The 20 Something Society

So today I was…can you guess it?  I was walkin around Target.  I had an extra twenty or thirty minutes so I thought to myself….”What better to do than walk round Target?”

Really I was picking up a couple of Christmas presents when something caught my eye….thats how my ADD works.  One minute I’m walking to the registers and the next, ohhh sparkles.

Today it was Dana Kellin for Target.  Her jewelry collection for Target had lots delicate pieces using  blues, champagnes, and peachy pinks in gold.

To take from the site “Her style is a delicate balance of metal wire and naturally sculpted stones – both beautifully modern and timelessly classic.”

The blues were my favorites pieces.

Just wanted to share some street style with ya today.  Howsabout some classic American prep with a modern edge?

I am dying over that bag in the second outfit.  I NEEDS IT!

There are a million awesome things about this time of year and the holidays.  The things that are on my mind are full of calories and totally scrumptious.

Thats right is is definitely time for Starbucks eggnog latte, gingerbread latte, and peppermint mochas!

And just what is the most perfect thing to go with any one of these?  Peppermint bark!  I LOOOVE peppermint bark.  Ghiradelli is yummy and easily accessible, but if you have thirty bucks to drop on chocolate treats my favorite is from Williams-Sonoma.

(p.s. I was browsing the holiday coffee creamers at the grocery store yesterday and there is eggnog latte, maple brown sugar latte, peppermint mocha, white chocolate raspberry, and gingerbread latte!)

One of my besties posted a quote today from THE Elizabeth Taylor and I quite liked it so I made a little something something with it.

Wouldn’t that be fabulous framed in a dressing room?

Annnd since today IS Halloween, why not get a jump on next years costume?!

You can go total drop dead gorgeous glamazon Liz Taylor!

Or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in a vintage slip Liz Taylor!

Either option would be stunning!

Well….not really.  But I have started my christmas shopping! Is it too early to be talking about christmas you guys? Halloween hasn’t even passed us by yet.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday – but I think christmas may be beating it out this year. Maybe me being stuck in North Alabama with no friends that are interested in Halloween and a husband who could care less about it too has gotten me a little down over the past few years. When we were home in Mobile, our friends would dress up and go out with us, which made my husband a little more excited about it. But here – nah. We pretty much dress up and sit around the house watching horror movies-and I have to make him do that much. Can anyone say downer?

I have however been pretty excited about christmas. I’m trying to hold off on pulling out the tunes and movies until after Thanksgiving though. We are going to the hometown this year and I can’t wait to see everyone. I have been really missing my friends over this past year. We are going to get our butts to Bellingrath Gardens while we are there too! If you don’t know about Bellingrath – they are beautiful gardens in Mobile, Alabama – at christmas they put up these spectacular light shows that you can walk through and explore and I haven’t been in five years. Here are a few crappy images taken with a point and shoot from that trip five years ago – just to give you an idea. I will bring my camera this year and take some good images to share with you guys.

and one from the web.

I hope it isn’t hot this year though.  There are pictures of me from the last Mobile christmas wearing my pea coat so that seems promising.

(me with my Granny, mom, and stepdad – Mobile Christmas 2009)

Anyway – I have been waiting for A Very She and Him Christmas to come out and its here!  I had to at LEAST give it a listen before black Friday!  You guys take a listen too.  Zooeys voice is just delightful.

If you guys would like more christmas music suggestions I have another for you – One of my favorite albums is Ella Fitzgerald Wishes You A Merry Christmas and my favorite christmas song ever is Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas performed by Judy Garland.

(subliminal message for Marsha if she is reading this….I sure do hope there are some buckeyes this christmas – wink wink!)

Good Morning All!  This morning I am sitting on my couch, enjoying my second cup of coffee and watching Urban Legend.  Remember that movie?  I haven’t seen it in a long time but it is kind of nostalgic for me.  My 13 year old self watched it a million times on a plastic VHS tape.

I am also window shopping on the web!  I was browsing dresses on Macys.com and stumbled upon somthing I thought I’d share just in case someone had been looking for this.

You guys remember Jennifer Lawrence on the red carpet at the Oscars last year?  There was a lot of buzz about her in her simple red dress?  Here is a little reminder.

I myself was not super impressed.  Sure she looks dang good – but the dress was boring to me….. BUT I know a LOT of ladies out there loved it!

If you have some special occasion coming up and have been looking for a dress like Jennifers – here ya go!

Yes I know the picture is tiny – but its all I could get.  Here is the link for a better look.

http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=595215&CategoryID=5449&LinkType=#fn=sp%3D21%26spc%3D1130

This weeks episode of Community  (Remedial Chaos Theory) was so excellent that I had to tell you guys.  It made me really miss my hometown friends that I can be as goofy as I want to with!  I don’t get to see or talk to them enough!  Here are a couple of videos from the episode.

My brain is always full of ideas buzzing around that I either don’t have the time or money to deal with.  Some things I can do are in the works though!

I am slowly but surely working on rebranding Jacquelyn Jackson Photography and getting a new website up.

Getting rid of the red.  adding kraft and gold.

You like?  I like.

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Our “dining room”  which has always been the room I pile all of my photography equiptment in- is in the process of being turned into a brand spankin new in home studio!   WOOOOOO!  Excitement abounds.  I am so ashamed of my piles upon piles of disorganization that I am not even going to post a before shot.  But I will update ya’ll with an after.

I’m cooking up something big in this head of mine that I would like to do with myself.  But it is so big that I probably won’t be able to actually see it through for three or four years…..

I stumbled across this video – 100 years of dance…and fashion!

who loves currency…and Batman.  I give you-Batman Dolla Bills Yo.