Calling All Crafters

Is it sad that the only time I ever blog is when I'm putting off school work? Which I spend most of my time doing, so I should blog more. But I don't. Anyway, today I'm back with thoughts about crafting. Which is kind of the reason I started this blog, so I could showcase all of my crafts that I've made and am so proud of and to have a record of them. School has kicked my tush this semester so the crafting juices haven't been flowing as much as usual but I am itching to get my hands on a hot glue gun!

Anyway, lately, I've been reading a lot of inspiring blog posts by a lot of inspiring bloggers like Jessica, Christin and Katy, who just started a blog that I found and now are some of my daily reads. So I want to take a shot at it. I never used to be crafty. Like, never. I would always volunteer to write the paper or to type or to do ANYTHING ELSE besides the creative part of a group project, I always hated to draw, hated art class because I wasn't good at it. And I'm still not. I can't draw/paint/sculpt/do pottery. Heck, I can hardly use my iPhone camera to take pictures with. But I can craft my friends. Just like the lovely ladies above shared their running/fitness stories and said anyone can do it, anyone can be an athlete, anyone can craft. It might not be as beneficial to your health as running, but it is beneficial to your soul. And who doesn't like starting a project, finishing it and then being able to enjoy it every day in your home? Like in the form of a tray:

Or a piece of wall art that you ALWAYS get complimented on.

Ya, I made these. The girl that can't draw a straight line with a ruler. Granted I had some help from my crafty/artsy BFF, but I promise I've done stuff on my own. Just don't have the pics. 

So go spend WAY TO MUCH money at Hobby Lobby (srsly, if you guys think Target is bad, wait till Hob Lob takes hold of you) and craft it up. The possibilities of crafts are endless, and the payoff is awesome. And if you need some inspiration, pinterest is never too far away :) Then come back and thank me for this inspirational speech and show me your crafts! I love a good craft swap!

Planner Paranoia

I don't think it's a secret to anyone that knows me that I'm a planner. I want to know when we're leaving, how long it will take to get there, whose car are we taking, do we have everything we need, etc. I just want to know that everything is taken care of so something doesn't turn out to be a disaster because we didn't plan properly. So, spontaneity, not my thing. Anyway, I'm about to start my last year of college (collective sigh) and I've been thinking more and more about life after graduation. Where I'm going to have to have a big girl job, yuck, and maintain a home and finances and meals and all that grown up stuff, I'm still confused as to when this happened, but it's fine.

The more and more Mr.P and I talk about the "future" and all that good stuff that makes me giddy, it also makes me think about the scary grown up stuff that goes along with it. So I'm trying to decide, should I go ahead and try to implement some sort of home management system, so that when I'm suddenly thrust into the real world it doesn't seem so scary? Am I jumping the gun? I want to start keeping track of the things that go on in my daily life and start good habits now, but is it logical for me to start now when my schedule is ever-changing? I don't know. All I know is the home management kit sold by IHeart Organizing's Etsy shop is really cute and that may or may not have been my kick in the pants for this project. But hey, who said a little cuteness ever hurt anyone? Because I don't think it does.

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And just for a random side note, how hard is meal planning for one, sometimes 2, people you ask? Super hard. I need a better strategy for this as well. Maybe crock pot meals would be the solution for this. Pinterest to the rescue. So now that I've put this out there maybe it'll hold me accountable to cook more and start to be more organized. Who knows. All I know is that I went to a BEAUTIFUL wedding last night and now my head hurts. Wish I had a picture of how handsome my boo looked, I was so proud to be on his arm :)

I'm off to scour pinterest for crock pot recipes and organization for one tips. O wait, did I mention none of these things ideally should cost money? Is that unrealistic? Humph.

Art Partying

Man I need to get a grip on this ditching my blog biz-nass. I will try to be better. I want to get in the swing of things, and blog like errday. I love blogs and love blogging and writing down my randomness so other people (ahem, my boyfriend) doesn't have to hear about the awesome deal I got on ribbons at Hobby Lobby today. 

Have you guys heard of the new trend sweeping the nation? (exaggeration much) These painting parties where you bring your own wine. So, you sign up for a party and show up with WINE and then the instructor gives you a step by step of how to re-create the painting chosen for said party. And you get to drink WINE with the peeps of your choice. Did I mention the wine? 

Anyway, P (boyf) was out of town for a bachelor party so some of the other girlfriends of the boys that were gone decided to have a girls night. If they're having (too much) fun, why shouldn't we have some ourselves? So we went and it was awesome. If you're local to Fort Worth, hit up Let's Art Party and um, art party (with wine). 

So I'll leave you with some pics!

Half way there!

All done!

Working hard

Miss. Morgan-- her fiance was the bachelor party all of the fellas were attending. Can't wait to see how gorgeous of a bride she is!

You know we had to get a group shot. Love these ladies-- so glad we got to do this!

Be back soon! Promise!