Friday!

Today is Friday and I can't wait for the weekend!

Also, a big Happy Birthday to my best friend in the world! I wish I could be celebrating your birthday with you in SF but I'll be sending lots of good wishes your way from LA!

Happy Fourth Birthday Blog!

It's so incredibly unbelievable that I started this blog four years ago today. Amazing how fast the time flies and how much I've grown since then.

Happy Fourth Birthday Confessions of a Makeup Addict!

A post birthday spending spree...

Ok, so we all know that I have a highly inappropriate love affair with Anthropologie. Well my lover sent me a 15% off coupon for my birthday to be used by 4/30. I opened it up in the beginning of the month and was super excited to use it and planned on getting some things when I was in San Francisco but the dressing room turned out to be 100ft long waiting line and the bestie and I were with 2 boys who weren't really interested in going to Anthro in the first place or waiting for us for 2 hours. Sooo, I quickly tried on this little guy

and fell in love with it! Its a super soft cardigan and I can wear it to work and look put together and nice. I actually got a green and white one but anthro isn't showing that color available online. So, for one shirt I didn't want to use the coupon. I knew that if I went home and could spend some more leisurely time looking around Id probably find some more stuff that was more my speed. Well luckily yesterday, I double checked the coupon, and lo and behold it expired that day. I managed to leave work early enough to hop over to the Anthropologie on the promenade and this is what I found!

A yummy Santiago Huckleberry Voluspa candle


A French Cade and Lavender Voluspa candle ( aka hot man candle)
I didn't get this navy sweater but I'm toying with getting it. I have lots of black stuff and some brown stuff but no navy things...Hmmm...maybe I'll wait for it to go on sale. They were out of my size in the store and it was too late for them to check the call center.




Luckily, my really attentive cash register lady found this sweater in back and I went for it! Its partially made out of silk and super soft and flowy. Its a nice neutral color and I could wear it with lots of different stuff.
The bf hated this pattern but loved the fit. I loved both the fit and pattern. So I vetoed his opinion :)
and the last item is this charcoal gray fitted sweater. This sweater is professional and put together looking. Its very tight and fitted. I fell in love. Also, the bottom where it is stepped is permanently constructed that way so you always have the perfect ruffled look.
The lucky part, I set a budget, and stuck to it. I actually came under! I do need to get new jeans but that's a different store and maybe a good project for today!

Happy Weekend!

Raechel

P.S. I am sorry my blog posts have become more erratic, spuratic, and maybe boring. I am hoping that once I get back into things I will be back to my old self! Also, if you are still coming back thank you! I try my best to make sure I get a couple of posts in every week at the minimum!

Turning 26 - Part One

Yesterday was my 26th birthday. I spent an amazing weekend in San Francisco hanging out with some of my best friends! I worked on the actual date of my birth but I managed to have fun anyways! This post will probably be broken down into several smaller posts to share my whole experience.

Friday afternoon, we drove up to San Francisco from LA ( about 400 miles). We arrived mid afternoon and got ready to meet good friends and have dinner at Delfina Pizzeria in Pacific Heights.


via delfina's facebook page - delfina website

The pizza was pretty good. We shared a pizza with an egg on it and a spicy fennel sausage pizza. Yum! My only disappointment was in the wines. I'm a true California wine lover and they only had Italian wines. They are just not my cup of wine..erm tea.

After that we headed out to Buckshot and had some drinks ( pretty cheap at $5 for a mixed drink-not well!) and played some ski-ball and just chatted.



This is Nikki and I trying to hold as many ski-balls as possible. It seemed like a good idea at the time! By the way, if you ever have a chance to go a bar that has some of your favorite Chuck E. Cheese games go for it! This place was really fun and a dive bar in the nice, clean fun way. Not the kind where you're not sure if there are STD's on the barstools.

I'll follow up with some more of my trip in the next few days!

Cheers-
Raechel

Ok, I know I know

You've been sleeping restless-ly wondering what do I get Raechel for her b-day. Its quite a challenge but I have solved it kids!



What! A Bear sleeping bag! Scha-weet!!

Wednesday!

Hello Loveys!

I am off to work in a few minutes and haven't much time to blog! Tonight is a coworkers 30th birthday and I plan on having a couple of margaritas! Don't worry I will ride my bicycle so there is no drunk driving. Just peddaling.



via flickr

Cheers