Free Goodies!

Alright, who doesn't love a bunch of free makeup products and goodies?!
No one!
At least, not anyone who is sane. :)
Valentine Kisses is doing a huge giveaway. Go check it out and enter for your chance to win 60 brand new beauty items. The contest is open internationally and closes October 16th.
Hurry! Run over to her blog and check it out! I release you!

Click here to check out her blog giveaway and enter!

I have some new updates that I'll post later today.

We'll catch up soon, blog universe.

-Abby D

Whaaaaaa...

I had a pumpkin shake from Culver's tonight. It was delicious.

But it did not agree with me. Might have to do with all that dairy.

Well, hello Febreeze, meet stinky bathroom.

I just love pumpkin so much!

Just Another Manic Monday

Yesterday, I woke up with a cold... at least I thought so. Stuffed, runny nose, sore throat, the whole shebang. However, today, it seems to have disappeared. Maybe allergies? I guess we'll have to see. (My boyfriend has been suffering from a cold for the past two weeks. The poor boy. :/) Keep your fingers crossed! I would really like to not have to deal with one more added stress right now. School is starting to kick into high gear now that we're on week 5 and I work full-time, plus I'm trying to keep my apartment from looking like a tornado went through it. Today, my boyfriend and I actually scheduled a weekend in October where we are not going to make any plans. We made plans to not make any plans. Haha. But life is so busy and hectic as of lately, that a weekend to do entirely nothing is exactly what we need. Sigh. The cruelty of being an adult. What I wouldn't give for childhood...
Speaking of childhood! Yesterday, Sunday, my sisters and I went to see The Lion King in 3D. The 3D part was simply, eh, but the movie was as good as I remembered it to be. :) I'll have to admit, I got a little teary-eyed when Mufasa died and Simba ran away. As an adult, I can read so much more into the movie than I was capable as a youngster. Sitting in the theater, we could hear children asking their parents, "Why? Why did he die?" "Why is Scar being mean?" It was darling to hear, but such difficult questions to really answer. Just something to think about, I guess...
Saturday night, I had both of my sisters over for a little bonding time. Earlier that day at Wal-Mart, we picked up some facial masks. Freeman Feeling Beautiful Masks & Scrubs. We picked up the small packets instead of the actual bottles. We bought quite a few of these; pink grapefruit scrub, pineapple enzyme mask, mint & lemon clay mask, and the avacado & oatmeal clay mask just being a few.

You can find these at your local drugstore or Wal-Mart, or buy online here.
The avacado & oatmeal clay mask is the mask I chose to use. "This rich clay mask, with added Oatmeal and Vitamin E, draws out excess oils and dirt, purging clogged pores, leaving your skin clean and soft." I suffer from extremely large pores on my cheeks and nose so I figured this would be a great way to prep my skin for some deep cleaning. The instructions are: "Apply mask to face and neck. Let dry and rinse with warm water." It states something about keeping away from eyes, but I figure anyone who is semi-intelligent can figure this out. But anyways, following the instructions I applied the mask to my face. And even though it was a small packet, there was still a ton of product inside. Enough so that I only used half of the packet and saved the rest for another occasion. So after applying a generous amount of the mask all over my face, I let it dry. It dried completely in about five minutes and I left in on for about another 12 minutes or so. Just to make sure it really sunk in and got deeeppp into mah pores!!! Then I rinsed with warm water. And voila! While I can't really say for sure whether or not it "purged" my pores, it did leave my skin feeling as soft as a baby's bottom. I'm excited to try out the other packets we bought, I'll have to let you know how those go as well. Would I recommend this product? For $1.97 each, hell yes! It's a quick pick-me-up for your skin and nothing makes a woman feel more attractive than having radiant skin. :)

Hope you had a good Monday, blog universe.

-Abby D

A Beautiful Fall Day

So today, my sister and and I got to spend some quality time together. There's a fall festival going on in our town, so we decided to go explore that. Besides getting there, (traffic was terrible, I lost my cool a few times) we really enjoyed ourselves! There were lots of booths with neat little crafts in them and of course some delicious yum yums. :) And the weather was perfect!

We started off our day by eating some frozen yogurt at Yo-Yos. My concoction was birthday cake with a little chocolate and strawberry with gummy bears and sprinkles. :) It was delicious!

After we got to the festival, we saw a "pickle-on-a-stick" stand... my sister and I love pickles! So of course, we had to have a pickle-on-a-stick.

We wandered around for another hour or so and by this time, we needed some more food! So we got ourselves a funnel cake. We split it between the two of us and we still couldn't finish it. But it was yummy. :)



My sister and I. :) Such a wonderful day!




Have a nice night, blog universe.

-Abby D

Let me introduce myself...

So this is the universe of blogging, eh? I'm new at this, so please, bear with me. :)
First of all, my name is Abby and like my "About Me" says, I'm from a small town in Indiana. I was born and raised here and even though sometimes it is drop dead boring to live here, it's my home. We do things like go to high school football games and have bonfires and cornmazes to entertain ourselves. However, even though this is the country, there are still a few of us fashionistas running around. Do I really call myself a fashionista? No, not really. I'm not that glamorous. There are days when I run around in sweatpants with greasy hair and no makeup. (Please, do not judge me! I love my sweatpants... The greasy hair is a rare occurrence, but I have to admit, it does happen.) But I do love makeup, and hair, and fashion. For the past year or so I have taken quite an interest in fashion and beauty blogs as well as tutorials on youtube. You can blame them for my inspiration to start blogging. :)
I am currently a semester away from having my Associates degree in Business and then next fall I will be attending cosmetology school. I hope to someday run my own salon. It's taken me awhile to realize, but that's my dream. As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a cosmetologist. Life just kept getting in the way though. I graduated high school, moved on to college, found an amazing boyfriend, got a good job and BAM!! next thing I know I wake up one morning and realize that I've been living life half-assed. My problem is that I just let life take control, instead of me taking control of my life. So this is me, taking control. :) I'm going to be a cosmetologist and a damn good one at that. (Someday.)
As for what I do right now (as I finish up my associates degree), I am a teller at a local credit union. I like my job. I work with some great people and being a teller is generally quite an easy job. But like I said before, it's not my dream. Through all of this there stands my rock; my boyfriend. He is my best friend, my mentor, my lover, my everything. We've been together for about 2 and a half years now and I see many more great years with him. I also have quite an amazing family if I do say so myself. :) I have two wonderfully beautiful and talented sisters who I can honestly say are my best friends, and two amazing parents. I don't know where I would be without them. My parents have shown me so much love, even when I didn't deserve it. They will always be my beacon of light, my guidance. I am so blessed to have so many amazing people in my life!

Whoa. I read back over this and realize two things; first of all, there is a lot to digest in this one blog posting. Sorry for the long-winded-ness. And second, I have not even gotten around to explaining this blog!
My hope for this blog is, as of right now, a little foggy. I don't know where I'm going to head with it. Fashion/beauty postings? Everday, out and about occurrences? Or maybe a little of everything...? I'm leaning towards the latter. :) But we'll see.
So this wraps up my first blog posting.
Goodbye blog universe.
For now. :)

-Abby D

P.S. I would love any feedback. Thanks.