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

Tea, Kale chips and Chalk art.

Last Friday I hung out with my dear Maribel who features quite often on this blog, I will really miss her when I leave. sigh. Happy thoughts... Check out her blog by the way it's fantastic! We had planned to just go with the flow, cook a little, craft a little and just enjoy each other's company. I find that sometimes the less you plan the more fun it can be. We ended up chatting over some delicious mango tea, making some kale chips (which by the way are not as amazing as everyone says, they are OK), going to dinner at a great Jamaican place and then ended the night at a fun street fair enjoying all the art!

It was an amazing day and we had such good conversation especially about food, I shall share some of our insights later, for now, enjoy the photos :)

What are y'all up to?

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.