My StitchFix-#1

So recently I discovered StitchFix, thanks to Kinder-craze. You can find her post here. Basically, it's an amazing service that allows someone to shop for you, send you items to try on in your own home, and keep or send back items you choose. You pay $20 as a styling fee each month, but if you buy any items at all, that money is taken out of your total cost. You fill out a taste profile, and can even connect the stylist to your Pinterest account and set up a board specifically for them to use as inspiration. You receive five items each month. These items are based on the sizes, styles, needs, colors, and cost that you entered in the taste profile. The box comes with a letter from your stylist, the items, cards for each item on how to style it, and a UPS bag for free returns. After you have tried them on and made your decisions, you can pay for them through your account or send them back. Added bonus, if you buy all the items from the box you save an additional 25% off your order. Of course, this can also be explained on their website here.

Now for me, I have my own reasons why I love StitchFix:
1. First of all, I am a horrible shopper. I hate trying on clothes all day, especially when they aren't even the right size anyway.
2. I can never visualize how I would wear the thing, so I put back so many great items that I realize only later were in fact great.
3. I never take the time to look through racks or stores to find what is good, I definitely judge a store by the 2 outfits on the mannequins in the window.
4. I want to be more adventurous with my clothing, but am not always sure how to do so.

So, with all that in mind, I signed up for my first box in February! I was so very pleased with what I got.

Here's the letter from the stylist explaining why she chose what she chose.

I just love opening boxes, look how pretty it is!

Here are my things from February:

I will say, I sent back a black shirt that I thought would be too low for anything I would use it for. And I sent back a brown bag that I wasn't in love with. But here's what I kept, and how I styled it.(with my own clothes, from my own closet, in my own room!)

I loved how this jacket fit, especially with an adjustable waist.

I was so surprised how well these jeans fit! They are a great, flexible color as well.

This was my favorite!! I love the versatility of gray/black. The sleeve length is perfect. And for me, the best thing is how the shirt falls at my hips. It is a flattering fit for me, and I was so thankful for the opportunity to find that out.

Also, for fun, here's all three items I kept from my February box.

I loved my box so much, I immediately signed up to receive another! Like I said, this was my February box, so I will try and hopefully will be much faster with adding my March box for you all to see.

Snack Time-Greek Yogurt Blueberries

You may have caught on by now that I am a snacker. So, to help I try and make sure the snacks I have in my house are healthy options. Here is my current obsession that I love!

Only 2 ingredients, so we are off to a great start! I love the Simply Balanced brand from Target, especially when I want something fresh and healthy.

I laid out parchment paper first so they would easily remove when they were done.

You simply roll the blueberries through the yogurt and lay them out to freeze!

(since these berries were rather small, I would have 2-5 berries in each cluster. Other times I have done it with only one blueberry at a time.)

For this batch I used vanilla greek yogurt, but I have heard blueberry is good as well.

Throw it in the freezer for about 2 hours.

ENJOY! They are seriously great, I love them and eat way too many of them.

Try them! Or tell me what combinations of fruit and yogurt flavors you try so I can try them as well! :)

Skinny Cupcakes

So I have a bit of a weakness for cupcakes, cakes, sweets, frosting, that kind of thing. So when I saw on pinterest a "skinny cupcake" I had to try it for myself! Now I followed the recipe given on another blog and all the credit goes to Six Sisters' Stuff, you can find the post here.

For the cake all you add together is the funfetti cake mix and a can of sprite zero.

I could not find a can anywhere, so I made do with this 2 liter. A can is about 12 ounces.

It was sort of weird mixing these together, it just was not what I was used to, but it turned out really well!

Now I have a cupcake maker, so I just popped them in here. I do 6 at a time for 10 minutes.

Here they are cooling before I frosted them.

For the "frosting" the recipe calls for fat free cool whip and 1.5 ounces fat free vanilla jello instant pudding. Here is what I could find at the grocery store.

I also discovered it would have been helpful to wait until the cool whip was no longer frozen. I think I added more jello mix than I needed because it was hard to tell what the texture would be when it was still slightly frozen.

Here is my finished product! So super easy to make, and only 110 calories each!