Instalife #4

Whoops!  I completely lost track of this week, and apparently, it's Monday again.  Here are the (belated) photos of this past week!

Day 19: Blue

Day 20: Skyline

Day 21: Macro - Painted my nails and sharpened all the pencils at work!

Day 22: Screen Capture - How I eat food.

Day 23: Dress

Day 24: Video Games - kind of?

Day 25: Handwriting - I love fonts (I have a whole Pinterest board)

EXTRAS!!!

Green tea donuts; my friend, Colin; bored at work; apparently 'Erica' sounds like 'Enid'; Mexican restaurant mustaches; and Asian market randomness.

February Photo a Day

With only a week left in January (can you believe that?), I decided it would be a good time to gear up for February's Photo a Day Challenge and post my plans now.

So far, this 365 day challenge has gone pretty well for me.  I haven't missed a day yet, which surprises me, and hopefully I'll be able to keep up with it.  Is anyone else challenging themselves this year?  Have you been keeping up with any resolutions?

If you have an Instagram and want to do the 365 Challenge with me, let me know your username so I can check out your pictures! Here are the daily goals for February:

Instalife #3

Alright, third week down!  I'm going to be honest with you, this day-to-day project is getting a little bit harder as the month goes on.  I almost forgot take the pictures on a few days this week, but I'm hoping for a better week coming up!  Here are this week's photos:

Day 12: Artwork. The only thing I can draw is an octopus.

Day 13: Where I sleep.

Day 14: Work.  (P.S. Please don't fire me for taking pictures at work.)

Day 15: Front Door.  Hello, reflection of me. =)

Day 16: Coffee/Tea.  I had been obsessing over the idea of Dunkin ice coffee for almost a week.  Worth the wait, but let's not part for that long again.

Day 17: Food.  This is my food inspiration for this week!  I'm making dinner one night this week for my sister and brother-in-law, and I've decided on brie and apple crescent rolls, creamy spinach pasta, and green tea donuts.  So excited!  The donuts are an experiment because I'm changing the recipe up a bit, so I'll keep you updated on how it goes.

Day 18: Park, after Colin jumped out and started running down the sidewalk.

Happy Sunday Eve & I hope you're enjoying the weekend!

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Today I Believe...

• It's okay to have several favorites of everything. Personally, I could never choose one color or movie or song because I change my mind every few minutes.
• Setting 5 (or 8) alarms is acceptable.  Just make sure if you're going to sleep through them, you sleep alone or far away enough that you don't ruin someone else's sleep.
  
• This right here:

• Change jars are a great thing to have, especially if you work somewhere with a vending machine.  As an adult, snacks become your meals.
• Just be a big kid and do things yourself.  You can't rely on other people to make things happen for you.
• Forgiveness comes in a lot of very small, mostly painful steps, but if it's worth fixing, it's worth the work.
• Sometimes you just have to cut it all off and start over. Literally.
  

Soap?

Recently, I've been experimenting with soaps. I have been saying that I want to try my hand in soap making (just ask my old roommate, Kaeley) for several months now. Finally, I but the bullet and bought a 5 pound bag of the melt and pour glycerin soap, along with some scents and coloring. 

Melted soap, playing with colors!

Animal soaps! These came out really cute, I can't wait to post pictures of the finished products. 

This was crisply some left over soap pieces from the animal soaps, melted and mixed with some glitter. I think it's pretty! And it smells like oranges so I can't complain. =)

All in all, this is actually really fun to do. I think I may try some new scents and colors soon, as well as different shapes and sizes. Maybe I'll even start selling the extras on Etsy if I have enough left over. 

Instalife #2

Alright, week two! I hope everyone's had a good week, mine has definitely been interesting. Here are my photo challenge pictures (as well as a couple extras) from this weeks Instagram posts.

Day 5: I admittedly cheated on this one. This is an old picture of me and my sister but I miss her and we make cute funny faces together.

Day 6: what I'm reading. I actually started this book on Monday and finished it by Friday. It was a good book to start the year with, in my opinion, since I haven't really read much in the last year. It was an easy read, but still very interesting.

Day 7: weather. It was pretty dark when I thought to do this one, so screencap had to do. Luckily, it's warmed up a bit in OKC since this was taken.

Day 8: the view.

Day 9: selfie! Haha I did this as a selfie/throwback Thursday combo.

Day 10: song of the day, but frankly I've been obsessed or a few months now.

Day 11: trees. This is obviously edited a bit, but I kind of love it. 

I had a couple more interesting additions to this weeks Instagram updates as well...

At Teapioca (an Asian tea house thing), I saw this little jar that apparently isn't quite sure of its contents...

Seasonal clothing shifts are starting to become a little less smooth.

And I started gathering some more inspiration for my portfolio! More to come next weekend, and I hope you're all having a good weekend so far!

January Playlist

Hey everyone!  Now that we're officially a week into January, I've put together the first playlist of the year for you guys.  Let me know what you think, if you like any of these songs, or suggestions for future playlists.  I'll be putting a playlist up once a month all year!  I hope you're all having a good start to the year so far.

You can find January's playlist here!

1. Silver by Jesu

2. Mirrorball by Elbow

3. White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes

4. Flume by Bon Iver

5. Futile Devices by Sufjan Stevens

6. NYC by Interpol

7. This Year by The Mountain Goats

8. You and I by Ingrid Michaelson

9. Let It Be by Blackmill ft Veela

10. Carry Me, Ohio by Sun Kil Moon

11. You're Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars