Awkward and Awesome Thursday!

Awkward:

- leaving my house today..twice..without a bra on. So what if I let the goods hang free for awhile.
- Getting a text from a random stranger. The text read: "Jolene says no." Um who in the knads is Jolene and why is she saying no?
- Bursting into tears at the gym. Crying in public is oober embarassing business
- crazy lady on the freeway sendin the bird my way. Love you too grouchy pants
-This awesome hair due (hair doo? hair do? I. hate. spelling?) I tried thats supposed to make your hair curly without using heat. Didn't turn out quite as planned. I looked like a german school girl. Just call me Helga for short


Awesome:

-My burfday is on Saturday! yeah baby. Best day of the whole entire year
- Getting some really cute news shoes for said birthday. Sparkly Sperry Topsiders. They are super fab

- Going up to park city for the weekend with my favorite people on the planet, my grandparents. Couldn't be more excited
- Cleaning my room, finally! Seriously I think you could have played where's waldo in my room. Saying it was a disaster is an understatement. Thank heavens for clorox wipes and a good vacuum.
- PINTEREST. enough said
- Knowing fall is just around the corner. I can almost taste it.
- A super sweet (sweet as in "ahh, that's so precious and sweet!" not sweet like "dude that's so sweet. catch my drift?) Anyways it's this really cute necklace my mom got for me from Sundance. I love it.

Donezo

Well folks I did it. I still have one more to make but I thought I would share my first finished project.



                                                               Step one: gather supplies

Step 2: stencil and tape

Step 3: Paint

And you are done! Only one more board to go!

Crafty Shmafty

So over the past few weeks I have come down with a bad case of the crafties. Yes, it's a real disease. I cannot stop itching to paint, craft, sew, draw....etc. Anyways, along with a few doses of Pinterest, and a handful of glorious ispirations, today is the day I will ACTUALLY give my ideas life! Hoorah! So wish me luck on my venture to be a crafty woman. yowzah.

Today's project:

DIY chevron paintings

Supplies needed:

- I purchased two 16X20" canvas boards (both only costed $4.99...what. a. steal.)
- 3 or 4 tubes of acrylic paints. (I'm painting mine a mint-ish green color)
- paint brushes
- 1 roll blue painters tape
- chevron pattern stencil (I found mine on google)

So wish me luck as I venture out and try and duplicate those oh so beautiful paintings shown above. I will post pictures as soon as I am done! This could be a doozie...

Love me some Fall

Being a poor college girl stinks like poo. (the kind where you have to spray ten gallons of fabreeze, flip on the fan, and run out of the bathroom kind of poo) You're welcome for that visual. Anyways, each year around this time, I start browsing online and through various magazines and begin drooling over fall fashion. So to ease the pain of not being able to purchase these items at this time, (notice the hope still lingering in my voice) I thought I would share some of the lovelies I have found...and in fact NEED.

Attention: Any of you readers are more than welcome to donate to my fashion fund. I would love you forever and always.

Exhibit A: These gorgy Steve Maddens. My feet crave these suckers

Next on the list: THIS watch. Holy shnikies. Time never looked so glamorous.  

Say hello to Mac's Ruby Woo lip stick. Yowza.

I need this dress. Now. I can picture it now...in my closet...no, on me. It looks really cute if you're wondering.

Basically, those are only a FEW of the items I have been dying for.
Holy Moly, I need to learn to thrift.

I'm going to do it

I'm not one to publicly talk about life's struggles or tribulations, but I feel like in order for me to overcome some of these, I should just write them down. So this post is my inner most, raw feelings.

For as long as I can remember I have been overweight. Because of some of life's occurrences, and the fact that food is just too yummy, I turned to food in times of struggle, heartache, celebration, fear, jubilation and triumph. Frankly, I'm embarrassed and deeply saddened that this is how I let things turn out. BUT things are going to change. That horrid phrase of "My diet starts tomorrow.." is going out the door, and I am going to change my life.

In the past, my reasoning for wanting to be thin varied from reason to reason. "If I were skinny, so and so would like me" or "If I were skinny, I would have gotten that job." Well, I want to do this for me. I want to be happy, and most of all, I want to love who I am. I want to find that girl that is deep down inside of me, and pull her out. That girl deserves to love her body and herself.

So, here is to a healthier, happier future. I know with the help of friends, family, and most of all the lord, I can do it......


.......... and you better believe I will.

How Can you not love her

So, back in October (?) I got to see this lovely perform. Needless to say in the next life...I will have her voice..... and her glasses.

A whole lot of somethin

It's exactly 5:10 and I am sitting at home by my lonesome so here is what you get:

Ten Things I wish I could say to 10 Different People

1. I miss you. 

2. I think you are the hottest thang that ever hit the planet

3. Um..I think you and I could make some really cute children but maybe it's just me

4. I admire you to the moon and back

5. Stop being so dramatic. Everything will be fine

6. I wish you could see how great you are.

7. You are so much better than that

8. I know it's hard, but you can do it

9. I love you I love you I love you

10. I told you so

Nine Things About Myself

1. I'm in love with fashion. really though...I hear wedding bells. 

2. I think I have short term memory loss.

3. I love to organize/clean (when I'm in the right mood)

4. Sometimes I secretly wish I could run away and live in a cottage in Ireland...and marry Gerard Butler..but that's beside the point.

5. I want to be a Kardashian

6. I need to learn to spend my money....and when I say spend I really mean save. 

7. I wish I was crafty

8. I'm excellent with directions. Take me somewhere once and I could take you there again. 

9. I think about bizarre situations as I lay in bed at night. For instance: Who would come to my funeral if I died? And what pictures or music would they use for the slideshow?  

Eight Ways to Win my Heart

1. Make me laugh... Guaranteed win.

2. Sticking up for your friends/family even when it might be "un-cool"

3. Speak to me with a foreign accent, preferably irish? ok great.

4. Be spontaneous. I'll love you forever

5. Go after what you want and be ambitious.

6. Adore your mamma

7. Love and serve others.

8. Being brown

Seven Things That Cross My Mind A Lot

1. Oooh she looks cute. Where did she get that shirt?

2. I need another job

3. What's going on tonight? Where can I find cute boys to hang out with?

4. What am I doing with my life. I feel so unaccomplished.

5. I hope (insert person I know here) is doing ok.

6. Who will I marry?

7. I need to work out

Six Things I Do Before I Fall Asleep

1. This sounds absolutely ridiculous, but I think about clothes that I wish I had that don't even exist.

2. Brush my teeth.

3.  Set my alarm and check it at least twice.

4. Have some one on one time with the Man upstairs.

5. Blog stalk

6. Tell my mom I love her

Five People-or Groups of People- Who Mean A Lot To Me

1. My Grandparents-basically perfect. Adore them.

2. My Madre and paps.

3. Let's be honest...anyone brown. I love my colored folk

4. My bestest friends (you know who you are)

5. Jesus

Four Things I'm Wearing

1. Black leggings

2. Floral shirt/dress thingy

3. toe ring

4. gold dangly earings

Three Songs I Listen To Often

1. Roslyn- Bon Iver and St. Vincent

2. Please Don't Go- Mike Posner

3. Anything to do with Coldplay

Two Things I Want To Do Before I Die

1. Be a mom and a good one at that

2. Run a marathon

One Confession:

I wish I could change someone's life for the better