Christmas Wishlist 2013!

"it's the most wonderful time of the year!" yay!! to me, it really is the best time of year! cold weather, cardigans and scarves, family time, food time and poker on new year's eve time! :) Christmas is just over a month away and that means it's time for a Christmas wishlist!!

1. "Few of My Favorite Things" palette by Too Faced
this palette is a Sephora exclusive for $56! omg! it comes with lots of shadows, two blushes, two bronzers, a mini mascara AND one of the lip injection color bomb sticks! (which i've been wanting to try!) i've done my research and heard lots of great things about all of the products, and i believe it even comes with a cute pink and gold chevron patterned make up bag!

2. Buxom Shimmer & Shake Show Stopping Gloss Collection
this set of 15 lip polishes and lip creams from Buxom is $59 at Sephora! i die! the set includes several lip glosses i've wanted to purchase, including the "Katie" gloss! which, obviously, is a must have for me! :) i love the scent and feel of these glosses, minty and plumping! you'll never run out of choices, and with 15 of these babies, you'll never run out of product either! ha!

3. Monogram Keychain from Swoozies
yeah.. this is just precious, and my key chain is missing it, so i pretty much need it! ;) of course, i'd have to get the "hot pink" color option!

4. Acrylic State Pendant Necklace
okay, i can't even!! bauble bar has me pretty much obsessed with any and everything on their website! at this point, it's basically a necessity that i show some love to my home state while living in tennessee! while i do love living in chattanooga, i also love being a georgia girl, and i love letting everyone know it, too! ha! :) i think i'd have to go with the rose gold chain on this necklace, and the "frost" color for the little state of georgia!

5. Michael Kors Runway Logo Rose Gold Watch
omg! this thing is perfection! i've wanted an MK watch for years now, and it just so happens that my current rose gold oversized watch is changing color and looking more and more like stainless steel =/ ha! i'm pretty much obsessed with the big "MK" in the middle of all those sparkles!! i've found the best prices for this rose gold watch are all on eBay! ugh, i'm so in love with it!!

so there you have it! my typical wishlist of makeup and accessories! :) i've also come to the conclusion that i'm just going to need a Sephora gift card, too! i just have way too many little things in my online shopping cart in there! they kill me! lol.. sephora x polishes, clinique bottom lash mascara, urban decay lipsticks, plus lots more! :)

maybe you got some ideas for YOUR Christmas wishlist from me :) of course i don't expect everyone to run out looking to buy these items for me, but i do enjoy making these types of blogs, just to share things that i've been lusting over for quite some time! :) hope everyone has a fabulous thanksgiving and Christmas this year!! :)

puppy love :)

a basket of peaches?

okay, i haven't blogged in an insanely extended amount of time.. but i want to say something. it may be short, it may get wordy, we'll see how things go..

i just want to say that life my not be a basket of peaches, and it's not even a box of chocolates (sometimes you do know what you're gonna get, and it's that one filled with coconut!) ..anyway, life can be difficult, miserable, frustrating, heartbreaking, etc etc. but like someone said, those famous words (which i won't bother to google from whom they came right meow), "it goes on." it does go on, and sometimes that in itself is what makes life suck. and there are days, maybe a lot of days in a row, where you can't see any light, you don't feel any hope and you think you're stuck in the black hole forever ..that's simply not true. having a single good day out of 100 rotten days proves that untrue. having said that, i know, without a doubt, that telling yourself things 'will get better' when they're awful can, sometimes, literally do absolutely nothing to ease your pain. those are your damn near impossible days. but your run of the mill "bad" day will come along, and maybe you'll see a tiny speck of light, maybe you'll smile once that day and it'll feel comforting and familiar, let yourself embrace it, and know that one day there will be more. there will be more smiles and laughter, and more comfort and solace, and maybe just a bit of happiness...

this probably sounds like a jumble, and i should go back and find better ways of explaining those things, but that's what came out, so there you have it. have hope. take heart. even when you can't even begin to tell yourself those things, do it anyway. when thinking about better days doesn't make you feel any less hurt or miserable, just know that they'll be there. press forward through the impossible, because, whether you believe it or not, impossible is not as resilient, not as strong as you are. impossible can't last forever. it'll give up and shrivel away and bite the dust, leaving you far ahead.

"I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. in this world you will have trouble. but take heart! I have overcome the world."
-john 16:33