Gifts Received,

I'm not one to brag about the gifts I've gotten but I decided I'd do a quick post featuring some of my favorites. So here it goes:

I got a beautiful embroidered jewelry box from my boyfriend's mother, and a cream colored peacock  bangle  from his sister  Amanda. As for him he purchased  the purple picture  frame  and the perfume. My parents got me a cute fleece  blanket  and the book.

DETAILS:

[as far as I know]

• Book: Freakin' Fabulous by: Clinton Kelly
• Perfume: Ma Dame by: Jean Paul Gaultier
• Blanket: Performance Fleece [oldnavy.com]

As I said before, this only features a few of my favortie gifts and doesn't include everything I was gifted. I don't think it is fair to feature some huge long post of things I didn't purchase myself seeing as there are others who may not have been as lucky.

I hope everyone had a great holiday,

Zac Posen Spring 2011 Collection

Zac Posen is one of  my favorite designers. It's refreshing to see that his spring collection strayed away from pastels. Here are a few of my favorite pieces(:

        

    

Some Lush Items,

                      Me and my boyfriend stopped at the mall earlier to pick up some gifts for our moms(:

This is the wiccy magic muscles massage bar. My mom is always on her feet, therefore she always has sore legs and feet. This bar is meant to relax your muscles so I thought she could give it a shot.

This is the buttercup gift set. This was purchased for my boyfriend for his mother. It contains one butterball bath bomb and a bar of honey I washed the kids soap.

*All photos courtesy of lushusa.com, no camera currently

Monday Update #2

My boyfriend stayed late last night to help me make these(:

The holly leaves are actually green, not the gross yellow-y color they are in the first photo.

I want to learn to make truffles for the holiday party I'm going to on the 19th, but we'll see.

I've been home mostly all week, and I attended a funeral on Thurseday. Inside the program it had this quote I love:

"Just around the corner,  all is well"

<33

Stocking Stockings,

One of my favorite parts of Christmas are the stockings! So I thought I'd do a post dedicated to them and what you fill them with(: When I got to age 14 my mother stopped using stockings and just filled cute little totes that you get at Target and Forever 21 for $1.50

Burberry for Spring 2011

If you keep up with lines you'll know that this collection actually came out about two months ago, but I would've felt silly [even sillier than I do right now] posting about it before most of us have even gotten our winter jackets out. But keeping in mind that some of these pieces [prefferably the leather ones] wouldn't be a bad addition to your winter wardrobe either here it is: My picks from the Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer Collection 2011, try saying that 10 times fast.

 

As you can the main theme here is leather. If you think back to last fall [2009] you'll remember that when liquid leggings came into popularity, this season Burberry's re-vamped them with geometric cut-outs and on more matte finish on the black ones. I also like the pops of bright color is done through the accessories.

 

Some Cosmetics,

Here are some make-up items I've ad my eye one lately. I haven't done a make-up post in a very long time so I thought, why not?

Bare Escentuals Bright Now Kit, 39$

I've used the face powders, warmth, and face brushes from this line and really like them. I really want to try their blush and mascara especially.

Dylan's Candy Bar Lip Saver Stackable, 7.50$ I love dessert, so I think these lip balms are just right.

NARS bluch in Mata Hari, 26$

Bobbi Brown Long Wear Eyeline, 21$

I really want to try gel liner. I've always used liquid on the top and pencil on the bottom and I'm interested in a change. Also, i've realised no matter what pencil liner you get, wether it be Urban Decay or Cover Girl it still fades and smears on the waterline.

Too Faced Leopard Complexion Perfection Kit, 30$

I've always wanted to try these cute leopard blushes but I've never known which one to try.

 

 

*All photos/products in this post arecan be found at sephora.com