Alt For Everyone

It is Sunday, my usual day for cleaning the house. However, today I do not feel like cleaning. I have too much on my mind after my wonderful weekend attending Alt for Everyone! I knew it was going to be an exciting experience but it still surpassed my expectations!!

Alt for Everyone is the online version of Alt Summit, a business conference for bloggers. It is a three day event consisting of seven classes, one key note, and one meet up. The classes are so informative and interesting. I absolutely loved the ones I was able to take…

·         Coding for Bloggers

·         Photoshop for Bloggers

·         Graphic Design: Layout & Composition

·         Graphic Design: Color & Typography

·         Graphic Design: Logo Designs (Loved!!)

·         Photo Styling 101

·         Growing Your Blog: A Case Study

Laurie Smithwick of Leap Design taught all of the graphic design classes. She is absolutely incredible!! Each class was just an hour but I learned more than I ever expected!

The Photoshop class was also great! I knew nothing about Photoshop but I have always been very curious about it!! It was only an hour long class so I am not a pro or anything but I now know how to do all the important things I could ever want to do with the program!

There was also a chat section on the website so we could interact with the other bloggers. It was so great meeting so many wonderful bloggers and seeing how different each of their sites was!! Oh, did I mention all the cute goodies they sent!?!?

Something New!

Since Ben and I bought our house, money has been pretty tight. I feel like we are always saving to buy something new we need or to fix something old that has decided to be difficult!! It has become very frustrating! I finally decided it was time for me to treat myself to something nice!

Aren’t they gorgeous?? I am very excited! I absolutely love Tory Burch! She is one of my favorite designers! I have had my eye on another Tory item that I am hoping to purchase on our trip to New York!!

My mom, my sisters, and I are going on a weekend trip to New York in October! I cannot wait! The last time I was in New York was for Coterie three years ago!!! That is wayyy too long! We each get to pick one thing we want to do… I picked the Tory Burch store!!

 

I am also super excited about the Eloise store at the Plaza! It looks so adorable!!

 

 

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Weekend Fun!

My sister Hollis and I had a yard sale Saturday. It was our first yard sale and I have mixed emotions about it!

When we first decided to have a yard sale I was pretty excited! I thought it would be fun and we would also make some extra money! Not as fun as I thought...

I didn't realize how much work actually goes into it. Picking out what to sell and what to keep, moving it all to the location of the sale, pricing everything, setting it all up... It might not sound like much but I promise it is!!

I think my favorite part was playing football with Lawson and Ben during the slow periods!!

This coming weekend is Ben's birthday and the beer and wine festival! The festival is at riverfront park and has over 16 wineries and 24 breweries!! Last year was my first time going and I had a blast! There is live music, local vendors, and food vendors!!

 

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Happy Monday!

 

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Football Season

Just one week until football season officially starts!! If you don’t know me, I am referring to the Alabama – VA Tech game. I cannot express to you how ready I am for football season! My husband and I are both fans of the SEC but not the same school… he is a Tennessee fan! This does make football season in our home a little more interesting.

He loves to point out that the SEC goes in cycles and one day Alabama will fall and Tennessee will be back on top. I think he forgets that I was a fan before Saban took over. Trust me… I remember losing to many schools including Tennessee!!

I want to thank Shelby for passing this article my way! And I will admit I did not follow number 5! We did get married during football season… on the day of the Alabama Tennessee game!! Number 8… oh how I agree with that one! Unfortunately I have to live with the color!! I hate to admit it but I own two items of Tennessee apparel.... Shocking I know! One is a sweatshirt Ben's mom gave me to wear to a game two years ago and the other is a jacket Ben got me to wear to the Vanderbilt game. I will be wearing an Alabama shirt underneath that jacket!!! I can't wait to take Ben to a bama game so I can make him wear some Alabama apparel!!

This one is cute too!

Roll Tide!

 

 

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Beautiful Bedrooms

 

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Monday

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you had a fabulous weekend! We celebrated my dad's birthday this weekend! Birthdays are such a great time for family to get together and celebrate... And eat cake!

 

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