HIGHLAND PARK VILLAGE HOLIDAY STYLE BLOGGER PARTY

Late last month I had the privilege to shoot for Highland Park Village during their first Holiday Style Blogger Party.  

I have loved seeing what they have done with the pictures.  There have been a few blog posts (click here and here), they added the pictures to their event page on their website (click here), post on their Facebook page (click here), and used the above image for their Christmas card.  

Here are some of my favorite images from the night...

We all walked around Highland Park Village popping into the stores that were participating with the event.

Five and Ten

Trina Turk

Anne Fontaine

You know these girls had to bring out the beauties for this party.

...and this my friends is where I fell in love with Number One / Le Jus.

 The juice, the coffee...

 the wonderful women and treats.  

  Cafe Pacific

 Diane Von Furstenberg

How precious is Amber Venz checking out DVF? 

 After also hitting Lela Rose, Robert Talbott, and Escada we headed back to The Community Lounge at Highland Park Villages for a cocktail reception.

Holiday Style Bloggers 2012 from left: Kristie Ramirez, Elizabeth Midgett, Bradley Agather, Kyle Knight, Merritt Beck, & Krystal Schlegel

Along with the selected six style bloggers a select few other bloggers were invited to the event as well.

 

 DFW Style Daily

Highland Park Village Leasing/Managing Director Stephen Summers giving out the dish on fun changes.

Elisa Summers 

D ShopTalk 

It was such a beautiful and well put together event. Highland Park Village Senior Marketing Manager Rachel Michell and Highland Park Village Chief Marketing Officer Kersten Rettig did a fantastic job.

  

Don't forget to spend time at Highland Park Village during the holiday's - while walking under the sparkled lights, horse drawn carriages, movies, and dinner ...let alone some of the best shopping in America.

Merry Christmas.

Love, Sarah

PYLAND LOVE

I took my friends family pictures yesterday real quick and gave Jack the RAW images for him to edit.  I'm about to leave out of town and didn't know if I would have time to complete them.  Nicole asked if I would go through them and pick my favorites and edit them whenever I had time to see our differences.  

I just gave myself 30 minutes to play around and I actually had fun goofing around with the images.  Aren't they the most adorable family ever?!

Love you Pylands!

Love, Sarah

BEECHER "MO" MOSHER

This last Sunday we flew up to Boston to attend Paul's Uncle Mo's funeral in Hartford Connecticut.  Paul looked up to Mo for many reasons and even created our game room after his.  It was one of Paul's favorite places to go.  I was lucky enough to meet Mo a few years ago when we traveled up to Boston.  

I believe these are the moments in life that are priceless.  Mo's passing brought the entire family back together.  We traveled from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Texas, and Hawaii.  Missing only Renee and Shawn from the group (Lynda was there the night before).  With Aunt Mary in the middle who is 95.

The cousins haven't seen each other since they were kids.  ...can you spot Paul in the white shorts?!

 But it was as if no time had past.  It did however show how fast life can go by.  

Here's Paul's mom, Cindy and her siblings: Richard, Bev, and Tony.

Aren't they beautiful?  Here they are on Bev's wedding day to Mo.

Just gorgeous.

Mo gave us all a gift during the holidays of a feeling of family.  When it comes down to it, nothing is stronger.

To the family reading this post: to save any of these pictures please right click the photo and select "save image".  

Love, Sarah

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO PAUL

I'm a horrible gift giver to my poor sweet husband.  I usually give him small practical gifts and never anything large and surprising.  So this Christmas I got him something that I know he'll be so excited about.  He hinted about this particular watch months ago and I just acted like I forgot all about it. Well tonight he gets to open it.  

I have not even one Christmas decoration up in the house - so since I couldn't put it under the tree I made a wintery scenery around the present to make it seem more festive.  

Did you decorate your house this year?  

Love, Sarah

CLOSET UPGRADE

BEFORE

Paul's closet before I took over

Paul made the biggest mistake a husband could do.  He mentioned to a friend in front of me that the master closet was made for a past live-in girlfriend.  The second the words left his mouth he knew it was his closet grave.  I don't care about the past girlfriend - we all have previous relationships.  BUT, I do care about taking over this closet and I knew it was my open opportunity to lay on some guilt for an ol switcheroo.  

If you've been a long time reader of this blog you might remember this post (click here).  It was a house tour of our bedroom and my closet.  Which isn't bad but waiting on our home renovation is a little too long to wait for a better closet.  

AFTER

I took everything out of both our closets and switched them all within 24 hours.  I knew I had to do this quick before Paul realized what was about to hit him.

...remember the painting from the art show?  Click here for post.

I've always saved my favorite shopping bags with no idea why.  When I was about to throw them away while cleaning everything out - I thought why not frame a few for some added girly color.  

With them all in one spot I didn't realize how many small purses I had.  I put a solo earring through the box for some added shine.  I never could toss it after Sergeant ate it's mate.  

I'm crossing my fingers I'll wear a different pair of shoes besides my sneakers now that I can see them.

  

I couldn't be happier!  It took me 3.5 years to snag THE closet but I finally did it!  Yippee!!

Paul handmade this flower on the hooks for me on my birthday.  Ohh wait!  I should still have a picture of it somewhere.  Hold on... 

Here it is!  How freaking sweet is that?  It was on my birthday the month after we got married.  I need to show him this to remind him of all the sweet things he does.  

Hope you never give up on your dreams and pounce on open opportunities! ;)

Love, Sarah