H54F Archives - A World of Dresses

Hi all! This week I’m the featured blogger for High Five for Friday and I could not be more thrilled. Tif, Della and Katie host a weekly link-up each week about five great things that happened to them over the week. They encourage other bloggers to join in and write about their five high fives of the week.

I started linking up with them several months ago and have really enjoyed the community I’ve found with it. Prior to joining High Five for Friday, I maybe knew a few bloggers in person. Now thanks to High Five for Friday, I had the opportunity to meet Tif from Bright on a Budget in person when I was in Lexington several weeks ago. It was so good to meet such a nice, down-to-earth fellow blogger.

So I’m super pumped they picked me. Also, here’s what was good in my life this past week.

1. Kismet OTR

I’m so very excited to be working with one of my favorite local boutiques here in Cincinnati. Kismet OTR is a new boutique that is a part of this group of shops I’ve been shopping at since forever. I’ve noticed that they’ve been give me some Instagram love, so I decided to reach out about a little collaboration. They agreed. So my friend Amber and I headed over there to do a photoshoot in some of their dresses. It was a blast. Here are a few of my favorite shots:

You should head over to Instagram to see more from the shoot.

2. The Su Casa Banquet

I work at Su Casa Hispanic Center and we had our annual dinner last night. The event was wonderful and my co-workers were even more wonderful. I played photographer for the evening. Here are a few shots of my lovely co-workers from the night.

3. Hangouts with friends

I had several of these between last Friday night and Thursday night. All were fun and well-deserved.

4. Sunday rest day

Sunday was great. I spent the day working on the blog and sleeping in.

5. The weekend is here!

Thanks for reading along friends! How was your week?

Also linking up with Bright on a Budget, KT Cup of Tea, Della Devoted, The Closet by Christie, Life in Leggings,Style Elixir, Two Thirty-Five Designs, A little Bit of Everything

First 2016 High Five for Friday

Hello my amigos and amigas. I cannot believe that 2015 has come to a close. For me, 2015 was a year of many ups and downs. On one hand, I had several amazing opportunities to travel and connect with friends. On the other hand, I experienced some really heavy things. Life hit me hard. Out of the heavy in some ways came A World of Dresses. I plan to take this project all sorts of places in 2016. I’m excited to see where it will go.

But first, I’m going to reflect on five great things about the past several weeks. High Five for Friday is a weekly link up hosted by Della from Della Devoted, Tif from Bright on a Budget, Katie from Cup of Tea and Caitlin from Coffee with Caitlin. Be sure to check out their H54F posts too!

1. My girls

Last night was New Years Eve and I spent it at a house party in the middle of nowhere. I’m a member of an improv comedy troupe called Highly Improvable. One of our troupe members hosted a lovely NYE shindig out at her lovely, rustic house. It was just what I wanted for a New Years Eve celebration. Nothing too crazy. Two of my best friends Cindy and Grace came along with me.

We ended up crashing there and stopped at IHop on the way home today. I’m so very thankful for them. We can all just be ourselves around each other.

2. Family

Some of you may have already seen some of these pictures in my Christmas Re-cap post. With Christmas and my cousin’s baby shower, I’ve spent a lot of time with them recently. They have been there through everything my immediate family has gone through this fall. We are so very thankful.

3. My 2016 New Year’s dress

I found this for $9.99 at Love Culture. Can you believe that? I randomly decided to stop in there when I had some time to kill and found this. I got so many compliments on it last night. I cannot wait for an excuse to wear it again!

4. My best friend was in town

Kayleigh is my best friend ever. She lives 9 hours away from me in South Carolina, though. So when she is in town, we’re just together all the time. We had so many fun adventures while she was in town: exploring the local establishments of the suburb we grew up in, eating lots of meat/cheese with our friend Kim in Columbus, going to a bar way too packed with Bengals fans and watching videos/drinking beer as she packed to go back home. The only good photos we took together were on Snapchat. However this one is a gem. She’s a middle school Spanish teacher. She’s totally not being stereotypical here, right?

5. My new logo!

As mentioned above, Cindy is one of my closest friends. She’s also a graphic designer and designed me this sweet logo. I also found a matching layout. When I started this blog, I envisioned dark purple as my theme. It just all seems to go together and it makes me happy! It’s good to start 2016 feeling excited about my blog design.

Thanks for reading along! High Fives!

I’m so glad it’s Friday