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Here is some reviews for different bronzers to use when contouring your face. The girl doing the video is Kandee Johnson. She is a professional makeup artist for all sorts of celebs and quite a quirky and funny blogger with incredibly unique style. I highly suggest you subscribe to her Youtube channel and follow her blogs KandeeLand and Kandee J. 

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So after checking out the tutorial for sweater boots, I browsed around the Instrucatbles site for awhile and found something else I had to try immediately. A cover for iPads. I don't have an iPad but I do have a tablet. So I went through my fabric options (old clothes that I'm willing to cut up) and chose to shred apart my old vest I wore while working at a previous employer. lol And off to the sewing machine I went!

Now due to different resources and different size of technology, mine is slightly different than the one shown in the tutorial. I also decided to add little dabs of hot glue to the inside so my tablet wouldn't slide at all. I'm in love with it.  So check out the link and also I encourage you to look around a bit. Instructables is pretty awesome.

Next subject, my own creation. I was going through some stuff and I found an old wall calendar from 2005. It was the kind with two wooden dowels with those thin plastic strips that are sewn together and you can roll it up. I was going to throw it away but then I thought "I can do something with this." So I decided to paint on it. I found a cute quote online and went to town! I used acrylic and fabric paints (for shiny and raised text affect). I like how it turned out and wanted to share it with you all! :) Click on the images to get my step-by-step (aww, I miss that show) tutorial of what I did!

And last but most certainly not least, what I made for dinner tonight. It's brocc and cheese stuffed chicken breast with roasted potatoes and mixed veggies. I even channeled my inner iron chef and plated it all fancy like. 

I'm 24! Just got back from a five-day birthday vacation in Erie, PA. I had plans to stay in Courtney's spare room and just hang out with my friends the whole time I was up there. Thursday was the first whole day of my trip and my actual birthday. I woke up to a pink elephant cup on the coffee table and a note from Courtney telling me to have breakfast because it's the most important meal of the day. (Courtney wasn't getting home from work until 5:30) So I spent all day in pj's watching things on Netflix. She arrives home and tells me to get dressed because her and her boo (James) are taking me out to dinner. :) 
After being rushed out the door, and tricked into picking Torero's for dinner, we walk in to 6 of my other friends (plus two kiddos) at a table waiting for me with a cake and a huge balloon display. It was an awesome surprise and we all had a blast. The food was delicious, the people were great, the sangrias were yummy, and the knife we were given to cut the cake was HUGE! :) Just want to thanks all my friends who showed up: Tracy, Chris (and their adorable son Lucian), Don, Abby (and her entertaining daughter Elizabeth), Amanda, Jason, James, and Courtney! Love you all dearly!
Then Friday night, Courtney and I went out to Bacardie Joe's to celebrate a friend's birthday along with continuing my party lol. Let's just sum it up by saying it was intense. There was a run-in with an ex, a body shot, someone got pantsed, and we ended up at The Breakfast Place. 
Saturday night we had Amanda over for a pizza/pastries/movies night. It is always a good time when I hang out with either one of them, so put all three of us in a room and laughter will ensue. 
Sunday was a straight up LAZY DAY... we did NOTHING. Literally... sat on the couch just in recovery from the previous three days.
And last but not least, Monday. I packed up and headed over to Amanda's to hang out with her a little more and help her design her business card for her cake decorating operation. Then left for home :/

All in all, it was a very memorable birthday getaway. Below is a collection of some thing I got for my birthday, and after that are some pics of me and my friends. And before I go I just want to do another thanks to all of my Facebook friends who posted on my wall on Thursday! You all definitely kept me busy ;) 

1. Here is a some pics of the pink elephant cup and the note that was in it.
2. A necklace with a bobble elephant. He is going to hang in my car :)
3. A picture frame (without pic, unfortunately none of those girls are me lol) 
4. A handmade card from my friend Amanda's youngest daughter Sammy. <3
5. The card I got from Amanda and Jason.
6. W.H.O.'s Gorgeous perfume from Courtney and her Beauti Control 

I'm sure you could use other flavors of Kool-Aid Singles with this... Also make sure you don't use the whole singles pack for one drink. just give it a couple dashes of the stuff. you want to still be able to taste the chocolate lol

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The above image shows three Christmas gifts I received from my two besties. I adore how they both know what I love. Photography, my pet iguana Harry Houdini, and elephants are my favorite animal. :) I know that the ring and necklace are from Charming Charlie, but I'm not sure where the earrings were purchased. If I find out, I will edit this post to let you know! 

Here is a gallery of some non-jewelry faves. First is Broccoli and Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast. Now the pic is of what I just created on my own, but here is a similar recipe I found. Next is two of my favorite games to occupy my time, solitaire and Words with Friends. I do have an app to play solitaire on my phone/tablet, but I prefer to play card games with actual cards unless I can't, then I turn to the apps. I just prefer to shuffle the cards myself and actually have something to do besides tapping a screen. I guess I'm like those people who prefer to read actual books instead of using a Kindle. lol. And don't even get me started on Words with Friends. This game is truly addicting and also makes you get frustrated. Which is the classic duo of traits made famous by Angry Birds, where the one who is the angriest is the person playing. (why even have the red birds now that you have all these types who kick some pig butt. and why don't we get rewarded with bacon after killing the evil pigs???) Anyways, Words is another way to feel less guilty about spending time with your face glued to your electronic devices because it's somewhat educational. 
And last but certainly not least, Roach the caterpillar. We had one of our trash bins fall over the other night. So I was picking up the mess and tossed the pizza box to the pile-o-trash and on the underside was this little bright green caterpillar. I was surprised to see him because we have had about 3 different snow falls, and this was shortly after the worst of them. I didn't think he was alive, but when I touched him, he moved. I decided to grab my brother's old bug holder and rescue him from his certain death this winter. You know how they say that when the world ends the only thing that will survive are roaches? So Roach it is then! He has been with us for about a week now and is thriving! He eats and crawls all over the place. He also has redecorated his place a little, making sure every thing is feng shui. 
So there you have it, some of my favorite things right now. Let me know what some of your current favorite things are. I'd love to see what's trending right now in real life and not on Twitter. :) Have a great Monday everyone! 

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