The Best of Summer 2012

It was officially the Last day of summer on Friday :(. Summer is always special for me, my birthday, breaks from school, the great outdoors and just fun in general. Although my summer got off to a late start I really did have fun and I'm so thankful for all the amazing people I spent it with. Whether next season is a new school year for you, or just the same ol' day to day work, I hope you can view it as a possible new beginning. Write down some goals, have a positive outlook and look forward to all the great things ahead!

Here are some of my favorite moments from this Summer

Fresh summer strawberries.

 

Cute summer hairstyles (I think i should do a full post on this)

Colorful wedges

Having Simi over. p.s. isn't it amazing when someone says they'll do something and they actually do? Thank you Simi for keeping to your word and coming to visit I appreciate you.

Short shorts

Getting surprised by Javier in H&M a day before I was supposed to see him <3

Spending time outside, talking and listening to live music. I am so feeling my hair. :D

Attempting to color my hair reddish auburn. Fail but fun all the same

Scary roadtrip into the mountains when we were supposed to be going to the beach

Pre-birthday dinner

Pasta for the first time in aaaaaages! My favorite from BJ's

My birthday wedges, birthday gift from Simi :*

Delicious lettuce wraps for my birthday dinner (small meal, splurge on dessert)

Blowing out my birthday candle! Yaaay 23! check out my colossal slice of chocolate cake! 

Dancing!

My Birthday Flowers from my beloved Maribel!! I love Flowers, I Love you!

My Friends hanging out and being Gorgeous <3 <3 this photo

Grabbing brunch before work all Maxi-d out

My college family reunited

Laughing and savoring precious moments.

 To catch up on other things I got up to this summer check out these posts :)
Summer crafting
Dress up party
Simi X Sab!
Simi X Sab starring mimosas of life
Through a different lens
Tea, Kale chips and Chalk art

Cheers to the next season!
Love,
Sabirah

Simi X Sab, starring Mimosas of Life!

Excuse the title, but after making fun of people that add "of life" to everything, Simi and I found ourselves beginning to add it to everything! But in this case it was justified.

It was a gorgeous summer day as it always is in California and we decided that we would dress up and go out to brunch, sip on mimosas and have relaxed conversation over small bites... in our heads we were in some type of "yuppie" wonderland. I do hope that we can continue to do this once in a while even when life and responsibilities pile up. A great way to get away.

So we headed out, taking pictures of pretty things, Simi has quite "the eye" for photography I would love for her to take it further.

Can I just say I was totally feeling my hair that day, a fluffy little cloud of softness and my wedges too :)

Simi is sooo gorgeous! :)

They had bottomless Mimosas for a set price and we were like "yes please"! We fully intended to drink our money's worth. Bad idea number 1.

Bad Idea no. 2 especially for me was since I hadn't had alcohol in ages cos of my diet this was my first drink (or two or three or...) in a while. Soon enough we were all giggles. I kept saying, "This is la dolce vita, this is how Italians eat, over good long converstations and plenty of wine. (what a mess)

Simi ordered a beef hash with a poached egg that came with a green salad and it was yummy!

I got a BLT (the salad version) and it was really fresh tasting and flavorful

Finally after many drinks and eyeing the table next to us we decided to get "chicken lollipops" yum

I wonder what number this glass was...

It was definitely a fun day out, though it got a little "wild" I promise we kept it "classy"

"Simi this is la dolce vita, how Italians do"

lol,

Mimosas of life!

I hope everyone is great!

Love always,
Sabirah

Dress up Party!

I absolutely love "fancy dress" parties! So when Maribel invited me to party that was themed I was sooo excited! The theme was to dress  like pachucos, pachucas, and 1970s, 1980s and 1990s cholos. 

Maribel and I dressed up as Pachucas since the vintage style was right up our alley. don't you love our big hair and bold make up?

She was a Chola! so ganster! love it.

I love this picture! Maribel and I are the sweet Pachuca's surrounding the "hard"chollo's! 

They had lots of fun games like "Draw the eyebrows on the Chola"

We also got cholo and chola names, Mine was "Esa" while Raul's was "El loco" hahahah

Maribel won two games and won a bunch of goodies including hairspray! how appropriate huh?

We played musical chairs too. So much fun!

This is where I got kicked out.

End of the night

The professor, who had the party had this amazing huge piece in her living room. Absolutely amazing.

It was such a fun party! I can't wait to host a "fancy dress" party soon, I'm thinking Micheal Jackson themed!

What's the best themed party you've ever been to?

Love always,

Sabirah.