my birthday

I turned 22 on May 31st. Two weeks later I hosted my first high tea. It was fantastic. I had three types of tea (raspberry, english, and irish breakfast teas). I served B.L.Ts, avocado and cream cheese sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly mini-sandwiches, and Italian chicken subs--everything was mini! I also had scones (made by my friend/future sister-in-law Kirsten), and pasta salad! For dessert there was rainbow cake made by me and decorated by Kirsten--without whom there would have been no party. Seriously, she kept me calm, helped prep food, decorated my cake, and generally rocked my socks off!

Stay tuned for photos of my fantastic, wonderful, amazing, beautiful, stylish friends! Everyone came, everyone dressed well, everyone stayed, everyone brought liquor ;). I love my friends more so very much!

for Yaritza, who used to blog

Happy 22nd Birthday, my fellow May-baby!

happy halloween

I have had some amazing Halloweens in college and it looks like this year is going to be no exception. Being in London for Halloween has a few perks-- you get to take photos at Platform 9 3/4 is one of them! Last night a few of us dressed up and went out. We never made it to a club/bar/event so I think we're going to try again tonight! It's actually Halloween today so hopefully the fact that it's also Sunday doesn't deter people from dressing up and going out!

I was, ever so creativly, a vampire. I wasn't even sure I was going out until about an hour before (I had just dropped Boyfriend off at the airport and wasn't really in the mood to do anything but mope). Luckily, I had friends to convince me to go out and to provide a cape (from Becky, the footballer) and make up assistance (Ellie, the cupcake).

My roommate Ellie is so creative! She designed and sewed this cupcake costume by hand! Then helped Becky with her hair and me with my make up. I need to try and locate a photo, it was incredible! All purple and black and dramatic!

Carolina "doesn't do Halloween" but she got all fancy and went out with us. We decided she was Catherine Zeta Jones. Hot mama!

I love wandering London. We met some awesome people in awesome costumes. All the Brits we met said that Halloween was catching on here! We met a pack of friendly skeletons (below) and some awesome witches/vampires/steampunk people on the tube.

Kathleen had such a great costume! Her cape was a cardigan-so creative!

The best thing was we figured out what bus to take home! I get nervous when I have to rely on buses (I'm much more confident on the tube) so anytime we get home safe I feel good! We also met an awesome cyborg who took this photo and then chatted with us the entire ride home. It was a welcome distraction from the drunk couple behind me who were having a very loud and dramatic argument. Ahh London in the wee hours of the morning, I could love you!

In case you're interested: here's my post on celebrations last year (I made my costume myself!) and here are some costumes from years prior. I think I've grown. haha.

*All these photos are from Ellie's camera and were taken
by either the ladies or strangers on the street!

hey there blogger friends...

It's me, Sarah Yvonne, your top hat wearing, clothes loving, blogger! I'm here to ask you a favor. The favor isn't for me, it's for my friend Korey and classmate Tory (hi Tory) who are in a Group Dynamics class. They were assigned a project which involved making a youtube video (awesome right?). A bunch of us got together to do a chatroulette dance party! Woohoo. The video needs 2500 hits by the middle of April so if you could please CLICK HERE and watch it that would be great. If you are amused, or moved to dance, please feel free to pass it onto your friends.

Not only are Boyfriend and I in the video dancing like loons (which is rare--for Boyfriend anyway), you'll also see Alice, the Mad Hatter, a zombie, a stormtrooper, a Stranger, and quite a few other characters.



Lots of thanks from all of us!

matador.ole.ole.

(thrifted brocade velvet jacket; forever 21 shirt and jeans;
hand-me-down boots; unknown sunglasses)



I had a jacket like this when I was younger but grew out of it. Last week I was thinking to myself that I should keep an eye out for one similar while thrifting and, just my luck, my first thrift outing I find this beauty!
I wore it to a pedicure and coffee with my mom & out to dinner on her birthday. Today, I'm running around setting up for a big lunch to celebrate. There are going to be 40+ people coming to the lodge for mi madre's birthday party! Wowza. I'm sure there will be pictures soon!

summer themed dance party

Two weekends ago, when the first blizzard hit D.C. we held a summer themed dance party.
I never uploaded any photos because I knew the two Polaroids I took (or had taken with my camera) summed up the night far better than any photo montage I could put together.

My girl Yaritza and I. I love her && she is so insanely fashionable.
And she writes beautiful & inspirational poetry. Does it get any better?

A few of the boys (from left to right), Spencer, Korey, and Carlos (Yaritza's boyf).
I have issues with my group of friends sometimes but when you get them going they sure do show that they know how to have a good time!

Take one lonely girlie,

add one Caco,

a Boyfriend,

a Samantha,

a MattWatson,

a Yaritza and a hipster girlie... and wahoo; an excellent Friday night.

My favorite photo of the night. Oh, smoking is bad.
I don't smoke anymore. && haven't for years.

Also, I freaking love Yaritza. She is so adorable!
I suggest you stalk..errr...follow her: here.


It's good to be back with people who are awesome.

90s Dance Party

There were costumes, mustaches, and awesome people.

The party was a success!