Enjoying Family Timejjj

Dakota and I are really enjoying time off. So far, we have spent a lot of time with my mummsie, my sister Tiffany, and my grandpparents.  We have had a lot of fun at the beach, and spent time cuddling our new nepphews.  Tomorrow we are going to the sand dunes!  I haven't been there since I was a little girl.  We also have to go see my father's side of the family because everyone is actually here in town, and heaven forebid we don't get a picture of everyone together.  my poor sister...she just got out of the hospital on Saturday after having the twin babies, and they are expected to be in the picture.
We switched beds today because we are half-way through the trip.  Now we are staying with my grams and gramps.  We can actually keep Kkaye inside here instead of in the garage.  I feel so much better about that.  She seems much happier already. She even learned a neww trick today. She can give highvfive now!

I am an Auntie now!!!! Twins!

My little sister had twin baby boys today!  They are big and healthy and handsome!  I am so excited to be an auntie for the first time.  Welcome to the world little ones!  We have Parker Christopher and Oliver Ronald in this world now! 

Giveaway Winner and Happy Summer!

Happy Summer everyone!  I'm so excited! I just love love love summer!  To celebrate summer, I had a little giveaway here on the blog.
katiebug92 says that she loves swimming in the summer because it's too hot to do anything else. I love swimming too.  Today I bought my swimming suit.  I'm visiting my family right now. My little sister is having twin boys oon Wednesday! email me your address info and I will get your box of goodies out to you as soon as I get home.  ZoiHoku143(at)yahoo(dot)com

Hurry to enter the Summer Giveaway!

Don't forget that the Summer Giveaway ends in just a couple of days.  Make sure to leave a comment on the post about what you love about summer.  Share the giveaway with friends and you'll have an even better chance at winning.  So far there are only 2 entries.....  it's gonna be cute!  I promise that you don't want to miss out!  Oh, and tomorrow starts my Summer Vacation!  That's what I love about summer today!
Night friends!

Do you like cupcakes?

Final Project for my design class this quarter!  Each piece of the tryptic contains 697grid squares.  Each square contains two pieces of cut paper making the "X" shape.  Then I used machine sewing to finish off this "cross-stitch" made from cut paper!  Do you like it? Oh, and each piece is a 14 x 17 inch piece framed in a shadow box.  The professor thinks I need to sell it.  What do you think?  Is it something you might consider buying for the right price or do you know others who could be interested in something like this.  If so, I might put it up on ebay.

Finals Week (and more giveaway clues)

Oh my goodness I have been busy!  The last two weeks have literally been insane!  I've been consumed in final projects.  Normally I am one to go to bed around 11, but these last two weeks bedtime has been closer to 2am if I slept at all.  Tuesday night I pulled my first all-nighter in a very long time.  I woke up Tuesday after only 5 hours of sleep and didn't go to sleep until 530 pm on Wednesday!  Yikes!  The good news is that I got everything done and turned in!  I only have one more presentation on Saturday, and then I will be done until July.  I met my goal of a 4.0 for the quarter!  I am so excited about that! 
As soon as I get out of class on Saturday, we are heading to see my sister.  She's having twins!  It's going to be so much fun being an auntie!  The twins are 7lbs 11 oz, and 8lbs 4oz!  Yeah!  Huge twins.  They are due on July 12 but she is scheduled for a c-section next Wednesday before her belly explodes.  I can't imagine what would happen if she kept them inside until then! 
I wanted to leave you today with another picture clue about the GIVEAWAY!
Do you love Traveling?

Spotted on Weheartit

Don't forget to check out the giveaway and leave me a comment telling me what you love about Summer.  Tell others about it and you'll be entered to win twice!  The winner will be chosen on the first day of Summer! 

Love you all!  Have a lovely evening!

Do you love ice-cream? giveaway!

Summer is almost officially here!  I love summer!  In order to celebrate summer finally arriving, I am doing a giveaway.  What am I giving away?  It's a secret, but I am posting pictures to give you some clues.  The first clue is....

Make sure you check out this earlier post and leave a comment telling me what your favorite thing about summer is.  If you tell others (through your blog, your twitter, your facebook....) leave me another comment and you'll get double entries.  The winner will be drawn on the 1st day of Summer!  Love ya'll!

Summer giveaway

Did you know that my absolute favorite season is Summer?  Well, it is!!!  I love everything about Summer!!!!  To celebrate, I want to give away a little prize to one of my followers. I don't have too many yet, but I'm hoping that this fun little giveaway, will get the word out about my new blog!  So, here is the deal...leave me a comment telling me what your favorite thing about summer is, and you can be entered to win.  Stay tuned for cute pictures!  Yup, that's how I'm going to do this giveaway...it's a surprise for now!  I'll post pictures between now and then as clues.....

Tell your friends, tell your blog readers....leave me a comment to tell me that you blogged about this, or twittered....or whatever....you'll get an extra chance!  The winner will be drawn on the first day of Summer!

Love you guys!!

Pretty Yard-Sale Finds

Here are some pretty photos for your eyes to enjoy on this beautiful June Thursday!

and lastly....I didn't find this at a yar-sale, but I had to get it when I found him!  He is adorable!  I cannot wait to put him in my craft studio when it gets finished!

Hope your day is bright and sunny!

Renay

Weekend in pictures!!! (lots of pictures)

So the weekend of pictures every hour on the hour, did not happen perfectly.  I couldnt find my watch with the beeper!  But...I did the best that I could.  I forgot some pictures and was a little late on others.  However, we had a super fun weekend.  In consisted of two days of yard-saling, class on saturday, time with the pug, watching starwars, eating yummy food, grocery shopping, working out, and a few other things!  As I was going through the pictures to save and post them, I realized that many of them were similar and some were even boring.  I decided that instead of showing one for each hour, I would only show off the fun ones!  Here is the weekend in pictures!

Really cute yard-sale

Fire Hydrant

Getting home

Working out

Yummy chicken Dinner (we had it over rice)

We have a projection clock getting ready for bed and playing a brain game on my phone to wind down

Leaving for school

Looking for more yard-sales

Out yard-sale-ing (I was stopped)

Stopping at the goodwill

Leaving for the gym

Homework for Interior Design class

Cute puppy

Printing Sunday coupons

Watching starWars

Bringing as many grocery bags up the stairs in one trip as possible!

Looking at my yard-sale pretties!

Dakota made an easy dinner. I coached him through it!

Pretty finger nails step one.  I later polka-dotted them

Puppy yawns

Laying out our new rug!  Isn't it pretty?

Hanging up laundry in the closet

I had to repair this.  The light bulb had been broken off during the move.

Math homework is so much fun when you go to an art school!

Dakota was painting my other hand for me!  Sweet of him!!

Okay, that was our Memorial Day Weekend! 

I just want to say thank you to those who have served, are serving, or will serve, and thank you to the people that support us through your love and strength!!

Pretty Cute and Inspiring new site!!!!!

Oh my goodness!  this is sooooo exciting!  Cheryl Ametewee and Cindy Liebel are the co-owners of this new web-based art magazine. You really have to check out their site that just went live!  It's pretty awesome and I can only imagine what pretty things are to come!  Right now they have a giveaway, and they will be having more soon to celebrate this pretty little site coming about.  They worked so hard, so go check it out!

Get-to-know-Me!

I'll be back tomorrow with a post, but here is a quick little get-to-know-me thing to tide you over until then! 

A- My AIR CONDITIONER is set on: 73

B- My BEDROOM theme is: light blue and brown but we really want to re-new it soon (maybe after we get a bigger bed!

C- The CAR in the driveway is: disaster!  It's a Hyundai Elantra and has a big dent in it's rear-end!  Get's me from one place to the other though
D- My DESK looks: remarkably like our coffee table right now....heehee!  oh, it is the coffee table right now!

E- The EXACT time I wake up daily is: different every day...depends on what time I have to be at school
F- The FIRST thing I wash in the shower is: my hair

G- My GARAGE is filled with: non-existant (joys of apartment living)

H- My HOME is: a cute little apartment
I- If you peeked INSIDE my bathroom you'd see: my makeup bag dumped out on the vanity, and probably some object sitting actually IN the sink
J- My favorite JUICE is: cranberry-raspberry

K- The best part of my KITCHEN is: the huge pantry

L- The LAST person who visited my home was: Daniella, Adam, and Kevin came by last month

M- The last piece of MAIL for me was: Prescriptions

N- My NEIGHBORS think I'm: quite young? 
O- If you OPENED my fridge you'd see: it is stocked mostly with juice and soda

P- My last house PARTY was: 2 years ago (sadface)
Q- A QUICK meal I like to fix is: Viola meals or white rice with permiasion
R- My favorite ROOM of the house is: the bedroom but once my studio room is done....
S- The SHAMPOO brand I use is: pantene prov, dove, and john freida

T- My largest TELEVISION is: the living room one.  It comes with the apartment and is huge - 42 inches!
U- UNDER my bed you will find: dust bunnies!
V- The last time I VACUUMED was: Monday when we put down our new rug
W- Looking out my WINDOW I see: our deck, the pretty pond and fountain, and a couple houses in the distance
X- I wish I had X-TRA: space!  I feel like our place is so small

Y- My YARD is: shared with all my neighbors.  It's huge and gorgeous!  There are 2 enormous ponds with fountains, and tons of pretty grass for the puppies. 

Z- ZZZZZZZ My bedtime is: between 10 and 11

Have sweet Dreams!

Just a quick blurb of a smile!

A lovely lady was feeling a bit blue today.  I offered her some encouragement.  Then I realized that maybe all of us could hear this!  I hope that this little blurb is the smile of encouragement that you might have needed today! 

Life is never truely organized. Life never falls into the mold that we expect it to. People can be mean. People can be amazing! Life can be cluttered, chaotic, disheartening, and usually exactly what we never planned for. That's okay! I promise!


Cry when you need to cry, but remember that smiling feels so much better. Just keep pushing on and you will find that life gets so much better, even when it seems as though it won't. Be brave. Be sincere. Be humble. Love yourself!
Sweet Dreams!

Photo Project Idea

Oops!  I got so tired that I forgot to come back later to tell you about my photo project idea.  I'm sure many of you are aware of the 365 day photo projects where someone takes one picture a day.  Recently in one of my design classes, we looked at some photo pieces that were similar but the pictures were of specific things such as the sky.  So these ideas and a class discussion lead to my project idea! This weekend is a three day weekend and we are going to try to do a few fun things, so that makes this weekend a great time to try this out.  The idea: take a picture every hour on the hour.  Okay, so that sounds pretty easy, but there's more!  Let me lay out the "rules" I've made for myself....

Each hour my little alarm will beep to remind me to take a picture.  No matter what I am looking at or doing right then, I will take a picture directly in front of me.  If I am on the computer, I'll take a picture of it for example.  If I'm giving the puppy a bath, then I'll take a picture of her.  If I am sleeping, I get to take a break, and I won't take a picture.  The whole idea of this project is to have a fun visual project to show all of the activities that I am doing, which ones I do most often, and when I am doing them.  I'll post the pictures for you to see if you are interested in looking!  I'll start tomorrow morning when I wake up and go through the holiday weekend!  It should be pretty fun to see what I actually do with my time!

Here are some of the activities that are on our to do list:

-drop something off downtown at my doctor's office

-yard-sale-ing!

-trip to a video game place

-picnic

-school on Saturday morning

-grilling out

-working on the craft room

and lots of other exciting things....

Hey, here are some pretties for you to look at in the meantime!

Pug Kisses!

Giant Prairie Dog

Learning to knit!

all photos by me.  Have a peaceful evening!

What a beautiful day and a beautiful lady!

Just a short post for now, but I wanted to show you some pretties that Eleise is sending me.  She just recently hit 150 followers.  Head over to her blog and you'll see exactly why....it's adorable!  She has a lot going on over there.  Please check her out.  Here's a picture....

Isn't this such a pretty little gift set?  I'm quite giddy about receiving it.  I am very excited to play with those pretty beads and paper dolls.  The necklace and the bow....oh, goodness!  Do you see what looks a bit like a crossword puzzle there?  That "d" is one piece of the dream banner I am going to hang in my new craft room! 

I will very much try to come back around later tonight.  We are about to leave the house right now to go to dinner with a few friends.  I have a really fun photo project I'm about to start and would like to tell you all about it!  Be looking!  Have a pleasant evening!

My craftiness!!

A little earlier this evening I received an email from this pretty lady in response to a comment I left on her blog.  It put a big smile on my face and made me feel so special.  The email also made me realize that I have got to post some craftiness pictures!  Please be understanding that these pictures are phone uploads.  My computer did die recently and I don't have any pictures saved to the computer I am borrowing until my new one gets here. 

Going to an art college is amazing!  My math class even deals with art!  The first two pictures are a project I did for math.  It's a dinosaur tessellation! 

Closeup:

Do you like the cute eyes and teeth and bows on the pink girl dino's?  I sure do wish the professor would give it back already so I can frame it for my craft room!  After I made my project, I realized that a matching hair-pin was a necessity!  I made one out of felt!  His speech bubble says, "RAWR!"

Next you get to see my pretty button lamp.  I have had this lamp for about 3 years.  One night I looked at it, and I went running to my stash room to locate a bucket of buttons.  It just hit me that buttons were needed right then to make it cute. 

Lastly, there is a picture of an experimental hair clip.  I've seen these made all over lately and wanted to try my hand at one. 

Each flower is made of something different.  Kind of fun!

So, I I hope you enjoyed the fun crafty stuff.  I promise I will post more as time goes on.  I will be especially sure to post lots of things once I get into my old broken computer and get all of my saved files from it.  Have a restful nigh, and Sweet Dreams!