(Re) Chic

I am once again not please with the results of my monthly goals.  It looks like I'm at less than 30%!  That's not good!  1. Work out at the gym...it WILL happen someday. -Not only did it not happen it looks like I will have to find another way to work out because I will not be getting access to the DSW gym any longer.  2. Get 500 followers on  Twitter ...I'm SOOO close   SUCCESS!!! 3. Complete my latest craft project -Also complete, but I'm not sure I'm happy with it.   4. Clear out my garden plot -Done, the only thing left is a cabbage plant since they don't mind the cold.   5. Set-up an online photography portfolio (I have a Flickr; does anyone have any recommendations they like better?) -I didn't work on this...did anyone have any feedback on whether they would pick something over Flickr? 6. Continue blogging at least once/week -I missed the 3rd week of October, but other than that I did pretty good.   7. Pick my knitting back up -This o

Finally hit 500 Followers! So excited!

I loved this article by Phillip Hensher, "Why Handwriting Matters " because I love handwriting, and stationary, and all the wonderful things that come with putting pen to paper.   That's why I am really excited about The World Needs More Love Letters  project.  Each month they send a bundle of love letters to people who are having a hard time of it and need to be reminded that they are loved.  This month I decided to write two of the three letters to see how I liked it.  I found it really inspiring and a lot of fun! Dishing out inspiration and reminding other people that they were loved and important was really empowering.  And of course I loved finding cool quotes to share.  I apologize for the sad photo quality, they were taken with my phone and I haven't upgraded to an IPhone yet.  But I'm super excited about my Love Letters.  They're on their way!  P.S. If you haven't gone to the Post Office and bought Disney Stamps you shoul

So for those of you who don't know I'm obsessed with Pinterest.   And there has been a lot of crayon art pictures popping up like this one: via Light & Spoon And I've been really wanting to try it, but so many of the silhouettes (like the one above) are overly cutesy and romantic, this one has him proposing , and I wanted something more inspirational so I saw this and decided to combine the two.   Via Too Much Time So here's how I did it...and how it turned out:   The Finished product.           All the colors were lined up and the words added and now for the fun part! It melted super slow...even with my blow dryer on the highest blast possible, so it certainly took a lot of patience.   It looked pretty cool just like that but I really wanted to see what it would be like if I removed the letters: Since it was hard to read plain like this I went in with a Sharpie and tried to outline the words, but I'm

Happy 200th blog post to me!  That is all. :)

I was pretty disappointed in myself with the state of my September goals. So let's see if we can't work a little harder this month. 1. Work out at the gym...it WILL happen someday.  2. Get 500 followers on Twitter ...I'm SOOO close 3. Complete my latest craft project 4. Clear out my garden plot  5. Set-up an online photography portfolio (I have a Flickr; does anyone have any recommendations they like better?) 6. Continue blogging at least once/week 7. Pick my knitting back up 8. Finish 2 books 9. Work on my translations 10. Watch at least one movie from my AFI list.   Wish me luck.  Looks like I'm going to be keeping busy!