Weekend Recap: ADDYs 2016

This weekend was the annual ADDY Awards or, as I like to put it, Advertising Prom. 

The whole crew was there in our formal wear and the Knoxville Advertising world came out to celebrate the best and brightest. The event as a whole was amazing but the highlight had to be our media director being inducted into the Knoxville AAF [American Advertising Federation] Hall of Fame. Not only is he an incredible role model for us as advertising professionals but our biggest fan in and out of the office. 

Dress- Banana Republic

Let me take a selfie

All the Tombras ladies, all the Tombras ladies 

Work hard. Win harder. 

#Tombrasperks

Red Carpet Round-up: The Oscars

And the best dressed was...Mad Max Fury Road.

Just kidding. Although, bless it, did that movie rack up. 

I was loving the greens, sequins, low V necklines, and of course Gaga on the red carpet tonight. 

I love a gorgeous brunette in a beautiful yellow dress [I blame Belle] and the silver beading complimented by her amazing earrings made the outfit. 

I kind of wish it had been full length or she had done a nude heel instead but that's why I'm home in norts and dad's sweatshirt and not at the Oscars. 

The texture of this dress is stunning and while I usually wouldn't love the beaded belt it really makes the blue pop. 

I'm also loving the red lips, just the right shade. You go girl. 

Absolute classic beauty. 

This dress is incredible. 

She is the Mother Monster. 

This pant suit/leg cap/neckline makes her figure look insane. She is flawless. Praise hands.

I mean I would write Rachel McAdams 365 letters after seeing her in this dress. 

It is definitely reminiscent of Hilary Swank's 2005 navy deep V back dress, but Rachel packs a one-two punch with the high side slit in the front and the dramatic back, or should I say, lack of back. Straight fire.

Now, this is how you do a sequin dress. Naomi Watts, you are beautiful, but Saoirse Ronan absolutely slays in this beaded beauty. 

Once, again the killer pairing of a low V neckline and stunning chandelier earrings. I love it, Brooklyn showed up tonight!

Olivia Munn, you might have awful taste in NFL QB boyfriends but this shade of orange and her coloring is almost as great as Neyland Stadium on a Saturday in October. However, don't care too much for the matchy matchy lips. But those new eyebrows are working wonders for you girl.

And now that Leo finally won an Oscar and got his climate change PSA in, we can all go to bed.
Cue the "get off the stage" music. 

Five on [the last] Friday [of February]

1.

UGH!
The new The 1975 is here!
The band has been teasing with singles from I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It since last year but all seventeen tracks are now here for your ears' pleasure.
The Sounds is just screaming Love Me.

2.

As of 5pm today it is officially ADDY weekend. The annual advertising awards are the perfect excuse to get dressed up, take some epic photo booth pictures with your boss, and most importantly rack up some trophies! #TombrasPerks

3.

Besides the ADDYs, there's another small award show this weekend, the Oscars.
Brittany Fuson has been doing an awesome blog series all week putting her spin on the nominees via prints.

The Martian

The Revenant

4.

Hulu's new original series 11.22.63 started last Monday and I am totally and utterly hooked. Based on the book by Stephen King and produced by James Franco this show plays upon the JFK assassination theories we all love to watch hours of History channel documentaries on. 

"High school teacher Jake Epping travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy - but his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, falling in love, and the past itself, which doesn't want to be changed and shouldn't be changed."

New episodes hit Hulu every Monday!

5.

I came home to my first issue of Southern Living at my new house last night.

And to boot, two of my favorite ladies grace the Spring Style double cover, the Bush twins!

Cannot wait to spend Saturday morning on the couch with it. 

Friday 2/26

#tbt

This gem popped up on my Timehop this morning and I instantly thought of the purple dress I was wearing that day, staying late at the office waiting for my buying supervisor to give me the OK to send out IOs, and popping a bottle of champagne with mom in the kitchen at River Chase toasting to all the buys to come. And here we are today! 

Three years later I feel like I send out a buy or buy revision daily. Just yesterday I billed my hours as "Buyer: 2-5 years experience." In May I will have been doing this crazy media thing for four years. That blows my mind! I still get the same high I did three years ago when I have a great negotiation call and get the rates I wanted OR better. And still toast to big buys being placed and more importantly ALL the buys to come!