RED-Y for AUTUMN!

Yesterday, I did something that I've been wanting to do for a long time. I had dyed my hair auburn before, but it didn't really show...and it wasn't the color I really wanted. The color I wanted...was burgundy.

So yesterday, I got up the courage to do it. I was afraid the change would be too drastic, but thanks to my dark hair, it wasn't. I absolutely LOVE my burgundy hair! 

What do you think?

Oh, and I also cut my bangs and got layers again. So you can say it's a whole new look. ;) 

Here's a few more pics.

(oops! Sorry guys, that's a picture of the real me. ^_-)

Yesterday, I also got my camera bag in!

 

 

I love it. :) 

Oh, and I also got a few more things at Walmart.

This awesome red, white and blue tiger shirt off the clearance rack.

I needed some gold earrings, and I found these for $2. They look really cute and go with a lot of stuff.

Penthouse Pink. :) I would've gotten Essie, but they didn't have this particular color. I've been craving gold and light pink lately. No clue why.

And last but not least, my awesome new colorblock maxi! I didn't intend to get it to be trendy, I just love how it looks and feels. I've been wearing out my purple maxi. 

I also have some awesome plans for my jewelry shop that I'm working on, I can't wait to share it with ya'll! 

Have a wonderful week! 

Shopping trip!

YAY!!!!!

I'm so excited right now, because we're about to go shopping! 

It's been quite a while since I got to go. I woke up early and got all of the housework done, and even put a chicken in the crockpot for dinner. I can't wait to share with ya'll my finds! 

I know for sure that I'm getting some black and some grey polyster knit so I can make myself 2 dresses. 

I'll be using this tutorial. 

Sweet Verbena

It'll be my first attempt at making a dress, so I'm thankful for her easy instructions. The black dress with be maxi length, but the grey with be just past the knee, so I'll probably be able to make a skirt with the left over material.

I hope it comes out as pretty as her's! Oh, and don't forget to check out Sweet Verbena for several other awesome easy tutorials. 

I didn't take a picture of today's outfit, so I'll share my outfit for last night when we went to Jonny Carino's. It was raining, so I had to deal with yucky artificial light. 

coral tshirt, jean jacket,necklace~Walmart/jean skirt~thrift store, refashioned by me/summer wedges~Payless/wooden bracelets~made by me/brown stud pearl earrings~Cato. 

I know, ya'll are probably getting so tired of seeing this skirt. ;) 

I LOVE my new jean jacket. I couldn't wait to wear it. 

I wore the jacket last night, one for the look, and two because I always get cold in restaurants. The necklace was given to me, and I didn't know if I liked it at first because it's so unusual. But now, I wear it a lot. I wanted to cute wedges for a long time before they finally slashed the price in half. They're some of my most comfortable shoes.

Well, I gotta go get ready to go shopping! 

memories and my favorite color

Hello there!

How are ya'll today?

I am enjoying my morning (ok, I know it's almost afternoon. Another great thing about Easter vacation!) I'm sitting at my desk typing this post, listening to Gospel Light Teen choir, smelling my wonderful cinnamon candle burning, and feeling the breeze coming from my open window.

I'm wearing this necklace...

  that was given to me for my 20th birthday. Well, my best friend Megan surprised me with a mall day, and she got me this necklace at Charming Charlie's for a really good price. I love it. Some jewelry is simply to go with an outfit, but some jewelry has meaning to it, you know? Like this necklace reminds me of all the fun we had that day. Plus, it reminds me that even though Meg and I live far apart, She still loves me. That, plus we've sent each other letters, and she's mailed some postcards to me from their vacations, so it has a lot of memories wrapped up in it. And I think the 3 pearls is a good symbol of the fact that we're 3 years apart, and yet I can tell her just about anything.

So now on to today's Polyvore set. I like many colors, but today's color is my favorite.

For the longest time, my favorite color was blue. But over the past few years, I've developed a real adoration for red. It's bold, classic, feminine, and good for any time of the year (in my opinion). A while back, I wrote down an article that listed the personalities of colors. The color red's personality is: warmth, boldness, gaiety, excitement, impatience, joy.

Pretty interesting, huh?

I have the personality of several other colors as well if you'd be interested for me to do a post on them sometime.

Now, to talk about the set. I found a dress similar to this, but it had a 50's style air to it. Sadly, it was a size too small, no matter how I looked at it. So another lady from our church got it. O well. :(

The red heels....*sighs*. Perfection.

Red roses are my favorite flower, so of course I love the earrings. And once again, red nail polish is just...classic. My friend Abby would agree with me on the red converse. And I don't normally care for clutches, but this red satiny clutch with the little silver rhinestone Love on it is just adorable.

So what was your favorite item in this set?

Tonight we're going to church, so I'm going to try to get a few pics of my outfit. It's really cute. :)

Have a good day!

1AM, pink and brown, and a new best friend

First off, would you like to know what I was doing at 1AM?

How bout.....writing a list of blog ideas! 

I don't know why, but my brain would not quit last night! It just kept running at 100 miles an hour, thinking of all kinds of great ideas! I was about to go crazy from sleepiness, but loving it all at the same time. I have so many blog topics that just from this list, I could write a post every day for a month! 

I would've taken a better pic, but I didn't want ya'll to be able to see what's coming up. ;) 

So now on to the pink and brown.

These are two colors I like quite a bit (in case you haven't noticed, there's not many colors I DON'T like!), and they also are the colors I'm wearing today.

 

These are my feeble attempts to take a picture in the mirror. Finally, I decided to go outside, but there was no one handy to take pics for me. So, I grabbed my tripod (that I've never used yet) and decided to figure out the 10 second timer that I've never used yet on my camera. 

These are the results. 

(by the way, I did crop this one, because I didn't like my facial expression, but I liked the pic of the outfit.)

Oh and another thing. Every piece of today's outfit (besides the brown pearl earrings) was given to me......

....including these comfy shoes.

How cool is that? 

I think my 10 second timer is amazing.

Are you wondering what my new best friend is?

Yep, it's my amazing tripod! I ordered it off of eBay some time ago, but when I got it, I thought it looked rather flimsy. 

But this little lady sure proved herself today.

As a matter of fact, she did so good, I think she should have a name (I name all my favorite gadgets).

My laptop is named Martha (because a lot of times, she likes to do her own thing), my phone is Brandie, and my adored, dear friend, Canon Rebel XS SLR is named Diego. 

I think my tripod's new name will be Florence. 

She makes a great wife for Diego.

Do you know why?

Because she is always there to support him.

HA! HA!

Ok, enough with the corny jokes. ;)

I'll see ya'll later!