Living the Frugal Life

I've been doing my best to not buy clothes recently. For my standards I've been doing pretty well I think. However, I can not get over the MacAlister Wedge Boots from the crew. I want them so badly. And yes, I could get them for half off, but that's still $100! Definitely too much to justify. Seriously though, I need to start wearing cuter shoes, and ones that I can actually walk around in, and I think these wedges would be perfect. Now they just need to go on sale.

 p.s. One day I'll own all the clothes that I post and then I can take cute pictures of myself wearing them instead of a picture of them.

A Few Christmas Songs...

..I'm listening to while I "study"

"A Very She and Him Christmas" is probably the best Christmas album I've come across. It's perfect. And the first song I have posted is a weird, old, silly song that I can't get out of my head (thanks a lot j.crew).

Wish I was Doing...

School is almost over, and I have so many things that I wish I could be doing instead of studying. All my spare time is spent at school. I'll admit there have been a couple days where I decided I just couldn't focus and instead of actually doing something with that time I just slept.

My apartment is a total mess and I don't even have my little fake Christmas tree out. I'm starting to get a little depressed from spending so much time at school studying about Sufism (don't ask me anything about it, I'm still a little shady on the details myself).

Here are some things I wish I was doing instead:

I recently bought my first sewing machine!!! I couldn't be more excited about it, but guess what? It's still in it's box, not even opened and looked at yet. It's sad. I don't know when I'm going to get time to start on any projects, but I wish I could start making some stylish bowties for the men in my life; and I missed my opportunity to buy this sweater when I had the chance and now it's all gone. BUT, I found a diy tutorial on making my own on Pinterest (don't you love pinterest?) and I'm eager to give it a try. Also, this is the greatest sewing starter book and I want it for myself. I have it checked out from the Lib. but it's due soon (and yes I just copy and pasted the picture from amazon, I'm taking a break from Sufism and don't have time to be profesh).

In lieu of buying a sewing machine I went crazy and bought a crock pot too! (my apt. is littered in boxes) and I haven't used it yet. I keep 'liking' and 'pinning' recipes that I want to try.

If I had my little tree out (it's a little smaller than the one pictured) I'd make a paper bunting to go around it like this one here (also a pinterest find).

Last but not least, this is the coolest ABC book I've come across. The pictures are great and I love each letter and the words. Wish I owned it (and yes, amazon picture again).

I hope you are having fun getting into the spirit of Christmas and actually doing Christmasy things unlike me, who is studying Sufism. They don't even practice Christmas so I can't even learn about how they celebrate it. Lame, huh?

p.s. sorry I didn't post any links. Most things are on my pinterest and you can access that to the right, and the others (the books) are from amazon.

hiatus

As you can tell I haven't posted anything great lately, I've been trying to decide the direction I want my blog to go. And, yes, I have been working on this for a while (and it seems as though I can't stop posting about it) however, it's the end of the semester and sadly school has taken a priority over my blog. It's not right, really. School is the worst and I love blogging, so really I should just switch my priorities, right?

The worst part is I have so many things I want to blog about, but I just don't want to until I am satisfied with my over all blog and I should really focus on school. Although I do have a confession, it is 11:30 at night, I'm at school and came here with the notion that I would be studying, instead I have read blogs, almost bought about 3 pairs of shoes and then decided what I want for christmas from my Mom. I've really got this studying thing down to a science.