my five favorite foods right now (in no particular order)
1. sushi> spider roll, rainbow roll, shrimp asparagas roll
2. greek pitas
3. fried green tomatoes
4. cucumbers
5. salmon
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
honey and sugar scrub
Honey and Sugar Scrub Mask for face, feet, elbows, knees, or wherever the hell you please!
Ingredients:
equal parts of raw honey and raw sugar.
you can also add in any herbs that you would like.
Directions:
stir together in bowl and tada your finished
I love this scrub and I haven't even bothered buying scrub since I started making it. You can also use olive oil and sugar but I feel like the olive oil stinks and leaves your skin oily. Honey hydrates and kills bacteria so it is awesome for your face. It also leaves your feet very soft. If you use it exclusively for your feet you could throw in some fresh grated mint for a minty zingy scent!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
skip de doo
I have been so busy painting! I have found all of this inspiration lately (which is my biggest problem when it comes to painting) and I can't stop coming up with new things to draw and paint! This is actually kind of great! The more I paint the more I learn about different techniques and such.
Secondly, I have been doing very good with becoming Catholic :] This Sunday will be my fourth sunday in a ROW going. If you can believe that one haha. I talked to the lady who is in charge of the Catholic classes on the phone and in person and I start those in fall...I am actually excited about this because the more I learn about Catholicism the more I like it and the less I understand protestants! I feel like I am asking Alex a ton of questions every week about stuff, especially after mass. I can't wait to go to the classes and figure out why some of the things are done the way they are.
Thirdly, I LOVE ALEX :] We have so much fun together. Its really cool that we are starting our 4th year together and I still feel the exact same way I felt about him when we first started seeing each other.
Fourthly, I LOVE JESSICA!!!!!!!! I miss her so much these days its retarded. I didn't see her last weekend and it made me very upset. We are both so busy we don't have time for visiting these days. I am looking at Ben and Carrie's wedding as a romantic getaway for us :P
have an awesome week people.
Secondly, I have been doing very good with becoming Catholic :] This Sunday will be my fourth sunday in a ROW going. If you can believe that one haha. I talked to the lady who is in charge of the Catholic classes on the phone and in person and I start those in fall...I am actually excited about this because the more I learn about Catholicism the more I like it and the less I understand protestants! I feel like I am asking Alex a ton of questions every week about stuff, especially after mass. I can't wait to go to the classes and figure out why some of the things are done the way they are.
Thirdly, I LOVE ALEX :] We have so much fun together. Its really cool that we are starting our 4th year together and I still feel the exact same way I felt about him when we first started seeing each other.
Fourthly, I LOVE JESSICA!!!!!!!! I miss her so much these days its retarded. I didn't see her last weekend and it made me very upset. We are both so busy we don't have time for visiting these days. I am looking at Ben and Carrie's wedding as a romantic getaway for us :P
have an awesome week people.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
what have i been up to you ask?
Painting. I have been a painting fool here lately. I painted blue and green stripes in my hallway, I painted my fridge in the house purple, I painted my railings and other random objects around the house and I painted an acrylic on canvas mermaid pic. It is very cartoony and cute. I almost think I could sell pictures like this with a little more practice (I accidently only gave my mermaid 9 fingers...details details).
Alex and I have begun been trying to make my house ours I guess you could say. I know next summer I am going to be so overwhelmed with wedding stuff that I thought I would start now. One reason he really loved the house he grew up in was the backyard. So we are trying to make the backyard more sit-able if that makes any sense. The other day we bought 30 of those stones you lay in the yard to make a patio. This week we are going to buy 40 more to make it big enough for a fire pit, chairs, and the backyard table. I think it is going to be very nice and hopefully a place where many memories are made. My front porch definitely lacks privacy! I am going to prolong painting my pink girly cutsey bedroom because I want it to be pink girly and Jamieliscious for as long as I can get away with it :]
Also, Alex and I are getting a canoe! This is something we have been wanting to do for the past 2 years and we are finally going to do it. The canoe, oars, and lifevests are going to cost about a thousand bucks so I am thinking we may incorporate this canoe into our honeymoon. We have been talking about going to Savannah, GA for a few years and I have never been so we may take a roadtrip there and bring the canoe! Savannah isn't exactly tropical but since we are staying at my house we are going to save up so much money that we can do a tropical honeymoon for our 1 year anniversary if we want! Plus our honeymoon would be in the first week of October and I cannot think of a better place to be in October than Savannah. I believe Savannah is known for being incredibly haunted and spooky and I would love it! I love fall so much!
Alex and I have begun been trying to make my house ours I guess you could say. I know next summer I am going to be so overwhelmed with wedding stuff that I thought I would start now. One reason he really loved the house he grew up in was the backyard. So we are trying to make the backyard more sit-able if that makes any sense. The other day we bought 30 of those stones you lay in the yard to make a patio. This week we are going to buy 40 more to make it big enough for a fire pit, chairs, and the backyard table. I think it is going to be very nice and hopefully a place where many memories are made. My front porch definitely lacks privacy! I am going to prolong painting my pink girly cutsey bedroom because I want it to be pink girly and Jamieliscious for as long as I can get away with it :]
Also, Alex and I are getting a canoe! This is something we have been wanting to do for the past 2 years and we are finally going to do it. The canoe, oars, and lifevests are going to cost about a thousand bucks so I am thinking we may incorporate this canoe into our honeymoon. We have been talking about going to Savannah, GA for a few years and I have never been so we may take a roadtrip there and bring the canoe! Savannah isn't exactly tropical but since we are staying at my house we are going to save up so much money that we can do a tropical honeymoon for our 1 year anniversary if we want! Plus our honeymoon would be in the first week of October and I cannot think of a better place to be in October than Savannah. I believe Savannah is known for being incredibly haunted and spooky and I would love it! I love fall so much!
Friday, July 9, 2010
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Gabi's wedding is in almost a month and I am a bridesmaid! I am all of a sudden getting kind of nervous because I can be a little bit of a weeper when it comes to situations like this. I went to a wedding a few months ago and I cried, and cried, and cried..and cried. I really didn't even know the couple THAT well. I can only imagine what I will be like being in a close friends wedding. This will be good haha. And more importantly...WHAT ABOUT MY OWN. I cry at the thought of walking down the isle and seeing Alex. Seriously Im tearing up now. Great, Im going to work on toughening up in the next few months. Ok thats all.
Monday, July 5, 2010
oil spill
I don't claim to know anything about politics, I rarely watch the important parts of the news, and I do not go out of my way to save our planet or environment but this oil spill is really driving me nuts. Everyday I think about the fact that if the oil keeps spilling out the Eastern Shore may not even be live-able next year (or this year..idk). I feel like nothing is really even being done about it. Think back a few months ago to the earthquakes in South America, it was all over the news, the president was doing all he could to help out, celebrities were pitching in, blah blah blah it was a big deal. How come things aren't being done for the oil spill? Is Obama doing anything?! Last night I was watching fireworks, and having a sentimental moment about being proud to live in America and I couldn't help but laugh thinking that Obama is probably in some other country...I doubt he was but it sure wouldn't surprise me. Anyhow that is my griping for the night over that whole deal.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Water Country, Richmond and Beyond
On Thursday Alex and I packed up the Expedition and headed to Water Country USA :] The first two slides I went down I thought I was going to puke (I have developed a motion sickness issue!). I pushed through it and ended up getting used to it and had a blast! I don't know that I have ever had that much fun all packed into 5 hours. We rode every ride several times. One ride in particular was terrifying and it is where you get on a sled at the top of the slide and they just let you go and tada you somehow survive. It looks terrifying and it IS terrifying!
After all of that excitement we traveled further South and stayed with my sister for the night. We went to a Flying Squirrels baseball game. This is the Squirrels first season in Richmond, last year they were the Richmond Braves. The game was almost sold out. It was pretty awesome.
The next day we left at 10am and stopped in Williamsburg to eat at Cracker Barrel. After that we got back on 64 but it was a parking lot so we got off the next exit and took the more rural route 60. Along the way we found several cute towns one of which we stopped in (can't remember the name). We stopped at this consignment shop called "Act II" It was huge and amazing. It was very clean (like Benjamins in Salisbury), and was reasonably priced. I tried on a pair of Kate Spade shoes that were $150 but they were reduced half price. I really had to resist the urge to buy them! They also had a ton of Lily Pulitzer marked very cheap. I found a dress for $38. I ended up buying a pair of Blue Dragon polka dotted and rainbow mules with a slight heal on sale for $33. They are so fabulous and I can't wait to wear them!!! I really loved that shop. It was everything a consignment shop should be and MORE. Then after that we were about to get in the car and I noticed there was an antique store next door...and you know I wasn't going to pass that up. After walking in and getting slapped in the face with an initial lingering funk it was a really cool store! The antique store was once an old bank and they kept it looking like a bank! It was full of vintage clothing, hats, purses, jewelry, some furniture, some oddball things, but mostly fashion related stuff. It was very cool. I didn't buy anything but really seeing all of the neat stuff. After that we went furniture shopping at "The Dump" which is like "That" furniture store in Salisbury. All showroom samples, overage stuff, things that didn't sell, etc... They had alot of neat furniture.
And once we were back on the Shore we stopped to eat, yet once again, at our favorite Mexican place El Maguey.
That concludes our too short trip! Have a FANTASTIC 4TH OF JULY!!!
After all of that excitement we traveled further South and stayed with my sister for the night. We went to a Flying Squirrels baseball game. This is the Squirrels first season in Richmond, last year they were the Richmond Braves. The game was almost sold out. It was pretty awesome.
The next day we left at 10am and stopped in Williamsburg to eat at Cracker Barrel. After that we got back on 64 but it was a parking lot so we got off the next exit and took the more rural route 60. Along the way we found several cute towns one of which we stopped in (can't remember the name). We stopped at this consignment shop called "Act II" It was huge and amazing. It was very clean (like Benjamins in Salisbury), and was reasonably priced. I tried on a pair of Kate Spade shoes that were $150 but they were reduced half price. I really had to resist the urge to buy them! They also had a ton of Lily Pulitzer marked very cheap. I found a dress for $38. I ended up buying a pair of Blue Dragon polka dotted and rainbow mules with a slight heal on sale for $33. They are so fabulous and I can't wait to wear them!!! I really loved that shop. It was everything a consignment shop should be and MORE. Then after that we were about to get in the car and I noticed there was an antique store next door...and you know I wasn't going to pass that up. After walking in and getting slapped in the face with an initial lingering funk it was a really cool store! The antique store was once an old bank and they kept it looking like a bank! It was full of vintage clothing, hats, purses, jewelry, some furniture, some oddball things, but mostly fashion related stuff. It was very cool. I didn't buy anything but really seeing all of the neat stuff. After that we went furniture shopping at "The Dump" which is like "That" furniture store in Salisbury. All showroom samples, overage stuff, things that didn't sell, etc... They had alot of neat furniture.
And once we were back on the Shore we stopped to eat, yet once again, at our favorite Mexican place El Maguey.
That concludes our too short trip! Have a FANTASTIC 4TH OF JULY!!!
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