Wednesday, July 24, 2013


I haven't been to the zoo in a long long time but last week I got to babysit three little boys at the zoo. It was a lot of fun and the boys were cute as always. Last Friday I also got to go to my friend, Lyndsie's, birthday sleepover. It was my first time going to a group sleepover (I have been to parties where you play Truth or Dare but I never stayed for the sleeping part). It was fun just goofing around and sleeping at 3 am and waking up at 8 am xP For one of my dares I had to have a ketchup and whipped cream face mask! On Monday, my mom asked me if I wanted to take my permit test and get it over with. I did take it even though I felt like backing out but I passed, no mistakes;) Now I can drive!!! Kind of lol, I'm learning.. This coming Friday I'm babysitting the boys again but at a bouncy house this time. I better rest up for a lot of energy! 
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Monday, July 15, 2013

What are you up to lately?
Well, last week my mom and I actually had a picnic at the park! It was really fun and relaxing except for the noisy little kids-.- lol. We went to the shops near the park but when we were at Anthropologie it started pouring and we didn't have an umbrella! We were planning to wait the rain out but it just didn't stop so we had to run like crazy to one of the stores that sold umbrellas (Anthropologie surprisingly wasn't selling any, even $50 ones!) The umbrella we bought was so big! We're probably only going to use that on really stormy days or we'll look ridiculous. Even with the rain, I had a really good time with my mom. I was thirsting for adventure and that was kind of like an adventure--a calm picnic before a storm, literally. I liked dashing from store to store in my flip flops and getting soaked and not caring and just laughing with my mom. 


One of the profitable things I did last week was I actually painted something. I'm usually too lazy unless I have a school art assignment but I gained inspiration from our past beach vacation. This is one of the works I came up with. I have some other ones in my head but I need to buy some watercolor.
Me reading at the beach
Today I was bored so I made a braided leather bow bracelet. I'm not really sure what outfits I can wear it with but it looks cute on my jewelry box so yeah lol. Basically, you just take three strands of leather and braid. Hot glue the ends. Wrap the bracelet around your wrist and leave a little bit of wiggle room for when you insert your hand through and then hot glue the ends together. You can also use a hook and chain or a button thing but I didn't have any of those. I was contemplating between putting a bow or little charms on it but my charms wouldn't fit on my jump rings so the bow idea won. You can follow my bow tutorial here: D.I.Y. Hair Bows, minus the hair clip of course and a lot smaller. Once you have the bow completed just hot glue the bow onto the bracelet or sew it on. There are so many possibilities with this bracelet but I just tried a bow.

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Monday, July 8, 2013

Back from my Beach Vacay!




Our vacation to Myrtle Beach was terrific! It was the longest we have ever spent just beside the beach and not running around to different locations. On Wednesday, we woke up really early and drove to Broadway
 at the Beach boardwalk. We went to the Ripley's Aquarium and I enjoyed the glass tunnel with all the different fish. I was really excited to go to the TOMS store there to get a picture in front of the huge logo again but the logo was gone. The store was still full of super cute Toms but of course I did not need any more. When we got to our hotel which had a great view of the beach, I must say, we immediately went swimming in the ocean!
Thursday was Fourth of July--Belated Happy 4th to all! I'm so thankful that God gave America its liberty and that as of right now, we still have our freedoms in this land. And also that He gave us the freedom from the bondage of sin by sending His son to die on the cross for our sins and rising up again on the third day. We went swimming basically all day and we were planning to go the the boardwalk to watch the fireworks but it just so happened that there were fireworks just outside our hotel at the beach!
Friday we went swimming all day again but we went back to Broadway at the Beach and ate at Joe's Crabshack where 96.99% of the food I was allergic to-yay! We also walked around at night and found an awesome candy store, ItSugar; everything was enlarged and there were gummy bear nightlights!


There was also another candy shop where you could watch them make the candy. Their world famous caramel pralines were to die for. Saturday was the day we headed home:*( On our way home we stopped by the Tanger Outlet and picked out some great deals. I only got a new pair of kelly green shorts from the Gap and some jewelry from Forever21 (I just found out that their bags have "John 3:16" on the bottoms of the bag, expect the unexpected..) We arrived home safely,even through heavy downpours, all thanks to God. I got a lot tanner from our vacation but it's peeling off grossly because I got sunburnt; I hope it will be golden afterwards. We had a lot of fun and are really thankful for this experience!


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