College decisions

Being an adult is absolutely terrible. There's so much responsibility and live choices to be made. I'm currently in my 3rd year at The Art Institute and studying for a Bachelor in Photography. Now I love doing photography, I really do. I love photo shoots, and shooting weddings, and I really want to travel abroad and shoot different places. But I don't think a Bachelor degree will really make much of a difference with any of that. And I'm starting to really dread school. It's repetitive and I've really lost all interest in it.

I want to switch majors. I want to be a teacher.

But I've already spent so much time here and my dad has spent so much money on this school. And none of my credits will transfer. I might be able to get a certificate which will make it worth it but still.

I have absolutely no idea what to do.

Diy- Jersey Knit Bracelet

So today I decided to make my best friend a jersey knit bracelet!

To do this you really just need to cut out one strip of the fabric, mine measured 1” by 40”

Next you will want to take one end and place it behind your thumb to hold it in place. You will then take the longer end, take it behind your ring finger and in front of your pinky.

Then just loop it behind your pinky and in front of your ring finger.

Next you will just go all the way around the two fingers, so it just goes straight across them.

This part is slightly tricky, you will take the loop from the early part put it above the loop you just made and take it off of your finger.

It should look like this

Just keep repeating the above step until it’s a good length, and I forgot to take a picture of the next part. But when it’s a good length carefully take all the loops off your fingers being careful not to unravel it. You will take the tail that was on the long end it put it through the two loops and gently pull it to create a knot.

Then just tie the ends together, cut off the extra material and voila!

I know I'm a day late to be posting this but here is my rather short InstaFriday! 

So here we go!

So we were about to gt in the car, it was really hot out so I opened the back door to let some of the heat out, went to the front to start the car, went back to the back to Melody in and there was this little lovely just sitting in the seat. Melody loved it.

First time painting!

2012 Summer Bucket List

1. Make homemade ice cream
2. Have a water balloon fight
3. Pick berries and make jam
4. Make sun prints
5. Paint rocks
6. Make homemade popsicles
7. Make homemade sidewalk chalk
8. Cook and eat a fruit pizza for dinner
9.  Play at the pool
10.  Picnic at the park
11.  Feed ducks
12.  Make crayons
13.  Pick wildflowers
14.  Fly a kite
15.  Paint a bird house
16.  Make pinecone bird feeders
17.  Make smores
18.  Have a squirt bottle water gun fight
19.  Build a fort
20.  Go to a movie in the park
21.  Sharpie dye t-shirts
22.  Take a trip to the library
23.  Go to the dollar movies

Whats on yours?

Turning long sleeves to short sleeves

So since it’s officially summer and really hot I decided to take these 2 long sleeved shirts and make them short sleeves, cause we all know there is no way Mel will wear them next year. 

And what’s awesome about this is you just cut at an upward angle from the bottom of the sleeve and tada you now have short sleeves, I thought mine looked fine and won’t fray so I didn’t hem them.

I thought the pink one was a little plain so I decided to make a bow for it. For the bow I just cut the sleeve open at the seem and then cut out a rectangle.

Next I just pinched the rectangle in the middle to make the shape and then sewed a strip of fabric around the middle.

To get the bow on the shirt I just sewed both sides on the middle of the bow.

And there we go two new spring shirts!

So I have taken an extremely long break from the blogging world. This is mainly due to person things, that I would've been blogging about but I don't think I'm ready to share all of that with the blogging world. But I am back now =]

Book Review: Choices of the Heart

Choices of the Heart is a riveting story about a young girl by Rhonda Kooyman. Throughout the story we watch as Tracy slowly disappears from the person she used to be by first allowing hate and anger to invade her heart when she finds her parents are getting a divorce. Tracy runs right into the arms of a man who seems too good to be true, and well he is. He manipulates Tracy and slowly secures her from her friends and family, bringing her into a life of physical and mental abuse. We get to see how much abuse does affect a person mentally and how anger can cloud judgement.

This is such a heartfelt book.