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SUZAN

Ive wanted this car for so long, and now that I have a real job, I can afford it! No more crappy, rusting '94 toyota corolla for me.

I guess there are some perks to being graduated and having a real job!

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I should be sleeping now, but its been a while since ive blogged. I still dont have anything to blog about but crafty stuff, so here is my updates.

First off, I made a wedding present for my roommate tasha and her fiance (now husband) Johnny. I have wanted to try a photo transfer for a long time, but I didnt have any photos to use. Tasha sent me some of her engagement photos to edit for her, so I used one of them to transfer onto a 16x20 canvas.


I used mod podge, first painted on the canvas, and the photo placed ink side down while it was still wet. After it dried I got the paper wet and when you rub it, it comes off but leaves the ink. Here is what it looks like when it is done:

Next, I Found This blog: newdressaday.wordpress.com and was super inspired. I love what she does with alot of her dresses, so I decided to alter a dress of my own. here is the before photo (i apologize for the camera in the photo, also the ugly face haha)

and this is what it looked like after taking out shoulder pads, and the elastic waist band, unstitched and removed the belt loops, took off the sleeves and took the dress in, then reattached the sleeves so the seam is where it should be, lastly I hemmed it, and vwala! here it is: (again with the camera.... )

Saturday I went to the manti temple with my ward and wore my new dress... I love it, and its pretty comfortable! The manti temple is BEAUTIFUL!


Today, I was kind of missing Utah state... they started school yesterday, and im a little sad I am not there to be in the midst of week of welcome, so to celebrate the start of school... I FINALLY started on my utah state quilt. First I dug out a bunch of my blue and white utah state Tshirts (dont worry, I kept all the colored ones to wear to bed, and I still have like 20)

Then I cut them up into squares, and layed them out... I have to go but some gray fabric to sew in between and for the back, but i think its going to look awesome!


These are not a project, just more cute shoes I found at the DI. I cant wait for boot season so I get to wear them....

I saw these boots on madebylex.com and cant wait for boot season to try this look with some of my boots that I have, I think its super cute!

ZE END!

The Hunger Games

Started: 8:30pm.
Finished: 3:30am.

Such a good book.

Post Secrets

I've become quite the blog junkie in the last year or so, I love getting a glimpse into other peoples worlds and seeing who they are by what they decide to write about. One of my favorite blogs to look at is called Post secret. It was a project started by a guy named Frank Warren a while back. He traveled from maryland down to DC and passed out blank post cards to random strangers and asked them to write a secret on it and mail it to him. years later he has received over 1/2 a million post cards with peoples secrets written on them. Every Sunday he posts 20-25 post cards he has received that week (some funny, some sad, some really graphic, but all interesting).... I think I love it so much because so many times I can relate to what is said on the postcard, and it shows me that I am more normal that I ever feel like, and that the things that I am embarrassed to admit out loud, other people go through and are just as embarrassed to admit. Today I found this one, and Love it because it is exactly how i have felt for the last 6 months of my life as I try to become myself no matter who I am around.

Check it out at postsecret.com

catch my thrift? Ok, thats cheesey....

Today I may or may not have had one of the most successful DI runs I've had in a LONG time.

I have so many projects that I want to make swirling around up in my head, but I dont have alot of TIME to make them... So for now they Will just stay in my head.

One of my ideas are for some sweet coasters (I really need one for my desk at work because the condensation from my water bottle gets everything all wet.) Anywho, today I didnt have anything going on after work, So i decided to make a DI run and see what I could find.... I will have to post pictures of the finished products when I am all done making them super duper awesome. But here are my purchases with project explanations attached:


#1 The Coasters: I know they are pretty sweet as is, but I have so much scrapbook paper, that I al going to mod podge these suckers with some of the cute patterned paper I have and paint the wood block. They are going to be super adorable and everyone at work is gonna love them because they are made out of Bobunny products!



#2 The old lady, but still super cute stilettos: These are way cute as it, but I am going to try and find some way to maybe dye the leather strap a dark brown so that they dont look quite so old ladyish.. I dont know what it is about beige, but it just screams senior citizen to me. However, if I cant find a way to dye it without ruining the shoe, I think I will make a cute navy blue pin stripped pencil skirt to wear them with, that way the beige wont look too bad.



#3 The notebooks: Ok artsy fartsy nerd alert.... I have been watching tutorials on youtube about book binding, and I want to learn SO bad! I found these books with awesomely cute patterns on the fronts of them So I am going to cut them apart and make one into a sketch book and one into a journal/notebook. If it works well, I am going to buy more books and make even more.. because i am a journal freak.

#4 The jewelry frame. So my old roommate liz made herself an earring holder last year when I was living next door to her and I was always super jealous of her... She said she'd make me one, but never did... So I am making myself one. I found this ugly old wooden frame which I decided to paper mache with pages from the books I tore apart. After that I will mod podge it to seal it, and i got some aluminum screening to glue in the hole for the earrings to go through. Then I am going to splurge and buy some of the cute vintage knobs they sell at anthropology to screw onto the bottom to hang necklaces and bracelets. Its gonna be super duper cute when I am done. Here are a couple photos of the start of it:

Part way done paper mache-ing

Letting it dry before sealing it

I will post pictures of everything when they are all done! Everytime I go on a DI spree I cant help but think: 'I hope whoever I marry likes the crafty side of me, because I think I am going to need a craft room someday'

Now I remember

I forgot how much I love So you think you can dance because I havent watched it for the last couple seasons... but this dance is freakin AMAZING! I watched it like 4 times I love it so much. i'm super happy its now on Hulu.

Watch it... and love it...



Alex is freakin' amazing.


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Feelin' Crafty.

The last couple weeks I have run across some sweet blogs that I have fallen in love with. They have so many cute do it yourself projects! A couple days ago i ran across this picture {found here} :
I thought it was super cute, and although it wasnt a DIY project, I decided to try my hand at it. So I went to the DI after work today and picked up an XL sweatshirt from the mens section and a cute patterned shirt to go alot with it.

After cutting and sewing and resewing and cutting and accidentally sewing the pocket shut.... Here is how it turned out.

Sorry about the dirty mirror and the blank expression on my face.

I can decide if I want to add buttons or a draw string or just leave it the way it is, but i think i found my new 'I dont feel like getting ready, so I will just throw on this comfortable shirt' outfit!

I think I'll go dye my hair now.

Where did all my time go?

So I totally thought that after i graduated I would have 10x more TIME to do the things I wanted. After all, being an art major required all nighters and 3 hour classes, so logically I would.... I was so wrong. I was spoiled with way TOO MUCH time my last semester of school by only having classes on thursday. Now I work full time. I get up at 715 every morning and go to bed on average at 1130 every night. I come home at five, eat some dinner and usually clean something or do some laundry and before I know it, its time to go to bed. As a result in this lack of time I....

.... Usually only check facebook once really fast before I go to bed.

.... Go a week or more between each of my journal entries (which I use to be super diligent about writing everyday).

.... Have yet to find a social scene on the weekdays, therefore I feel like it is not even summer yet.

.... Dont exercise as regularly as I should.

.... am way tired all the time.

.... tend to give up sleeping time to write, because I miss blogging.

Maybe I can train my body to live off of less than 8 hours of sleep.... maybe not.

Also one last thing (spoiler alert for anyone that hasnt watched the bachlorette yet and doesnt want to know who got kicked off):


I am super sad that Kurt got kicked off. I think he is so cute. Maybe he will be the next bachelor? I would watch for sure.

GOODNIGHT NEVERLAND!

Blogging... because I cant sleep

Its 12:30 and I am not tired at all. I have to get up for work at 7, but I tried going to bed and I have just been laying here for an hour. I am going to go ahead and blame my weekend of staying out late for this one. So what do I do when I cant sleep? Blog.

There has been a couple things on my mind as of lately.

#1. Holy Cow! I am not a photogenic person, at all. I was in like 80 pictures this weekend and I think I look decent in MAYBE 10. Its not like I think i am a terrible looking person, but when I am in front of a camera its like no side is my 'good side'.

This was one of the few that I looked decent in haha.

#2 I also realized this weekend how much I identify with this character:

Abad is from the tv series 'community' If you have never heard of it, watch this link: Click Here. He only relates to people through Movies. Every 10 minutes or so this weekend I was quoting some movie, or Tv show, or youtube video, or comedian.... I feel like if it weren't for all these ridiculous quotes stored up in my head, I'd have nothing to say 60% of the time.

#3 more soul searching... Its proven useless to me. I keep learning things about myself but I am still stuck in this stupid rutt .... in kaysville. but whatever, I have now turned my attention to worrying about other people. So many people i have been talking to lately are going through the same things as me, or at least things that are very similar. Why do we all go through this at this age. It totally sucks. But I heard a quote tonight from one of the 'mormon messages' that I liked, It said: 'Trust in God and believe in good things to come'. I love that, cause its true. Eventually things will get better as long as my trust is placed in someone that has been through it, that is all knowing and that can see the big picture.

#4. I love the bachelorette. I am sad Allie kept Chris instead of Ty, but really I didnt want any of them to go home. I hope she ends up with Roberto. He's my favorite... Or Kurt, I love him too. Frank was my favorite in the beginning, but hes starting to get on my nerves with all the doubting that is going on. I cant wait to see who the next Bachelor will be... because I love all the guys in the final 4.... Also, it doesn't surprise me that things didn't work out with Jake and Vienna. All of america could see that she was still immature and not good for him, why couldnt he?

Roberto and Kurt

#5 Lastly, I came to the realization that I have gotten way too casual in my 'appearance' lately. I have stopped caring really what I look like, I just throw on some loose Tshirt and some jeans and go. I use to care alot more and love to get ready in the mornings. I think it needs to go back to being that way. So I went shopping today, Resisted the urge to buy more oversized t-shirts and bought a couple new 'nicer' shirts. So hopefully having some new clothes will help?

Ok, Im gonna try and go back to sleep.... again.

Happy birthday America

I love the 4th of July. I think it may be my favorite holiday. I love the parades, the gatherings, the swimming, and most of all the fireworks. I love when you are so close that when the fireworks explode you feel like they are flying straight at you. There is nothing better than finding a sweet spot right under them so you can feel the boom in your chest, and the ash rains down on you. We totally found a spot that good this year!

This is a picture of Drew and Sage (and my feet) laying down watching the fireworks... and that smoke is where they lit the fireworks off from...

This is looking straight up into the sky. Such a perfect night. Only thing that would have made it better was maybe having a boy there, but whatever, it was still AWESOME!

The other great thing about this weekend is that I get my first paid holiday! Wahoo! Another fun fill day before I have to go back to working. So I guess in honor of that I will show you a picture of my Cube and my coworker whom I share the Cube with...


This is misty. She is awesome and hilarious. She is going to have a baby in like a week and then I will be all alone in my cubical. This is my beautiful computer (27" imac baby!) and desk.. and my little bamboo plant. I hope he is still alive when I get back to work Tuesday... I forgot to give him lots of water for the long weekend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!