Perfect Weather

Today was just about as nice a day as I can ask for! It was sunny and bright and so comfortable. If you stood in the sun you got warmed up and it was so nice! Unfortunately, it seemed to be just about the only warmth I could find though. The nights here get pretty chilly and they're not turning the heat on in my dorm until Thanksgiving break. I have a feeling its going to be a chilly 3 weeks inside the room! I've had to lint roll my jeans a couple times a day after wrapping up in my cozy fleece blanket as I sit in my room. Everyone I talk to who has had their heat turned on, tells me that I should be happy since the USC heat seems to be "wet". I can only imagine that the heat will be a little muggy for the first few days. I remember at home when we first get the heat started it really smells like something is burning, yuck! Anyway, I will be very happy if the weather continues to be this nice if our dorm heat isn't turned on! I wore this today since it was so nice out (I'm really starting to LOVE polyvore if you couldn't tell): 

Novermber 3 by letsbepreppy featuring Bandolino shoes

If you all didn't notice in my curls photo, I do have highlighted hair and its beginning to grow out. I haven't colored it since I got to school, so I'm quite due for a color job. I'm a little nervous to try any hairstylists out down here just because I don't know anyone's reputations. The amazing girl I go to has a great rep in our hometown and we've told many people to go to her as many people told us to! My mom, sister and I all get our hair done by her and this will be the first time since I was 15 (literally from my 15th birthday) that I haven't gone to her to get my hair done. A friend of mine who came here from a rival school back home has done peoples' hair that I know and so I talked to her tonight and I'm gonna go to her! I figure I can try her "styling" out for all of about $10 and if it doesn't exactly work out, I can get it fixed at home for the regular price. I need some advice on home hair coloring if anyone has experience. I'm heading over to Target tomorrow with another friend to go on what we're calling a "Target date" and she's gonna go shopping with me! I'll probably pick up a kit or something tomorrow and have Jacey do my hair some weekday this week! I'll post before and after photos for sure!


Right now, I'm very guiltily watching Natalie Morales and Kate's interview from John and Kate Plus 8. She seems so sad. I do love Natalie Morales though, we're a Today Show family at home!


Hope everyone else is enjoying this fab weather!


xxKatie


PS. Gracie Beth, man the USC Gamecocks did not show up against your Vols! Congrats on the W!!

College Attire

Again, with all the college information, I'm sure you guys have had enough of it! Today I wore this: 

October 29 by letsbepreppy featuring Citizens of Humanity jeans

It is seriously the perfect weather here right now. I had on my pink Lilly Madge fleece and black JR's, and was so comfy! This is by no means the usual for me because I'm typically in a polo and/or a sweater for class, but I woke up 10 minutes before class started! Yikes! Thankfully I can walk about 10 steps out of my dorm and get right into the building where my 8am English class is. 


Recently I've been thinking (again) about how sloppily college kids dress. I looked online to see if I could find college rules for dressing, but nothing came up with that title. I came upon the FABULOUS website EtiquetteGrrls.com (they have no idea I'm posting this as I type it now) and it gave me exactly what I was looking for! Under their "features" section there is a feature named At College. They put the rules for dressing for class very well: 

While the Etiquette Grrls realize that for many young people, college represents Sudden Freedom from the constraints of Prep School Dress Codes, we were entirely shocked to find that so many of Our Peers took this as license to wear nasty sweatpants and ripped t-shirts to class! Dear Reader, college classes, whether they be seminars or lectures, are Public Events, and you should dress presentably! While a skirt or dress is not required for girls, nor a coat and tie for boys, you should always wear neat, clean, attractive clothing.

I couldn't agree more! I feel like the very least thing that you can do is wear jeans. None of this "leggings" stuff, it looks like you're not wearing pants and your whole behind is RIGHT there! There is even a girl in my nursing class that doesn't wear shoes. If you want to be a nurse, how could you take ALL those risks by not wearing shoes at a college campus?? I think that there is no excuse for people who wear sweatpants to class. In my closet, my jeans sit right next to my sweatpants so there is no difference in the time it takes to put jeans on or find them, it is the least you can do fellow scholars!


I hope people out there agree and aren't just "tsk"-ing when you read this!


xxKatie

Today's Outfit

So I've only polyvored once, so I figured I'd try again! Today's outfit was for chilly SC weather, but obviously not too cold! I was wearing my Lilly jeans, a green sweater from Old Navy (mine is long sleeved with a pink dragonfly where the edamame is), a white long sleeve t-shirt from J. Crew underneath, some fab leopard shoes from the one and only Target and my quilted Lilly coat which I adore! For accessories I went with the dailys of my Tiffany heart chain bracelet and Silver pearls, both were gifts from family! If this ends up being a good post more polyvores might continue!

October 16 by letsbepreppy featuring Old Navy

xxKatie

My First Polyvore!

Hi all! I decided to "polyvore" my outfit for work today. This might be my new favorite thing. Its fabulous. Anyway, since it's getting warm, like 75 and sunny, I decided to wear my Jacqueline Knit Critter dress that my parents got me for Christmas! Check out my outfit today:

Pink Crab 4/18 by featuring Jack Rogers sandals

Minus the kind-of-/-very-tacky butterfly Coach bracelet, this is what I wore. I couldn't find the red Coach bangle by itself anywhere. Crazy. Hopefully this works! I think it is too much fun (as long as you can find the clothes you need!!!)

Today at work, we got a TON done! Unpacked 4 boxes of Lilly Summer 2009 stuff. Let me tell you, it is adorable. There were 2 shifts in there that I want to buy and another pink dress that is awesome. Everything is super summer-y with heavy duty "lace" but really its just like heavy duty wide rick-rack. Continuing, its going to be an awesome summer line for Lilly, a great way to pick up the kind of wear Spring/Resort showing that there was in the stores. Plus, check out your own Lilly stores, Resort should be going on sale soon, if its not already. Ours is already 40% off, which is awesome because we still have a pretty major stock. Drop by and see if yours is on sale!

Definitely keep an eye out for the upcoming Summer '09 line. You will NOT be disappointed!

xxKatie

Lilly and Lemonade Party!

I told you guys awhile back that I was a Collegiate Representative for Lifeguard Press, which is the line of stationary that does all the designing for Lilly Pulitzer stationary. Yesterday, I hosted my very first Lilly and Lemonade Party for the sisters of Alpha Chi Omega, who were so nice to host me! One of their sisters, Leigh, was just diagnosed with cancer, so this was part of their major fundraiser/philanthropy for this year all in honor of her!! We had so many orders come in, so check out what the spread looked like:

These were some of the fabulous items that Lifeguard Press  makes for Lilly! Check out all of the great spring prints!!

Here is the spread of snacks that we had for all of the girls to eat while they browsed samples and looked at the catalogs!

There were tons of sisters who came to see what I had and to help out a fellow sister! They were so friendly and hospitable and I would love to work with them again in a heartbeat!

I wore the Worth Shift and white Jack Rogers to the Lilly and Lemonade party to match the front cover of the catalogs!! It was such a great dress and I absolutely ADORE the print! Here's my polyvore outfit set:

                
March 26 by letsbepreppy featuring Jack Rogers sandals

All in all it was a great day and I had so much fun working with all the Alpha Chi's! They were so nice to me, as well as having a beautiful house! I also saw some Delta Zeta's, Gamma Phi's, KD's, and even more! It was a really fun day in the Greek Village and I can't wait to schedule some more events with other sororities!! 

xxKatie

Outfit of the Day: Rain Gear

February 22 by letsbepreppy featuring Longchamp tote bags

Today was a weird weather day! It started out pouring pouring pouring rain and around 8:30am there was such a big thunder crack it sounded like an earthquake. This huge cracking noise was what really woke me up before my first class today. The rain always makes my days a bit lazier, but I have a HUGE test in my anatomy and physiology class tomorrow. Check out some of my other recent Polyvores! I can't say enough how much I'm loving my new pink Target boots!!

I'm basically taking two separate A&P courses right now between my lab and lecture (which really DO NOT coincide) and for the past 2 weeks and now this week, I've had a test each week. I'm so tired and just need a break. Spring break really could not come at a better time! As of this morning, I had 36 hours of class, but not that is a little reduced. I have to keep in mind that I'll be done soon and next week will be great since I don't have any tests or big looming assignments (yet).

Between group projects, tests, giving tours, working, and helping out some friends, I have been swamped ever since the semester started. I can't believe that February is almost over! I feel like I was just saying that January was over!! Soon enough it'll be spring break and then we'll be back in school for about a month-and-a-half and then it's finals before I know it!! Wow, that's insane! Unfortunately I think I'm getting sick :( :( :( because I've had a sore throat for the past few days and today is seemed to get a lot worse. As I study here in the library, I'm sitting here with some tea so I think that should help. I better get back to work since this is the home stretch! Soon it will be warm weather here and I'll be in a warm weather destination!! Wooo Hoooo!

xxKatie

Sweet Nothings..

This is the last I'll mention of Valentines, Promise!!
It's such a wonderful holiday, even when I was single, 
I would round up the girls and we would hit the town,
celebrating our friendship, 'cause alot of those friendships
have outlasted marriages ;)


Love these polyvore sets by Babi Boechat

Feeling Bohemian <333 For MY BFF Babi C.> by *Babi Boechat* [ Loving ] featuring Vanessa Bruno tops

Items in this set:
Top med læg by Vanessa Bruno Athe. Køb produkter fra verdens mest...
Auctiva Image Hosting
Kenneth Cole Reaction Pine For You - Tobacco, $50
BabyPhat.com: Bamboo Charm Earrings, $32
Banana Bark Bangles, 25 GBP

Today the girls and I (Cam would rather play hockey!!)

are going to make these up for friends.

Aren't they lovely?

So simple and so wonderful.

I love this blog, The Anthropologist.

I have been really into Origami lately, and will be doing a post on it shortly.

Yesterday the kiddies had a day off and so we had a little Valentine Tea Party.

Natasha got a cupcake book in her stocking this year, so we tried out one of the recipes.

The cupcakes were supposed to be chocolate but this is a house full of vanilla lovers, so although the cupcakes may not look quite as cute they tasted amazing!

My bikini may not make it to Florida this year :)

Just slice off the tops after baking, use a cookie cutter to cut out hearts, 

add a layer of buttercream icing mixed with homemade strawberry jam, 

pop the top back on.

The girls added conversation hearts to up the sugar content, and let me just say that I am going to let them finish off the candy today and be done with it-

it's been pure madness!!

I'm off to buy a vintage typewritier I found on kijiji -

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend

til next time..

Happy 91st Birthday to Me!

Today I had a birthday party for my 19th birthday! My official DOB is on Friday but I can't wait! Tonight just seemed to work better for people than on my real birthday, and I enjoy celebrating the real day with my little family, it's cozier and fun! We had such a fun day celebrating and chose a great local restaurant that seems to be extremely popular for birthdays. I owe a huge thank you to my parents since this dinner was a birthday present from them. I had such a great time and couldn't be more thankful for a great way to wrap up my Christmas break!!

I really ended up making my outfit decision at the last minute--and by last minute I mean I bought the shoes this morning, yikes! I got the dress yesterday also from Black Market White House (or whichever comes first in that title) for 50% off! Yes!! And the shoes I got are very NOT me, but they were super fun for a party and surprisingly comfy. Here's what I wore:

January 6 by letsbepreppy on Polyvore.com

We all had a fabulous night catching up and eating wonderful Thai food. It was a great dinner before we all go back to school. I head back on Sunday from the North Pole, although I hear its just as cold in SC...oh no! I swear it was 75 degrees the day that I left and I got funny looks going through the airport in my wintery clothes. I'm thinking about hosting some kind of giveaway (maybe a set of my painted letters since they got such great reviews from everyone...?) for some event soon, I've never hosted a giveaway and I think it's just about time for me to do so! Just a thought for now...maybe a Valentine's giveaway? Or just a wintery-slump giveaway? Who knows, more details to come obviously.

Back to my birthday though. You're all probably wondering why my title is happy 91st, right? Well friends, it is not a typo. When the waiter brought out my cake (a fabbbbb 7 layer caramel cake, which coincidentally is very southern) they waitstaff put the number on wrong. The numbers were not only in reverse, but the 1 was also facing the wrong direction! My friend Caroline was snapping photos of that moment because I was almost crying I was laughing so hard, I'll have to post a few once she sends them to me, or post a link to her blog if she posts them. She got a fancy new camera for Christmas and had a great time being our photog!

I'll be sure to post soon with birthday greetings!!

xxKatie