Exciting News!

Hey guys! It's Ally. After looking at the awesomeness of the whippycake blog, and considering I now have more free time on my hands...we will be featuring more videos....pet blogs, kid quotes, and much more beauty and rumor. I promise to show you the perverted local florist windows and take you on a tour of Mayberry!!! I am so excited to get out there and make more videos. All this crappy weather has given me Spring fever!! I need something fun to do....so be on the lookout the next few weeks!

I leave you with a 7 year old's review on the new Bath and Body works Hand Sanitizer:

Me: This stuff smells amazing..just like the beach!
7 Year Old: It smells like death.

-Think warm thoughts!
Love,
Ally

Whippycake is Amazing!

All of this snow has been bumming everyone out. I LOVE snow....until after Christmas. Then it seems like January and February are just here to bore and depress us. Today I got an email from a company I was waiting impatiently to hear from all last year. Whippycake. Whippycake is a website where you can design your own headbands using fabric flowers. They are AMAZING. I was so excited to see the Spring and French inspired materials and designs. These are very unique, like nothing you could find locally. I found out about them way too late last year and they had sold out of their Fall/Winter collection. I made sure I got some  things from their most recent designs. The website is great too, it includes fabulous tutorials and beautiful photography of the models wearing their flowers in different ways. That was another thing that was really exciting about this years designs-they now have clips on the back so you can wear them on your shirt, purse, belt, hair, headbands. AWESOME SAUCE!!!!!! I almost peed my pants looking over the new designs. And the designer is the cutest thing ever! Her name is Becki Crosby and she has the cutest style. She also seems really kind from her blogs. She is always helping out the sick and people down on her luck. She just seems to have a really good heart, which makes me feel even better about supporting her!

Check out her stuff here

Grey and Coral?

I went to the mall Friday and was not expecting to see anything Springy yet. I LOVE Spring! I start getting excited for Spring the day after Christmas. I have a hard time waiting. The only thing that tides me over is the release of early Spring nail polish. This year, I am SUPER excited because China Glaze, Opi, and Essie all have AMAZING Spring collections. You can check out the swatches and color descriptions for China Glaze Anchors Away, which is full of fun colors at chicprofile.com Chic Profile is my go to website to find out what is up and coming in makeup and nail polish. They also have a good blog about the upcoming Opi Texas Collection. I am so stoked. I grew up in Central Texas and I love that I know all the places the names are talking about. Not to mention all the fabulous greens coming out in these collections!
Anywho, I digress. At the mall, stores like Ann Taylor and Charlotte Russe had already put out Spring inspired fashions. What struck me about both is that there was a large amount of navy blue paired with white and orange ( I caved and bought a giant orange flower pin to put on a navy sweater) and coral mixed with gray. While I would have never thought to pair orange and navy together, (except maybe at a UVA game) I especially would never have thought to pair grey with coral. The combination was the perfect transition from Winter into Spring. I also found that these colors are universally flattering. My Snow whitey self can wear them, but so can Chelle who is more olive skinned.
I was also really excited to see a lot of Parisian inspired fashioned including stripes! I love stripes. I also loved the comeback of giant flower pins on everything!!! And bows!!!! I would definitely check out Charlotte Russe  and Ann Taylor for inspiration. Seeing all of these great outfit ideas made me really excited for Spring to hurry up and get here!!!!