Children Family Holidays

The Pajama Program Needs Our Help

The Pajama Program is a national organization that supplies pajamas and books to children in need. We all know winter is upon us and while we are bundling our little ones up in their pajamas for a nice cozy night of sleep there are children who are cold and sleeping in unfamiliar places.

Winter is danger season for the organization and they need pajamas to provide to the vast amount of children that lie in need. To help with the efforts in Georgia I am co hosting a wonderful family centric event on December 1 to help collect pajamas for the Georgia chapter. If you are in the Atlanta area please join us. If you aren’t please check the website to see how you can help in your area. Tis the season for giving!!

Please help us spread the word. Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #ATLpajamajam

Fashion Giveaway Mama Style Vlog Wardrobe Wednesday

Wardrobe Wednesday: Headwrap Tutorial & Giveaway

Being well put together sometimes comes down to merely your accessories and other small touches that make a huge impact.

Earrings, necklaces, and even headwraps can turn a plain t shirt and jeans into a major statement. I have been in love with headwraps for quite some time and could never quite get them to work for me until recently.

In a little over 2 minutes my headwrap, earrings, necklace and sunglasses provided just the right amount of fab to turn my drab outfit of a plain shirt, jeans and Uggs into something I like to call “kick around chic.”

I received a lot of requests to complete a tutorial on how I managed to get my headwrap to look like that and I against my better judgment have submitted myself to the Youtube gods and created a video. I kept it simple and hopefully it will help someone.

In the video I explained the key to creating this look is to make sure your scarf is sizable enough. Lucky for y’all the scarf I am wearing was made by one of my good friends who owns My Head Tie, and she has been generous enough to provide me with three scarves to giveaway. They are not only good for headwraps but double as night caps. Made of imported silk they work wonders in maintaining your hair while you sleep. They are even available in smaller sizes for children. They get better with every wash. Like the silk becomes so soft and pliable and I can’t really explain it but I freaked out when I lost mine. You know how folks are about their head scarves!!

The giveaway will run for one week. Three winners will be selected on November 21. Good Luck!!!

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Random

Randomness Abounds

So yeah…NaBloPoMo? FAILED. I tried and that’s all that matters my track record is now 1-2. Maybe next year, if I’m still blogging.

If you follow me on Twitter you know that Lil Mama doesn’t sleep. I took her to the doctor yesterday and basically he told me its my fault because I won’t put her on a schedule.

Whose fault? I guess. We’ll be cracking down this week. I was still letting her nap for an hour or for however long I needed her to be quiet so I can finish whatever I am working on. He said at this age a 30 minute power nap will get them through the day to bedtime. So if you don’t see me commenting on your blogs then you know the 30 minute nap time has been put in effect.

I’ve come to the conclusion that my son has a condition called selective hearing.

Symptoms: Hearing what one wants to hear and saying huh when it involves an action a person is not interested in. How does the saying go? “If you can huh, you can hear” Yeah, that.

Treatment: Prompt removal of iPod until further notice

Why y’all didn’t tell me next Thursday is Thanksgiving.

Yesterday I went into the school to pick up the cookie dough from my son’s school fundraiser and caught a glimpse at the bulletin board that stated Thanksgiving break 11/19-11/23. I do a double take, mentally take note that the date was currently 11/12. Added 7 to 12 and came to the conclusion that he doesn’t have school next week..THEN I was like OH.MY.GAH. That means Thanksgiving is next Thursday.

Please don’t laugh at me. Between this house mess and trying to work on some things professionally I had no clue. I thought I had another week. I have no idea what we are eating, where we’re going. None of that. None of it. I’ll work it out.

Speaking of…whose battling Black Friday. I lie every year and say I’m not going and “be” right up in the mix. The adrenaline is all I need. So even though I’m not participating in Black Friday this year I am recruiting people to ride up to the midnight madness with me at the North Georgia Premium outlets…I’m probably not going to go though. <insert side eye>

We have a winner to the fabulous Nineteen Pieces Giveaway. Thank you all for entering the winner is….
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Congratulations Amanda!! I’ll be emailing you.

I posted this photo of me on Instagram. I am so proud of myself for finally figuring out how to tie my scarf, as in my night night cap. The weather was misty and I had just gotten my hair pressed so I whipped this up. I got so many requests for tutorials that I am going to do a video tomorrow and I will be doing a giveaway for scarf I used. A friend of mine imports the silk and hand sews them. They are amazing for keeping your hair at night. I said AWL of that to say make sure you come by here tomorrow…M’kay!

Can we come to your house for Thanksgiving? Are you riding with me to the outlets or not?!! Did Thanksgiving creep on the come up on you too?

Beauty Nail Polish

Just Another MANICure MONDAY

It’s Monday. Time to show off your MANICure. The party this week is over at LaLynns. Tell her I sent you. She will take good care of you. Before you go here is my MANICure for the week.

I used these two colors

I took my inspiration from Pinterest. I looked high and low for a gold flake polish and couldn’t find it. I went to Sally’s and discovered Orly “Too Fab” on their clearance rack for $3.49. Run don’t walk to get you some. Although it is not a flake if you don’t look too hard it resembles it very well. A winner in my book.

See you next week!