DORM-itude!

WE MOVED IN!!!!!

This is our fabulous room!! This is my desk, organized yesterday!
This is my closet...enough Lilly? I've organized it by color and then black sections and the color and black again!
This is the bathroom-ish view of our room. My bed's the pink one and Kathleen's bed is the blue! Above our window, the wall jets out and we have a HUGE "Carolina Gamecocks" banner hanging.
Our little sink. Each room has its own sink and we share a shower and toilet. The rug's from Target and Kathleen and I have a towel on each side of the sink. Hers are blue and mine are...pink.
This is my bed again! The board on my bed is from work and hangs on my closet door!

I'm a little pressed for time, but check back. Sorority stuff starts TONIGHT! Woo Hoo! Updates for sure!!

xxKatie

kenwood lane!

There's this fab new store that I just found online as I was looking for preppy school supplies. I have a cute Lilly photo board and all the "Preppy Collection" stuff from Michael's, but I know I still need more. I'm bringing down a cork board but it really needed some "jazzing up". I didn't want to do anything like paint it or modge podge it (however that's spelled), so I looked up pushpins. In all my searching, I found Kenwood Lane! Become a facebook fan there, I am! Their website it kenwoodlane.com and it is adorable.

Look at how adorable they are! I am obsessed with the pink ones! Not only are they cute and stylish, but the prints have the best names: Pinckney Pink (my favorite pink with white polka dots), Grove Green, Bowdin Blue (too bad the only classmates of mine going there are boy football players!), Brimmer Brown, River Raspberry (my second favorite, but not pictured) and Newbury Navy (my third favorite, the blue with white polka dots).

Also, it gets even better. They come to you, in-get this-CORK!

I know, I didn't think they could get better either. But they do. KWL has an etsy shop that you can get to from the website, and I am definitely going to order some of these little guys. You get 8 pins per pack for only $10. They're handmade and sent to you all wrapped in ribbon.

And I may have found my new favorite quote on their website: "Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

xxKatie

1 Week

There's officially one week until I leave for U of South Carolina! Kathleen and I are hanging out, catching up on life and figuring out a bunch of stuff before we go! This was us at prom! I've packed and everything all ready to go. I'm 99% excited and 1% sad/anxious/nervous, which is good. We just got back from a USC dinner at a local restaurant and the 6 of us had a fab time! We're all just ready to get there and can't believe that its only a week away. Hoping for the best until we go!!!!!

xxKatie and Kathleen

Gift Time!

Back in the winter, I made a gift basket for a friend. Well, I'm heading over to a summer birthday/pool party extravaganza for two friends of mine. One is a gal I work with and another is a girl I ran cross country with since she was a freshman. She kicked my butt! Carley and Mattie are both having this joint birthday, so as I drove home from the beach (that's why I've been so MIA) I thought about what to get them. Then it popped into my head: make gift baskets! Well, I came home, dropped off my stuff, and headed over to Michael's. I figured it would make the best place to get lots of cute stuff AND the most important part of the gift, the basket. When I made my gift basket in December, the holder was the second most expensive item that was part of the gift! Well this was my experience this time.

Step one: tracking down cute (matching) containers for the gifts. I got these aluminum containers with plastic liners. 

Step two: pick out themed basket items for each birthday girl (or princess in my case). As you can see, my beat-up VV tote is lurking in the background!

Step three: organize the gift basket items per birthday princess, for your own help. I got paper products, lollipops and ribbons (and birthday crowns that match each basket!!!) for the baskets.

Step four: get clear or translucent cellophane to wrap the gift baskets in. This is one of the most important steps, because without the protective layer to keep everything in, the items in the baskets will probably fall out. This was the brand I used this time, last time I had ADORABLE clear cellophane with white polka dots from the Party Supply Store. 

Step five: place the unwrapped gift basket in the cellophane, so your folding it "hamburger style". Instead of doing it "hot dog" style, you want the cellophane to be as wide as possible. It seems silly, I know, but it makes a big difference when you gather all of it up with the seams.

 Then you're done! I closed mine with ribbon that matches the basket and added the crowns around the very top of the closure! I think they look fab if I do say so myself!

Not to mention, I did it all for $44.91. That's just over $22 per basket! Try one for your next gift-giving opportunity or swap trade!!

PS. I'm having minor computer troubles with following blogs. I've reported the bugs to apple, but everytime I try to follow a blog, Safari spontaneously shuts down :( As soon as I'm able to follow you guys again, I'll be catching up with my new followers I promise promise promise! Thanks for the new followers!

xxKatie