Liebster Award

I've done this once before, but Jazmine from Sassy Brunette opened it up to anyone that wanted to do it, and I feel like I've found a lot of fun, new blogs lately, and I want to give them the chance to do this too!

This one has different rules from the first one I did...

The rules are simple:

1. Link back to the person who nominated you.

2. Write 11 facts about yourself.

3. Answer the 11 questions from the person who nominated you.

4. Nominate 11 blogs with 200 or less flowers. Notify them. ( You cannot nominate the person who nominated you)

5. Create 11 questions for those bloggers you've nominated to answer.

11 Facts About Myself

1. I am 22 going on 23, and unlike most young twenty-year olds, I am actually really excited to be almost 23. lol.

2. I love iced coffee. I'd rather spend 5-6$ on a fancy iced coffee then save money and get the crappy warm stuff.

3. I'm graduating May 4, 2013 (which just so happens to be on my mums birthday :] ) with myBCJ degree.

4. I'm incredibly unathletic and uncordinated. 

5. I hit my head at least once a week...Vince thinks I should get a helmet.

6. I will graduate May 2014 with a BSCJ, and hopefully a minor in biology.

7. I like eating raw cookie dough.

8. If it was up to me, Vince and I would pack up and move to someplace in Europe, and sleep in late, and sip on coffee   out on our beautiful balcony ;]

9. I have a problem over eating. I LOVE food. I will seriously eat until I feel sick, and then I'll lay around complaining to Vince when he tries to play around because I'm "SOOOO FULLL!"

10. I cant cook. 

11. I love the run down town I live in during school. Its small, and uneventful, with nothing but a Walmart for entertainment, and its full of random Victorian homes to catch my eyes.

Questions from Jazmine

1. What is your dream vacation?

A summer in Europe, spent seeing the views, and eating the local food, spending the afternoons sipping coffee, and experience life ♥

2. If you we're stranded on an island what is the ONE thing you would bring with you?
Tampons. Sorry, its the truth.

3. Favorite movie?
Far too many to pick from :]

4. What are you afraid of the most?
Failure. If I never make it to Wayne State and to the job of my dreams, I don't know what I'll do.

5. Dream job?

If we're playing pretend, Broadway actress, or running my own boutique/coffee shop.
Realistically? Pathologist Assistant....(hint hint Wayne State....make my dreams come true ♥ )

6. When did you start your blog and why?
January 1, 2012 although I didn't start getting serious about it till recently.
My sister Holly encouraged me to, and it seemed like the perfect venue to try and get the message out about the brand I'm trying to create.

7. If you had to choose one celebrity to have dinner with, who would it be and why? 

Ellen DeGeneres - shes an amazing and giving celebrity, and lets be honest, I'm a poor college student, she wouldn't let me go home without something to help me get into grad school or help pay for it.  

8. Do you speak another language?,
I took a semester in American Sign Language in College, I love it, though I'm not fluent.

9. What are the top 5 things on your bucket list?

1. Graduate from Wayne State

2. Take an extended vacation to Europe.

3. Own a Victorian home  
4. Have a beautiful craft room (perferably the one with the tower :] )
5. Marry Vincenso ♥

10. What is the one song that describes your life?

I could never pick one song...

The Show - Lenka - I stress out too much, I never quite know where I'm heading next, I need to slow down & "just enjoy the show"

Chinese - Lily Allen - I can't handle the distance between Vince and I during the summer. Or really during the day while I'm in class and he's teaching. It breaks my heart. I just want to spend all day with him.  I couldn't explain how perfect this would be if it were my everyday... " I don't want anything more, than to see your face when you open the door. You'll make me beans on  toast and a nice cup of tea (coffee), and we'll get Chinese and watch TV." ♥♥♥

11. What is your favorite social media?

INSTAGRAM. I check it nonstop. I can't help it. :]

My Nominations:

1. Holly from The Baby Steps Blog
2. Alicia from Home Sweet Home
3. Rachel from Rachbug's Ramblings
4. Kellene from This Lovely Little Day
5. Linny from Kangaroos, Shoes, and I Do's
6. Ericka from Hand Maden Goods
7. Danielle from A Stash Addict
8. Sarah from A Girl Smitten
9. Kiersten from Good Day Sunshine
10. Silver from A Silver Snapshot
11. Mollie from Light by Morning

Your Questions: 

1. What is your favorite coffe /drink?
2. What is your dream job?
3. Why did you start blogging?
4. Favorite craft?
5. What is something you would love to learn?
6. Favorite article of clothing?
7. Song that describes your life?
8. Favorite book?
9. What is one opportunity you passed that you wish you would of taken advantage of?
10. Favorite card/ board game?
11. Where did you meet your best friend?

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Coffee Date/ Friday's Letters :]

My celebratory frappe from earlier this week :]

this week's coffee date doesn't have a prompt so I'm going to use this chance to tell you all about my good news!

So, if we were having coffee this afternoon, since I have been in class all morning, I would tell you:

Although this didn't work out the way I had hoped, I will graduate this spring on time, and still be able to return next year (completely funded by loans....UGH). So even thought TU isn't accepting the fact that they wronged us by inticing us to enroll for a degree they don't have, I will at least give myself the opportunity to strive in the field I originally set out to ♥

I would also tell you that I have a huge research project that I have to do, that I'm actually already kind of behind on, but its on fingerprints and a correlation to ethnicity and I have finally found an agency that is willing to donate their facility for my research!

If we were having coffee I would also tell you that Vince and I are trying to eat healthier together, and our first week, we did---okay. Not, perfect, but definitely not as bad as we usually do. && I worked out twice this week! Which is two times more than I usually would, and I plan on going for a run this weekend. :]

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YAY! now time for Friday Letters!

Dear Week- Thank you for bringing good news to my hears when it comes to my future ♥  Dear Me- Keep your head up! Only 6 weeks left, keep pushing! That degree with honors is insight & if you just keep pushing, it'll be yours! Dear Vince- Good luck on your Praxis II test this weekend! I know you'll do great! Dear Psy. 101 Class-Thank you for teaching me today that my obsession with lists, my past experience with cosmetology*, and my visual learning, is normal for those with ADD. Dear Dirty Laundry Laying On My Bedroom Floor All Week- If Vince doesn't pick you up tonight, so help me, I will burn you.

Sincerely,
chelsea ♥




*Yes, according to my psy. prof. individuals with ADD tend to pursue cosmetology, due to their ability to visualize things easier than other academic subjects, they pursue visual careers such as...cosmetology...who knew?

If you want to read Ashlye's letters, or Alyssa's coffee date, or other blogs that are linking up with them today, just click their images above ! 

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WIP Wednesday- new designs for spring

This week's WIP's are a few new product designs I'm working on for the spring line. Hope you enjoy <3

This is a beautiful cream and lilac skinny bow headband. I fell in love with it immediately :]

These are a few iPhone4S covers I'm working on, haven't decided on the other two designs, and they still need buttons for their closures :]

These are an example of the new lightweight skinny scarf design I'm going to carry in the store this spring.

Here you can see their design a little better since they aren't folded up :] <3

These are my favorites right now! sadly the picture is currently upside down (maybe i should fix that...hmmm...), but when read from loop to knot, they spell words in morse code! I love it! The navy and blue says dream, the pink and black says love, green and brown says peace, and the cream and clay says life. I have sooooo many ideas for these, I'm gonna offer them in this chunkier yarn version, but I also want to offer them in a thinner version for wrap bracelets so I can fit longer words, names, and cute sayings on them. 

So many ideas, so little time <3

le sigh, the problems of the small biz/college life... 

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Insta-weekend update week two :]

Hey guys! sadly, yesterday I hit save instead of publish and didn't realize that till now :/ Ooops! Sorry!

This weekend I spent relaxing with Vincenso after getting better from surgery. I ate SOOOOO MUCH DELICIOUS food its ridiculous! Finally being able to chew cheeseburgers, and use chopsticks for Chinese felt amazing....and its sad I forgot to take pictures of all of it! But I'll still give you a recap of the weekend pictures!

ONE- look at those cuties! Vince's pups were cuddling Sunday afternoon :]
TWO- lemons and limes that Vince used to cook us some DELICIOUS chicken to use in our lunches for the week. We made the decision to start eating healthier :]
THREE- and on monday...I had a horrible case of the mondays when trying to get back into the groove of things. The awful weather didn't help...but the unhealthy caramel frappe did. ;]

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Coffee Date Link up and Friday's Letters!

It's Friday again! Yay! That means Coffee Date!

This is my yummy Caramel Mocha from a Coffee Shop at the Factory in Franklin TN last weekend :]

This week's prompt is about finding time to write and being organized...since I'm just starting to become more active on the blog, I don't really have many tips on this topic yet.

When It comes to staying organized with school, and tasks for the store, my go-to is post it notes, to-do lists, and a good planner.

I can never have enough lists, whether its of long-term assignments for my school, lists of items to be photographed the next time I get with my baby sister (aka my store photographer), lists of random emails or class notes I have to print, I have lists literally EVERYWHERE. They fill up the spare space in my planner, the notes and to-do list apps on my phone, and then the lists spill over onto post it notes that get stuck to the pages of my planner. I can't help it, if it's not written down, or put in my phone, I'm going to forget it and that's when I forget assignments, or suddenly find myself with a million assignments to do in one night.  

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I also wanted to join Ashley this week at The Sweet Season Blog for Friday's Letters. I thought it would be fun to try it out this week! So here are my first Friday's Letters :]

Dear Friday- Thank you for coming here so fast! I'm ready to spend some time with Vince again! Dear Vincenso- Thank you so much for coming to visit this week while I was "sick" it meant the world to me :] Dear Wisdom Teeth- I can't believe how lucky I am to have had such and "easy" experience with taking you out. Thank you for not making me sick or swelling me up like a balloon! Dear Momma- thanks for being my nurse and making sure I had plenty of soft food to eat! Dear Best Buy- thank you for giving me such an amazing deal on my lenovo yoga because I absolutely love it and couldn't have afforded this ultrabook without the amazing discount that they let dad bargain too & then helped bring down the insurance some too!

If you want to link-up too, or read Alissa's coffee date, or some more Friday's Letters just click on the pictures above :]

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chelseaMADE just joined Bloglovin :]

Well with google getting rid of google reader, I thought it was time to join bloglovin! you should come join me!





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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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