quoteable | rainbow slushies

| setting: middle of nowhere, indiana - in a van |

Brooke: "it's snowing and the sun is shining. My prediction that we're about to have rainbow slushies"

travels | hot mess road trip | day one

We left our house at 5:03am this morning. Eleven of us headed out for what we have coined "the hot mess road trip". It started out as two separate events on two consecutive weekends and somehow morphed into a two-ish week long gypsy caravanning vacation thing. It's okay, I'm confused too.

Renting a Mercedes Sprinter van was one of the best ideas we've had yet. My parents get all the credit for that! As one of the tallest members in the family, I'm loving the extra headspace! And we're all feeling remorse over the fact that we've barely filled half the luggage compartment. Such a delightful problem to have!

Lots of snow and traffic in Indiana delayed us for a few hours. Of course! But we were able to get to the Marriott in plenty of time for me to blow dry my hair and freshen up my face before tonight's dinner. I'm a happy girl.

And Diet Dr Pepper is delicious.

delightful | sephora's cinderella collection

How this managed to escape my radar, I'll never know.  But, Oh My Gracious! While shopping at sephora last night, my sister and I just happened to see the new Cinderella collection at Sephora!                           

At the risk of sounding immature and ridiculous, I'm telling you, Cinderella is my girl!  I watched that movie hundreds of times when I was a tiny girl.  Somehow I've always identified with her.  Apparently, its very common in this culture.  The identification with characters in fairy tales.  I have a friend who was Belle, just Belle, another who wanted to grow up and be a mermaid.  As humorous as it all is, I love a good story.  Cinderella happens to be my favorite.

 As I've gotten older I now appreciate different parts that make the movie so timeless, I will always love the story, and her prince!  The animation is spectacular!  Those colors and shadows throughout the film.  The songs!  A perfect soundtrack for rainy days like today, and especially good cleaning music.

My sister thought that the eyeshadow palette was lame (what does she know anyway?), I wasn't completely sold on it myself until I looked it up on Sephora's website and discovered that every color is custom matched to the original Panetone's from the movie.  My little color snob heart just leaped in joy!  Just look at the colors that they chose!

The perfume is called "So this is love".  I'm speechless!

The compacts both feature beautiful artwork and etched quotes on the inside.  Lovely!



Read all about it here!

art | arc de triomphe

This little print was a gift from my sister. I find it perfectly delightful.

thoughts | just flu in

Nasty, this flu virus.

My whole family (well about 10 of us so far) have gotten some variation of this bug.

Goodness, I think the whole world has been affected (or is that "infected"?). We had about 2/3 of our church out today. I was feeling okay, until about the middle of Dad's sermon. That's when my sinuses decided to give out.

So not lovely.

I've had plenty of soup and liquids today. I even washed down a handful of vitamins with an orange alka-seltzer. Talk about delicious! Remembering to take vitamins just makes me feel so smug.

Also, who knew that raspberry Emergen-C tasted so good? All these years I've been suffering through the "super orange" and "lemon-lime" when they make such a delightful raspberry! I feel like my world has been changed for the better. The sky is a little more blue!!!

Clearly, I'm all about the cheap thrills.