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living in the moment || painting + 17130128310 books to read. send help XD

Wednesday, June 21, 2017


sometimes plans don't mix too well with reality. I'm sure a lot of us have made plans or goals at the beginning of this year - or even this summer. and honestly, how have those goals or "bucket lists" been going?

tbh, I've never been one for making resolutions. I normally will make a couple goals tho. But even with that...I kinda decided to go with the flow this year.

and I realized I'm enjoying it. with joining summer reading, working at a local CSA, going to events at the library (another nerf battle xD), painting for 1720871237812 hours, going to parks, doing lots of swimming, reading, and trying to plot lol. so yes, it's been busy. and I have been forcing myself not to let the stress get the better of me. (like the day this week I slept half an hour past my alarm and jumped out of bed .5 seconds after having been sound asleep. and it was a work day #whoops) I was basically like this all day:
when I was working the other morning, it was just kinda quiet and I was realizing how much I was just enjoying life. (okay the painting is taking a while BUT WE ARE GETTING THERE. if you didn't know, we are painting our whole main floor of our house xD) but this has something I've been praying for God to help me to learn to do - praying that He would help me to slow down and take in the moments He has gifted me with.

I am freaking out a bit about nano coming soon, but you know what, it's only nano. It's not the end of the world if I don't finish my novel next month - even though I do want to. sometimes goals and resolutions can be good - but other times they can actually hold us back.

so live a little and just enjoy the moments God has given you! they are gifts, and not promised to us

 oh, and, if you ever want a room painted, PLZ DON'T ASK ME. basically I'm my families perfectionist and if I don't cut in on trim and walls, it isn't done right. I'm not a control freak or anything on most things but omw, I have to wonder how people can do trim and just live with the mess like that *shakes head*
^^ me when julia does trim

p.s. I have over 35 books right now on my shelves to be read (well, on my shelves, and desk, and bed - everywhere lol). and they have to be read before the library steals them back. send help. xP xD

have you been working on your summer goals, or just going with the flow? 
how many books do you have waiting to be read right now??

THREE SIGNS YOU ARE A PROCRASTINATOR || me? procrastinating? LOL NO WAY

Friday, June 16, 2017

THREE SIGNS YOU ARE A PROCRASTINATOR -
// 1. you have 173084278038242 things to do rn and aren't doing them just cuz

// 2. you mentally give yourselves these excuses -
"I'll have time LAATTTTEERRR"
"gee, it's FOREVER away until that deadline"
"I'll do that. In a minute."

// 3. you are reading this post
me:
now, what kind of procrastinator are you cuz im pretty sure you are one like c'mon lets be honest people
// a list maker procrastinator - you make a list to feel accomplished, look at the list and go -
// a super power procrastinator - you have the skills to procrastinate until the day-before-the-deadline and still complete it YOU HAVE SKILLS

^^ or you don't even complete what you are procrastinating - or better yet YOU FORGET COMPLETELY ABOUT DOING IT and then someone comes to you more than likely a sibling or friend *cough* and asks if you forgot it and you are like -
// a total-opposite-of-a-procrastinator-person - basically, you don't procrastinate how and get things done super quick and leave your guilty conscience behind you

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honestly, I don't procrastinate things often. although, it does depend on the thing.
like how it's halfway through the month and I've only done a bit of plotting and how i kinda procrastinated this post and that's how this all started I ADMIT IT OKAY. sometimes I fool myself with the "wow it's forever until that deadline I don't even have to worry about it" and then i question my sanity later xP well, I'm off to go accomplish some stuffs.

so tell me - what kind of procrastinator are you??
or are you not even one?? share your secrets xD

camp nanowrimo

sparklers + cake + Julia's grad pics || basically my crazy life in a post

Sunday, June 11, 2017

so basically july nano is coming sooner than I had thought AND OMW I AM SO NOT PREPARED *flails and tries not to freak out* I have the bestest cabin tho, and I can't wait for it to begin (I just need to get into full force preparation which is hard when you are working, painting your whole floor level, doing summer reading, eating way too much ice cream for my own good, and then strawberry picking is coming soon, spontaneously going to get new couches an hour away, running 17082347082 errands, making food + shopping, watching emperors new groove again while painting -
basically I'm laughing bc WHO EVER SAID SUMMER HAD FREE TIME?? - I actually feel like it's more busy - even tho I don't have school going. #crazy

so this year my library created an online website to record your time read IT'S SO COOL GUYS - you can like see who is the top reader in the whole system *smirks* I'm ready for this people (but I need more time in the day, instead of staying up to 2 am reading xP XD)

we finally got around to taking Julia's grad pics. these actually aren't the pics she used, but I wanted to add a couple here. I think she'll be posting her pics soon tho?? I love how they turned out so much XD

basically, life is crazy busy and I can't even stuff a fraction of what I've been up to (*cough* more like I CAN'T REMEMBER IT ALL whoops). basically it's insane but I love looking outside and sighing happily bc summer is legit here. IT'S SO LOVELY. also monday is getting into the 90's LIKE OMW GUYS HOT (and legit i'll be working in a garden probably melting) okay maybe I'm exaggerating
p.s. i was curious if you guys had any suggestions as to fav writing/plotting music?? i'd love to see what you guys like! (I often listen to the jane eyre soundtrack, piano guys, and also a soundtrack that adam young does (I think it's called Shackleton or something??) and nope, I can't listen to stuff with lyrics bc lol #distracting) thanks beforehand you guys!

what's a childhood movie you really want to watch again??
have any music suggestions for writing for me?

DIY

ROOM TOUR || diy wall art + unplanned painting + popsicle stick shelves??

Monday, June 05, 2017

don't buy the "oops" paint at the hardware store, k?

basically I bought it, tested it on my floor (IT DRIED CUTE OKAY) - slapped it on my walls and THEEENNN it went and turned this horrible blue purple grey color on me
*squints* so I ended up buying some white paint off my sis that she was gonna use and yep - I have white walls now that I actually rly like??.. xD

I finished my room and had a whole blank wall that was actually kinda creepily empty (lol it was weird, okay?) so I looked through the stuff I had around and started my DIY-ing.

W H A T S   O N   M Y   W A L L  -  # D I Y -

bulletin boards - I've had these for a year or so now and I seriously love them. I bought a bunch of square prints (credit to pinterest images) and pinned 'em up there. then I went on pinterest again and found some doodles i liked, so I then sketched out my version. xD

clip board - this was a cheap dollar store thing that I had lying around. I painted it black with acrylic paint and then used clear chalk board spray paint (gonna use it for doodles and quotes I think xD) I think it turned out super cute!

space aesthetic canvases - so I had these blank canvases lying around, kinda afraid to use them, actually. I had some black acrylic paint so I covered the whole thing and used some white watercolor and paint splattered. (messy, let me tell you. use newspaper or something XD) I showed it to my dad and he said it looked like stars so #success

song lyrics wall art - so I have this song that I love. it's called Bury the Workman by Unspoken. so I used a fav quote from the song: "you can silence the voices, but you can't stop the song" and yes we'll try to ignore that major smudge that happened there yep k and it's actually super easy + cool to transfer text to a canvas?? heres the tutorial I used I just used canva to find the font I liked, saved the image and tossed it over to google docs where I sized the image to fit the page (the bigger one was two images that I pieced together)

 popsicle stick shelves - AREN'T THESE THINGS AMAZING?? (actually stole the cactus from my sis ahem) but okay, you guys have to make these. they add great dimension plus they are so easy to make + so cool. here's the link *whispers* they are also very calming to make ahem

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so yeah, this is the place where I read, hang out, do school, concoct characters to torture and listen to loads of music muahahahaa
also, if you believe my room is always this clean you are totally crazy and must have been brainwashed or something. okay srsly i'm not inhuman. I mean, I try to keep it clean bc I'm a pretty organized person. most of the time *cough* - but i can pretty much assure you that my desk never normally looks this clean lol xD

**I don't support or agree with everything on these websites these are just some cool tutorials I've found xD

what is your fav thing in my room / on my wall?? what's a diy you'd like to try?
feel free to use some of my DIY's as inspiration, I'd love to hear if you try any!

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