Weekend Wrap

We had such a great weekend! We managed to get so much done around the house but still had a lot of fun, too. After work on Friday, I headed to Buckhead Church to attend Grouplink- where you can join a small group. I did this once in college and loved it, so I was looking forward to meeting some new people in the area. I think I found myself a great group of girls and can't wait to see them all on Wednesday!

When I got home, sweet Doug had cleaned up the apartment a little, bought a few groceries, and even had flowers for me! What a wonderful thing to come home to! We watched "The Other Sister" (I love this movie!) but had to finish it in the morning because we were both so sleepy...which is the case every night!

On Saturday, we did some more work around the house and then went out on a double date with one of Doug's friends from highschool and his girlfriend. We went to see "No Strings Attached" (we all loved it) and then went to dinner at a local cantina, Tin Roof, which had great food but THE WORST service I've ever seen. We were seated for 30 minutes before our waitress even greeted us...and another 15 before she brought our drinks/took our order. Then brought us the wrong food. Yeah, it was bad. Despite that, we had a great time with Craig and Becky!

We went to Marietta for part of the day on Sunday so Doug could run at the trail. So I went out to eat with my family and then went shopping with my mom. And we made a little trip to get some cupcakes! Gigi's Cupcakes are THE BEST!

I also posted our old TV stand on Craigslist this weekend, and I got several emails about it. I decided to write back to one guy because he also lives in Decatur. We emailed back and forth a few times about it and he decided to come pick it up, so I give him directions and we find out that he lives in our neighborhood! We all just couldn't believe that! So now we have a nice new neighbor friend!

I finished my February book already- whoops! I read "Happy Ever After" by Nora Roberts and of course, loved it. It's the 4th in the wedding quartet and it did not disappoint! I'm going to start "Water for Elephants" tomorrow.
I have been terrible about taking pictures lately, so I will try to liven this blog up a little bit soon! Also, I have several DIY posts coming soon! Our apartment is almost complete so hopefully I will have those pictures up soon!

One more thing - I have already gotten some dresses in for Share the Dress, so if you have some you want to donate, let me know and I will pick them up from you! :)

Share the Dress

Hey ladies! Have any old prom dresses you need to get rid of? I have the perfect solution for you...

One of Doug's co-workers, Miranda, recently co-founded a new charity called Share the Dress. It's awesome and I'm hoping to get more involved with it. I'll let her explain it for you...

Share the Dress is a community outreach project designed to make sure every girl in Rockdale and Newton counties who is financially unable to afford a dress on their own, receives one absolutely free. We have the opportunity to take our project into 6 public high schools. We use everything from flyers to facebook to get the word out to the girls within these schools. There are actually a few schools that have agreed to allow us to come in and personally share the information with the girls. So far, the reception has been great! We do not require any financial documentation, just a high school ID. We would never want any girl to feel embarrassed about their financial situation so we just have to trust and let the girls decide whether or not this is the event for them.

Since Share the Dress will be holding it’s very first event this year we have no idea of how many girls to expect. While we don’t want to expect too much we also don’t want to be unprepared, so we have a goal to reach 150 girls. We would like a 3:1 ratio, so our goal number of dresses is 450. We currently have 100 dresses. We are about 1 month away from our first Share the Dress Event and we are about 2 months away from our second event.

Our first Share the Dress Event on February 26 will reach out directly to one high school. Their prom falls much earlier than the other high schools involved, so we wanted to make sure they had a chance to shop also. The event will be held at Golden Razor Academy in Covington, GA. The girls will arrive and be able to go shopping and take home any dress of their choice. They will also receive a bag full of health and beauty products. After they have made their dress selection, their name will go into a free raffle where they could be chosen to receive either a hair up-do, makeup application, manicure and pedicure, a boutonniere and corsage or dinner to be used on the day of their prom. All of these services have been generously donated by local area businesses.

Our second Share the Dress Event on April 2 will be open to 5 high schools (this is the big one that we need so many dresses for!!). This event will take place at Central Community Church Teen Center in Covington, GA. Their experience will be pretty much the same and each school will receive the above free raffles also. At this event we will have personal shoppers available to help the girls make their selection. We are so excited to have both Miss High School Georgia and Miss Teen Georgia as personal shoppers. We will also have limited alterations available at the events. They will be able to hem dresses and make minor alterations. We still need many dresses for this event as well as donations from salons, florists and restaurants.

If you would like to donate dresses and you live in the area, you can bring them to our dress drive this weekend, January 29 at Central Community Church Teen Center in Covington between 10 and 2. If you live in the metro Atlanta area, you can give them to me, or you can ship them. We do not care if the dresses are wrinkled as we will be steaming each one. We just ask that nothing is stained or torn. You can ship the dress directly to Miranda Tamaska 4466 HWY 138 Stockbridge, GA 30281.

 

Proms were one of my favorite things about high school (a lot of it had to do with wearing beautiful dresses!) and I just love this idea to help girls that normally would not be able to attend. I have had all of my dresses stuffed in a closet for years, not knowing what to do with them, so this is the perfect opportunity to get some extra closet space and help out girls in need!

 

If you are a vendor and can help with raffle items or alterations, please leave me a comment with your email and I will contact you with more information! And if you do send in dresses, let me know!

 

Thanks for listening! :)

    

Guilty Pleasure TV

I'm not all the way adjusted to the early mornings/full time job yet, so when I get home from work, I want to just sit and do nothing. I need some mindless entertainment. Last night was an exceptional night for this. I had the best night of guilty pleasure TV.

First, I started with an episode of Boy Meets World I had recorded on my DVR (best. invention. ever.) Then, I watched Monday's Oprah episode about her new sister. Then, it was time for Glee. It was a re-run, but it was one of my favorite episodes, and that wedding scene makes me cry every time!

After that is when it realllllllly got good. Have any of y'all ever seen Bridalplasty? Ohhh it is so ridiculous! But I love it. I haven't seen every episode, since I only catch re-runs now and then, but last night had to be my favorite so far. Next week is the finale so I will definitely be tuning in for that. I hope Janessa gets the beat down!

After that, Holly's World came on. I used to watch The Girls Next Door because I loved Bridget, but Holly's show is pretty fun to watch, too. My favorite part was when Jayde (Holly's nemesis) asked Holly how old she was turning. When Holly said 32, Jayde replied with "That's like 60 in Vegas years!" Doug and I got a good laugh out of that. It was a great night of television.

One of my very favorite guilty pleasure shows is Pretty Little Liars. I  L O V E  this show. I am absolutely hooked and can't wait to find out more every Monday night. I love me some Ezra + Aria! The age range of viewers for this show is probably 12-18, but who cares. It's SO GOOD!

And one of my other favorites is The Bachelor. Sadly, I haven't watched a single episode of this season yet. It comes on at the same time PLL does, so I chose that and then never found the time to watch the first episodes online. Now that I have my DVR, I need to catch up before the season is over!

So what are your guilty pleasure shows? I know everyone has them! :)