Day Dreaming...

Day Dreaming of moving to the "Oldest City in the Nation" next week. Daydreaming of going to the beach with a big brimmed hat, cold beverage, and a good book. Daydreaming of cruising around downtown on the brick streets atop my single-speed. Its gonna be a great summer. What are your summer plans?

National Park Week 2011

April 16-24, 2011

Get out and discover something new about your 394 national parks. This week in National Park Week where all national parks have free admission! What a great concept! If I could take off a week and roam around our great nation I would go to:

1. Yosemite National Park

2. Redwood National Park

3. Cumberland Island National Park (childhood favorite)

Where would you go Or where WILL you go?

Happy Camping and Enjoy your national treasures!

Welcoming the Weekend

Finally the weekend is here and I am day dreaming of the approaching summer when I can leave town for a few months and R-E-L-A-X! The boy and I aren't able to steal away very often due to my work obligations and his baseball schedule, but every once in awhile we will take a drive to his hometown of St. Augustine, FL for a mini break away from stress and burdens. Do you have a town or place you vacate to escape from day-to-day life for awhile?

A few of my favorite places to visit when I am in "the Aug": -San Sebastian Winery for a glass of local spirits and a spectacular view -The Columbia Restaurant for amazing Spanish cuisine -And absolutely no weekend visit is complete without going to the beach with friends on Sunday w/ a bottle of RUM in tow then ending the day with the festivities of Reggae Sunday at the Conch House
Have you had the pleasure of visiting the oldest city in the nation?

Baseball Fever

Have you seen the oh so cute baseball apparel line Victoria's Secret has put out this season? Makes rooting for your favorite team a bit more fashion forward!! Which team are you rooting for? This season I am leaning towards the Cleveland Indians! ps: the boy is getting drafted...

Rain, Rain....

Oh my goodness...the past few days have been oh so gloomy...and I have been stuck inside with the worst case of cabin fever!! When all the homework is finished and I have rearranged the art on my bedroom walls.... what else is there left to do? What do you do to pass the time on rainy days?

Linking Party

Dedication is not my middle name, but I do so love reading blog after blog after blog. I like to considers someone's blog as the sugar and spice of the inter-workings of my fellow bloggers. And, honestly, I am inspired by each blog I come across. One of my absolute faves is Fabulous K. I read her blog everyday, and she is absolutely fabulous. Her post today is about a Linking Party, a group of bloggers getting together and agreeing to visit new blogs and encourage each other by leaving comments on each others posts! This is my first time participating, but I am super excited!
So.... Welcome to my new readers and it is so nice to meet you!
Please leave a comment and maybe some constructive criticism would be fantastic!


Ciao!

Eco-luxury

Hello readers, if you're out there! I want to tell you about my new beauty obsession! Winks by Georgie Beauty. Winks by Georgie is a false eyelash collection featuring three styles to wear from morning latte to midnight soirée. All false eyelashes are 100% natural and weightlessly voluminous. It’s the perfect eye makeup. Imagine your favorite mascara … x 10! I have always been a fan of false eyelashes, my girlfriends in college can attest to that, but I stop hitting the bar scene and settled into a look that left much to be desired. What happened to the sexy femme fatale days of my early twenties?
Well even though my club hopping days are behind me, I still have the desire to feel put together when we go out with friends, so I wear my Winks! My Winks help me look READY! They take little to no time to apply and they stay on all evening.
A friend of mine developed these little beauties and she should be so proud of what she has created! The best part is that they not only make you look fabulous, they are earth friendly as well.
"For us, a new generation means a new genre of beauty: eco-luxury. Georgie believes that true luxury is the fusion of art and nature, the freedom to indulge thoughtfully every day. We’re working to build a new era in beauty that liberates both consumer and environment by delivering the ultimate eco-luxe experience."
They are available online at Neiman Marcus. Check them out, put them on! You will LOVE them!
Georgie Beauty: Reinventing the Classics

Yummy Nothings...

Although I am not a studied chef and I have never worked in a kitchen, I would still like to call myself a foodie, simply put a foodie is someone who loves to know everything there is to know or learn about food. I acquired my admiration of food and preparing food due largely to my time spent in Italy. The fresh ingredients, the food markets on the weekends, the way a meal brought friends and families together; what is there not to love about food?
Anyhow, tonight I created one of my favorite dishes! It is a very very simple salad with salmon on top. I kinda came across this concoction by trial and error and picking up on ideas from salads I had had in the past, so I know what I like a what I don't like.
So here is the low down on the yumminess....
The Salmon is very easy: On the stove top, put the heat on at a 7 and wait for the pan to heat up before adding your olive oil or salmon. Before placing the salmon in the pan, drizzle a nice amount of honey (yes, honey) and salt and pepper to your liking. Put the honey side down on the pan then adding honey, salt and pepper to the other side. Flip when you feel appropriate. When the salmon begins to flake, let it! Cut the salmon up slightly, this should be easy because of the flaking. When the salmon is cooked entirely remove from heat.
Here is the salad:
Spinach
Red Cabbage (sliced)
Kalamata olives
Feta cheese
sunflower seeds
tomatoes
red onions
Then add whatever dressing you prefer. I always reach for an organic brand that I love, Annie's Goddess Dressing-a must try for happiness.
Happy Eats and Yummy Nothings!


Enjoy,

Sarah Manwaring

Makes you wanna catch a jet plane...

Che una Vespa??

My newest obsession and desire is to purchase my very first vehicle. And not just any vehicle, a Vespa! The Ferrari of Scooters! I might even get frisky and join a Vespa club, where we all get together on Sunday and ride around in big scooter packs. The Vespa is the perfect around town scooter, not only will it save me gas, but it will also help reduce my carbon foot print. How could you not just fall in loves with these things? Too cute! Tres chic! Vespa’s get up to 70 to 75 miles per gallon which is easier on my purse as seeing the gas prices are just going to keep a risin’. What do yall think?

Yummy Organic-ness

Shout out to a local farmer: Dreaming Cow Creamery in Pavo, GA! I love your products! Especially the Vanilla Agave! Thanks for making snacking and buying local a priority to us Thomasvillians! Just recently, I am trying to reduce (and one day eliminate) processed foods from my diet and your product makes it that much easier:) When the 3pm doldrums hit and a snack is a must...I tend to gravitate towards a cookie or a cupcake. Now a quick stroll to the coffee shop or local cheese shoppe and get a cup of yummy creamy 100% ORGANIC yogurt!!!!! Give me Dreaming Cow Yogurt or give me Death or Let them eat YOGURT!
Check out the Dreaming Cow Yogurt to find retailers near you!

The Bees Knees

Honey and Yogurt Cupcake:) Yummy! Find the recipe here at the Cupcake Project

Cute little honey drop earrings

I really am in love with these nature inspired pieces.

Beautiful Honey Comb Mirror perfectly placed above this white couch is my idea of calm collective place to relax.

Honey Bees/Queen Bee

My new motif

As many of you know for a few years I have had a thing about Starfish ( La Stella Marine). No more. My new little guilty obsession is shared between acorns and honey bees. Anything that has either, I will splurge to acquire.Here is a neat cupcake recipe I found including acorns ( sounds festive, but I dont know about appetizing, but I would be willing to try anything that comes in cupcake form) Here is the link to the sweet site I found it @.



I am loving this little contraction! This is actually a little speaker that hooks up to your laptop! I think it is adorable and really fun!
Decorating with acorns is so whimsical! Always appropriate.
Yummy biscuit molds! Fun for Fall social events!


I need this in gold or brass:)

One pound and a few ounces later...

So far so good... I have lost a pound and a few ounces. That's a good thing, right? Actually I had a girl complement my legs the other night at the YMCA. woot woot!! She was a black girl... so maybe she wanted to be thick like me.IDK.
In my desperation to get a smaller waste line, I made an impulse buy and purchased the Ab Contour Belt. It is basically flexing my stomach muscles for me by using a form of electro-shock therapy. I have only tried it once... but I think it sucks...and is a waste of my time and money. Thank god for a 30 day money back guarantee. I may give a few more tries but I would rather go to the gym and kill myself with crunches then walk around being electrocuted. Just sayin'...

Fat and Happy

I’ve been oh-so-happy these past three months. I may have no money, no “real” job (yet 3 jobs to help pay my bills), but life has been pretty easy going. And this may be in part due to my fantastic boyfriend. I’ve been so happy, that within the 3 months that I’ve been dating Rob, I’ve gain at least 12 pounds! Yeap! 12 pounds of fat!!

After my last relationship came to a close (finally) in February, after all the stress and depression, I was sitting pretty at 122 pounds. Nice time to pick up a new beau, right? Thank goodness Rob is a great catch. I warned him that when I get happy, I eat, and gain weight. Jokingly of course…I never actually thought I would let myself gain too much weight. Well, ladies and gents… I am 138pounds!! I almost think that this is the heaviest I’ve ever been…. But the strange thing is… Now that I am getting older I carry the weight nicely… but I don’t care. My ass is still big enough that I had to purchase a new pair of jeans just so I can fit into a pair of pants…. Yeah…I think that’s why I’ve been in such a foul mood for the past week…just coming into the realization that I have not been taking care of myself…. So time to do something about it…. Any encouragement would be fabulous.

So today is Friday, August 06, 2010 and I am starting my fitness plan at 138lbs. My goal is to get back down to 125. Wish me luck!

August

Where are you windy days that force me to pull out my wool cardigans and leather boots? Where are the noises of crunching leaves under my feet? August has come out of nowhere! It is still so HOT! Come on cool morning, warm afternoons, and breezy evenings!