Fall for Greenville

Fall for Greenville is the most wonderful time of the year. Imagine a weekend in October, walking up and down main street, with a drink in hand, eating almost anything you can imagine. That’s Fall for Greenville, and it’s amazing.

Here are some of our fav foods from Fall For Greenville, everything from Mable Bacon Funnel Cakes to Gator Dogs…and everything in between. Roost came through with my favorite dessert, Brown Butter Chocolate Toffee Cookies (say that 5x fast).

Shop my Fall for Greenville Looks:

Blackberry Long Sleeve Romper here. It’s also available in red, and a similar style in navy and lilac. Shop my Fitbit Band here.

One Shoulder Dress in Burgundy. Shop my Fitbit Band here.

Thank you to Embassy Suites Downtown for putting us up for the weekend! It is a prime location for visiting Greenville. You get the benefits of being on Main St. with the added small town feel and serene views from not being directly on the street. There are a plethora of restaurants, in all price ranges, within walking distance. The downtown community is so great, there is an event going on almost every week. You can’t beat the location, rooftop bar or the free happy hour every evening at the Embassy Suites! My favorite view was out our window, of the beautiful mural of downtown Greenville.

From the Lobby balcony, you have views of Main Street and the TD Stage behind the Peace Center, as seen in my one-shoulder dress pics.View from Main Street of Embassy Suites and the TD Stage.View from UP on the Roof, where my romper pics were taken.

Fall for Greenville is one of the many reasons that Greenville, South Carolina keeps making top 10 lists for best place to live and best place to visit. If you were at FFGVL drop your favorite food in the comments! If you aren’t from Greenville, tell me about your favorite home town festival!

 XOXO,

Girls “Light” Out!

It’s officially fall which means the air is getting crisper, our DVR is full of Hallmark original movies and the candles are burning non-stop. Last week a few of us girls got together and attended our first candle making class in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. It was scent-sational (see what I did there) and I officially have a new Fall Kick-Off Tradition!

Magnolia Scents by Design has a location in downtown Greenville, S.C and Independence, Kansas.  At both locations you can make your own soy candles, including picking your scent, mixing your own color and naming your candle!

All the materials are provided for you, so all you have to do is show up ready to have fun and get creative!  The most important lesson we took away from this class was that size matters…when it comes to wicks.

Pro Tip: If you want to know what color your candle will be when it dries, just tap a little bit of color onto a paper towel.  Trying to find our perfect color shade was definitely a team effort!

The whole process takes roughly an hour and as Jessica put it, “there was pretty much no way to mess it up”.   The fact that all of our candles looked and smelled amazing, despite some of us *almost* forgetting to add our scent (Malinda) and some of us adding WAY too may color drops (Brie), is testament to that.

Our candles were ready to be picked up less than two hours later.  The whole night was a blast!  Any event that allows me to make something useful and beautiful while also making fun memories with my friends is a win in my book.

Special thanks to Taylor, for being such a great (and patient) teacher!  Don’t forget to name your next candle “Taylor Made”!

If you’re in the Greenville or Independence area, do yourself a favor and check out Magnolia Scents!  They offer several candle making classes each day, and if you don’t have time to make your own you can still pick one up in store.  I highly recommend the Cookie Shop scent.

 

XOXO,

P.S. Here’s a picture of us with my sweet parents, who were in town visiting from Texas.  And everyone knows my favorite dinner spot in downtown is Trio!

Shop similar dresses to mine:

From Top Left to Bottom Right: Trapeze Dress, Ruffle Tie Neck Dress, Pintucked Swing Dress, Cinched Waist Floral Dress, Floral Flutter Midi Dress, Payton Cinched Waist Dress

Friday Favorites 4/7/2017

Happy Friday, y’all!!  We have a packed weekend planned, so I am so ready for it to get here!  Tonight we are going to dinner with a super old (think elementary school) friend and her husband, since they are visiting the wonderful #YeahTHATGreenville.  Saturday we have a birthday celebration at Dave & Busters.  Then bright and early Sunday morning we are road tripping to St. Petersburg, Florida!  We’ve never been to St. Pete’s so please send me your food and fun recommendations, in the comments!

1.) Favorite New Photo Trend:  Get yourself some friends that don’t question when you do weird things, and are more than happy to be weird in return.  Case in point, friends who go to the same tourist spots and take the same photos.  Can this be a new photo trend? #FriendPhotoCopy  Use that hashtag and tag me on Instagram so I can see all the other weirdo friendships out there!

2.)  Favorite Girlie Drink (That Seems Healthy):  The Pink Drink at Starbucks.  It’s a Strawberry Refresher with Coconut Milk.  It tastes amazing and it looks so pretty!  Plus, there are fresh strawberries in it, so it’s basically a health drink and if you care about your body at all you will go get one, right now.

3.) Favorite Volunteer Event (Probably of All Time):  Our church put on a free Carnival for Foster Children and their families and it was beyond incredible.  I don’t think I can fully describe how amazing this experience was.  Foster children have very little that actually belongs to them, if you would like to help them out you can go here to find a local donation spot in your area!  One thing we didn’t realize was a need until this event were lice treatment kits.  If reading that sentence made your  head itch, that’s the Holy Spirit telling you to go donate some lice kits to your local donation site. 🙂  You can search the hashtag #ForSC to see other projects our church did across the state of South Carolina.

4.) Favorite Craft: Ok, so we agreed to help with a craft project that was WAY above our skill level.  Two hours into a 1.5 hour project, we had to call the Master Crafter, Karli, to come walk us through it step by step!  Four hours, twenty burned fingers, two pork chops and way too many frosted cookies later, we officially made 12 Easter flowers!  Here’s the link for the tutorial.  If you are able to easily make these, please feel free to gloat in the comments!

5.) Favorite Cold Weather Walking Location: I have a great friend, Kati, and our friendship revolves around walking.  Sometimes we eat, but we always walk.  With the weather being crazy this week, we opted to check out the Well Walkers program at The Well, downtown.  The Well is our local arena where the Greenville Swamp Rabbits hockey team play (they are doing fantastic this year). Basically you walk around the inside of the arena, and you don’t have to worry about nasty weather, it’s pretty genius.  They even have days when doctors, dietitians, or mom & me instructors come out.  I’m curious if other cities have similar programs.

Enjoy your Friday! Go take some #FriendPhotoCopy pics or attempt some crafts that are way above your skill level, and report back!  Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button so you can be the first to know when I have a new post!  Special shout out to Melissa and Brie for being the stars of today’s post!

XOXO,

Sara