Katie Rudder South Carolina I'm a Senior Marketing major with a minor in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at University of South Carolina! Go Gamecocks! In addition to writing Let's Be Preppy, I am active in the Carolina community, work at a South Carolina Lilly Pulitzer store, serve as an marketing intern for the American Red Cross and lead tours for prospective students at USC. Any questions or comments? Email me: katie@letsbepreppy.com
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We will have the bubbly on ice and ready to go to one of my favorite restaurants and bars tonight for the big 22!
I am so excited to be turning 22! 21 was a great year that I will be sad to say goodbye to, but 22 has so much in store that I'm very much looking forward to what the new year has in store!
A big thanks to my parents, sister, the Bitties, my coworkers, my readers, and everyone else who has been a part of the last year and made it so special!
Thanks for always being there for us! We are the luckiest fam to have you as our Dad and fearless leader! I can't wait to see you in a few days and celebrate the real way!
So the Let's Be Preppy 5th birthday was a HUGE hit! A huge thanks to everyone who helped make it possible!
We were able to showcase the new Pink Sorbet renovations too, during the celebrations!
Our birthday spread was chock full of goodies to share with everyone!
My sweet Momma surprised me with cookies from a local bakery, Pink Magnolia Bakery, all the way in SC! The girls at Pink Magnolia seriously make the BEST cookies so it was MUCH to my delight that my Mom got them for us! How perfectly perfect are they?!?!?!
I had a bunch of fun pink drinkware that I brought with me to celebrate with!
We even celebrated with LBP Cruiseys too!
My boss surprised me with this Let's Be Preppy cake! Can you believe it?! Do you recognize that from a certain header and Facebook cover photo? I was obsessed. I was speechless for a few minutes because I really had NO idea that this was coming!!! Floor, surprised, shocked, honored, doesn't even begin to describe the feeling when I saw this cake!
This birthday was among the most fun I have been able to plan and celebrate! Thank you to my readers, friends, boss, co-workers, bakery, Mom and everyone else who had a hand in this wonderful day!!!
You could say it's changed a little...but not the height!!
I'm sorry this is a day late, but Blogger was big time malfunctioning Thursday night!!
I love you! You're the most stylish, fun, fabulous, prettiest, best to hang around with, and "the nicest, sweetest, coolest girl at the pageant!" (Miss Congeniality if y'all didn't catch that!)
Summer is good for a lot of things: re-evaluating, starting fresh, getting serious (or not), catching up, catching sun, cleaning (or not), clothes collection, tons of stuff. It's also great for learning what you like. I've learned a lot about myself this summer, some of which are my absolute-no-matter-where-you-live-must-haves:
1. Front Runner and Most-Compliment-Getter of the summer, ladies and gents I present you with, Sinful Colors Pink Forever 313:
Never in my life have I gotten as many compliments on my nail color (weird thing to notice, am I right?) as I've gotten wearing this puppy. Might be the best $1.99 I've spent, at Happy Harry's nonetheless, all summer long.
I'm a FIRM believer in the 5'' shorts (Michael if you're reading this you can laugh at the 3 vs. 5 inch debate we had a million years ago) and Lilly does it particularly well. I have 2 pairs from last summer and have added 3 pairs this summer that I adore. They're the tall girl's short shorts...
Along those same lines, I've hit it big with this shirt. I WAY missed the boat with the navy and didn't snatch it up in time, but I have the white and the pink and I try to convince people to at least try it on daily. If you don't have a Wiley grab one "wiley" you still can!
I have never been a makeup girl. I'm a get up and go girl. Until this summer when I was diagnosed with adult acne. Sista needed a little help and the lovely ladies at Clinique did exactly what I needed and fast. I've relied on this with Sephora Brand Primer and it's great!
4. Croakies, Croakies, and more Croakies
If you give a girl a croakie...
5. Ke$ha
New K-E-Dollah-Sign-HA (as Glee's principal says) fave. We'll say Kesha and I have connected. Because we're the likeliest of pairs...I like it!
6. Steamers:
I steam a lot at work. We get new shipments in weekly and they all need to be freshened and given a bit of life after they come out of the boxes! We joke with our UPS men that they're always delivering gifts to us! I love to steam all of our goodies and have started browsing them with my boss for our own personal use...professional grade steamers...for our personal use...you know you work in retail when.
7. Movies:
Although not my favorite of the summer movies I've seen, I've seen a bunch and have a hankering to go to one this weekend. Not sure which one, but I want to go to a movie, and veg out for 2 hours in someone else's way too cold AC. Sounds so nice after these summer steamy days we've been having!
8. Shopping for formal dresses (that I don't need):
I literally have ZERO need for a floor-length or remotely dressy dress. I don't go to proms anymore, I'm not in a sorority and don't have formal, and none of my friends are having black-tie weddings, so I'm at a loss. Does it stop me from fancy dress shopping? Absolutely not.
9. Carolina Gamecocks
No matter where I am, I'm cheering for the Gamecocks. Having been through this week, I think this is enough said.
It has never been easier to connect with Gamecocks, alumni, school friends, Lilly lovers, random friends from high school, Charlestonians, bridal companies, and so many other people than through Twitter! I have had a blast using it and learning it's ways--and tweeting my way through the College World series!
I know how vain and everything this all must sound, but like I said 1 month ago, I take birthdays (both my own and my friends') very seriously. I think they're great, I mean a day or longer to celebrate one of your most favorite people? I wish I could get my act together and figure out how many peoples' birthdays I celebrated/was a part of (beyond the facebook "happy birthday!!" comment) in 2010. That sure would be fun to know. Anyway, today is my 20th birthday! Two decades spanning over 2 centuries, 3 presidents, 4 schools (including kindergarten) in 14 years, 6 feet (high), 1 stuffed animal, 3 decades, 1 national championship (haha I wanted to sound like a coach), 5 "real" jobs, and some of the best people a girl could ask to be surrounded by!
xxKatie
P.S.: Also happy birthday to one of the most famous people EVER: Elvis Presley! My mom always sends me something funny about Elvis every year! Last year it was a magnet, I've had cards too!
In an attempt to be optimistic about my finals predicament, I painted my nails with Essie's "Happily Ever After". Last week a friend's boyfriend texted me to thank me for helping him out this summer, and I told him that it wasn't a problem and that I just enjoy a good happy ever after. I'm studying my booty off currently (thank goodness for scheduled posts!) for Community Health, Management Science, Logic (ahh) and Accounting (ahh). I'm sure you can tell which one I'm more stressed about! Say a little exam week prayer for me!
