opening up shop

 So I wore this scarf to a lovely christmas get together with some ladies I'm sure you all know!

(hint* Stephanie, Olivia, Kai, Tammy, Kelsey, Hollie)

and when they found out that I made it they told me that I just HAD to open an etsy shop

so I said ok!

(oh! credit to Tammy for coming up with the adorbs name!)

anyway, I have made the shop but haven't added anything to it yet 

however I am taking orders right now and I am shipping priority flat rate so if you order quickly you can still get these before christmas!

(and in my opinion they make great gifts!)

right now I just have the scarf, headband/ear warmer with bow, and single bow (could also clip into hair or attach to a headband) seen in these not so great pictures (sorry!)

pricing is $25 for the scarf, $15 for the headband, and $8 for the bow plus shipping (which ever size flat rate box will fit it...I believe it is $5.20 for the small $10.95 for the medium. The scarf and any multiple order will probably need a medium but I will double check :)

If you live in southern California we can meet up and you can avoid paying shipping.  If not I will make a reserved listing for you on my shop page.

If you're interested let me know! you can email me at amandasdailyobsessions@yahoo.com or message me on twitter if you prefer

also! these prices may go up by the time I launch the full shop so get 'em while they're hot! lol!

and you can pick any color (that I can find of course!) so It's much more custom than waiting until the shop is open to buy!

Black Friday and other recent shopping

I know, I know ...another (long) video

love me through it

I need your help!

So I found a $25 gift card to pottery barn in my undie drawer (I know I'm not the only one who keeps random things there!) and I can't decide what to get!

option 1 or 

option 2

they will be monogramed just like that, and the towels are a set of 2

what do you guys think? 

Things I'm loving lately

don't mind my weird faces mkay? thanks!

San Diego/SoCal Blogger Meetup
Come!!! I'd love to meet you!



Youtube videos I've been obsessing over:

Missglamorazzi
Amarixe
FleurDeForce


sorry! the scarf wasn't online but there are other cute ones!

the puggie's new clothes

ok so I'm not normally one to dress up my dog (though I have been known to make her a tutu) but when we saw this little number at walmart I couldn't resist! (especially when a friend decided to buy it as a gift...how could I say no?) I mean, it says xox lulu for crying out loud!

and of course she looks so darn cute in it!

my saturday

so this past saturday was the first full day i got to spend with hubs ♥

it was amazing of course

we started off the day at starbucks so we could use the internet

(why do i have a feeling we'll never get internet setup so we can use it as an excuse to get starbs?? ...jk we're just waiting till payday...i hope lol!)

then we met up with some of hubby's friends at the mall

i couldn't find hub's sun glasses when i was packing (and he wanted some better ones anyway) and when we went into sunglass hut (just to look...you know how that goes) the sales lady informed him that they normally don't have a military discount but were currently having a 20% discount for mall employees that they would give to military too (that uniform sure does come in handy!) 

so anyway he obviously couldn't pass that up lol! but that's ok cause he got me these babies!

i was super tired for some reason and hubs and i took a little nap (or so i thought) and i woke up to find hubs cleaning! i tried to get him to stop and told him i'd do it later when he was in class but he wouldn't stop! he kept saying "it's supposed to be clean" and "this is what i do" lol! i'm surprised he didn't tell me we had gear adrift and were going to get a hit

anywho gotta love that navy training :)

then i made our favorite dinner: linguine with clam sauce :)

and because 1. we don't have a table or chairs and 2. i thought it would be fun, we had an indoor picnic 

it was basically an awesome day only thing that would've been better would be to not have to take hubs back to the barracks at night

ahh...soon :)

afternoon at target

so what was supposed to be a quick trip to target to get some cat and dog food turned into a 30 minute leisurely stroll around the whole store

why? you ask...

well see i went in, got my cart, got the pet food, and was just about to head to checkout when...

rinnnnnnggg...i look down and hubby is calling me!!!
(actually my phone doesn't sound like rinnnnngg, it sounds like this)

and since it was too hot to go sit out in the car, and i still needed to buy that cat and dog food, i just wandered around target for 30 mins while i talked to my husband

normally thins would have been really bad as i would've bought lots of things i shouldn't, but luckily i was quite engrossed in the conversation i was having :)

right after he had to say goodbye i did see this:

is that not the cutest little swimsuit you've ever seen in your life??

i so wish i had a little girl to buy this for!

so i havent been around...

i just havent really had much to say

and ive been kind of busy

but mostly i just havent been in the mood to go on the computer...which is weird, cause i go on the computer multiple times a day, and i have hardly touched the thing in a week

so before i got catch up on all your lovely blogs i have to tell you about the amazing deal i got at safeway the other day...

so i stroll down the cereal aisle and i see these signs that say buy 2 get 3 free

buy 2 get 3. free.

i literally stared at it for 5 mins to make sure i was reading it right and it didnt say get 3rd free 

while i was doing this a lady came up and did the same thing ha!

so instead of being $4.50 each they were $1.80!

crazy right?

these were the ones on sale (plus a couple others):

can you believe i got all these boxes for $9?

and

see those coupons on the boxes that say save $1 on fresh fruit? well that was if you bought two kelloggs cereals, and since i technically bought 5 (even though i only payed for 2) i was able to used two of the coupons and get these strawberries for $.50 each

$.50

i love getting a great deal :)

new sneaks!

so hubby is going to be running a half marathon in about a month and his sneakers were literally falling apart so we went to the store to get some new ones

i just went for fun and to spend time with him but...

when i told brian that i liked these ones he told me to try them on...and then bought them for me!

i just love my husband ♥


can i tell you a secret...these are my first real pair of sneaks

...im serious

i mean, ive had cheer shoes before (lots of them) and tennis shoes, but no real sneakers for running and working out and such (though thats probably because i dont do any of the former and not much of the later ha!)

anyways its terribly exciting (especially since theyre pink) and they make me want to go to the gym

which is good.

because i need to.

bad.




in other semi-related news i tie shoes wrong

well, maybe not wrong, but certainly different, though i must say...i think my way looks better





*oh and fyi the dishes were perfectly clean :)

book love

well... more like book cover love...

i need these...

...well i guess i dont need them

...but i would love them!

theyre only available here

and my absolute favorite...

i die for this one!

wedding: the cake

so as it happens one of my best friends and sorority sisters mom makes wedding cakes

she wanted her gift to us to be to make the cake and i was thrilled! the cake totally exceeded my expectations! it was beautiful, so perfect and absolutely delicious!

...no seriously! i want the steal her butter-cream frosting recipe and i dont even care for frosting that much!

the toppers are actually vintage salt and pepper shakers! i got them at a swap meet probably at least six months before we were even engaged ha! but i have know for a long time that i wanted my wedding cake to have vintage toppers on them and when i saw these i had to have them...something like that doesnt come along everyday

the cake stand was in this boutique section of a thrift store i frequent for the longest time and i wanted it so bad...problem was it was listed at $140!!! outrageous right? well the good thing about this thrift store (cause even the non boutique items are often overpriced) is that every week they have three different colored tags on sale, one 25%, one 50% and one 75% off

well at 75% of it would be $35 which isnt bad but every time its color tag was at 75% i never had the extra money

this happened for months before we got engaged but it never sold and i went to the thrift store after we got engaged to see if it was still there cause i knew i wanted it for the cake so we could have a cute small cake that didnt look puny

as fate would have it its color was 50% of which meant tuesday it would be 75%

with a reason to finally purchase it (and money from my parents for the wedding :) i went bright and early tuesday morning and snatched it up!

...and now its mine forever :)

wedding: attire continued

I guess i should post about the rest of the partys attire as well lol

i mean...i did pick it out and everything :)

these are the girls dresses (they no longer have that color) and their shoes were just shimmery sandals from here and i made some of these type of flowers and attached them to make them a little fancier :)

the boys tuxes are from here (we saved 1/2 the price by not renting jackets!!!)

ma's dress was from here and complimented the colors perfectly

my two nephews were the ring-bearers and little brothers vest was from here and the rest from here i believe

big brothers outfit was also from here...it came with a matching jacket that was beyond adorable, but didnt go with the casual feel of the wedding

ma and i went to so many places looking for her dress and the little boys outfits and i searched every inch of the internet and found they only dress in the color i was imagining for the girls...which luckily turned out to be fabulous!

(especially since my baby sister, being 13, didnt care for it so much so now i have one!)

wedding: attire

i wore this dress

the headband was from here

the shoes were blue tux...their website seems to have disappeared...hmm...

the shoes are dye-able so im thinking about dying them black so i might actually wear them again instead of sit in the closet for all of eternity

we didn't like the sash on the that came with the dress so we bought a satin ribbon

the brooch was originally intended for my hair, but when i found that headband i knew it was perfect and the brooch ended up on the sash which just completed the look ♥

what im wearing today

my minnie mouse apron!!!

i got it in disneyland and i LOVE it!

it makes cleaning and doing the dishes fun! well...not quite, but it helps!

return of the saltwater sandals

I had these beauties when i was little...i think they were a hand-me-down from a cousin or friend of the family and i loved them! 
and heres my new pair! my reinfacuation with these began about 4-5 years ago when a friend of mine in high school got a white pair and i really wanted the iridescent light pink ones
but i soon forgot about them while other things moved to the top of my "i need those" list until more recently when i saw them in the new sunrise leather by my house
i debated for months over weather i should get the red or blue (i liked the red better, but the blue seemed more practical) in the end the blue just looked better on my feet...and at $5 off who could resist? theyre super cute and comfy and you know what?
i absolutely love them!

(actually i believe ive worn them everyday since i bought them!)

happy easter!

here is the easter bunny bringing you some pretty decorated eggs

I didnt get any pictures of the all the eggs my sister and i dyed before most of them were made into deviled eggs like last easterthis was my easter dress for the year along with the sweater and shoes i wore to church

(that sweater was from the childrens department of target and i will post more later about how i transformed it)

I hope you all had a WONDERFUL easter filled with family, friends, food, and of course...eggs!

im in love

with these adorable plates from pottery barn kids...the giraffe is my favorite

but the plates are plastic and not totally my style or colors so i have been inspired by them to make my own silhouettes with butterflies and flowers and birds and go here or here and paint some of my own

hippity hopity easter's on its way!

Actually its here! and heres sierra the bunny offering easter greetings and painted eggs
how is it that at 21 painting easter eggs is prob my favorite springtime activity.  Though now i do it under the "obligation to help my baby sister" but really, its just like art, only with a different canvas

one thing that always means its easter is my annual easter dress.  this year its so pink and girly and its a little sneak peak into my shopping while i was in SLO
Well i hope you all have a very happy easter filled with lots of egg hunting and movies and books about rabbits and chicks and eggs
(these are for you!)