flower power

As stated before, I purchased a flower from my friend's Etsy shop {Love:Sparkle:Pretty}. Her items are feminine, vintage, and has the right touch to make any girl feel beautiful. I had asked her if she could make me an ivory flower with lace and feathers. She had an item similar to my request already listed, but I asked for a few additions. For the center, I wanted something that sparkles and wanted two ivory/white feathers to come out from the base of the flower. [picture below]

{the excitement on my face was unexplainable}

 

{with every order Kayla writes a little note to the customer}



{here i am with my beautifully made flower}



Thank you so very much Kayla....this will be perfect for a wedding I will be attending in November.

xoxo

all the reason to smile

so i must say that this week has been great so far.

finished my finals and so that means spring quarter is over and i completed my first year back in school. yay for me. and on top of that...i believe i finished this quarter with all A's. [i hope, i hope, i hope]

so my lovely friend Kayla opened up her own etsy shop. [Love, Sparkle, Pretty] and she has some really creative ideas. i love her handmade flowers and placed an order for a custom flower. so anxious for it to arrive. :)

and yesterday my brother got his first tattoo (and he's only 17). but not i really feel like he's growing up. so proud of him!

but now it's back to some stressing. although spring quarter is over i'm taking a 6-week online summer class on anatomy & physiology--->difficult!!!!

wish you all a wonderful weekend.

xoxo

all I see are $ signs...

i must say this past weekend was simply amazing.

friday - take off for Vegas with the top down all the way. and yes it was soooooo hot. but with the wind blowing through my hair and music playing the 3.5 hour trip seemed like only 2 hours. check into our hotel at the Silverton and then dead to Downtown Vegas for some Hawaiian grub....mmmm mmm mmmm good!!! and then head back to Silverton for some gambling. then it's nite nite time.

saturday - welp since we bowled at 8:30 in the morning it was a must to wake up early. i must say i shot alright...193, 225, 196....finished off with a 719 with handicap. not to shabby i must say. so yup bowling was done, went down to the casino to gamble a bit. and of course lost some money. hehehehe so yay...it's about time for the meeting. let me just throw some numbers out there for ya....$209, $242, $25, $315, $300. add that all up and that's what i won. so yay to me for being the big winner. :) so after i treated my team and family out to lunch. then went to go visit erica's parents at excalibur. stayed to gamble for a bit and of course lost. so we head to the cosmopolitan and ooooo i love it. walk to paris to buy me an Eiffel tower cup. cup was cute-the drink was nasty!!! go back to the silverton to gamble with my family and have some dinner at the buffet which was free. and then it's nite nite time.

sunday - today we slept in a bit which was soooo nice. go to downtown again for some grub and gamble a bit. oooo that was fun. finally head out around 12 noon and of course we hit traffic. we stop at stateline for a potty break which turned into gambling for my dad and shopping for my mom, erica, and i. i felt a little generous so yup i bought my mom a coach purse. after shopping erica and i decide to leave. driving home and i did hw the entire time. 5pm - game time. listened to the game over the radio. actually make it home in the last minutes of the 4th quarter....congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks. :) and hahahahah LeBron!!!! after the game erica and i took my brother out to dinner. was looking forward to Panera buuuuuut it was closed....so we settled for Islands. get home and finished typing up my papers. yikes....then it's nite nite time.

overall i had an awesome weekened and thank you to everyone that was a part of it. i love my family, erica, and my team. you guys are amazing. <3

Some kind of wonderful....

So there are the little things in life that can cause happiness. Overall I would have to say today was highly enjoyable.

First step...drive to Starbucks to meet my friend Jenessa to work on a huge paper for one of our classes. I went to go buy a reusable cup and ordered a drink as well as a pastry. Welp my total was only $6.10. And mind you...the cup alone was $12.95. Big Smile #1.

After working on the assignment for hours, Jenessa and I head to one of our professor's house for a fundraiser for the social work club. It involved personalizing our own t-shirts which I forgot to buy. However I was able to enjoy the company of other social work majors. Big Smile #2.

So it's bowling time. Made it there a little early so automatically put my head in to studying. Received some of our Vegas money early and won a sidepot. Plus I know I am a grown adult but my mom said she did some of my laundry because she knows I have been so busy studying. Big Smile #3.

Bowling is complete and Erica asks me to come over to spend some time with her family. In complete honesty I didn't want to go over. But it was nice to just get away from the books for a bit and relax. Plus her brothers love me. Big Smile #4.

I finally get home and in my yard is a little bunny. A nickname I had for my sister was "Bunnies" and I truly believe that she was paying me a little visit. Big Smile #5.

Walk into my room and my bed is made with this little note. Big Smile #6.

there truly are little things in life that bring a smile to my face.

new camera = new adventures

in high school i loved photo class. the process of shooting pictures, developing the negatives, and then enlarging them in a darkroom was sooooo intriguing. you just never knew what your artistic side captured until the end of the film. and now a days with digital cameras you can easily review the snapshot and if you don't like it....DELETE. but it takes away the curiosity of what was actually captured.

so this is my new camera that my wonderful dear bought for me from Urban Outfitters. I heard about these cameras but didn't really think much of them. Then I started seeing pictures posted all over the web and I was sold.  The difference between these cameras and your regular disposable cameras is that how the camera is structured allows light leaks to develop in pictures. (Light leaks are create streaks of light and makes pictures unpredictable.)

camera in hand...film loaded...time to capture the artistic side of the world.

...can't get enough...

I first heard about these guys from American Idol when they performed. So mom wanted me to buy the CD which i did. and yup it just came in this week....must say...I'm in love with the vibe. love songs sound so much better when you don't understand the language.

...they grow up so fast...

so I missed a 6th grade promotion today. I remember promotions were for 8th graders, but I guess now a days 6th graders qualify too.

anyways although I missed it....thank goodness to technology...I have a few images of the promoter.

Congratulations Josh!!!

What's on my mind?

I have no idea what came over me, but I decided to start a blog. Life is a journey and definitely is an everlasting story.

When I think of the past, there are some things I remember and other things are long lost memories. So for my own sanity, let the journey continue and the blogging begin....