Indy on Film

Just a little film recap of my week in Indianapolis with Susannah last month. You could say we really like breakfast. I kind of miss it (and her! and that French toast at 3 Sisters Cafe!) already and I wouldn't mind going on another girls' trip. Just sayin. We talked about making it a yearly tradition so maybe next year we'll venture somewhere totally different. :) 

Happy Friday, friends!

PS; I'm booking sponsorships for October now! I'm trying to book them as early as possible as I won't be online a ton right before the wedding! Email me at kaelahbee@gmail.com (with the subject SPONSOR) if you'd like to guarantee a spot! You can see traffic + stats (not updated yet, sorry!) HERE! 

Things I Love Thursday: BFF Tattoos

This week is short and sweet thanks to my spotty and almost non-existant internet connection here in Indy. Susannah and I celebrated Tuesday (and you know, like, our friendship) with BFF tattoos while on our trip. We looked up a few shops and decided to head over to Irish Ink on Mass Ave to check it out. Turns out it was perfect time to squeeze in two walk-ins so an hour later we were getting stenciled up. 

SB and I have been planning on doing this for ages but we'd never just done it. We also didn't know what we wanted to do. We knew we wanted something silly but sentimental, and we toyed with a bunch of ideas for a while. We finally came up with this one while drinking New Old Ladies (totes our drink). It really just seemed appropriate. Silly enough for us, but still special. And it can stand on it's own.

Ben McQueen at Irish Ink did them for us, and we were/are stoked on them. Susannah and I have decided to make our girls trips an annual thing so hopefully we'll have plenty of other silly tattoos, photos and stories to add over time.

The tattoos are totally doofy and you're probably all side-eyein' us right now. But I'm super happy we were able to make it happen. Love that girlllllll. 

Today I'm on the road, headed back to Nashville to a house full of silly boys and sassy pups. It's been a super awesome trip and I'll definitely do a recap shortly. I'm sending off a roll or two of film today so I'll have to wait to get that back. Anyway, happy Thursday!

Any of y'all got a BFF tattoo? What of/where?

Fortune Cookie Questions

We pulled into Chicago last night around 8pm and we brought "gifts" for Susannah + Chris. I had already asked Susannah to be one of my bridesmaids back when I thought I wasn't going to have a Maid of Honor. For me, MOH isn't a title that should be used to gauge how important a friend is or anything like that. I never wanted my bridesmaids to feel like I liked one of them over the other. All six ladies that I'm going to have in my bridal party are stellar, sweet, funny gals that I'm excited to share that day with. Anyway, I had the idea to ask her (+ Mike ask Chris) via fortune cookie because that's kind of "our thing"... Aquariums and fortune cookies. We have every single fortune saved from when we first started dating. Okay so they're in a box, not really doing anything, but we're determined to figure out something cute to use them for! Anywhoo - Mike's stepmom got us some yummy gourmet fortune cookies for Christmas so I swapped out the fortunes very carefully for ones I made at home. We put them in little mini takeout boxes and had them open them at the end. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

If you aren't following Susannah's blog, you're missing out. We're pretty much the same person. Now it's time for some lunch. xo

Two If By Sea

This is a dress I picked up at H&M when Mike and I first visited Susannah & Chris back in June. I had seen SB wear it and I thought it was darling. Of course being that it was from H&M meant only that I was to never have it in my grasp. The fact Nashville still doesn't have an H&M is really beyond me. Anyway, on our drive up there I found it in the store for a whopping $10. They also had the pink version (and I bought it. So did Susannah!) It's pretty safe to say that we have a ton of the same dresses. We thought it'd be fun to style this one up each and share how the other did it! 

I paired mine with a mustard American Rag jacket I thrifted last year and some caramel colored Charlotte Russe flats (also thrifted). I thought the blue was an absolute perfect match for this sweet travel bag I scored for all of 15 cents! There really wasn't much to it, but I really liked this outfit! You'll be seeing quite a bit of yellow on the blog in the next few outfits so brace yourself!

Susannah looked darling in her pea-green cardi and bow flats (I was wearing the same flats not 10 minutes before we took these pictures. I decided to switch them out at the last minute haha!) The blue tights are so not something I would've thought of, but she pulls them off perfectly. If you wanna read more about her outfit and all that jazz, pop over to her blog and check it out!

How would you style this dress?

H&M dress
American Rag jacket (thrifted)
Charlotte Russe flats (thrifted)
Hive + Honey fascinator 
Thrifted bag


PS; Peep the picture on the left in the 1st collage (under the top image up there!)... That's my "mawdul" face haha! Mike told me to give him my best model pout so that's what I went for. There were a few outtakes of me doing the "prune" lip pursing like MK&A. Ridiculous! Don't worry, I know I look comical!

PPS; Susannah and I (and Chelsea!) totally think those are abstract sailboats on the dress. Do you agree?! They have to be. Just because I said they are.

A Picture An Hour (Chicago Saturday)

I tweeted publicly, told Susannah to remind me, and set my alarm Saturday morning as "A picture an hour!"... I had every intention on really pulling through this time! Last time we were on vacation with Chris & Susannah I really meant to do one, but alas I forgot. This time though, I stuck it out! Until the last 2 or so hours, that is. We didn't wake up until 11am but that was because we had a long and very eventful Friday night. It may or may not have included darts, new old ladies at a little dive bar, awkward run-ins with a drunk lady, 3am bike rides (and subsequent 3am bike wrecks...). I still have a doozy of a bruise on my knee to prove it. (Thank goodness the people whose front yard I face-planted in weren't awake! Yikes!) I'm not the most graceful person and the bike I was on didn't have any hand-brakes so I was at a loss for how to stop the darn thing. Alas, I just went (down) with it.

Anyway, here you go!

11am - coffee and lounge time. trying to wake our bodies up for the day ahead.

12pm - finishing the "getting ready" portion. makeup, nails, etc.

1pm - saying "so long" to mr. little jeans and making our way out the door. mine & susannah's cars. & sweet susannah!

2pm - in the car. on our way to nom on some sushi station. being silly in the backseat.

3pm - finally! we have arrived. sushi time. the veggie rolls were delicious! mine and susannah's iphones. aren't they cuteeee?!

4pm - leaving sushi station. heading to target to pick up things for the cookout.

6pm - the boys play a handful of games on the wii while we kill time.

7pm - bottles are open and the chit chat begins.

8pm - burgers are ready and corn on the cob is awkward to eat. 

10pm - the conversation moves indoors as a result of the overwhelming amount of mosquitos.

11pm - mike is already pooped, but we start to get our second wind.

12am - chris plays his guitar and topher entertains us with his antics. twitter tweets, too! 

Not pictured: the many breaks taken outside on the front porch, run-ins with strange people, disappearing guests down the road, being entirely too loud for a small neighborhood, walking to the bonner road inn bar at 1am, subsequent new old ladies and fantastic conversation, walking back home at 2am and proceeding to grill out (again) and the intensely epic business convo that i got into with susannah and mike... then feeling inspired and heading to bed around 3:30am. All in all: a very good/needed vacation!