NYC living

oh hi.

I'm living in nyc for a little while until I start school in the spring. figured I'd blog about it. :)

I don't have any pictures right now to show you since I'm afraid of getting mugged on the subway with my big camera...

Speaking of the subway, it is much less scary than I remembered. I've already been on it many times in the past week, and the only time I was scared was coming back from a concert in a sketchy part of Brooklyn really late at night. In that situation I just waited until other people left who were going in my direction and I was fine.

here are some highlights of my first week.

• discovered the best thrift store in all of the land. you pay by the POUND there! I'm in love. 
•  IT RAINED. It almost never rains in California, which makes me sad.
• awesome labor day concert by Caddywhompus The Great American Novel and Slendermen (there were other bands but they weren't as cool. also, I linked the band names to their bandcamps so go download that!)
• riding the subway! I really love driving, but I do not miss the crazy LA drivers. I'm so relaxed!
• seeing my lovely friend nicole! It's wonderful living close to her for a little bit. 
• meeting emma watson! (this isn't a highlight since it was sad but I had to include it.)
• phone calls with my momma. she really is the best. 
• Labor day BBQ at my sister's! I love her friends. Mostly the dog that was brought along... 

 I hope you all had a fantastic labor day!

Also taking nyc friendship applications because this city is very lonely already. ;)

xx

Busy, busy, busy

Hi pretty people!

I have had so much going on since I last blogged. Here is a list to help catch myself up.

Since the beginning of January I....

• Took a test to sign up for the GED test and passed. 
• Turned the big one-nine.
• Had horrible stomach pains that only seem to stop when I'm off dairy. Goodbye sweet, sweet ice cream.
• Got a new nanny job where I'm already in love with the children. 
• Signed up for the actual GED, and got wait listed because they told me the wrong day.
• Asked Daniel Radcliffe a fan question for extra and later took pictures with him. (Blog to come, if you'd like.)
• Got a new haircut that didn't make a huge difference. 
• Started the process of selling my huge car for a smaller one. 

I think that sums it up!

As always I've had a lot of stressing going on... I'm not sure I'll ever like being a grownup as much as I liked be a kid. Bills, bills, bills....

Anyway, I haven't been sure of what to blog about lately. Hopefully I'll get some inspiration!

Happy New Year!!

It's a brand new year!!

I completed about half of my goals from last year... maybe. I definitely struggled a lot with them, but I think overall I did really well.

I'm going to make a post of my goals for 2012, but I can't seem to find the paper I wrote them all down on so that will be up another day :)

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Years!

Happy Holidays!

I upgraded to the new Blogger in hopes to get better picture quality, and it is very confusing. So if my website banner is still off I'll have that fixed soon!

I have a super busy work week with the in-home pet care company I work for, and I'm feeling a little under the weather, but expect me to put much more work into this site come the new year. :)

Closet

Blogger is upsetting me by making all of my pictures blurry... so for now here are pictures of my closet!

Most of it is sparkly things I never wear.



xx

Crayon making!

For Christmas I made all of the children I babysit crayons. It's cheap, fairly easy, and it's super cute!

Here's how I did it!



First I cut all of the wrappers off with an exacto knife and separated the crayons by color.



I used (empty, very clean) wet cat food tins to melt the crayons in a small amount of boiling water on the stove.



Make sure you use older pans if you have any, because a little wax may end up in the water which then sticks to the pan. It was fairly easy to remove, though.



Continue to stir the crayons until they are mostly melted.



Once they are almost melted, take the tin out of the water and place on a cooling rack for 30-60 seconds to let cool.



Once the wax had slightly hardened, pour into any candy mold that has been sprayed with cooking spray.

The wax hardens quickly in the tins, so after you have poured a crayon or two put the tin back in the water.

I liked mixing the colors while pouring for a cool look!



TADA! Pretty crayons! They are breakable, but they almost work better broken in half because of the sharp lines... next time I make these I'll pick a better mold!




xxxx

Vision and Note boards!

I made two boards over Thanksgiving weekend for my wall, one being a vision/inspiration board and one being a note board.

For the vision board I cut out a bunch of images of things I'd like to create in my life, printed a few pictures from the internet, and put it all together on the board with a glue stick.

For the note board I painted a canvas with blue and white paint, and then put glitter glue over top of it to make it pretty.

Easy stuff that looks nice!

:)