Songs for Spring
Ok, so not all of them are springing upbeat songs. Some a bit more winter dreary. But it's what I love right now so stop complaining!
I'm always looking for new stuff. What songs are your favorite right now?
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Friday, April 1
Tuesday, February 8
Music From The Heart
When it came time to put together this year's V-day playlist I turned to my friend Sarah for inspiration. She's pretty much the coolest person ever and has the most rockin' little family so she knows a lot about true love and how important it is to share that love. Sarah also has premium taste in music so naturally we had to pool our interests to bring you this soundtrack for your day of love!
This fantastic shot was taken by yours truely, at our Camp Rock party.
More like Camp WE ROCK!
The playlist is as follows:
1. Guns and Horses - Ellie Goulding
2. Call 'n Return - Hellogoodbye
3. Can You Feel The Love Tonight - Elton John
4. When I'm Sixty Four - The Beatles
5. No One's Gonna Love You - Band Of Horses
6. Meet In The Middle - Diamond Rio
7. Old Park Bench - Inside Out
8. Poor Boy's Delight - The Infamous Stringdusters
9. Second Hand News - Mates of State
10. I Will Follow You Into The Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
11. If - Bread
12. January Wedding - Avett Brothers
13. You Don't Know Me - Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor
14. A Wink And A Smile - Harry Connick Jr.
15. Hold You In My Arms - Ray LaMontagne
16. Long Time Coming - Oliver James
Sunday, December 5
Christmas is in the Air
So I will admit to a post that never was finished. I had an entire collection of Star Wars themed Halloween ideas and it just never made the final cut of being interesting enough to complete. This however, is far too cool.
DEATH STAR LEGO ORNAMENT!!!
directions here
Apparently this guy Chris McVeigh posts all kinds of lego tutorials. Who knew there was even a program dedicated just to lego designs and instructions?? James and I used to play legos together on Sunday afternoons while we listened to Weird Al. That is some serious sibling connection time right there! I would build these really cool intricate houses and he would make giant cars and roll over them. Ok, so he would usually ask first but not always. I mean, little brothers are supposed to be destructive right? Like the time that he got a remote controlled car stuck in my hair...
One other super awesome Star Wars decoration for the holidays,
Darth Vader snowflakes! So cool! The directions can be found here for Vader and a Boba Fett and Storm Trooper version. I attempted one last night and I was surprised how simple they are to make!
Back to joy and gladness.
You might not believe me, but most of my presents are already done and one is even wrapped already! With the big move I had to be on top of things this year especially since I decided to do an entirely handmade Christmas. I'm not saying what I made because that would sure spoil the surprise for my family :) What I can say is that I completed and sent my ornament for Strumpet's Ornament Swap!
I based mine off of these stacked fabric trees by The Small Object (tutorial here)
Mine are a little modified (think only 3 layers and I used fusible fleece rather than thin fusible web)
Holiday tunes are one of my favorite parts of the season! Here is a little treat for you readers, the first of at least two parts of Christmas music! Its a short one since I'm bumming off of Shanda's computer again, but they are each little gems!
Wednesday, November 10
Best Friends Foreverrrrrr!
I think it is time that I make some introductions via blog post.
Meet Erika.
Erika is my bestest friend and we literally spend all of our time together aside from working and sleeping (except sometimes we sleep in the same twin sized bed. Our guy friends think it is especially weird that we are comfortable with that, but dudes, girls start sharing beds with each other from the time they are like 7. Its just standard procedure.)
We just celebrated our one year anniversary in October and will probably have a fiesta for it every year since our friendship officially began at a Halloween party. I had just moved to a new part of town and the atmosphere was completely different than any other part of campus that I had lived at previously. It was much more quiet and you had to already be part of a group to be invited to things (Except for wolf howling lessons. I think that's a different story though.) Erika and I lived in neighboring apartments and she came over a few Saturday mornings to invite us to her apartment's breakfast parties. Something in me was shy and intimidated and I only went once, very briefly. Luckily she is a persistent little thing and didn't think that I was anti-social. The day of our ward Halloween party she came over looking for markers and yes, I have every craft supply necessary, so I let her borrow mine as well as the crown from my birthday party. What on Earth could this costume be? None other than the Queen of Hearts! I was some kind of witchy thing. My real costume wasn't ready yet.
I have a slightly obsessive personality so when I meet people and get along with them I just want to spend all of my time in their presence. We quickly realized that we are both extreme literary and grammar nerds and bonded over facebook flair and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. We even signed up for two of the same classes winter semester so that we would see each other every day on campus.
I have to add that after typing "grammar" into google images I found this one and I started laughing uncontrollably.
I think I should probably lay off the candy pumpkins for a little bit. Oh whoops! They're all gone!
Showin' off those buff Rosie the Riveter arms she developed in our weight lifting class.
This is our tradition of "attack cake". Didn't I promise a post on that? Remind me of it later please.
Meet Erika.
Erika is my bestest friend and we literally spend all of our time together aside from working and sleeping (except sometimes we sleep in the same twin sized bed. Our guy friends think it is especially weird that we are comfortable with that, but dudes, girls start sharing beds with each other from the time they are like 7. Its just standard procedure.)
We just celebrated our one year anniversary in October and will probably have a fiesta for it every year since our friendship officially began at a Halloween party. I had just moved to a new part of town and the atmosphere was completely different than any other part of campus that I had lived at previously. It was much more quiet and you had to already be part of a group to be invited to things (Except for wolf howling lessons. I think that's a different story though.) Erika and I lived in neighboring apartments and she came over a few Saturday mornings to invite us to her apartment's breakfast parties. Something in me was shy and intimidated and I only went once, very briefly. Luckily she is a persistent little thing and didn't think that I was anti-social. The day of our ward Halloween party she came over looking for markers and yes, I have every craft supply necessary, so I let her borrow mine as well as the crown from my birthday party. What on Earth could this costume be? None other than the Queen of Hearts! I was some kind of witchy thing. My real costume wasn't ready yet.
I have a slightly obsessive personality so when I meet people and get along with them I just want to spend all of my time in their presence. We quickly realized that we are both extreme literary and grammar nerds and bonded over facebook flair and Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog. We even signed up for two of the same classes winter semester so that we would see each other every day on campus.
I have to add that after typing "grammar" into google images I found this one and I started laughing uncontrollably.
I think I should probably lay off the candy pumpkins for a little bit. Oh whoops! They're all gone!
Back to the subject. We have now spent 12 months of constant companionship guaranteed to drive each other's roommates nuts and we just get cooler and cooler! There is nothing better in the world than finding people that fit perfectly into your puzzle. We both have best friends from growing up but as life changes so do our needs in our support group and we're just great for each other. I was thinking the other day that if I had gone on a mission like I had planned I wouldn't get home until next April at the earliest and we never would have met!
Here's to my best friend. The one who knows just what I am thinking, enjoys being ridiculous, is not ashamed of who she is, works harder than anyone I know at having balance in her schedule, rocks the most amazing ugly sweatshirts, prefers moccasin slippers to shoes, indulges in eating out when we both know we can't afford it, likes starting new traditions, has an adorable freckle on her nose named Hammy, doesn't get mad when people tell her that the animal she looks most like is a mouse or a hamster, will handle my repetitive boy talk and then dish her own out to me endlessly, comes to see me at work while braving the wrath of my sometimes super grumpy boss, lets me come to her office to brave her usually crazy boss, race reads young adult novels with me, MEETS ME IN THE FOREST (uh, go watch Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs please), adores henna tattoos, quotes crappy movies like House Bunny with me, and harmonizes to Ke$ha and Nelly with me on freezing car rides!
Now you may enjoy many pictures that show some of these fabulous things :)
Super excited about our Mockingjay pins and desperately wishing we'd win a copy of the book! Alas, Erika did win something, a 75 cent soda at Horkely's.
Please disregard my Draco Malfoyish hair and crappy t shirt. I started this day in California. You'd look like poop too.
Making faces in the crowd of J.Wride's concert
Birthday orange dreamsicles and the funniest henna tattoo of all time
Yay! She helped me throw the best birthday party!
Sampling the delish food at Sammy's. We had a little chat with Sammy himself that night and talked him into letting us have the first ever peppermint shakes. That happened like 3 days later :)
I'm trying to convince her into being a blogger because I know she'll be fantastic at it, but its slow business. Give her some encouragement! The Key of E
We have a most musical friendship and this is the best way to share that
Download a playlist of us!
Friday, November 5
Get This Stuck In Your Head
Now that I've learned how to make a zip file you can enjoy the songs that have are my most recently played!
Clicky click this link to download
Thursday, November 4
Free Patterns Make My Day
Hel-loooooooo Moda Bake Shop!!! In our fabric department we have a bunch of old jelly rolls that have outlived their bolted counterparts so we are going to take them apart, dump them in a bin, and sell them for a dollar a strip! I wanted to find some ideas of what to do with them besides twisty flowers and Ruffle Joy Skirts so I headed over to the Moda Bake Shop website. Therese has found a few free patterns for quilts there but I'm a minimalist quilter and was hoping for more projects than that. Boy did I score!
Head over to the website and click on recipes for more projects.
Here are some that I took a fancy to:
I just love them! I guess none of these projects finds a use for the jelly roll strips, but they would be excellent for using up some scraps in my stash!
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