Say Hello to Southbound Belle!!

I know I said that the big changes would be coming after I got back from California, but I really just couldn't wait. I've decided to take a whole new approach to this blog! North Shore Prep is now Southbound Belle!! Everything is different: new name, new URL, new design, new color scheme...even my associated Pinterest, Tumblr, and Goodreads have new, matching usernames!! I also have some new pages up at the top for y'all to check out.

I really felt like it was time for some big changes, and I'm finally very happy with this blog and how it looks, etc.! I hope y'all like the new name and design as much as I do!! I'll probably be tweaking it and playing with it a little more, but this is basically what it is!

Next week (and probably the week after), the focus will be back to school! I'll have posts on clothes, bags/backpacks, organization, school supplies, and more! 

XO

Changes!

Hey y'all!! I'm in the midst of some big changes (to be unveiled when I come back from California!!), so I'll be temporarily removing my blog from the Blogger listings and the search engines. Don't worry though, I'll be back in full force next week!!

Til then, keep up with me on Twitter and Instagram (@Gabberella796).

XO

Falling for Fall

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Whatever. I've always called it Fall, and will continue to do so. Forever. So deal. :)

Summer will always be my favorite season. Sun, Sand, my birthday...Summer is colorful, and carefree, and relies on spontaneity. Winter means holiday parties, hot cocoa, and time spent with friends and family. Spring is for new beginnings, for starting over. 

But so is Fall. 

Each Fall, we begin a new chapter of our lives. A new school term, a return to deadlines and routine after the uninterrupted freedom of Summer. I had never really thought like this until shortly after the beginning of this year's first semester. For the first time in my life, I was finding school difficult. I realized that I needed to make a change in my study and time management habits if I wanted to maintain both the grades and the social life that I was used to, without one (or both!) deteriorating. And I realized that January 1 isn't the only time we can make resolutions.

Fall's colors--the reds, the yellows, the oranges, and browns--had always signaled to me the beginning of the end. The end of long, warm days, the end of seeing the sun shine down, the end of days without coats and boots. It's not the end, they always come back, but we may as well enjoy the change while we can.

Ralph Lauren

J.Crew

The Frye Company

Coach

Anthropologie

Francesca's Collections

Nordstrom

Madewell

Urban Outfitters


XO

North Shore Prep