Stylin' and Profilin'

With winter in full swing across the country, I constantly find myself day dreaming of warm spring weather and days weeks spent by the ocean this summer. Anyone else with me? A fashion obsession that has come about in me the past few years has been sunglasses. Okay, who am I kidding? Sunglasses used to drive me nuts! When I traveled overseas in high school I refused to wear sunglasses because I always thought they would get in my way of "seeing the world". It was not until recently that I found a style of sunglasses that I loved! I've started researching the style and brand that I would like to buy when I come off the road in May and I can now officially add Warby Parker to my wish list!

 Palm Canyon Collection

When I discovered Warby Parker, I fell in love with their new line of eyeglasses and sunglasses that have just been released in their Palm Canyon Collection. They've refreshed some of their best-loved frames in a Palm Springs palette of mesquite, acacia, ironwood, and sand. The design and constructing of the patterns took over a year to perfect and no two pairs are alike. Currently I am swooning over their Winston style sunglasses in Cognac Tortoise and would do anything to add them to my spring and summer wardrobe! Aren't they just darling? And don't worry, for those of you that need prescription lens in your sunglasses, Warby Parker offers that in any of their shades for both men and women. 

Winston

I'm also eying their Preston Red Canyon eyeglasses and wishing something this beautiful was around in elementary school when I had to wear some not so stylin' lens of my own!

Preston

One thing that makes me love this company even more is their mission to "build a company that does good in the world". For every pair of sunglasses and eyeglasses that they sale, they provide a pair to someone in need. Did y'all know that a pair of eyeglasses can improve someones productivity by 20%? As an educator, that just blows my mind! 

Warby Parker

Oh, and did I also mention that with both their sunglasses and eyeglasses you can pick five pairs, have them shipped to your home, and for five days you can try them out to see which ones you like best? You then select the style you want, pay for it, and the rest are shipped back to Warby Parker for free! How cool is that?

Home Try-On

Now that I am done falling in love with this company, which design is your favorite? I also want to remind you all that my first giveaway ends tonight at 11:59PM EST. Don't forget to enter for your chance at winning your very own copy of the awesome book, Blog Inc.!

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Weekend Review

Well, I've officially made it to the little town of Martin, Tennessee and the place I'll call my home/office for the next 15 days! I forgot when traveling out here that I would be going back an hour to the central timezone and that just always throws me off. You wouldn't think an hour would make a difference but I constantly have to remind myself that when calling home at 9:00, my parents are probably asleep because it's already 10:00pm there!  This past weekend I traveled from Florence, SC to Clinton, SC and the home of Presbyterian College (PC). I got to visit this pretty little school back in November for work and immediately fell in love with the beauty of the campus. The quad, the worship area by the lake, and all the beautiful oak trees just screamed "southern" to me!

Lucky for me, this past weekend I wasn't alone in my visit to PC and instead was joined by some of my closest co-workers (and sorority sisters) as we met to train upcoming leaders from the state of South Carolina. I can't tell y'all how happy my little heart was to love on these girls all weekend and to stay up late catching up with each other's lives!

I hope you all are having a wonderful start to your week. Just think, we are almost halfway to the weekend!

P.S. Don't forget that tomorrow night at 11:59pm EST my first giveaway ends, so don't forget to tweet, follow on bloglovin, and enter for your chance to win a copy of Blog, Inc!

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Monday Coffee Talk {Vol. II}

Happy Monday my sweet friends! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend :-) Anyone do anything majorly exciting? At least the weather seems to be warming up for us and hopefully the snow up north is gone for a few weeks. Here is Volume II of my Monday Coffee Talk aka my ramblings for the week. I hope you all enjoy reading along!

Travel Day:

Today is a travel day for work and by the time you read this I'll be on my way to the airport to catch flight #1 of 2 today. I was just saying the other day how I have not flown in 27 days (due to our Christmas break) and that just feels so weird to me. My body is used to flying somewhere new every 4-7 days, so not being on a plane in almost a month has me so excited for this flight today! I've spent the last week at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina but heading out to Martin, Tennessee today, via a layover in Charlotte of course.

Bachelor Monday: Okay, I seriously need y'alls help! You know how ABC used to post the weekly Bachelor episode online the very next day? Well now you cannot watch it until a week later!!!!! To watch it the next day you have to verify your cable provider and all the ones they allow you to verify are strange one's that I've never heard of! This is where I need y'alls help: does anyone know any other website where you can watch the episodes starting the next day? My flight does not land in Tennessee tonight till 10:13pm so I'm going to miss the episode and will be so impatient to have to wait all the way till next Monday to watch tonights episode! 

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Worrying gets you no where:

Y'all, let's be real...I am such a worry wart! I love being a good listener and supporting my friends but lately I've found myself being so worried about things going on back home with my friends and trials of loved ones that those thoughts constantly consume my mind. The worry causes me to not be focused on the "here and now" of the moment and causes me to lay in bed at night wondering if I was back home would things be better? My prayer this week is that God will just heal my heart and cause my wondering mind to stay focused and to know that all our lives are in his control. 

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Giveaway: Don't forget that my Blog, Inc. book giveaway ends this Wednesday night at 11:59pm! Winner will be announced on Thursday so make sure you get those entries in!

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[Mini] Weekend Vacay

I'm heading out of town bright and early this morning for what I'm considering in my mind to be a mini weekend vacation. Well, it's not really a vacation, it's a work trip, but I get to see four of my sweetest sorority sisters and I am so excited to love on them for 2 whole days! Every sorority officer from ZTA in the state of South Carolina is gathering together this weekend for officer training. To my luck, two other current Traveling Leadership Consultants, Mallory (top right) and Chelsea (bottom right), will be there with the two colleges they are visiting right now. My sweet ZTA sister from UNC Charlotte (who was also a TLC 2 years ago), Casey (top left), will be there as a trainer. This will be the first time I've seen Casey since she got engaged last summer and I am so excited to finally see her beautiful ring in person. And last but not least I get to see my Katelyn (bottom left) whom I met several years ago at a ZTA National Convention when we both won the same award. She graduated from Clemson University two years ago and then traveled last year as a TLC. She is my go-to person that I always call with questions when I'm confused on the job! Any who, in case you cannot tell, I am beaming with joy that I get to see these four blessings in my life this week! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I'll be back on Monday morning with a little weekend review :-)

Also, don't forget that you only have till Tuesday night at 11:59pm to enter my first giveaway for the book "Blog, Inc.". Enter while you can!

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A Thankful Heart

Y'all, my little heart is just bursting with so much love and thankfulness today that I just could not help but share with you all the two ladies that made it be this way! 

Jana Tolman Design You might have noticed that as of yesterday I have a BEAUTIFUL new blog layout, ekkkk! I just love it so, so much and cannot stop looking staring at it. If you read about my blogging goals for January, you saw that on my list I wrote: purchase a new layout. I searched and reviewed many blog designers and even made an Excel spreadsheet to compare what each designer offered in their packages. After all this, I could not have been happier to purchase my first professional layout design from Jana Tolman Design.  Jana is one of the nicest ladies you will ever work with and she was always so quick to respond to my e-mails. The vision I had in my head was made perfect by her and I am so excited the design is finally live on the blog. If y'all get to missing me you can come find me up on cloud 9 where I'll be for the next few days weeks just admiring the blog! You can also follow Jana over at her blog Life Could Be A Dream. 

A Worker at Home

I am also so thankful for Katie who blogs over at A Worker at Home. Being featured in her sponsor spotlight yesterday was such a neat feeling and will always be something I hold close to my heart as a new blogger. (You can view the post here!) She has given me so much social media love as well that I just want to give her the biggest hug in the world. Katie's little family is fixing to go from 3 to 4 as her and her husband welcome a new baby girl in just a few short weeks. I'd be lying if I didn't say I'm excited to read all about this precious little girl once she arrives! 

A Worker at Home

So to Jana and Katie, thank you both for your kind hearts and dedication to helping my little blog grow. You two don't know how thankful I am to have worked with y'all!