CRAFTS!!!

I love CRAFTING! So I recently made this shirt:

See the monogram detailing?! It is so I can look classy in Aspen when I want to be lazy! YAY!

The Stars and Stripes are Big and Bright....

Dallas has been so much better than I thought it could be! Lauren and Erin have been filling my life with wonder and crafts inspire me daily. Today, I took a song by Jonathan Coulton and made a mug out of it using the Sharpie technique on Pinterest. My hint to you, do NOT run the mug under water to cool it down... it will crack... you will have to super glue it back together... BUT I do love this mug!

 

This is how it turned out. except I painted the whole handle black. I am so excited to use it and make some more! Hopefully some without cracks though considering it is more for look than use, the cuteness completely counteracts the coffee that will probably spill on my lap.

Next craft: I'm gonna try another mug and then a LV tank top... you know Lord Voldemort!

She's My Little Whiskey Girl...

...But tequila makes her clothes fall off.

I had a wonderful time last night! For my birthday, Ray got us tickets to the Brad Paisley concert at Wrigley Field. But this was an event! Jarod Niemann opened followed by The Band Perry, Chris Young, Miranda Lambert and then Brad himself. We were so close! We were sitting on the field, with special wristbands and everything. But there was this great moment when Brad started singing "Remind Me" and a glowing silhouette started walking out for the girl part and then Carrie Underwood was there! That wonderful woman flew in to sing half a song at this concert and I was dying! Just dying!

With Wrigley behind us!

So many cool lights with this theme

No zoom on this... that is the stage RIGHT THERE

Somehow this is my life

MIRANDA! 

I helped my mom move my gramma out of her house this week as well. It was the final move because on Saturday there was an estate sale. I of course swept up some wonderful things: a 50's fur coat, my great-grandma's go to formal dress, some silk blouses, a hot pink pencil skirt, and a safari skirt that may or may not ever actually come in style again. I also snagged this sweet jacket for Mrs. Raya (my high school theatre director) since she is doing "Back to the 80's" again this fall.

Sexii & U No It

I head home Wednesday evening, a little earlier than I had previously planned but I have dealt with it. Ray and my one year anniversary is Thursday so we will be celebrating on Tuesday night. It is incredible how quickly time passes when it is with someone you love so much. He has done so much for me that he will never know and I will never be able to properly thank him for. It is really amazing to date your best friend in the world.

My Handsome Cowboy

So this is probably my last post from Chi-town  until September! Big D... here I come!

And It's Outta Here!

As of about 8 minutes ago, I became a senior... woah. I technically turned in my last paper at like 11 this morning BUT I didn't feel like a senior until I completely moved out of Theta. Now as much as I love the Tau and all it has to offer (Carlos & Carlos are incredible cooks!) I am thrilled to be living off campus next year and enjoying not having to deal with inspections and being able to have a mini bar without getting a strike and having my own room. I celebrated by buying myself a super big gulp of Dr Pepper before the Mayor of New York passes on his 16 oz drink idea to everyone and am now sitting, sweating from unpacking my room all by myself, and typing away. I called my dad to tell him proudly and out of breath but HEY! I got in my first workout of the summer by carrying all 16 boxes packed full up and down the stairs. I have blisters and little black floaty things in front of my face but everything is going to be all right. I'm back to Dallas in a week and a half and I'm beginning to get excited for it! Time to get this girl back into the heat and the Park Cities to inspire her to look like the model skinny, size 00 40-year-olds!

New Layout

I decided that I wanted to change up the layout on the page to be a bit more mature. Not so much purple. A more classic feel. Basically, after almost 9 months of blogging it was time to express my other side. You know, my "I sometimes wear pearls with sweatpants" kinda of classy side. In fact, my goal this summer is to make sure that every item I have can be made into a classy outfit or at least a classy studying outfit. I want to be able to pick out any item and dress it up or down and love on everything I'm wearing that day. I also want to slowly build into that "out of college, I wear heels casually" place. There are a lot of places I want to get to this summer, like 20 lbs lighter but that's an entirely different fight... like my fight with the treadmill and the morning. So first stop, change the blog and second stop change the world.. or at least my body! YAY!

June Post... DONE!

At this rate I'm looking at one post a month... that's pretty bad. It is just with school wrapping up and all there isn't much to write about unless y'all want to hear about my papers... BLECH!

So it looks like my summer might be figured out. I'm not sure if I'm happy about it or not but it is something. I might be spending a month house sitting in Aspen and the rest of it in Dallas. Though I just got cast in the Scottish Play and I have to be back at school September 10th for that. Not really like that is a worry because everyone I know will be back at school anyway. Since we don't start until Halloween practically.

Theta formal happened. My sorority involvement is so small. I'm sorry Betty Locke for failing you. Really.

But at least we looked charming for once! We ran straight from Medieval Times for this event. Ray thought he had lost his wallet at Medieval Times. Turns out it was in the shower... weird one Ray.

Dillo happened as well. I took at 5:45 am flight home to spend my morning with these lovely people who I am sure Iw ill call family very soon. This is most of the Dance Marathon Executive board for next year and a few alums as well. I love them so much and can't wait to see what we do together!

And then I spend the afternoon with people like this. Wonderful fabulous humans who make me smile and have been there for me throughout college. Many of whom are graduating in a week and I don't know what to do about it. Many are staying in Chicago but a lot are leaving me for far off lands like New York. Twill be rough.

The year is wrapping up. One more paper to go and then I'm outta here. I guess. Don't really want to leave but that is the plan right now. There will be a silver lining somewhere. I am happy to get to see Lauren and Erin but also sad to leave Ray and people here. Life pulls you in so many directions and you just got to figure out which direction is the right one to turn down right then.