no real update today, guys!

so sorry, but my beau Mike is still out with the sickies. 99% positive its the flu. he's shaky and freezing one minute, then sweating like whoa the next. i've got him in bed with chamomile tea, nyquil, 2 heating blankets and a down comforter so he can sweat it out.

sadly if someone within a 5 mile radius of me is sick i'm always the next to catch it. i hope this isn't the case! trying to take preventative measures and i'm stocking up on vitamin c tomorrow! i'd much rather catch a case of it and him be here so i can take care of him [and vice versa] than to send him home by his lonesome to work it out.

lots to blog about but i just wanted to say happy tuesday [and happy wednesday!] and i'il be sure to return to you lovelies tomorrow. right now, girlfriend duty calls!

please send him all your well wishes if you have twitter [silly little get well tweets really make his day]! feel free to follow him by clicking HERE!

bee's first day back at school.

yesterday mike and i slept in and i woke up about an hour and a half before he did. he woke up very very sickly so i felt so sorry for him. i hate to be sick myself, and believe me, when i am.... i dont make it easy on anyone. not that i MEAN to be a difficult sickie, but i guess thats just my nature. i like to be babied and i manage to whine a lot... luckily he's much better about this. i made him stay in bed and i went thrifting for a bit. i headed back home after not too long [but i was NOT short on any sweet finds!] and spent the rest of the day with him. we managed to get him out of bed for a short time to run to JoAnn's and WalMart. We grabbed a RedBox movie [for free! I LOVE my RedBox iPhone App! $1 saved is $1 saved!] and headed home. We made veggie burgers for dinner and I spent hours crafting silly little antique lace bow headbands with tulle and netting. After a bit we crawled into bed to watch our movie [Bruno... which i DO NOT recommend to anyone.. it was SO vulgar! i had heard things but i was not prepared for that. ugh]. It was horrible. then we fell asleep.

This is what I wore yesterday... I was bumming it... look at that gross hair! ugh!

Outfit Details:
Dress: TJ Maxx [$15]
Vest: Urban Outfitters - Urban Renewal [$10 clearance!]
Tights: Charlotte Russe [$10]
Boots: Wet Seal [$15 clearance!]
Belt: Thrifted
Blazer: Thrifted [Adding to my Etsy soon!]

I sat my alarm for 9am to start the semester off right [I didnt have class until 1pm but I had a TOMS Style Your Sole meeting to attend at 11:30] and i overslept... as per usual. I rolled out of bed at 11am. guh! I had waffles for breakfast and after getting dressed I headed to campus.

I managed to drop a class [Corporate Design, yuck!] and pay my tuition [or so I thought... luckily I had a full ride yet again this semester! woot!]. I turned in my BUST internship evaluation and headed to my class. Today was Print Design 2. So many awesome familiar faces. But thats my school haha With 200 students in the entire college, you have all your classes with the exact same people. Luckily that includes Katie, Jordan, Caitlin, Kayla, Chris and 2 new ladies. One of the girls, Savannah, is apparently dating Mike's good friend Adam. She introduced herself and so that was a nice little surprise. The teacher seems really great. He's very very friendly and after going over our syllabus I'm happy to say I'm very much looking forward to this class. I do love Print so that always helps. [The first project is a How-To Manual... but I have NO idea what I want to do it over! Any ideas?!] Hmm.. well the class dismissed very early, in typical first-week fashion. I headed home to greet my sickly beau and before too long he wanted out of the house. We went to Hobby Lobby where I stocked up on crafty goodies, and then we went to WalMart real quick. We got home and he pretty much passed out so I uploaded TONS of new things to MY ETSY, took a bubble bath, poked around on the internetz, and then i started to make pasta for dinner. He woke up from his few-hour comatose state and joined me for some food. Now we're back in our room, he's laid up in bed watching tv shows on HULU on the tv and i'm blogging on the computer. Praise the lamb for split screen laptops!

This is what I wore today:



And introducing my old favorite bag! Man oh man I LOVEEEE this bag!



Outfit Details:
Dress: Boutique in New York City [$70]
Cardigan: Forever 21 [$30]
Bow: Handmade by me! [Buy one! at MY ETSY!]
Tights: Charlotte Russe [$10]
Boots: Goodwill [$10]
Purse: Nashville Vintage in Hillsboro Village [$48]



Now i'm going to go cuddle up with my boo and watch TV on hulu with him, even at the risk of getting sickly. :) For some reason i just got really really giddy thinking about him :) Silly me!

Hope you're all having a wonderful Monday night! Happy Tuesday to you all!

xo

Seven Things....

I was tagged by the lovely Riah and I have to blog Seven Facts about myself. This might be a little bit tough but... I'm going to give it a go! in the meantime, go check out her blog and say hello :)

1. I'm blind in my left eye. When I was really young I had constant high high fevers and it was an onset of my severe Asthma [I practically lived in the hospital until I was 7 or so]. Well the constant high fevers practically burnt my optic nerve up in my left eye and thus resulted in me being blind. Now, it's not like it's pitch black or anything... I can see remnants of value, but I cannot distinguish anything or any actual color. I've never seen out of both eyes before, so I'm prone to asking silly questions about the ability to do so. [This hindered me in softball... I was horrible at bat because I lead with my left eye and it really throws off my depth perception.] And a funny story: My dad was never really around much when I was little, but when I'd go visit him I'd tell him my "bad eye" was my right eye because I had to wear an eye patch for several hours a day to strengthen my left eye.. well I'd tell him it was my right eye so he'd put the patch on the left eye and I could still watch cartoons. hahahahaha.
2. I'm an only child. It was really just my mom and myself growing up. Like I said previously, my dad wasn't around. However, he had another son and daughter [16 and 14 years my senior, respectively]. I got kind of close to my half-sister, but now I honestly don't even speak to that side of the family aside from occasional holiday texts from her or my brother-in-law. I like it just being me and my mom [and my step-dad, now].
3. I'm named after my late aunt and cousin [Valerie Kay and Stephanie Dawn] so my name is Kaelah Dawn. My aunt Kay and my mother were really really close growing up. She had a little girl named Stephanie and unfortunately in 1974 they were both killed in a fiery car crash. My aunt was 22 and Stephanie was 2. [This was 14 years before I was born] So in honor of them both, my mother took both of their middle names and named me. The crazy weird part is: I'm exactly like my Aunt Kay. I look like her, I have the same personality as her, and she was always very very athletic growing up. I'll post a photo of her one day. :) If i could go back and meet anyone in the world, it would HANDS DOWN be her.
4. I was 99% sure I'd go to college for Sports Medicine. It just kind of felt 'right' I guess. Being that I played sports all growing up. I'm glad I didn't though... not that it wouldn't be rewarding, but I really love what I'm doing now.
5. I have an undying love of vintage teacups and tea pots. Really. I do. Send me some! :P
6. I have no intention on stopping the tattoo process any time soon. Next on the list are tribute & memorial tattoos for my Nana and Papa on the back of my calves.
7. I have my septum pierced, and have had it for 6 years. I keep it flipped up [it tickles when it's down!] so a lot of people have never even laid eyes on it. Mike constantly heckles me to wear it down because he really loves it. so maybe today I will :)

Awesome! My 7 things are done! Now it's time to tag 7 other people!

Lindsay
Courtney
Carrie
Shea
Merissa
Caitlin
Mandy

Girls, please post your 7 things and tag 7 other lovely bloggers!
xo

and it's the weekend...

so yesterday we went and ate at genghis grill and had a nice little date day i suppose. then last night i called into work to find out if i needed to bother coming in... granted i'm not snowed in or anything but you mention the word 'flurries' and it sends everyone in tennessee into a tail spin. they told me to go ahead and come in so i did just that. got to work at 9pm and found out that they wanted to call me at 8:30 and say stay at home... but i leave for work at 8pm so i was already over halfway there. bleh. it was dead. dead dead dead. finally at midnight my boss man just told mde to head north and go home. i counted down my register, put out some glasses and headed home. much to my dismay, i had very very few bills in my pocket from the night. i talked to mike on the way home and finally got in at 12:45am. i practically coasted through downtown because it was so icy. i was determined to craft away last night so i did! i stayed up until 4am fighting with my sewing machine trying to make an iphone case. i hate how it came out but i guess its a step in the right direction.

we slept and slept and slept and slept. finally pulling ourselves from bed at 1:15pm. we made toast and headed out for daily errands. we went to JoAnn Fabric to get a new rotary cutter, a cutting mat, some snap clips, felt felt felt, sewing books, and a mini craft iron among other things. Then we got chips & salsa from Garcia's [our fave!] before heading home. We ate some chips and salsa, I listed a ton of stuff on my etsy and then we headed to Kroger to get a few groceries. we came home and made a vegan pizza with the new "cheese" i had talked about in the last post [btw, the brand is VEGAN GOURMET, not vegan alternative, my bad!]. but anywhoo, the pizza was fantastic. [i'll include the recipe below!]

this is what i wore today:



HOLY COW I'M WEARING JEANZZZZ! weird.

Outfit Details:
Shirt: Truly Madly Deeply for Urban Outfitters $28
Jeans: Charlotte Russe $30 [the flare jeans that a reader HATES, ha sorry!]
Flats: Walmart $9
Vegan Leather Jacket: Aryn K. for Therapy $100

The Pizza:

BEFORE it went in the oven

AFTER it came out. YUM!

This is the crust we used. You can buy it at Whole Foods.

How to make it:

• Preheat over to 425 degrees F. Take the crust out and drizzle it with extra virgin olive oil. Use a pastry brush to distribute it evenly. Apply a coat of pizza sauce [the amount to your liking]. Shred up Vegan Gourmet Mozzarella Cheese Alternative and distribute evenly over entire pizza. Cut up a zucchini and slice in halves. Place zucchini and mushroom slices on pizza. Add a little more sauce and "cheese" if you want the vegetables to bake IN the pizza. Place pizza directly on the oven and cook for roughly 8-10 minutes, or when it looks done. Then slice and enjoy!

Mike and i were both pretty ecstatic when we took our first bite of the pizza because it was phenomenal. Mike's favorite food is pizza and he could eat his weight in it in a single day, i'm sure. Now he can have it yet again! I'm not sure I'd even want regular pizza again. I liked this tofu cheese because its not as heavy so it doesnt leave you feeling bloated and gross like normal pizza does. Anyway, y'all should all try it because it will make you believers :)

Angie, the other bartender at work, just called to let me know that i'm not missing a thing. It's been dead all night and we're just praying that it picks up next weekend. I've missed practically a week and a half's worth of work because of this stupid slump. I can't afford to miss any more :(

Here are two funny pictures of Baby G today.. I felt like sharing!


and just to end things on a good note, here are some silly FlipCam videos!








oh oh oh, one more thing, i know i mentioned it in passing up above, but i FINALLY listed some things on MY ETSY so please click HERE to have a look! especially if you love owls or vintage brooches because i'm clearing out parts of my collections! *If you're interested in buying multiple things, i WILL cut you a deal! just speak to me before purchasing!

friday friday friday

First and foremost, I was the recipient of an awesome Blog Award from Lindsay the other day! so very flattered that I was one of 10 she chose and I hope I can find the time to hand out this award myself!

so i said i was going to get around to dying my hair last night but i definitely didnt. we had to run to walmart, do some stuff, and then we spent hours taking photos of clothes i'm getting rid of [read: i helped the first hour, then we came to a compromise and he worked on it for another 2 hours or so. what an awesome dude. we took a little break to cook dinner, and we made some really yummy nachos with this new "cheese" we got at whole foods.




granted i burnt a few but whatever. they were really yummy. we used Mission tortilla strips, picante sauce, refried beans and Vegan Alternative [i think thats the brand? i'll have to double check] nacho flavored "cheese" [i wasn't aware that its made out of tofu!] but it shredded really well, it melted, all the good things of cheese! the only real notable difference was that it was INSANELY soft when shredded, unlike real cheese. it was interesting :) but i'm glad we tried it. we definitely enjoyed it.

we finished working on getting some of the clothing up to sell [you can peruse the stuff uploaded thus far by clicking HERE] and then we settled into bed to watch "THE GOODS: Live Hard. Sell Hard" I was surprised at how funny it actually was. Typically i feel like movies like that have a tendency to flop but it was actually incredibly humorous. a lot of WTF moments haha

we woke up at 10 or 10:30 and he was out the door soon after to meet a friend for coffee in Nashville. he's on his way back now and i've just kinda been lazin' around. My car should be out of the shop today. with a new windshield and a newly painted hood! oh joy!

As for me, right now i'm going to continue to respond to emails and then legitimately go dye my hair haha my curling tutorial might have to wait until this weekend [my extensions are curled already and my new ones won't hold the curl sufficiently yet].

oh, another thing... apparently someone who reads my blog has a problem with me "portraying myself as though i live in new york city" when "in reality" i only did a "brief internship"... now, i dont know how long this person has been reading my blog, but i make it very known that i DO indeed live in tennessee currently.. of course i do.. i talk about franklin and nashville in almost every post. i came to gather after i answered this anonymous person [via formspring] that maybe it has to do with the fact my sidebar says "nashville native. calls new york city home"... well, for starters, that hasn't changed since i started my blog in may. this blog started as i packed my things and headed to NYC alone to DO my internship. this was a way for my family and friends to see/read what was going on in my day to day life up there. fast forward, i got really sick up there and i was always SO busy [interning 5 days a week rather than 3] so i didnt keep up with it. [hence the name HONEYBEE IN THE CITY . BLOGSPOT . COM] anywhoo, i picked it back up a few weeks later and here i am today. Do i live in new york city currently? No. Do I plan on returning to New York City soon? Absolutely. I'll be returning for 3 months starting in May [for the same internship AGAIN]. I'll come back to Nashville in August, finish my last semester of college, and go from there. Do I plan on moving there permanently post-graduation? You betcha. Mike and I both are working out savings strategies and we're trying to plan ahead for the permanent relocation that is going to happen. Have I ever tried to mislead any of my readers? Never. I'm all about positive attitude, preparation, and jumping at opportunities [see my sleeve tattoo: there are places and there are opportunities]. New york city gave me the biggest opportunity yet, and I fell IN LOVE with the publication I worked for. I WILL work and live in New York City after graduation. I'm not even leaving an inch of room for doubt to creep in. That will be the next chapter of my life. Would it appease this person if I removed the line from my 'about me'? Because when it was written, i was definitely calling NYC home... I worked, I ate, I slept, I played... I lived there. Anyway, i didnt mean for this to get THIS long, but I guess I felt as though I needed to somehow explain myself to the readers.

Off I go to dye my hair and be productive! Wish me luck!
PS; if you're interested in buying anything i'm getting rid of, CLICK HERE TO VIEW WHAT'S FOR SALE and then EMAIL ME at KAELAHSCLOSET @ GMAIL [dot] COM!

PPS; peep this ADORABLE picture of my two favorites!

Things I Love Thursday!

1. THIS GUY. awkward!

2. Everything about this.

3. Positive Affirmations in the home.

4. UNICORNS!


5. AND THIS GUY! i love his sweater.

6. Bridesmaids dresses that don't match. yes!

7. Anything UP related! THIS LITTLE BOY! OH MY STARS!


8. Package Design via LovelyPackage.com!

WHAT ARE YOU LOVING?

clip-in extensions tutorial video!

as promised! sorry it took the better part of the week to do! and sorry i look a hot mess and sound all nasal-fied! haha enjoy! tutorial of the curls comes tonight! stay tuned!