Karaoke Cafe

This weekend was miss summers birthday...
Big birthday shout out to you sum bum!
To start out the festivities you always have to start with a pinata.. am I right?
Brooke and Liz picked out one of the most beautiful pinatas known to man. Greg.

Yes. This is Greg. Look at the frilly outfit, and might I add the the gold chain makes it.
It took us quite awhile to get it on a tree, who knew hanging a pinata was such hard work?

Once we got it up, Summer and her muscles took it down in three swings. 
Here's a snip it of the eventful hanging. and hitting... so violent?... ignore my annoying manly voice. I mean do I really sound like that? haha

Later we headed over to Zupas to feed out addiction.
I think every single one of us is obsessed with it. We just kept saying how we
have never been disappointed with what we've order. Everything there is delicious.
And then we were off to Karaoke Cafe.
Let me tell you now we spent 4 hours there. FOUR. Can you tell we like our Karaoke?
Haha we got there a little early so we had basically the whole place to ourselves for an hour.
Later when the place got filled the D.J cut us off... he said we had sang to much. Sad Day.
We made some friends there Otis and Gladis... and think that was her name.
They were some older couple that just loved life and singing. Otis sang the cutest song
to his wife we all about died.
Even though I love Karaoke I have to admit I am tone deaf... well at least I think.
Though I love it, I am sure the audience is holding their ears waiting for me to get off haha
Oh well, I guess they will have to live with it ;) 

The S.L.C

Ever say your going to do something... and you never do it?
Well if there was a queen for doing that, it would be me.
I find that I have a plethora of dreams and goals.. that just just sit
in my head and look good, but never become a reality.
Why am I ranting about this you ask?
Okay I will get to it.
I only live 20 minutes away from Down Town Salt Lake
and I have always made it a goal to go down town and try out all
the cute little unique restaurants, and  basically just explore the city that I've lived in
but have never become acquainted with.
It amazes me how much of the city that I have never seen, and how much beauty
and fun it offers.
Well today. One of my goals finally had a stepping stone into becoming a reality.
Me and some of the Ivy House blonde crew had a fun day downtown.
First we went to Settebello. The MOST delicious pizza place ever.
It is more like a real Italian pizza, so less sauce and a lot more toppings.
I downed it, me and Kaytee shared, poor girl probably got a few bites in before
it was all inside my belly.
Then later we explored a book store, that I don't think ever ended.
I imagine it in Harry Potter, there was secret (sketchy) doors everywhere,
halls that lead to halls that lead to rooms that led to dungeons.
Moral of the story. It was huge.
But we had our good time. And I found some amazing old books with the most amazing
photography inside of them. Even though I love to read, I am more like a child, who loves
a nice picture book.
Next we went from bakery to bakery to see what they had to offer. By this time, all the food
was weighing me down. So I settled with my last little snack, a gelato.

Gettin Thrifty

So where I went to highschool, or at least in my friend group.

The cool thing wasn't to have designer clothes

or to have the most expensive wardrobe. Our school was a little odd.

Because the cool thing, was to find the best buys at the D.I or at a thrift shop.

If you found the cutest top at the D.I for 5 bucks... you made it.

Sure we were a little odd... but I am grateful for it.

Why?

Well first it helped me save my money in highschool and not blow it on designer clothes.

And I became a dang good bargain shopper.

I basically thrive off it. I get to a thrift shop, and I am like a child in a candy shop.

Or I hear of a sale. And I get all giddy. 

For example Urban Outfitters a couple weeks ago had half off on all their sale stuff.

I was there in a heart beat. I got 7 things. For how much did I spend you ask?

60 bucks... guess how much it would have originally cost?

$342.. yeah you betcha I did the math because I was so proud!

So this week my beautiful and oh so talented sister is modeling one or a couple of my thrift shop finds. Take a gander, and make a guess of what piece of clothing is from the D.I (D.I stands for deseret industries, a second hand store).

Well if you guessed right you would have said half of the outfit was thrifted.

Yes...almost the whole entire outfit was bought from a nearby thrift shop.

The pants? D.I for five bones.

The shoes? D.I for seven bones.

And the top? D.I for 4 bones.

So half of the outfit was only $16.

Who said you can't be fashionable on a low budget?

Because they were DEAD wrong.

I hope I gave some of you motivation to start thrifting!

If some of you already do, I would love to hear where you go.

You can never have enough places to shop :)

 

From Down to Up

From Down to Up

I took this striped maxi that is versatile, which I LOVE

and wanted to show how you can take it 

from a dressed down look

to a dressed up look.

DRESSED DOWN

DRESSED UP

 

 

 Maxi: TJ MAXX  similar here  Shoes: Steve Madden similar here  Top: Nordstrom Rack
Belt: Forever 21 similar here  Bag: Urban Blues similar here