30 for 30 Challenge 2016

A couple things before i go into my regular post:
-turns out my last post was my 200th post! Hurray!
-today is Beltane so Happy Beltane everyone!

ok for my post -
May is the 30 for 30 crafting challenge. i had tried to do this last year, but came up short. this year i'm going to do it and complete the whole month! this year i have a good incentive to complete the challenge, for i have a cousin getting married on June 4th that i'm completing a project for. and so i must have it done for the wedding. so i'm going to use the challenge to complete the project. for those who need a reminder of what the 30 for 30 crafting challenge is: the challenge is to craft (specifically cross stitch for me) for 30 days in a row for at least 30 minutes a day. it doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but when you are tired and just don't want to do anything, it can be hard to want to cross stitch. so this challenge will really help me finish my project for my cousins wedding. the only issue is that my cousin follows me on twitter and so the progress pictures i post will probably be super vague. sorry everyone. can't have my cousin seeing her gift before the wedding. i will for sure post the finished project when i am done and after the wedding. i promise!

Thanks to The Crafting Geek for inspiring me to do the challenge. check out her twitter and instagram to see her progress of the challenge. also you should check her out just to see the totally awesome stuff that she has made!

may cross stitching

so i sadly was unable to to keep with the 30 for 30 crafting challenge. i got really close, but events came up and i couldn't keep up. i missed the last couple of days in the month of may. here are pictures of the last stuff i worked on.

 this is the fairy cross stitch. yesterday i did even more and finished the first half of the fairy cross stitch. i now have the second half and then i'll be done. 

this is the cross stitch i did for my friends wedding. they are big car people so i thought this would be perfect. i like the frame with it too. hopefully they like it too. :)

the wedding dress

so my mom printed out the wedding pictures from my sister Marianne's wedding and the photographer got a picture of the 'something blue' i made for my sister on the wedding dress. so i just wanted to share with everyone the picture. here's the post i did about my sisters 'something blue'. and here's the photo of the 'something blue' on the wedding dress. :)

something blue part two

Wow it's been a long time since I've posted. Sorry about that. I had two weddings in 3 months, things got a little crazy. I will do better about posting more often.

My stepsister and my sister got married this summer/fall. I made both of their 'something blue'. I've already shared breanna's, so here's Marianne's. With Marianne's she wanted something a little different. The two last names are her son's and her husband's (soon to be her last name). Took me just one day to finish it. Ok here it is.

something blue

so my stepsister breanna is getting married in less than a month! i can't believe it! and my part of the wedding is being a bridesmaid (which i'm very honored!). but i also got the honor of making my sisters 'something-blue'. i had told breanna from the start that if she wanted me to make something for her (meaning cross stitch) i would be happy to. breanna stated that she wanted me to cross stitch her 'something-blue'. i was very happy to oblige. so a weekend or two ago, i made it for her. it was of a design that breanna picked out and she wanted everything to be in different shades of blue. the design will be sewed onto the inside of the wedding dress. and then after the wedding, the design will be taken from the dress and i'll frame it. here's it is:

it's alive!

hey there! i'm really sorry it's been so long since i've written. time just gets away and then i feel like i'm running to catch up. so this post is just going to be an update post. and then i'll get back into the swing of things. sorry about that.
lets see...

family - yesterday was my cousin anna's high school graduation party. i can't believe anna is that old! i remember when she was born! yes i'm that person now. hehe. at least i don't pinched her cheeks or anything. hehe. at the party of bunch of my moms family that i don't see very often was there. cousins of cousins kind of family. so it was nice to catch up with them all.

playwright - well one of the cousin of cousin - my moms cousin lee is an acting teacher in new york at a special high school for the performing arts. and he said they are always looking for new scripts to perform. so he said for me to email my scripts to him and his students might perform them. so that made me very happy! i'm going to send him the first play i ever wrote. which is an adaptation of 'the things they carried' by tim o'brien. i wrote that for my senior one act in high school. and i've always been proud of it. so if it gets performed, i'm just going to have to take a trip to new york and see it performed and see the city! hehe. so i hope it gets performed. if not, i understand. but if it does, that would be amazing!

weddings - my sister marianne is getting married! caleb is the new addition to the family. i've met him over skype. i know not the best way to meet someone but when you live across the country from each other, that's about as best as it's going to get; until you travel there that is. so the wedding will be in october. which of course is two months after my step sisters wedding which is in august. so many weddings, so little time!

work - i've been at my new job for 3 months now. i really like it there. the people are very nice and fun to work with. it's a laid back job but at the same time they are demanding of my time. it's an very good balance of working hard and having fun at work. like the other day we all were given little pots with flower seeds to grow while we were at work. like we were doing a 3rd grade science project. but it was totally fun. it took about 30 minutes out of our day, which was a nice little break in the work day.

letterboxing - now that the weather is nice again i've been going out letterboxing. it's so nice to go out and do it again. i've been going just about every monday. since i have the days off, it's a nice way to spend my time. and there are so many by me that i haven't found! it's like pokemon, i must catch them all! hehe. me and a friend are talking about taking a road trip just for letterboxing. which i think would be totally awesome! we haven't picked where to yet. but i've very excited for the idea of a road trip just for letterboxing!

photos - check out my flickr account and instagram account for pictures from the last couple of months. too many to post on this. hehe.

well that's all for now. i will update much more now. sorry about that. until next time!

Breanna's Wedding Weekend

So this past weekend I was at my dad's and the whole weekend was about getting things done for my stepsister's (breanna) wedding. My sister (marianne) is going to be making Breanna's wedding dress so most of the weekend was about getting the things for that. But we also got the bridesmaid dresses. Breanna's dress it going to be a strapless heart shaped dress. Its going to be beautiful! Marianne is an amazing dress maker so she'll do an awesome job. And Breanna is beautiful so she will look great all on her own. The bridesmaid dresses are going to be purple and us bridesmaids will look great. The wedding isn't until August but I'm starting to get excited. Here are some pictures from the weekend. The first picture is of Marianne and I in the bridesmaid dresses. The next two photos are of Marianne working on the dress. I'm not going to post Breanna in the dress for I don't want to give anything away. :)

family good news

i have two things with my family that is wonderful news. first my brother got promoted with his job! woot woot for him. he is now a VP. second is that my stepsister recently got engaged to her bf. i'm super excited for the both of them. so i've already picked out the cross stitch projects i'm going to make for both siblings in celebration. hehe. how else would i celebrate their good news?! hehe.