Before I begin I have to say that having Amber as a co host is the best ever. Not only is she my cohost but she is one of my best friends in real life. After you spend 20 plus hours in a car with someone you get to know them really well and she is hands down on of the truly greatest people I have ever met. I am so lucky to have her as my friend.
Today we celebrate a stolen idea….
You’ve read Glamour Magazine right? You know the Hey…ITS OK section…thats where this brain child came from.
I had been doing Hey Its Ok posts for a while when Amber and I decided we wanted to do a linkup together. We decided to make ITS OK into ITS OK Thursdays…an email to Jenn about a button and 3 weeks later came our first linkup. From day one you guys have made it so successful! We couldn’t be happier about the turn out and we have loved getting to know so many new bloggers because of it. I still can’t believe its been one year!!!!
ITS OK….
To shamelessly plug your other giveaway 3 posts below 🙂
To have a thing for post its, notebooks and calendars(just cause I’m not in school doesn’t mean I don’t need supplies!)
To wear fall clothes in the summer
To hate summer….give me cool weather and football stat
To be overly excited that the first pre season football game is coming up
To accidentally throw away concert tickets
To stalk your email waiting for a certain email…we all do this 🙂
To say screw it and eat the 2nd cupcake
To have an odd addiction to goldfish crackers
To not want to go to sleep til everything is put in its proper place
To look forward to a lazy Friday night of pizza and Breaking Bad
To have a little TOOOO much wine during game night with friends
To spend most of Sunday recovering from said wine ….OOOPS
To think you’d be crazy to not enter the giveaway below…
Now, for the giveaway! We are giving away a $25 gift card to Starbucks and a $25 gift card to Sephora.
One winner takes all!!!
In order to enter the giveaway, you must link-up for It’s OK Thursday today, so get your post typed up and use the rafflecopter widget below to enter!
How sweet of y’all to offer a giveaway for something YOU created. Thanks so much for hosting it every week– I just recently got into blogging, but I’ve loved looking forward to my Thursday posts!
If I win, I’ll spend my sephora card toward BareMinerals glow pads– I’ve been looking for an excuse to buy ’em. & the Starbucks card will be great for my usual weekend treat.
Again– thanks for hosting!
I agree…it’s totally okay to look forward to a lazy Friday night with pizza 🙂 And to stalk your email for a certain one- I’m always doing it!
So happy to have found this link up, girl! I’ve been reading them for a while but I’m finally linking up now! I’m not sure what I’d buy at Sephora…there’s so much on my wish list! And Starbucks- well I’d be drinking many coffees in the morning and refreshers in the afternoon 😉
Congratulations on one year!
So first of all – I LOOOOVE fall! I am counting the days until cool weather hits PA again. You should really visit us up here – it is gorgeous in the fall.
Second, I will have a VERY hard decision on what to spend the gift cards on. At Sephora, I’d spend it on some kind of makeup I don’t need or maybe brush heads for my clarisonic. At Starbucks, I’d spend it on lots of drinks … or maybe save it for some fall PSLs. 🙂
Happy Anniversary : )
YAY, happy anniversary gals! I would spend some serious cash in Starbucks on my usual morning iced coffee and I’m LOVING their new lime refreshers!!! Sephora, I love everything Philosophy so I’m betting on getting something Amazing Grace!
So excited for (college) football to start! And Goldfish=crack. I can never just stop eating them.
I’d buy me some more Too Faced makeup at Sephora. And my Soy No Water Chai (maybe add a shot of espresso if super tired) at Starbucks.
Congrats on the year!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! And I’m so feeling you about the fall clothes…I can’t wait!
Happy Anniversary! Love the link-up! I would buy many refreshers and chai tea lattes. Starbucks is always a treat because the closest one is about 25 minutes away!! And I really need some new lip stick!
This is so wonderful Neely and Amber! I remember when you started this a year ago were so uncertain how it would go…now look at you both ONE YEAR later! 🙂 I would love to put the sephora gift card for my first naked pallet, and the starbucks i’d actually give to my best friend because her birthday is coming up and she loves Starbucks 🙂
Nice giveaway! At Sephora I’d ofcourse shop their HK line (loving the nerdy HK nail art stickers!) and at starbucks, I’d do the green tea frapp.
I love some raspberry mochas, and I’ve never shopped with Sephora, but I’d like some good eyeshadow.
Thanks for such a great link-up! Congrats on a year, and thanks for the giveaway!
I am dying for the Naked Palette 2, so yep. I’d buy that. And for Starbucks, oh geez. Actually, I think I’d buy a couple new to-go mugs for winter. Mine are gettng kinda gross. 😉
You threw away concert tickets?! Uh-oh!
I would put the Sephora gift card towards the Naked Palette. I’ve been wanting it forever so this would be the perfect excuse to get it!
I would spend the Sephora card on some new moisturizer or maybe under eye concealer. And as for Starbucks, frappes, all day, every day!
I haven’t been to Sephora in a long time, but I’m sure I could find something. And the Starbucks card would provide me with a few iced coffees. 🙂
WooHoo!!! Happy anniversary!! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I would save the Starbucks card for hot choc in the winter and the Sephora one…hmm… probably get a refill brush for my clarisonic mia
I would go on a coffee date with my husband and I have never used Sephora but need to get some new makeup so that would be a great way to try them out! I have heard great things about them. THis is my first time linking up. Love this!
Now I want cupcakes… Thanks a lot 😉
For Sephora, I’d either get my standard Bare Minerals makeup, or go for something more fun – new nail polishes.
And Starbucks?! Just became obsessed with the coconut mocha. AMAZE. Though I might hang onto it for fall for pumpkin spice lattes which I would probably die for.
This is so exciting! I love Sephora and Starbucks! Bring it on!
This is so exciting : ) I’d probably take my boyfriend on a Starbucks date! He deserves it!!
It’s so great of you girls to have a give away! I live breathe and die for starbucks… great choice!!
Neely! Loving this giveaway and really love “It’s OK Thursdays!” such a great idea! I would use the sephora gift card for eye makeup! Any and all, but probably some different shadow color pallets 🙂 And of course, I love me some Starbucks so I’d use it on myself and my hubby!
I LOVE fall and I’m totally counting down to football season. Our first preseason is 2 weeks from tomorrow and I’m seriously PUMPED!!
Also- I am totally addicted to buying notebooks, new pens, post-its etc. No shame!!
I am so over this heat too! Tx heat is horrible! I lived in Corpus Christi one summer! I would buy the new energy drinks at Starbucks! I also need new lipstick and blush! Winning a Sephora giftcard would be awesome!
I am so over this heat too! Tx heat is horrible! I lived in Corpus Christi one summer! I would buy the new energy drinks at Starbucks! I also need new lipstick and blush! Winning a Sephora giftcard would be awesome!
I would get a Passion Tea Lemonade from Starbucks, and spend money on some fabulous lipstick colors. 🙂 Thanks for having an AWESOME giveaway!
Happy birthday ladies!!!
I would spend my Starbucks card on a cup of coffee and a new Starbucks mug as a gift. The Sephora card would be spend on a new bottle of perfume–Pink Sugar!
This is such a great giveaway. I definitely need to fuel my Starbucks addiction!
Thanks girls!
I totally think it is okay to stalk your email waiting for a reply! I was just doing this yesterday and thinking “What did we do before smart phones when I couldn’t compulsively check my email anywhere I am?!”
would love some good primer and i totally need a salted caramel mocha NOW
tons and tons of White Chocolate Moccas!
Venti soy lattes and mascara!!!
This is my first time linking with you guys!
I’m a new follower too.
-Ameryn Marie @ ohsonifty.blogspot.com
Yay for one year!! I’m going to go stock up on school supplies this weekend! I would sane the Starbucks GC until their holiday drinks make they debut, and I’d buy some perfume with the Sephora GC!
The question is what wouldn’t I buy with that gift card! Makeup and coffee are my two favorite things.
im SO excited for football season too! i LOVE that were both fall people!! ahhh just talking about it gets me so excited! I would get coffee with the starbucks card & sephora probably perfume to asdd to my collection happy anniversary! xo Kelly
I want to buy some OPI by Sephora nail polish and a bunch of the new starbucks berry refreshers! they are soooo good!
I am so over summer right now! Can’t wait for fall!
Congrats on year of It’s OK!
Lip products and frappucinos, thankyouverymuch 🙂
I’m guilty of email stalking too… And….HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to a fun link-up! I love Java Chip frappuccinos! It’s always nice to spend time with a friend while drinking Starbucks. And as far as Sephora goes, I would like to find a holographic nail polish. :o)
WEll Starbucks would be spent on lotsa Chai tea lattes
and Sephora? who knows! there are so many possibilities!
I love Starbucks. I would definitely spend my gift card well, most likely on decaf iced drinks since it’s been soooo hot here! White Chocolate Mochas, Caramel Macchiatos, and Frappucinos are my top picks.
I love makeup too. Sephora would probably be spent on my never ending hunt for the perfect shade of lipstick.
Well, I love Starbucks. My fave drink is the Caramel Apple Cider. Mmm. And Sephora? I have been but never bought anything there so this would go towards my first Naked palette. Oh yes. 🙂
I would have to get a few Fraps and Coconut Limes Frozts at Starbucks and Try a new foundation at Sephora!
Totally agree on the wearing fall clothes in the summer and hating summer!!
I want a cupcake now!! Hahaha
I will treat myself to Starbucks before work and with sephora well I can always use more makeup!!
Such a cool giveaway. Starbucks & Sephora are pretty close to each other at my mall – I can totally tag team it. I love the one foundation they sell. It goes on perfect I just am too cheap to buy it! And I adore coffee!
Happy Birthday It’s Ok Thursday… and THank you Neely and Amber for bringing it to us!!!! and a not so thank you for making me really want a donut 🙂
Coffee coffee coffee.
And probably something for my dry skin :/
Oh gosh…what were the concert tix???
Umm – drinking lots of frozen coffees 🙂 With tons of whipped cream.
Sephora – makeup and nail polish 🙂
Starbucks- taking a friend out for coffee
Sephora- I have too many things to choose from
congrats on one year! this has become one of my favorite link ups. 🙂 i also love buying office supplies…just got more pens yesterday because they are fun colors!!
Starbucks- iced coffees
Sephora- New NARS blush
Xoxo
http://sosimplychic.blogspot.com/
Starbucks-iced wcm & chai tea latte’s
Sephora-probably my make up for ever powder
I just linked up for the first time! Thanks so much for hosting, and congratulations on one year – I see this link up all over, and it always looks so fun
I’d spend the Starbucks card on chai tea lattes, and the Sephora card towards a new NARS bronzer!
Congrats on the 1 year anniversary!
With my sephora card I would put it towards a Too Faced eye shadow palette I’ve been eyeing!!! 🙂
I would take treat my hubby to a starbuck’s coffee date and as for Sephora, I have never shopped there so it would be great to check it out!
Starbucks- iced coffees
Sephora- lipstick!
EXcited:)
skinny vanilla lattes from Starbucks and eye shadow and mascara from Sephora…or their lotion. Their lotion is fantastic!
Naked Eye Palette by Urban Decay and lots of starbucks drinks!
I’m SOOOOO over summer! And seriously, i haven’t been able to stop thinking about goldfish in like two weeks– I blame you!! Lol
I’d spend my money on the NP2 and on lots of White Chocolate Mocha’s!
Sephora: all my fav things 🙂 and starbucks: lots of iced cafe americano
BTW: goldfish crackers are amazing! That is NOT an odd obsession LOL! 🙂