Twelve Oaks Mall Novi MI : The Christmas Edit. This post is sponsored by Twelve Oaks Mall. To read more of my Christmas posts go HERE.
Surprise! Its a Wednesday blog post! The holidays are such a hectic time, and my blog spots quickly fill up in November and December! This Wednesday I am sooooo excited to share a Christmas post with my best friend and business partner Liz from the blog withwonderandwhimsy.com . We partnered with Twelve Oaks Mall to celebrate our best friends Christmas!! Last week Liz and I took over the Twelve Oaks Mall IG account and spent the day shopping for each other around the mall. Follow Twelve Oaks Mall on Instagram and check out the highlights to see our takeover and shopping trip! We had so much fun shopping around the mall and spending the day at Twelve Oaks, from Santas Flight Academy to our dinner at Cheesecake Factory we had such a blast celebrating the holidays together at Twelve Oaks.
Liz is an only child, and I am the only girl in my family so when we met and became besties giving each other gifts was something that really delighted us both. Each year on our birthdays and for Christmas we exchange presents and have an unapologetically girlie time. We both love styling and shopping so much, the HARD thing about buying gifts for someone that works in fashion is that they have literally everything. lol. So this year we took a different tactic. We set out to shop for each others gifts on the same day. Luckily for us Twelve Oaks is a BIG MALL, so we could shop and share the day while still getting fantastic gifts for each other.
Shopping
Twelve Oaks Mall is located in Novi MI, and is a LARGE and expansive shopping location. The mall has 5 department stores that anchor it, Nordstrom, Macys, Lord & Taylor, Jcpenney, and Sears. There are delicious restaurants(Cheesecake Factory, California Pizza Kitchen) and up and coming stores(Eloquii).
Liz and I met for coffee in the morning and made our shopping plan utilizing the Twelve Oaks Mall app, we were able to map out each store we wanted to hit and take the shortest routes to get to each one!
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I was taught that a gift is something you wouldn’t usually buy for yourself, I try to stick to this way of gifting for everyone in my life and Liz is included. We went to some of her favorite stores and we shopped together(closely watching) what each other was picking up and trying on. This made it seriously so easy when it was time to purchase our gifts. I KNEW she would love each thing I picked out BECAUSE I saw her playing and thinking about these things that day!!
Stores that we shopped and loved were
Giving
At the end of our shopping day we stopped into Papyrus and picked out some beautiful foil wrapping paper and cards to match each others styles. I went for lime and hot pink to match Liz love of pastels and pink(and conveniently matched her gifts). Twelve Oaks made the whole shopping day so easy, and having the gift wrapping store next to our exit made it so easy to just stop in and grab wrapping for our gifts and head to the car with our packages.
I picked up a pair of Kate Spade shoes that Liz has wanted since our Chicago trip this summer, a lush bath set, a sweater from Eloquii, and a piano ornament from Papyrus. Each item was perfect to fit my besties style and love of whimsical fashion(head over to her post to see how she styled her SHOES!).
Twelve Oaks Mall made the whole giving and receiving process so easy, especially during the busy holiday season. We were able to go into the mall, spend the day and get literally EVERYTHING we needed to create a beautiful best friends Christmas. Having a mall like Twelve Oaks in the Metro Detroit area is such a gift!
Receiving
We shopped, then we wrapped, then we met for LUNCH! Carving out time for friends during the holiday season can be tough, but having those special moments with your best gal pals is so important. You can talk about family, share holiday traditions and have a good laugh. Liz and I did all of this during our Christmas lunch!!
Liz got me a new pair of Kendra Scott Earring that I admired from the ONLY KS in Michigan(at Twelve Oaks Mall). A Hygge themed bath bomb set from Lush, a sparkle knit skirt from the new Eloquii at Twelve Oaks, and a journal from Papyrus. Side Note : The teacher in me LOVES new “school supplies” I LOVE high quality journals and pens. Which of course Liz knew because she used to be a teacher too! lol
Styling
I styled my new Eloquii skirt with a white bodysuit(also from Eloquii) and a moto jacket(ALSO from Eloquii). Its officially bootie season, no more open toe shoes so I grabbed a pair of leather booties from a couple of seasons ago that I purchased AT Nordstrom Twelve Oaks!
The knit in this holiday glam skirt has a little sparkle, which makes it perfect for holiday parties styled with gold and red and then in January and February styled with black and silver for a winter glam look!
My new Kendra Scott earrings went perfectly to draw out the white stripe in the skirt, and I CAN NOT wait to style this with some resort looks while on vacation this winter!
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