Black Friday Shopping

Happy (Cyber) Monday Lovelies! I hope you enjoyed a long weekend with friends, family and food. Did you partake of the retail madness? I tried. Really, I did. It started with cyber shopping on Friday (why brave the mall when you can shop from the comfort of your PJs?) but that unraveled when a few sites I went to, ahem Gap and Anthro, weren't working. FAIL. I actually went to Best Buy, but a check out line wrapped around the store told me I wouldn't be taking anything home. 

It started to look like my weekend would be a complete shopping bust until Sunday night. ApartStyle sent me an awesome notification about a sale. The ending result was scoring these beauties at a STEAL. Originally priced at $440, they were on sale for $89. Shopping success. 

Nappa Leather Slim Pant

If you haven't already checked out ApartStyle, I strongly suggest you do ASAP. I've shopped from them a couple times for wedding dresses (here and here) and I've never been disappointed. So if you're on the hunt for a little something for yourself today, check out Apart. They're having more killer deals today for Cyber Monday. 

Did you have a successful shopping holiday? I'd love to hear what you scored over the weekend, whether it was for family, friends or yourself.

*note - I was not compensated for this love fest on ApartStyle. I'm just a fan girl.

Another Successful Thanksgiving

I hope you lovely readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving and extended weekend. I know I needed this break from work like nobody bidness.

My Thanksgiving break was extremely busy in the best kind of way. I spent Thanksgiving morning running a 4-mile road race, where I was lucky enough to get a personal record (meaning I ran my best 4-mile time - 37:16!) and my knee held up (a miracle in itself since my IT Band has been sore lately) and then came home and cooked a Thanksgiving feast for the man and myself. 

On Friday, the man braved outlet mall Black Friday crowds so I could check out the Kate Spade sale, and I got to pick out a few of my Christmas presents at William-Sonoma (I know, the element of surprise is ruined, but I got what I wanted, right?!

And finally, the moment arrived where the Kate Spade online sale hit, and I was lucky enough to grab my green holiday dress as well as this Yardley structured tote, which will be perfect for work travel. 

  

We also went to see Michael Buble at the Garden Saturday night. The boyfriend mentioned that he wouldn't mind seeing Buble live, and I didn't need any more convincing to snap up tickets. We sat front and center, about 20 rows back, and while this was my third time seeing the crooner, it was my first seeing him up close and personal.

So how was your weekend? Did you, like most people overeat? Or did you eat a mini meal and hit the sales to get most of your holiday shopping done?