#XSREGirl Casting Call At Palisades Mall

First off I'd like to say that I know I'm more known to talk about accessories for decorating your home, but today I want to tell you about a new store that's all about accessorizing yourself.     XSRE is a hot new store popping up in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland.   XSRE has a great selection of accessories for women of all ages in one superstore.  The selection in jewlery, handbags, footwear, kids, legwear, hair, intimates, novelties, belts, headwear, travel, cosmetics, pet, electronics, coldweather and eyewear is just amazing and all at affordable prices!     

This Sunday, November 25th from 2-4pm at the Palisades Center Mall in West Nyack, NY they are having an open casting call to be the XSRE girl.   A professional photographer will be there to take the photos.  The lucky fashionista will win a six month modeling contract and become the face of her store.  XSRE is also running a contest for all the girls who show up and have their photo taken, to have a chance to win gift cards by having their photo receive the most "likes on the XSRE Facebook  page.   

If you are in the area and know of any young, hip, fashionista-type girls who want to try out or just have a fun day of shopping head on over.       

Disclosure:  This post was compensated by The Blogger Connection. 

Personalizing Fake Pumpkin For Fall Decorating #TBCcrafters

I was so excited to hear that The Blogger Connection was doing this awesome weekly Blog Hop for craft lovers.    I'm not what you would call a "hard core" crafter at all.   I love to putz around with small, easy home decor kinda things.    So for the first week of this blog hop we are going with all of the above.   

I'm not going to get into some long tutorial because as you can tell it's super simple to do.   

First I started with  fake foam pumpkins from Walmart, Mambi Stickers from Michaels, polka dot ribbon and raffia.   For my bigger pumpkin I used the numbers for my home address and put the pumpkin outside in the flower box with some mums.   

For my next project I used the littler pumpkins as personalized place settings at a brunch with my high school girlfriends.  I even found black and white polka dot napkins to complete the whole look.  If I really wanted to be O.C.D., I could have brought a matching tablecloth with me too.  All the girls were excited to take home their little personalized pumpkins.    I figured they would be cute on their desks at work.        

See, I don't think cute crafts and home decor projects need to be involved to make a big impact.   

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