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J.Crew Gingham Style

    Okay. I know the blog has been dead for a week. I’m sorry. Grad school equals death, especially when grad school finals roll around. I am dealing and I am going to try to not whine for 300-500 words in this here blog post. It has been seriously WARMING up here in Idaho. We […]

Wear the Trend: Graphic Tee–day to night graphic

Wear the Trend: Graphic Tee–day to night

  The quest for the perfect graphic tee is REAL. I searched for the perfect graphic tee for years. In my last outfit post I shared one of my new favorite graphic tees, but today I want to show you yet another one. Salt & Pepper Tees seriously makes the comfiest, easy-to-wear, versatile, cotton tee.<–That was […]

Wear the Trend: Graphic Tee graphic

Wear the Trend: Graphic Tee

So let’s talk a baby bit about graphic tees. We all have them and if you don’t have one, you probably want one. Tees have made a major comeback, and I’m totally good with it. Now, I saw a similar CELFIE tee on Etsy a few months ago. I thought that it was cute and totally clicked […]

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Dry Shampoo 101

With back to school just around the corner, a huge portion of the population is about to get kicked into overdrive. Mom will be soon be back on the grind–making lunches, being a bus driver, cleaning, running errands, cooking, trying to not forget carpool duty, making work calls in between it all, and heaven forbid […]

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Recipe: Lemon Chicken Orzo

This little recipe was inspired by a recipe I found on Food Network, but honestly I just was not feeling the shrimp and I could not find arugula around here (darn you small college town). I adapted it to fit my budget and availability, and I came up with this awesome recipe. It is light […]

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National Adoption Day: What An Adopted Child Wants You to Know

(This post was originally published November 2013) National Adoption Day was Saturday! I totally thought it was today. Oops! Nevertheless, I have seen this day approaching on my calendar for a weeks now. I knew that I wanted to post something in honor of it, but as I sit here there are a vast amount of […]

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National Adoption Month: My Experience as an Adopted Child

(This post was initially posted in November 2014) Today marks the end of National Adoption Month. Last year I wrote this post. Since then it has become one of my most pinned posts. I am grateful for this, not because I don’t love the posts shared about my pregnancy or how to become a better […]

Naked Basics: The O.G. Naked Basics Palette & Naked Basics 2 Palette graphic

Naked Basics: The O.G. Naked Basics Palette & Naked Basics 2 Palette

There is a lot of hype around Urban Decay’s Naked line. If you are a female who wears make up chances are you have heard of some kind of UD Naked product. While I do wear eyeshadow, I didn’t feel the need to splurge on the full sized palettes quite yet. I wanted to see […]