Tricks and Treats

Happy Halloween Readers! Today is one of my favorite holidays because I love little kids in costumes and the warm food. Today I hopped in the kitchen and made two meals! Below are my annual Trick or Treat cheeseburger pies and Ree Drummond's corn chowder. The Pioneer Woman is one of the reasons I started this blog and this recipe was A HIT!!! Ill post it below for all you soup lovers like me!


Corn Chowder Recipe

Soup is my favorite season

Jack-O-Lantern faces make them almost too good to eat

Happy Halloween Kiddos!

It's that time of year again kiddos! When fall starts to fall into place and you can feel the holiday season rapidly approaching. Tons of celebration! Yay! What better way to get in the spirit than a Halloween party! That's right: costumes, bonfires, and good times! Below I've included some cool pics from this past weekend's festivities. I dressed up as a classic Audrey Hepburn, although no one at the party recognized my Breakfast at Tiffany's iconic look or even had any idea who Audrey was! It's really a shame. It's like I spent an hour on my hair for nothing! I got a ton of compliments though, and if people ask me if I'm a super model I'm not going to complain about it!
On another note, sorry for the lack of posts. Things have been super crazy with transitioning into junior year and cheerleading and all. I barely have time to breathe anymore! But I promise that this blog will be getting a lot more love from Hadley and I from now on. 
Xoxoxoxoxox, Jamie

My future NFL player of a husband!

The Birthday Boy!

Living the LUSH life

So I've been wanting to do this FOREVER and I decided to do it now before the holidays because Then ill be buying these products in bulk.
SO Lush Cosmetics is something you could say I have an obsession with. I fell in love the minute I stepped through the door of the Providence Place Mall store. So here's a review of pretty much all the things, good and bad, I've tried from LUSH.

1. Catastrophe Face Mask:
This is the first face mask I tried and I got about halfway through the pot before I realized I was using it all wrong. I liked this but it didn't do much for my skin. I have very sensitive skin with not-so-acne-prone skin and this just didn't do much. (Funny story: I asked my dad to grab my fave mask, the one in the black pot out of the fridge [yes, you're supposed to keep them refrigerated] and he brought it to me with an inquisitive look on his face. He then said "oh that stuff tastes awful. I put it on my toast yesterday." Welcome to my Life, readers, my dad ate my face mask.)

2. Cupcake Face Mask:
This has Rhassoul mud in it which is not good for sensitive skin but I decided to try it instead because my skin was getting bad from stress. Safe to say once again it did nothing for my breakouts (which it was said to do) so I nixed this one and moved onto the next.However, this smelled like chocolate and took a lot of will power not to eat it..

3. The Sacred Truth face mask
This time around I thoroughly talked to the salespeople (I love them, they're my favorite people in the world) and they suggested this one. And boy were they right! This made my skin incredible soft and cleared my breakouts slightly. If I had any advice it'd be to READ THE INSTRUCTIONS and TALK TO THE SALESPEOPLE. They know their stuff

4. Marilyn Hair Moisturizing Mask
I got this in New York after the hair dying disaster of 2011 in hopes to get my natural color back (I died my hair darker, it came out black. Contrary to the 26 washes limit, it lasted nine months...). Although it didn't give me the results I wanted it made my hair SUPER soft and brought out my buried under natural highlights. WARNING: This stuff smells awful and is gross to apply to your hair. Messy, but I recommend it for blondes!

5. WOOSH Shower Jelly
two words: IN LOVE. I started using this back in the spring during the lacrosse season and the weird heat wave back in march. The smell is sweet and tart and its gelatinous which is AWESOME. I put mine in the freezer so when I was hot and sticky after practice this was my savior. Woke me up with the smell and the ice cold feeling. Go and buy this. Now.

6. Sea Vegetable Soap
This was the first soap I bought and it was quite dense so it was a little pricey but well worth it. It had a citrusy smell with a seaweed top that made my skin really soft (which is impressive because I have bumpy skin)

7. Sandstone Soap:
I originally bought this to get rid of my spray tan which was coming off in specks and I looked like I was a leper. It did the job alright! It's incredibly abrasive but the lemon scent makes the pain bearable. Definitely recommended for exfoliating.

8. Karma soap:
For some reason I didn't like this scent at first but I kept smelling it every time I went in there and now I love it!! What I love most about this soap is that is lingers on your skin so you have a slight halo of patchouli encircling you all. day. long. SO SCRUMPTIOUS. As you can tell, because there's barely any left. (This is my 'fall' soap).

9. Buffy Moisturizing Bar:
I have these bumps on my arms that are annoying a hell and this helped a lot. It has pieces of almonds/almond shells in it to exfoliate the crap out of anything. The smell is very nutty and creamy and I kinda like it. Wasn't my favorite but it wasn't the worst. After use it leaves a film over your skin so it locks in all the moisture and then spreads to let more in and out (that's me paraphrasing the women who sold it to me). I would buy this again but I'm going to try the other moisture bars first to see if I like any others better.

 

BATH BOMB TIME!

10. Big Blue Bath Bomb and Sunny Side Bubble Bar:
My first and favorite bath bomb. I used it with the Sunny Side bubble bar to make the Mermaid bath cocktail and it was FLAWLESS. There was tons of seaweed in the middle if Big Blue which was kind of a bitch to get out of the tub but it turned the bath a teal color with shimmering waves throughout because of the bubble bar. If I didn't have a rule about trying all the bath bombs I would grab this one again in a heartbeat! WARNING: although the Sunny Side bubble bar is heaven in a package it is very difficult to cleanup. i was cleaning glitter off my tub for a while after. I still highly recommend it, just fair warning.

These two are not my pictures!

11. Dragons Egg Bath bomb:

If you couldn't tell by now, in a sucker for anything with glitter. So naturally I had to try this one. The smell was ehh, reminded me of old people (no offense, just very grandma-like) but the show was magnificent.

not my photo

12. Pink Pink Pink bath bomb:
I loved this one a lot! It had a special surprise inside which was so fun to soak in and the smell was like being enveloped in bubble gum kisses and candy wishes!!

Courtesy of Instagram, Pomegranate Arizona and my fave songs of the late summer

13. Dorothy bubble bar:
This one turned the bath mostly blue but the bubbles weren't too frothy. I wish it produced more bubbles but I did love the scent if this one. More on the sweet\floral-y side of things.

This is not my personal photo

14. Spacegirl Bath Bomb
I wasn't impressed with this one too much. I liked the smell. It was sweet like candy with a grapefruit-y scent to it. I tried to use it to relax before I had my first big commercial shoot and the scents weren't too relaxing but Michael Buble certainly was! I don't know it it lost it's fizziness due to me keeping it out too long in humid weather or what but id was a pretty sad bath. It didn't event urn my tiny little bath tub purple...

So as long as that was, its only going to get worse with the TONS of products they came out with for the holidays. Stay tuned for the next LUSH goodies review around mid November/December

Right there where we stood was Holy Ground

Before this crazy storm hits RI I'm headed to church to say a million prayers!

Tank top: Charlotte Russe
Sweater: Hollister
Jacket: Forever 21
Pants: Hollister
Shoes: Aldo

Painting the town RED

Today is finally the day and to celebrateI red-ed myself out (ootd picture to come) I left school to pick up my pot of gold. I haven't been this happy in months!

Spirit Week days 3, 4, and Homecoming

Sorry I'm a little late! The end if the week is the busiest of the year for me. OK so Thursday was class color day and as a Junior our colors are red and black. Then! Friday is school color day, us Spartans are blue and white. Saturday morning was Homecoming court day. And then my dress from Asos London came in just in time for an awesome night of dancing!
Court outfit:
Dress: Francesca's collection.
Tights and necklace: Forever 21
Shoes: Aldo

Homecoming Dance:
Jamie and My dress: Asos
My shoes: Merona from Target
Jamie's shoes: Steve Madden

Music of Week whatever

Since it's spirit week and I'm still in searing pain from my teeth, I decided to post today while I'm home in bed watching How I Met Your Mother (totally worth the hype) and cutting out cardstock hearts. I'm going to talk about something that I've been waiting for since June 2011, TAYLOR SWIFTS NEW ALBUM. Today her fifth and final Single off of the album RED was released and it's so different than everything she's ever done, it's all just too much to absorb. Six days until her new album comes out, oh my goodness. Like my allergies this fall, my obsession is in FULL BLOOM. I'm getting butterflies just thinking about it. Below are her five newest songs and their absolutely stunning cover art. Now, if only I could dye my hair blonde....

Spirit Week Day 3

Today was superhero day. Although my original costume was too risqué to wear to school Ill never complain about a day where I get to whip out the super nerdy and super awesome Justice League tee

if you couldn't tell, my shirt's from Six Flags New England.

Spirit Week Day One!

Today was formal day at Scituate High School and as you can tell from below, I was in heaven

Dress: Nordstroms
Bow: One of my many from Superstars at ECE
Shoes(not shown and not very formal, I know): Converse All Stars

Fear turned fright

Well bloggers, I got my wisdom teeth out. And it was DREADFUL. I was terrified going in and boy did my terror live itself up. The only thing that didn't come true in my list of nightmares was not waking up. Obviously I woke up. But when I did things weren't all hunky dory!
Turns out I'm allergic to anesthesia, oh and Vicodin too! So Thursday, instead of sleeping like I should have been I was up and in pain. Then around 8 the real fun started: the throwing up. I threw up 5/6 times in ten hours. The best part? THERE WAS NOTHING IN MY STOMACH TO THROW UP. It was beyond awful. So Friday afternoon I finally got to take new medicine that put me to sleep and took away the pain! But damn was I tripping out.
I did the ice on, ice off until the third day, then I switched to a damp warm compress. That really helped with the swelling. Now if I could tell you one piece of advice throughout this whole ghastly experience it would be to REST. I decided I was feeling great enough to go to a party on Saturday night and dance the night (and my stitches) away!
It's safe to say it was one if the stupidest ideas I've ever had. I looked awesome, don't get me wrong. An I had a TON of fun celebrating our friend Avery's sixteenth masquerade ball but I woke up in horrifying pain. I cannot open my mouth past two centimeters, I can barely eat, and I'm terribly groggy. Looks like ill be spending most of school tomorrow sleeping in the nurses office.
Can you reserve beds there?...