I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! I know I said that today I would be back to the blog with a Christmas Haul, however, I have some slightly bad news… I’m sick! I wasn’t feeling too good earlier this week, and then I sort of summoned all my energy on Christmas Eve because I was having company and had lots of things to do, but after I got home late last night on Christmas Day, I just fell right to sleep and have basically been in bed ever since. I’m glad I really don’t have much to do, but I just don’t have the energy to put up the haul, but I will be doing it eventually once I feel better! So, I hope you all understand and also take some time to rest and relax yourself between the holidays so that you are in top shape for New Years Eve!

Merry Christmas Week Everyone! I am so excited for Christmas this year and I hope you are too! Now, I know I have had my Christmas shopping all wrapped up for a few weeks now, but I know that last minute gifts and stocking stuffers are always popping up. So, I decided to share with you today a video I posted for Vlogmas on my YouTube Channel that covers 25 Gifts Under $25! Many of these gift ideas are simple to get ahold of, so I thought this may help you finish crossing gifts off your list! Enjoy!

If you have been following my YouTube Channel and watching my daily Vlogmas Videos, you will already know that this week I was in Rhode Island for a work conference through Wednesday. I just got home last night at 1 am, which was technically this morning, and was so exhausted that I basically just woke up! I didn’t intend to get home at 1 am, but I was unfortunately stuck in some major traffic exiting New York that threw off my travel time home by 4 hours! Crazy!

I didn’t have a post planned for today and since I woke up late as well I just thought I would take today off for some rest & relaxation! If you have ever traveled for work, you know it can be very tiring and very frustrating when travel plans go amiss, so I am sure you can understand how I am feeling! So, today I am just going to take it east, try to get a little administrative work done at home and try to catch up on my sleep since I got far too few of it over the last few days!

Hope you all had a wonderful week and are as excited for the weekend as I am!

As of late, it really seems that I have been pretty obsessed with Kate Spade, so I decided that I would dedicate a post to this obsession while it lasts! First off, I just want to say that Kate Spade has been on my radar probably since I was in high school, but I honestly wasn’t too interested in any of their items until very recently. The first Kate Spade New York item I ever owned was actually the teal jewel bar necklace that my husband bought me for Christmas last year! I had been perusing Kate Spade’ website as I usually did and then suddenly I actually liked something… a lot! After that, it was mostly accessories like iPhone cases, some more cute jewelry and some small purse accessories. When I received the Beau Bag, it was my first Kate Spade New York Bag!

Now, I own my fair share of designer handbags, so when I say the Beau was my first Kate Spade bag, it was only because it was the first bag of theirs that I loved! I am not the kind of person that buys a bag to own one from a designer, and I only buy a designer bag if I LOVE IT! There is no room for like when you’re dropping a few hundred dollars on a bag, and I would hope all you smart ladies out there follow the same rules when your shopping, because as nice as it is to have nice things, you don’t want to go broke trying to accessorize and I find that when you wait for that one special bag, you love it so much more because you waited and didn’t settle… sort of like with Mr. Right!

So, if I own so few items from the designer, why do I love Kate Spade so much? 

In all honesty, I think that the brand is absolutely lovely and represents a kind of sassy independent woman that I think myself to be! Although I only own some jewelry and accessories, when I use those items they never fail to make me smile from their quirky girliness! I especially love the Kate Spade iPhone cases for my iPhone 5 because of the lovely prints they use that are whimsical as well as practical! I don’t think you have to own every piece in a designers collection to truly appreciate their style, in fact, I think its much more special when you only own a few key pieces that you feel were designed just for you and your unique style, and that’s how I feel about my Kate Spade pieces!

As you may remember, I was recently gifted the new Kate Spade Beau Bag and ever since I have been meaning to do a What’s in My Bag with it, but I haven’t gotten around to it until now! I am taking a little inspiration here from my blogging buddy Kristin from My Life as a Teacup, because last month she did a similar post after we had a Skype chat about both utterly loving the What’s in My Bag phenomena. In all honesty, I can get obsessive about these sorts of posts and videos on YouTube. I can spend hours looking up pics of What’s in My Bag posts on Flickr and Pinterest, and then watch a marathon of videos on the subject on YouTube. It’s kind of odd, but I have found that I am totally not alone and this is actually a weird fetish for lots of women! So, here you go, have at it! I have included some good close ups of items so you can see exactly what everything is. If you have any questions about a specific item, let me know in the comments and I will give you the info on it!

Do you enjoy What’s in My Bag Posts? Do you have a similar post on your blog or YouTube channel? If so, please link it below in the comments so we can all share!