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Fashion•Life

Fall Family Fashion 2013

December 9, 2013 by Nikki No Comments

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It’s a rainy Monday in my neck of the woods and I’m studying for my last final tomorrow so I won’t be leaving the house all day. What that really means is that I won’t be changing out of my pajamas so I won’t have a nice outfit to share with you today. Instead, I’ll leave you with the outfit I wore for family photos last month. For the last few years, we’ve had beautiful family photos taken by our favorite photographers – who also photographed our wedding and are available if you’re in the market – to put on our holiday cards. They offer an event where you have 10 minutes to take all the photos you can get for a very reasonable and inexpensive price. The photos always turn out gorgeously, as you can see, because Thad and Sarah are artistic geniouses!

coordinated outfits for portraits in pink/navy/brown | NCsquared Life

As we do for every event in life, Nick and I coordinated our outfits with a pink/navy/brown color scheme. I’m wearing a pink sweater with denim (for my navy) and he’s wearing a pink button-front under a  navy pull-over sweater. Unfortunately, Nick wouldn’t let me dress up the dogs, even though Mia has the cutest little seersucker dress in pink!

coordinated outfits for portraits in pink/navy/brown | NCsquared Life

These photos could also serve as engagement photos if we weren’t already married so I hope it gives you some good ideas for your own photos!

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Life•Music

Monday Morning Serenade

December 2, 2013 by Nikki No Comments

I know I’ve been missing and I apologize for my absence. With school, the holidays, and just feeling a little down about blogging, I haven’t had much time (or motivation) to post anything but, hopefully, I’m back in full swing. I do have a presentation and two final exams in the this week but then I’m off for a month-long winter break!

It isn’t Sunday but I still wanted to serenade you. Today’s song is Contact High by Allen Stone. I think I like this song so much because it reminds me that it isn’t things that make me happy, but being around the people I care about and experiencing life. So, dear readers, get out there and keep experiencing life!

 

This Week’s Top 5 Things (that make me happy):

1. Family. Ok, this one is kind of a given, since it was just Thanksgiving, but I’m really close to mine and I haven’t seen them as often as usual since I started grad school. It was almost a relief to get to spend so much time with them!

2. My nephew. This definitely goes with family, but I’ve always wanted to be an aunt (I know it sounds crazy) and now I have a three-year-old nephew. He’s a trip and I love him so much. He lives back in my hometown so I don’t get to see him very much either, except for FaceTime, so I love getting to hang out with him. He’s so smart and funny, he’s definitely an awesome little person.

3. FaceTime. As I mentioned above, I get to talk to my nephew a lot on FaceTime since I don’t get to see him very often, so that makes me very happy!

4. White chocolate and raspberry flavored anything. It’s the best right now and I can’t seem to get enough of it!.

5. The end of the semester. It’s almost here! One semester down, three more to go!

 

Photo of the Week:

right track

Found on Pinterest

I found this on Pinterest and related to it immediately. I’m constantly reminding myself that I have to keep moving forward, especially when something feels right.

 

Have a great week, everyone! I’m off to study.

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Sunday Morning Serenade

November 17, 2013 by Nikki No Comments

It’s Sunday! And you know what that means? If you’re me, you have a huge term paper due 2 days and a huge group project due in 3 days. For that reason, the blog will probably be pretty quiet this week. I’ll try to get some outfit photos up around Wednesday or Thursday.

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with “Black and Gold” by Sam Sparro. According to wikipedia, it “explores the relationship between reason, spirituality, and love” but I just think it has a funky cool grove that I like. Plus, it’s about love and I’m all about love songs!

This Week’s Top 5 Things (that make me happy):

1. Gingerbread lattes with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Ok, let’s be honest, when I have my way with it, it isn’t just a sprinkle of cinnamon, its like 2 tablespoons! I love the spicy flavors of ginger and cinnamon together. The Pumpkin Spice Latte ain’t got nothing on this!

2. Excellent group members. Grad school is notorious for goup work. When I was still employeed and told my coworkers that I was going back, they told me all about the joys of group work. Luckily, I have AMAZING group members. We work incredibly well together and are really good and bouncing ideas off of each other until we come up with awesome work. And that makes me happy.

3. Shrimp tacos and sangria. Seriously, after a long night of classes, you just need a pick-me-up. Mine is delicious shrimp tacos and sangria from my favorite Mexican restaurant.

4. Snow. Y’all, it SNOWED in my neck of the woods on Tuesday. Can you believe it? I’ve lived in NC my entire life and it hasn’t snowed in November in as long as I can remember. Then it was back in the 70s by Friday. Craziness.

5. Warm socks. Remember how it snowed? Yeah, I’m glad I had on warm socks! I hate cold feet.

 

Photo of the Week:

Snow in November in NC | NCsquared Life

This is the snow that had accumulated on my car when I got out of class Tuesday night. I was so excited that I snapped a quick pic as soon as I got in.

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Pink + Plaid: Take One, Pass It On Challenge

November 13, 2013 by Nikki No Comments

plaid blazer, pink sweater, jeans and booties | NCSquared Life

On day two of Sarah’s Real Life Take One, Pass it On Challenge 2.0 I’ve “taken” the plaid blazer from yesterday and “passed it on” to dress up this pink sweater and jeans combo. I have to tell you, I haven’t had this blazer long, but I think it’s quickly becoming one of my favorites. I have a black one already, which is nice, but the plaid makes any outfit so much more interesting! I might just start passing it along to everything!

plaid blazer, pink sweater, jeans and booties | NCSquared Life

It was really windy out while I was trying to take these photos so my hair was all over the place, my hands were freezing, and my camera kept getting knocked over. I wanted to get a close up of these cutie booties but I was struggling so much just getting regular outfit photos that I had to give up. I’ll feature them some other time, though, because they’re awesome.

plaid blazer, pink sweater, jeans and booties | NCSquared Life

plaid blazer and pink sweater | NCSquared Life

plaid blazer, pink sweater, jeans | NCSquared Life

plaid blazer, pink sweater, jeans and booties | NCSquared Life

Blazer: Target | Sweater and Jeans: Banana Republic | Shoes: Target | Necklace: Hawthorne Collection online

Take One, Pass it On: Day 2

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New Design!

November 11, 2013 by Nikki No Comments

NCsquared Life got a face lift!

I’m loving the new logo font, the new colors, and all of the simple, clean lines. I hope you continue to enjoy reading as much as we continue to enjoy sharing.

Feel free to let us know what you like and dislike about the redesign. We welcome your constructive criticism.

 

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