Busy Bee

I've been working more and more around the house. Cleaning, shifting decorations, and getting things organized during my last days of summer!

I hung the beautiful canvas that my father-in-law got us. One more thing off my summer goal list! Yay!

 Before:

I love painting, done by Joey's grandma. 

However it looked tiny...and was off center from when we had the striped couch under it. 

After: 

Notice a chair is also gone?

That huge blue chair was a freebie. 

We never sit in it and it takes up so much room.

So it got moved to the front room, until we can get it a new home!

I am so thankful that he got us that painting! It fits so much nicer over the couch and I love the colors!


Yesterday I organized and cleaned up the office. Got rid of boxes and the random stuff that got placed in there. Took about an hour and a half...not too long and had a big impact. I actually want to spend time in there now! That night, I put the finishing touches on our geek room! Details coming soon!

Today I went to Michael's. We just got one in our town :) They have all their baskets 60% off, plus today and Saturday they have an additional 15% off of sale items coupon. Yay!


I wanted to get a basket for our records. Joey's mom gave us her collection- that I believe were her parents. They weren't stored the best they were in a crate we had (slanted sideways). So off to Michael's I went!

What a nice blessing it was! I found one that would fit all the records. For $8.49!! Regularly 24.99! Yay!

I love Johnny Cash, we were given 2 records of his! Folsom Prison and San Quentin! They are my favorite ones! What a great mother-in-law to think of us when she wanted to get rid of the records! :)

I'm on the lookout now for a vintage stereo cabinet with a working record player! Hopefully, one day, I'll find one for a good price and it'll come home with me!

That's what I've been up to lately! I'll post about our geek room soon! :) I'm excited about it!

This weekend we are planning on going to a local auction tomorrow and possibly the comic book store! Yay! Sunday will be a day of relaxing.

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

WIWW

I don't have many pictures to share with you. Just two. One isn't even of my outfit!

I started these posts to help motivate me to dress cuter, and motivate me to put more effort into my outfit.

Instead of helping, I feel it more of a burden,to remember to take a picture...or 3 to make sure I get the best one to post. Kinda vain on my part. I love Lindsey's reason at The Pleated Poppy of wanting to post her outfits. Her reasons seem pure. While mine are not. I want to look good. I turned this into a "look at me" moment. I shouldn't be that way. Everything I have is only because God wanted me to have it, in order to give glory to Him. It's not about me, it's about my amazing Creator.

So that said this will be my last What I Wore Wednesday. I might still post pictures of outfits I like, to remind myself what I paired together. However I don't want anything about it to be vain.


Here is my last WIWW!

I found this dress on clearance at Target!

It's a small and fits perfectly! 

Which normally doesn't happen!

Navy dress: Target

Belt: thrifted

Shoes: old- falling apart :(

(Charlotte Russe)

This was Monday

I washed my hair, let it air dry, then straightened my bangs.

I was so happy with how it looked. 

Bangs look good, and I have my pretty natural curls!

Shirt: Macy's

Shower curtain: garage sale! 

Love good garage sale finds!

That's it!  I hope you are having a great Wednesday! 

Changing it Up

So while I've been away from blogging this summer, I have been completing some things off my Summer Goal List!!

Lets see:
- I dyed my hair black, semi-permanent first and then when it started to wash out I realized I love it! So this time I used permanent!

- I hung the kitchen prints above the window in the kitchen.

Ack! Bad lighting and a little lopsided! 

Here's a closeup of them!

I love them! Super cute!

I got them from HERE

I downloaded them, and sent them to Walgreens to get printed.

Instead of regular prints, I got them done as a collage option- using only one picture- that way it had an automatic white border. No mat needed! :)

I got some frames from Dollar Tree and WA-LA! 

 Back to my goals...

- I filed all the papers in our filing cabinet. I had stuff from 2011 still waiting to get filed! Wow!

- I got some wall file things to organize the papers I need to file or shred! So much better than a box lid!


- I bought some rugs for the guest bathroom! I got them for a good deal at Kohl's. I also added some new photos to the frames. Not so expensive touches made it so much nicer!

 Oh! I also cleaned out our junk drawer! It defiantly needed it! Took about 10-15 minutes and made me feel better!

During

We had like 20 pens in there, multiple random tools and just a bunch of junk!

 Not necessary!

After

Soo much better!

We also made some changes we made around the house, furniture wise

Before

See how all the consoles are out in the open. Trying to dust them was a nightmare.

Plus in the entertainment center top left was where we housed all the games for them. 

We ran out of space (I moved them before I took the picture) plus the heat from the receiver (below that space) had a hard time getting air circulated. Not a good thing.

P.S. Yes, we are watching The Dark Knight

We saw DKR the Friday night it came out.

Went home and had to watch Batman Begins.

The next day we continued in watching The Dark Knight!

We wanted to find a solution so all the games and DVDs can be housed in the same place as well as the consoles be in some type of closed storage.

 After

Our solution from Target!

See I even have a decorating cubby! YAY! :)

Our dvd trilogy/seriescollection

Our dvds

Then our game collection

All housed in the same place!

I love it!

Inside houses our consoles!

I LOVE that dust won't get to them as easy!!

Joey likes that too!

We made other changes, moving furniture and such, but I need to take pictures in the once guest room (no it's not a baby's room). It's hard to get pictures, but I'll do it soon and post about it!

I hope your having a lovely Tuesday!

WIWW

Wow! I haven't linked up to What I Wore Wednesdays in a while! I've been taking pictures, but I don't remember to write a post till Thursday. It's not "what I wore Thursday" so I wait. Vicious cycle. :)

This was my birthday night (June27th)

I got ready so we could go out. 

Then I realized...I was really tired and just wanted

 a quiet meal at home and chill with Joey!

 So I changed!

COMFY!

Petite yoga pants!! 

I finally found some at Kohl's!

So all you little people like me, now you know where to go!

Pants: Kohl's

Shirt: Kohl's I believe

Necklace: The Rusted Chain

We ended up getting Vietnamese take out and caught up on The Guild!

It was a nice, relaxing birthday! :)

So I knocked off something on my summer goal list!

I dyed my hair black! 

I love the contrast it gives!

It makes my skin look lighter and brings out my eyes.

It's a semi-permanent.

It's starting to fade a little. I did it about 4 weeks ago.

It's doing great with as much as I wash my hair!

Then I got new glasses the week after!

I love how they look a lil retro!

They're dark purple!

Fun!!

This picture was from last Tuesday.

My sister-in-law and I went to Ikea!

Got to love that place!

We had fun walking around, shopping and talking!

I hope your week is going well!

Of course I am linking up to The Pleated Poppy!

Comic Books!

So my new favorite thing that I LOVE to do is read comic books! It all started with seeing The Avengers.  After seeing The Avengers (twice - it was awesome), I thought about getting into comics to see if I liked them.

I told Joey and he found out that on May 4th it is Free Comic Book Day!! Yep! A day where you go to the comic book store and they have free issues out for you to pick from!

So when May 4th rolled around, we went to the nearest comic bookstore. Then we went to 2 other stores!

Here is what we got!

I had watched a show by Revision 3 called Variant, which talks about comic books. 

He talked about the Avengers vs. X- Men as a really good series. So I bought those 2. 

(One is a Variant cover - or rare- since they didn't have #1 in normal)

The other 5 were free!!

I was SUPER excited. 

The more and more I read about Avengers vs. X-Men, the more I wanted to know about a certain character that shows up in the story. I've never heard of that character before. 

So in order to get the back story on that character I got a few graphic novels (which are a bunch of comic books put into one bigger book- can be much cheaper than buying them separate).

A few weeks pass. I get the new Avengers Vs. X-Men every 2 weeks when they release. 

Then one day I hear on the radio about Comicpalooza! Joey heard about it too. It's Houston's Comic Book Convention, like our ComicCon. Um, yes please!

So off we went to Comicpalooza! It was SO much fun!! There were famous people doing autographs, panels, booths with cheap comic books, and classes. 

Here are a few people we saw:

Kevin Sorbo 

From Hercules the TV show

George Takei

From Star Trek

We didn't go talk to them, since it was pretty costly to get an autograph or picture with them. So I just stood at a distance and took pictures. Lol

This place was an awesome people watching experience. I maybe weird, but I love people watching. 

There were all kinds of people. Some were dressed up as super heroes, steam punk, there were roller derby girls...all kinds!

We saw this guy, I though his costume was impressive.

He was posing for a picture already, so I just snapped a photo. 

One of the cutest moments was the little kids seeing guys dressed up as Iron Man and Captain America 

and the look on their faces when they got to take a photo with them!

So adorable!

We even saw a little Hulk getting his picture taken with Iron Man. :)

One of the classes they had was Intro to Belly Dancing. 

I thought what the heck, I don't know anyone, so if I look silly...who cares!

 It turned out to be super fun! 

The lady teaching it was great, she didn't allow any creeper guys to just sit and watch. 

If they were there, they participated. :)

I didn't drag Joey to this one.

He looked at the booths while I was in the class.

We went to a few panels. 

Some were tech/gaming talk and we went to a Tv star's panel as well.

It was really fun!

My favorite part, though, was the $1 comic books!!

Yes...$1!! So we stocked up. Usually comic books are $3.99. 

So this was a great deal!!

We added 23 comic books to our collection.

We bought 2 sets of comics.

X-Men vs. Avengers from 1987 and Hellfire Club (X-men) from 2002.

Each had 4 issues, they were $6 each (half off).

We also got some comics for Joey. 

(He's read Hulk vs. Avengers, Scarlet Spider, and Cable so far)

*Fun Fact: Scarlet Spider by Christopher Yost takes place in Houston!!*

That night we laid all our comic books out. 

This is what we had :)

Since then I have finished all 4 graphic novels that are in the bottom right. 

And we have added 6 comic books since this picture. 

Mostly my Avengers vs X-Men comics, Scarlet Spider, and a few Hulk vs Avengers

If you can't tell I am defiantly a Marvel fan. 

And I love the X-Men back story. 

(There's a rich history!)

Since I ran out of X- Men graphic novels, Joey recommended a graphic novel he's had. 

It's a DC graphic novel.

I'm reading that right now.

He got it from a friend a long time ago it's called Kingdom Come.

It has the Justice League

(Superman, Wonder Woman, Aqua Man, etc.)

We'll see how it ends! 

Now that I've started reading comic books, I'm hooked! 

I can read through a comic book or graphic novel much faster than a book. 

Some of the Avengers vs X-Men I finish on the way home from the comic book store.

(Joey driving, of course)

The stories are so good too! 

So I can't wait to get the next issue or the next graphic novel!

So there you have it, my new hobby...comic books! :)

Favorite Things Friday!

Happy Friday!!

I thought it would be fun to write a post each Friday (at least the Fridays I remember...) about my favorite things!

Today is the food edition!!

I like to eat. Sadly, my body is not nice to me if I just eat whatever I want, how ever many I want, and when I want. Thankfully I started using the app, My Fitness Pal...it helped me see how many more calories I was eating a day. Now I can eat what I want, but I do so more consciously. If I liked to exersise, I could eat more of the food I like! :) That's my logic anyways!

Anyways, onto some of my favorite food!

Had this for lunch today!

Whataburger...

one of the reasons I'm thankful to be a Texan!

Whataburger Jr, fries and a chocolate shake.

Their fries are SO good, as are their chocolate shakes!

My mom got me hooked on this flavor!

I love that it is only 5 calories and it's not a soda!

Raspberry lemonade is delicious!

Another drink I love are these!

I get the Diet Sparkling Cranberry. 

It's fizzy, it's only 10 calories!

It is a perfect size for a snack. 

Like with a stick of cheese. 

I haven't gotten these in a while. 

The store wants $3.99 for a 4 pack. Yeah. NO!

They are on sale at Kroger this week for $1.99! 

So I got me a pack. Yum!

(I'm thinking about going back and getting me another pack...or two)

Other things that are my favorite lately... that I buy each time I go to the store. 

- Oreos

- Blue Bell  Homemade Vanilla- I stir in Hershey's Chocolate syrup. Yummy!

I do eat healthy stuff too! Promise! :)

One of my favorite fresh snack is either Red bell pepper, cucumber, grape tomatoes or carrots and ranch dressing. I have carrots right now. Plus, if we don't eat all them and they go bad...the turtles get them. They love carrots. 

Hope you enjoyed favorite things Friday! Have a fabulous weekend!

Summer Goals

Yay! It is summer time!! I am so excited to have some time to sleep in and to do some much needed housework.

My #1 goal: GET A TEACHING JOB!
That is something I'm going to be working extra hard on this summer. It'll be something that will always be on my mind until I get one. Then I'll be thinking/planning my classroom :)

Source

House Goals:

• Front Room
• Finish Gallery Wall
• Print out pictures to finish it
• Master 
• Get rid of hard water stains on shower stall door
• Heard oven cleaner works- I will have to try it!
• Clean out closet of clothes I no longer wear/want
• Kitchen
• Change out light above kitchen sink
• Change it out for a pendant light
• Frame kitchen art
• Clean off window sill, make it functional
• Laundry
• Vacuum out lint trap
• 3 years this April we've been in the house...thinking we need to clean the lint trap!
• Living Room
• Hang picture/canvas above couch (when we get it from Father-in-Law's)
• Guest Bath
• Get rugs- woo hoo! Found a great deal at Kohl's!
• Decorate!
• Office
• Get office organized
• Shred papers
• File papers
• Guest Room Geek Room (we moved futon to living room and arcades into guest room)

Etsy Shop Goals:

• Find items to list
• Get items listed
• Advertise!

Fun Goals:

• Read 2 books. 
• Finish Prophet
• Read more comic books! :D
• Make a new dessert
• Have a a BBQ with friends/family
• Go camping
• Float a river
• Dye my hair a different color

That's all I have for now!

Have a great night!