Favorite Etsy Finds | Back to School Edition!


Hello, friends! I've been on a major Etsy kick recently. While it started off innocently enough with looking for a new, cute phone case, soon enough I found myself looking at wallets, bags, art prints, and beads. However, I found that most of what I had been admiring had a common theme... they were all things that I could use during the upcoming school year!

With my last year of undergrad quickly approaching, I thought it would be a lovely time to treat myself with a new book bag and some other essentials (and not-so-essentials). Before I placed the order that would surely make my wallet weep, I wanted to show you all what I'd been wanting to purchase! 

The Liebster Award!

Hello, everyone! I hope you're all having a nice weekend. I took a nice drive through some nice scenery this morning with the radio on and my windows down. It was really nice!

I was recently nominated for a Liebster Award by handful of  lovely bloggers! Before this, I had seen this award floating around, but I wasn't really sure what it was. I did a little poking around and found out that the Liebster Award is more like a tag than an actual award for bloggers with fewer than 200 followers. I did some research on it, and I tracked down one of the original posts--it used to be for blogs with fewer than 3000 followers! I guess this "award" is just a bit like a big game of Telephone... it means a little something different to everyone. 

Because of this, the rules were different from each person that I was nominated by, so I just decided to mix them all together. Here are the rules: 

August 2013 Birchbox Unboxing + First impressions/Review!

Hello, everyone! I got my August Birchbox in the mail a little earlier today. I always love seeing other blog posts and videos about monthly Birchboxes, so I figured I'd share mine too!

This month's theme was Finishing School. (This is hitting a little too close to home, since I've got my last year of undergrad starting this month... )


Here's what came in my box this month!

Under the Sea: Ariel Storylook Palette by Sephora

A couple of weeks ago, I got a package in the mail from Sephora. It wasn't one that I was expecting, but I was expecting a birthday package from my boyfriend. FROM SEPHORA? He knows me way too well. But what could he have gotten me? I don't remember telling him anything about wanting something specific from there. And the box was way too big for a gift card.

Anyway, I was astonished to find the Ariel Storylook Palette when I opened it! As it turns out, he actually read my blog and saw the Wishlist Wednesday post I made about it. I - just - wow. Major boyfriend points there. I mean, there was definitely some arm-flapping and odd noises made when I saw what it was. It was embarrassing. Good thing my whole family was there to see it.


Sephora Haul! | Urban Decay, Too Faced


Like any other beauty-obsessed human, I am completely enamored with Sephora. Whenever I'm around one, I have to go into it. It's like I'm a magnet being pulled in!

I popped by Sephora right before my knee surgery happened in order to pick up a few little things. A week or so after that, I made an order online while recovering. A little retail therapy does wonders, my friend. 

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