DIY Thursday!

I love jars.

Old jars. New jars. You name it. I got 'em.
I use jars for tons of things including decoration, but a few of the jars in my hoard were not being used for anything yet and were just looking quite plain.
Sad.
I don't like plain...I like cute!
Today after school I was feeling extra creative and decided it was time for a new project.
30 minutes later I created my new little family of jars...



Here's a quick picture tutorial
[just in case you like the idea]
on how I made my jars a little more cute-sy...

Okay just in case you work better reading directions, here's the breakdown:

1. Choose some fabric, cut into strips and make your rosette.
2. Join me in my cheap ghetto-fabulousness and cut small pieces from your old/used bath scrunchies.
3. Sew each piece to the back of the rosette. (Don't kill yourself trying to find matching thread because no one will see the stitches...hence I used my unloved forest green thread)
4. Cut 3 long pieces of twine/ thread/ whatevs you want and braid or twist together.
5. Staple your long piece of braided thread to your rosette. Or if you don't have a trusty staple gun GET ONE...just kidding. A needle and thread work perfectly fine as well.
6. Finally tie your cute new accessory around the neck of your jar.
   

AND.......WAHH-LAAAA! JAR BEAUTIES!

[If you DO want to cute-sy up your own jars but don't know how to make the rosette click the link below to watch a YouTube tutorial.Just watch the first part and she will teach how to make the actual fabric rosette. ]

http://youtu.be/oBHQ4Z6eO2U

Happy Beautifying!

Barf Homework.

My art class this semester is frustrating. We draw shoes. We also draw various tools you would find in your fathers toolbox. It's just...not......fun. You know? I want to be creatively challenged! So naturally I find myself drawing everything else besides my assigned homework.
Which was,wait for it....SHOES. Didn't see that coming.
So I drew this instead. It's not finished and of course I still hate like 1,000 things about it. But it's more exciting than posting a picture of shoes.
You're welcome.Happy Sunday Loves!
Make it a good one.
I'm going outside to enjoy the beautiful weather, drink a latte, and kiss my boyfriend.

9 hour vacay for the vacay deprived.

I had a lovely Friday in San Fransisco with Mr. Glover.

[thank you jeff for taking my shift so i could have some fun, you are da best.]

Suuuuper bummed my phone died only 2 hours into the day, i missed too many great pictures and was forced to take them with my imaginary camera I will one day have instead.
None-the-less, it was such a fun day spent with fishies, good food, good coffee, good laughs, and good the best company. The city is one of my favorite places EVER. I could live there and be quite happy.

See you soon san franny! xoxo

Normal?

I have been extremely absent from you blog, apologies. I've just been so busy, doing what feels like, the same old shiiiiii...cago [gotcha, didn't I?]. I feel like daily grind has been wearing on me. My "normal", boring, daily grind days, have seem to become everyday. Nothing new, no sign of change. Not even the seasons! It's almost October and its still 100 million degrees out.

My daily routine, which goes something like this:

{4:20am/5:50am : Alarm. Open eyes. Sigh. Groan. Get out of bed and ready for work.
Work: Pull shots of espresso, ring people up. Clean. Listen to entitled customers complain. Clean more. Pull more shots of espresso. Multi-task being a slave while trying to have fun with my dear co-workers. Clean more.
Off work.
Race back to the house. Change clothes. Grab my sketch book from under my never ending pile of dirty laundry and complete my incomplete homework just quick enough to finish but slow enough to look like i "took my time with it".
Race out the door.
Im late to school, as usual.
Draw for 3 hours (I guess I can't complain much there...I could be doing something wretched like math)
Come back to the house, shower. (Dont worry, usually i shower in the mornings if i dont open, but when i do...dont expect much outta me)

Wash. Rinse. Repeat. }....okay obvi not everyday is like that. But mostly.

This boring same-old, same-old has made me crave change, and I think has worn on my appreciation of my life in general. This is kind of a blessing and a curse. For one, the fact that Nicole is ACTUALLY wanting something to change is incredible in itself. I am a creature of environment. And I need my environment to be comfortable and normal and the same. Mix it up on me without asking permission, and i have a mini freak out. Okay...a big freak out. So you can imagine how much of big deal it is that I'm finally at a point where I'm fully trusting and ready for God to move in my life.

As good as wanting change is, I think it is a shame I allowed such a bitter seed to grow in my heart that made me unappreciative of my "normal days". This year has been hard to say the least, and I've spent most of my time just waiting for the days when things get better and disregarding the day that I am actually living in.

That is a shame.

And let me tell you why:

Any day, normal or not, is a blessing. I have been given X amount of time on this earth. The fact that I have a new day to be alive and well is incredible, and that shouldn't be forgotten.
Just because I want some things in my life to progress and change doesn't mean one day it's actually going to happen like POOF!..out of no where everything is AMAZE-BALLS!

Mmm...no. I have to work for that. I have to use those normal monotonous days to get to the exciting days. Use those days to work to save money to be financially stable, to go to school to work on improving my artistic abilities to get a job i can one day use them for.

And besides that, I have some pretty awesome people in my life and some 100,000 blessings I dont deserve, to enjoy on those "normal" days.

Life will get there, I have to believe that.

Moral of the story:

Let's all remember to enjoy our normal day today while we are waiting for our AMAZE-BALLS day. Mmkay?

Today I made this earring slash jewelry holder. Making it made my normal day a little bit more fun.