Merry Christmas...what to wear for any occasion

1. Dress $245
Jacket $30
Earrings $31
Flats $95

2. Jacket $28
Dress $16
Shoes $795
Pin $20

3.Sweater $32
Pants $24
Lace up booties $79
Watch $80

Can find all these looks and so many more at Polyvore


HAPPY HOLIDAYS ALL!!!

A soon to be Happy New Years!!

Happy New Years is closing in soon. If you are like me you are frantically still searching for the PERFECT dress that will make all eyes turn onto you on the dance floor. My guy friends have rented out a bar in Chicago, IL and so I want to find the perfect sequined look for that night. Though a bit out of my price range, here are some of my favorites that have inspired the look I am hunting for.

1. Adam folded dress- $1,495
2. Roberto Cavalli - $1125
3. Tibi one shoulder sequined dress- $935
4. Rachel Gilbert Kasa Sequin Cocktail dress - $699
5. Anna Sui Silk-tulle sequin-embellished dress - $995
6. Gather open backed dress - $418
   

All these looks except #6 can be found at Net-a-porter, #6 is at Dearfieldbinder

Matthew Williamson-- These shoes. are. deadly. awesome.
You will definately make a statement with these pretty shoes.

Crafts to make to keep up the holiday spirit!

I found an old applique design for gluing onto sweatshirts in one of my moms closets are home so I decided to be crafty and glue it onto one of my old headbands! Looks fabulous, look around your own house or an craft store because it is a unique way to reuse one of my headbands that was plain and I never wore. May wear it tonight with our Christmas dinner or tomorrow for Chirstmas day at the party my mom is throwing with our relatives at my home.

Made some great name cards for our table tonight for our Christmas Eve Dinner. My parents are making surf and turf with lobster and steak! Needless to say I am extremely excited.

Easily made these with just notecards and permanent markers I found around the house.

NUM NUMS for Christmas

For Your holiday parties here are some fun ideas I found that will make your home look it had xmas vomit all over it, in the best way possible.

Here is a simple wine glass. Take some pipecleaners in xmas colors and wind them around the stem or do in different colors so guests can know which glasses are theirs.
Here is a fun way to spice up any centerpiece. Take any sticks from outside and then tie pieces of ribbon onto it. Add on some pine pieces of branches and pine cones to finish the look.


Take a regular mattress frame covered with a sheet or just hang a sheet on the wall and then string chrismas lights behind it to give your house a fun new wall hanging or background to any space.


Here just take a upsidedown vase and fill with ornaments then put candles or another bowl ontop to finish the look. A quick easy centerpiece that you can make with things you own at home.

Finally to hide your regular vases take a knee high sock you have and cover the outside of the vase. If you have a christmas colored or pattered one that would be the most festive.


So yesterday I was home relaxing after a busy finals two weeks and decided to make my favorite! cookies, Spritz butter cookies. They have been ones to look forward to every christmas that I come home.

Yummy Spritz Cookies
* If you can refrain from eating the cookie dough, this recipe makes 4 dozen.
1 cup butter
3 egg yolks
2.5 cups flour
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


How to:

1. Mix the butter, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla. Add the flour and mix by hand.
2. Spoon into cookie press and press onto cookie sheets.
3. Sprinkle with colored sugars. (Or, use red and green food coloring on smaller batches of the dough.)
4. Bake @ 400 degrees for 7-10 minutes.

Yum yum yummys. I ate most of the batter and my mom ate at least 10 of the cookies so needless to say there might not be many for our christmas parties. :)
So make two batches please. I recommend because you will eat them all before you present them otherwise.

Pre Fall 2011 Trends

It's interesting to me that sometimes the people at the fashion shows are more fashionably dressed than the ones in them. They are the extreme elite of fashion forward gurus that fly under the radar from the rest of the world only to live their lives as fashionably as possible. They are the people keeping the couture industry alive, not celebritants and stylists. This is why I idol them all.

Some of these have been popping up at the recents fashion shows worn by the attendees.
The one with the huge shoulders with feathers, all most like bird wings, is FAN_TAS_TIC!!! You go girl for rocking that outfit.

nom noms

So its that hated time of year again at college.

FINALS.

UFFFFH.

Stuck at the library for the last 4 hours and now my brain and eyes hurt from looking at my computer screen taking practice tests and going over 100s of notecards.

Cannot cannot cannot wait for christmas.

Last night made a yummy dinner with my roommate and boyfriend though!


Recipe from myrecipes.com (love this site more every dish)

Chicken with Provencal Sauce

A heady combination of dried basil, thyme, marjoram, rosemary, lavender, and sage, herbes de Provence is a classic French seasoning. Try it in other Mediterranean dishes, such as pasta sauce or baked black olives.

Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 chicken breast half and about 2 tablespoons sauce)

Ingredients

• 4 (6-ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dried herbes de Provence-- or I have fresh rosemary so I chopped up that and used some other spices mixed in for fun
  
• 1 teaspoon butter
• 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
• Fresh thyme sprigs (optional)

Preparation

Place each chicken breast half between 2 sheets of heavy-duty plastic wrap; pound to 1/2-inch thickness using a meat mallet or rolling pin. Sprinkle chicken evenly with salt and pepper.

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 6 minutes on each side or until done. Remove chicken from pan; keep warm.

Add garlic to pan; cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add broth and herbes de Provence; bring to a boil, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Cook until broth mixture is reduced to 1/2 cup (about 3 minutes). Remove from heat; add butter and lemon juice, stirring until butter melts. Serve sauce over chicken. Garnish with thyme sprigs, if desired.

We served this with a wild rice medley (very appropriate since my roommate and bf are both minnesotaites, a loaf of lovely french bread with olive oil for dipping and also made malts with vanilla ice cream, milk and malt mix for dessert. nom nom.

Then me and my roommate proceeded to watch "somethings gotta give" and "secrets of the yaya sisterhood" until our butts fell asleep on the coach and could no longer procrastinate studying.

More newness!

Here is another recent blog I discovered that is just divine!


Blogger name: Genna
Website: Maison des Reveries
What I just saw and want: Baked Eggs with avocado and prosciutto served with tomato sauce, fontina cheese, and tuscan toast she got them from a Sunday brunch at Gemma at the Bowery Hotel in NYC

LOVEEE!!

Hail to the blogs

Two Blogs to check out I love


Combining my two loves of food and fashion finally!!
cupcakesandcashmere.com brings elegance to inspiring you with fab outfits and great things she is also cooking up for parties thrown at her own apartment. The blog has been featured in everything from Glamour, Coach, Teen vogue, Forbes to WWD. She is obviously doing something with her free time!

And presenting a saucyglossie.com written by a girl named Lindsay Calla. She hits on travel, decorating and of course fashion tips that you can use with any wardobe!

More fun ones to check up being posted on here all through December!

-G