Bag Modification, Cute Stationary, Outfit Pictures, and a Juicy Couture Surprise

Hello everyone!

After what seems to be a month full of blood and sweat and tears, I am finally finished with modifying the bag that I had gotten a while back. Now if you had been around back when I had first started the blog, you would've noticed that I had gotten a large black "The Bay" bag from my mom that looks like this:

When I had first gotten it, I found it to be a bit on the boring and plain side so I eventually decided to "deco" it to make it more of a princess style. After using up a numerous amount of black lace, black fabric, and thread to create the gigantic black bows, here is the end result:

What do you think? Although I felt that more lace and bows should've been added onto the top part, overall I had been pretty satisfied with the results. I will definitely do something about the Bay "bag charm", though what I'm going to do with said charm is still up to discussion. As briefly mentioned above, I had hand sewn each of the bows along with the ruffles in-between the lace. This was my first time actually making ruffles and to put it into simple words, I like it.

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Back in early June, I had gone to the mall with a couple of my family members. (mainly my mom, aunt, sister, cousin, and grandma) After looking around in the Bay, I eventually went into the Dollar Store and I was looking around until I saw these adorable stationary:

Aren't they gorgeous? I wasn't expecting to find such "princessy" stuff inside the store and I had already been there a lot of times. At first, I had wanted to only get just one, but it would be a crime to not just get both of them. On a honest note, I don't use stationary. I'm pretty sure that I can find a use for them eventually! :)

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On the same day that I had gone to the Dollar Store, I had managed to take some photos of my outfit. I went all nude that day!  This was also the first time that I had gotten the chance to wear my new dress.

Dress: H&M

Cardigan: Gift 

Accessories: Ring, necklace, and earrings (Claires), headband and bracelet (Ardene)

Shoes: Payless Shoe Source

Bag (not shown): Coach

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Lately I had noticed that I had been really into Juicy Couture. I hadn't always been into Juicy Couture at first, since I wasn't as big into brands back in my high school days compared to now. What I really loved about the brand is how girly some of their collection can get. I did not get to own many pieces from the brand unfortunately, due mainly to both price point and inaccessibility. That does not stop me from admiring the brand though.

I had been meaning to get a new watch for a while now, preferably a nicer looking one to match with the frillier side of life. I already have a Timex watch that I use constantly (it is waterproof and lasted quite a long time), but it really does not leave room for fanciness since...well...it is not exactly designed with fashion purposes in mind. I had bought one of those 3 for $10 Hello Kitty watch sets earlier back in 2011 to compensate for the lack of watches, only to have the straps break on me within a couple of months (I will be doing a tutorial series on making new watch straps soon, so keep an eye out for that).

Eventually if you can tell where this is heading, I had finally gotten a Juicy Couture watch from The Bay, which I was super excited about! As a whole, Juicy Couture is not exactly cheap and their watches are definitely not an exception. Heck, one of them even goes for a regular price of $250! At the time, they did have one of those "one day only" sales for watches some time during that week, which is a 30% off discount. This is actually a very large discount when it comes to watches, considering that watches don't go on sale often. Thanks to the discount, I had managed to get the watch that I had been particularly eying down from $225 to $157.50. What I usually love about The Bay sales is that they would also allow you to stack another 15%-20% on top of the current discount if you sign up for their HBC MasterCard. Unfortunately that doesn't extend to one-day-only sales so I couldn't stack the additional 15%-20%. Fortunately with the help from a friend that works at the place, I got the watch for only $148.84, including taxes.

I particularly love the white and gold combination on the watch. I also love the little "gems" that are inside the watch face and I felt that it enhances the "dressy" look. 

That's about it for now. Until then, take care!