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Get Holiday Party Ready with These Outfit Ideas

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Celebrate the holiday season in style with these holiday party outfits!  Whether you’re at the office Christmas party or a family gathering you’ll be dressed to impress with these simple looks!

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My little sister got married last Sunday and it was such a wonderful celebration!  She made such a beautiful bride!  Everyone had a really nice time and thoroughly enjoyed themselves!  I bought a fabulous Karl Lagerfeld dress to wear to the wedding that I was so excited to wear.  It’s hunter green with great tulip sleeves and it’s just the right length – right above the knee! 

I received a lot of compliments on it, as well as the clip in hair piece I was wearing!  It blended in so well that you couldn’t hardly tell I was wearing extensions! The best part?  They were only $10 on Amazon and super easy to clip in!  


With the holidays fast approaching, I thought I would share – not only my fabulous dress – but a couple holiday party outfits!  I didn’t do much to style up my wedding look, but I did wear black microsuede pumps, had a leopard print clutch, and glued on some black stiletto gel nails. If I wear this dress again during the holidays – and I might – I’ll definitely add some jewelry to it.  

If you’re not much of a dress person, I’ve also added a red jumpsuit look.  Pair it with a sparkly bag, some pumps, a lariat necklace, and you’re good to get merry and mingle! 

 Get Holiday Party Ready with These Outfit Ideas
  1. Karl Lagerfeld Paris Women’s Tulip Sleeve Sheath Dress
  2. Clip In Synthetic Hair Extensions
  3. 2 in 1 Hair Straightener and Curler
  4. Strong Hold Finishing Hairspray
  5. Silver Dangle Earrings
  6. Leopard Faux Suede Foldover Clutch
  7. Off Black Sheer Pantyhose
  8. Faux Suede Ankle Strap Pointed Toe Wedges
  9. Karl Lagerfeld Paris Women’s Cropped Jumpsuit with Self Belt
  10. Sterling Silver Cubic Zirconia Bracelet
  11. Women’s Chaney Pump
  12. Sterling Silver Lariat Necklace
  13. Sparkly Sequin Chain Tote Handbag
  14. Ready to Wear Black Gel Manicure Stiletto Nails
  15. Wool Blend Double Breasted Peacoat

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How to Throw a Dia De Los Muertos Party

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Throw a Dia de los Muertos party to honor loved ones who have passed on with a colorful celebration and sugar skull decorations!

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Halloween is almost here and I’m a little sad that spooky season will be coming to an end soon.  I love this time of year!  But this weekend is Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, so it’s not over yet!  In Mexican culture, it’s a holiday that takes the sadness out of death and makes it a colorful celebration to honor loved ones who have passed away. Families make altars in their homes decorated with flowers, food, and sugar skulls.  It makes life and death a party!

I love the tradition behind Dia de los Muertos.  Even though the holiday features lots of skulls and skeletons, there’s nothing scary about it!  We won’t be celebrating Dia de los Muertos will a full out bash, but I do have a few sugar skulls for our home.  If you’re celebrating this weekend, make sure your party checklist has some of these supplies and decorations!

How to Throw a Dia De Los Muertos Party
  1. Sugar Skull Wine Bottle Holder
  2. Day of the Dead Corkscrew
  3. Skull Ice Cube Tray
  4. Fiesta Photo Booth Props
  5. Paper Pom Poms
  6. Mexican Plastic Papel Picado Banner
  7. Metallic Day of the Dead Dinner Plates
  8. Sugar Skull Wine Glasses
  9. Sugar Skull Inflatable Decoration
  10. Day of the Dead Luminary Bags
  11. Wine Bottle Label Stickers
  12. Sugar Skull Mini Pinatas
  13. Mexican Serape Table Runner
  14. Sugar Skull Hanging Decorations
  15. Sugar Skull Yard Stakes

Will you be throwing a Dia de los Muertos celebration this weekend?  If so, make sure you incorporate some of these traditions:

  • Serve traditional Mexican foods, desserts, and drinks
  • Decorate with lots of color and flowers, like marigolds
  • Use traditional symbols like monarch butterflies and sugar skulls
  • Create a DIY sugar skull painting station
  • Include lots of candles in your decor
  • Grab some face paints to give your guests skull makeovers
  • Send guests home with treats bags filled with sweets
     

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How to Have a Stranger Things Halloween

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Turn Halloween “Upside Down” this year with Stranger Things themed decorations and party essentials!

Turn around. Look at what you seeeee!

Okay, Stranger Things, fans.  Over the summer, I binge watched the entire show in ONE WEEK.  I was obsessed!  The funny thing is, I didn’t think I was going to like it at first.  But I quickly became hooked from the very first episode.  I love that the show is set in the 80’s, Winona Ryder is a major character, there was a Neverending Story duet, and one of the kids is a telepathic, waffle-loving, badass.  Bitchin’!

So with Halloween coming up, I thought it would be fun to “enter the Upside Down” with some Stranger Things items from Amazon.  I’ve always wanted to decorate the outside of our house with some awesome Halloween theme.  My newest Netflix obsession might inspire our Halloween decor this year! Break out the Christmas lights and let’s get creepy! 

How to Have a Stranger Things Halloween

  1. Demogorgon Inflatable Sprinkler
  2. Eleven Mall Romper Costume
  3. Steve Scoops Ahoy Costume
  4. Robin Scoops Ahoy Costume
  5. Stranger Things Welcome Decor
  6. Creepy Black Cheesecloth
  7. Spooky Ghost Tree
  8. Fog Machine
  9. Vine String Lights
  10. Inflatable Sensory Deprivation Pool
  11. Giant Halloween Spider
  12. Outdoor Bluetooth Rock Speakers
  13. Stranger Things: Halloween Sounds from the Upside Down
  14. LED String Lights
  15. Enter the Upside Down Doormat

The Demogorgon listed is actually a sprinkler (pretty cool, huh?), but if you inflate it, it could quickly become an outdoor decoration.  I couldn’t find any Mind Flayer decorations.  But since it kind of looks like a big, nasty, spider, I figured a Giant Halloween Spider decoration might do the trick!

I also included some party essentials to make your house feel like “Upside Down,”  like the spooky tree, vine lights, cheesecloth, and fog machine.  There’s even a Stranger Things soundtrack to really set the mood!

And if you really want to get into character, I also included a few Stranger Things costumes to the list.  Let’s turn this Halloween “Upside Down!” 

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My 10 Favorite Pop Culture Cookbooks

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Cook along with your favorite TV shows, movies, and celebrities with these 10 Pop Culture Cookbooks that’ll make a fun addition to your cookbook collection!


Our home updates are continuing into the fall this year.  Over the past month, I’ve been cleaning out our dining room to get it ready for new furniture and paint.  We currently have a dining room set with a buffet and hutch.  We’ve decided to replace everything with a solid wood dining room table, chairs, and hopefully a new mirror for the wall.  

As excited as I am for our updated dining room, I’ve grown to love our old hutch.  It’s stored some of my favorite knick-knacks, holiday decorations, and a portion of my cookbook collection!  I’ve downsized to a corner bookcase, but still have room to display some of my very favorite cookbooks.  

My 10 Favorite Pop Culture Cookbooks

 
I’ve displayed my signed copy of Vegetables from when I met Martha Stewart, a signed copy of Gordon Ramsay’s Healthy, Lean & Fit, and a few of my favorite pop culture cookbooks – purchased new and found under piles of old cookbooks in used bookstores.

Some of these cookbooks were really such amazing finds!  I found my hardcover copy of a Mary Poppins cookbook, a Wizard of Oz cookbook (check out the Toto-ly Delicious Apple Cake recipe here, and even a storybook villain cookbook at the used bookstore.  And some of my newest pop culture cookbooks are based off some of my favorite TV shows and celebrities!

  1. Doctor Who: The Official Cookbook: 40 Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Recipes
  2. The Potterhead Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
  3. Eat Like a Gilmore: The Unofficial Cookbook for Fans of Gilmore Girls
  4. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Cookbook
  5. Recipe for Murder: Frightfully Good Food Inspired by Fiction
  6. Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook
  7. From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen
  8. Everything Alice: The Wonderland Book of Makes and Bakes
  9. Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story
  10. Cooking in Oz: Kitchen Wizardry from America’s Favorite Fairy Tale

If you’re looking to add a new cookbook to your collection, any of these would be great additions!  The Potterhead Cookbook and the Snoop Dogg cookbook are still on my wishlist, but I’ve cooked out of many of the others (the TMNT cookbook has an amazing recipe for homemade pizza dough)!

Even if you’re not one to cook out of cookbooks, these are still fun to have on display in the kitchen or on a bookshelf! 

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What’s your favorite pop culture cookbook?



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