Guest Post: Hollie Takes Notes

Last but certainly not least, Hollie from hollie takes notes is my last guest poster this week. She is hilarious so I hope you go check out her blog. I always look forward to reading hers so I'm thrilled she agreed to take over my blog today. I'll be back tomorrow with an update on my week, including my White Coat Ceremony from today, and another installment of Friday's Fancies! Go for it Hollie!

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Hi Becca's friends! I'm Hollie and I'm a style blogger that writes about well, stuff I like ;) You can come say hi (which I'd love!) here!

The end of summer is coming to a close and a lot of us are going back to school. Maybe you're still studying for your undergraduate. Maybe you're getting your masters. Maybe you're getting a certificate to increase your opportunity in the workplace. Or maybe you're taking a class for fun. If you're studying at all you need some fun little stuff to keep you organized and sane.

Here are my favorites...

A cute bag or backpack:

Vera Bradley Backpack in Barcelona

Comfy Shoes:

Toms Herringbone Slip Ons

Something to make you smile:

Personalized Mustache Paper

Colorful Pens:

Flower Sharpies

An awesome planner:

Kiwi Eco Planner

Something for a rainy day:

A gift card to yourself so you'll have peace of mind when your head is about to explode.

Giftcard

What are your favorite things for staying organized and sane while studying?

Thank you Becca for allowing me to guest post on your blog! I had so much fun doing this! You're so sweet :)

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No Hollie, thank you for helping me out!! I'm saying thank goodness for Starbucks this week because it's helping me transition into school mode. Hooray for coffee!! And I wish I'd seen those herringbone TOMS when I was looking to buy my own TOMS. Those are way cuter than the plain navy ones.

Guest Post: henning love

Happy Wednesday! Today Meg from henning love is commandeering my blog for me. As some of you know, I recently had the pleasure of meeting Meg in person and I'm glad to have her as a blogger friend and real life friend too. It's all yours Meg!

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Hi everyone, I'm Meg of henning love and happy to help out Becca as she is starting graduate school this week. Good luck at school today Becca, and wishing you best of luck and I know you are looking cute with that school bag you posted recently.

Last week I was graciously blessed by some homemade veggies by my wonderful friend, Cat of 30+ means growing up or does it? She has a little backyard garden and she gave me a zucchini, some tomatoes, an eggplant and some squash. Of course I had to make some zucchini bread and I thought I would share with you all here the recipe I used with some photos. Let me preface this recipe with I love citrus zest in any dish, seriously my zester that I got from my wedding registry is my best friend in the kitchen. Ok on to the recipe :-)

First gather your ingredients. You need 3 eggs, 2 cups white sugar, 1 cup vegetable oil, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 2 cups grated zucchini, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, 1 tablespoon orange zest, 3 cups all purpose flour, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon nutmeg. 

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Beat three eggs together in your mixer so they are light and fluffy. 

Then add the sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, grated zucchini, walnuts, chocolate chips and orange zest. 

Mix these ingredients together well. Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon 

and nutmeg into your mixer.

 Combine the dry ingredients and wet ingredients together well. In your greased 9X5 bread loaf pan, pour in the batter, you will have enough batter for two loaves. Bake the bread for 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Then slice, eat and enjoy!

I was giving some away to my friend who gave me the zucchini so I decorated it cute to give it to her!

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Thanks Meg! Those look sooooo good!! Chocolate? Sign me up! Anyone else want to go get some zucchini right now too?

Guest Post: The Chronicles of Ruthie Hart

Good morning all!! To get used to school for a few days I'm having 3 lovely ladies take over my blog. I'm super excited to have them help me out. Today Ruthie from The Chronicles of Ruthie Hart is baby sitting my blog for me. I really wish I lived closer to her so we could meet up. She's so fun and I hope you'll love her too! Take it away girl!

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Hello A Blonde’s Logic readers! I am the  brunette behind The Chronicles of Ruthie Hart.

Yep that’s me. Ruthie Hart. I am a 20-something newlywed loving life in Austin, TX with my Ohio native hubby, Jon and our chunky French bulldog, Ernie.

So you are probably wondering what the heck summer beer is after reading the title of this post? Summer beer is the most potent and delicious summer drink you will ever throw back. I learned of this amazing concoction from one of my girlfriends and boy is it something. Summer beer is a mixture of lime-aide, beer and vodka (gasssp!). The pictures below were the product of too much summer beer…

WARNING: Disturbing picture below! We hosted a Wig Party for my hubby’s 28^th birthday in April. After midnight, the party turned into a fake-mustache dance party. Confused? Check it out here. Ha!

Have I completely scared you?

Yay! You’re still here! For your drunken pleasure, I’ve posted the recipe below.

Ingredients

1 can frozen limeade

Vodka

3-4 beers

1. Pour the frozen limeade can into a pitcher (do not prepare according to the can)

2. Pour vodka into the empty limeade can and add to the pitcher

3. Stir in 3-4 beers of your choice

4. Enjoy!

I am NOT a beer girl at all (my mom says I will like it with age!) but I am a summer beer girl. You can’t taste the beer (or vodka) at all! Wait, maybe that’s why it is so potent!

I’d love for you to stop by my blog and check out some of my wedding related posts, delicious recipes and ramblings of my perfectly-imperfect life!

Xoxo,

Ruthie

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Thanks again for helping Ruthie!! I can't wait to try the recipe! Those pictures are priceless!!

All about my girl G!

Today is a big day for me! I have my first day of Orientation for Physical Therapy school AND I'm guest posting for Hollie over at hollie takes notes while she's in Hawaii. Hey Hollie, want to trade?!

I'm talking about one of my favorite stylish celeb who doesn't get as much style cred as she deserves!

GIULIANA!

Check out Hollie's page for more and leave me some love! :)

I'll fill you all in on how my day goes on soon!! Thank you to everyone who wished me luck yesterday! I really appreciate it!! :)

Guest Post at {henning love}

Hi everyone! Today is a super exciting day for me because I'm doing my first ever guest post. I'm helping out Meg from henning love while she's on vacation. She is so sweet and one of the first people to really pay attention to my blog. And I'm so happy to call her my blogger friend :)

Since she is on a cruise with her hubby, I decided to draw some inspiration for my guest post. So I got to thinking, what would I do on a cruise? And what would I wear? Well obviously I'd soak up the sun, go exploring, and put on something pretty for formal night. That's when the light bulb went off! I went straight to Polyvore to make some dream cruise outfits for each of those occasions.

But first here are some pictures to get you in the cruising mood!

 

all images via Pinterest

So please stop over and take a look that the ensembles I created at Meg's blog!