This post should serve as a bit of a break from all the wedding posts around here lately!! I have been SO excited to write about this ever since we did it and I just got my results back so I figured it was time! Today I’m so excited to tell you about my experience using the DNA testing service 23andMe. Fair warning this is going to be a longer post and you’re probably going to find out a lot of information about me that no one asked for so keep that in mind haha If you haven’t heard of…
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2017 Year in Review & Favorites
Before I jump into this post – check out my new blog theme!! I decided the start of the new year was as good of an excuse as any to spruce things up around here. The sizing and details on some stuff is still a little wonky while I work everything out but go ahead and have a look around – I hope you like it! I figured with the new year it was time for me to write a “end of 2017” post or something, but I wasn’t sure how I wanted to do it. I want to include…
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Chraela Wedding Planning: One Month!!!
Happy new year!! I know – two wedding posts in a row! If it seems like all I write about now is the wedding, that’s because all I think about now is the wedding. I hope you had a great holiday and lovely new years’ celebration. While January 1 represents a lot of things for many people, for us it means that we are only ONE MONTH away from the wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are equal parts stressed and excited. Well, honestly I’m actually probably feeling more excited than stressed, but rest assured I am definitely still stressed haha We are down to…
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Chraela Wedding Planning: 1.5 Months to Go!
I absolutely cannot BELIEVE how close we are to the wedding. It seems like just yesterday we were saying how we have so much time to plan and figure everything out and now…the time is running out!! We’re at the point now where it’s getting down to the wire and we have to make a lot of decisions…and spend a lot of money! We’ve made a LOT of progress since my last wedding planning update post though, so I figured it was time for an update. Here’s the big stuff… Hair Trial I had my hair trial a few weeks…
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November 2017 Favorites
I cannot believe it is already DECEMBER 2017! Where did the year go? I also can’t believe how little I have been writing on here lately. I always say that I never want this blog to become a chore for me, and lately I just haven’t been motivated to write. I feel like it’s really annoying to point out how long it has been in every post lately…so from now on I am going to stop acknowledging when it’s been a while haha. Unless it’s been like, a LONG while haha So anyway… with all that being said, here’s my favorite…
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Happy Thanksgiving & Black Friday!
It’s been a bit but I just wanted to pop in and say Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday!! You may be aware that I went on a fabulous weekend (very long weekend) trip to Maryland and DC last week with my best friends Sarah and Ana, stars of the Beach Club & Chill series. We had the most amazing time hanging out, eating Thanksgiving food and seeing Lady Gaga!! I’ll write more about all of that soon! I got home Monday and enjoyed ANOTHER Thanksgiving with Chris and Teddy yesterday too! I’m spending this morning refreshing my computer trying to…
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Decorating for Christmas
You may remember from my series of posts last year The 12 Days of Kaelamas that I absolutely LOVE Christmas 🎄 I won’t be doing that series again this year because I felt it would be a bit repetitive, but that doesn’t mean I won’t still be writing Christmasy posts for the rest of the year! Anyway, it should come as no surprise that we have already decorated our home for Christmas this year. If you think it’s too early for Christmas, please just know that I come from a family where our house typically looks something like this: So it’s practically in…
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Beach Club & Chill – Day 4
This is part of a series about our BFF vacation in May 2017. All the posts about our trip will be listed here! Make sure you read the other posts first 🙂 Tuesday, May 23, 2017 Welcome to part 4 of our fabulous adventure! When we left off, we had finished a fun but rainy day eating snacks in our hotel room at the Beach Club. We were also packing up because unfortunately Tuesday was our check out day 🙁 Even more unfortunately, Tuesday was the second day I had to work on our trip! But it would all work out – you’ll see! We…
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Sigma Kabuki Brush Set Review
I briefly mentioned this in my October favorites post but I figured it was worth doing a deep dive into one of my newest favs from last month! I recently picked up a beautiful set of Sigma kabuki face brushes, and today I’m telling you all about them 🙂 I got my set from Hautelook (click here to read about that if you don’t what it is) on an amazing sale a couple months ago. The set of 5 brushes normally costs $90 but I got it for $45 aka half price!!!! Amazing!!! The brushes included in this set are as…
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DIYing My Wedding Shoes
We are now under the 3 month mark for our wedding and I am decidedly beginning to panic..but within reason. As with many other aspects of the wedding, I had no idea what I wanted when it came to my wedding shoes. Heels or flats? Solid or a print? Sparkly or…just kidding, they were always going to be sparkly. I thought that maybe I wanted to have two pairs of shoes – one heels, and one flats, so I could wear the heels to the ceremony and the flats for the rest of the night. But wedding shoes can be…
