Congrats to the Grad!

Last weekend another part of our crazy two families graduated and it made for the best weekend in a very long time in a place you would never imagine! Congratulations Katie we are all so proud!


SO, what is this place? Stockton, CA. I know what people think when they hear that we drive 6 hours to go to the meth capital of the world but what a lot of people don't realize is that there are so many fun things to do there in reality. Just don't go walking around at night… SO, what are these fun things that we did? The day after driving up we spent the entire day out on the delta with the sea-doos and our friend's boat. The next day was the graduation at UOP and right after the congratulating and picture taking we took off to one of our favorite spots up there called Viaggio Winery for the party! And of course, a trip to Viaggio, or anywhere with our group, means TONS of pictures. And on Sunday it was Mother's Day so we got my mom a waffle iron and all of us went to this little dive on the delta called Giusti's for an awesome brunch with many Mimosas. Let me just say that I had an amazing time in Stockton, CA and a lot of good memories come from those weekend trips there! Don't judge a city until you've been there!


Now some pictures!

Just call us the Bridesmaids. Everyone else did!

This is Sterling, AKA, one of the cutest puppies ever.

I hope everyone had a great Mother's day weekend and enjoy this upcoming weekend as well! I know I will because I'll finally be on summer break after Monday! Hooray!

OUTFIT: Dress from small local boutique, Necklace from F21, Denim Jacket from F21, and I was wearing ZARA heels but by the time these pictures were taken by feet were dead. I love heels but my feet sure don't.

Instagram update #2

Thanksgiving outfit :)

My dad bought bagels from Costco. Yum!

My five year old cousin is surprisingly a good photographer. 

1st time on a military base. My boyfriends dad was promoted to captain :) 

I met a hedgehog named Dr. pepper and fell in love! 

Not and Instagram post but i wore this when my best friend took me to see michael buble at staples. That voice is golden. Swooooon! 

I've been crazy busy with finals and trying to get through this semester. I hope everyone is coping with the stress! Take a deep breath and relax. It's almost over :) 

More holiday outfit posts to come! 

Flashback in Time

First off can we all agree how crazy it is that Thanksgiving is this Thursday? I wish I knew where the time went because it went from summer to the holidays so quickly. And of course the holiday season means being super busy with finals, decorating, and lots and lots of eating. This weekend alone is going to be chaotic but it is still my favorite time of the year. I cannot wait for a good turkey dinner and some awesome Greek lamb cooked by my Mama. Unfortunately, my family will not be taking part in our traditional Thanksgiving with all of our good friends and we will definitely miss it; however, we are spending it with my dad's side of the family and I'm sure it'll be just as fun. It's going to be very nice to see my grandma and spend this holiday with my family. I'm going to have to take lots of pictures of all the yummy food and holiday fashion! Do you have any fun plans?

Now to the Fashion!

I was really feeling the flapper girl style this weekend and so I found a tutorial to the finger wave curls with a small curling iron. While it might be rather easy technique-wise and cute, it was so time consuming that I would have to be very bored to ever do it again. So I finally got my hair to sit how I wanted it and threw together a very flapper-esque outfit. I had planned to have my boyfriend just snap some outfit photos of me when he got to my house and to my surprise he volunteered to actually dress up and take pictures with me. An opportunity to play dress up with my boyfriend? Hell yeah I was excited about that! So, we grabbed an outfit for him and headed back to my house to take pictures. Forgetting that the sun sets incredibly early this time of the year we waited a little too long and had to mess around with the lights in my backyard. I have to say there were a lot of pictures that came out surprisingly good! We had such a blast and we ended up taking over 400 pictures. Check out our Flashback in Time photoshoot!**warning! it's a little picture heavy!**

So there they are! I don't know what you all think but I thought they came out so cool. oh and I don't smoke if anyone is wondering, I was just holding it for the picture. Maybe I'll do these Flashback in Time themed photoshoots every once in a while. It definitely was a lot of fun!

OUTFIT: Tj-maxx beaded top, Aldo booties, thrifted faux fur coat, The Limited black pencil skirt, Rings is silver and turquoise, the silver bracelet was my Grandmas, and the earrings are pearls and swarovski crystals that I got in Hawaii over the summer.

Instagram the Past Few Months

Like i said in my last post. I've been finding inspiration in Karla Deras lately.

Outfit: the limited sweater, urban outfitters shorts, forever 21 jacket, and shoes from a boutique in Hawaii, 

Wore this to my brother's play in Hollywood. He was in the the workshop for Heathers The Musical and it was so amazing! 

Outfit: forever 21 top, forever 21 pants w/velvet designs, Jeffrey Campbell Litas, Ray Ban Club Masters, bag from a boutique in my town. 

 The day I cut my hair and I'm loving it! 

Rag and bone booties (shhh there look-alikes from forever 21) 

Oh hey I totally met the drummer from the Foo Fighters (Taylor Hawkins) the other night. He was playing a charity show at a local pizza place in town. $10 for crazy amazing music? Count me in! 

And this is my boyfriend Devin. This boy just makes me melt a little and i love him so much! 

Fashion Inspiration: Karla Deras

For the past year I have been wanting a certain haircut and this is the haircut of fashion blogger over at http://www.karlascloset.com . I love everything about it. It's classic and timeless and just so beautiful overall. My only problem was that the last time I cut my hair above the shoulder I cried my eyes out because it was nothing like the picture I showed my hairdresser at the time… So after a lot of talking, thinking, and convincing, I finally did it. I got the Karla cut and I am absolutely in love. I decided to dedicate this post to the wonderful Karla Deras and her amazing style. I have been finding a lot of inspiration in her lately when it comes to putting together outfits that go with this new hair-do.

Now here is my Karla inspired outfit based off of those last two pictures. the other two were just to show how great her style is and how absolutely amazing the hair cut really is.

Forever21 Cropped sweater, The Limited Houndstooth pencil skirt, Cathy Jean heels

Another Fresh Start

So here I am with my 3rd…no 4th…well I guess it doesn't matter what attempt I'm at in trying to run a blog at least somewhat consistently and successfully. But the fact is that I am trying one more time! This is a fresh start on my old blog in which I re-vamped a little. Let's just say that website I created did not work out too well. My heart just belongs to blogspot. Now I am making my pledge because it's good to have something to take up my extra time that I would instead be wasting on the couch, sleeping, or pointlessly eating only out of boredom. I can now do it with a computer on my lap and get something out of it! Hopefully! Here's my pledge: I Gabriella Lillian Shor pledge to blog consistently at least once a week bringing to each and every one of my readers some sort of insight to my fashion and daily life tips and tricks.

That being said, let's do this thing.

Now enjoy this picture of a silly kitten until I get my next post up and running:

Labor day

Sorry for my out-of-order posts but these were from labor day. We had a barbeque as usual :) and of course a photoshoot broke out. I swear these are the most comfortable shoes i have ever worn. I didnt even have to take them off once :)

Outfit: magenta body suit from urban outfitters, denim levi shorts (i made them out of an old pair of levis i got from a thrift store for $3), pale pink blazer from forever21, berry colored heels from Aldo