Style Thursday!

I've been a bit MIA lately, but this week has just been crazy. But, the past two days have been awesome. The weather has been amazing, I've had time to spend with my hubby, and we've been working on our Italian!

Yesterday I was lucky enough to take a nice long walk with Scotty outside. Afterwards, we sat on the balcony to eat grapes and listen to our Italian cd lesson. Then, I cut my hair. Yeaup, I chopped off my Rapunzel-length hair with some scissors in my bathroom. Haha, I decided that if I was going to cut my hair I had to just do it! I did! I actually am super happy I did because my hair just looks so much healthier, is so much lighter, and easier to style!

Here are some pics of my "after" hair from this morning:

Here's Style Thursday:

Thanks for Reading!
Mrs E =]

Hair Woes

I am having a dilema. I HAVE to cut my hair soon and add back in some layers, take a bit off the ends, and just get my bounce and wave back. The thing is...SHOULD I GET BANGS AGAIN? You know, the side-sweeping, always getting in the way, annoying, but envious bangs?

I was going through my facebook trying to find a picture of me to post with my bangs...but I can't find any in the past year! That means They were in that awkward growing out phase or pinned back in every picture for the past year. Which means I must have hated them? The thing is, I think I hated them. I think I always pushed them into the rest of my hair. But I wish I didn't. I wish I loved them and styled them and looked BANGIN with them!

These are the only good pics I could find where my bangs looked ok:

I do NOT want my hair short again, and I do NOT want my bangs to be something that I try to grow out for the next year!

This is what I want bangs/hair to look like:

I think the best decision is to ask you guys! What do you think?! Bangs? No bangs? Am I setting myself up for disaster?
As for now, I'm not going to get bangs. I will hopefully be cutting my hair tomorrow, but I'll leave the bangs debate up for awhile!

Thanks for reading,
Mrs. E =]

Remember that Photoshoot?

First of all, I did not do Style Thursday yesterday. I was so busy, and then I came home and immediately changed into comfy sweats. Hopefully I can tell you guys more about my business later!

Remember that photoshoot I mentioned my BIL, Jay, did with our kittens after we got Cocoa? He put them up yesterday night, and they look AWESOME. It happened at around 10:30 the night after we got her, so we had to use artificial lighting, but they still look good! (Have I ever mentioned how much Scotty and I love living 3 min away from family? Jay and Kelly live closer in walking distance than driving.)

Here are the pics!

 ^This one is my second favorite! You can see how tiny she is (even compared to my rings)!

 ^^ This one is my FAVORITE!

^We had to include Banana in the photoshoot! She had a lot of fun with our props =]

Thanks for Reading,
Mrs. E =]

Style Tuesday

I love this weather! I would be so happy if we could have this weather all the way up to summer! To celebrate the sun and warm weather's return, Scotty and I took a lovely walk after work =] So nice to get fresh air and a bit of exercise.

As for Style Tuesday...Here's what I wore today:

         {No one was really in the office today, so I didn't mind having a little bit of a short skirt!}

Shirt: old f21, skirt: old delia's belt: old AE, shoes: Aldo

Thanks for reading!

Mrs. E =] 

double

(us from last night before we braved the wind!)

Last night hubby and I went on a real, actual double date! ha! We went out to a BYOB italian restaurant with Scotty's cousin and his girlfriend. We were seriously the LAST table there. The entire restaurant was clean before we noticed that we were holding the staff up! I felt pretty bad, but it turns out we were only there 10 minutes after closing. It was just a really fun time over all with them. I like going out with couples, especially ones who are a bit older so usually more in our stage of life.

L*U*C*K

I wanted some St. Patty's day lovin in my house, so I figured I would make my own rendition of 'word blocks.' I've seen a lot of cute things in stores and on pinterest (for all the holidays), but I wanted to try my hand at making my own version.
The finished product:

Here's how I got there!

Materials:
knife or scissors (I used both)
Fun paper
Marker
boxes or blocks
glue (hot glue works best, but I don't have any yet)

Step 1:
Cut your boxes (or blocks) to the size and shape you want.
All of my boxes looked like this:

When I cut them they looked like this:

I then glued them to eachother. (you could wait to glue them to eachother at the end once they are decorated, but I liked being able to visualize it better if they were glued first)

Next, I put pretty green paper on them. front, top, and the two sides on the end.

Lastly, I just wrote on the letters to spell Luck. I wanted it to look 'hand made' and a bit *crafty* so I just used markers to scribble them on, but if you want a more pro look, you can stencil the letters on with paint or free hand it nicely.

I hope you guys liked my cutesy little Saturday craft!

Thanks for reading,
Mrs. E =]

Style Thursday!

I am trying something new out- Style Tuesday and Style Thursday! I work on Tuesdays and usually don't work Thursday so we'll see how it goes!

Today, we took the baby (Cocoa Bean haha) to the vet. The vet says that she's only FOUR weeks! wowzers. That means we got her when she was THREE weeks. Wayyy too young to be away from mommy, but she is doing sooo well. She is eating a mixture of soft/wet food and kibble, which is incredible. She got de-wormed, thank goodness, so the swelling in her belly should go down. Banana was so happy when we all got home from the vet--she must miss her little sister!

On tap today is just doing some cleaning (what's new), sending out some work emails, and hopefully doing my nails!

So here's the first installment of Style Thursday!:

 Blazer: Love Culture, Tshirt: Pacsun, Scarf: old Gap, Leggings: f21, Shoes:Aldo spring '11
Although it was warm today, the wind was crazy! haha Sorry I look so awkward and surprised! hahaha

Thanks for reading,
Mrs. E