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Showing posts with label preppy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label preppy. Show all posts
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Retail Therapy Thursday!
I love a good deal, especially on designers that have a classic, preppy flair. I am a big fan of "invitation only" sale sites and have gotten some good deals through them so I was excited to hear about the newest kid on the shopping block (LOL), Country Club Prep! I love their tagline, "All Preppy Clothing, All The Time!" It hasn't even opened its doors yet, but you can go ahead and sign up to become a member through this link, Country Club Prep Membership. If you become a member now, you will be entitled to FREE shipping and returns for LIFE! How cool is that?
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
September 7th won't be here soon enough...True Prep is Coming!
I just can't wait!!!! September 7th....September 7th....September 7th shall be a very good day, indeed.
I am circling that day on my calendar. You will find me pulling out my Lilly Pulitzer tumblers (thank you Sarah at Sweet Carolina Girl), planting myself with a cool drink by the pool and doing nothing but eating up every word (well, except drive my boys to and from school)!
It is going to be my own, personal mini vacay! How are you celebrating this long awaited gem?
Friday, July 16, 2010
Follow Friday!
I love finding new blogs to read. So I decided to join in the Follow Friday Blog Hop! What is a blog hop, you may ask?
"Blog readers will see the same list on all of the blogs and will be able to "hop" from blog to blog. What a fun way to find new friends! If you have not joined previous weeks, be sure to add your blog to the list today. Even if you've already added your blog on another blog hop, add your name to the list today since every week is a new list."
So why not "hop" on?
Monday, March 29, 2010
Preppy Love...
Part of the initiation to the PM is that you have to, of course, follow the rules!
Rule #1: Click on the above button and paste onto your blog/website
Rule #2: Answer the below questions
Rule #3: Pass onto 10 bloggers that you Love, go to their blog and let them know they've been tagged
1. Who is your style icon? Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (originally) but I can can't leave out Lilly Pulitzer
2. What is your favorite socialite lit book? Social Climbers by Beth Dunn ;)
3. Favorite party theme? Pink and Green parties rule!
4. Go to Halloween costume? I am woefully sad without an answer for this one!
5. Extravagance you cannot live without? my Monogrammed bags
6. Living person you admire? My Daughter, who is becoming a lovely, lovely young lady!
7. Greatest Fear? My family not being safe.
8. Trait you deplore in yourself? lack of focus and stick-to-it-ness.
9. Which talent would you most like to have? hmmmm? I would love to be musically inclined (which I am so very NOT).
10. Greatest Achievement? Managing to keep a marriage growing and alive 21+ years and being part of the lives of my three wonderful children...that and being mistaken for being too young to have an 18 year old...that is pretty cool as well.
So, now I crown:
Life From Pippy's Perspective
Chic Crafty Chic
Sweet Pea
The Preppy Apron
Serenity Now - A Mommy's Solution to Staying Sane
One Preppy Day
Tales of a Northern Belle
Mama in High Heels
Jillian, Inc.
The Beaufort Lookout
Y'all go over and visit with the newly crowned Socialites!!!
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Bookstore EXCITEMENT!
Did you love this?
IF so, now you can be like me and get excited about this....
It has been too many years!
I am not one to pre-order books but this one just made my list!
From Amazon.com:
From the author of The Official Preppy Handbook comes a new take on the old world that Lisa Birnbach turned into an international best-selling phenomenon thirty years ago.
True Prep looks at how the old guard of natural-fiber-loving, dog-worshipping, G&T-soaked preppies adapts to the new order of the Internet, cell phones, rehab, political correctness, reality TV and . . . polar fleece.
A small sample:
• Wardrobe: Recent prep brands we are forced to recognize. How to tell Casual Friday from, say, Saturday.
• Money: We never talk about it.
• Food: Does the Food Network mean we’re going to have to cook? Bake? Now you’re going too far.
• Scandals: Poor Mrs. Astor. When Mummy’s plastic surgery goes terribly wrong. Rehab and the slammer: the new prep schools.
• We’re outta here: When to name something after yourself, and when not. The right obituary. What to do with your dogs if you predecease them.
• NO TEXTING AT THE TABLE, PLEASE.
True Prep promises to be a whole new old sensation.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
New purse...
Just thought I would share a photo of my NEW purse. It is in a pink and brown paisley print with a polka dot coordinating fabric (I just love polka dots...not on me -- that would be scary -- but in other things) and lined with a brown/pink gingham fabric.
This purse was a real steal and I found it in a not so ordinary place. You see this past summer my DD was taking a Latin Class and for what ever reason (cheap rent is my guess) the teacher has a store front as his "studio/classroom" and it is in the...ah...not typical retail section of town (but the part where you can actually find competition between Bail Bondsmen). On one side of the studio is a thrift shop and on the other side a place that sells "art"...you know the kind you buy to coordinate with your sofa. They have pictures ranging from Elvis silhouetted above a snowy church (???) to a giant Malcom X (complete with pants hanging down so far that his drawers are showing from here to Kingdom Come...somehow I didn't realize that particular fashion trend went back to Malcom X...but then who am I to nit pick?...heck for all I know Malcom X started the whole falling down drawers thing...I bet if I looked hard enough I could have found one with Elvis and Malcom together but I was in a hurry.). Oh, and they most definately had Dogs playing Poker!
Anyway, about a month into DD's Latin course the "Art Selling" shop started to put purses in the window...not just purses, but CUTE purses. I mean really cute, unique purses! I would look at them from afar as I really wasn't too comfortable with this part of town and the thought that "art" might just be a front for some other kind of nifty business...nifty but not my kind of retail therapy, of course. Finally, though, on her last Latin class I decided they might very well be a front for something else but heck...they were fronting with really cute purses....so I went in. It was actually a pretty nice little shop on the inside and the lady who helped me was sweet as pie. So, I guess you can't judge a shop by its locale and I was very excited to get my cute new purse for only $22! Oh, and I made it out without one scary thing happening...though none of my friends really seem to believe I got it on the seedy side of town (though, they do have a deep interest in just why I was even over there!).
When I got it home I promptly called my new bestest friend (well, she might just think we are friendly aquaintences but I love her, I tell ya!) who does monogramming. I sent her my purse and (for just a teenie few dollars) she whipped up a monogram on it and now my cheapy purse looks all preppy and chic! She is just so sweet and does such great quality work and very quickly that DD and I both just love her to death. She hasn't balked at anything we have come up with to be monogram and that is a quality that I can appreciate beyond words! She is a Mompreneur and has a cute business called Angela in Stitches http://www.angelainstitches.net/. Angela in Stitches doesn't really keep alot of inventory but loves to work with you on what ever you need. Have I mentioned that I just love her and wish I could have her bring her monogramming genie skills over to my house and just go to town on everything here?
