KONY 2012

I'm sure all of you have seen the new campaign KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, and if you've watched the video are aware of all the crimes of Joseph Kony. If you haven't seen the video you can see it here. After watching, I was curious and decided to research the subject. Did you know only 31% of the 8.5 million dollars they received last year went to the actual charity. I found this article from a friend on Facebook that sheds some light on some really good points... I definitely recommend reading it here. As he said in the article lets keep this about Joseph Kony himself rather than on KONY 2012!

for the love good music..

For those of you who are not aware of my love affair with all things Johnny Cash, or just don't know who Johnny Cash even is.... you are truly missing out! Coming soon to Nashville there will be a museum of some of Johnny Cash's artifacts, as well as the restoration of Cash's childhood home in Arkansas. You can head over to Rolling Stones to read about the all these goodies. So, I decided in honor of Johnny Cash's (would be) 80th birthday I would check out some good music today. I discovered great new music made in the south via back down south. *On a side note this blog also features people with not only the best clothes but also amazing boots, which I am always a sucker for! Later on this week I will definitely be putting a list together of todays finds.

via Letters of Note

And if you haven't noticed yet, CMT is playing Sweet Home Alabama all weekend. One of my favorites, I mean who wouldn't wanna watch yummy southern men with yummy southern accents?

Garden & Gun

Do ya'll know about the magazine Garden & Gun? If not ya'll are truly missing out! If you are from the south this is definitely a magazine for you. They have articles about food, homes, people, and sporting goodies. Today I found an article on southern women that is completely TRUE! I always get a sense of pride in anything southern, which i'm sure any true southerner would as well. You can find the article here. One of my favorite parts of the article: 

"To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

For my mother, being Southern means handwritten thank-you notes, using a rhino horn’s worth of salt in every recipe, and spending a minimum of twenty minutes a day in front of her makeup mirror so she can examine her beauty in “office,” “outdoor,” and “evening” illumination. It also means never leaving the house with wet hair. Not even in the case of fire. Because wet hair is low-rent. It shows you don’t care, and not caring is not something Southern women do, at least when it comes to our hair."    

So go on over and read it. Let me know your thoughts....

sorry for being MIA....

.... I have been extremely busy these past few weeks trying to get all of my school work done, working on  my resume, and trying to find jobs to apply to. It is taking most of my time. But along with all of this I have started some new things which I wanted to share with ya'll.

1. I created a Facebook page for my Etsy shop, which you can find it here! I am horrible at marketing anything, so hopefully this works. So go LIKE it!

2. I have finally started a blog for graphic design, which you can find here. Please excuse the mess it is in, I am slowly but surely going to make it look beautiful (and well designed)! I really wanted to start this for job purposes so that they can get an insight to the kind of design I like and hopefully it will help them decide to hire me?! I don't know yet if I will include it on my resume or just casually mention that I have a blog. I am not too confident in my blogging abilities as of yet so we shall see.

3. I'm in the process of creating a personal portfolio as well... I am not going to put the link up yet considering I haven't done anything to it as of yet so hopefully that will be done in the next few weeks.



If ya'll have an Etsy shop or website, share it with me and I will definitely look at your stuff and tell people about it... I know from personal experience how hard it is to get started ;)

More is More

I have had the busiest schedule for the past week and its only going to get worse from here on out.... OHHH the joys of senior year. I just got back from a senior meeting where they decided to load us down with confusing information and alllll the reasons as to how we won't end up graduating. So nice of them. Since I am the worlds best procrastinator when it comes to all things homework, I spent the entire day yesterday researching pinning a bunch of design inspirations for upcoming projects. And my sister over at Sweet Southern Drawl is featuring me on her blog today with my new etsy shop. You should go check it out!

Hope ya'll have a successful and stress free week. :)

Attention Movie Lovers

So i'm pretty excited for a lot of upcoming movies here in the next few weeks slash months, so I thought i'd take some time and tell you which ones i'm looking forward too. I always like knowing whats coming out ahead of time so that I can build up the excitement before I go see them hehe :) Anyways, here's just a few... ( ps sorry for longness but theres just soooo many I wanna see!!! )

Feb. 10

Feb. 14th

March 2nd

March 16th

March 23rd

April 20th

April 27th

June 1st

July 20th

Remember that time...

... that I said I was really going to try to blog more frequently... well I mean it this time. I just set up an etsy shop which I am beyond excited about. You should go take a look around.....

I've wanted to do something on etsy for quite some time and finally got the motivation to do it. Now if only I could get the motivation to work on all of this school work... did I mention I'm taking 18 hours in my last semester of college? And yes, I must be crazy. I am seriously panicking with all this homework and almost being done with college. Scary thought that i'll be a graduate in a few short months.

Cheers to the New Year

My goal for this year was to write more on my blog, but as you can see.... that really hasn't been working out so well. Plus it kind of interferes with my goal of the week to weed out my time on Facebook (really I wanted to weed out all of my social networks, but who am I kidding... baby steps, right?). I have deactivated my Facebook for the week and have slightly chilled my excessive Pinteresting. So we will see how this works out (and for how long). Instead of resolutions this year I decided to set a new goal each week, at the beginning of each week i'll determine what I need to work on most in my life and do it that week along with the ones before it. So by the end of the year I will have accomplished (or I hope i'll have) all of my goals.

And if you haven't figured yours out yet this website had some good ideas for a 20-something.


Good Luck on your Resolutions!

Wrap That!

Everyone who receives a gift from me knows that I am the worst wrapper ever... you may be thinking eh can she really be that bad? Well the answer to that would be OHHH YES! For example my sisters birthday was this past Tuesday and as usual I never get presents on time (another problem for me) but I couldn't find any full tubes of wrapping paper so I wrapped her box with about 5 scraps. So my goal for christmas this year (as well as making sure I have all my gifts for christmas morning) is to learn to wrap my presents the right way. So of course I have been looking through pinterest and this new website I found called craftgawker. So below are my favorite tutorials and ideas.

How to tie this beautiful bow here.

Try using your old christmas cards as gift tags.

Ideas (1)

ideas (2)

Visit the rest of her website here for more great ideas.

Good luck with your wrapping this holiday season!

Feeling Crafty

I finally got around to doing one of the crafties on my pinterest to do list. You take a regular old bobby pin (I would suggest the ones for blonde hair since they show the color the best) and take your favorite color of nail polish and run it along the top of the bobby pin. If you don't want it to run over the sides just make sure to run one side of the brush along the side of the lid to get the excess off. Also I noticed that the thicker the polish the better it showed up, so keep that in mind when picking your color. Then just let them dry overnight and WAHLAH! you have colorful bobby pins to match your outfit :) 

This is how mine turned out!

Food for thought...

I have really been slacking in the "making dinner" department lately. School is just dragging me down along with the worst case of allergies I think I have ever had. But yesterday I found this bean dip recipe that looked really good. Now normally I hate everything that is considered Mexican food, but refried beans are actually something I enjoy in small doses. So I introduce to you Warm Bean Dip which I found from The Country Cook via pinterest of course.

Ingredients:

2 cans (16 Oz) Refried Beans

1 can (10.5 Oz) Diced Tomatoes (see notes)

1 Tablespoon Taco Seasoning

4 cups Shredded Colby-jack Cheese (see notes)

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325F degrees.

Drain excess juice from tomatoes using a strainer.

In a medium bowl, combine refried beans, drained tomatoes, taco seasoning and 2 cups of cheese.

Spray an 8×8 baking dish with nonstick spray. Pour combined ingredients into dish and spread around evenly.

Bake for 20-25 minutes until thoroughly heated through. Add remaining cheese on top of dip and bake for another 5 minutes until cheese is melted.

Serve warm with your favorite tortilla chips.

I am not a tomato fan so I put just a tiny bit in there... although next time I don't think I will put any in there. I think this might also be good with some taco seasoned beef thrown in there. 

I made this for me and my two roommates and the 2 cans of refried beans was wayyy to much. Next time I will definitely cut back the ingredients, with the exception of the cheese. But I definitely recommend this as a try!

what a beautiful day,

I would just like to start out with...... HOW BEAUTIFUL TODAY WAS!!!! I am a lover of hot weather (definitely the summer) and the beautiful sunshine. But todays weather seriously improved my mood sooo much (that and the advice from an amazing friend)! It also helps that I got all my homework done for today earlier this week. Also I went crazy on pinterest today, and found some uber good ideas. I would just like to take a moment to mention that pinterest is more than an addiction for me..... its like second to the bible...but really! Enough of that... I hear (or rather see) that it is Pinteresting Wednesday, so therefore i'm going to share some of my favorites from my binge today....

House Swing

I really would LOVE this in my future home. please and thank you.

Fun Date!

How fun would this be for a date... it's kind of on my bucket list

To sleep under the stars.

Lace

I'm not usually a fan of pink, but when its combined with lace how could you not?!

SHOES!!!!

I literally died when I saw these. I have been looking for some shoes like this for months.

Unfortunately they don't have my size :(

MY DREAM HAIR!

As a brunette I have always wanted to color strips of my hair. But I don't really want

to strip sections to color them. Although if it would end up looking like this

I would totally go for it! le sigh.

So, I hope you enjoyed these finds as much as I did.... now its off to more pinning....

-Jordan

hmm, what to do?

Today I woke up highly motivated, why I have no clue but i'm glad it finally happened. Considering for the past few months I have been trying to figure my life out and do something. But anyways, I woke up and decided I was going to tackle a craft today. Unfortunately it ended up not working and the way I wanted and was uber frustrating. My plan was to fix up one of the frames that I bought for a dollar way back when and I wanted it to look similar to this...

found it on pinterest

(if you are feeling really pinteresty you can follow me here I literally spend all my free time on there)

but the yarn didn't look anywhere near this good so I decided to take another 

route, I recovered the frame and made a little project to go inside....

and this is what it ended up looking like...

I'm not a fan of the inside part and I will probably end up changing it, 

but for now it shall stay.

And for dinner I was still feeling productive so I looked up recipes on pinterest (hehe) and found one that I had all the ingredients for or at least that I could improvise with. Also anyone who knows me, knows that i'm an extremely picky eater but I decided to try this (even though it has pasta, aka i'm not a pasta fan) I ended up picking Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata ...

It was a bit too much lemon for me and if I ever make it again I will take out most of the lemon juice, but it is definitely worth a try.


Now I shall play spider solitaire until I fall asleep :)

Hope everyone has a fantastic and beautiful weekend as I have.

The Beginning...

I'm really excited to start this blog, i've always wanted a blog and I just never did it until today. My friend Jackie help me set it up (you can find her here http://sweetcarolinaqueen.blogspot.com/). I'm still trying to learn how to work this thing, so bear with me. :) I created this blog so I could share DIY projects and things that I find out the internet. I don't know about you but I love new things, and being the first one to know things doesn't hurt either. So hopefully I can get the hang of this soon!


and for funzies... The ABC's of Me! :D

A. Age: 21

B. Bed size: Full

C. Chore that you hate: grocery shopping and getting gas
D. Dogs: a lab called Mackers (or Mac if you're the rest of my family)
E. Essential start to your day: that it starts after 10 haha

F. Favorite color: purple and then a tie between lime green and teal/turqouise
G. Gold or Silver: silver

H. Height: 5'7"
I. Instruments you play: I played the clarinet for two years and the bass clarinet for a year
J. Job title: Student
K. Kids: none and not for a really long time
L. Live: NC
M. Mother’s name: momma

N. Nicknames: jo
O. Overnight hospital stays: never ever... well except for when I was born i guess
P. Pet peeves: Hearing people chew their food and when people say they can't remember things that they clearly can (which i guess also adds lying)
Q. Quote from a movie: we scare because we care (for my bff :) )
R. Right or left handed: Right

S. Siblings: younger sister

T. Time you wake up: depends on which day it is, but i hate waking up before 10
U. Underwear: thank you, i hate the other word.
V. Vegetable you hate: tomatoes
W. What makes you run late: i usually don't show up late anywhere unless its a party or such and then its cause I can never ever find anything to wear
X. X-Rays you’ve had: i guess my teeth
Y. Yummy food that you make: fried chicken, pork chops, and anything chicken
Z. Zoo animal: GIRAFFE!