Christmas Wish List

Oh how I LOVE Christmas! It really is the most wonderful time of the year! Luckily, I was home when my mom decided to start decorating, so after everyone else got everything out of the attic, I started helping(I have a fear of attics. It's weird, I know!) This year we decided to have 2 trees, one in the front of the house, and one in the back! The one in the back is our snow flocked artificial tree with all red and green ornaments. And for the first time in 13 years, we are having a real tree in the front of the house, decorated in all gold ornaments!! I may be a little biased, but they are both sooooo pretty!!

Yesterday we had a little mishap with the real tree though. My moms cat decided to play in it, and the whole things came crashing down, breaking a lot of the ornaments. Sad day, but that did mean that I got to go buy a few new ones! Did I mention how heavy a 9 foot real tree is???

Now on to my Christmas Wish List! At first I could not really think of things I wanted to ask for. It took a me while to even tell my mom anything that I even thought I wanted.

I eventually decided my big item I wanted was a black Tory Burch cross body purse(couldn't find the exact one, but it's similar to this)! It is GORGEOUS, if I must say so myself!

At the time, the only other thing I could think of that I wanted was a new pair of Uggs! I decided on the short Bailey Button in Grey.

I have also picked up random things here and there that have eventually added up and now my mom is saying she is DONE shopping for me. Well that really sucks, because now I have actually made a full Christmas Wish List. These are some of the things I really want now(but probably won't get :( )

1. New Tom's Cordones. They are my new obsession! I already have 2 pairs, and I literally want them in every color! (they don't have the color I want in womens, that's why i'm asking for mens!)

2. Ronaldo Prayer Bracelet

3. Polaroid PIC-300B Instant Analog Camera. A new spin on an old camera! Take a picture, and print it instantly from the camera! SOOOOOO cool!

Hopefully my mom, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, or friends will take a look at this so they will know what I want!! wink, wink


I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

How great thou art...

Just a touching story! Please go read my friend Mary Catherine's blog here about how amazing Katie is!!

Finally Fall...

Some people might be wondering what is going to be big for fall this year. Having gone to Apparel Market in the summer to shop for fall clothes, I feel as though I am well educated in all the fall trends. But for those of you that might need a little extra help, here is a great guide to help you along!

Leopard is HUGE this year! Any color, shape, or item is the trend right now! Here are a few of my favorites I've found so far!




This shoe is MAJOR!!

My next favorite thing for fall is SEQUINS!!! And lots of them!!!

This dress can be found at our store in Tunica, Twelve Fifty-One Apparel



Loving this Tory Burch blue sequined dress!

My last favorite trand this season is Lace!!

Loving this lace dress from Victoria's Secret!


Adorable lace skirt from Forever 21!



Hope this helped some people that were having trouble!

Don't forget to check out Twelve Fifty-One Apparel on Facebook to see all the newest trends ad sales!!

Long time, no blog

So I know it has been FOREVER since I last blogged, but I have decided to go at it again! I have kinda missed it! A lot has happened since the last time I blogged. Let's see, I moved into a new house with my lovely roommates Kassey and Charles. We are having the best time together! My family opened a clothing boutique in Tunica called Twelve Fifty-One Apparel http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Tunica-MS/Twelve-Fifty-One-Apparel/142289909134041 , which I work at every Wednesday! I had a wreck with an 18 wheeler! No fun at all, but luckily I was not hurt too badly. Can't say the same about ole "Baby Got Back" though! Which leads to me getting my new car that I am absolutely LOVING!

Not much going on this week, but this weekend is going to be EPIC! Not only is it Halloween, but it is also a very big football weekend for Ole Miss! We are playing Auburn which will be very interesting! And, pretty much every graduate of Ole Miss last year is coming back for the weekend!! yay!!! We will be going to the Library on Friday night for a costume party/contest, where me and about 10 other people will be dressed up like the Harlem Globe Trotters! Then we will go to the game on Saturday, possibly out afterwards, then a Halloween party on Sunday at our friends Bentley and Adam's house! Very excited!!!

Hope everyone has a fabulous week! Until next time....

I can't believe it's over...

Just a few pics to show how sad I am about this show ending. It's an end to an era. I'm literally sad.

Dying for Louboutin

I could sit here and talk about how much I love this man and his creations all day, and I usually do, but I won't today. There really is just something about that red sole that gets me everytime. I have an obsession with these shoes, and always will. They are the first things I notice when any celeb is wearing them on the red carpet, to the bar, or just around NYC. My roommate calls me pathetic, I call it love. The second I see that red sole, I literally go crazy! He has promised he will buy me a pair when he gets money (please be soon!!!), and I will forever hold him to that promise. I already have my pair picked out (see below)!!

Classic black that will never go out of style! A must have!

These shoes will be on my feet someday! It is the best nude pump I have ever seen! They will go with everything and will look AMAZING on my feet!!

DYING for this shoe! It is BANANAS!! This will be my 2nd pair, then black!

I need to make a lot of money.

1720.

Since June 1, I have had two houses. Not fun for rent purposes, but fun to have time to move in all my stuff. My other roommates, Charles and Kassey, have been moved in since then, but I have stayed at my other place for a little while longer. But not anymore!!! I am officially moving this Sunday. I am sooo excited about it! I have been taking little things over there every now and then, but I am just ready to be there for good! Kassey has been living there by herself all this time while Charles is spending the summer in Seattle, and I can't wait to join her. So on Sunday I will finally be making the big move down the street to 1720 Garfield! Come visit.

House warming party to come! No gifts necessary.

And we're off the Nashville!! This holiday weekend my entire family (yes all 10 of us!) and my grandparents are going to spend the weekend with my aunt and uncle in Brentwood, TN. There are soooo many reasons why I am excited about this trip. Getting to lay out in their new pool all day, drinking margaritas and mimosas by the pool, going to Wannabees for some karaoke, and many, many other things. It is just a fun place to be! I have always wanted to move there after college, and probably will in a couple of years!

Sadly though, this is my last day of work at Black Equipment. I really am going to miss this place and all the great people I have met. Hope I get to come up here soon to visit!

p.s. Jeff/Uncle Kent brought us all Panera Bread bagels this morning. I got a blueberry with walnut cream cheese. It was heavenly!!

I got Carried away!

"Some of these people make my skin crawl. The characters of "Sex and the City 2" are flyweight bubbleheads living in a world which rarely requires three sentences in a row. " - Roger Ebert

"I thought it was fun, fresh, glamorous, and amazing!" - Kalen Sartin



I finally talked to sister into going to the midnight showing of Sex and the City 2 last night. And boy am I glad I did! I thought it was AMAZING!! From the clothes, the boys, the shoes, the closets, it was utterly fabulous!! There were flashbacks, marriages, old loves, new children, new apartments, and many many great moments! To say Carrie Bradshaw is fabulous is an understatement! I loved every outfit she wore, EXCEPT that brown jacket she wore a lot. I thought it was horrendous! But that really is the only bad thing I have to say about it! I have been looking forward to this day for a long time, and it definitely did not disappoint.

A little flashback. They could totally be Charlotte, Samantha, Carrie, and Miranda!

While my work here at Black Equipment is almost over, I am happy because I am very tired and my bum hurts from sitting for 9 hours straight, but I am also sad because I have met some really great people here.

Like Jeff, he is the spitting image of my Uncle Kent, and acts a lot like him. He goes to Costco during every single lunch break to get a hot dog and a fountain coke and bring back a treat for everybody. Monday it was a massive bag of kettle corn, Tuesday was chocolate chip cookies, Wednesday was a coconut birthday cake. It is no ones birthday here! ha I am very anxious to see what he will return with today!

Then there's Scott, who I'm still not sure if he ever does any work. He walks around all day with a confused look on his face and always tells me he doesn't want to answer the calls when I page him.

That brings me to Bob. He DOES NOT answer my pages. End of story.

Before I started working here I was wondering if there was going to be a cute boy to look at all day....Adam! He is precious in soooo many ways. He is new to the job so he doesn't always know what he's supposed to be doing, and he does get yelled at a lot, but he can take it! Annoyingly though, he doesn't always answer the phone when I tell him to, so then I get to deal with these annoying customers! Bit it's exciting that I get to sit beside him ALL DAY LONG! (God I hope he can't see this!)

Other than the people I have named we have Mike, Darrell (brother-in-law), Brian(the boss), Jeff Rogers, Homer(everyone calls him Bubba. Don't know which is worse), and Brad.

Us girls are a little outnumbered here! Stacey, Marlena, and myself is that is here right now, until Rachel, another girl, gets back from her honeymoon! I have known Marlena for a while now, but it's fun to get to hang out with Stacey all day. She is absolutely nuts! ha

I'm really going to miss these people! Guess I'll have to come visit soon!!

Forever, ever, ever...

As I am working this week in Memphis, TN at Black Equipment with my brother-in-law, I find myself having lots of spare time on my hands. After filling out field reports, reporting work orders, and answering the phone (Black Equipment this is Kalen, how may I help you?), there is plenty of time for me to have to myself. Unfortunately for me, they have blocked Facebook from our computers, and I can only play Solitaire so many times. What to do? What to do?

This is when my co-worker Marlana suggested something I have been trying to steer clear of...ONLINE SHOPPING!!! My weakness if I ever had one! Even more of a weakness, Forever 21. I will now be the proud owner of these fabulous items in about 2 to 5 days!

I am really into the new sweater vest these days! This one will look amazing with white shorts/pants!

Could NOT resist this adorable dress! Cute with a nude pump or your favorite pair of gladiator flats!

My favorite purchase of all! I will be wearing this adorable cream dress to my best friend's engagement party coming up. I can already picture the exact accessories I will wear. My mom's layered turquoise necklace from Banana Republic, David Yurman on one wrist (duh!), with a bangle on the other, and my new favorite camel wedge from the queen of a perfect shoe, Jessica Simpson! I honestly CANNOT wait!

June 13

My obsession, Alexander Skarsgard! feel in love with him in Lady Gaga's Paparazzi video, and now on True Blood. He is gorgeous to say the least!

I honestly don't think that June 13th could come any faster. True Blood has become one my favorite shows over the past 2 seasons, and I am in desperate need of it right now. It is so close I can almost touch it, but it's just not here yet! They have been posting posters to tease us all for about 2 months now, and it is killing me! Here are a few!

Besties!!!

To quote one of our favorite songs, "My best friend KK said oh she's just being LeAnne!!!!" This song couldn't describe us more if it tried. As I'm sitting here deciding what I should write about Joe, he sends me a text message. Our conversation goes a little something like this:
(begin convo)
Joe: Miss you.
Kalen: Miss you more.
Joe: Duh, ooh snickers. (Clueless quote) You need to be at Northpark with me right now holding hands with a gallon of diet coke.
Kalen: Duh! Buy me something bitch!
Joe: I got 2 new blazers and a new white lacoste. I'm beside myself!!
Kalen: Do you think I would put gum under my own coffee table? (Baby Mama quote)?
Joe: Bitch I don't know your life. (Baby Mama) Do you prefer fashion victim, or ensembly challenged? (Clueless)
Kalen: Google me bitch! (Four Christmases quote)
Joe: You already did it. To Emily. (The Devils Wears Prada quote)
Kalen: They're so different. (TDWP)
Joe: I took a sleeping pill with my martini I'm out! Loves you bye!
(end convo)

None of this is out of the ordinary! To say we quote movies and songs all the time would be an understatement. It's even worse when we are together! ha Rob HATES it! But in all honesty, I think he's just jealous bc he doesn't know the movies like we do!

Joe literally is one of a kind. He is an amazing person and I seriously don't know what I would do without him! You could say we are like Lavern and Shirley, Lucy and Ethel, Rachel and Monica, Gaga and Perez, Will and Grace, but most importantly, LC and LO!!! Love you boo!!

KK i'm making you LO because you can be a bitch sometimes, but you're a damn good time!

Where it all began! NOLA 2009

21st bday!

Loving the Library!

Dallas Spring Break 2010

Waiting on our gallon of diet coke. Duh!!

Erin Finley

Don't really know why it has taken me this long to blog about my prescious little niece, but here she is, Erin Finley James! She is my obsession. Not only is she the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life, but the happiest and sweetest too! I can be in the worst mood possible, and as soon as I see her face, I smile. She has just started crawling, so of course I am making her follow me all over the place! There are literally not enough words to describe the way this little bundle of joy makes me feel! I love her sooooooo much!! Here are a few of my favorite pictures of her through the years (8 months)! ha

After bath time with Aunt KK!

This is one of my favorite pics of all time! My sister absolutely HATES it and would kill me if she knew I was doing this, but oh well! It's just so damn cute (to me)!

Going to see Aunt Rachel, Natalia, Trey and Elliot play tennis!

With "Uncle Joe"!!! too cute!

(You all will soon meet Joe. My life wouldn't be complete without him.)

Lovely ladies

Every year the Metropolitan Musuem of Arts has a Costume Gala for the rich and famous. This is a time where famous ladies (and if we're lucky, their significant others) get to dress up in fabulous dresses to see how fashion has changed through the years. Oh to be invited to this party! Here are some of my favorite dresses so far!

Kate Hudson in Stella McCartney

Nicole Richie in Marc Jacobs

Sarah Jessica Parker in Halston

MELANIA TRUMP IN CHRISTIAN SIRIANO!!!
SOOOOO proud of him! I have loved and followed him since
he won his season of Project Runway!

Blake Lively in Marchesa


Anne Hathaway in Valentino!

Gosh Rachel Zoe knows what she's doing!

And for my best dressed at the MET Costume Gala??????

Jennifer Lopez in Zuhar Murad! I am IN LOVE with this dress! It fits her like a glove and looks amazing on her! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE!!!!

Oh to be a Touhy

Ever since The Blind Side came out, this family has been attending the hottest parties around. Movie premieres in New York, Los Angeles, and New Orleans, the Oscars, and now the White House Correspondents' Dinner. They really get around! ha Here is a pic of them with Jessica Simpson and The Blind Side star Quinton Aaron.
Jessica Simpson: White House Correspondents' Dinner! - Photo Gallery Just Jared

This family really has seen it all! Like I said before, oh to be a Touhy...

Live. Life. Good....

I dedicate this blog to Madysen Acey. Last Sunday while at a friends house she was playing outside on a tractor, and as she was about to fall off she grabbed onto the first thing she could reach. Sadly, that was a live power line. She was immediately rushed to Le Bonheur Children's hospital in Memphis, TN. From there she was rushed to The Med in Memphis where they immediately had to amputate her right arm, starting at the shoulder. A couple of days later she was sent to the Shiners Burn Clinic in Cincinnati, OH. She has had many surgeries while there, and will have a few more before she can leave. At first they thought they could save her right hand and arm, but after further examining it, they have now amputated from right below the elbow. This prescious little girl couldn't be stronger right now. She is a breath of fresh air. Although she is going through a lot of pain, you would never know it. She has very high spirits and all of this hasn't seemed to fase her yet. She has started physical therapy, so maybe she will be able to come home soon! If you are reading this, please pray for this amazing soul. She is one of the happiest people I have ever met, and I don't think her accident will change that.

Madysen's motto is Live. Life. Good. What an amazing little girl!

Why I love college.

Today I was very confused as to why a lot of my friends were tweeting that everyone should come to Union Unplugged. This is where usually some indie band/singer plays on the steps of the Union on Thursdays in the spring. I usually stop by if I am already on campus, but since I wasn't today, I didn't go. Damn. Today was a special Union Unplugged. And this is why...

There is absolutely only one person in this world that could make this happen. Hart. (3rd girl to start dancing) God love her!

In love...

As I was reading this years People's World's Most Beautiful People, I found myself drooling over Zoe Saldana. Not only has she been in some of the biggest movies in history, Star Trek and Avatar, but she has also turned into this fashionista almost overnight! Before these movies came out, I always recognized her face, but never really knew who she was. Now she's on at least 3 magazine covers at newstands a week! She is FABULOUS! These are some of my fav looks of hers!

This color blue looks amazing on her!

(I need these Christian Louboutins. Like NOW!!)

Welcome to my life....

Hi everyone, I'm Kalen! I never really thought I would ever do a blog, then I realized I have a lot of thoughts that I just want to write down. I'm not really sure if anyone will ever read this, but I'm ok with that! I have my daily blogs I can't start my day without reading, and maybe my blog will be that for someone someday! So until then, I'm signing off!