So if your loved ones are anything like mine they are IMPOSSIBLE to shop for! The fiance is the type of dude that never really asks for much because when he wants something he just buys it. Which is fine until the holidays are around and I’m stuck scratching my head. But as with any man, cologne is always a safe bet. Much like underwear and socks once they get into a relationship they no longer buy these things for themselves. I actually got this Versace cologne for his birthday in November but I figured I’d share it for the ladies in my same Christmas shopping dilemma. I originally bought it for him for Christmas last year and now he’s stuck on it. He actually smells really yummy when he wears it so I don’t mind buying it again. 🙂 Especially with the deal I got! In the department store this size bottle is $57.00. But I found it at Gordman’s for $29.99!!
The last bottle lasted him a over a year too! Hope your Christmas shopping doesn’t cause any wrinkles this year. I’m sure I’ll sprout one or too!
This is my sanctuary! Otherwise known as my closet. 🙂 Yes, I color coordinate my shoes. Don’t Judge! My fiance gets a kick out the fact that he will often find me in there just being peaceful. There is something so soothing about my shoes. Haha! So every year the station holds our annual Jingle Jam concert. This is one of my favorite events so I tend to stress about the outfit I’m going to wear. To be honest this year it just sort of crept up on me and I was searching for something at the last minute. I thought let me save a little time and money and see what goodies I have in my closet that I can throw together. I wanted to wear red this year but I have nothing red but a button up farmer looking shirt. But I did have those fabulous shoes I got in Florida. I also remembered the cute cream colored mini I wore for my birthday dinner. That was a good start! Off to the mall to find a top. I went into Charlotte Russe to scout their clearance rack. This time of year the have a lot of goodies for cheap. I picked up a red shirt with cut-out shoulders that was marked down to $10! I tried it on and it made me look really skinny. When I got to the register the lady informed me that this was the last day of a promotion going on that you get a free piece of jewelry with every purchase. SCORE! I picked up some gold bracelets that I knew would go with some earrings and a purse that I already had.
Voilà!!!! My fiance kept telling me all night how friggin hot I looked. Music to my cheap ears!!! All it took was quick gander through my closet and a measly $10 bucks and I was feeling like Kim Kardashian! Well without all the drama of course! Plus Nick Carter like it too! 🙂
Good thing I didn’t tell him that I used to sing his songs to my mirror using a hairbrush in place of a microphone. He might have though me strange 🙂
I’ve been a naughty little girl this year. I confess I bought more than just shoes when I was in Florida last weekend. I know I should be shopping for Christmas gifts but I’m a true sucker for a good steal. Growing up in the sunshine state I never had to buy sweaters so I have this weird phobia about buying them. However they are SUPER cheap in the F-L-A. I bought this Billabong sweater at Ross. Check how much it goes for retail…
Now feast your eyes upon the price I payed for it….
I went to Florida over the weekend for one of my best friends’ baby shower and I never visit Florida without stopping by the HSN outlet store. I’ve shown you the goodies that I’ve scored there before. I went into the store will the full intention of buying Christmas presents when I happened to wander over to the shoe section. I was juat an innocent bystander when these guys just jumped up and bit me! 🙂 They are by a brand called Hot in Hollywood. My mom said they looked like a hooker heel but in my eyes the higher the heel the better! Then I looked at the price and though ooooohhhh nooooooo! Not around Christmas time.
The thing is, the HSN outlet store gives you the original price and then they have signs that post the discount percentage based upon the date it was put on the shelf. These were 40% off but that still made then $40 bucks. However my mom reminded me that this particular weekend they had additional markdowns taken out the counter because its so close to Christmas. I figured it was worth it hold onto them for a minute. I should know better than to hang around a clearance shoe section because two seconds later I found these.
Aye! These are the kind of shoe that make me get all Carey Bradshaw! “Hellllllooooooo lover!!!” I am obsessed with the detail on the heel!
And who knew Mariah Carey had a shoe line….
So I thought ok, ok let me just look at see what they originally cost. By this time I had been sucked in and I knew I was getting at least one pair of them. So I took a look see….
Same price as the other ones which I knew was going to make it tough on me to pick just one. Usually if one costs more than the other is an easy fix. So we get the the register and Haaaaaaaaaaallelujah! They had both been marked down to $13.42!!!!
Yeeeaaaa budddy! MINE! My mom got an AWESOME pair of purple ostrich pumps that I was drooling over but its not sexy to be greedy 🙂
I’m sitting in the Atlanta airport on a layover. Lord I hate layovers. Its like putting a kid in a really long line before an awesome ride. This weekend is one of my bestie’s baby shower and I cannot wait to give her and her bump a hug. I really don’t have too many close friends left in Florida but Casey is one of my nearest and dearest. Its so crazy how fast these last six years living away from home have gone. Its like poof, in the blink of an eye were no longer twenty-somethings. Were getting married…and having BABIES! But I am so truly happy to see my oldest friends becoming settled and content in life. I know they feel the same for me because they were around when I was the crazy 19 year old club rat. Lol. Anyhoo they are announcing boarding. Yay! ~Hugs and Smiles ~ R!LEY COUTURE
I’m getting the oil changed on Jasmine this morning (yes I named my mustang) and I figured what better a time for a bloggity-blog. If I’m honest I’m trying to drown out some of the conversations going on in here. Waiting rooms are perfect for people watching but I guess I’m not in the mood this morning. I’ve been thinking a lot lately. About my family and how much I miss them. A few of us are estranged right now and it really sucks. They say in times like these to just say your sorry and do whatever it takes to put things back together. I am a true believer in we are never promised tomorrow. Well the “I’m sorrys” have been said and have accomplished nothing. Its so crazy how many blessing have been tossed my way this year so I try not to dwell on the one thing that is missing. But that’s a difficult thing to do when that one things is one of your nearest and dearest. We went to the fiance’s sister’s house for Thanksgiving and it was nice. Good food and lots of rest. But after a few unanswered text I really was sad. Now I know your thinking, a text? You can’t pick up the phone and call? Trust me if I thought there was any way the phone would get answered I would have called. With a text I know they will at least read it. Amongst all of these sad feelings I have a true sense of peace in this time in my life which is a rarity in my world. Its really weird how those kinds of feelings can coincide. I have everything I have ever wanted and sometimes I feel a little like Charlotte from Sex and the City. She was so scarred that something bad was going to happen to her because everything in her life was as close to perfect as possible. Mmmmm. Maybe I just discovered a point there. Not that I will ever think of having problems with my family is a blessing, but God always gives us challenges. The way we handle it often times determines the future. Something about this waiting room has me all philosophical LOL. Ew! I do believe the guy next to me just farted. A little comic release I guess. I better not smell that one damnit. Anyhoo….enough deep thoughts for now.
Sorry for the blurry picture. I was trying to take this while wrapping the fiance’s birthday presents in my closet. There is something I have noticed that every woman inherits when she gets the ring on her finger. That is the divine right to have the sole responsibility of buying her man all of his underwear, socks, gloves, ties, and anything else that a dude doesn’t want to bother to shop for. Not that I mind. I would rather buy him these things than see him looking like Al Bundy with holes in his under-roos. The fiance is a really tough guy to shop for because he doesn’t really ask for much, and when he does ask nine times out of ten it’s something difficult to find. Again, not that I mind. I never shy way from a good shopping challenge. This year a pair of nice leather driving gloves was on the birthday list. I knew I was in trouble when I heard this request because the fiance has big hands that won’t fit most gloves. Plus a good pair of men’s leather gloves can run you $60-$100.
After I rummaged through about 50 pairs of gloves and made quite the mess at TJMaxx I found these. They have cashmere lining on the inside and looked just big enough to fit the fiance’s paws. They were originally priced at $60.00, which I was willing to pay because to me even that was a steal. But nope $20.00 bucks is all I spent 🙂
This is the way be brush out teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth. This is the way we brush our teeth. Early in the morning! Haha! Sorry. I’m not really sure why that little random song just popped into my head while I was typing but you know how it is. Good deals get me giddy. I was in Kroger last night shopping for my usual $5.99 vibrating toothbrush when the fiance pointed out that I should just get a Sonicare. He has one and he swears by it. If I’m honest I have always secretly wanted one but did he really expect me to spend $80 on a toothbrush? Low and behold they were on sale for Kroger card members.
It was friggin $45.00 off! Ok then, if I’m ever going to get a Sonicare then now was the time. Yay for clean teeth!
Don’t you just love our new couch! The fiance and I got to upgrade our apartment to a three bedroom so we could have more space. You know what that means. New space means new stuff! Our old apartment was nice but it looked a little hodge-podge because the decor was a strange mix if his stuff and my stuff that didn’t really mesh well. So we went to browse for a new couch not really expecting to really find anythig within our budget. We though MAYBE we would find a chaise lounge to put in the sun room. Oh we did.
I just love it! Ashley Furniture Home Store has a place off of Summer Ave. that they do their warehouse liquidations. Basically they sell the floor models that have been slightly damaged for crazy discounts. When we stumbled up this couch we couldn’t find anything wrong with it so we figured it was too expensive. The guy that sold it to us had a cold that must have gone to his head because we got it for $500 bucks! When I heard that number I was baffled. I’m thinking surely he means to sell us just part of the sectional. Nope, all four pieces for a measly five hundred. Ashley Furniture sells a similar one in their regular store for somewhere around $2000! Yeeeeeaaaaaah buddy!
I must admit that I need another pair of nude shoes like I need a whole in the head, but then again that’s pretty much true with all of my shoe purchases. I just love these Steve Madden wedges and they are SO comfortable. A pretty and comfy wedge is a beautiful and rare thing to a girl like me. Even more beautiful was the price…..
Actually I happen to think that $89.00 really isn’t bad for this kind of shoe because Steve Maddens are made really well. But I do get giddy when I score them for a quick $20 bucks. SHOEGASM!
So if your loved ones are anything like mine they are IMPOSSIBLE to shop for! The fiance is the type of dude that never really asks for much because when he wants something he just buys it. Which is fine until the holidays are around and I’m stuck scratching my head. But as with any man, cologne is always a safe bet. Much like underwear and socks once they get into a relationship they no longer buy these things for themselves. I actually got this Versace cologne for his birthday in November but I figured I’d share it for the ladies in my same Christmas shopping dilemma. I originally bought it for him for Christmas last year and now he’s stuck on it. He actually smells really yummy when he wears it so I don’t mind buying it again. 🙂 Especially with the deal I got! In the department store this size bottle is $57.00. But I found it at Gordman’s for $29.99!!
The last bottle lasted him a over a year too! Hope your Christmas shopping doesn’t cause any wrinkles this year. I’m sure I’ll sprout one or too!
