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Falling in Love + #YOLOmondays Link-Up!

Happy Monday, you guys!

I am exhausted from an AMAZING weekend up in Leesburg, Virginia for my little sister’s wedding (my little sister from my sorority… I don’t have a biological little sister). It was absolutely STUNNING. Seriously. Amazing. And it was so good to spend time with friends.

I just thought I’d share some photos from the weekend

Since my husband couldn’t come up until Saturday, I took the train up on Friday. It was SO FUN. Seriously. I love the train now! Free wi-fi, gorgeous scenery, and so much graffiti. Okay, I know that’s weird, but if you know me, you know I LOVE graffiti… when done well. Seriously. I think it’s awesome. Don’t judge.

Photos from the train…

Graffiti!!

Got into town on Friday evening and headed to Amy’s parent’s house for the rehearsal dinner.

This is me, Amy (the bride to be!), and Claire (my grandlittle):

Bridesmaids with our AWESOME monogrammed robes that Amy got us!

Love these girls. We all happen to be Phi Mus, too.

Getting my hair did on Saturday…

Hair done!

In the hotel room getting ready!

Just hanging out before the wedding.

Some lovely Phi Mu bridesmaids… and Connor!

Holly Chapple did the bouquets and flowers… seriously. HOW amazing are these? GORGEOUS.

We happened to run into this random lady roaming the streets of Leesburg talking to undecided voters. She was actually quite interesting to talk to!

The beautiful bride…

Me and my big, Ashley at the reception!

First dance as husband and wife!

It was seriously an amazing weekend and I will be sure to share more pics with y’all once Katelyn posts them! YES! Katelyn James shot Amy’s wedding, too! Katelyn was our wedding photographer!

Anywho.

OKAY, so NOW it is time for the #YOLOmondays LINK-UP with my awesome co-host Carly from Lipgloss & Crayons! If this is your first time here, #YOLOmondays is a chance for us toliterallylink up anything we want (as long as it’s a blog post…). You know, cause it’s Monday, and what better way to jazz up your mundane Monday than to link up and meet some new bloggers?

Also, #YOLO stands for You Only Live Once. Inquiring minds wanted to know.

Carly and I love seeing y’all linked up every week!

The Rules for #YOLOMONDAYS Link-Ups:

Grab a button and / or post a link back here in your BLOG POST (NOT your blog’s main page) so your readers know what all the #YOLOMONDAY-ness is about. We love you guys linking up and we do go through and read all your posts… so if you do not give credit, we will have to remove your link. That’s no fun, right? Right. So be nice and share a link! Pretty please?
Link your blog post up using the linky tool below! It can be ANYTHING! An outfit post, a giveaway, a story, a recipe, whatever. Why? Cause it’s #YOLOMONDAYS!
Visit a blog or four that you’ve never been to before and leave a #YOLOMONDAYS comment – you never know, you might “meet” someone new that you will lurve!
Have fun! Cause #YOLO!

The Aztec Printed Shirt, Pink Jeans, & a Weekly Link-Up is COMING!

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[Outfit Deets: Shirt and Jeans: Zara, Jean Jacket: LOFT (old), Bag: Longchamp (old), Blush Flats: Fab'rik Chapel Hill, Pink and Gold Bangles: Forever21, Silver Bow Bangle: Jewelmint]

You guys, remember how I said the Las Vegas club scene wasn’t exactly my thing? Well, I’m going to be totally honest with you. I NEVER go shopping. Okay, never is an exaggeration… but RARELY. It’s RARE.

Like, I will grab something that I need here or there or snag a sweet deal at the Target clearance rack for $7 – but I rarely have money to actually spend time, SHOPPING. When you’re trying to save money like crazy and raise money for a mission trip – spending extra American dollhairs on clothes just ain’t in the cards.

One day, perhaps, but not right now… and I’m totally OKAY with that. Honestly, it’s been really fun remixing the stuff I already have.

But that’s honestly a conversation for another day.

SO, when I was in Vegas last week for work, the last night we were in Vegas, everyone went out for a big fancy dinner and then went to the club. Now, that’s totally fine – but I was SO tired and frankly – I just wanted to kinda be in my own zone. You know what I mean? Well, instead of spending my money on a fancy dinner and drinks – I went to the MALL right next to our hotel, got Chipotle for dinner (yeah, I got Chipotle in Vegas… sue me), and went SHOPPING.

Now, I didn’t go crazy, but it was fun to just walk around the mall and snag a few deals.

Also, the mall had a ZARA. Now, I lurve Zara, but there is NO ZARA NEAR ME. Sadface. Well, I was floored. Seriously, for a second whilst walking around The Zara, thought I was hyperventilating – they have so many pretty things there.

WELL, long, rambling story short, I snagged these blush pink jeans and this aztec printed top you see before you. And, all together, the jeans and top were only $50!! The jeans were on sale for $30 and the top was on sale for $20. NOT BAD, if you ask me!

SO yeah, I love this outfit. It might be my new favorite outfit right now. For reals. Now I paired it with the jean jacket in some of the photos for bits and giggles… but no way jose did I actually wear it all day – it is HOT AS ALL GETOUT here in North Carolina. My golly. And the humidity. SHEESH.

So, do you love the Aztec Print? Are you Zara-less where you live, too?

ANYWAY, Moving on.

ON TO OTHER EXCITING NEWS.

I have a fun, exciting, announcement to share with you – VIDEO BELOW (click here if you can’t see the video):

YES. So, either A) if you couldn’t understand me cause I was talking so fast, or B) you can’t watch the YouTubes at work, here’s the dealio:

STARTING THIS MONDAY, June 25th, 2012 – I am starting a WEEKLY MONDAY LINK-UP PARTY! YES!

It’s going to be called: #YOLOMONDAYS.

There are a ton of awesome Wednesday link-up parties, and Friday link-up parties, but I haven’t come across a sweet MONDAY LINK-UP (at least I haven’t found one yet...). And plus, doesn’t everyone traditionally “hate” Mondays? Don’t we all need a reason to LOVE Mondays?

Well, #YOLOMONDAYS is bringing the sexy back to MONDAYS.

You can link up here… EVERY MONDAY. What are you linking up? You ask…

WHATEVER YOU WANT.

It can be an outfit post, a DIY craft, a story, happenings from you weekend, a photo, musings, WHATEVER. It’s MONDAY and You Only Live Once (#YOLO)… so why not enjoy it and share what you want, right?! Right.

THUS, #YOLOMONDAYS has been born.

All I ask is that you link up something awesome and you include a link back on your blog – you know, so people that read your blog know what the #YOLOMONDAYS is all about. Plus, you wanna spread the Monday joy, right?! Right.

You can also use this nifty #YOLOMONDAYS graphic, too… if you like.

Here’s the HTML Code if you need it:

OR THIS ONE:

HTML Code if you need it:

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Yeah. So that’s it. Happy Thursday, y’all! Who’s pumped for #YOLOMONDAYS? I know I am. If you couldn’t tell already

xoxo, all for now.

Oh, I’m also linking up with Two Thirty-Five Designs for Casual Friday link-up!

Friday High Fives!

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You guys, remember how I told you I was gonna blog twice on Fridays? Well, this is me blogging twice on Fridays. WHAT?! I know.

Well, a lot of bloggers I follow do “High Five For Friday” posts. I decided to call my similar version of “High Five for Friday” just “Friday High Fives” to celebrate awesome stuff that happened during the week and or high five for things that are GOING to happen this weekend.

I dunno, I thought it would be fun.

[I’m linking up with Lauren at From My Grey Desk

Anywho. This week’s HIGH FIVES:

I love these Instagrams I took at Furniture Market last weekend. I thought the Instagrams didn’t fit in the actual Market post, but thought they were fun, so I figured including them here would elicit at least ONE high-five.

HIGH FIVE FOR MARKET!

MY DAVE MATTHEWS TICKET CAME IN THE MAIL! Gah. I can’t wait for May 23rd!!!!!!

HIGH FIVE FOR DAVE!

Remember when JIMMY FALLON, BARACK OBAMA, and DAVE MATTHEWS came to UNC on Tuesday and did a show from Memorial Hall and it aired on TV complete with Jimmy saying “Duke Sucks” and wearing a CAROLINA sweatshirt? Yeah, me too. #GoHeels #GoAmerica

HIGH FIVE FOR FALLON!

Remember when WRAL REALLY paid attention and pulled this little talking point from Obama’s speech?

HIGH FIVE FOR CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!

You guys may not know this, but I love graffiti. Like, I LOVE graffiti. I think it’s beautiful. Now, there’s some UGLY graffiti, but I love graffiti. I love the art and self-expression of it and I think it gives personality to things like ugly doors. I’m just saying. I know it’s weird. But I do love it.

HIGH FIVE FOR THIS CRAY CRAY GRAFFITI IN CHAPEL HILL ALLEYWAYS!

Remember when I brought AN english muffin, AN egg, A jalapeno, and A slice of cheese to work to make this diddy for lunch? Me too!

HIGH FIVE FOR BEING OUT OF LUNCH MONEY AND WORKING WITH WHAT YOU GOT!

High fives all around! What are you high-fiving today? Do you do a high-five post on Fridays? Share your link in the comments!

Do you like this idea for these Friday posts? Feedback on this post? I’d love to hear what you think!

xoxo, all for now.

My Attempt at Fashion: Jewelmint!

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You guys, I’m going to preface this by saying I never win anything. Like, I never win stuff. Not even lame things. I just don’t win things. But I still enter contests for the heck of it.

Well, a couple weeks ago on one of my fave wedding blogs, Green Wedding Shoes, Jen (the editor) was holding a JEWELMINT contest.

Now, I’d drooled over Jewelmint for a while, but through wedding planning and saving money, I couldn’t justify $29.99 to join – even though I REAAAAAAAAAALLY wanted to.

Well, I entered the GWS Jewelmint contest and low and behold… I WON. I was SO EXCITED. I won $150 credit (which is basically the equivalent of five pieces of jewelry) – PLUS there was a promo for a BOGO piece of jewelry if it was your first time. So, BOOM. SIX pieces of jewelry. FREE. No shipping. NOTHING.

I was pumped.

I mean, the MOST money I spend on accessories is like $3 in the Target or Wal-mart clearance section. Seriously.

In short, Jewelmint is a “subscription” service where you join and pay $29.99 a month – and each month you get a new piece of jewelry (of your choice) – free shipping. You can like, skip a month, and whatnot… so it’s not like you’re locked in to a contract or anything. I think you can also buy credits too… OH and you can refer people and get free credits, too.

Now, I’m not being sponsored by Jewelmint or anything – I just figured I’d explain what it is for those who are curious! Cause I had no idea what it was when I first heard about it.

You may have also heard of Stylemint (clothes) or Shoemint (shoes, duh) – and OH MAN, they’re coming out with HOMEMINT. Yeah. HOME GOODS. Designed by JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. WOOP.

Anyway, my Jewelmint prize / order came in yesterday and I was SO SO SO excited! I felt like it was my birthday, or something. I thought I’d share with you guys what I got. Honestly, even though I got all the pieces for free cause of the GWS contest, I would totally subscribe to this. I don’t think I’d do it EVERY month (cause that’s just not practical) – but for $29.99 and no shipping and REALLY good quality, unique jewelry, I’d do it again.

Just saying.

Sorry I ramble so much.

On to the jewelry:

I love the packaging!

Plume Paradise Earrings

The Shanghai Eclipse Pendant

The Atlantis Pendant

Natural Beauty Bracelets

Maasai Tribal Bangle

Garden Patch Trio Bangles

My Polyvore Board of my Jewelmint Items

Molly’s April 2012 Jewelmint Items by mollystillman featuring clear jewelry

Only thing that kinda stinks is one of the Natural Beauty Bracelets was seriously broken when I opened it… so sadly, I can’t wear it. So I contacted Jewelmint and BOOM, they’re paying the shipping for the return and giving me a credit for a new piece.

That’s a WIN, if you ask me!

I can’t wait to sport some of these!

Oh, and in the spirit of #WINNING, our CANVAS came in yesterday, too! We got 2nd place in the Katelyn James love shots contest (thank you SO much to everyone who voted!) and we got our GORGEOUS canvas. I am obsessed with it. It’s amazing. Isn’t it?!

Have you ever tried Jewelmint? Or any of the “mints” for that matter? Would you ever? Do you win contests or are you typically a contest “loser” like I am?

xoxo, all for now.