It has arrived!

This month's box of goodies includes

Petite Cherie perfume - packing this for Europe!

Essie nail polish - love it!

Oil blotting papers - always handy

A no-dent hair scrunchie

Tarte lipsurgence natural lip tint

I'm pretty excited!!!

Travel Monday

The last stop on my whirlwind tour through Europe will be a day trip to Tallinn, Estonia.

I'll be staying for 13 days in Helsinki, Finland with a good friend (getting ready for her wedding!).  During our stay there we're planning on heading over to Stockholm, and at my sister's suggestion we may take an afternoon and explore Tallinn, Estonia.

Here are some beautiful pictures of the city!  Looks like a beautiful place to spend an afternoon!

Crafty Crafty!

So I got bit by the crafting bug pretty hard...

Something about the warm weather, bright sunshine, and pretty pastels has me eager to change the decor in the apartment...unfortunately the urge to spring clean is yet to rear it's ugly head, but I fear it's coming soon.

Last week I saw on Pinterest where you take little dixie cups, wrap scrap paper around them and put them over a string of lights to make your own little lanterns...

I made them and 1) they were a pain and 2) they looked ugly as a whole strand of them were hung up...

Then I saw on Pinterest where you could make yarn Easter Eggs out of thread, water balloons, and liquid starch.  (all 3 things I did NOT have and took FOREVER to find - thank you Siri for telling me where to find Liquid Starch)

So...this is what I came up with by combining the two crafts...I'm not totally unhappy with the end result, but mark my words I will NEVER attempt either of those crafts again!  (You're welcome, Matt)

Photo A Day

March 15 - Car

Ok, so it may not be my car...but filling up today I just couldn't believe how high gas is!!!

Warm weather!

Spring has sprung and it's clearly taking a toll in regards to my recent shopping trips! Without realizing it I came home from the grocery store with 4 marinades! It's about time to break out the grill...and the best part? We are only one short month away from having the boat back on the water so start planning a trip to see us now!!

Birchbox

Take a look around...

BIRCHBOX

For only $10 per month you can get 4-5 hand-picked samples delivered to your house!  I just finished my beauty profile today and I'm excited to see what I'll be getting in the mail.  Don't want to try it out for a whole year?  They have awesome options to pay month by month.  Looking for a unique gift for someone?  There is are 3, 6 and 12 month opportunities to sign up and have the boxes shipped to someone else!  I'll update once I get my first shipment, but I'm pretty excited if you can't tell!!!

Travel Monday - Excitement is building!

I'm pretty sure the topic of traveling has become a constant in our marriage.  Every day something comes up and we mention our trip!

This is BIG my friends...BIG!

Ever since I can remember, Matt has always said that the only way he would travel some place far away was if it were for a beach...vacation...relaxation...I get it, I get it...

I also was the one who always said if I was going to travel it would be some place with history and art so I could spend all day immersed in a new culture, exploring and taking things in.

When we first started talking about our honeymoon I saw it as the perfect opportunity to get Matt to Europe...he saw it as the perfect opportunity to get me to a tropical beach for a week of relaxing.

Ok...so Matt won this one...

Clearly I won too...

(P.S - get me back on that boat with one of those drinks...asap...thanks)

Anyways...now here we are, almost a year later (what?  yeah...do the math...) and we find ourselves planning that trip that I have DREAMED of...

Last night Matt and I went shopping (ok, I shopped all day and Matt met me at night after he was done golfing...rough life we're living, I know...)

What were our big purchases?

Target travel aisle got me good...they had a lot of stuff that I've been eyeing on clearance! Matt had the chance to get a new pair of kicks (which I quickly exclaimed "those will be GREAT for Europe") and he got some new shirts too...

Bottom line, this trip is so close I can almost feel the hustle of the airport, and the foreign languages, and the gelato, and the straight-from-a-horror-movie hostels.

This was my most exciting travel purchase today...

*A side bag for sight-seeing around a city.  This is useful for those days that you don't have all of your luggage on your back and you're going to be gone from your hostel/hotel for the entire day.  You want it to fold up pretty small so it doesn't take up too much space in your luggage.  Also you don't want a back pack or a purse (unless you plan on wearing your small backpack on your stomach - like I did my first trip to Europe) because you want to be able to see your stuff at all times and a regular purse can 1) get heavy and 2) be easy for a pickpocket to slice the bottom and get all of your stuff.

Evidence - on top of the eiffel tower - one of the pics I forgot to take off my backpack...I kid you not, I walked around Europe for over 2 weeks like this...that's why I went with a side purse (satchel?) for this trip!  Make fun...I can laugh at this too!

4 months from now I'll be in Europe!  Yikes!   :)