the locket

Everyone always is asking me to open the locket and show them what picture I have in it. Strangers, friends, and family seem to have this great cursiouty about my locket. I sadly always give the same answer, "I don't have a picture in it", then they insist I open it and prove it. Starting last night though, I have changed that answer of mine too " why yes I have a picture in it, let me show you.. this is my boyfriend Niklas"

why? I don't know :)

taking up sewing

I have decided to learn to sew! I am very very and one more very excited!! Today I spent the day at Jo-Anns with the lady teaching me how. I picked out a pretty but simple dress pattern, and the materials I would need to complete it! Yea yea
here is a photo of the dress material it's sash, and on the back there will be one button, but what lovely buttons they are!

Lonely...

I am lonely, and felt like writing it down

I miss my boyfriend

The Lord though is amazing, and I feel Him
drawing me nearer.. I have been wanting to find a place to
display some art work, and then someone showed me a clipping
in the newspaper for this place called "God give Talent". I
went over to the store the other day to meet the lady and see
what the place is all about. She is the wonderful little Christian
lady, who has the nicest thrift store I have ever been in! Everything
is in perfect order, and she has tons of wall space, that she wants
to let artist use to try and sell pieces for a low price. Perfect for me!!
We ended up talking a long time, and before I left she grabbed my hands and said want to pray with you before you go, I have never had Christian I did not know, do that with me.. It was so encouraging!

Next thing on my list of things I want to do is learn how to sew,
well of course on of my friends knows someone who sews and would love
a student! I met up with her last week and had my first lesson :)

The thing I really needed right now was a job, and I did not know where to go, I kept feeling a tug to go try at the restaurant near Evans, Library, So I did ( didn't even know what restaurant it was). I got there discovered it was Chili's, and found out I needed to come back between two and four, but they were hiring for a hostess. Not what I really wanted I wanted to be a waitress! But I went back, and talked to a manager, she scheduled for a second interview the next day, and then hired me as a Server( chili's term for waitress) God gave me a job as a server, and I had been praying He would make me servant hearted. God is amazing! I have been training 5 days now there, and it is the hardest training I have done yet, I had to memorize the whole menu( and it is huge!!) Monday is my evaluation, to find out if I make the cut for a server at Chili's. Well this about sums up my past two weeks, and I think I am blogged out now:) here are a few of the pictures I am think about putting in the store God Given Talent.
Opinions please!!

the graveyard story

I was looking thru some old pictures day and found these one, of course I had to start laughing remembering this ridiculous night! It started off quite shall we say, innocent, me, Blaine, Brian, and Tyler had just finished eating at Sno Cap, and were thinking of what adventure we should go on next. (it is getting dark by the way) Me being the dumb person that I can be, suggested that we go to small graveyard nearby and take pictures or something.. In my car I had a blonde wig, a beanie hat with brown braids, and the camera!

beanie hat/wig culprit

Why did I have wigs in my car? I have No idea!! I sorta have this thing for wigs, but can't recall why I brought them with me this evening..
Anyways we took a few dumb pictures with them on, and then decided to play hide&seek! Great idea right, it is dark, slightly spooky( it is a graveyard after all) and we are all 20 years or older excluding my brother!

Brian culprit

Tyler gets designated to be the seeker, and the rest of us decide we shall hide together under a tree! We get under this massive tree, and then a huge spotlight hits us, with a voice coming out of nowhere! Come out where I can see you! OH my gosh!! A police car is there, with this lady beaming us down with the biggest flashlight I have ever seen, drilling out the questions, why are we here, what were we doing, where is our i.d., are there more of us? As she is drilling 3 more cop cars drive up, apparently the cops in this town were bored :) I think we all are feeling well rather nervous at this point.
Well, mam..umm we were playing hide&seek, and there are four of us. Police lady, hide&seek? right.... (she is thinking, what do they think i am a moron!?) Where is the fourth person?( Tyler is still out there and has no idea what is going on, this happened quickly) He is umm... *sigh* counting too a hundred. Police lady, right...
While they are checking our i.d.'s, two of the cops went out to find Tyler!

Tyler culprit

They asked us for our full names, me and Brian expecting Blaine to say, Blaine "blank" Holder, but no this is not his name, it is Phillip Blaine Holder. Of course me and Brian blurt out Phillip!? We didn't know that was your name, and probably made the cops wonder some more..

Blaine culprit

Anyways our i.d.'s did check out and I think the 2 cops guarding us were realizing that we were no threat and just some weird people. I think we all blushed when they asked us our ages. Finally the other two cops come back with Tyler, one of them had played tough cop with him and pushed him around a bit( i think Tyler was a little freaked out) and went thru the camera pictures, and discovered Blaine and Brian in wigs, they got weirdo look for that :)
They did clear us after Tyler came back and told us they received a call from the neighborhood that somebody had seen flashing lights in the graveyard and that it might be vandalizers(joyful camera flash). Then they left, laughing their heads off, and suggesting we don't go in graveyards at night.
I haven't since.

Me culprit

Tung Oiling (tongue oiling)

My built in bookshelf in my room! Last night my dad gave the super fun job of tung oiling! I only just found out it was spelled t-u-n-g, the whole time I have thought it was tongue.. Although what kind of oil you get from an animal tongue, I couldn't figure out :) Anyways these shelfs are beautiful, and I am excited to fill them up with books and little treasures! This picture that my mom says looks like "raw chicken" is the little tiny rag you get to use to oil the whole entire shelf! I think I have some new arm muscles now!

construction everywhere..

The journey of remodeling a house. While I was still in Germany for most of this project, I have gotten to enjoy not having a room, tung oiling, and painting my cloest! It is really neat watching a house being built around you, while tiring sometimes, and you wish all the banging and dust would go away, I love coming home and seeing a whole new section come alive! This first picture is of Gerald our contractor, he is a one man team! Awesome!! He likes to show up at 7:00am-7:30am and start sawing outside on something :) I have lost all need for an alarm clock! Can't wait to see the finished product, hopefully I will add some more pictures, but this is it for now, there are simply too many!

Brother

I made Tyler pose for me the other day, and this one is my favorite of the group!

pilates, zumba, and kickboxing

I never was a huge excerice person, but I really enjoy going to the Y and taking different classes! It makes my body feel better and I am learning so many things that could come in handy one day!

favorites

chik-fila madness

A little while ago Chik-fila had cow appreciation day, I had not planned on going.
After calling a friend though and finding out she was meeting another friend there with all their kids dressed up as cows, how could I resist!

I have started taking Pilate's, and am surprisingly enjoying it.
It is a hundred times harder than I thought it would be, but after
hearing my mother talk about it all the time and she is in far better
shape then me, I decided to give it a go! Due to my recent two week
distraction in the form of a wonderful boy, I have not been dedicated to
going, but starting tomorrow, I shall get back on track!

tonight I have a burning desire to create things...

-beautiful things-

i want to write
i want to sing
i want to capture in a roll of film the beauty our eyes see
i want to make the outfit that will make a girl smile when she puts it on...

tonight the world is full of possibilities

a wonderful two weeks, too quickly gone by...

Two weeks ago my family planned on going to a mexican restaurant together. The time we would meet was unusually late for us, because my father was working late( since when does he work late I thought). My mom, brother, and I were waiting on the phone call saying he was leaving work and on the way to the restaurant so we could go! All of us were hungry, and I was enjoying a slight headache. We left the house around 9-ish, my head was starting to hurt more, but I was trying to put on a good face about going :) We arrive and I follow my family as we head to the back outside part, to find my dad, and then my heart stops - there is my dad and my boyfriend Niklas from Germany! I turned back around and then looked again, I thought I was hallucinating! But no he was there living breathing staring at me. I think I did the bend over not breathing thing for about 5 minutes and then sat down, shaking and shaking holding the menu upside down. My father had been "working" late because he picked my darling boy up from the airport! And everyone seemed to know he was coming but me, what a surprise!! So I have spent a wonderful totally distracted two weeks, and decided we really do like each other, can't wait to get to know each other even better.
Here are a few pictures from our trip - he left yesterday, and now I am lonely and only feel like watching movies and eating ice cream..