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- august 7th ootd -

affordable and cute

dress: wal-mart

bracelet: from Spain but you can substitute it for any bangle 

and if it gets chilly

cardigan: american eagle outfitters

throw on a pair of gladiators or flip flops and voila!

stay cheeky!

ootd

- august 6th ootd -

a very casual tuesday

shirt: forever 21

shorts: american eagle outfitters

bracelet: clarie's

nail polish on hands: lilacism by essie

nail polish on toes (although you can't seem them): commander in chic by sally hansen

have a wonderful week and

stay cheeky!

Update

how's it going everyone?

so, i just spent a couple hours writing this mile long post about my past travels. yes, i know i've already written a post about some of my past travels but this one is supposed to cover all my past trips. but what was supposed to be a short wrap up of all the trips turned into a novel and so i decided to leave it for tonight. i think a better execution of this trip post would be to cut it up into parts so that i can go into a bit more detail about each without feeling like i'm writing a 3,000 page book (i'm a bit hyperbolic if you can't tell...). so since i hadn't made a post in a couple of days and was meaning to give you all an actual post tonight i just thought i'd at least let you guys know what i'm thinking of doing. i'll try and have the first part of this series up in the next couple of days.

til then!

stay cheeky!

collective haul

hey everyone!

this is a very small collective haul but i thought i'd still share it with all of you. i went shopping for the first time in a couple weeks just a couple days ago and was super excited to buy buy buy. however, it was one of those days when you go to the mall with the intention of buying, yet you can't find a single thing you really like. as opposed to those days when you go to the mall with the intention of not buying anything because you are tight for money, but end up buying everything you set your eyes on haha. so, i ended up shopping with my mom for around 3 hours or so and just found four pieces that i thought were cute.

i got two things from Forever 21, but i don't think i've ever walked out of Forever 21 empty handed now that i think about it. they have such a wide array of awesome clothes and styles and for reasonable prices. so, i got these shorts which are crazy but i love. my mom said "leave it to you to find the ugliest piece of clothing in the store," haha! she kills me. but, they are actually super cute with a plain black or white tee and they're super comfy too!

$23.80 CA

and i also got a nice plaid shirt, you can never have too many plaid shirts! this one has pleather patches on the elbows and a pleather pocket which i like. i  have a lot of plaid shirts already but i wanted a longer one to wear with legging and this one is perfect for that.

$21.80 CA

i also popped into PINK which is unusual for me. i don't usually shop there because their clothes are really my style but i've been looking for a nice, plain t-shirt for forever now and i literally have not been able to find one. i mean since when has it been so freaking hard to find a plain tee!? anyways, i knew that pink had lots of nice, plain t-shirts so i picked up this neon orange one. it's so soft i luuurve it.

$22.50 CA -a little outrageous for a tee if you ask me but oh well

and finally i stopped in one of my fav stores Zara. they always have the nicest clothes. but, i didn't really see anything that i liked surprisingly! except for this shirt, i've been looking for a football style t-shirt forever now and this one caught my eye. it's nothing special but still!

$25.90 CA

stay cheeky!

redesigning

hey cc readers!

i'm trying to change my blogs design a tiny bit to make it a bit less busy-looking. i'm not a blog designing expert or anything so it won't be some amazing looking blog but it'll be a bit better than what i had before--i think! so, if you come to read and everything looks a little different that is why!

country walks

i live on the cusp of the country, just a short bike ride and it's fields forever. i love being so close to the country, the fast paced city is just too much for me. my family often enjoys going on walks to fill up our lungs with some fresh air. coincidentally my mom's boyfriend lives on a very nice street and it's just a couple houses down from a lovely horse rescue farm that we love to visit. he also has a couple apple trees and pear trees on his property so we always collect the ones that have fallen and bring them to give to the horses.

there is a possibility i might be moving to a 150 year old farm in the next year or so but we aren't too sure yet! it's super cool and i'm really hoping that we do move there, i've always wanted to live on a farm. we also might be able to adopt some of the beautiful rescue horses from this farm if we do which would be great too! 

one of the things i love most about the summer time is being able to take walks with my family. they really help to calm you down and clear your head. it's especially nice to go out after dinner, right when the sun is starting to set and it's not too hot. talk about serene!

hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

stay cheeky.

*all photos in this post belong to cheeky chat

the more the merrier

if someone were to tell me what my life would be like right now 6 years ago i would never have believed them. after my parents got divorced i felt sort of broken and that i had lost that sense of family. but now, i have a bigger family than i could have ever imagined. the pessimist in me didn't like change and had a hard time accepting new people into my life. this mindset made me quite negative but as i've gotten older the optimist in me has come out and allowed me to welcome new opportunities as well as new people into my life, the more the merrier, right?

i don't really talk to my dad much anymore but i wish him well with what ever he is doing in his life right now. as for my mom, she met her boyfriend a year and a half or so ago and has fallen head over heels with him. i wasn't very accepting of him coming in to my life at first because i was still dealing with my parents divorce and was in a negative mindset, which i feel bad about now. but i can't take back my broody teenage attitude and can only move forward from there. along with my mom's boyfriend came his three daughters. i have to admit i felt a little weird having three younger girls coming into my life as well. it just felt like it was so much change in such a short amount of time. but just as any new friendships or relationships start out, it's always a little rocky and awkward. we are all pretty far in age, my sisters and I are ten or more years older than his youngest and almost just as far in age with his older two. i remember thinking "how are we ever going to bond?, we are at such different stages in our lives," but it's actually a great mix! i think if we were all around the same age there would have been more competition between us or that awful teenage/preteen resistance where no one would want to talk to each other because they're "too cool." my sisters and I are all adults and his kids (except his oldest who is 14) are still in that stage where they are starting to get older but still those innocent little kids inside. it didn't take very long at all before we were all being our weird selves around each other, probably because we went on a two week vacation together after just a couple weeks of us all meeting! they are the sweetest girls and i feel lucky that i now have three new sisters, who would have guessed i'd be a part of a family of 8! not me that's for sure!

it's a little crazy how much life can change in such a short amount of time. i mean, i went from feeling like i lost my family and later went on to gain a family almost twice it's original size. i'm sad that i don't talk to my dad much anymore but i know how quickly things can change so who knows what will happen in the future! i'm pretty happy with my life right now and i feel blessed. i'm still trying to have that optimist attitude and seeing all that that will bring me.

the gang

sorry for that incredibly long post but tell me about your family! i'd love to hear :)

stay cheeky!