Day 4: What Would Your Candy Hearts Say?

Be Mine?  Sweet heart?  BFF?

What if you could personalize your ‘Candy Hearts?’  What ‘love’ saying would you personalize?

 

Day 3: What Are Great Sentimental or DIY Valentines Day Gifts?

While roses and chocolate are traditional V-Day gifts, DIY gifts made from the heart will always be cherished by the receiver.

We ask……

What is a sentimental DIY gift you have recievied and/or

What are DIY gift ideas you have?

Personally, I love the idea of a picture book or hand written ‘love’ notes placed in several locations around the house.  A note saying ‘I Love You’ on the coffee maker and ‘Have a Great Day’ on the bathroom mirror will not only make my sweetheart smile but also approach the day with a great attitude!

Day 2: What is Your Favorite Flower?

Red Roses are the staple for a Valentine’s Day Bouquet, but it this your flower of choice?  Tell us….

What is your favorite flower?

Day 1: What is Your Favorite Valentine’s Candy And/Or Recipe?

Love chocolate or a candy gram heart?  Do you have a great Valentine’s Day recipe you want to share with us?

Send us your recipes ideas (or comment below on your favorite recipes) and let us know your favorite Valentine’s Candy!

What is your favorite Valentine’s Candy?

Day 1: Who, What, And Where Are Your Crushes?

In preparation for writing this post, I consulted Mr. Webster for an exact definition of a crush.  Disappointed in my finds, I am providing you all with my own definition.

Crush (n.) – ‘An object of desire.  This particular object, whether a person, place, or thing gives the individual a feeling of warm fuzzies and smiles.’

My past days of crushing included the popular boy (where my lovely friends would sing the infamous Sitting in the tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G) and of Kurt Cameron on Growing Pains (my cousins and I formed the I Love Kurt Cameron Club).

It doesn’t take much to give me the ‘warm fuzzy‘ feeling and listed below are my crushes!

Celeb Crush – John Cusack

How can anyone not love the defining moment in Say Anything with ‘In Your Eyes’ playing on his boom box?  Major crush.

City Crush – Buenos Aires

From the romantic tango to the delicious Malbec, foodies and artist crush this city, and B.A. holds a forever place in my heart since it was my honeymoon destination.

Food Crush – Chocolate Cake

Yum.  Enough said

Tell us:

-Who is your celebrity crush?

-What is your city crush?

-What is your food crush?

Shelly Marie Redmond is the Editor in Chief of College Lifestyles.  She loves the feeling of a crush.

College Lifestyles Presents the 14-Day Valentine’s Challenge!

Roses are red, 

Violets are blue, 

Sugar is sweet,

And so are you!

Remember the carefree days of love?  Where simple poems (similar to the one above) and a checked Yes or No on a handwritten crush note symbolized our relationship status with a significant other.

College Lifestyles is going back to the carefree days of love!  Starting on February 1st, we will post, tweet, tumble, and pin various topics related to love.  Our 14 day challenge will bring back the ‘warm fuzzy‘ we had from our first crush, our first sent flower, and our first dance (even if we were sporting pigtails and braces!).

We encourage you to comment on all our post, follow us using the hashtag #CLlove, RT our ‘sweet’ quotes, and of course, share the love with not just your significant other, but with your family, sisters, and best friends.

At the end of our 14 days, you will not only feel love, but you will also have shared love with others.

Video of the Week: A ‘Meow’ Assistant

From celebrities to our favorite reality show stars, the assistant plays a major role in the planning (and sometimes drama!) of their day.  A big part of the assistants day includes answer phones, scheduling appointments, and keeping a calendar organized.

Our video of the week finds a new assistant, a furry friend who loves to answer the phone!  With our Editor in Chief being the proud mom of 2 cats, she is wondering if this will work for her!

Click here for the ‘Furry’ Assistant!

Fred the Assistant

 

Jazz Up Your Outfits with Headbands, Feathers, and Bows from Sproos!

A classic LBD.  A great sequin top.  Skinny jeans.  These basic staples are a must  in our wardrobe, but we may struggle to create different looks with our classic pieces.  Have no fear, the wonderful folks at Sproos have come up with an affordable AND chic way to dress up our classics!

Sproos is known for their chic + cute hair accessories.  From gorgeous bow clips to feather hair bands, Sproos offers both sublte AND vibrant accessories to transform your classic pieces to one-of-a-kind looks.

We had the pleasure of reviewing the lovely Cheetah’s Roar Bow Clip ($13) and Pride of the Peacock Feather Headband ($36).  Both were incredibly stunning and sophisticated.  In addition, we were impressed the headband didn’t ‘crush’ our head and cause a headache (bringing back memories of unpleasant plastic headbands of our childhood).  While many would wear both with their classic LBD, think outside the box and give the Peacock Feather Headband a vintage feel with a sequined black top or drop waist black dress.  Another plus with headbands is they look great with all hairstyles and hair colors.  Says our Editor in Cheif, ‘I have shoulder length red hair and just can’t do any hairstyle or any hair accessory.  Pearls in my hair, not so much.  But I felt great with the Peacock headband.  I would pair with a black ruffle top, jeans, plum heels, and sequin clutch for a night out.’  

What is most impressive (along with the stunning beauty of the product) is the founder, Melissa Mantos, is recent graduate of art school graduate living out her passion of running a business.

With the approach of Valentine’s Day, Sproos is offering a coupon code for all College Lifestyles readers.  Enter ‘collegelifestyles’ when placing an order with Sproos and receive 20% off.  Visit Sproos website to select your perfect hair accessory at www.sprooshop.com.

Stay tuned to our Book Club Twitter Chat in March, we will be giving away the Cheetah’s Roar Bow Clip to one of our participants!

Disclaimer:  We’d like to thank Sproos for supplying us with the headbands for our product review.

Love to Cook?! Join Small Kitchen College in the Slow Cooker Challenge!

Calling all foodies!  Our friends over at Small Kitchen College and Naptime Chef are hosting a Slow Cooker Challenge!

The week will kick off Monday, January 16th on BGSK/SKC and The Naptime Chef with an announcement of the challenge and a big giveaway of slow cookers from Delonghi and Breville. To link back to the contests on facebook, twitter or in your slow cooker post on your website, please use one of these two url’s: http://college.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/?p=5343 and/or http://www.thenaptimechef.com/?p=6745. They will be choosing a winner from each of our sites, so people can enter on either.

On Wednesday, January 18th from 12pm – 1pm, both will be hosting a live twitter chat along with Food52, The Daily Meal, Punchfork, Foodily, OXO Good Grips and more. They will be using hash tag #slowcooker. Tune in to talk all things slow cookin’! During the Twitter event and throughout the day they will be offering a bonus giveaway of amazing OXO Good Grip tools that are essential for slow-cooking valued at over $150!

On Thursday, January 19th both will be slow-cookin’ all day on Facebook you can enter to win a second prize-pack of OXO Good Grips kitchen tools by uploading photographs of your slow-cooked meals to The Naptime Chef fanpage, Small Kitchen College fanpage or Big Girls, Small Kitchen fanpage.

Good luck to all!

Video of the Week: Doggie Says I Love You!

We love You Tube at College Lifestyles.  So much, we are going to bring you our favorite You Tube video of the week!

Can you train a dog to talk?  The owners of this gourgoeus pooch thinks so.  Can you here Mishka say, ‘I LOVE YOU!’  Too cute for words!

Dog Says ‘I Love You!’

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