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Amazon Gifts For All The Dads This Father’s Day

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“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.” — Anne Geddes

Father’s Day is almost here. I can’t wait to celebrate my dad by treating him to a Cubs game and lunch. Go Cubs Go!

Now to the gifting part of the holiday. Have you shopped yet for all the dads in your life? If not have no fear I am here to help you. I have picked out 5 items from Amazon that can get to them before the special day. So let’s getting to shopping 🙂

For the Sports Loving Dad: The Mug with a Glove

This mug is perfect for the sports loving dad in your life. His morning will not just consist of regular coffee or tea anymore.

For the Active Dad: Sport Squad Endzone Challenge Game

If you have a dad that is loves being outdoors and playing games this sports challenge game is perfect. They get to be outdoors while having fun with being active.

For the Skincare Loving Dad: Green Tea Balancing Skin Care Set

So many dads in our lives’ love skincare that is why this set is perfect. It gives the dads the perfect chance to set aside time each day to take care of their skin.

For the Self-Care Obsessed Dad: Conair Heated Beauty Hand Mitts

This is my favorite item on the gift list. Dads need to take care of their hands and keep them moisturize, these hand mitts are perfect for that after a long day. I may have to borrow these 😉

For the Jokester Dad: World’s Best Farter/ Father Mug

If you and the dads in your life are anything like my dad and I, then you have lots of laughs. My dad and I definitely joke around a lot, which makes for great moments. This mug is definitely bound to great some good laughs every morning. lol!

Hope you all have an amazing Father’s Day!

~ Iced Tea and Top Knots

Three Day Rule’s 2nd Annual Clean Slate

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“Let all that you do be done in Love.” ~ 1 Corinthians 16:14

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and that means celebrations with loved ones. My word for 2018 is Love and I want to share a great wat to celebrate it.

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Three Day Rule is throwing their 2nd Annual Valentine’s Day Party, Clean Slate LA tonight at the Viceroy Santa Monica at 730 pm, you won’t want to miss it. Whether you are single or taken this event has something for everyone.

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For the single gals and guys, bring a picture of your ex and put it in the trash for a Clean Slate. Be sure to bring along your friends and go mingle with your fellow Clean Slate attendees. Now for those of you who are in relationships, but want to have a good night with friends, Clean Slate LA is for you too. Everyone deserves to have a fun night to kick off Valentine’s Day and friends always need a wingman or wingwoman.

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It is a night for new connections and infinite possibilities. The night will consist of not only lots of mingling, but TDR matchmakers will be there to be your personal cupid, Thomas Edwards ( TDR’s resident wingman) will be there to give out flirting advice, The Haiku Guys and Girls will be offering up great icebreakers as well as Bree Jacoby and her team will be working their styling magic. The cherry on top for this event is the RYDE app will be giving away a free luxury rental car, yes please !

For those of you looking for a way to celebrate the start to Valentine’s Day holiday tonight, order that ticket and head on down to the Viceroy Santa Monica to join TDR, over 350+ guests to dance the night away to an awesome DJ, take pictures in the photo booth and create memories with old friend as well as new friends.

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Happy Valentine’s Day !

~KLM Fashion Style

P.S. Get matched with one of Three Day Rule’s amazing clients for free ! Sign up today at www.threedayrule.com/free 🙂

Yes Pleases of the Week

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“The best is yet to come.”

This week has been a rough week for me (more on that later), but as the weekend is just on the horizon, hope is in the air. It is all getting better and life is good. Through this rough week there have been a handful of things that have helped. These are the things that are my obsessions/ Yes Pleases that have helped me get through this rough week.

Hope they inspire and give y’all a pick me up whenever you are having a rough time. Here’s to an amazing weekend and new week. Let’s go Yes Pleases !

Yes Please #1: Country Music

Country Music seems to always be on my music play list. It is the perfect music for any occasion. More recently including this week it has helped pick me up out of rough times and back into a state of joy. I listen to it all and country music will always be my music Yes Please !

Yes Please #2: L’BRI Pure n’ Natural products

I will be the first to admit I haven’t in the past been as diligent with my skincare routine. I have noticed that when I am making sure to keep my routine in the morning and at night, I feel better inside and out. I have started to realize how important skincare and selfcare are, which are now both a constant priority for me. This past week especially was one that got better in part to my new skincare routine thanks to L’BRI Pure n’ Natural skincare products ( thanks again for sending them ). They are aloe based, all natural, great for my skin and easy to use. They have brought an ease to my routine, which continues to help me from skincare to selfceare, which in my book will continue to be a Yes Please !

Yes Please #3: Enjoying Outside with Evening Walks

For me it is not always easy to get up and go out and be active even though I really want to. Slowly, but surely it is getting easier and what has helped is evening walks after dinner with my mom. This has been a great mood booster and a push to get me back into a workout routine. It always helps me to be active when nature and good conversation are involved. It all makes for a big Yes Please !

Yes Please #4: Modern Family + Laughter

Laughter is the best medicine. When I am in need of a great laugh, I put on Modern Family. It is a show that never fails in making me have a belly full of laughs. Laughter and Modern Family make for a real pick me up and Yes Please !

Yes Please #5: DIY Manicure

As you all may know I love a great manicure and these days I am all about a DIY manicure. It has helped me in recent weeks and days because it puts me in a zen like relaxation state, which is always needed. Slowing my mind down can be a struggle, but making time for a DIY mani has certainly been a big helper in doing that. DIY mani time has helped de-stress and keeps me in a creative mindset throughout the last couple of weeks. I will continue to incorporate pamper/mani time when I can. My color of choice at the moment is this purple one from Claire’s, which fit right into my photo shoot fun of this week. Any activity that keeps me zen and creative will always be a Yes Please !

This last week or so was a challenge, but all of these have helped me throughout it and why they are this week’s Yes Pleases. Hope they will help y’all in any stressful times. Thanks for listening and here is to next week’s and for things looking up !

~Kerry of KLM Fashion Style

P.S. What is your favorite song that makes you smile ? Mine at the moment is “Somethin’ I’m Good At ” by Brett Eldredge.

 

Perfect Formulas: Healthy Nails are Beautiful Nails

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“Your nails are a way to speak your style without having to say a word.” ~ Tammy Taylor

For as long as I can remember I have loved having my nails done and keeping them healthy. It was an activity my sister and I enjoyed partaking in with our mom at the dining room table. It is a tradition that we still partake in whether at home or at a salon that we love. What we love about this tradition is that it’s full of laughter and bonding with one another.

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So with nail polish being a dominate accessory for me, I was so pumped when I received this Pink Gel Coat polish from Perfect Formula. What is so great about this product is the keratin protein-rich nail coating that instantly strengthens, seals and protects the nails. I am already obsessed and after only one use I can see and feel a difference in my nail health. Yay ! Some other added bonuses about the Pink Gel Coat polish is that it dries quickly and also works as a base coat. Yes Please, sign me up !

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Voyage Clothing and Denim pair great with Perfect Formula

This is a product that is great for not only your nail health, but is fun and fabulous as well. It is a product I love and am so glad it was introudced to me. I highly recommend  trying out Perfect Formula’s Pink Gel Coat, which can be found at any Ulta Beauty store. Yay for Fantastic Nail Care !

~Kerry of KLM Fashion Style

P.S. What is your favorite nail polish you would pair with Perfect Formula’s Pink Gel Coat? Mine is this nude color by Oribe. I will be wearing both every day !

***This post is sponsored by Perfect Formula. All opinions are my own 🙂

Popping Champagne at Calabasas Malibu Food & Wine Festival

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“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.” ~ Mark Twain

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These days great company, champagne and a beautiful setting make for an amazing day and event. The Champagne Brunch for the Calabasas Malibu Food & Wine Festival on June 11th had all of these components. It was truly a beautiful event with great food from Toscanova out on the beautiful patio, live music from Tara Macri and great conversations with great company that included chefs from the previous 2 evening of the festival. I wish I could have made the first two nights because everyone was talking about how truly fantastic they were.

I always love it when I can leave an event with a huge smile on my face from enjoyment and I left with a big one from this one. I made lifelong friends from this one and have from all of Barcelona Enterprises past events as well. Barcelona Enterprises, who put the 3 day festival, put on a truly luxurious, classy event. I felt like I had known everyone for year and was welcomed with open arms. I will definitely be going again next year and will be bringing my family and friends. A champagne brunch is a perfect way to end a spectacular 3 day festival.

As Alan Semsar (CEO/Founder of Barcelona Enterprises) said, “The world’s top brands came together to support arts and education that included McLaren Beverly Hills, Capital One, Regent Seven Seas Cruises and Samuel Adams. They are all model corporate citizens who make a global & local impact. Cheers to them.” This shows how Alan and his team not only put on spectacular events on a continuous basis, but continuously put great causes at the forefront as to why they do what they do. They also align themselves with brands that put this as a priority as well, Cheers to you all !

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Here is to another amazing year at the Calabasas Malibu Food & Wine Festival ! I highly recommend checking out Barcelona Enterprise’s next event.

Thank you again for allowing me to attend and be a part of an amazing day!

~Kerry of KLM Fashion Style

P.S. Anytime sports comes into a conversation, you now I am smiling. This was an added bonus to an already spectacular event. What do you all look for to make an event great?

Savory, Sweets and Sparkle Extravaganza

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“Leave a little sparkle wherever you go.”

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Rocking Target, Forever 21 and Wet n Wild paired with One Hope and Tinselbox 

Finding the perfect theme for an afternoon lunch can be a challenge, but a fun one. My usual go to is Nautical with a Parisian twist, but I wanted to chang it up this time. So when I got sent the amazing Unicorn party theme supplies by Tinselbox and a rainbow sparkle bottle of One Hope‘s delicious champagne, I knew I had my theme. With it being the year of the unicorn trend and sparkle was a must, I was excited to get to planning. My decorations were set, beverages chosen, so now it was time to pick the food.

My go to spots these days are All Recipes and Food Network and it was no different this time around either. I found some amazing savory googies to make: Garlic Cheese Biscuits, Deviled Eggs and BLT Pasta were from All Recipes and the Shrimp Arugula Crostinis were from Food Network, which were all a hit and will definitely be made again. I also picked up cheeses and meats for an appetizers at Trader Joe’s. I made sure not to forget one of the most important parts of a meal, dessert. The dessert of choice, Raspberry and Earl Grey French macaroons from Whole Foods, which are perfect with champagne.

Now that the food is squared away, it is set up time. A champagne and unicorn theme is perfect for under the lemon tree in my backyard and just the right time to bust out the vintage bar cart. It was a joyful filled with bubbles by One and Unicorn decorations and supplies from Tinselbox, which I will never forget. You can never go wrong with a day of sparkles, bubbles and fun with family.

Stay tuned for another savory and sweets extravaganza !