A Journalist's Red Carpet

I've got some exciting news for y'all! Well, it's exciting for me and I'd like to think y'all want to celebrate and share in an interweb toast with me. Anyway, I'm a finalist for an Associate Press Award! Woohoo!!! (Insert happy dance.)

Apparently my mentor from college, a news director in Tallahassee, submitted one of my sports reporting features to the AP, which has a big awards ceremony each year for tons of different categories. I didn't even realize I had been nominated, let alone a FINALIST until today! Myself and my amazing editor, Alyse Danikowski, are up for "Best Sports Feature of 2010." Pretty sweet huh!? And what's even cooler is that we're up against another FSU alum! 'Noles are sweeping the board baby! So regardless of who wins, the Seminoles rock. :)

However, I would really like to win so fingers crossed! (I'm a little competitive if you can't tell.)

The video in question is below. Please disregard the awful stand-up. It was about 10 degrees with super strong winds and the athlete kept flirting with me so I was little awkward. But the rest is awesome!

Have a great Thursday y'all! (Insert one more happy dance for good measure.)

Fat Tuesday!

Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! For all of you in NOLA today, I'm incredibly jealous. I hope y'all get plenty of awesome beads (without showing your goods, of course) and eat lots of yummy cajun & creole food! I'm craving a cupcake today so I thought I'd share some fun Mardi Gras cupcakes I found. :) Enjoy!

On the hunt...

Ahhh! I know I keep apologizing for not blogging more regularly, but in my defense I've been very busy and need to work on time management. So with that said... I'll fill y'all in on what I've been obsessing over lately. Well not really obsessing. I would just like to find this and rock it to work, oh I don't know, every day.



However, I do NOT want to pay the $1,000 Bergdorf price tag. No way Jose. So if y'all know of anywhere a poor girl can find some awesome high-waisted pants (that don't look like your grandma's) please help a sister out and let me know!

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'm contemplating heading over to the Academy Awards to see if I can get a glimpse of anyone! If I do, I'll be sure to take some pictures for y'all! Bye now!

Oh Lilly...

Lilly Pulitzer, you're making me drool at work. Not a cute look. I love all holidays, including the love-filled Valentine's Day. If I was single, I went out with my single girlfriends. If I had a date (or two - that was only once though and didn't end well) I enjoyed being wined, dined, popcorned, movied, or whatever. This year will be my second Valentine's Day with NTP and I have no idea what we'll be doing (besides going to work). We do plan on going snow-skiing and snowboarding the weekend before and the weekend after is our birthdays (woohoo!), but I think I'm in for a surprise on V-Day. Which is fine with me! I sure love a surprise! And, yes, I realize it's over a week away, but I get excited. Don't hate.

So in a moment of weakness I looked at Lilly Pulitzer online to take a quick break from work. And oh. my. word. I WANT IT ALL! I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but imagine some of the adorable Valentine's outfits you could create. Sigh...









Love, hugs, and Lilly...

Valentine's Crafts (bookworm style)

Hello lovelies! As most of ya'll are in the Southeast and I'm the lone transplant out in sunny California (not for long!) please forgive me when I say my morning is just getting started. At 11:00. I'm just not a morning person. But I can already tell today is going to be a great day. I made my coffee just right, caught up on Twitter and my RSS Feed, and plan on reading and sewing most of the day. (My momma is paying me to bind her quilts for her!)

Anyway, I got a little crafty the other day and decided I needed to make a Valentine's wreath. And being the bookworm that I am, I thought I'd give this a try! Here's the finished product.



I get lots of books as presents (because everyone knows I'm a total book nerd) and I happened to have multiples laying around so I took one of the and cut the pages into circles (which was kind of heartbreaking to do at first). I cut them into different sizes and shapes. Some have scalloped edges, others are just round. And then I pushed the centers down into a point so the pages formed little flowers.



Then the hot glue gun came out and I glued the hundreds of them onto a flat wooden wreath I got at Michael's for like $2. After I managed to cover the whole wreath, I added little embellishments like the different sized pearls and colorful paper flowers. I also thought I should add some color to the pages of the wreath so I took some scrapbook paper to the pages I already glued on to make it pop a little.



And to wrap it all up I added this paper mache heart I got at Michael's for $2. I LOVE the color and shape and I think it really ties the whole thing together. Besides, my last name is Hart so there HAD to be a heart in there somewhere. :)



I hope ya'll have a magnificent Sunday!

Dress LOVE

Big news ya'll. I finally found the PERFECT dress to wear to my best friend's summer wedding! I'm so over-the-moon with this dress that I think NTP is actually jealous. Here it is, courtesy of the always lovely ModCloth!



Love. Love. Love.

Birthday Wish List

Yesterday while I was eating lunch I decided to give my mom and NTP some birthday present ideas. (It's a month away, but I like to be prepared.) I asked Momma for the Jack Rogers that I've been lusting after for years. (Plus I'm the only one of my friends that doesn't have any yet, which is never cool. Duh.) NTP got an e-mail with a link to the adorable top from ModCloth (which I've been obsessed with for a couple years now.) And since I have access to wonderful photoshop at work, I decided to make a little somethin'-somethin' with a few pics of my "wish list". :)



Top: ModCloth.com Vase, monograms, and mugs: Anthropologie.com Napkin holder & weight: Mariposa.com Flowers: Hopefully courtesy of NTP :)