a hotel and seeing the area. But then I think about leaving poor Xerxes (the cat) alone. And I get very upset.

While we didn't hit the road, we did make a trip downtown to eat at Pita Pit, somewhere I have always wanted to go, but never had anyone to go with. We officially find it delicious. Thank goodness they have the Philly Cheese-steak because Chris would not have gone for it otherwise. We got home and he determined he wanted another. I foresee more yummies in my tummy in my future.

As I mentioned before, I was trying to find the mats to make a feather hairpiece to wear with my brightest tights and I have so far failed. However, after seeing the price range of the feathers I wanted, I opted to pick up my hairpiece at Charming Charlie.


Dress: Dressbarn
Tights: We Love Colors
Necklaces: From my Mother
Headband: Charming Charlie


This evening Chris and I decided to light some sparklers and some snakes my sister gave me. Xerxes was watching from the door and when I lit the first sparkler, he went ballistic and ran off, not to be seen for a good 20-30 minutes. It is apparent that he is not a fan of bright hissing lights. But that's OK because I'm not a fan of him rolling around on my keyboard and making it impossible to do just about anything on my computer so we're even.



I want to get my car personalized and make it officially mine. I had some stickers on my previous vehicle that I loved and people who knew me, knew that car was mine. Unfortunately, I can't find those stickers ANYWHERE now.

All of my other stickers I bought from Hot Topic and I'm pretty sure they were Lounge Fly. But Hot Topic's sticker selection is now 1/4 what it was and Lounge Fly's website either has no stickers, or I am blind with stupidity and cannot see them.

While searching on trusty Etsy, I found some "family" stickers Chris and I had seen on someone's car about a year ago. I love these so much! These may be a purchase in the near future!


Store: The Lucky Labs

I bought my Alliance (WoW) cutout sticker from Jinx but they are sold out... forever, or at least it seems that way. I did find one on Etsy though that's customizable! I am gonna give it a shot and hope that it's awesome and not a waste of $6. I'll report back when I get it. I hope it's fantastic.

Tomorrow I look forward to fireworks and sparklers and hopefully food with friends!

And holy crap I just realized it's 11:30!

A Day for Mom & Color

You can like We Love Colors on Facebook and each month curvy gals like me can submit pictures of you wearing their merchandise or other legwear to win prizes and the title of Curvy Girl of the Month. They also have a blog where they post fashion photos featuring tights and the like here: We Love Colors Style Blog.Firstly, Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Today is the day that your family should lavish you with love and a day for you to reflect on the joys of raising children. (Don’t think about the not-so-joyous times today, okay?)

My mother and I almost matched today as we were both wearing a shade of teal. I was thrilled at the coincidence and had my dad take pictures. Of course my father has never used a digital camera so in all the pictures he took we were trying to explain to him what to do. This is the one that turned out the best of the many we attempted.

I also had Chris take some pictures to help me shamelessly plug in an ad for We Love Colors.

In case you don’t know, We Love Colors is the place to go for tights! They also have socks, gloves, and other items that I would never personally need, but maybe you do…

I just received my second order of tights from them on Thursday and am super excited. I’m wearing the color “pastel mint” in this picture.

Dress: Dressbarn

You should check them out as they have a vast array of any color you could possibly want!