I LOVE Sephora

I LOVE Sephora. Its a wonderful store filled with pretty makeup, good smells, and friendly people. I love makeup so much, so naturally, Sephora is one of my favorite stores. I have a lot of good memories with this place, including trips with dear friends. The first week I lived in Syracuse, I had Josh take me to the mall and we walked the entire length of the mall - I was convinced a mall that size had to have a Sephora - I was sadly mistaken :( But they have one now!

Today, I thought I would share 2 things I love about Sephora.

1. A trip to Sephora with lots of goodies. Check out this picture:

In just 20 minutes at Sephora, I can come home with peppermint body wash that will last me months, a new moisturizing mint lip treatment to help my dry lips (there is a definite mint theme going on :), 2 new Stila palettes, a hot pink Urban Decay Eyeshadow, and a touch-up makeup eraser for morning rush jobs. Plus some samples for my mom and a 20% off sale items after Christmas 12/26 - 1/1 (online only, code is EXTRA). AMAZING!!

2. I am lucky to have a Sephora at the Mall across the street from my apartment. Sometimes, a trip to the mall is more than I can manage (parking gets CRAZY on the weekends and around the holidays), so I order online. I love online shopping, but I hate waiting for my packages to arrive - which leads to my second Sephora love - their UPS delivery schedule. I live in a UPS 1 day transit zone. LOVE this.

I can buy the new eyeshadow I've been dying to have, and have it in my hands in 2 days.

Now if only I had endless funds....

*Slightly* obsessed

I'll admit it, I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to pink, peppermint, glitter, makeup, sleep, among other things, and I'm a recovering Diet Pepsi addict. I'm also slightly obsessive if I find something I want - it usually becomes a need, and I obsess until I get my hands on it. I'm a little nutty.

This week, I obsessed about these cookies. For weeks, I've been seeing  candy cane Hershey kisses at Wegmans, but had no use for them. Yesterday at lunch, I went to Wegmans, hoping to grab at least 2 bags, but maybe more. I couldn't find a single bag!!  I went back to work, extremely disappointed, and plotted a trip to Target on my way home.

Last time I went to Target (about a week ago) I remembered seeing bags and bags of the Candy Cane Hershey Kisses by checkout. When I got there yesterday, NOTHING! I wondered to the back of the store where they had Christmas decorations and a candy aisle, but at first didn't see them either. I started to panic a little. I then saw a display with the Hershey milk chocolate kisses, and thought, what the heck, maybe I'll find a random bag of candy canes mixed it. And I did! This then resulted in me digging through piles of other candy in hopes of finding another bag. I'm sure I looked like a crazy person. But, as a result of my efforts I accumulated this:

This is what a bag of chopped kisses looks like:

And the finished product! They turned out really yummy.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!

For the past few years, I've been slightly bah-humbug about Christmas. I would give gifts, send Christmas cards, and bake cookies, but I wouldn't really decorated. It might be because I haven't really felt all that "permanent" with where I was living, and would usually spend the holidays someplace else. But this year is different. This year, Josh and I will be spending the holidays in our apartment in VA, and for the first time, I did some serious decorating. Well, maybe not serious for most people, but for my first real attempt, I think its pretty serious :)

I found a pink tree that I ABSOLUTELY love. I don't think I'll ever want another tree. Its perfect!

I made some holiday blocks:

And spent many many nights making this Christmas tree:

I put up some decorations I got from my mom:

And bought some cute snowmen!! 

Merry Christmas!!