Fallish Boots

fall is right around the corner. i have started getting out all of my cardigans, scarves and boots. and currently, i am obsessed with boots. i have quite a few pair|s of boots. and i love them all.

i have yellow boots. i have brown boots. i have black boots. i have polka-dotted rain boots. and the list goes on. boots are so much fun to wear. they look cute with almost any outfit and they're so comfortable.

in my opinion, they bring a bit of edge to an outfit. cause typically, before there were floral boots, i thought of men wearing boots when working construction. which there is nothing wrong with that, but they just didn't seem very feminine. but now, there are so many different colors and patterns that make them so much more cute.

but mostly, in the fall|winter time, boots are so amazing because they keep your feet warm from the cold. that is one of my favorite parts about wearing boots. if you wear your boots atop a few pair of woolly, snugglly socks, then your feet are guaranteed warmth.

i adore them. ♥

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Giveaway Winners Announced!

I apologize for not posting this last night, but it seems that I've come down with a bit of a sinus infection of the sorts and this is the first time I've been online since yesterday (and I only got online to email my homework in). So, with that being said, here are the winners of the giveaways!

Winner of Laura's Little Lovies Vintage red necklace: 

OLI

Please email getoutyourcamera (AT) aim (DOT) com to claim your prize!

Winner of One Night Out's Custom Plush Camera:

TAMARA

Please email kyla-anderson (AT) hotmail (DOT) com to claim your prize!

Winner of Nynga & The Bear's Tee + Painting:

ASHLEY CAUTHEN

Please email nyngaandthebear (AT) gmail (DOT) com to claim your prize!

Winner of This Girl's Life So Far set:

SHEA POSEY

Please email jen_latini (AT) yahoo (DOT) com to claim your prize!

Winners, it is up to YOU to contact the sponsor of which you have won the giveaway for! Please leave a comment below if you see this and claim the winnings. Sponsors, if you have not heard from the winner in three days and would like me to drawn an alternate winner, please email me and I would be happy to do so! (I know this is a different way to try this, but I'm experimenting with what method works best for everyone and trying to cut out as many middle men as possible!)

Congratulations to the winners and sponsors, too! I hope everyone is as excited for the new batch of sponsors that Little Chief Honeybee will have starting tomorrow! (There is ONE large sponsorship still available if anyone wants it. Please email me at kaelahbee (at) gmail (dot) com) Hopefully lots of fluids and rest will help my sickness and I'll be back in full swing of things!

Survey Time::

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Laugh Out Loud

if you have a few minutes to read this, i promise, you will not regret it.

i will do a short explanation of what's going on before we get into it:

there are a few rad people that i work with, that like to chat. we chat about anything and everything. there is always something to chat about. work stuff. people stuff. you know...stuff. 

there is one person that we work with that has been assigned to be the mentor of all of the supervisors on our floor. she is in charge of making sure that things get done. she is a 'pusher' if you will. she is to push us to get assignments done and make a change for good. which okay, that sounds like a great idea. but i digress.

we supervisors get tickets which are technical issues with our system, or escalated customers that need to speak with someone 'higher up'. they sit in an inbox until we complete them.

myself and a few of mentioned friends, get our tickets done in a timely manner, as we should. because why? it's our job. the mentor, not so much. so we believe that she needs to work on her own work, before she should be 'pushing' us to do ours. it only makes sense, right?

soooooooo, i get this IM the other day when i get to my computer after lunch. and i almost died. here goes...the following is the chat correspondence i had with a friend...

Halee Berry says (2:20 PM):
 High Five Halee: Welcome back folks!  I'm your host, High Five Halee.  It's that time again, time for everyone's favorite game show, GUUUUEEESS THE TICKETS!!!

(crowd cheers).

High Five Halee: Or first contenstant today is Miss Paislea Carlson (PIP of paislea waving at crowd and catching flowers from fans).  She loves cats, phillippinos and anything vintage!

(crowd cheers, wolf whistles ensue)
 (camera zooms to curtain)

Roger Shmoger: Well Halee, today we have a prize that you're sure to be jealous of!  Ringing up at a $5,298.00 value we have from Anthropologie the exquisit, queen size Forest Canopy Bed! http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?subCategoryId=&id=960042&catId=HOME-FURNITURE-BEDS&pushId=HOME-FURNITURE-BEDS&popId=HOME-FURNITURE&sortProperties=&navCount

Halee Berry says (2:21 PM):
 High Five Halee: Alright! Now GUESS. THE. TICKETS!!!!!!

(crowd goes wild)

Paislea takes her 3 guesses:

paislea elyse said (2:54 PM):
 oh. my. gosh.

paislea elyse said (2:55 PM):
 you have made my day!
 but, my first guess High Five Halee, would have to be 21 tickets.

Halee Berry says (2:55 PM):
 oh, too high, 2 more guesses if you please

paislea elyse says (2:56 PM):
 darn. my next guess would have to be...14!

Halee Berry says (2:56 PM):
 High Five Halee:  She's done it!  I can't believe it, she's done it!!!  Contratulations Paislea!  You'll sleep like a baby tonight! 

(crowd goes insane and tried to rush the stage, bouncers hold them back)

 That was RIGHT ON!!!
 
Alright!  Well Paislea, you've qualified for the bonus round.  You now have three more quesses in which to tell us how old the OLDEST ticket is.  This round is a little different in that you HAVE to get it EXACTLY right.  Roger Shmoger, why dont you show her what's up for grabs this round!

(crowd cheers)

Halee Berry says (2:57 PM):
 Roger Shmoger: Well Halee, for this bonus round, should she win, Paislea will be privy to choose ANY Anthropologie bedding set to go along with her brand new bed! 

(more cheers)

High Five Halee:  Well Paislea, what'll it be?

(crowd in utter silence)
 
Paislea answers:

paislea elyse says (2:58 PM):
 the oldest ticket dates back to july 12, 2010

Halee Berry says (2:58 PM):
 oh! so close.  a little bit later than that if you please
 2 more guesses
Halee Berry says (2:59 PM):
 (please cheat cause i didnt write an ending if you get all 3 guesses wrong)
 haha

paislea elyse says (2:59 PM):
 hahahha.
paislea elyse says (3:00 PM):
 july 22, 2010

Halee Berry says (3:00 PM):
 High Five Halee: OH MY GOSH!!! NO ON HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO GUESS EXACTLY RIGHT!!! This is unbelieveable!  I seriously have never seen this! 

(crowd goes insane)

High Five Halee:  Well, you've seen history here folks.  Come back next week and we'll see if we can do it again! G'night!

paislea elyse says (3:00 PM):
 hahahhahhahahhahah.
 would you like to know how much i love you?!?!hahhaha

Halee Berry says (3:00 PM):
 hahahah
 i thought you'd like that

paislea elyse says (3:01 PM):
 that was the best thing to come back from lunch to.
 perfection.

Halee Berry says (3:01 PM):
 hahahaha
 gots to do something to have a good monday

MIXTAPE MONDAY: usher in the autumn leaves.

This week's mixtape is dreamy. To me, at least! I really just want to crawl into a bubble bath with a book and this mix in the background. Plans for this evening? CHECK! 

usher in the autumn leaves...

(click on title to download)

I've been kind of boring lately. I apologize! This weekend was very very busy and I'm hoping it really was as productive as I think. Still so very much to do! Hopefully I'll pick it back up this week and actually post something interesting! ;)

By the way, you can still enter THE GIVEAWAY!  It ends tonight and you've got a really good chance of snagging 1 of 4 prizes! 

Lindsay + Sean

Julia + Steven on weddingbells!

Thank you weddingbells for the post on Julia + Steven's sweet Royal York wedding!

Tie Me a Bow

i am loving bows. bows on shirts. bows on purses. bows on shoes. bows on headbands. i love love love bows. i need to be brave enough to wear a huge bow right on top of my head. ♥ 

bows are always just so feminine and pretty. i love the way that they can dress up an outfit to make it THAT much more cute. i love to see little baby girls with huge bows in their hair. i just think that they are sooooooo cute.

i am in love with all of the cute etsy stores. people making flowers, and bows and cute cute accessories and sharing them with everyone. i think it's such a cute idea. if you are talented, and can make adorable things, i praise you for sharing it!!

 

but, take a look at these cute bows and tell me what you think:

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Welcome to the 85th Metamorphosis Monday! A Story of Hope and Healing...

Colette Gauthier was given a 5-15% chance of survival by her doctor. She had moved into a dismal rental house and was out of hope. Kelee from The Katillac Shack went to Michigan and with the help of Guideposts Magazine where she is their Inspired Home Expert, she created a beautiful makeover to change Colette's "sick" room to a healing space.




The goal was to create an uplifting and beautiful space to help Colette during her recovery from cancer, as well as lift her spirits through the course of her chemotherapy treatments. A miracle resulted for the room and Colette Gauthier. Seeing is believing in this wonderful video below. (If you can see four tiny white arrows beside the Vimeo name, click on those to enlarge the screen. When finished watching, hit escape.)



You may read more about Colette at The Katillac Shack and the story is featured in the September issue of Guideposts.


Here's how you can help!
For every comment you leave on this post and at The Katillac Shack and Facebook/Guideposts, $1 will be donated for the next needy makeover recipient. :)


One dollar ($1.00) donated for all comments received at The Katillac Shack, Pink Saturday, Spiritual Sunday and Country Wings in Phoenix and on this Metamorphorisis Monday post. That's a $5 donation from DesignGivesBack.com by commenting at all these host sites! :)






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