The Buttery Leather

The gorgeous A. Wang brenda zip chain bag that retails for $725 and the Converse One Star crossbody bag at Target for

$19.99.

The latter is faux leather, but surprisingly has that super soft leather feel to it.

After X-Mas Sale

Urban Outfitters had 50% off their sale items this past weekend.

I scrounged through the messy racks & mixed up shoes and it paid off.

I found the left shoe inside the shoe box and tried to play it cool while looking for the missing right shoe. It was the only one in the store & it was in my size!

It's just the higher and suede version of my J. Campbell Starburst, but I love it for its subtle differences.

They're currently on sale at UO for 129.99.

White elephant

Last Friday, I went to the first white elephant where no one stole gifts from one another. Shows you how kind my friends are eh?

We had a potluck/white elephant/girls night out.

At Thuy's place. It was cute & cozy.

Opening gifts--these were the beautiful collages Thuy made for us

Draaanks

Couldn't ask for better company.

I can't wait to use my neck massager. =)

Thanks for everything ladies

Best Gift Ever!

Thanks to Sis, Ron, BF, and parents.

Black on Black

No matter how much I try to overhaul the crap that's in my room, I always fail! It doesn't help that I'm adding stuff constantly. But my goal is to weed out the stuff I seldom wear and stick to shoes/jackets/tops I can wear over and over again.

Hence, I got these.

Wanted this, but didn't get:

pictures via forever21.com

Giveaways

It seems like every site I visit lately is doing a giveaway....and some of the prizes are crazy sweet! However, until I actually win one giveaway in my life, I can't be too excited. Nonetheless, giveaways are a great way to give back this holiday season. =) So thank you bloggers!

-Go to Style with Benefits site to enter to win a cozy sweater. She just got the alexa wedges I want. Gaaa.

-Then there's this. One of my daily reads & if I were to win that, her blog will be my homepage.

And I heard fabsugar.com will be giving away THE ultimate handbag. A classic! I can only guess that it's the Chanel 2.55. If it is, it'd probably be the holy grail of giveaways.

Bday Weekend

On Friday, ate great Jamaican food and hung out with friends. Happy Birthday to my bestie Felisa & the other birthday girl Rosemarie.

On Saturday, my sis and her family along with Zach took me out to Sonoma & Napa for grubbin' and rubbin' (as in a spa massage).

Today, spent time with my immediate family for more grubbin and some shopping.

Ended the day with this:

Best cake to date!

Best company to end my weekend with.

On my actual BDAY, however, will be at work and school for 11 hours straight.

Getting old sucks.