Blogtober Day 11: The Best Memory

October 11: A memory you would love to relive. 
October 12: Only photos


Wow. This one is tough. (Sarcasm.) The best way for me to "relive" it is to share pictures with you.

I swear I've talked about this trip to England about 12 times on my blog thus far. I would love to relive every single moment of this trip. It was perfection. 

Today (and tomorrow's) posts will consist of pictures. Today's post is majority of pictures from London. Tomorrow will be all dedicated to the "Literary" portion of the trip with Jane Austen and Harry Potter. Ah, trips down memory lane. Enjoy my amigos. (And I promise to not talk about this anymore....lies.)

Harrods!! 

Wicked

Buckingham Palace Gates

There was a crowd of people watching (judging) me do this... Do I care? Nope. I'm off to Hogwarts.

Tower Bridge

Fish and Chips

Cannot remember what this is...Anyone?!

Actually taken on the last day/night of our trip.

Ya know, typical tourist-y type things.

Abbey Road

St. Paul's Cathedral .. I climbed thousands of stairs to the top of that sucker. 

Paddington Bear

Paddington Station .. This was our first stop off the plane. The first sunrise caught on camera.

That one picture of Big Ben you all have seen a thousand times...

One of the four Lions at Trafalgar

Trafalgar's Square Fountain

Hogsmeade

Here are a few of the travelers!

The Queen is in!

Queen Victoria Statue

Yours xx

Blogtober Day 10: A Love Letter

October 10: Write a public love letter to someone in your life. (It doesn't necessarily need to be romantic.)

Welcome to my public love letters to the things, past, present, future...human or not, that I wanted to write a love letter to that has been spiced up with New Girl gifs because I'm obsessed. 

 

Dear Bed, you are the best thing about my day. So squishy and comfy.

Dear Alarm Clock, I have nothing nice to say to you.

How's your day going?

Dear Bestie, First, I can't wait to celebrate the day that you change your last name. Just can't. I'm so glad that in this crazy universe, you found someone as awesome as you are. (Good thing he didn't see that neon phase! Am I right??)

Jokes! :D

Second, thank you for being there to watch me struggle, succeed, and be mediocre too. I could not have survived college (or adult life) without you.

Dear (Future) Puppy, I hope you know that I still working on caring for myself right now. I know, I know. You want me to get it together so we can meet. I get it. I've got a lot more things to work on before I will be ready for you, Neville (that's your name, BTW), but you can bet I will be the best damn owner. We will go on long walks. We will play fetch until you don't want to anymore. You will be well fed and cared for. No worries.

Dear Mom and Dad (and Michael), I really have no way to articulate just how much I love you. *virtual hug*

How to make yourself happy -- think happy things

Dear Autumn, I want you to know that winter is coming. You won't be with me much longer. I am going to miss you very much. But, I will be waiting (quite impatiently) for your return.


Dear Reader, Thank you.

Yours xx

My life plan... ;P

PS More gifs here and here and here...oh and once more.

Blogtober Day 8 & 9: Social Me-dia & What Haley Wore

Yesterday was one of those days where standing up was a struggle. Hair up, glasses on, and I fell asleep in front of my laptop - mid-post. Adult nap time was needed. Therefore, a post was not made. I know, no excuses. This was your idea to blog everyday.  As you can probably tell, the voices in my head have high expectations and yet, love to sleep. Constant battle. Today is a new day -- let's begin, shall we?

October 8: Discuss ways that blogging or social media has changed you.

Social media hasn't changed me. It has altered my lifestyle completely. It may just be me and my social media obsessed universe but I can't go a conversation without talking or discussing something from social media. Most of my news, my ideas, and my friendships are shared on social media. I recently moved away from my friends and family. The majority of the ways I get in touch with them or keep up on life happens is through social media. I could go on and on but it might be rambling and you know how FUN that is? (Jokes.)

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Blogging (consistently) is a new thing for me. I actually started this blog in my Sophomore year of college. It was called Poppie Cult -- A pop culture blog. I would talk about news and other pop culture type things. If you look hard enough, you might be able to find some of these posts... It became The Hemline last November. I enjoy Fashion -- talking about it, looking at it, studying it, giving advice on it. Friends constantly were asking for help picking out outfits, shopping and all that jazz. I decided let's marry my two favorite things: Fashion, and writing. As you can tell, The Hemline has evolved quite a bit since then. Yes, we still talk fashion on here, but we talk about a lot more too. Life is part of fashion so, obviously, we can talk about it. 

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Blogging and Social Media have become major components in who I am and how I communicate. Crazy to think several years ago -- no one knew what Twitter was and I was that weird-o college freshman tweeting about her life. Still that weird-o, just with more followers...

October 9: A self portrait

I figured What Haley Wore... would be a bit more exciting for all of you than a self portrait, which would be me on my phone drinking coffee. Still valid.


This is my Taylor Swift inspired look. Taylor has been seen where crew neck sweaters with different statements including a fox, a bottle of Chanel No 5 and, my personal favorite, is the sweater she wore in her 22 video. She usually wears skinny dark wash denim, oxfords and her briefcase bag slung off one shoulder. I did my very best to recreate the look...now I just need a record deal.

Sweater: Old Navy

I purchased this sweater in August. It is an understatement just how excited I was to wear it. To me, this sweater is perfect. It is super slouchy and long; a person could pair it with leggings, if they so wanted. I will (probably) stick with jeans. My bag is one I lusted over since I saw the online images of the 3.1 Phillip Lim line on Target.com so when it came into the store I HAD to snatch it up! The sides have zippers, as well, to add, what I'm calling, wings to the bag. The black and gold detailing goes with most of my outfits I wear on a regular basis. Plus it fits all my daily necessities like a planner, my book I'm currently reading, my glasses, wallet..the list goes on.

Sweater: Target Mossimo Black; Bag: Phillip Lim for Target

Last weekend was my College homecoming - first year as an Alumni! My bestie and I went to the parade -- this is our really cold faces with our coffees. 

Yours xx 

Blogtober Day 7: Shopping Splurge

I knew it would eventually happen. I feel lack luster about today's prompt and writing but I committed.

October 7: Share links to your favorite online shops, preferably with a few photos of your favorite items in each shop.

So, honestly, I don't really online shop. I mostly online creep. My favorite stores to shop in are Target, Gap and Old Navy. (Still on that poor college kid budget...Gap is a splurge!)

Most of my outfit inspiration or desires come from... where else? ...Pinterest. I love to explore Anthropolgie (outside of my budget) and I do spend quite a bit of time on Forever 21. Also the #ootd tag on Instagram is a personal favorite. I like to be inspired, search my wardrobe to re-create looks. 

Like I said, not a big online shopper. However, I like to be able to catch inspiration at any moment of the day. 

Yours xx 

PS In honor of the first snow storm of the year, I will share a poem I wrote during our last snow storm from winter...from April. Don't you just love South Dakota weather??

South Dakota, April Eighth

Slickery sleet

Slithers like Snakes

Seep in cement cracks

Snickers at your stylish shoes

Sounds of snow sink your hopes

Spring’s loss to the second set of storms

Sinks your souls to sudden sadness