Excitement and Fun Pictures

I just sat down and looked through all my pictures I took of my 30 items and figured out my outfits for the rest of the 30 days!! 

I WILL FINISH THIS.

I'm not going to give up. Although believe me, the thought has crossed my mind more than a few times!

I think that now, because I have ideas picked out, it will be much easier for me to want to do this than feel like I have to do this. 

I have a new wave of motivation for this endeavor that I have taken on. 

So you are probably asking "where are these fun pictures I was promised?" 

Here they are:

So...Mario is pretty much the coolest thing ever :)

How cute! I love pinguins. 

Me gusta :)

I don't really do this. 

Really.

I want to bake again soon! I LOVE to bake.

The moment I have my own place to live there will be a fort. There's no question about that.

Pink isn't my favorite but ruffles and poofy-ness are pretty amazing :)

I want to live in a forest. In a log cabin. For some period of my life.

Enjoy!

12 of 30 ~ Branson and Birthdays

I wore this outfit last Thursday. I haven't worn any more 30 for 30 outfits since then though. 

Brown necklace: gift from my grandma belonged to her mother

Door hinge necklace: found and crafted by me

Today I'm exhausted and I'm not really sure why. I think I'm going to go to bed at like 8pm tonight though :)

Yesterday was so much fun. I went and hung out with my dad and I showed him the songs I've learned in my Piano 1 class. He was really proud of me :) Then we drove down to Branson and walked up and down The Landing for about an hour and just talked and enjoyed ourselves. We didn't go in any of the stores..just walked and sat outside by the water for a bit. As I was driving down to see my dad and driving to Branson I remembered how much I LOVE driving on the highway. I miss it a lot. I think I'm gonna have to figure out somewhere to go over Spring Break...even if it's just for a day. 

I realized something last night....MY BIRTHDAY IS NEXT WEEK!!!!! 9 days away to be exact! I'm gonna be 21..weird.

And then Spring Break is the week after that! 

Enjoy!

11 of 30 ~ Play and Crafts

Button Necklace: Handmade by me

Yesterday was a really relaxed day. I didn't feel like looking nice (I woke up at 5am when I'm used to getting up at 7am because my back hurt so bad and didn't really ever go back to sleep) but I want to do this 30 for 30 (and I kind of have to since it is now a class assignment) so I did my best. As the day went on I got to feeling much better :)

We had the first night of play rehearsal for the Spring play! They read through the first act and got to know each other better. There are 29 people in the cast so this should be an interesting show! I'm not in the play (have never really wanted to be) but I am kinda like the costume designers assistant. I'm really excited about it too!!!!

Last night and this morning at work I have been looking at craft blogs! I'm getting so excited for Spring because of the beautiful weather and for Spring break so I can do some fun sewing projects! My mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday (coming up in March!!) and I told her that I mainly wanted some fabric so I can make some stuff for the summer.

I want to make this skirt:

Circle Skirt

and something similar to these pants:

Basic Pants

Now I know the pants are for kids but I think I'm just gonna take apart a pair of better fitting-not so baggy sweats that fit but I don't wear and trace the pattern from them. I think I want to make them have a drawstring too. And some pockets! :)

I also was inspired by the first floral dress from here:

Handmade Vintage Dress

I have an old vintage sheet that I've been wanting to make a skirt from but I think I wanna make a dress instead now :) I'm SOO excited!!! 

Once I get these projects done I will post pictures. Promise :)

Enjoy!

10 of 30 ~ Day Dreams

This was my outfit for Monday. I wore my brown leather jacket (because it was much cooler than I thought it would be) and my red shoes. Sorry you can't see them..I had to be my own photographer :)

I liked the random colors together..purple (belt), navy, green and red!

I also took time to do my hair and makeup. And I wore contacts instead of my glasses!! I feel much more put together this way :)

I'm starting to feel like I'm running out of outfits. I know this isn't true because there are still pieces I haven't worn yet but they are dresses and I haven't felt like wearing tights lately. Guess I'm just gonna have to get over that soon!

I've been reading more and more crafty blogs and now all I want to do is live in a little old house and decorate it all cute and sew and bake all the time! The guy I end up with (hopefully) makes a good amount of money because I would much rather stay home and keep everything clean and picked up and cook and work from home making things :)

(I know I know...keep dreaming. But I will :) I'm gonna keep dreaming until it comes true!)

 (Not sure where I found this picture because it was a long time ago but it was on Google)

Hope you have a wonderful day. I'll try to post again tonight with todays outfit to get caught up.

Enjoy!

Mannequins and Sand Paper

For Christmas my mom got me an adjustable mannequin for my sewing. It looked cool but my mom had the idea of dressing it up. I had a cute blue dress on it that I made in high school and this week when I came home one evening she had changed her and I LOVED the outfit. So much so that I'm going to post a picture of it!

I think the reason I love this outfit so much is because since I bought the jacket, skirt and belt I haven't worn them more than two or three times. I think the other reason that I love this outfit is because my mom was the one who picked it out :)

Way to go mom!!!!!!!
Also, we gave her a name. Annie Marie. We were trying to think of famous women without heads. We thought of Marie Antoinette!
I like it :)

This evening my mom and I started a project that we plan to work on together. We were storing some old furniture at my uncles office and we got it all from him today and started sanding it down. 

It is just an old cabinet with a skeleton lock. That picture is before we cleaned it off.
These pictures are our start on it:

Hope you had a fabulous Saturday :)

Enjoy!

Day Nine ~ Duct Tape

Day nine was actually on Thursday. Friday and today (Saturday) have been relaxing days. It seems like I do that every weekend. Sorry about that. It's just that I don't really do much on the weekends and when I do I want to be comfortable. 

Thursdays outfit: 

Thursday in my costume design class we did a team building project and we were challenged to make a dress out of duct tape. This was our final project:

We found the go-go boots in a box with costumes from past plays that the school has done and thought they were perfect :) We kept saying that she looked like Daphne from Scooby-Doo but cuter! It was a fun project that was challenging and helped us grow closer to work better as a team.

Enjoy!

Day Eight ~ Good Morning Post

So last night while watching Harry Potter: Year Two I was looking back at my older posts and saw that when I tried to display my 30 (29) items it looked HORRIBLE! So I took my sisters advice and signed up for photobucket. I'm always afraid to use new sites, not sure why...maybe because I don't know how to use them haha! That's why I have never explored photobucket before. But it really was easy to use. I used the collage edit thing and now it looks so much better! I'm really glad I overcame my fear and tried it out :)

(you should go check it out!! right now. run. go!) (and then leave me sweet comments telling me how good it looks!)

Outfit Time:

So I knew that I wouldn't be home tonight right after class and that I wouldn't want to take pictures when I did get home so I made sure to get outside this morning before I left for work. YAY!!!

Ok. I love the outfit...don't love how I look today :)

The cardigan is wrinkled because it has been in the back of my car for a while and I finally cleaned it out last night! (and because I'm too lazy to throw it in the dryer to fluff for 5 minutes)

And my hair!!! Oh my what am I going to do with it?! I say that to myself every morning but then I just remind myself that I was the one who decided to cut it all off last summer and now I'm the one who has to deal with the "growing out" phase. No me gusta! 

I guess I could straighten it every day...or try to curl it. Yeah! Maybe I'll do that this weekend and you can tell me what you think! 

I've written a lot today..sorry :/ It's just because I'm at work...Alone at the front desk. And when I try to cheerfully say hi to the students that walk in who are still half asleep I just get glares so I have to take my energy out somewhere! (lucky you right!?) 

Have an absolutely wonderfully marvelous day! 

Enjoy!

P.S. I'm really happy right now so I want to leave you with a picture that makes me even more happy: