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Friday Favorites

It’s time to share some of my favorites this week!

Blog Posts

Steph’s Ways to Simplify in October! I love her monthly simplify posts in general!

The Nueva Latina has got me prepped for a month of Halloween Movies to watch!

A Girl from TX’s post: 10 Austin ACL Festival Tips You Need For Festival Prep and it even includes a perfect list of what to pack. Even though I am not new to festivals this is my first ACL.

Recipes

On my Fall Bucket List I talked about all the Fall treats I want to make so I was excited to see Sally’s Baking Addiction’s post about Homemade Caramel Apples.

Books

I finished With the Fire On High this week and I enjoyed it. I plan to do a fun review of it with maybe a recipe from the book next week!

Music

Since I am going to ACL on Sunday I have been listening to all the artists playing that day and I can’t even pretend not to be excited about Lizzo

Instagram

Pie Lady Books – Makes me want to bake pies with my books instead of making cocktails to match.

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Those are my favorites this week! What stuck with you this week?

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Prime Purchases – August

Even though I constantly tell myself not to shop Amazon is seriously just so convenient! Especially with Prime days last month!

I’m linking up with Tanya at The Other Side of the Road for Prime Purchases this month!

First, my old kindle was kind of slow and a little beat up so I had been thinking of trading it in for a discount on a newer one. Luckily I waited and did it during Prime Days so I got a $10 credit for the old one + 25% discount on a new one. During Prime Days it was $49.00 for a Kindle Fire HD 8″. Ended up paying $20.00 for a brand new kindle.

The F*ck It Diet – I have been really working on body positivity this year and in doing so I am trying so hard to rid myself of negative “diet culture” ideas. I was recommended this book by a friend who swears by it after many years of yo-yo dieting! I’m excited to read it.

Looking for a summer coverup for my spaghetti strap dresses in the cold restaurants and stores and I found this one! It doesn’t quite fit the way she is wearing it unless you get it much larger or stretch it out but I really like it. Top Here

The Curly Co Collapsible Diffuser – My diffuser is ancient. I mean old old and often sticks to my hair and causes massive frizz so it was time to upgrade. Followed the instagram rabbit hole of curly hair posts and found lots of reviews of this one!

Now that I look at my orders I really didn’t order as much as I thought I did! I’m excited to check out everyone’s purchases!

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High Five for Friday

Linking up for High Five on Friday!

Weather

While the midwest was getting horrendous double digit negative degree weather I was down here in Austin hanging out outside in a light jacket and feeling the sun on my face. I’m a jerk, I know. That is why I was sending screenshots of the weather report to my family. But honestly. One of the top 5 reasons I wanted to leave Chicago was weather. I suffer from SAD and those winter months are brutal on my mental health. Its even so bad that during that stretch of Oct/Nov that it rained almost daily I started to feel it. We did get a nasty cold front earlier this week though (high of 28, I was not happy)

Cooking

AJS and I have been doing so good with cooking! We try to make a meal or have leftovers Sun-Thurs and for the month of January we did pretty well!! Some of the meals from the past week: Steak sandwiches, honey garlic chicken & rice, apple stuffing with pork chops and potato salad

Book Club

Ive talked all about Girly Book Club and using meetup to make friends. I hosted my first Book Club meetup of 2019 in January (and ever) and we had 15 girls total! How exciting is that? We sat around a firepit since there wasn’t enough space for all of us inside and we hung out, talked about the book “The Wife Between Us” and made new friends. I loved that most of us were in agreement about the book, plus quite a few of us exchanged phone numbers after! Unfortunately, we asked a stranger to get a photo of us so it came out kind of blurry and a mess.

Spring Break

We are only 8 days out till vacation!! And only 5 school days till we get there. Yes!!!

Social Media Growth

I really started focusing on the blog more over the past few months which led me to starting a new instagram. While it is definitely slow going I passed the 300 follower mark this week and I am super excited about that! I’ve been paying attention to the kinds of posts that are causing spikes in followers and also my hashtags and it is paying off!

Favorite Links!

I wanted to show some love to some fellow bloggers that I love this week too!

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