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it is finally thanksgiving! my favorite holiday. i woke up and watched the macy's day parade and i am sitting cozily in front of our fire with a big mug of coffee and still in my pjs. tomorrow we are heading to florida for my grandfather's memorial. it will be a busy weekend, but we get grandma food!! i am so excited. i am about to post a bunch of scarves on my etsy. i will post up when it happens!! i'm a busy little bee!

i hope you have a great thanksgiving!

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oh man!!! it is almost thanksgiving and that happens to be my favorite holiday... because my birthday is the day before it! i will be turning 23 this year. birthdays are also my favorite day of the year and i get so excited for them and will try to celebrate as long as possible. my birthday list included oxfords, a fish-eye camera lens and liners for my rain boots. i always have cold feet and hands and those fleec eliners will keep me nice and toasty warm.

on design*sponge, they featured a diy that was so cute and i cannot wait to try and replicate.

fabric pumpkins!

via design*sponge via the thompson family-life blog

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hello, beautiful weather this weekend. my mother picked up a copy of O, the Oprah Magazine and surprisingly, I'm really enjoying it. some of the advertisements are very nice. so are some of the articles. as always, kate moss is beautiful and the yves saint laurent ad for parisienne perfume is gorgeous:

noir jewelry made these beautiful creature rings:

via: O

lastly, I think that this is one of the best styled, realistic looks I have seen in quite a while:

Beatrice Johnston, pear-shaped body styled with knits that are perfect for her.

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I feel like I am in a tizzy 90% of the time. School is ridiculously busy and I am also trying to design my graduation announcements and sew and design some cute items at the same time. I also have trouble keeping up with this blog and putting things in my etsy. Not easy! The fall weather is making me wistful of a mountain fall, and I haven't even left yet. Awful. I want to go shopping all the time and I am broke again! We just spent the weekend in Atlanta working the wholesale mart and we saw so many cute clothes! I represented Tulle and they had some adorable sweaters and things.

Here are some items that I found adorable on etsy.




1.dayslonggone 2. heistjewelry



3. kalikadesigns 4. goorsendjewelry

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Hello. Fall is in full swing in the mountains, and the trees are absolutely beautiful! Today I get to wear my shiny tights and a cute dress along with my *amazing* boots! I adore fall.

I am also in love with flirty ballerina skirts right now and found a couple on modcloth.com.



1. More Than a Tealing Skirt 2. Storm Cloud Skirt

I love them, and of course want them both insanely bad.

I do believe I am going to make a skirt today... and maybe I will make it to look like the "More Than a Tealing Skirt..."

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As soon as Fall hits, I want to wear scarves. Check out these adorable ones from Etsy.

1. captainapricot 2.ozetta3. ozetta 4. MsSunflwr

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As Fall is now upon the mountain and I am now layered as much as possible, I can't help but think of our Egypt trip in February. I know that there is no logically reason to be pulled back to the trip but right now I keep flashing back to the heat, unfamiliar days and nights and all of experiences that had happened.

Cruising the Nile for 4 days seems like it never happened. Going to small villiages to see how the native people did their everyday activites and seeing a hippo in the water. The sand storm while at the pyramids and getting sunburnt no matter the amount of sunblock worn and having to wear Drew's hat to keep my nose from burning everyday.

Being in Cairo to Alexandria in 2 hours and a new hotel every night and upon returning back to Cairo and the Movenpick, feeling that we were home. Ordering spaghetti from room service at 2 in the morning and giggling all night long. Starting a trip with 42 relative strangers and sharing a life changing experience with them.

I think the drastic tempature change now had me thinking back to be too hot all the time. Being in the warmest place I had ever been and now am freezing already wearing 2 tank tops, a tshirt, sleeveless hoodie and sweatshirt on top. I look like the marshmellow man. I miss the blazing heat right now but it may only because it is so insanely cold in our apartment because the front window is broken.

I want to go back to Egypt.

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Today really seems to be bringing fall to the High Country. Blustery winds, the leaves falling and the crisp air is making me so happy. Being my last fall in the mountains, I am already feeling a bit nostalgic for the fall, even though it has not happened yet and I do not particularly fond of Boone, I will miss the fall. The colors of the trees are the most beautiful things I have ever seen and I am so excited it is that time of the year again.
I wore my new boots today for the first time today and I love them! They looked so cute!



I am in the process of sewing a good bit of bags and scarves and will post them soon. I am feeling so creative and full of ideas and hope that they all come out the way I am planning them to come out. I hope you are enjoying the weather!

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Today is a rainy day that is not really containing any rain. More like a fine mist that will not go away or evolve into a real rain. I did get to wear my rain boots though and that is always a great thing. I did finally suck it up and buy some leather boots yesterday. Zappos has pulled through once again and I am not so patiently waiting for them to arrive.

Brio Boot, Steve Madden

(they are however, sold out of the cognac color on sm's website.)

This week will contain two tests and a presentation all of which I am not interested in doing at all. Keeping the symmarians, asyrians, etruscans and egyptians all seperate in my mind is not easy and I am having quite the trouble with it. Tomorrow will be interesting with one of those tests and a presentation. The lack of motivation that I am suffering from is probably just senioritis and I should just suck it up but my last semester is KILLING ME. I am so ready to be done with school and I have 3 months left.

Graduation announcements are also in the design process. Since I am not going to participate in the commencement excersizes, I am opting out of the normal route of the school themed announcements and designing them myself so that they are fully customized and represent me. Hopefully they come out well and I like them enough to send to my entire family and friend base.

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I am the proud owner of a Blackberry (or crackberry, as I have heard them called...) and am severely addicted. I do not have internet in my apartment which should help explain why I am very sporadic with updating. On my Blackberry I have the Ubertwitter application so I can see my friends and others twitters. Not only is this amazing, but it is also very distracting, especially since last week marked Fashion Night Out and the beginning of Fashion Week in New York City.

I follow Womens Wear Daily and Fashion Watch, which is out of D.C. and have been getting great updates from both of them. While Fashion Night Out was going on, I was able to keep up with the designer cook off that was taking place at Bergdoff Goodman, hosted by Top Chef's own Padma and that the Olsen twins were serving cocktails to a big crowd further down the floor. Oh, I love the Olsen twins. Suprise!

It makes me sad that I was supposed to be in New York this fall, but because of technicalities with school, I'm not until January and missed the Fall shows. I guess I will be up there in the Spring and can catch those.

Friday is FashionSPARK, which I wrote about on Sunday, and I am making a skirt to wear. I found a beautiful stretch jersey that is hunter green with tan leaf shapes within and reminds me greatly of Diane Von Furstenberg. I will definitely post a picture as soon as it is done.

Have a great day!

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After a little hiatus from blogging, I am now back and ready to go. The weather this week has been amazing and a great preview for the upcoming Fall. I wore a pair of tights on Monday and that was a delightful teaser. My newest favorite outfit topper is a double belt. So cute!

bananarepublic.com

My wardrobe is all basics, therefore a belt can be added to anything. My favorite layering piece is an American Apparel dress that is so basic, simple and versatile. It comes in around 26 different colors and I wear them with jeans, tights and boots and even sneakers. Perfect.


american apparel

Also, we went to see

Taking Woodstock

&

Paper Heart.

I really wish that I had been around for Woodstock. My main music listening is based from the music of the 60's and I cannot get enough. The Who, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin. I love it. Until next time.

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I know that I just blogged about Emma Watson yesterday, but with all of the Harry Potter crazy going around, I can't help but mentioning her again.  I absolutely adore her!  She is the new face for Burberry and the photos from their Fall/Winter 09 just busted out.  Shot by Mario Testino these shots were deemed racy by the producers of HP and was also asked to tame down a shoot being done for W. Check out how awesome these shots are!