before i die, pt. 2

right now, all I ask is that before I die, I...

i am in desperate need of some academic positive reinforcement.

days like today...make me forget why I'm putting myself through this.

Hopefully tomorrow reminds me how blessed I am.

boo hoo.

i feel like whining today.

but i won't.

before I die, pt. 1

The start of a new series.

My hope is that every sunday I will add to my "bucket list"

again, all pictures are re-blogged from this amazing site.

{enjoy}

This is my number one bucket list item :)

Pretty seasonally relevant

<3

Someone needs to follow through on taking my shooting...

tree hugger :)

If only my dad would teach me how

If you know me, this goes without saying.

Getting close!

I want this more than anything.

someday...

coming soon...

a visually stimulating bucket list.

disclaimer: I stole some all of the pictures from another website.

But they're REALLY cool.

And I'm really excited about it.

But I don't have enough time to do the whole thing tonight.

Here's a teaser:

(the source)

crafting is my middle name

Today {minus a miserable run-in} was quite pleasant.

Clear blue skies, crisp fall weather, and...HALLOWEEN CRAFTING!

L and I got together today to make a few halloween crafts.

{It's amazing to have a friend who not only shares my love of halloween, but also my love of crafting}

So our first project was based off of this:

{of course...found on pinterest.com}

So in order to achieve these gems we bought:

styrofoam cones (2 sizes)

yarn: yellow, burnt orange, white

and

we used a hot glue gun

It really was quite simple:

1) Mark off the boundaries for each color (we had the middle/orange part be slightly thinner than the white and yellow portions)

2) Hot glue the yarn to the styrofoam (I found that the best way to get the yarn to stay on the edges of the cone was to hot glue all the way around, but the parts glued to the middle of the cone only required a little bit of glue)

3) Wrap the yarn around and around...and around

4) Hot glue the end of the yarn at the stopping point for that color.

Mid-craft

Watch as L wraps the yarn around to finish up her candy corn!

The candies are coming along!

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My next project was also inspired by pinterest.com

Before:

After (some hot glue and some ribbons):

Love it!

And here's the whole gang of halloween crafts:

{{thanks L for your help today! It was so fun!}}

pumpkins and ribbons galore!

Yes, yes it IS that time again!

Time to decorate my house for Halloween!

I like to sneak in pumpkins/gourds where I can.
And I kind of love those cute, halloweeny dish towels!

                         See?
              So many pumpkins!

I think the "Happy Halloween" blocks and stacked pumpkins are my favorite!

{{swooning}}