Falling Into Fall

Remember when I said I’m never doing gift swaps ever again…I didn’t stick to that. This was a fall themed swap that looked more promising than the other ones I’ve done considering the number of people that signed up. Hopefully the odds would be in my favor :] They totally were and I had an awesome partner in Lauren over at The Peanut Program but the swap proved to be a little more difficult than I thought. I found it difficult to get to know Lauren because most of my time was allotted towards school, homework, observations, and tutoring. Big fail on my part, but hopefully I came through on my gift…

Most of my stuff was from my favorite store ever, World Market.

I threw in some interesting coffee flavors since she mentioned one of her favorite things to do is enjoy a nice cup of brew. The Texas Turtle coffee is actually something I’ve had before at work and liked a lot! I also included some handmade cards from WM which I seriously love. I justified this inclusion and some fun pencils as she has been working on an office make over [Check out how great it looks! Totally Pinterest worthy!] and so the cards would add to her stationary and can be used as thank you’s, for gifts, or a pretty presentation for a gift card. The pretty pencils are meant to liven up a pen/pencil holder for her new office. The earrings you see are also from WM and got those because she mentioned she likes the color turquoise so there ya go. The purple gives it a little pop! Last but not least, there were some Jasmine travel size face/hand wipes that I included because after having mine for a while, I have found them to be very useful and great smelling! I didn’t stick to the fall theme like at all, other than my box decoration, but guess who forgot to take a picture of that?!! Me. Oh well. Hope you liked everything Lauren!

Let’s move on to my awesome gift…

Shout out to me for my sucky photo!

Scarf Detail!

Lauren caught on about my love for skulls. It’s totally a random love I have, but something I can’t deny. Haha. She included a skull scarf that I can’t wait to wear [once it gets a little bit cooler] and a cute little skull that is meant to DIY makeover, so I can't wait to do that and put on my bookshelf! Also included was some nail polish that I couldn’t wait to put on, and a Halloween skeleton thing that is currently sitting on the corner of my desk. And a head band with a cute link design that I can wear with a messy bun! That's been my hair do of choice for like the last year, so lately I've been embracing head bands to pretty that up. She wins at sticking to the fall theme as well as getting cool stuff I love! I can’t wait to start working on it on the skull!

This was definitely a more successful gift swap than the ones I've done before. Thanks again for the gift Lauren!

Weekend Update: All Sorts Of Blah

Mondayyyy. You have arrived. Meh. This weekend had so much potential, but ended up being a little lackluster.

Thursday: Yep, we’re starting with Thursday. I worked all day and then headed to a Relay For Life meeting. This will be my 3^rd year doing it, and it’s crazy how big the event has grown in our little town. 1^st year was 2011 and we had like 5 teams, 2^nd year totally blew up and we had like 18 teams or something AND raised like $40,000 for the American Cancer Society. The event is still 2 weeks away and according to the website, we have 20 teams and have about $39,000+ raised. Super cool! My team captain is my best friend’s mom so I got to the meeting a little early and raided her fridge like the good old days. We talked about what is gonna happen at the relay and what our team has planned…should be an awesome event.

 

This walk is for the AmericanCancer Society , an organization that raises money to fight ALL cancer. The Relay For Life is a 24 hr walk where teams participate and each team must have at least 1 person walking at all times. Ideally, there should be 20 people walking the course at any given time. Even at 3:00 am! I've kind of sucked at raising money, so I’m pitching it to my readers :] If you've got an extra $5, $10, $20, or even $100…throw it my way! It will be greatly appreciated!

Friday: Remember how I was super excited for Tim? He kind of did not impress. We left town a little late, encountered traffic, missed our exit, more traffic, tailgate, strongggg honey jack & coke, found an InCahoots group that brings speakers and line dances in the tailgate lot before the show, completely missed Love & Theft, caught Brantley Gilbert’s last 2 songs, searched through the masses for friends, didn't find them, and mostly chilled through Tim's set. My problem with Tim was he played a lot of new music I didn't know. I guess that’s my own fault for not being a true fan. Loved the last 20 minutes of his set which was where he played everything I knew! Chilled in the parking lot and waited for traffic to die down, saw a chick dance on the roof of a car and secretly wished she fell…no luck. Mexican food. Sleep.

Chelsea with the photobomb.

3 amigos <3

Let's take a second to appreciate the growth of my hair! Left is 2 summers ago (I think?),
baby piggy tails, right was at Tim Friday night.

Saturday: Worked in the morning, 3.5 hour nap, unpacked my bedroom stuff, hung art I've collected in the last year, caught up on SYTYCD, sleeeeeeep.

Yankees Stadium

Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate autographed lyric posters. 

1 more off the 100 things to do before you die list! #33.

Sunday: Did laundry & ran errands with my mom. Purchased bedroom curtains. Bought cinder blocks to put on the corners of my bed frame to raise it. Got the idea from pinterest! I bought the wrong size, had to make another trip to HD and buy the right size which raised my bed about 10 inches. Now I’m kind of scared I’ll fall off! Pictures soon once my room is completely done!

Wasn't a boring weekend, but nothing too exciting.

30 DAY CHALLENGE: DAY 01

Day 01 – A recent photo of you.

I never go out of my way to dress up for halloween and usually throw something together last minute, but after seeing a few friends on facebook do the sugar skull make up last year, I decided I wanted to do it this year! My best friend had a halloween birthday party and they had a ball pit there and this is one of my favorites! 

But obviously covered in make-up, that's not a very good recent photo! So here's one from like 3 weeks ago at Disney On Ice. I love this one because after having long hair forever and then cutting it the shortest it has ever been last summer, it's finally growing back and looking long! I miss my long hair!

My most favorite recent photo is from when I went to the SYTYCD Season 9 tour, waited 3 hours to meet the cast and took an amazing photo with my favorite dancer, Cyrus!