I love designing!

For my Materials class we had to make a fabric design. !! How fun is that!? AND we can send it into a website and they will PRINT it out and send us a few yards of our very own fabric. AND THEN, we get to make an ottoman with our fabric!! I am so excited! Here is the design and the color stories that I came up with.

So I did it.
I gave in and started reading these.

Usually I HATE reading, wearing, doing anything that EVERYONE and their dog are also reading, wearing, doing.

Example 1: Twilight. I read it. about a month before the whole world went Twilight crazy. Yes, I still like it, but I would like it a whole lot more if only a few people knew about it.

Example 2: Those crocheted headbands. They are cute! Yes, but I will never own one because the whole town has one.

There are many more examples, and yes, maybe I am rude to wish Twilight and Stephenie Meyer didn't get so famous. Yes, maybe I'm missing out on the "new style" because of my stubbornness. BUT I like being different. I LIKE being unique and having a unique style. But I also like good things. Good books, good music, good clothes. And good things have a tendency to become obsessively popular. I guess for now I will have to just suck it up though because I'm in love.

These books are AWESOME! really. i'm not just saying that cause everyone thinks they're cool. i promise. I am amazed by Suzanne Collins' imagination and ideas. Plus--she makes you fall in love with the characters from the first page. Which to me means you are a good writer. Now I'm so in love with the characters though that I want to marry one of them and be best friends with the other.

Too bad they are fictional.

Rain! and Fashion!

YAY! Finally some rain!! And now the leaves are starting to fall off the trees and crunch beneath my feet! I am a happy girl.

ALSO. In a few weeks I am going to this.

A group of students and professors from USU Interior Design have enrolled and have made a dress out of Humanscale. I am SO excited. It's a HUGE deal in Salt Lake--over 11oo people are expected to be there. It's a great way for me to network and make new friends in the Interior Design Major.

Go Away Summer

I'm done with summer. I'm done with the hot sun. I'm done with flip-flops. I'm done with short sleeves. I'm done with people who only wear sleeves and shorts that look like underwear.

I'm ready for FALL! I'm ready for cool weather. I'm ready for jackets and BOOTS. I'm ready for leaves to crisp under my feet. I'm ready for pumpkins and warm soup.

Fall is starting in Logan. Sort-of. The leaves are changing (yay!), but the weather is so hot I want to cry. I want to wear sweats and thick socks and watch the rain come down out the window as I eat warm pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. I don't want to sweat while walking home and have people step on my toes because I'm wearing flip flops.

I love fall. In my world, It would be fall all year round (with a little bit of winter thrown in).

I need some good recipes for FALL. What is your favorite fall soup, cookie, dinner, breakfast, lunch?. . . I need as much fall as i can get before winter lasts for 9 months.

I'm BACK!

It's almost been month since I blogged! What with school, homework, IWA, choir practices, crafts, socializing, catching up on Project Runway, and trying to get enough sleep, I have been too busy to blog. :( BUT i'm back, and I'm ready to get all these thoughts out of my head and into the blog world. There's been many a time that I woke up in the middle of the night and thought--OH! I should blog about that. Most of those ideas have be scratched when I woke up fully, and realized how weird they were--BUT some you will be privileged to read. (ha!)

#40: Walk to Class a Different Way. . .See What You've Been Missing

Yes, I'm still doing by 101 things to do before I graduate! I WILL finish! promise! :)



Even though school has only been going on for a month or so, I have already fallen into a routine. What can I say--I am a creature of habit. I like my routine to go exactly the same everyday, and if something happens to change that--I am not a happy camper. (I'm never a happy camper, but you get the picture.)
HOWEVER, I've realized that I need to have things change in my life or I won't grow. It always seems to happy that once I get comfortable, (in a calling, in school, in life) Heavenly Father throws me a curve ball and my life is once again changed. It's going to happen, so I need to learn to like change---yikes.
So I tried this simple change the other day, and walked a different way to class, and also took the long bus home. I am SO glad I did. I still got to class on time--(i think I was even earlier)--and I was able to see a different side of campus I hardly get to see. I wish I had my camera with me so I could've taken some pictures--fall is here in Logan and it is BEAUTIFUL! The bus ride was equally gorgeous. It was longer, but the trees were changing colors and I saw a part of Logan I never get to see either.
Overall, it was a good lesson: Change, although hard at first, can be beautiful! Challenge for you: Change one thing in your life. Whether it be something simple, like walking a different way to class; or something big, like getting up an hour earlier to exercise: pick something you are scared to change, and CHANGE it! You'll be happy you did. like this lady.

back to school?

School starts tomorrow. Yikes. yikes yikes. What happened to my summer? I want corn on the cob, barbecues, baseball, vacations. . . NOT books, teachers, and Logan full of boy-crazy girls and freshman and their parents. Seriously. If I get one more complaint at work from a tenants daddy, I am going to shoot.

Aaannnyway. I'm hoping this year will be okay. Tips from a Senior in the Sales and Marketing program: enter any contest you can find. That way I will be able to do the fun designing and rendering stuff while learning about the business and marketing side as well.

Here's to a new school year. cheers.

This past month I've. . .

Just been enjoying the last days of summer.

Eating Lemon Cupcakes. . .

Drinking milk from a cute mug. . .

Delish. . .

ALSO

A few weekends ago my baby grew up and got married to a great guy. Her wedding was beautiful and she looked just amazing!

Centerpieces and my bridesmaid shoes and bouquet.

Love you Blaynie and Jared! Congratulations!!