News Years Resolution and I found a place for the personal me!

1. Start my Love Dare daily Devotion
2. Blog at least three times a week
3. Blog for business account as well
4. Exercise at least four times a week and do more Yoga. I miss yoga.
5. Do my walk to run 12 week program (then I will start something else) :D
6. Eat Breakfast every Morning
7. Drink at least six cups of water a day
8. Sign up for something special (i.e Birchbox, Favorite Magazine)
9. Do at least one craft a week (post2blog)
10. Do a daily 15 minute tidy up around the house
11. Do really good in School
12. Start learning a new language
13. Plan a date night at least once a month
14. Bake a something at least once a month
15. Donate Blood
16. Debate on weather on not I should get a tattoo
17. Read at least one book every month!
18. Stress Less
19. Eat at least one piece of fruit a day
20. Volunteer at a food bank or homeless shelter or something like that
21. Work my plans for opening my own organization
22. Do more hair and make-up for weddings and fashion shows!!

I ended up with 22 New Year resolutions because I figured for the 22 years that I've been alive I might as well try to make some kind of positive change for myself and others. So there it is. I will occasionally come and update it to let you know how I'm doing but I think my more personal type post (i.e my weight loss) are going to be on my tumblr. account that I just opened. I wanna see how that goes.

Reddit & Secret Santa {Journal Blog}

Today I received my gift from my Secret Santa on Reddit Gifts.

So instead of just taking pictures I made a little video.

So here it is :)

But wait...

If any of you are interest in this thing called Reddit Gifts...

then Click Here!

It really is one of the largest World Gift Exchange website.

I think my Secret Santa did a very good job. 

Its hard to tell but I really do love collecting and trying new things...

So Vegemite here I come.

(Warning Vegemite Stinks!! Lol)

Still willing to try it :)

I know this isn't the best post but I do have another fun tutorial coming up.

Just need to edit the photos.

Thanks for stopping by!

May all your days be Merry and Bright :o}

I'm also think about changing my Header... Will see hehe.

And I also found this homemade simple liquid soap.

When my now soap runs out I think this is my next task...

Find Recipe here at Why Not Sew!

My Birthday Recap {Journal Blog}

I know it took me forever but I finally edited 

the the pictures from my birthday and created some little collages...

So now I'm ready to share :)

Yay.

So for my Birthday I went to the Point Defiance Zoo and aquarium...

But I went there for Zoo lights.

I also had a lovely dinner at Anthony's on the pier in Tacoma.

Here's me celebrating my 22nd Birthday!

My Day started off a little like this...

I got walked to the car and it was full of balloons :)

Then we went to 7-11 to get Hot Chocolate!

So the mousey tea pot is something that I've been wanting for two years :)

 and I actually got it as a gift...

The Live things at the Zoo that very cold night...

{lets just say that meerkat kept me entertained for awhile}

[[He had hiccups]]

Red is Red...

Now for the lights...

Thanks for Visiting and Recapturing my birthday with me.

I would love to hear about your annual traditions or special day.

Amazing Finds {Printables!}

So I found these Amazing sites...

I found them originally looking at printables

But then I got to exploring and I realized that these sites are worth Sharing....

So go take a look at tell me what you think... 

{SOURCE}

{SOURCE}

{SOURCE}

I've already downloaded my Valentines for 2012 :) 

I know I'm a little head of the game

 but I didn't want to forget about these cutesy little guys.

Hopefully you find something amazing like I did!

Reindeer and Clothespins (tutorial)

Know some where in my childhood at one point in time

I made something out of clothespins. Being such a unique but very blank canvas,

there so many things that you can do with them...

Thats exactly why I made these...

Aren't they cute?

Well I think so :)

Easy to...

That's why I'm sharing my method of creating these lovely holiday icons

Supplies You Will Need...

• Hot glue gun
• some kind of container (to put paint in)... plates will work fine to.
• Pipe Cleaners (Brown)
• Red Pom Poms
• Paint (brown,white, & black)
• Paint Brushes
• Clothes Pins
• Tweezers (makes handling the nose a lot easier)
• Scissors (not shown)

Now Just simply Begin to paint...

After painting them completely brown...

You paint white little dots for the eyes and then little black ones inside the white for the pupils.

Next Step...

(time to plug in the hot glue gun)

Glue on the red pom pom for the nose...

Cute pipe cleaners for proper length of antlers...

and hot glue them on behind the eyes :)

Voila! 

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Letters to Santa, Free Printable!

So I know at some point in time we've all wanted to write a letter to Santa.

(even if you grew up not believing in Santa)

Part of the magic is being young and dreamy no matter what age you are :)

So if you have kids or you feel like acting like a kid,

Heres a great link to a free Printable for writing Santa a letter.

Simply Print, Fill in the blanks and send off to the North Pole.

And yes, you can actually send mail to the North Pole! Isn't that awesome!

Enjoy!

Where did I go? After one & 1/2 weeks off... Popcorn!

Where to start, where to start...

Since the 1st of December I have...

Celebrated another year of my life.

For my birthday I went to Zoo Lights :) I'll have to do a post just for that...

Filled out Christmas cards.

Sent a Secret Santa gift to the UK.

(shipping prices are insane, just lucky it was under 4 pounds)

Got a library card.

(for where I live now, No longer need my Cali one)

Finished some small projects.

Skyped my Dad.
And I got my decorations up :)

Nothing real exciting but I still figured I would blog.

I do have some amazing new finds though!

Christmas Popcorn! 

This is something that I would love to try

and I think you should try it to.

Easy, cost effective and fun.

Why Not? :)

Then there's this...

Foam Board, Pictures & Mod Podge

Okay...One more dose of awesomeness...

Question First!?

What does a pot holder and a flat iron have in common?

Well this is what they have in common... Heat. 

One makes heat and the other one protects you from the heat.

Meaning with a cute dollar tree pot holder and some thread you now have a new flat iron holder!

Amazing idea!

I've seen similiar ideas sold at the mall for $30 bucks. Thats just crazy lol!

So enjoy as I'm to look for black foam board, a cute pot holder and now I'm really wanting a pop corn machine. 

(I use to have one growing up and I loved it)

No Holiday Lights, Just Sickness and tree toppers!

So today I was going to start Holiday blogging...

and Decorate my house for this lovely month of December...

BUT!!!

I'm Sick :(

So instead of decorating, baking and filling out Christmas cards...

I laid on the couch, relaxed, tried to eat, hung out with my puppies and watch Netflix.

Because those things are so much more exciting than doing fun Holiday stuff...

I was also suppose to go Christmas tree hunting tonight...

Yeah, thats not going to happen :o(

I do have this to say though...

I found some really amazing Christmas crafts on Pinterest 

and some of the awesome blogs that I follow!

Here's one that I'm going to try once I get me some pretty paper :)

That Star has to be one of the coolest DIY tree toppers that I've seen in awhile.

This is what the top of my tree will be rockin!!

Hehe

Sparkle Sparkle!!

Well I'm off to drown in the couch again Hehe...

Tis the Season: Christmas Eye Chart

Loving all the holiday cards, crafts and culinary ideas...

So while browsing Pinterest...

I found this...

Source: artfire.com via Regina on Pinterest

Christmas Eye Chart!

Which in return...

I wanted to make my own :)

SO this is what I came up with!

Beauty in the Darkness & Mushrooms

It amazing how some things appear in the dark of the night.

Last night I was walking my dogs before bed time and stumbled upon some mushrooms.

But unlike the white one that I normally see these ones were colorful and spotted :)

With the night sky and little bit of yellow light coming from the building near by...

I instantly knew that they would make for some amazing photos.

So right after letting the puppies do their business...

 I walked back to the house and grabbed my camera.

I didn't take many because it was freezing outside

But...

the ones that I did manage to capture came out pretty good.

So here is the before and after of the mini mushroom photo shoot :)

Saturday, Sunday Combo! Things that make me smile!

NO Sew Scarf! :)

Pretty Pink Flower<3

Homemade Laundry Soap! And its last a long time :)

Im so going to try this!! I love the easy all natural approach...

and its cost effective.

Just think how much you could save :)

Now time to go do some Weekend things!

Hope your having a good one!

Much love and laundry soap

PS. Happy Birthday Auntie Lorene, Love & Miss You!

Sleeping in on Black Friday

No work

No Shopping

Just me, the dogs and some dirty dishes.

I did make a run to the post office to send some mail out and run to the dollar tree...

But that was the extent of my BLACK Friday.

Just the way I like it hehe

(Plus I went dancing last night to burn off all those extra calories so I'm extra tired)

;-D

Maybe one of these years I will indulge in waking up at 

4 in the morning just to snag some amazing deals. 

But I just haven't found the time or the money to go blow ...

I would rather spend my time in the kitchen battling mixers and timers

rather than getting ran over by rude people and fighting my way through endless crowds!

So what about you?

Any amazing deals that you would like to brag about?

I will admit that there was a lot of online deals that were tempting.

But just not this year.

I did find some more really cute advent calendars :)

 Check this one out!

Happy Thanksgiving & Homemade Vanilla!

Giving Thanks!

I'm thankful for all that I have and for all that is to come.

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving!

Gobble Gobble. 

Sorry but I must go now, I don't want the pumpkin pie to burn :)

But here is something just amazing that I wish I had while I was making pie

Homemade Vanilla

Lets just say this is on my to-do list !!!

Smiles and Pies

Modern Snow White

So I started analyzing some photo's of Disney Princesses 

and then looked at some modern spins on the classic Princess look

all the while thinking to myself this would be so much fun to recreate.

So I went hunting... hunting on the web that is lol

I started looking around thinking if the Princesses became apart of this modern day world...

What would their fashion statement be????

This is when I created my own mock of the Classic Disney Princess turned Modern day girl.

Because sometimes We just want to feel Princess like.

Horse Carriage rides, Glass slippers, fairy god mothers, really good singing voices...

AND, that wonderful wardrobe that every Princess needs.

The First look I did was Snow White.

I did the wonderful evening wear/ cocktail part get up.

Then the second look is

College girl or Coffee with friends look...

Something that the everyday gal could pull of.

So cute and simple with that Snow White effect on it all :)

Now I want that Yellow blouse. I also have a DIY for the red headband coming soon!!

There are many more looks to come :D

So much fun.

***And if you are going to use the Photo... 

Please credit the picture back to the site. 

It did take me five hours to create this piece,

 I feel I deserve some credit.***

Testing Day!

I've always been a bad tester and a good crafter.

lol

That's why instead of worrying about the test I'm thinking about my next DIY project :)

As seen on My Crazy Life this ruffled tree skirt is a very simple DIY. Will see if I can slowly gather the supplies needs for this lovely creation. Maybe I'll have it done by... December 1 :)

But I did pass my test and I'm registered for my new class for January. 

I'm so excited to be going back to school :)

Happy Almost Thanksgiving to all you web surfers out there :)

Gobble Gobble <(:>)=

I also became a member of Pinterest. Woot. So excited!

Falling (ramble blog)

Falling

Sometimes you just feel like your falling 

or maybe you want to fall.

So while contemplating all of this after Church

and going back over all those day to day stresses...

I just stopped and remembered that falling isn't so bad!

We fall as kids.

We fall as adults.

But do any of us remember that wonderful book filled

with poetry call Falling Up ?

I loved love reading this book!

Like I said maybe sometimes fallings isn't so bad.

:)

Then I started to think about that band that I like...

Once again called "Falling Up"

Seriously, what a way to fall...UP!

Just like that movie UP.

(Sorry this post is me just rambling 

but you could always 

ramble back if you would like)

So here are two videos that kind 

of show that Falling... isn't so bad

,

Funday Friday

Got a little inspired this Friday Evening and I figured I would take some time and try my own hand at a written college...

This is how it turned out...

What do you think?

To girly? :)

The snow is coming :)

The snow is almost here...

I remember last year with all the snow that we got right here in Seattle...

Or should I be more correct and say Seatac lol

I even got to experience a white Christmas.

Which for me is something amazing...

I grew up in Sunny San Diego 

Snow there...

Just doesn't happen :(

Most we ever got was some hearty hail.

So to heres all the amazing memories of last year and the lovely whiteness <3

May you stay warm and happy this holiday season!!

If you have some lovely snow pictures to share then I would love to see them :)

*Hot Coco and Hugs*