our five fall essentials

Hi! We hope the fall season is off to a great start. What have you been doing to celebrate? Perhaps making apple pie, going to pumpkin patches, enjoying seasonal beers and ciders. This is indeed our favorite season of the year. In addition to the seasonal activities above, here are five reasons why we love fall: 

1.) The air is cool and crisp (we are still waiting for this to happen in LA...it has been so hot!) 

2.) Pumpkin arrives at every store (Trader Joes has so many items to try from mini pumpkin scones to ginger pumpkin ice cream sandwiches). 

3.) Our favorite holiday occurs in fall - Halloween!

4.) It is Sydney's birthday this season (as well as our brother, sister and mom)!

....and last but not least....

5.) We love the fashion. Here are our five must-haves for fall:

Shopping Guide

Arm Candy: gold quartz cuff // opal quartz cuff // three drop bangle // charm bangle

T-Shirts: grey //white

Booties: black // brown

Nail Polish: plum // brown // grey // gold

Floppy Hats: burgundy // black

Perfume

Lipstick

Pants

Bandeau  

Before you leave to go on a shopping spree, check out the website Raise.com. On this site, you can buy gift cards for your favorite retail stores at a discounted price. The discount varies by store...with some being an 8% discount and others, as much as 32%. We are our father's daughters and as such, love a good discount! Amongst other gift cards, Raise.com features Target (where you can find the t-shirts from our list of fall essentials as well as the black booties), H&M (the black pants above have such a great zipper detail on the bottom), Nordstrom (the floppy hats come in a variety of colors and styles; they are such a great staple, albeit essential, for fall) and even the beauty.com website (on this site, you can the purchase Tokyo Milk perfumes and nail polishes in fall hues). They even have discounted gift cards for coffeehouses, restaurants, grocery stores and theatres! 

Raise.com also gives you an opportunity to sell your own unused gift cards. We love getting gift cards for the holidays and birthdays (** just a little hint from Sydney for her friends and our family...hi dad!) but sometimes, they are for restaurants/retailers that we are not interested in. This website is a safe place to change your unused/unwanted cards into cash (and other gift cards) that will be put into better use. 

Happy Fall! Happy Shopping!

namaste, 
m&s

ready for fall: home!

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We love the colors of fall - burgundy, brown, gold, plum, yellow and orange. Here are some of our favorite plum and gold pieces that will transition your living space into the fall season. Some are (way) out of our budget but girls can dream, right? 

namaste,

m&s

 

** Hi! It's Megan. When I was a girl scout (I was also a daisy and brownie...what can I say? I love the cookies and patches), we had a troop meeting in which we discussed fashion and the colors that went best with our skin tone. I was told spring colors but really wanted it to be fall colors as I love everything about fall. Alas, I stuck with fall colors. I loved being a girl scout...like, loved.

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Today is national donut day! Happy, happy donut day!

If we were putting together a gift basket for a friend who loves this scrumptious breakfast item, we would put these six items together. How cute are the vintage inspired milk bottles? And the mug with all the faces? darling.

** Our post from last year's donut day is here.
** A post about our favorite donuts in Los Angeles is here. 

We love donuts...our mom would take us to Winchell's Donut House on the weekends when we accompanied her to the laundromat. #memories

namaste, m&s