Little White Dresses for Summer

Hello Lovelies!

It's been a while since I last did a fashion post and I really want to get back into it, so today I decided to share with you some dresses I've found recently!

I'm sorry that my pictures are blurry, for some reason my Polyvore hasn't been publishing pictures right, I tried to edit them, but it just wasn't happening.

Also, it wasn't intentional, but somehow all 9 dresses in this post are under $50!

One Clothing Lace Shift Dress $48.00

Junior One Clothing Colorblock Dress $42.00

Love, Nicki Lew Cap Sleeve Knit Skater Dress $42.00

dee lee lace Skater Skirt Dress $46.00

CoCo & Jameson Gauze Halter Dress $42.00

One Clothing Bow Back Skater Dress $42.00

Charlotte Russe Ivory Combo Nude-Lined Lace Bodycon Dress $33.00

One Clothing Textured Knit Fit & Flare Dress $42.00

Charlotte Russe Ivory Belted Crochet Cap Sleeve Dress $29.99

That's it for today, I hope you all enjoyed it!

Which dress is your favorite?

XoXo,

Lori

Weekend Wear: Southern Shirt

Hello lovelies, it's been a while since my last weekend wear post, so I decided today was the perfect time to bring it them back! Today's weekend wear is featuring Southern Shirt! Details below!

Shirt: Southern Shirt Nautical Rope L/S in Chalky Mint

Leggings: Zella 'Live In' Reversible Leggings

Boots: Torrid Strappy Riding Boot

Scarf: Paula Bianco Frayed Infinity Scarf in Charcoal

I love the color of this Southern Shirt, it's one of my favorite colors and I think mixed with the darker colors it adds a pop of color to fall fashion!

That's all for today, I hope you enjoyed it! What do you think about Southern Shirt? Let me know below!
XoXo,
Lori

8 Fall Booties You Can Wear Now

Hello lovelies, with fall on it's way, I thought I'd share with you some booties that you can start wearing now. Now it's no secret that I love boots, and if you knew me in real life, then you'd know that I start wearing boots ASAP every year.

Honestly, I'm so over summer and I'm so ready for the weather to cool down.

Sadly it doesn't look like that's going to happen for a few more weeks. But it really doesn't matter, a little heat's never stopped me from wearing my boots before, and it certainly didn't stop me yesterday when I wore them with a high of 88!

In order from left to right:
One. Two. Three. Four.  Five. Six. Seven. Eight.
What's your favorite pair of booties? What's your opinion on wearing boots when it's still 90 degrees outside?
XoXo,
Lori

Dressing Like a (Young) Professional

Last year after I turned 16 I decided I wanted to get a job to save some money for college. Well that didn't turn out as I planned, I applied, and applied, and applied some more, but nothing.
So I stopped looking.

In March when I turned 17 I decided to start looking again, and so far I still haven't found anything, I've turned in about 10 applications and I still haven't heard anything yet, but I still have hope that something will pop up soon.

While filling out these applications, I started thinking about the future, and about what I want to do after I graduate high school. I know I want to go on to college, I'm just not sure what career path I want to go down.

(I'm thinking about majoring in Psychology with a minor in History.)

After I started thinking about all the different career choices, I started to think about the different work environments, and workplace dress codes.

 Then a little light bulb flashed in my head, I knew immediately that I wanted to make a blog post about this. 

Recently I've been trying to do more fashion-y type blog posts so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to do a fashion post.

I tried to incorporate different styles, to suite different careers. You can't wear dresses in all careers, and you can't wear a pantsuit in others, every career and workplace is different, and that's great! 

Now that I look at it, I realize that the third set is kind of all over the place, but that's okay!

My favorite set out of the three is definitely the first set. I used to hate dresses and NEVER wear them, but for the past year I've kinda become obsessed and I want to buy every dress I see (but I don't).

Anyway that's all for today, I really hope you like it, and let me know what you think below.
XoXo,
Lori

Spring Accessories

Good morning lovelies, I hope you're all having a great day!

A few months ago I made this, but I forgot about it, and I never finished it. So last week when I was playing around on Polyvore I found it in my draft box, and I decided it was time to finally finish it.

Spring Accessories by loriboyd featuring travel zip bags

I've been looking for a new phone case and I'm seriously thinking about ordering this Kate Spade iPhone case. But I'm also thinking of waiting till August when the new iPhone comes, I'm due for an upgrade, and I really need more storage.

I think I'm going to wait on the phone and instead buy the these Kate Spade earrings.  

To be honest I really don't know, I'm sure I'll make up my mind, eventually!

Well that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed my picks for accessories this spring!

XoXo,

Lori

Books I Plan to Read in 2014

Hey y'all so today I want to share with you some of the books I plan on reading this year. I know for sure I will be reading most of them because I just ordered five of them through my local bookstore, and they should be arriving soon.

       

      Out of this entire list the book I'm looking forward to reading the most is definitely the top book. If you've been reading my blog for a while, then you know how much I loved the first three books in the Treadwell Academy series, so I'm super happy to announce that she just released the fourth book and I can't wait to read it.

     Well that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed it, what books are you looking forward to reading this year? Let me know in the comments below.

                                                           XOXO,

                                                                  Lori Ann

My Studying Essentials!

    I decided today that I wanted to continue on with the school them. Today I'm going to give you my Studying Essentials, and why they are essential to my studying routine.

Studying Essentials by loriboyd 

1. Sweaters

  -When I'm studying I always make sure I have a sweater near by just in case I get cold.

2. Coffee/ Hot Chocolate Mug

  -  I don't drink coffee much, but during the winter I drink hot chocolate ALL the time. Sometimes I'll drink coffee, but only if I can get it just right.

3. Heating Pad

 - This is actually something new I've recently discovered. When I sit for a long time I get cramps in my back, and until last month I couldn't study for longer than 2 hours because my back would start hurting.

    Well last month when I was on my period I bought a new heating pad and I used it, after my period was over I got cold, so  decided to get it out and use it to keep me warm, 4 hours later I realized my back wasn't hurting and I was still sitting at my desk.

4. Blanket

 - This one is kinda for the same reason as #1. But it's different because the main reason why I have blanket by is for my lower half, my feel tend to get really cold, so having a blanket nearby is a must.

5. Candles

  - I'm a candle addict, I have like 5 candles right now that I need to finish/start burning, and I already want to buy more. I'm not able to walk past candles in a store without stopping to sniff just one. I prefer candles that are vanilla scented, and anything similar to vanilla works too.

    The reason this is on my list is because I truly believe the candles are soothing, they help me with my anxieties, and they just make the air so much nicer to breath in.

  So there are my Studying Essentials, what do you think? What are you're studying essentials? Let me know in the comments.

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                                                                              Lori Ann

Sweater Weather

 Hello there lovelies, since the past two weeks have been kinda hectic with the new year and all, I decided to make today's post an easy read.
     One of the main reason I love winter so much is because I can wear sweaters, and darker colors, without being judged for it.

Sweater Weather by loriboyd featuring cross jewelry

        So what do you think of my little creation? Do you like it? If you could change anything about it what would it be? Let me know what you think in the comments below, well that's all for today, I'll be back tomorrow with a review!
                                                                         Stay Creative,
                                                                                          Lori Ann

January Music Playlist

Hey y'all, I know today I'm supposed to be doing my Weight Loss Monday's series, but I didn't really have anything to tell you, so I decided to do a music playlist.
     So here is my January Music Playlist......

January Music Playlist by loriboyd featuring home wall decor

      Now here's the best part... this is going to be a monthly thing. I was originally planning on making this a replacement for my WLM's, but then I realized that I already had all my Monday's filled up with other things 'm planning. So I decided that this would be what I would do on the month's that there's 5 Monday's, and  on months when there isn't a 5th Monday I'll post it on the first Sunday of the month.

   Well, that's all for today, let me know what you think in the comments.
                                                                        Stay Creative,
                                                                                        Lori Ann

Christmas Music Playlist #4

  Can you believe there's only a few more days till Christmas? I finally got all of my presents wrapped last night, so I'm offically done. I can't finally sit back, relax, and enjoy the holiday.
   I'm actually sad that Christmas is here, I don't want it to end, the reason I love this time of year so much is because everyoe is so happy. During he Christmas season everyone is so much more giving, happy, and just all around joyful.
   But for now here's my final Christmas music playlist for his Holiday season.

Christmas Music Playlist by loriboyd featuring cable lighting

         Well that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed this playlist, and I hope you have a Holly Jolly Christmas.

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                                                                           Lori Ann

Dream Time-Bed Time

    You may have noticed that this month I haven't really done any reviews, and that most of my posts have been centered around lists, or some of my Polyvore sets.
    The reason behind this is because with the Holiday's and everyone being busy, I really just wanna put out easy to read posts, I don't wanna waste your time, so I decided to just tone it down this month, and just chill.

Dream Time-Bed Time by loriboyd featuring queen pillowcases

     I love to sleep, it's one of my favorite things in the world, I take a nap most days of the week, and by doing that I feel like I have more energy.
    So for today's set I wanted to make it sleep related, as you can see there's lots of blankets and pillows. To me it just looks really cozy, and I just wanna grab one of those blankets and curl up on the couch with a good book, or maybe take a nap.
      That's all for today, do you like my little set? Is that what you call it? Yikes, you really can tell I'm new to Polyvore can't you.
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                                                                  Lori Ann

Demi Lovato Inspired Outfit

I recently opened up a Polyvore account, and I've been experimenting with it. And I decided today that I wanted to a Demi Lovato inspired photo.
    Demi has a style of her own, she's always changing her hair, wearing leather jackets, and usually leather legging or shredded black jeans, with a band tee, and ankle boots.
   

Demi Lovato Inspired Outfit by loriboyd featuring bootie boots

     I feel like this is a pretty good perception of her style because over the past year I've seen A LOT of photos of her with a phone case, boots, and purse exactly like the one in my set.


      So that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed this post.
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                                                                         Lori Ann

Christmas Music Playlist #3

 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! So we are officially in Christmas countdown mode, we have less than two weeks to go.
    I finished my Christmas shopping on Friday, and I'm hoping to have everything wrapped by the end of the week.
     If things work out the way I want them to then we will be going to our church's annual Return to Bethlehem event tonight. But that's only if things workout the way I want them to, I really wanna go, but my plans may fall through.

Christmas Music Playlist by loriboyd featuring christmas signs

   After this week I only have one more Christmas Music Playlist to go, so I'm kinda sad about that, but I'm also excited to share next weeks playlist with you.

                         So that's all for today, check back tomorrow for more.

                                                             Stay Creative,

                                                                             Lori Ann

Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me

A few months ago when I was looking for blog post inspiration I came across this, and so I put it on my list of things I wanted to do this year.
    I can't remember where I found this idea, but credit goes to whoever came up with it.

Books I Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Me by loriboyd on Polyvore

     If you've read any of these books let me know if they're any good. If you any books you think I should add to my list let me know in the comments section.

                      So that's all for today, I hope you enjoyed this post.

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                                                                                       Lori Ann

Christmas Music Playlist #2

  Last week I had so much fun making my Christmas music playlist, that I decided to make another.  I think I'm going to post a new playlist every week till Christmas.

     This past week I've been obsessed with the Trans Siberian Orchestra. I'd been listening to it on YouTube, but Wednesday I went to Walmart with my mom, and while we wee near the music section I started looking.
     I wasn't looking for anything in particular, I was just trying to kill some time, and then I found it. And this really surprised me, but I found the Trans Siberian Orchestras Christmas album, so yes I am a very happy girl right now!

Christmas Music Playlist #2 by loriboyd on Polyvore

 I've been trying to think of new ways to spice up my blog, and I'm planning on making some big changes  around the end of January. So my question to you, is would you like for me to do monthly music playlists?

                                                                 Stay Creative, 

                                                                                Lori Ann

Under $25 Gift Guide

      I was playing around on Polyvore earlier today, and I decided to put this together for you. I wanted to make this an under $25 gift guide for those of you who don't have much money to spend on a gift. So here are some gifts to put a smile on a one of your friends face.

Under $25 Gift Guide by loriboyd featuring a sterling silver necklace

         So that's all for today, tell me in the comments what you think. What are your favorite gifts?

                                                            Stay Creative,

                                                                               Lori Ann