Friday Favs

It's time for my five favorite's of the week!

1.-Miranda Lambert's new album Four the Record

I bet you knew this was coming!  Of course I love it!  I won't try to summarize, I'll just say it's amazing.  The best review that most accurately covers what I would say can be read here.

Buy her new album at Amazon or iTunes.  (I recommend getting the deluxe version hard copy because it comes with a bonus song and DVD!  And she's wearing Stella & Dot on the DVD, FYI!)


2.-Twitter

Okay, it has been a crazy few weeks for me on Twitter.  In the past few weeks I have been tweeted by HGTV (more than once), HGTV staffers, Rachel Ashwell, Junk Gypsy (regularly),  Target, DirecTV, Josh Abbott (twice), Rich O'Toole, Hillary Kerr, the editor of my favorite fashion website WHO WHAT WEAR, (aka my morning newspaper,) and then by the site director of Marie Claire magazine!  Oh and while I'm looking these up to refresh my memory I see that someone who works for Pinterest tweeted me after I complained about the iPhone app.  (Didn't even notice that one!) 

The crazy thing is, sometimes I just mention their name or company, and they somehow find my tweet and respond, even though I didn't @ direct it to their account.  (For those who don't know twitter, you get a message when someone puts @ before your account name.)  The funniest example was Rich O'Toole, one of my favorite Texas Country artists.  I was telling my friend Courtney via Twitter about how I finally "unfollowed" Rich O'Toole's tweets because they were so annoying.  I didn't @ link to him, just typed his name.  Within five minutes, Rich tweets to his 3,078 follows that "Everyone should follow these two beautiful ladies" with me and Courtney's twitter accounts on there!  I was so mortified that he saw the rude thing I said about him!  So crazy.  So if you are on Twitter, don't think that people don't see your @ mentions, or even just plain ole mentions!


3.-My Erin Condren Life Planner

This is the mother of all planners, and it's going to keep me super organized all the way through 2012!  I got the ZTA version because I had a coupon code for the sorority collection, but it has all sorts of adorable customizing options.  Check it out!





4.-Cooler Weather

Thank goodness it's finally cooling off!  And I bought this adorable coat for 50% off on asos.com this weekend!  I'm obsessed!

5.-Spotify

I don't know how I'm just finding out about this, but it's awesome.  It's like Pandora, except you can pick specific songs or even albums to play.  I'm busting out all my old school favorites from when I was a kid like Mariah Carey, No Doubt, and Everclear.  The best part was that Miranda's new album with the bonus track was on there the day it came out!  Thankfully because the stupid Wal-Mart here didn't have it out when I went that morning.  Spotify saved me from having a crappy day.  Love it!  If you don't have this on your desktop yet, get it!  It's free with just a few commercial breaks, but I think you have to pay to use it on your iPhone.

What are your 5 favs?  Let me know in the comments!

Five Favs of the Week

Happy Friday!  I've decided to started posting my Five Favs of the Week every, (well, most,) Fridays to get some continuity going on my blog.  Plus, I tend to have very passionate obsessions that I feel you need to know about.  Without further ado-here are my five weekly favorites:

1-My new moccasins 

Got 'em at Baskins, of course, in the dark brown.  I've been a fan of Minnetonka mocs for years, but I currently don't have a traditional style that I hadn't worn to pieces.  And I love the more modern stud detail, which updates them a little more than a beaded design, and keeps them from looking like house shoes.  Super comfy too!

2-Mama's Broken Heart by Miranda Lambert

One of the songs from Miranda's upcoming album, "Four the Record" was released as a preview this week from Hipstamatic.  I don't understand the contest involving the preview, but I do understand that this song rocks.  Plus, it was written by Kasey Musgraves, who we've seen perform live twice!  Cool!  And don't even get me started on those sunglasses.  Yeah, I need those.  Preview the song here:  http://community.hipstamatic.com/contests/64

3-Stella & Dot's Tribute Bracelet

A rose gold/pave stone layering bracelet that benefits breast cancer research?  Yup, I love it.  (And I promise it's gorgeous, this picture doesn't do it justice. Very sparkly.)  Buy it from me for only $36 by clicking here.

4-My DVR

Ok, this may sounds a little crazy, but there is so much good stuff on TV right now!  I can't even keep my DVR straight!  What's on my queue?   The last season of Desperate Housewives, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills/New Jersey, Ringer, Hart of Dixie, Dexter, Homeland, 2 Broke Girls, Up All Night, The Rachel Zoe Project, The New Girl, How I Met Your Mother, Revenge and of course Secrets from a Stylist.  Dude that's a lot when I type it all out!  But it's soooo good.  I needed these shows after a summer of Ben making me watch gloom and doom zombie/alien Apocalypse shows.  Bleh.  And a lot of these shows are new!  Thank goodness I chose the good ones to watch because nothing has been cancelled yet, (fingers crossed.)  The only one I could do without is Ringer, but I haven't given up on it yet.

5-It's a 10 Miracle Leave In Plus Keratin

Ok, yes, it's the dumbest name for a hair product ever, but this stuff works!  I normally don't use salon hair products, (Suave works just fine for me, thank you very much,) but recently my brother started delivering for a salon wholesale supplier.  (Funny, I know.)  So I decided to have him hook me up with a leave in.  When I told him what I wanted, (some crap I found on Amazon,) he said, "Have you head of It's a 10 Leave In Plus Keratin?  Girls buy the sh*t out of it."  After I died laughing, I came back to life and said sure I'll take it!  You just towel dry, spray it on, comb it through, and blow dry.  And you have perfect amazing hair!  I love it.  But probably wouldn't buy it without the discount.  If you are that kind of girl, (nothing wrong with that, I just tend to be more of a makeup splurger,) I totally recommend this.

That's it!  We're off to Houston for the Battle of the Pineywoods football game!  Axe 'Em Jacks!  I can't wait to see my friends and TAILGATE!!  Have a great weekend!