Pick yourself up, Brush yourself off

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.” 
― Elizabeth Gilbert

Life is a funny little thing.

I'm not sure if it's just me or maybe

just silly girls like me that over think their lives too much, 

but it's been one of those weeks where I wish I could do more, and be more.

There has been a lot of firsts this year and there are somedays where 

I feel like I just can't get a handle on everything. 

I started a new job, obviously became a wife, I applied to do online school in January

and I'm not quite sure where and how I'm supposed to fit into all of these new roles. 

Am I supposed to be a super couponer that saves enough money 

to buy a home with my husband before I'm  22?

Do I need to be the super cute crafty wife that has an apartment

 that looks like a Martha Stewart catalog?

Should I be super woman that works full time and goes to school full time 

and doesn't break a sweat?

Am I supposed to be the toned and glamorous woman that can

work yoga pants like Julianne Hough?

I will admit there are days where I feel like I have to answer YES

to all of the above questions.  

Not because my husband cares,

(He loves and supports me dearly and will probably roll his eyes if he ever reads this)

Not because my family cares, 

Not because my friends care. 

I think I feel this way (and hopefully other women) feel this way

because we have this image in our head of what our lives could be like.

Somehow if we got our lives to fit this picture perfect world then we could finally feel 

like we could relax and be satisfied. 

Like I said this week has been "one of those weeks", so today I decided to change the image in my head of who I am and what I want to accomplish and who I want to become. 

I am all about looking for good deals but I am checking extreme couponing off the list.

I enjoy doing crafts but I am going to stop drooling 

over all the beautiful homes I see on pinterest.

I am going to be brave and try to go to school and work full time but I am only going 

part time and I may cry and sweat a little while doing it. 

Finally, I am going to push myself to be more active, but I'm am going to enjoy my

life and my body and maybe even wear yoga pants to the grocery store
and fake it until I make it like Julianne Hough. 

I am going to start reminding myself that I am unique and there are things about

me that I can feel happy and proud about. 

 Like I said, life is a funny little thing and we go through cycles where we feel 

on top of the world and other times where we feel 

like we wish we could hit the restart button.

But when I comes to those down times I'm going to remind myself

to pick myself up, brush myself off, and tell myself that I am enough. 

Early Christmas.... Don't hate me :)

This fall weather is getting me so excited for all of the upcoming holidays!

I have seen so many cute ideas for 

word art for the holidays and decided

 I wanted to make my own.

My vision is to hang three pictures from a rod

like so....

(example from http://countrygirlhome.blogspot.com/)

I want to leave them up all year and switch them out

 with different holiday word art.  

When I get that far I will post a picture :) 

So far I have only made two different word art images 

but I'm wanting to do more because they were just too darn fun. 

Feel free to print them yourself if you so please.

Click here for "Jolly" and 

click here for "Little Christmas"

These have been so fun for me to create!

They aren't professional by any means but it's always fun to have

things in your home that you created yourself.  

(especially if they involve Christmas)

Happy (early) Holiday Season!!

PS my husband is going crazy over this whole Christmas in September thing......

I just can't help myself. 

First Fall Craft

Like I said in my last post, I am so excited for colder weather!

I love everything about fall, especially here in St. George where we kind of cheat

the colder weather months ;)

I also love decorating for all of the fall holidays!

So when Ty took a guys night out hunting doves,

I headed to the dollar store to see what creation I could make!

I had remembered seeing a picture on pinterest

 (all this pinterest stuff is starting to get embarrassing)

anyway, this is the picture but the link just lead to the same picture...

 without a tutorial or anything. 

I decided I was going to try and replicate it and this is my journey.

This is what I bought..

The Dollar Store had these fake styrofoam fake fruit which was perfect!

I didn't have a plate I wanted to use so I just picked one up. 

Then I traced the top of the apple using the candle and cut about a 1/4 of an inch down

Then I ripped off the top part of the apple and dug out the styrofoam.

Classy right? haha I just went for it.. I probably could of done it

nicer buuuuut live and learn right? 

Then I shoved the candles into the spots,

lit the candles,

and then as the wax melted, slowly poured it over on every side.

I accidentally didn't watch very carefully and the "apple peel" caught on fire

needless to say I'll be doing that one again...I told you it was a journey. 

Overall I think they turned out alright. 

(I should say that I didn't like how it looked with the burnt candles,

 so after I melted the wax, I replaced it with new candles)

I got a little brave and drew some leaves on the corners of the plates

with a skinny sharpie.

Voila!

Happy Fall!