2. Something That Made Me Laugh

 

Who doesn't love a good dare? Especially if you're not the one doing the embarrassing dare, but just get to witness it's hilarious response?

 

Impractical Joekers is a show of 4 friends who dare each other to do funny things, and it makes me cry lauhging every episode. Last night I watched an episode, where Murr (far right) had to try and eskimo kiss a stranger. Can you imagine if a random someone came up to you so close, and just started to rub their nose on yours? HAHA

1. Self Portrait

 

Every morning, I start with my morning coffee and my hair down...

 

 

... and every evening I end with a glass of water and hair up. And apparently my butt chin decided to grace us with it's prescence. Little fact about me, my butt chin only comes out at night.

30 Day Photo Challenge 2013

The 30 day photo challenge is back!

Katelynn and I will begin our adventures through the lense once again. Above is a list of what we will capture each day, and then we will post them to our blogs! I'm really excited for this list but a little nervous for 3, 9, and 22. No judging aloud alright?!

Calendar Desktops

 Who else gets bored by the same desktop background after a while? Yeah, me too.

 

 Oh, Hello Friend

 

Going Home to Roost

 

the Caroline Johansson

 

Happy Serendipity

 

Oh The Lovely Things

 

While on my lunch break, I was going through all the blogs I like to visit everyday, and I noticed that desktop calendars are becoming a thing.

 

Or maybe it's been a thing for a while and if so, I blame the mailman for delivering the memo late. Mr. Mailman, don't you know I like to be trendy and with it?

Fancy - Shmancy

Recently, I went to a wedding of a coworker of mine. The fabulous event took place in Newport, Rhode Island, so even if the bride turned up in jeans and the wedding cake was one tiny cupcake to disperse between all the guests, it still would have been amazing. Luckily, the bride (my coworker) was in a beautiful dress and the cake was delicious!

Like I said, it was beautiful. It was right on the water at sunset.

Here are some pictures of me with my date, and then someone the bride and I used to work with.

Cocktail hour at sunset.

Our poor place card got wet.

They had a live band for half the night, called Strictly Sinatra. AH-mazing!

Here's the new couple, not great shots, but I guess just proof I was there?

One of my favorite parts were the waitors. We sat 10 to a table, so 5 waiters came out with 2 meals, and circled our table. Then they all waited and one of them nodded, and they set down the meal that was in their right hand to every other person. They then took a step to the left, and the waiter nodded again, and they set down the other meal to every other person who was left. Once the meals were set, they put their hands behind their back, and all left in a line together. It was so cool!

So minor note, I've decided to marry for money. Haha just kidding! But seriously.

My Great Idea Evolved

In my last post, I told you guys that I bought fabric paint and was going to paint the black sections of my rug to be coral. Well, the paint soaked right in and didn't work, so  was conflicted. I just spent a lot of time and energy lugging that huge thing up 2 floors, and have 3 ounces of paint. What the hecksies am I going to do? So I decided to put my rug back in my room as is, just to see how I felt about it. I just luh-uh-ove the pattern and it's been tugging at my heart while sitting in the basement all year.

Is it possible to love a rug even more than I did? The black practically became an accent color with the few other black things I left in my room.

Rug. Check. Paint?

As I was clearing out everything that is stored under my bed so I could lay my rug down, I forgot I bought some white cloth lampshades from Christmas Tree Shop for like $2 each a while ago. I originally covered them in wrapping paper, which looked awesome, but not functional. Whenever I used that lamp, the heat from the bulb would burn the tape that held down the wrapping paper. Ew, gross! So I decided to get a little crafty.

I took strips of masking tape that was about 1/4 inch wide, and lined the while shade.

Then, I took a bit of that fabric paint I bought for my rug (womp, womp) and squeezed it onto a sponge. I used a sponge simply because I don't own any paint brushes. Cheap, I know. Especially fro being an artist, you would think I would own some.

Then, I just started to wash the shade with the paint...

Until it was covered.

I let it dry for a few hours, and then carefully removed the masking tape strips. And wah-lah! My new striped lampshade.

Paint. Check. :)

I Have An Idea, and It's Going To Be Great

I have this rug stored in my basement from when my room was red, black, and white.

 

But I have been developing my room over the past year (>.<) to be grey, white, turquoise, and my latest thing is to add a coral-red and yellow. Kind of like the color pallete of this bouquet...

Anywayyy, I have been seeing a lot of posts on painting your down pattern onto plain rugs to spice them up a bit. And it hit me!! I will just paint the black parts of my rug to be a different color. I'm thinking a coral-red color.

I'll keep you updated. Maybe :)