Sunday, December 4, 2011

BLOGMAS - My Christmas Tree!


 TADA! this is my colorful christmas tree that i have in my bedroom. i had this up the day after thanksgiving, but it being a broken five dollar tree, it fell over due to its unsteady base. but i 
fixed and repositioned it today, plus tied it to my bookshelf so i think i'm good!


all these ornaments were bought at target and a.c. moore and the tree was bought at the target sale section after christmas one year. and of course the garland made by me :) ahhh, i love how it turned out! i'm fully in the festive mood now! i can stare at my tree all the time, we put the lights outside today and are almost done decorating. i'm so excited for december! hope you had a wonderful weekend :)

3. string lights outside
9. make a popcorn garland

xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

Saturday, December 3, 2011

BLOGMAS - Favorite Christmas Songs



so today i finally finished re-downloading all my favorite christmas songs and a few new ones, so i wanted to share you my favorites for the season! (no favorite order, i'm so bad at picking favorites!)

1. Greatest Time Of Year - Aly & A.J.
2. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams
3. My Only Wish (This Year) - Britney Spears
4. Mistletoe - Colbie Caillat
5. Christmas Lights - Coldplay
6. Sleigh Ride - Debbie Gibson
7. Wonderful Christmas Time - Demi Lovato
8. Where Are You Christmas? - Faith Hill
9. The Lights and Buzz - Jack's Mannequin
10. Baby, It's Cold Outside - Jessica Simpson & Nick Lachey
11. Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano
12. Drummer Boy (feat. Busta Ryhmes) - Justin Beiber
13. Do You Hear What I Hear? - Kristinia DeBarge
14. All My Bells Are Rining - Lenka
15. Mr. Winter - The Maine
16. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Mariah Carey
17. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
18. Maybe Next Year - Meiko
19. Wish List - Neon Trees
20. 30 Days - Nevershoutnever
21. Sleigh Ride - Spice Girls
22. Christmas Must Be Something More - Taylor Swift
23. Christmas When You Were Mine - Taylor Swift
24. Little Drummer Boy - tobyMac
25. Shake Up Christmas - Train

there's so much more christmas music i love to listen to, but these are just 
the songs i tend to gravitate to most. hopefully i opened you up to some 
new holiday music!

5. create the perfect christmas playlist


xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

Friday, December 2, 2011

BLOGMAS - December Bucket List


it's day 2 so i created a list of things i need to 
complete by the end of christmas day!
with 2 days down, here are my 23 goals:

1. (re)decorate my room (i already did this but i'm not pleased with it!) 
2. light up my bedroom with christmas lights
3. string lights outside
4. decorate the tree with the fam
5. create the perfect christmas playlist
6. go christmas shopping
7. make gifts to give
8. create and sport a holiday mani
9. make a popcorn garland 
10. buy or make an ugly christmas sweater
11. make a gingerbread house
12. cut out some paper snowflakes
13. bake some candy cane cookies
14. drink a holiday beverage at starbuck's
15. make popcorn snowmen
16. visit the rockefeller center tree
17. ice skate
18. make peppermint bark
19. create cookies from scratch
20. buy and snuggle in christmas pajamas
21. spend a whole day just watching christmas movies
22. send a christmas card
23. have a lovely christmas!

so i will be succeeding in crossing off all of these from my list
and update you all on the daily blog posts! some will have
an entire post dedicated to it, while some will just be
alluded to. i promise christmas will not end without
each and every one crossed off, i swear!
tell me some of your holiday goals :)

xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

FIRST DAY OF BLOGMAS!

**so this is uploading on december second because it never worked yesterday, i have no idea why! but don't you worry your pretty little heads, i will be double posting today! keep on the lookout later for the second day!

i know i have been a TERRIBLE blogger in the past month (even longer?) and i thought i'd make it up to you guys by taking part in blogmas! plus, christmas is my absolute, most favorite time of the year and i would love to post about it for 25 days. i can't guarantee that everything will all about christmas, but definitely the majority! and for those of you who don't know what blogmas is, its the 25 days before christmas and you blog everyday

so i'm gonna kick this off with a little bit of christmas inspiration:

happy december!! hope you guys come back for more blogmas!
xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Leopard Nails!

so due to my obsession with leopard (or cheetah can't tell the difference) i decided to put it on my nails. it was much easier than i thought, especially since i cannot do nail art for my life. i'm in LOVE with the way it turned out!



1. apply the base color (sally hansen xtreme wear in wet cement)
2. apply dots throughout the nail where you can then outline, so leave room! (essie in lady like)
3. take the end of a bobby pin and paint C shapes around some and then brackets around others
4. add dots to fill in the empty spaces
if you don't understand these instructions (which i'm sure you don't! haha) theres millions of tutorials on youtube, and remember practice makes perfect! practice on a piece of paper first, it helped me a lot!

sorry again for the lack of posts, i'm trying so hard to get back on track :)

xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

Sunday, October 30, 2011

SO SORRY!

i'm so sorry guys, i have been MIA! the past few weeks have been so stressful, i have absolutely no time. i barely have time to sleep anymore! my life has just been crazy so i had to neglect the blog but things should be dying down now! i don't even have a post for you guys, just this apology so sorry about that :/ but thanks for sticking with me guys and for 72 followers! it means so much <3 hopefully i'll get back in the swing of things very, very, very soon!

PS i've been dying to start a youtube channel ever since i've started this blog and got such amazing feedback! but does anybody have any channel name ideas? i really want something with my name in it, kinda like sarahbelle93x or meghanrosette. i think those names are adorable and i was hoping you guys out there would be more creative than me :) thanks girliesss, you all are honestly the best! <3

xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

NOTD - Glitter Tips


i'm in love with nail art, i just have absolutely no talent to portray beautiful designs on my nails SO i decided to create this easy look that anybody can do! (hey, if i can do it anyone can!) its not super cute, but its still nice to look at :)

step 1: apply your base color, i chose OPI's russian navy. 

step 2: dab on a fine glitter nail polish to the tips. the dabbing look makes it okay to not have a straight line compared to a french (which i can't do for the life of me) which makes it easy for everyone!

step 3: add a chunky glitter on top! 

and VOILA! you're done! its nail art made as simple as you can get

xoxoxoxo stylishly nicole