Put a little love in your heart

Hey there everyone!!

Valentine's Day is right around the corner!! Are you excited? Do you have something planned with your someone special?! My valentine will be away, so I will be having a girly night with my sister, nail polish included! Maybe a little wine for me! I thought today I would share with you some of my fav Valentine's Day treats, eats and crafts! 

You can give your valentine those cute candies with messages on them. Here we have the traditional tiny heart candies, only with risque messages! 

You can make some very cute cookies with messages as well!

 

Or even some super cute cake pops!!

I thought these cookies were just adorable!! 

How about some mug brownies with sugar hearts?!

 

Now who wouldn't want heart shaped french toast? I would personally love to make these!! Yum!!

Lips for her and a mustache for him!! Too cute!

You can give him/her pieces of candy and cards to go with them! I don't eat sweets all that often, so I feel this would be more suitable for the younger crowd. Cute idea, nonetheless.

You can even make some cute crafts for this special day. I think the doilies in the shadow box is a cute idea, although you cant really seem them. 

How about a wreath made out of cupcake liners? I WILL be making this over the weekend to hang in my office!

If you don't have a valentine you can always make something sweet for your closest friend! These fortune cookies are adorable, and they are fairly simple to make at home! You could even make them out of felt instead of making the cookie. How about making them together while sipping on some of the yummy drinks pictured below?

 

Looks like ice cream, champagne and juice! Yum!

Well whatever you have planned for this Valentine's Day, I hope you remember to show how much you like/love/can't get enough of your special someone every day of the year, and not just on this on one day! Until next time!

XOXO

Shawna

Wordless Wednesday

Happy Wednesday!!

XOXO

Shawna

A recap from the past few weeks..and a photo haul!

Happy New Year!! 

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I hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday season and a fantastic New Years!

A week before Christmas, my girlfriend Ashley and I went up to New Hampshire for a Dave Matthews concert! That was my first DMB concert and it was AMAZING!! We got pizza and drinks beforehand, and met up with a couple of Ashley's friends at another bar. After the concert we went to a bar next to the venue where they served our beers in red Solo cups and Santa sang karaoke. The concert was so incredible, and I am so happy that I got to experience it. Here are some pictures from that day/night! Sorry they are phone quality.

This was such an amazing pizza place! If you're ever near Manchester NH, you must check out 900 degrees!!

Ashley and my usual martini!

Our pizzas! Margherita and BBQ Chicken!

My Flirtini and pizza! So yummy!

Brianne and Ashley doing a Nacci!

The pretty lights that lined the street!

 Ashley had to drink Red Bull because she was getting sleepy!

 DMB playing Cornbread! I feel like this was just for Brianne!

I can NOT wait for their summer tour! Tailgating and music?! Why not, it's such a blast!!

The Friday before Christmas my friend Johnna and I went to Ciro's to see a coworker of mine play some Christmas and cover music. Martinis in hand, we sang along and danced all night! It was a great time!  

Love my Johnna!

Boys and their shots!

Just Visiting rocking out!

Martinis with my love!

And again

 We clean up well!

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I swear, Pat and I didn't plan to be matchy!

Aww Derek!

Jamming out!

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This might have been the time when they were auctioning off kisses for charity!

So sweet!

 Love her! 

If you want to see these guys play, check out their Facebook page here! They'll be playing this Saturday at Overtime Bar & Grille if you're interested! They put on a pretty great show!

We had a low key Christmas this year at my house. Although lots of wine was consumed, mostly on my part, it didn't get too rowdy! My parents woke me up at 6:30am wanting to unwrap presents. My mom and I went to bed around midnight Christmas Eve and for the life of me I just wanted to stay in bed, but since my sister had been up for a couple hours already, we had to get up. When I was younger, my parents would make my brothers and I wait until 8am to even get out of bed. We could open our stockings, but we weren't allowed to open any presents until my parents had their coffee. I guess that went out the window when they had my sister! 

I was amazed to see that at 24 my mother still made up a stocking for me. It contained the usual chocolates (which I gave to my sister), deodorant, makeup, chap sticks and hand sanitizers. Still the same as when I was younger- minus the socks! After opening presents, and hearing many joyous screams from my sister, we had a yummy breakfast and started getting ready for the day. The wine was flowing from 11am- HEY don't judge, which made me a happy girl! Our family started coming over around 2 and we ate around 3:30/4pm. 

Baby Travis still hadn't made his arrival by Christmas, and still continues to not listen to the eviction notices! COME ON BABY TRAVIS!! Aunty Shawna is anxiously waiting to see you!!

The Thursday after Christmas, Ashley, Alyssa and myself went out for a girls night!! We went to Bob and Timmy's Legendary Grilled Pizza. It wasn't no 900 degrees (which is what we were looking for) but it did not disappoint! Check out their website here!

Pizza and Sangria for the ladies!! Ashley and I exchanged Christmas gifts! She got me the CUTEST purse and a beautiful scarf. Oh, can't forget all the different lotions she got me! She knows I'm a lotion whore! It was a fab night, and morning after! Love waking up laughing and smiling! Let's just say, my night was anything but #notok! Ha-HA! What would I do without my girlfriends!!

On Friday, Johnna and I went out for drinks. We met up with her fiance Tim and our friend Rob for sushi and more drinks afterwards! We then went to a "gentleman's club" for Johnna's first experience! It was a very fun night!

On New Year's I had planned on staying home and kissing my mirror at midnight, but Ashley dragged me out of the house! I am super happy she did because I had a fantastic night! I rang in the New Year with my best friend, drank wine and sangria, played flip cup, took apple pie shots and loved on some puppies all night!! 

This is Linden! I wanted to take him home!

And his brother Hickory! Just as adorable!

Adults still play Flip Cup!

And the females beat the guys about a million to two!

Linden pup!!! Love him!!

Ashley's pup Cooper!! 

And her other pup Henry! Be still my beating heart!

 Peyton was so sweet!!!

I vaguely remember finding this on the back of the toilet when I went pee. But since it's on my phone, its going up!

Hickory puppp!! So fluffy!

Cooper was a tired little man!

As was Cornbread and Henry! We called her the Tamer!

 

Cornbread always with his smile!!

 Loving me some Coopy-doo!

Happy New Year!!

 

It's a new year, finally! Time to keep all my good memories and lay all the bad ones to rest! Again, I hope that y'all had a wonderful holiday season and a fantastic New Year!! Until next time!!

XOXO,

Shawna

A little more than Fitness Friday

Hey y'all! 

I know I have been MIA for a couple weeks, I have been sick with a mix of lazy and busy in there. How was your Thanksgiving? Mine was great! My brother and very pregnant sister-in-law came over! She is ADORBS and I can NOT wait to meet baby Travis in the next month!  

  

It's only a few more weeks until Christmas, can you believe it? This year is flying by. Lets hope the world doesn't end on the 21st, I have way too many things I want to do!

  

Lets start off with some Fitness Friday, shall we?

 

 Have you been keeping up on your workouts? I will not lie and say I was, because I wasn't. But, I have been getting back into the swing of things. I may even stop eating meat again. I feel like that has been making me sick. Hard to do when your entire house is full of carnivores. Anyways, I hope that you all have been working your little butts off for me!! 

  

 Seeing as how I don't want to world to end, I should probably tell you why right? Well, I have been looking into schools to get a little more cake/baking knowledge under my belt. I am mostly self taught but I feel as though I could take some classes to freshen up my skills. Johnson and Wales looks like the best option right now, even if it is to take a couple classes. I really want to start getting my home based business underway and building clientele. High hopes for 2013!!

And now something a little near and dear to my heart- makeup!  

I may have said it before, but just to clarify I will say it again. I am OBSESSED with makeup! Have been ever since I was a little girl. When I was little my mom would catch me watching her as she applied her makeup ever so carefully. She would also then catch me in the bathroom putting it on myself when she wasn't looking! Because of this, my parents started buying me baskets and boxes full of every kind of makeup imaginable for Christmas every year. { They are not  fully aware my obsession might have stemmed from that :) }. Even when I first started working all my money went to makeup and shoes. I am also heavily shoe obsessed, but that is a whole other post! HEY, I am only human, and female!! 

A while ago I had been on the hunt for some really nice makeup palettes. I was looking all over and found this great little website. They have sooo much makeup and it is cheap. I know that us girls don't like to buy makeup that is on the cheaper side for fear it is going to really stink. But let me tell you, this makeup is not. I was, like any first timer to the site, nervous as to the quality I was going to get. The quality is really good for the price. I also love the fact that I can buy it at Target!

Let me just state that I am in no way saying you shouldn't be buying expensive makeup. I would love to purchase all of my makeup at Sephora or Macy's, but for me that just isn't feasible right now, therefor I will find the best deals I can. 

 My order was only $24.95 for everything. Here is a picture of everything I bought:

Can you believe I got all of this for under $25? Amazing huh?! Since buying these a while back, I have picked up a lot few more palettes from them and even some of their Chrismas/Holiday palettes, lip glosses, high definition powder, brushes and smaller powder compacts. I usually stick with my MAC or Sigma brushes, but the ELF ones are very good too! All of my liquid makeup comes from Maybelline or Cover Girl, I don't have a preference. I just had to buy a big set of drawers to store all of my makeup in. Oops!

 But, I digress! The makeup itself is incredible. It is such good quality. Before I had pledged to sleeping naked I used to fall asleep occasionally with my makeup on. When I would wake in the morning my eye makeup would be the same as it was the night before. Can you say staying power! I don't condone sleeping with your makeup on so be sure to take it off every night ladies!  Why don't you just head over to this little website and pick yourself up some makeup!! You wont be disappointed, I promise!! Until next time!

XOXO

Shawna