Danielle: A Short Story

This is the story of a girl, who cried a river and drowned the whole world.... Just kidding, but hey I love that song!

Okay so maybe I'm a day late and a dollar short on this post, but what the heck, I thought I might as well join in with Jenni for blog every day in May (which there's no way I'll be doing! lol). Yesterday's prompt was your life story in 250 words or less.  Here is my (very) short story:

I was born July 25,1991 to two parents who don't go together whatsoever. They got a divorce when I was just a year old.

My mom got remarried when I was 4 and they had my sister 9 months later. My dad got remarried when I was 6, and then again when I was 9. They had my little brother, and three years later had my baby sister.

I started dancing at the age of 5, and in my second year of dance I began competing. Most of my memories growing up were from dancing. It was my passion and my entire life.

In middle school, I was in BETA and on the dance team.

I was also on the dance team in high school, but i quit my junior year to be more focused on competing.
High school is where I found my three best friends.

After graduating high school, I decided to go to SELU, and major in business because I always thought I wanted to own my own dance studio.

Soon after college started, I met the guy of my dreams.

I went away to Orlando for a semester to work for Disney World.

I got back to Louisiana, and fell in love with Jesus. Larry and I began a Christ-centered relationship and got engaged. We started planning a wedding. We got a puppy. We bought a house. 

I will graduate with a bachelor's in business management in just two short weeks and our wedding is 79 days. July 20, 2013 is when the story of us will begin.

Sorry that I don't have any outfit posts for y'all this week! I had pictures of two but I decided I didn't like one of the outfits, and the pictures of the other outfit were just terrible and didn't do the outfit justice.  My bridal shower is this weekend (yay!!) and next week is my last week of classes (EVER.), so after that I should be back to a normal blogging schedule... hopefully!!

Thrift Tip

My thrift tip today is for those like me who may become addicted to thrifting. You also should keep this in mind even if you aren't addicted.

Don't buy something just because it's a few dollars!!

You will end up with so many items in your closet that have either been worn once, or not at all. I know this from experience! I'm working on only buying items that I love, and not just saying "oh this is kinda cute, it's only $3, I'll get it." Those $3 add up!

These pictures are from a trip to the Goodwill a couple of days ago and I did good. I found a lot of items that were just okay, but I didn't settle.

Banana Republic Button Up: I liked the color of it, but something about the collar I just didn't like. Isn't that how a men's button up collar is supposed to be?

Purple Old Navy Shorts: These were just a little big on me and could have worked, but again, I need to stop buying things that are just okay.

This top would have been cute with some khaki shorts... or now that I'm thinking of it, it would look good with my yellow jeans. Oh poop. Maybe I should have gotten it?
Lace Heels: These were practically new. They looked like they may have been worn once. Thing is, they were 1/2 a size too big. I carried them around in the store debating if I should get them and just add some little heel pads to make them fit. I stopped myself though. Gahh the shape of them were just so cute! Gap Tee: This Gap t-shirt fit good, but I'm just not a red person, unless it's on my lips. I also love fitted t-shirts like this, but I just rarely wear them. Loft Shorts (tags still on them): The face in this picture explains these shorts. They were just weird. I could not even figure them out. J. Crew Shorts: These weren't as orange as they look in the picture, they were more red... but as you seem they were just a little big. The shirt in the picture was way too big too and shear and I didn't have an undershirt on so a picture would have been a little inappropriate. 

Ps. Someone please contact Firmoo and let them know I need some new glasses!

coral blazer

LC Lauren Conrad Blazer: Kohl's $24  (was $30-but had gift card money leftover & a 20% off coupon) Lace Top: Forever 21, Old Jeans: TJ Maxx $10 Heels: Charlotte Russe $12.50 (clearance) Bracelets and Earrings: Gifted Total Outfit Cost: $46.50 A couple weeks ago I stopped at Kohl's because I had a gift card from Christmas. I'm not usually a designer gal, but ya'll... I LOVE Lauren Conrad's line. I knew I would end up spending my gift card on something from her line. I almost didn't get this coral blazer because I thought the boyfriend jeans and a pretty tank were more practical at the time. Well I didn't have enough on my gift card to get it, but the kind lady behind me used her retail me not app and gave me a 20% off coupon! Heck yes I was getting it then! I'm so glad I got it. I'm usually not one to re-wear the same things often, but I've already worn this blazer 3 times in the 2 weeks I've had it. I could wear it everyday. I have SO many outfit ideas for it! It was definitely worth my $24 and totally applies to my $20 rule.  By the way! Kohl's is offering my readers a 10% off  online coupon code that can be used to stack savings on top of other codes! It expires May 10th. Use code: BLOGS10 at checkout!
Linking up with: Random Wednesday, What I Wore Wednesday, & Transatlantic Blonde

the birthday girl

Rue 21 Dress: Goodwill $4.99

Candie's Blazer: Dirt Cheap $7

Wedges: Goodwill $3.49

Total Outfit Cost: $15.48

Today is Sista Goodwillista's 17th Birthday! Man I wish I was that pretty at 17! She is such an awesome sister, best friend, and maid of honor. I have to say that life sure would have been boring growing up without her! We had our fights growing up, but I wouldn't have traded them for anything because our friendship is better than ever now. I love you sista.

Happy Birthday Alyssa! 

I got her the Pitch Perfect soundtrack and oh man I can't wait to jam out in the car with her!
Acca-awesome!

LBD

Dress & Belt: Charming Charlie, Gift Carded

Heels: Shoe Station (clearance) $10

Total Outfit Cost: $10

My sister and I had each gotten a couple gift cards to Charming Charlie this past Christmas. She used some of hers to buy this gorgeous blue dress. After seeing how cute she was in it, I went back and got it in black. There were all different colors in it, but I chose black because doesn't every girl need a little black dress (LBD)? I thought that if I got black that I'd get more wear out of it. I was wrong. This is only the second time I've worn this dress. I'm pretty simple when it comes to shoes. I buy colors that can go with everything, so I don't have some awesome colored heels to fun-up this outfit. I'm just not much of an all black wearing person. Why am I having trouble with a girls' necessity?

How else could I wear this dress?

PS. I normally HATE wearing my hair straight, but I was shockingly having a great hair day!

Okay.. I almost fell on the steps, and decided to pull it off and pose, but what is that face??

save the date

I'm so excited to finally show y'all our save the date!!

Larry and I's friend MJ is a graphic design major, so he designed us these FO FREE. 

The picture is one of our engagement photos (taken by the amazing Tate Tullier).

So wanna know how cheap they were? 

Well I ordered them from Snapfish and at the time they were having a promotion for 5 cent 4x6 prints, SCORE! We hadn't quite finished the guest list yet so I order 200 matte 4x6 prints just to be safe (way too many). So with tax and shipping they came out to a whole $18! 

We ordered the 4x6 envelopes from Amazon for $22 for 200.

The total for 200 save the dates was only $40! So cheap!

So when someone tells you it's too expensive to send out save the dates, tell them their crazy and do what I did!

(I only ended up sending out about 100, so postage was like another $50, still not bad!)

Here are some of the other save the date options MJ gave me... Aren't they all great??

wrinkly

Jacket: Old Navy Gifted

Top: Old Navy Gift Carded

Skirt: Old Navy Gift Carded (on sale for $12!)

Sandals: Ross $16

Total Outfit Cost: $16

My mom says that wrinkly isn't a word. She says that I shouldn't say my shirt is wrinkly, instead wrinkled. Nahh. Wrinkly. My shirt is wrinkly in this picture.

So I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm pretty smart when it comes to spending gift cards. I always buy stuff that I know I can't/won't be able to find at a thrift store. I have gift carded my yellow pants, my purple pants, a perfect little black dress, and my trusty fedora. For Easter, the Easter Bunny brought me a dark chambray shirt from Old Navy. It was too big, so I decided to return it. I also was wanting a lighter chambray anyways. Old Navy didn't have the color chambray I wanted, but it did have this striped skirt (on sale whoop whoop) and this top (also on sale!). 

I've been wanting this skirt since I saw Lynette in this outfit. I was excited to get it with my merchandise credit and on sale. Then after I saw this shirt and put it on with the skirt, I almost had her outfit! Go check her out by the way. She's flippin gorgeous and her style is so pretty and polished.