Weekend Wishes

I'm still in New York and loving every second of it! It's so nice to be spending time with friends and eating our way throughout the city. There is truly nothing like NYC and I hope that one day, even for a short while I can live there and experience the whole entire city. I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend filled with all the best {family, friends and adventures}. Enjoy! xox

Smoothies

Good morning! I can't believe it's Thursday already, I am off to New York City for the next two days to celebrate a friend's birthday and I can't wait. Before I leave, however, I wanted to tell you all about my newest fad... smoothies!

Even though the smoothie fad has been around for many years, it wasn't until this week that  I actually realized how great and delicious they are. My mom has a ton of frozen fruit in the freezer so I mixed strawberries, and pineapple with fresh carrot and fresh spinach into our blender and had an amazing smoothie. It's the perfect way to get a lot of servings of fruits and veggies in one yummy drink. In addition, I tend to be an all day snacker, I'm ALWAYS hungry and the smoothie filled me up for hours which was awesome! I'll post again with some of my new smoothie recipes soon. 

Do you drink smoothies and what are your go to fruits and veggies to add?

Have a great day! xox

New, New, New

{Matchbook Magazine * Anthopologie Stripe Shirt, Anthropologie Necklace, Anthropologie Shirt * Lilly Planner, Cheetah Planner, Inslee Calendar} 

With the new year comes new magazine issues, and shows, new seasonal clothes and my favorite part... the planners and calendars. The new issue of Matchbook Magazine was released only a few days ago and it is another fabulous issue! I love everything from the article on La France and all of the adorable clothing, accessory and household picks for any personality. 

I was amazed at how quickly stores take their winter clothes from the stores and have spring and summer everything already. Thats not such a bad thing though, it just means that I can admire all of the new clothes and pick some new favorites.

And the most important part of the new year... the planners and calendars! I always love picking my new planner, it has to have enough room to write all of my homework down and have calendar pages throughout to fit my long term schedule. 

What are your favorite parts of the new year? 

xox

OOTD - Preppy

Sweater - J.Crew, Chambray - J. Crew,

 Jeans - Zara, Boots - Anne Klein {old},

 Bag- Louis Vuitton

Now that the weather in New England is getting much colder, and I'm going to be out walking my campus in only a couple of weeks, I begin layering to keep warm. Wearing a button down of any kind {chambray, white, patterned button downs} with a sweater on top is such a cute and preppy combination and one that is sure to keep warm. I tend to wear more classic pieces but it's just as easy to pair a patterned or bright color button down with a warm and cozy sweater. Here are some other chic and classic combinations... 

For the warmer days...

What are your go to warm winter layers? 

xox

Weekend Wishes

It seems like the week just began but it's the weekend already! Have any of you read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn? The book was amazing and I couldn't put it down for most of the week. This weekend I am going to see Les Miserables with some friends from high school and then we are going out to dinner. In the meantime I am going to be reading another book that my mom got me for Christmas and working through a huge To-Do list of things that I must get completed before going back to school. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend {and are just as chic and cozy as the fabulous outfit above}! 

xox

Fresh Start: Organizing The Closet

It was back to work and school for everyone in my family today, except for me. I still have so much time left before going back to school and I have to admit, there was a part of yesterday that I was walking around looking for things to do. I found something... cleaning my closet became my afternoon task. I am usually such a neat freak but when I come home from school my closet always gets a little bit messy, not anymore! There were unfolded clothes everywhere {I usually like to have everything separated by season and style} and bags and shoes were in disarray. 

After only 30 minutes of folding and cleaning I feel like I have a new closet! I found some clothes that I didn't even know I had at home {I still have half of my clothes at school}. I keep all of my pants and shirts and some sweaters folded and I have dresses, skirts, long sweaters and jackets all hung up on the other side of the closet. 

I displayed my shoes so I can see the front and back of each pair and I lined up boots in a row. I folded and hung my Longchamp bags {such a genius design} and hung my scarves as well.

The other section needed a lot of refolding and separating... I was able to divide my summer and winter clothes {finally} and keep my shirts, pants and sweaters for the winter separated from the workout clothes. Dividing everything makes it so much easier to see! 

Hope you have a wonderful day! xox

Classic Camel

Good Morning everyone! Happy New Year to you all. 

This past year I acquired two cashmere camel sweaters and I have to say I have been wearing them on repeat ever since I got them. Camel is a classic color that can literally go with anything and I've been pairing my sweaters with everything from black pants to jeans and skirts. The best part about wearing such a classic color is that accessories and layers in bright colors can spice up an outfit quickly. There are times that I will spend the whole day in the library in a cashmere and jeans and then quickly change before going out to dinner into black pants, a colorful scarf and fabulous jewels and I'm good to go! 

Love the colorful accents and jewels!

Sleek and sophisticated.

This combination is very classic but the stripes add an element of fun! 

Have a wonderful day! xox