Elizabeth Banks and Go Red For Women

I pretty much adore Elizabeth Banks.  She is hilarious, beautiful, as down-to-earth as I imagine she could be, and blah blah blah!   She's great. Have you seen her website/blog?  Find it here. I love that she can make humor in even the most serious of situations.  An example of this being her video that she directed and stared in for Go Red For Women.  Here is the video:

 

Go Red For Women is a social initiative created by the American Heart Association to empower women to take a stand against heart disease.  Only 55% of women realize that heart disease is our #1 killer.  That's scary!!  Do you know the signs?  Go to their website to learn more about the organization as well as the risks and symptoms.  Take a stand!

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Ashley is An Incredable Woman!

I've been following Ashley's blog for a very long time now.  Her craftiness is amazing.  Her spirit is undying.  Her Love lovability is through the roof.  Ashley is currently going through chemo and yes, she has a beautiful family.  She just went through the passage of her journey in which she cut her hair.  My words here don't even come close to showing the amount of compassion I have in my heart for this beautiful woman.  She posted a video on her blog about the passage and I couldn't help but want to share it.  I cried from the very beginning.  Please note that I take absolutely no credit for this.  Her story is one of strength and beauty though, and I want to share it with you. 

Rite of Passage - Shaving my Head from Ashley Hackshaw on Vimeo.

To see more about Ashley and read her blog, follow her adventures, and be completely inspired by this incredable woman, check out her blog Lil Blue Boo.
Word are just not enough, so I will leave you with love and wishes for a crafty week.
Loves!!!

23 1/2 Hours

I am now a believer!  After spending 7 full days in the hospital and another week and a half recovering, I found this video.  It made a huge impact on me.  So now I ask you to spend 9 minutes of your day to watch this.  Then, I ask you, "Are you in?"  Let's make this work.  Let's make this happen.  Tomorrow is my day one of this.  



I hope that your week is filled with achieving your goals and working hard to love yourself!
Loves!!!

Bleubird Vintage Wedding

I have a special folder in my bookmarks list specifically for all the blogs that I love to follow that are not on blogger.   Today I counted them and I have 76 blogs that I love!  Again, that is not counting the blogs I follow with blogger!  That is insane.  So how do I do it?  Well, usually about once a week or so I spend a couple hours clicking on each one.  I browse through to see the new content and read the posts that interest me.  Tonight I decided to start the browse process although I won't have time to get through them all.  I came across Bleubird Vintage which is an amazing one!  Mr. Aubry and Ms. James were married recently and posted a quick peek at their wedding.  So pretty!  I really really really want a video compilation like this done for our wedding!  Take a quick (it's only 44 seconds) look and you will completely understand why!



So, speaking of our wedding...
Alright, so Mr. Fantastic and I know we are getting married, we have talked about it, and we can't wait!  The thing is, we have been completely unable to spare any pennies for a while now and we are both kind of traditional in the fact that we want the whole diamond ring engagement and a really fun pretty wedding, so we have been in a holding pattern.  Yes, I talk of him as my fiance and even our bank and insurance companies know we are "engaged", but the truth of the matter is that the title just carries less stigma and more weight.  Talking about my boyfriend and I who own a home and car together and have a dog baby together doesn't quite get the understanding that we want in our area of Utah where marriage and living together is so sacred.  Now, when we say we are engaged, we get a completely different attitude from people.  So, yeah, we are engaged.  Has he actually asked me to marry him and produced the ring?  No!  Do we have every desire to spend the rest of our lives together and love nobody else?  Yes!  So, is he my fiance?  Yes?
So you know what I mean?  Are their any of you that agree or that disagree?  Let me know!
So we were visiting his family this past summer when his dad pulled him aside and told him that he had his grandmother's ring.  He asked Mr. Fantastic if he would like to have it and give it to me.  Of course he knew that I am in love with the sentimental and with vintage and antique so he immediately said yes.  Now we are kn=ind of just playing the waiting game for his dad to send it to us.  Sometime after that, the Mr is going to do the whole official thing, but I have a feeling that it is going to be when I least expect it!  Fun!  Awesome!  Exciting!!
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Finding Peace

I really am here!  All goes oh, so well!  Life is treating me kindly.  Happiness is all around!  Things have finally quieted down and now I am back to blog.  Now, please know that at first, it will be slow, but I'll get there.  In the meantime, here are some videos for you to watch!  Enjoy!


Hudson - Against The Grain from Dropbear on Vimeo.





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My Memories Software **GIVEAWAY**

I'm really excited to share with you all some awesome software that I have had the opportunity to try during the last couple weeks. Have you heard about My Memories Suite?  Now, I've always been about scrapbooking the old-fashioned way because I figured digital scrapbooking would be super tough, but it's totally not with My Memories Suite!  It's actually really easy! 
Not only can you create scrapbook pages, and even scrapbook albums, but you can add sound and video to them as well to watch form your computer or share with friends.  The possibilities are not limited to scrapbooking though....you can make all kinds of beautiful digital stuff and you can also print it all out!!

Simple and easy collage

Use downloads from other suppliers

Use already made pages

Create your own pages by adding any number of elements and embellishments

I'm trying to remember when the last time was that I did any scrapbooking.  To be honest, it has been a very long time.  Why haven't I done any?  Because it is so time consuming and I always make a huge mess!  Well, My Memories had made these excuses irrelevant!  With the software suite, you make a complete page in just minutes!  And of course you don't have all the extra embellishments and paper scraps all over the floor and your desk!  It's all right there on your screen.  They also have downloads for when you are looking for just the right thing to finish that page. I love both their FREE downloads and their very inexpensive other packs!  Here is a quick look at only a few of them:

What is super awesome is that My Memories wants to give away the suite to one of my super lucky readers! 

All you have to do to win this amazing software is go to their website and tell me what fantastic designer pack you would want to create something fantastic  with. 

For extra entries you can also
     ***like them on on facebook and leave me a separate comment.
     ***follow them on twitter and leave me a separate comment
     ***blog about the giveaway and leave me a separate comment with a link
     ***comment about the giveaway on facebook and leave me a separate comment with a link.

The giveaway ends on Saturday, September 10 at midnight.  A winner will be selected by Monday, September 12 via a random drawing!

EVERYONE CAN WIN!!!!  If you visit the website and purchase the My Memories Suite v2, enter the code:  STMMMS44702  at checkout and get $10 off the already super reasonable price!!!!

Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

Our New Home - Video!!

Our New Home!!!!

Well, here we are in Utah!  The last few days have been a complete whirl.  There were several homes that we have loved, but today we hit a home run!!!  We found a home that is still in the process of being built.  It will be done at the end of the month and already a lot of upgrades are included.  Tomorrow we are going to sign the paperwork and then head to the design center to finish picking out the details!!  This could not be more awesome.  I'm so excited.  Here is a little video of the model home.  Ours is a little different though.  First of all, it is a mirror image of this one.  Ours also has 4 bedrooms instead of the loft at the top of the stairs.  The floors are all upgraded as are the cabinets.  We also will have granite counter-tops!  I can't believe that we will be the first owners - how awesome!

Leave To See

Record Player Wedding Invites and other things going on

An old friend posted this video on his face book, and I just had to watch it because of the title.  These are seriously so adorable.  If anyone out there is planning a wedding, you should look into this....well, if it fits your theme and personality and all that!  I want to use them, but I'm just not even sure if we will be getting married anytime soon.  There's no rush for us.  We are kind of just enjoying the whole living together and being students thing right now.

Paper Record Player from kellianderson on Vimeo.
In other news: my car exploded on me yesterday.  I am still not sure what is wrong with it, but the nice mechanic man with the little shop across the road from us took it to his mechanic friend (as he only does transmissions) and he thought it was my thermometer.  We will see soon though.  I'm assuming it must have been because I did tell him that if it was under one hundred bucks, he should just go ahead and repair it.  Since he did not call me, I am assuming that was the case and he is now fixing it.  Fingers crossed!  I can't really afford much worse right now because.....
We have been house hunting!!  We have found the perfect dream house for us with a reasonable price-tag.  It is 100 years old, but they just restored it.  All the original charm is still there but the plumbing and electricity work!  The one thing that we are having trouble with is getting the mortgage. Don't get me wrong, the credit score is fine and the income level is great for it, but there is a catch.  Since our 2/3 of our income comes from our veteran school scholarships that by the way are guaranteed income, and the other 1/3 comes from part time jobs, they will not consider any of it!  they only consider income from a full time job or from a part time job you have healed for 2 or more years.  Are you serious?   Do any of you know anything about that kind of stuff?  We just want a house that we can paint, and make our own, with a dishwasher and an upstairs.  This one that we love would even be way cheaper as far as paying the mortgage then it is for us to pay rent in the house we are in right now.
From what we are being told, we have to have a non-occupying cosigner that makes enough money to support themselves and to pay our mortgage (just in case we can't)!  So, that is where we are right now...trying to figure out if we are related to anyone that loves us enough to cosign for us!  My heart is breaking as I type.  I want this house more than anything.  It is so wonderful!

I sure wish a magic fairy would just come down and buy this house for us, or let us win the lotto that we never play, or magically change the rules so that our money could go to something that is actually ours!  Wish us luck!
Hope your weekends are super wonderful!
Loves!!

[Working On] Wednesday:Self- Portrait

Spring Break!

By now you have probably realized that I did not do a [Working On] Wednesday post.  I am working on a few things but nothing is completed yet since I'm still out of town.  Once I'm back at home though, it will be a really busy week, and I hope to get a lot of things up on the blog.
In the meantime, I want to share this video with you.  Obviously I like the changes that have been made to blogger and the ones to come as well.  I like this video for more than those reasons though.  I just adore the colors and the vintage feel of the video.  I think they did a really great job putting it together!

Alright, I better get going.  I still have to shower and get ready to go.  Our friends are getting married today!  So happy for them.  Have a great weekend!
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Forevers Not So Long

I found this video and it is so beautiful!  I have two favorite lines from the whole thing:
"Do you want to spend the rest of your life with me?"
"Do you want to know my name?"
Oh, please watch this!  It makes everything in life seem so small.

Forever's Not So Long from garrettmurray on Vimeo.


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I'm In A Hurry And Don't Know Why

For some reason this song came into my head today.  I think describes me perfectly!  I think it is my new theme song.  Maybe that says something about my crazy life right now.  Maybe it is a clue that I need to slow down and enjoy things a little more.

I hope you are all taking the time to slow down your life today and enjoy all the little things it has to offer us!
Loves!!

Check out this furniture designer!

Do you live in a small apartment?  Do you wish you had twice the space that you have?  Okay, you MUST check out this Italian furniture designer.  They design furniture that usually serves at least two purposes if not more, and get literally fit anywhere.  These pieces take up about 12 inches of space!!!



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Visual Anthropology - Students Today

I've decided that a lot of the time that I am in class, I am not really learning anything.  Half of the time I spend at school is a waste of my time.  Although I love learning, I hate wasting my time.  This is a very very true video that shows just exactly how college really is for us college students these days.


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We Are All Connected

This is a really simple and beautiful video showing some artwork done for the World Wildlife Federation.  The artwork is amazing.  The idea is wonderful.  The video is worth your time!

WWF - We Are All Connected from Mato Atom on Vimeo.

Flip Book Fun

So I am browsing through all the blogs I follow and the sites I have in my fovorites list.  I came across this cool video on I ART U.  The thing that made it really stand out to me is that I have a flip book due tomorrow for my 4D art class.  Mine is nowhere near as awesome as this one, but I'm still pretty happy with it since it is only the first one I have ever ever ever done!  This video really inspired me to do some more flipbook work though because I'm telling you - It is amazing!!!!

Kraak & Smaak from WEAREWILL on Vimeo.

Ummmm.....Amazing!!!

I absolutely cannot believe how beautiful and creative and imaginative and lovely and fantastic this is!!  I love it so much !


Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

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