Day Off

Today my day is completely free!

I have a day off with no obligations! YAY!!! 

Of course I made a few plans to enjoy it (:

Today is going to be a pampering day for me, to kick off my anniversary weekend the right way!

First, I'm going to straighten my hair while watching Netflix (MY FAIR WEDDING! MY FAIR WEDDING!)

Then I'm picking Kala up and we're going to get our nails done

And then we're picking Allie up and we're going to officially hit up the Outlet Shoppes of Atlanta!

And I'm super have a plan woman, so of course I've already picked out the stores we're definitely going to have to go to, plus whatever they wanna go in.

We're going to start in the upper right, because that's where I parked when I worked at the Chick-fil-A there, and it's closest to Kate Spade! Of course, Kate Spade is stop number one for me! White House Black Market and J. Crew are next for me. Maybe a stop at Steve Madden too, depends on them. I have a feeling Allie will want to stop at Michael Kors.

Tommy Hilfiger is another definite stop for me, then Puma at the end of that aisle. We will then walk all the way down to Charlotte Russe and Adidas (we're stopping at both!) and work our way back. And we'll stop by Columbia and Papaya over here. Then I want to go inside the food court and use my coupon for Cupcakelicious, and maybe visit Claire's.

Then there's Nike, JOS A. Bank, and Nine West in this aisle, with a stop at Bose for Luis.

My main reason (excuse) for going today is to buy an anniversary present for Luis, so hopefully I'll find something awesome for him in one of those stores, if not, he loves Bose and music.

I'm not sure how long our shopping trip will be. I could easily stay there until close, but I doubt Allie and Kala will want to shop from 3 to 9, so we'll see. 

And then I'm going to go see Luis tonight and kick off our anniversary weekend!!!

I probably won't post again til Monday, so be excited to hear about how the weekend went!

Midterms

It's that time of year again!

The time when it's all cram, cram, cram for me and every other college student that wants to pass.

My life right now

I have four midterms today.

FOUR.

Four midterms. Back to back to back to back.

It's Constitutional Law and then Business Statistics and then Microeconomics and the International Political Economy. One at 8am, one at 9:30am, one at 11am, and the last one at 12:30am.

I'm pretty close to loony at this point.

So please forgive me.

And excuse me.

CRAM!

Wedding Planner School

I've decided what I want for Christmas!

And it's for someone to pay my tuition for Wedding Planner School!

I've been looking at all these websites that talk about becoming a wedding planner, and the fever is upon me. I'm so going to make this happen one way or another!

While doing my wedding research, I came across the Association of Bridal Consultants, the Association for Certified Professional Wedding Consultants, and the American Association of Certified Wedding Planners, all big names in the industry. Or at least they're the three associations that kept on popping up as I was browsing around. Everything is either ABC or ACPWC or AACWP certified, so that's where I'm leaning towards. I just need to find time and money to do it now!

Or I can convince my mom that this is legit and I'm serious about it and ask her for a Christmas/birthday conjunction present of paying for my coursework. It's really nothing compared to what I have to pay at Kennesaw, but I highly doubt that FAFSA covers this kind of 'higher education.'

I'm also back on my mission to find someone to intern with. Last time I went wedding planner internship hunting, it was a huge flop, but maybe with spring/summer season coming up (I know it's only the beginning of October, but May/June weddings aren't planned in April!) they might be looking for someone to get them coffee and file papers and maybe learn some tidbits of wedding wisdom from them! Who knows? I sure won't if I don't try!

And in the meantime, my friend, Jennifer (not Lopez), is getting married and I'm helping her plan it! So who knows? Maybe I'll be able to put her wedding on my portfolio as I apply for internships!



I am on my way to becoming an awesome Jennifer Lopez-David Tutera Wedding Planner!!!           

















Now just to find someone who wants to make me one!

        

BABY VICTORIA!!!!

Forget Fashion Week!

Forget school! Forget work! Forget everything!

A new baby has joined us!!!!

Baby Victoria was born to Karima two Fridays ago on September 20th!

She is the cutest little thing on the planet! I would post 500 million pictures of her, but her mommy has forbidden me to social media her baby, and I'm pretty sure that included blog about her *insert sad face here*

I can't complain though, as adamant as she was about no posting, I'm surprised she let over-sharer me take any pictures at all.

Anyways, after spending every night for almost 2 weeks with Karima and the baby, I have had the quickest bout of baby fever ever. As soon as the baby was born I suffered terrible baby fever. I wanted to be pregnant and have my own baby to hold so bad!!! Babies are so cute and delicate and so gosh-darned lovable! I really really wanted my own.

Although after about 10 days of zombie-life due to my school-work-crying baby-work-crying baby-school-work schedule, I decided that I can wait. I get little sleep as it is, adding a baby to my routine just meant that I shortened my sleeping hours to about 5 20 minute naps at night. I decided that my normal 4-6 hours of sleep are utterly fabulous compared to that.

Either way, as soon as Victoria is cooing and laughing and not just pooping and crying, I'll have the baby fever again.

Anyways, that's my reason for not posting for so long. The baby has kept me busy (:

London Fashion Week 2013 - September 13

Ladies and gentlemen, we are officially on London Fashion Week!

The week started off with Bora Aksu. His line was very subtle to me. All light pastel colors with looks that reminded me of an old-school school girl. This piece was my favorite from his collection. It has loads of fun details.

Fyodor Golan came up next with this two lookers. I especially love the detail and design on the suit. It's stunning.

The collection that Felder and Felder put up this year was really... fuzzy. All I could think about was how itchy that material must have been. However, there were a few pieces I really liked. The white is really clean and sophisticated, while the pattern on the other two are gorgeous. They definitely took the collection from fuzzy to reptilian with that design.

I really liked this piece from Ostwald Helgason. The effect of the skirt created a really interesting twist to piece, although it would have been gorgeous without the overlay.

I thoroughly enjoyed the pieces from J. JS Lee. Jackie Lee created some really beautiful pieces and her collection had a nice theme running through it. Here are my favorites from her collection.

In case you haven't caught on yet, I really like the pieces that I can see myself in. I prefer the realistic looking pieces that would be worn off of the runway.

Next up came Pierce Fionda, and I had never heard of them before, but I loved so many of their pieces, that I had to look them up. Turns out, they just haven't done a runway show like this in a while (like since 1999, back when I still wore overalls). They have some gorgeous designs!

Everything about this collection just screams classy to me. I love the elegance of the pieces and how sophisticated all the models look in them. And check out the make up on their models! I usually tune the models out and focus on the outfit, but that eye makeup is really eye catching.

Filippo also had plenty of amazing pieces in his Daks collection. I was pretty wowed by some of these.

The first three really wowed me with how sophisticated they are. I would rock all of those to a business event. The second three were a notch more casual, but still just as classy. P.S. I love the plaid/pink thread throughout all the pieces. I love it when a collection makes sense like that!

Christopher Raeburn was next with these gorgeous pieces, all also for the very refined businesswoman.

Then this next collection was really eye-catching. The thing about most of Jean-Pierre Braganza's pieces is that you have to look twice to get the full effect of the outfit. There's a lot going on to make these pieces as beautiful as they are.

And the collections just got better and better as they went on. Jason Conrad had a beautiful collection. I had to control myself on how my pictures I put up, because they're all so clean cut and preppy and I loved them all!

Okay, so maybe I didn't control myself that well, but really! They're so cute! And they all follow a nice common thread and just look stunning. I could totally wear any and all of these on a nice spring or summer day!

I toned it back with Todd Lynn's collection though. I didn't love quite as many pieces so it was easier to limit myself.

And of course, the day had to finish with a bang. PPQ had this beautifully quirky collection finish out the day. I loved all the patterns in it!

The first day of London Fashion Week was so amazing and had so many gorgeous pieces! I can hardly control myself. Everything is just so beautiful!