HELLO
Mom to Iris. Wife to Todd. Our little family lives at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains in Fayetteville, Arkansas. We love it here and I love sharing little bits of our life.

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Articles written by: Sarah

hi hi hello spring


The weather is slowly but surely trying to change over into spring, so it’s time to shed these winter photos that have been building up for way too long. As you can tell from the first photo, I finally received my long awaited diploma! I guess this post sort of shows what I’ve been doing with my time now that there’s no more school for me. There’s no rhyme or reason to the order, but I’ll try to explain along the way. Oh and just click on a photo for a bigger view.

One cute Sadie. Love her.

My family came to visit!
My baby sister Lilah & me.

Fashion show for Mason’s. Karen, Gina, & me.

Glam rock birthday party

New Years Eve in Kansas City
We had a murder mystery dinner the night before & fully took advantage of the costume part. I was Marilyn Merlot.

Kickin New Years Eve off with a get together at Seth’s loft.

Watch the ball drop at Aaron & Bev’s lovely home (thanks again for everything ya’ll)!
We kept our celebration small, but the night was filled with dancing, champagne, and makin bets.
So much fun.

My favorite animals on the planet.

Todd’s 31st birthday & a shot made by Cathy.

Jonathan & Lacy’s island themed wedding celebration

Sisters Sadie & Olive had their first birthday!
Like the loving parents that we are, we threw them a dog party on campus complete w/ cake from a local dog bakery.

If you can’t tell from my lack of updates, I’ve been super busy lately. I’m halfway through my internship at Walton Arts Center and I absolutely love it. It’s only part time, so I devote the rest of my life to Bittersweet Styles. Plus I get to do hands-on fun stuff. One of my jobs is to write about upcoming events & this month I have an article published in CitiScapes magazine. It’s kind of long, but click on the scans below if ya wanna read all about the art of cirque!

That’s all for now..

Luv,
Sarah

August to December

As promised, I finally have a photo update! It’s jumbo size too.
Feel free to check out my Flickr account (I usually end up posting a lot of pictures there way before I get around to posting in my blog).

I never got around to posting pictures from our honeymoon (except a few polaroid)s, so here they are!

Fontainebleau Resort in Miami

afternoon mojitos

balcony views

rooftop pool w/ pina coladas

“8th & Ocean” aka – a short lived MTV series.
Coincidentally, two months later I passed one of the twin models from the show in Vegas.

Miami Dork.

We got the very last photos from our wedding – all of the True Love poses. Here are just a couple, but check out Flickr for the rest.

A little over a month after our honeymoon, we flew to Key West for Katie & Caleb’s wedding.

Early morning flight out of Tulsa.

I bought my ticket late & had to fly separately. Somehow got to Key West a couple ours before the rest of the crew & let a Memphis Belle poster keep me company in the dusty little airport bar.

Dinner boat ride

Our sweet lil’ hotel

Breakfast by the pool

And of course the beautiful ceremony!

Laura and I took a girls trip to Las Vegas !
I still can’t believe how much fun we had. We’re going to make it a yearly routine.

Our hotel on the strip – Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall & Saloon. Heck yeah.

Madame Trousseau’s Wax Museum

Dinner & drinks at The N9NE Steakhouse in The Palms
one of the best meals of my life.

Danced at JET…

… where we saw the one and only Perez Hilton.

sweet treats at New York, New York

The Bellagio

Halloween!

I was Amy Winehouse.

Kat Von D

Victoria & David Beckham

Brett Michaels & Heather from Rock of Love

half of Hall & Oats

Party for all of the December Birthdays

Of course a few of my Sadie pup…


Now that I’m out of school for good, I’ll be able to concentrate on Bittersweet Styles. So be sure to check out all that’s up for grabs in the store!


I’ll also be starting an internship in January in the external affairs department at at The Walton Arts Center (which just so happens to have hosted one of my all time favorite concerts – Wilco). So, everything is coming together! Exciting stuff.

Till next time…

The Graduette.

As of 5 o’clock today this girl is done officially with college forever!


Photo by Kimberly Cyr for Masons

That’s right, after way too many years – I’m finally graduating!
Now that I have plenty of time, I’ll post a full update so very soon. Promise.

Luv,
Sarah

I love September.

I have been insane-o busy lately with school. Besides my fourth semester of German (ich bin nicht gut), I am taking all upper level journalism courses that are very time consuming. On top of that, it’s finally time to start working on my senior paper.

Fantasy Football is also attempting to take over the few free hours that I do have. So far I lost my first match up, but it’s still crazy addictive. I can’t complain though, I did choose one guy because his last name is McAlister and I love love love to eat at McAlister’s. Anyways, go team Cuddly Kittens!

Next week I’ll be in Key West for Katie’s wedding and then a few weeks after that Laura & I are going to Vegas. I can’t wait for either trip, especially since I missed out on the big adventure to Kansas City this weekend. Somewhere in-between Florida and Nevada I turn a year older too. So not fun anymore.

I have a few exciting things to report…

+ Bittersweet Styles was in the newspaper a couple days ago in California.
You can read the full article here.

+ We were also featured on my friend Jazzi’s fashion blog!
Jazzi is a stylist in LA/NY who is also a contributer for Teen Vogue (at almost age 27, one of my major guilty pleasures).

jazzi

+ Laura & I did a fun little photoshoot for Mason’s for this month’s issue of Citiscapes…

+ Of course I have more wedding photos to share as well. I’m just going to post a few of my favorites because I uploaded all of them on my Flickr account a while back.

+ I’ll end with some photos from lately…

Too cute…

Todd built us a Chill Zone

Our Chill Zone (part 1)

We went to the fair!

As my grandma would say, “That’s all she wrote.”

Luv,
Sarah

More Wedding Photos

Here are a few more photos that (most of which our friends & family took). I will probably post more in a few days once the rest of them roll in…

silk screened poster invitations by Sasha Barr

wedding favors

our “guest book”

for the champagne toast

one of the few shots of the ceremony that i have right now

taking off

Tons more over on Flickr

Luv,
Sarah