Christmas Cookies

With Christmas rapidly approaching, I know Thanksgiving was yesterday but I have been listening to Christmas Pandora for a month now (judge me), my very spirited friend Kyle and I decided to make our first batch of gingerbread men for the season! As we baked we watched That's So Raven Christmas special and sang our favorite Christmas jingles (again, judge me). So to get my followers kick started on some Christmas cookie baking I have provided some links to some awesome looking cookie recipes! Bon appetit!

Gingerbread Men

Peppermint Meringues

Roly-Poly Santas

Mint Chocolate Trees

or for your own exploring... http://www.christmas-cookies.com/

xoxo

What Would Claire Wear: Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Let me start by saying how thankful I am for all of my followers. You guys keep me motivated to dress fabulous everyday:] I am such a lucky girl. I have an incredible family, even more incredible friends, and have been blessed with such a privileged life.

Wondering what to wear to Thanksgiving dinner? I put together what I find the ideal Thanksgiving outfit, roomy enough to eat whatever the hell one would want.

• Top
• SO warm. It is very practical & it will hide the food baby waiting to be conceived. I love the cutout shoulders on this sweater and it is also the perfect shade for the season. I got this sweater from www.chicwish.com a couple of months ago. 

• Bottom
• Just the normal black jeans, nothing special about them. This is my super old pair, I choose to wear these because they are stretchier. They are from Urban Outfitters. 

• Shoes
• I am wearing black booties with a thick black heel. All 4'11 of me could really use the extra height. These shoes are very old, I want to say they are from Sears. (thick wool socks will indeed be worn)

• Hair/Make-up/Accessories 
• I really could wear my hair however with this outfit but I choose to wear it down for warmth purposes. I wore minimal eye make-up because I wanted to wear my deep lipstick called "Perfect Plum".  You cannot really see them but I am also wearing silver hoops. A wise bombshell once told me "when you are feeling frumpy or mom-like, ALWAYS wear hoops". And lo and behold she was right. I am also wearing a very old grey pea coat that I adore. Super warm and super practical. It is from the North Pole, Santa brought it.

Have a wonderful day beauties! Love you guys

xoxo

Updates

Hello dolls!
So I have been organizing and putting a lot of work into my blog lately in order to regulate it. I will start to do things a little differently from now on, don't worry it will still be the same old me!
I will now post on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I am designating Wednesdays "What Would Claire Wear Wednesdays" and the other two days will just be general blog posts. I will also throw in other posts here and there but this should start to get things going.
Happy Holidays<3

xoxo

Rainy Day Rituals

Rainy days are my favorite days. I feel no pressure to be productive on days like so. It is like a rejuvenating day where the rest of the world halts, so I do not have to feel bad about missing out on anything. My rainy days usually consist of the same thing, and I do not feel the least bit bad about spending my day in bed. After all, why leave the house when you can indulge in the laziness of a rainy day?

Rainy days are perfect for ________.

• sleeping in
• “A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.” -Elizabeth Jane Howard 

• baking
• Although some recipes may require a quick trip to the store, throw on some galoshes and a trench coat and you will survive... I promise.
• Butterscotch Pots de Creme
• Coconut and Dark Chocolate Popovers
• Apple Pie Cookies

• drink coffee
• if there is a fire in the fire place then I would suggest hot chocolate as a holiday alternative 

• watch Sex and the City 
• self explanatory 

•  waste (but not really waste considering it is raining) infinite amounts of time of the internet 
• http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-ryan-gosling-did-in-2013-that-are-4234234234-billion
• http://www.glamour.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCaA6IazFA
• http://www.vevo.com/artist/beyonce

Hope your rainy days are as unproductive as mine are!

xoxo

New Orleans Lady

On Saturday two of my dearest girlfriends and I made a day trip to New Orleans. Growing up in Louisiana it is expected that I frequent the big easy but that is not so. It is about a two and a half hour drive from where I live and finding time to make the trek is difficult. Caroline, Kyle, and I had to go for a few reasons.
1.) The girls volleyball team from my school made it to state so we had to go and support them.
2.) Caroline's art was published in a cook book (seen here). She had a signing for it to attend. She is basically a celeb, "It was bound to happen sooner or later"- Caroline.
3.) A little retail therapy was MUCH needed. All I bought was panties, but the right undergarments can make or break my day. The sassier the panties, the sassier the girl .

During our time there we shopped, ate at Cafe Du Monde, and walked the streets of NOLA. I must say, It was a grand time.

I wore an oversized off the shoulder white sweater (old), high- waisted jeans from Urban, and heeled booties (old)... you know, the ones that made my feet bleed in Paris, but looking glamorous was worth it. I also wore a deep plum lipstick, not to be cheesy but it seriously transformed the whole entire look.

From my short day trip to New Orleans, I have realized that I want to become a regular there. I intend to go back over Thanksgiving break! Don't worry, many more outfits will come soon. This weather has me on a styling frenzy!

xoxo

***VS Fashion Show '13***

Everyone stop what you are doing immediately. It is the most important day in television (in my opinion); more important than the presidential election, more important than the Superbowl, more important than the Thanksgiving Day Parade (hardly)... it is the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show! :]]]]] Although it is being taped this afternoon in NYC, it will air on CBS on December 10 and yes I am counting down the days. The show will feature some of our classic favorites such as Adriana, Candice, Lily, Alessandra, Lindsay, and many more. There will also be some sexy new faces to stare at in envy as well. The aftermath of show is a sequence like so: I get motivated to work out, I strut around in panties and such in my room, I sink into the depths of sorrow, I eat ice cream.

So it worth watching the show? It sure is.

Let's look back on some of my favorite moments in VSFS history:

1. My favorite moment in VS history is when Adriana Lima came out as the ring leader for a circus themed segment of the 2012 show. She literally owned it... and it was only EIGHT WEEKS after she gave birth to her second child. Like why God? Why can't I be her?

2. Alessandra Ambrosio reveled the 2012 fantasy bra she would be wearing that costs a cool $2.5 million dollars. Um excuse me what? Were the diamonds harvested by Jesus Christ himself?

3. My third favorite VS moment is when Maroon 5 played at the show in 2011. Adam Levine was strutting the catwalk as well, holding hands with is (now ex) girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna. At the time it was literally my every fantasy come true.

4. In the 2012 show, Rihanna was werking it with the best of them as she performed her hit "Diamonds" and walked along side a blond VS bombshell.

HONORABLE MENTION: 

*Miranda Kerr showing off the 2011 fantasy bra in the finale... what I wouldn't give to see her walk the Victoria's Secret runway just one last time... 

So start planning your Fashion Show party now. Prepare your sassiest pjs and gather your friends, it's going down. Cannot wait to see the Victoria's Secret team outdo themselves again this year!

xoxo 


http://shonshyne.com/VS_Models/Adriana_Lima/ringleader_1.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/fantasy-bra-25-million-victorias-secrets_n_1980278.html

http://arc-records.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Adam-Levine-of-Maroon-5-at-2011-Victorias-Secret-Fashion-Show.jpg

http://unitedvirtuoso.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2012-Victoria-Secret-Fashion-Show-14.jpg
http://style.mtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/miranda-kerr-victorias-secret-fashion-show.jpg

Nothing was the Same

I have had quite the emotional weekend. I got to see my one true love, Drake, live in concert in the New Orleans Arena. Opening up for him was Miguel, and he was very suave if I must say. But seriously... I would recommend that every single person alive go see Drake. It was hands down the most incredible concert I have ever been to! It was me being white as can be with one of my friends and I regret nothing. A lady got chosen to go up on stage and Drizzy sang "Hold On, We're Going Home" to her. I was so freaking jealous. Today while I was listening to him in my car I thought about what would have happened if he would have called me up there and I started crying... I am not pathetic, I am devoted. I am actually sad because I won't get to see any more of the concerts on this tour.Everything he performed was top notch.

 

**notice the little mama putting on her lipstick towards the end**

SO grateful for one of the best nights my life. Drake was indeed correct.. Nothing was the Same.