Worthy Reads Roundup - $100 Shopbop Giveaway, Fun Gifts for the home under $50, and how to wear jeans

Hope you had a great week lovelies!

Here is what happened at Chic 'n Cheap Living this week:

- Photo love {Inspiration}: Light through the Fog  

- Chic 'n Cheap Living Contest: Win $100 to Shopbop!

- Gift Guide: Fun gifts for the home under $50

- Birthday and Thanksgiving Wishes (too bad I wasn't in the US this year to appreciate my birthday as a national holiday!)

- FFF - ASOS, Anthropologie, and Shopbop Black Friday discounts (Shopbop is through Monday!)

Here are worthy reads from blogger buddies and beyond:
- Would you let a 19 year old be your interior decorator?  Sam Allen is an up and coming teenage design talent and so far his clean style intrigues me.

- Nookie posted the cutest sketch on how to wear jeans (I wear them like style no. 1).  How do you wear your jeans?

- Pumpkin doesn't' have to just be for pumpkin pies - I love this smoothie version for a healthy alternative!

- Machine beauty - do today's high tech beauty gadgets really work (I'm intrigued by the exfoliating brushes myself)?