BonBon Rose Girl giveaway from Lulu's!!

The lovely ladies over at BonBon Rose Girls are having a super generous giveaway sponsored by Lulu's. You get a $100 gift card to the store which is more than enough to pick up a few great items for fall!!!

If I win (fingers crossed) I will definitely be ordering the following:

Frankly, Scarlet Red Satin Dress

Meet Me in the Mojave Vegan Leather Handbag

Blossoms for Breakfast Blouse

Kristin and Megan's blog is always a lovely place for fashion inspiration, finding out about new bloggers and awesome online sales and yummy recipes-so if you haven't paid them a visit, now is the time to do so!!!

Yay for Francesca's Collection SUPER SALE!!!!!!!

Recently I've talked about a little boutique that I frequent-Francesca's Collection

(dress and cardigan are from Francesca's)

If you haven't checked out the store in person or online, now is the time to do so!!!!

They are having an additional 30% off all sale items in store and online!!!

BUT THERES MORE...add the following two codes in the promo code section and you'll get 40% off your highest priced item AND 25% your total order!!

I got a dress that was on sale for $19.98 for $5.35!!!

*promo codes:

welcome (40%)

bonjour (25%)

*they may only work for new accounts

Here are some of my favorites in their sale selection-

Memory Lane Cardigan-$24

Shocking Details Dress-$19.98

Nice and Easy Tee-$4.98

Among Many Dots skirt-$14.98

Wishing You Well scarf-$9.98

All the prices listed are without the extra 30% off...they take it off once the item is added to your bag!

The rest comes off after you apply the promo codes.

Those are just a few of the wonderful sale items! Go look at the rest, its worth it!!!

yay for giveaway goodies and crafting!!!

With all the hustle and bustle that went on last week with making crafts for a shower, parties, car appointments, work and weddings I completely forgot to post pictures of the amazing goodies I won in Katie's giveaway and of the goodies I made for my sister's shower/bachelorette party!!

the twig pencils are my favorite!!

.I bought tea cups at thrift stores, painted and wrote the girls names on them. I also wrote the date of the shower on the bottom of the cup and put a cupcake in them for our dessert!

.I made yummy mint and vanilla candies and filled a bag with them for a sweet they could take home!

. The mason jars were thrifted as well, I found cute little cupcake charms that I wrapped around the jars with ribbon. We used them as our glasses for the evening. 

.It was a baking themed party (though it didn't really turn out that way), so with a cute $1 owl stamp I found and some index cards, I made a recipe "book" that they can fill with whatever recipes they'd like!

With all the lovely showers/parties and weddings I've been to lately, it really makes me wish I had more to attend! I love making goodies myself as well as seeing all the cute, creative ideas my friends come up with! 

yay for weddings!!

Yesterday, I went to the wedding of one of the sweetest couples I know.

It was one of the loveliest days I've had. 

I forgot my camera but Stephanie got some cute photos and already made a sweet post about the wedding, so if you'd like to see and read more hop on over to her post!!!

yay for boots!!

Yesterday, I wore boots for the first time since late spring and oh man did it fill me with that lovely fall feeling!!!

I also wore a dress that I bought at the beginning of summer for the first time! It has long sleeves so it was too hot to wear it during the summer, plus it gave me something to look forward to once the weather cooled!

I absolutely LOVE the dress!! Its from Francesca's Collection, they have stores all over and super duper cute clothes, purses, shoes and other goodies! My cardigan is also from there! 

Yay for lovely fall clothes!

Oh and how cute is Monty?! The camera caught him mid scratch.

errands, doggie playdates and $5 pumpkin spice iced coffees

Today was such a lovely day!!!!
I wore boots for the first time since late spring and had my first pumpkin flavored drink of the season with Stephanie!!

During the day, my mom and I hit up Target, Party City, Hobby Lobby, Elder-Beerman and visited my grandparents for a bit.
I got lots of craft goodies to make for the shower/bachelorette party I'm throwing for my sister and am super excited to get back into craft mode.
I let being creative go once I moved back to Troy and didn't have my own space anymore and three rowdy dogs running all over the place.

Ravi and Stephanie came up with Sabin in the evening and we ate dinner outside while the dogs played!
Like always, we had good conversations and lots of laughs watching the dogs playing.
After dinner, Stephanie and I took Sabin and got $5 pumpkin spice iced coffees...$5?!!!
We were informed this is not a crazy price because there are three shots of expresso in it...except we got the iced coffees not lattes so I think he was mistaken.
Oh well, they were pretty good and I doubt we'll be back there anytime soon.

Thats all for today, time to read a bit in my book before bed...I know it's early but Monty and I are sleepyheads today!

a quick fall wishlist and a big thank you to Katie of I Go By Katie!!!

Fall is right around the corner and so is my birthday!!!

I love that my birthday is in the fall, it is the perfect reason to ask for and shop for lovely fall goodies.

Here are some things I'm loving for the fall and would make lovely gifts for any of you with fall birthdays!

bows are a must have for me right now!

i love that they are quilted

the cutest way to drink tea on a cool fall day!

i love the neck!

to me this is the perfect fall red

dogs and cardigans are a perfect pair for fall weather!

a girl can't have enough boots

and of course, the perfect belt!

The lovely lady, Katie of I Go By Katie makes the belt shown above as well as super darling moccasins-check out her etsy to see all the goodies she has for sale!!

Recently on her blog she hosted a giveaway and I was lucky enough to win!!

I can't wait for the packages arrival and to begin filling the notebooks with thoughts and ideas this fall!

Thank you Katie for hosting a incredibly sweet giveaway!!

yay for parties!!!

I can't believe it is September already!
I'm definitely excited for this month, and not just because it's my birthday month but because the leaves start to change and you get a mix of warm and cool weather...which means I may be able to bust out the boots and tights!!

I worked an extra day this week and I definitely needed it moneywise! This is going to be an expensive month for me with two weddings, a bachelorette party, three wedding showers, dress alterations, a car payment, credit card payments and of course my shopping addiction. They are all worthy things to be spending money on though, except maybe the shopping addiction.

Speaking of the weddings/showers, last weekend was a friend's bachelorette party and it was a lot of fun!! We went to a roller derby match in Kentucky, which was quite confusing and after we met up with the bachelor party for dinner! It was so great to see everyone and to hang out, because it doesn't get to happen too often because we all aren't in the same city/state.

Tomorrow is the couple's wedding shower, so it will also be another lovely day spent with friends! Stephanie is throwing it and she has talked about some of the cute things she is doing and food she is making, so I can't wait to see the decorations and eat the food!!! I love having plans on the weekends so I have an excuse to get out of Troy and when the reason is to celebrate with friends, even better!!!

Today I bought their wedding gift off of etsy and I cannot wait to give it to them! I love shopping for and giving gifts. I wish I had a significant other so I could get one made for myself!!!

I hope you all are enjoying September as much as me and have wonderful weekends!!!