Kelli's Graduation Weekend/Blogger Meet-Up

I had a great weekend celebrating my sister's graduation from NCSU.  Here are a few pictures.  

Kelli and her BF

Kelli and The Rents

Me and the Kel

The NCSU Belltower!

Me and Kelli at church today, it was graduation Sunday.

The Rents have been proudly rocking the tailgating flags the entire weekend in honor of The Kel graduating

and on a totally different note, I had my first "blogger meet-up" last week with Carolina City Girl!  I found her blog when I first started blogging and have been following it every since. While she's back in Raleigh and on a break from grad school, we decided to do dinner.  We ate at Piola in Raleigh, which is my favorite place EVER to eat pizza . Their mozzarella cheese is AMAZING.... We had a great evening, can't wait to do it again Christin! Below are a few pictures that she took (I need a nice camera like she has...)

My hair looks so blonde in this picture... 

Best. Pizza. Ever. If you ever get a chance to eat at a Piola, take it!

Friday's Fancies - Congrats Kelli!

Today for Friday’s Fancies with {av}, at {long distance loving}, I put together my dream outfit for a verrrry special event this weekend…. My sister Kelli’s graduation from NC State!!  I only wish I could’ve gone through college with an outlook more like hers.  She is one of the most laid back people I know, homegirl doesn’t worry about much.  She would casually say at 10:30 pm on the night before a huge paper was due, “oh yeah, I need to write that paper, but I’ll get it done. “  and she did!  Congrats Sista, I’m proud of you!

And as always, GO PACK! 

Congrats Kelli! by jlmoss721 featuring sleeveless dresses

Givenchy sleeveless dress
$1,295 - mytheresa.com

Black wedge heels
$795 - rupertsanderson.com

Kenneth Jay Lane black necklace
79 EUR - pret-a-beaute.com

Diamond earring
tacori.com

Red Modern Furniture - Howard Finster - Howard Finster Howling Wolf...
1stdibs.com

I Loveee Beach Music!

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Tonight I'm doing two of my most favorite things... listening to beach music and socializing!  Every Thursday night, beginning the last week of April through the end of August, North Hills in Raleigh has its Midtown Music Concert Series... aka, a different beach music band plays every week!  I love it because it's a great way to wind down at the end of the week and of course, I love to socialize! 

me and my friend Morgan being social at N Hills last year

Check out the great bands on the schedule!



April 28 – The Embers

May 5- Sleeping Booty

May 12- North Tower

May 19- Craig Woolard Band

May 26 – the Magnificents

June 2- Band of Oz

June 9 – Liquid Pleasure

June 16 – the Fantastic Shakers

June 23 – the Holiday Band

June 30 – The Embers

July 7 – the Catalinas

July 14 – The Attractions

July 21 – Jim Quick and the Coastline Band
  
July 28 – Craig Woolard Band 

August 4 – Fabulous Kays

August 11 – Band of Oz

August 18 – Liquid Pleasure

August 25 – The Embers

Welcome Everley Marie!!

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Congrats to one of my best friends, Kim, and her husband DJ, on the birth of their baby girl!!! Everley Marie graced them with her presence yesterday at 1:35 pm, which was 6 weeks before her due date!!!  She was having some breathing and heart issues so she had to come out early, but thankfully she's doing much better now.  She weighed 5 lbs, 2 ounces and was 17 3/4 inches long. 

Please say a little prayer for his beautiful little girl and for her mama' s fast recovery.

Congrats Kim and DJ, I can't wait to meet her!!!

Jimmy Buffett Concert Recap

I'm a little (a lot) late on this, but here are pictures from the Jimmy Buffett concert a few weeks ago.  I ended up re-wearing my parrot shirt. I mean what could be more perfect for  JB concert?!? We had a blast! 

My friends Felisha and Carmen came from Wilmington!

 I was fascinated with this chair... I need one for tailgating!

 

 Me and my sister Kelli!

 fins to the left, fins to the right... 

I'll leave you with this - I heard Jimmy Buffett's song "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" on the radio yesterday (they need to play his songs more!) and this part of the song really stuck with me... 

I wish I could jump on a plane
So many nights I just dream of the ocean
God I wish I was sailin' again
Oh, yesterday's over my shoulder
So I can't look back for too long
There's just too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can't go wrong 

Sea It... Love It... - Kohl's

I was on Kohls.com looking for something (I can't even remember what now) and came across these great nautical things. 

Deep Sea Quilt Bedding

(How PotteryBarn-esque is this??)

Seashell Kitchen Towel

Seashell Sheet Set

Seashell Quilt Coordinates

Starfish Necklace

Seahorse Towel

Outdoor Starfish Plate

What do you like the best? 

Sea It...Love It... - Furbish

Last month, I posted here and here about the store Furbish.  I had browsed around on the online store several times before I put two and two together and realized that I actually drive by the real Furbish store everyday on my way to work...  On Friday afternoon, I finally got the chance to go in there for the first time! It's an awesome store with a lot of vibrant colors and great things.   

After lusting over a barnacle cluster on the Furbish website, I finally got to make one of them mine! They come in a few different sizes, but I got the larger one and put it on my fireplace hearth.  Below is a picture of it.  I love it!

I also got these starfish earrings. 

Next time I go in there, I really want to get one of the sea urchin decorations below.  They remind me of all the ones I saw while snorkeling in Key West. 

I need some advice though... If I get one of these, I want to spray paint it a dark purple color to resemble the sea urchins I saw in Key West.  

Do y'all think this would work?  Is it a good idea? I wonder how well they'd spray paint.... and I hope that if I go to the trouble, that it would actually really look like one...

Thoughts on my random desire to paint one of these are welcome :-)