A Cozy & Kissy Xmas Party

My favorite part of the holidays (besides family, boot-weather, and Christmas trees) are of course the parties! I was fortunate enough to be invited to a friend's holiday ornament exchange party last night. It was a kick-back house party so I didn't go all glam-o-rama, although I definitely could have. Everyone else ended up wearing sparkles! Sparkles, for a holiday party - I should have known....  But I am always cold and its freakin' cold outside so I just wanted to be cozy! I decided on a purple turtleneck and leggings combo with my fuzzy cream extra long vest and vintage suede boots topped with some shiny larger than life glam earrings. Add in some lose curls and that's holiday party enough for me!

Arriving in comfy style we were greeted by an adorable, chubby, snow flocked Christmas tree (with extra glitter)! The thing was packed with cutesy ornaments and topped with a crown. Definitely my type of Christmas tree! :) The host has the cutest house ever! Everything looks like its straight out of Pinterest! Girls got style.

She also has the cutest little side room that is now a dedicated photo booth! A bunch of props were laid out for us to use - beards, hats, antlers, lips, bows and stunner shades! SO CUTE! We all put on tons of props and went crazy making social media moments- a little TOO many. You can see gangsta-santa-Sab on my Facebook page. Haha.

We had a blast drinking, eating and chatting. We drank this pretty refreshing cocktail that tasted like red licorice. I can't find it online but its just Marshmellow vodka and pineapple juice! She also made these amazing fig jam and cream cheese bread thingys, a lasagna and served an amazing salad! OMG it was too good! And of course there were Christmas cookies, and cupcakes for desert! YUM!

After a few too many cocktails the ornament exchange ended up just being a "take an ornament and if you don't like it swap with someone else" kinda thing but I ended up getting the perfect addition for my pink tree, a multicolored pinata! All in all it was a great night!

Hope you all get to experience a fun holiday party this year and if not there is always New Years!



Feliz Navidad,

<3 Sab

Christmas Tree Adventures!

Its that time of year...the air is getting crisp, Black Friday madness has come and gone and all across Instagram are colorful Christmas trees decked with holiday cheer!

My favorite part of the holidays is trimming the tree while listening to our favorite Christmas music! We keep our Christmas stuff in storage at my grandparents house. On Thanksgiving we dig it out,  take it home and then the day after Thanksgiving the decorating fun commences!

Well, this year my Mom went to take out our old faithful plastic tree and I could see the look of dread in her eyes. "We went crazy last year trying to get this thing together!", she says. Sitting on the floor looking very confused with two sad branches in her hands I hear her cursing below her breath, "Ugh this thing has got to go." She refused to try to put the thing together. I don't blame her,  the letter coordination system was all screwed up and some of the branches had definitely seen their days.

So here we are - Christmas music on - but no tree to trim!

Enter the Internet.

I never thought I would be typing in "Christmas Trees" into a search engine, in my life. But alas here we were trying to find a new plastic tree on a budget at about 6pm on none other than the Saturday after Black Friday aka Retail Weekend of Hell. I did not want to step foot into a store! Especially the dreaded Wal-mart!

After surfing the webz for a couple of minutes we found two options in our budget that were available in stores at you guessed it; Wal- Mart and Big Lots. Target did not have one affordable tree. Tisk Tisk Target.

Lets just take a moment to recognize how RIDICULOUS it is that a plastic freakin tree is upwards of $100!!

So we all pile into the car and head out to explore the Wal-Mart tree options.

Once in the store we spotted the Madison Pre-Lit Tree that was on the website for $40. Equipped with 600 branches and 400 lights we thought this could work when we saw it online. However, when we saw it in the store I was less than impressed. 

Lets just say this thing looked like it was naked! So bare and pathetic looking. You could see it's crappy plastic trunk because it had no branches! No, we would not be spending money on this little thing. This does not a Christmas tree make.

So now we are forced to look at the other tree's available; weird overly tall flocked tree, small black tree, really horrible plastic imitation Douglas fir with no lights, Insane smart phone operated tree- $400!  $68. $98, $120 etc. Out of our budget for sure.

We didn't find anything we liked. Then we realized that their real tree is only $27! We wanted a real tree anyhow! Screw these lame over-priced plastic imitations!

We ended up walking out of there under $50 with a real Noble Fir and a tree stand. We had to shove the tree through the back of my Mom's Ford Sedan but it made it home!

It is so nice to have a real tree. I understand they are a little messy and could have bugs in them but lets just be honest, the tradition of bringing a tree inside your house is already super strange! 

Here is our final product. We like the typical overly cluttered tree. :)

Making spirits bright,

<3 Sab