Gift Ideas for Her
Hey guys, 7 days more to Valentine's Day! Here are 10 (plus one) idea-generating suggestions. Be sure to comment below if you have suggestions of your own. I hope this helps! Enjoy!
1. The ring because *GRIN* // 2. Crossbody bag because it doesn't matter if she already has 89 bags // 3. Women's Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones for those Sunday football matches she honestly doesn't care about //4. Leather Watch so she stops making you late for events //5. Running shoes so she runs out of excuses // 6. Coconut oil for her curls and teeth (don't ask)
1. Love heart mug because it looks good with (3) // 2. Sì by Armani because it smells like currants and flowers // 3. The ring because reiterating makes a point //4. Pair of heels for date night or even more exciting- "something blue" // 5. A small bag because big bags can be a pain and take the attention off (3)!
P.s: You don't have to shop off the links provided, this post was created more as an idea prompter than a direct guide! Happy Shopping!
Gift Ideas for Him
Hey girls, after much site prowling, I came up with 10 items your "Him" might enjoy. Ed has been hitting my homepage waiting for this post because he thinks his Valentine's gift is here. Lol. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Hope it's helpful! Enjoy xx
1. Wireless Headphones for when you nag // 2. Docking Station so he knows where he phone is and you don't have to play phone tag // 3. Apple Watch sport, because it's the fad// 4. Dress Boots because they "work" for work, not-so-long walks and the dance floor // 5. Leather Backpack so he has free arms for your shopping bags!
1. Plaid Bowtie for #modePreppy 2. Doppkit for his toiletries for those weekends away ( and so he doesn't use your toothbrush) //3. Leather Bracelet because it's been cool since forever //4. Casual Loafers for date night //5. Duffel Bag for the dapper look!
"For Her" Gift Ideas up soon! You should guess what's #1 on the list is! *GRIN*
P.s: You don't have to shop off the links provided, this post was created more as an idea prompter than a direct guide! Happy Shopping!
The One That Got Away
It took me 90 dresses, 3 continents and over 9 months to find my wedding dress. I figured all that time and fabric, a post is well deserved.
I started my search in London and the hunt very well could have ended in London because there on one London-typical cloudy Friday afternoon, I found Yaja. Yaja, the dress of my dreams! [I said London thrice, someone misses you, London! Four times, world record].
Where were we? I got random there, pardon me. Yes, the dress of my dreams. You know that saying "You know it when you see it." It's a little deeper than that. You don't just know it, you feel your heart strings lace up with the threads of the fabric! You can't take it off, you can't stop staring at yourself in the mirror, you can't breathe, you can't really imagine the wedding without the dress. This was the case with Yaja.
Yaja was a Yajaida princess wedding dress in the Pronovias Atelier 2015 collection and it sounds like every bit of its name; a long sleeve silk dress with this delicate pearl embroidery on the sleeve and a princess shaped skirt. I am not much of a fairy-tale believer but that day, for a minute i did see Princess Elsa run past my dressing room with a talking miniature snow man.
By the time i found Yaja, I had tried on about 60 dresses and honestly couldn't imagine a more beautiful dress [You really have to try it on to believe it]. I had never had an experience like this with any of the other 60 dresses. I never wanted to try on another dress! It was The One. I couldn't sleep! My general principle about shopping (and dating) is never buy (or date) anything (anyone) that doesn't get you thinking about it (him) at 2am. It (he) must be that remarkable and that's exactly what it was; remarkable.
Then reality hit me! Hit me hard in the face when i saw the price tag. Thank God for that slo-mo saliva-spilling whack-on-the-face reality check of price tags! lol.
Quickly, i dropped all theatrics, loosened all my heart-dress strings and jumped out of the dress. By evening, i had booked more dress-fitting appointments. Six appointments later and across the Atlantic, I found "The Other one", which proves the theory that there are two types of "The Ones", both in dress hunting and dating; The one and the The other one.
At this point you realize I have to be mildly clever to interpret that. I'll give it a shot.
Sometimes The One is over-rated. I think I may have had about 2 "The Ones" before Ed. Well, see how those turned out *crickets*. The great thing is, life always provides us with face-whacking reality checks that indicate the possibility of a life of inexplicable delight and contentment with another -"the other one", without ever having a feeling that you settled for less, maybe even much more!
I loved my final wedding dress. I loved it in a different way from Yaja. It was more concrete, the bond we had, definitely much more affordable. Strangely, my final dress was valued at a price higher than Yaja's and I got it at about 70% off! Talk about a match made in heaven. While shopping for a dress, don't be fixated on the one you can't have, sometimes, the other one might be the keeper. Plus, if you aren't willing to spend a certain amount of money on a wedding dress, then be prepared to make dreaded C word - compromise and to move on quickly. If you think about it, you are only ever going to wear it that one time. My wedding dress now sits in my closet wondering what else the future holds for it. Not a lot , that much I can tell it; so don't shop sentimentally, saves you so much stress and money!
Nevertheless, Yaja will always have a place in my heart but she is someone else's match made in heaven, just like my ex "The One's"- belonging to other people; and they'd be glad i didn't buy.
xx
This is a very small fraction of all the dresses I tried on! However, Yaja is in there! Which is your favorite dress?
Shopping tip: Eat before any appointment, forget that flat-belly-for-wedding-dress-appointment gist. Well, no eba of course but just eat something because it gets really tiring!
Have fun!
Weekend Plans!
Hey! Friday is here! Thanks for hanging in with me all week. If you are visiting for the first time this week, hey x 5! I hope your week was pleasantly eventful. Mine definitely was, so this weekend i am kicking back and getting in on some organizing projects (fun, bleh). What are you guys up to this weekend?
The rest of my weekend plans:
See "The Intern" with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro
Make some awesomely moist banana bread
Shopping date with my friend, some fall boots are in order
Throw out most of my makeup
Go down town and check out the Sharwama in that little Meditterean restaurant
Ignore my pedometer (kidding)
Organize my email before Monday, I have altogether like 9000 emails across all my boxes, tut-tut-tut
Talk to somebody about Christ
Trying one of these
A bit of spring cleaning in September and some wall art shopping
Paint my nails an interesting shade of rose pink
Find some new blogs to read! If you are a blogger, please drop your url below or if you have great recommendations, please suggest below! Thanks!
So, what are you doing this weekend?