HELLO 2014

For the past two or three months I have been MIA, and trust me, I've missed this. But I mean.. college really wears ya out! Then a few days ago in my three hour long fashion class I was scrolling through my Pinterest, (like I said, every girl in a college lecture loves that thing) and I came across my favorite follower posting pins about blogging. In a three hour anything I am likely to get bored and lose focus so I started reading post after post about things people wish they knew when they started blogging, ideas for blog posts, and how to keep people interested. With that being said, I've decided I want to make this more of a lifestyle blog, because there's just so many things I want to share with the world! Fashion is my absolute passion, so don't be surprised if you still see a lot of that, but expect some other stuff too. That's fun, right? 

So here I am and I promise I am not going anywhere. 

Let's do a little recap of all my fav things that have happened in this beautiful new year. 

1. 

K.. so from previous posts you already know that the Olsen's are my absolute forever girl crush. I feel like I know them from the amount of stalking I do. When I heard Mary-Kate was engaged I was very happy for her, but not all that surprised since she's been dating that man for as long as I can remember. When I saw this ring though it was a different story. My friend texted it to me when I was in class one day and I literally screamed.. like people were starting at me. Although I don't think this would be my ring of choice, I don't think I have ever seen anything more elegant, classic, and all around beautiful than this ring. Absolutely perfect for my girl MK, so even though I may have been skeptical about this man before, he now has my approval (not that either of them care). 

2. 

Can we just take a second to throw it back to this years Oscars and just LOOK AT THIS DRESS. Ok so I'll be the first to say I've never really been obsessed with Kate Hudson. I mean she is beautiful and more talented than I'll ever be, but I mean fashion wise. But then as I was watching the Oscar pre-shows this year, she completely caught me off guard and made my jaw drop. Up to the point of seeing her, I was very disappointed with the fashion this year.. there didn't really seem to be anything to note worthy, and then BAM there's Kate. This dress screams sex without being inappropriate. It was easily my favorite of the night and moved Kate up to the top of my to-watch list! 

3.  

OIL PULLING. Have ya heard of it? If not, I strongly recommend researching ASAP. I first read about it on from my favorite blogger, FashionLush. (<--- seriously, go check her out), and I just had to try it. She goes on and on about the benefits of sticking this substance in your mouth, and swishing it around for 20 minutes, then spitting it out. Like sounds crazy, right? But I had to try it. I picked some up at Publix when I was in Florida for SB, and quickly realized that after the initial shock of a chunk of oil being in your mouth, it is really not bad and the 20 minutes goes by so fast. After my first few days when I realized I could keep this up, I did some more research, and literally there are too many to list. My favorites are: 

+ It whitens your teeth big time

+ Helps prevent bad breath

+ Has helped with some serious hangovers (I swear by it)

But for so many more, read about oil pulling here and here

4. 

Okay, lastly I have to talk about this book made by yet another one of my favorite bloggers, The Skinny Confidential. I had been seeing for months that this book was coming along, but honestly, I am not much of a book person so I wasn't thinking that much about it. Then it came out, and I decided to check it out on Amazon, and I just about died. At the time I was in Florida and my boyfriend was visiting his friends in Chicago. While I was sitting with my Grandma (who is my favorite lady ever, but that doesn't have anything to do with this story), he was out a bar and we were in a bit of a tiff. After reading the preview to this book I texted him and said, "Okay, fights over", something I would have never been caught dead doing before reading these few measly pages. It gave me this random confidence that made me think, why the eff am I wasting my time on this fight when I can be thinking about so many positive things. And just like that, I ordered the book. Now go and order it and tell me what ya think.