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WIP Wednesday - lap top cover, beach bag

This WIP Wednesday will be a short post again. I'm pre-writing this post as I go into surgery tomorrow and I don't know if I can trust drugged chelsea with a blog. So just in case, I'm writting this post early and scheduling it. :]

I haven't really had much time this last week to work on anything for the store. One thing I did get the chance to work on is a demo lap top sleeve for my new lenovo. I would really like to do custom lap top sleeves in the store eventually, but I need some practice on sizing. Eventually I would like to add a bow or something to my sleeve but for now, this will be fine :]

Another item I've been working on is this red white and blue bag. It has a fun detailed bottom, and a netting like body. The reason it has been sitting here for like a week is because I can't decide how I should do the straps, so for now, it sits here in WIP land, waiting to be finished.

If you have any fun WIPS currently, I'd love to hear about them in the comment section below :]I'll see you Friday for our coffee date :]

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Wisdom Teeth surgery

Today's the big day I get my wisdom teeth out and I can't help but feel terrified. So many things about it has me worried and stressed and grossed out already and nothing has even happened yet!

"Will the gauze feel gross? How long will I be sick? Please oh please let the pain medicine work!!!"

Those are just a few of the TONS of questions going through my mind. I can't say they'll be any exciting pictures or videos of the event, but if there are, I will let you laugh at my expense ;]

As my last solid food meal, I had roadhouse steak and salad and baked potato and rolls! Which was the perfect last meal as its my favorite! Still...I couldn't help but get a snack around 1130 of cookie dough and milk. There's something about knowing you can't eat, that makes you hungry. So I humored myself and got out some cookie dough :]

Behind my cookie dough you can see the goodies we got for the few days after my surgery--- jello, pudding, apple sauce, chicken broth, sliced pears, macaroni and cheese, loaded potatoes....etc.

I can't say I'm looking forward to a soft diet....because I'm absolutely dreading it...but these foods don't sound half bad! Wish me luck and pray I get a speedy recovery!




PS; I'm sorry to do this so late, but I don't believe I'll be able to get even a soft open up by the 16, so I'm postponing my spring item launch date till further notice. Yes, disappointing, and I hate doing this, but this means the Spring Cleaning Sale will extend further than the 16. So you'll have more time to shop the sale item goodies!

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Insta-weekend catch up

Hey guys! I thought I might try out something new this Monday and give you an Insta-Weekend catch up!
Even though there's an Insta-widget on the sidebar, I thought it might still be fun to give you a little tidbit on my weekend with a quicky catch up through the pictures.

ONE - weather comparison for the weekend between my hometown and Franklin TN
TWO - I spoiled myself with a Starbucks Caramel Frap while having a girly shopping day :] !
THREE - SSEKO How-To  card! Alicia and I bough brown soled sseko shoes at a small shop in Franklin
FOUR - The girls had a lovely pretzels and pizza lunch at The Mellow Mushroom in Franklin
FIVE -  my gorgeous ssekos all tied up in my own design with their gold metallic ribbon.
SIX - sending some Insta-love to a follower that I feel like I've gotten to know pretty well through instagram.
SEVEN - LOADS of ribbon I bought at Joanne and Marshals since I became obsessed with my new shoes!
EIGHT - gorgeous chandelier and a picture of me working on the blog while at the Factory

Thanks for stopping by for the very first insta-weekend catch up! Hope you got a chance to have some fun and relax this weekend too!

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Coffee Date Link Up- "Currently"

Wow! Can you believe its Friday again already?! Ever since I started linking up with Alissa from Rags to Stitches  I feel like I've started to look forward to Friday for more than just the stress relief from school, but for the chance to catch up on another coffee date!

This week her prompt is still the 5 beauty products, but since I did that last week, I'm going to jump right onto the prompt of "Currently"

Hope you enjoy our coffee date ❤

On School:

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you, how currently, and continuously, disappointed I am in my University. I know I've probably stated how much they disappoint me a thousand times not just on the blog, but to anyone who will listen right now, but I need to vent my frustrations this way to keep me from going crazy and facing the terrifying fact that I could be forced to graduate with a degree that's literally worthless. So even though I'd hate to start our coffee date on a bad note, I'd need to get this done and out of the way to enjoy the rest of our date! I just can't believe a school could really consider turning their backs on students that they promised one degree, and force them out into this economy with a degree that isn't what they were promised, and is worthless. Any school that would put students (who would graduate with honors) in a position where they need to fail a class (in order to put them ineligible to graduate) so they can finish a degree they were promised, is disgusting. Nevertheless though, this doesn't seem to phase them, as long as their unjustly robbing us of money we don't even have yet, they're happy....UGH.

On Family:

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you how terribly excited I am to spend a weekend in TN with my family! I might not be able to run off to some sunny beach during spring break, but I get to run off to TN in a too-crammed-pack-full car with my parents, Alicia, and Jenna for a weekend of nothing but awkward encounters and girly day shopping! I couldn't be happier! Besides, who needs spring break in Florida when it'll be warm here in Ohio soon, and I'll get to spend the little free time I have on the beach by my summer home! Hahaha! aka my parents home....I don't have a summer home...I wish. lol.

On the  Store:

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you how currently I am very excited to make the leap soon from fall/winter items, to spring beach time items! The spring cleaning sale is still going on till March 16, at Noon. After that I start clearing out the unsold winter items, and I'll start listing the new spring items! When I set the spring line launch date, I wasn't thinking about the fact that I would have a 1.5 of my time devoted to midterms, a weekend devoted to TN, and a week devoted to recovering from surgery(..more on that later...) not too mention the possibility that I could get sick, which I did, and lose even more time to create new items....oops! So  now that month I had to create got dwindled down to....maybe a week, but really less. So instead of having all kinds of items like I planned, March 16th is going to be a soft launch of spring items, since I promised new spring items to be listed then. Later when I have time to create I'll have more items and will do a big launch and have a sale! I'm still currently kind of disappointed that I don't get to launch all my new ideas on the 16, but it is what it is.

On Health : 

If we were having coffee this morning, I would tell you how I am currently TERRIFIED of next Tuesday when I get my wisdom teeth out. I can't begin to tell you about all the nightmarish things I have thought and dreamed about this day as it approached! I'm absolutely terrified of it. I can't stand dentist appointments just for clean ups, and now I'm about to let them put me to sleep (they suggest local numbing...ha! right! cause I wouldn't freak out watching/feeling this...) and wake up with my gums dug apart, drugged, and unable to eat. All I can say is that I hope they give us enough pain killers to get through the healing process because I'm a baby, especially when it comes to mouth, and I'd much prefer to be in a drug induced high then feel those awful holes in my mouth. I'm just terrified. Even the thought of having to suck on gauze in the back of my mouth makes me feel like gagging. I'm just not looking forward to any aspect of this experience. I'm starting to wonder.....do they really hurt THAT bad?! Do I REALLY need to cut them out?!? ....I'm starting to think I should skip Tuesday's appointment......

On Love :

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you, that despite having our issues like any other couple, I wouldn't dream of having anyone else to spend my life with. Vincenso has his moments that remind me of my dad and I think, what in the world am I getting myself into..."dirty socks EVERYWHERE, why can't he put away his clothes?!?...does anything make it to the hamper?!?!?!" but we love each other, and currently, I am happy, but I'm sad I'm spending a little over a week away from him while he's stuck in Tiffin student teaching.  I don't know how I'm going to make it through this summer barely seeing him again. Each summer feels harder than the last. I still have the slightest sliver of hope though that some how we'll both end up staying in Tiffin for school. Very unlikely, but he mentioned it the other day, and it sounded like heaven to me. ❤

On Fashion:

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you, that I'm currently loving anything girly. I love lace, and coral, and frills, and cream. Oh do I love the color cream lately! I want skinnies in every color under the rainbow, I could never have enough dresses or skirts. Even though my shoe closet is currently a rigged two different shoe shelf combination to give me 6 shelves for cramming, and they're full, I don't have enough shoes! Packing for Franklin this weekend showed me, wow, I have no shoes to go with these cute outfits...no wonder I never wear them....

If we were having coffee this morning I would also tell you how disappointed I am that I forgot my beautiful nail polishes in Tiffin and my nails are naked! There's something about a road trip that makes me feel like I need to redo my toenail polish and deck out the fingernails I usually leave naked theses days. Le sigh....this road trip my nails will be very plain. I feel bad for them.

On my New Lenovo 13" Ideapad : 

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you that I am CURRENTLY experiencing a love affair with my new computer! It's perfect! perfect size, perfect function for a girl like me, and so much fun! I love playing with it whether I'm using it in laptop mode or tablet mode, I love it. I still have a lot to learn about it, and about how to use it, but either way, I love it. I only have two disappointments. One, that I'm terrified to take it anywhere like class or something in fear that someone will spill on it or trip and fall on my desk and smash it and my laptop will be no more! Two, that I got addicted to this little app game on it before I realized I have to spend $3 for the full version, and I'm just way too cheap to do that.

On Life :

If we were having coffee this morning I would tell you that I'm currently trying to be a more positive person. This school has turned me into a negative nancy, and I didn't even realize how much it affected my outlook on everything till last week. Poor Vince has been keeping his lips shut while he watched me slowly start to hate everything about life due to the ugly after college reality that TU have given me to look forward to due to the situation about our FS degree. I didn't realize that the constant disappointment in school and its ability to ruin my everyday, really has an affect on him as well, and the fact that he's kept his mouth shut for so long, and has finally addressed it, I can't help but feel disappointed in myself. Last weekend when I came home, having that conversation still present in my thoughts, I read a letter from my teacher that I received my senior year, as well as a few others that I had hanging on a wall, and stashed on a shelf. It was disappointing to see how positive and determined they viewed me just four years ago, and how negative and pessimistic I have become. So I'm determined to be ME again. Not the old me, but the current ME. I'm not this negative person that hates life. I'm happy, and positive, and I love colors, and good movies, and I would laugh all day if it didn't make me feel like my abs of steel were going to rip out. No matter what happens with my future regarding this college, I WILL make it to Wayne state for the Pathologist Assistant degree, and I WILL be happy and find a job that I LOVE, and I WILL have Vincenso, the sweetest man I've ever met, to come home to and tell him all about it, and THAT makes me feel very positive and excited about my future :]

It's only been a week since I've decided to take my thoughts and feelings into my own hands, and I feel great. Chelsea fits me much better than negative nancy ever did ❤

If you want to link-up too, or read Alissa's coffee date and the other blogger's Friday coffee date, just click on the picture above :]

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WIP - midterms week

 With the last two weeks of school being midterms, I haven't had much time to devote to the store or just crafting in general. But I still wanted to post a few pictures of exciting things that have happened since last week. Enjoy :]

I made a dainty pair of baby pink heart barefoot sandals that I love!

We sent a hippie headband all the way to Oklahoma this last week. I was VERY excited about being in a new state!

Here is a lovely camera print circle scarf I sewed for my little sister. Just in time for our trip to Franklin TN this weekend :]!

and this was a project that I intended to make MONTHS ago, and I finally found the time to do it this afternoon. I love it. I found the idea on pinterest and printed off maps that showed my parents house, Vince's family's house, and our house is on the map in the middle :] I'm very happy about this new addition to our home <3

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coffee date link up

Its Friday again so I'm excited to link up with Alissa from Rags to Stitches for her coffee date again this week.

I'm actually having milk and these fried apple pie cuties that my mommy made me! Some of my medicine doesn't go well with caffeine so since I took it this morning, I have to skip on coffee today. But these yummies go perfectly with milk! So I'm not complaining!

This week her prompt is five must-have beauty products. Well, I thought of 7, and really it should of been 8 really because I forgot to throw in a hairthing to pull your hair up with. I went on more of a quick morning 5-10 minutes to get ready theme. Here's the snap shot of my items:

I'll explain left to right, rather than importance just so it goes with the picture. lol

First a side note- all these products, or similar ones, can be bought at Walmart, and on a poor college girl budget ;]

1. HAIRSPRAY - now this isn't actually the brain I buy, but I'm visiting my parents and I didn't bring mine with me. I usually buy Rave? I think that's what its called. Its the big silver can one with the blue top at walmart and several other drug stores. Being a licensed cosmetologist, I should have a favorite salon brand hairspray...but I don't. I really buy the one from Walmart out of convience because I go there for so many other things, and because I'm a poor college girl. I'd rather save a few bucks on hairspray, so I can spend a little more on things I find more important. It really doesn't matter what brand, or what hold, just so its something YOU like to use.

2. RAT TAIL COMB & BOBBY PINS - this comb was actually bought at sallys. They come in a pack of 10 or 12, I forget because I bought mine so long ago, but you can also buy a rat tail fine toothed comb at just about any drug store. What is important about this item in my opinion, is teasing your hair. If you're in a hurry and don't have time to shower, you can hide your dirty mess with a quick tease of your bang area, pin it up with your handy dandy bobby pins, and throw the rest in a messy top bun, side bun, low bun, low braid, really anything you can style super quick and set with your hairspray of choice.

3. CREST 3D WHITE TOOTHPASTE -  I know, when you think of beauty must-haves, you aren't really thinking about your teeth...but you should be! A person's smile can make such a huge difference in my opinion! We all stain our teeth, drinking soda, coffee, all kinds of stuff thats ucky and makes our teeth look ucky over long term consumption. I hate to say it, but the commercials are right, if you aren't WHITENING your teeth, you're YELLOWING. This toothpaste really does make a difference with everyday use. I started using it last summer, and when I decided to skimp on buying tooth paste and buy something cheaper....my teeth were not the pearly whites I had come to love. So I'm back now, and I'm a devoted user. Skimping on my hairspray a little lets me spend a little more for my toothpaste :]

4. MAYBELLINE INSTANT AGE REWIND & REVLON PHOTOREADY CONCEALER STICK -

I have trouble finding a concealer I like, especially during the winter, my face peels and its gross no matter how many times I apply moisturizer and lotion. I  also tend to have trouble finding a shade that matches my skin tone well too. Recently though, I tried maybelline's instant age rewind and so far its the best drug store liquid foundation I've used. I'm only 22, so I don't necessarily need an anti-aging foundation, but this was one fo the few foundations I could find at walmart that included a primer and I love it. Sometimes I still need to use my revlon concealer stick to hide the circles under my eyes or other dark spots that peek through the maybelline. Both products are quick and easy to use and I don't feel like I need to set it with powder everyday, so when I'm rushing I don't! & my make-up still looks fine :] !

5. MASCARA - I use Loreal Voluminous in black and I use regualar during the winter, and waterproof during the summer. In my opinion, I love this mascara, but really, everyone has their own favorites, and in my opinion I just think its important that you use any mascara rather than skipping it. Even when I'm rushed to get ready, I always use mascara even if I'm skipping eyeshadow and liner. It instantly takes you from that "i just woke up and my face is smashed--like my pillow print on my face?" look to "hello bright-eyes! how are you this morning?"

So those are my 5 beauty must haves. I'm in a rush, so maybe tomorrow I'm edit this post to include how my week went and what i'm looking forwarded to this weekend. In the meantime, I hope you're enjoying your coffee or milk or whatever you decided to have this Friday!

Visit Alissa at rags to stitches to see her top 5 and other bloggers that linked up this week!

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