what ive been doing instead of blogging

1. watching our favorite shows (most recently: so you think you can dance, bones, the tudors, greek, whatever martha, the biggest loser, charmed...)

2. untangling yarn (see above)  

3. crocheting with said yarn (and others)

4. taking a class (in summer!)

5. photographing for said class (pics coming soon)

6. wondering when summer is gonna start feeling like summer (what is with this weather california?)

7. getting my first passport (so excited for mexico!)

8. eating a lot (mostly junk)

9. trying to convince myself to go to the gym (unsuccessfully)

10. and reading all of your wonderful blogs! (yet not posting on my own)

there you go 10 reasons why i havent been blogging, hopfully it will pick up soon

i heart tiaras... especially tiny ones!

this was a swap from a while ago that i have been meaning to post

this was the tiny tiara i made my partner she wanted chocolate brown and seafoam blue...my favorite part was the pearls
this is the tiara i received from cindy...itsnt it so beautiful!
it actually can fit on my head if i tie the ribbons around

i love it so much i may have to wear it sometime!

pattern love

a recent thrift score...these pretty vintage patterns

maybe ill sew something out of one of these someday...

for the love of martha?

every now and then we get an extra channel that will be availabel for a while then go away...right now its my current fav, the style network (though it was much better circa 2004-2006)

anyway, we had the fine living network for a while where i discovered my new favorite show...

...Whatever, Martha?!!!!!

it is probably the funniest show i have ever seen! if you havent seen it you should really check it out (there are a couple segments on youtube)

My mother, sister, and i looked forward to it every week! and when they had to tape it for me cause i had class we would watch the tape over and over because it was so funny!

if you dont know the concept of the show basically martha's daughter and friend watch segments of martha stewart living and comment about every thing from what martha is wearing to what they presume her to be thinking and much more...it's hysterical i swear!

one episode they watched a segment of martha making a caesar salad...it looked delicious so baby sis and i gave it a try one night
i found the recipe online and it was quite delicious... the only thing we didnt do was make our own croutons, we were going to but we were too hungry to wait so we bought some fresh made at whole foods and figured it was close enough

when boredom ensues

i was bored one night while my mom was working on a project for my sister's girl scout troop and i started playing with her pipe cleaners and this is what i made:

a pair of totally harry potter type glasses...baby sis and i thought that bentley looked like bentley potter, or harry bentley (we couldn't decide which one) ...we are obviously harry potter nerds (just a little right?)
baby sis even wore them to school all the next day and had friends requesting some in various colors but in the words of baby sis, "ok...one, we only have green and two, my sister is not going to make you any"  haha, she has some attitude

giveaways!

Here are some blogs that are doing giveaways at the moment...check them out!

passionforcrafts

pinkangel

who do i look like?

everyone always has those one or two famous people that they have been told they look like

when i was little i was told i looked like Drew Barrymore in ET...i dont see it really
when i was in Jr. High the charles angels movies were popular and i got told again by different people that i looked like Drew...my mom thought it was just the way i did my hair (i couldnt find one where she had those loose curls she wore at the time of one of the movies) but i figured if it wasnt just one when i was little with blond hair, maybe it was true?
and then when i was searching for these pictures i found this one of Drew and somewhere i have a picture of me from this kid id thing and i look exactly like this...ok maybe not exactly...but pretty similar
a photography friend of mine was doing a project on old movie stars last year and our professor was great at decided what old movie stars people in the class looked like.  seriously she was really good. she would look at you for like 2 seconds and then say a name and when we looked it up on line you could totally see it.  anyway she said i looked like Sandra Dee.  we seriously have the exact same face shape.  and there are other pictures where she looks more like me, but this is my favorite of her
But my friend really wanted to use me for Kim Novak in vertigo and she thought i looked pretty close to her too

Corrine Hall Photography 

and here's the picture! it looks a little weird on here...it is much better in print! we also had to darken my eyebrows and lighten my face to look more like her, but i think it worked pretty well (though i did need to get my roots touched up!)

return of the saltwater sandals

I had these beauties when i was little...i think they were a hand-me-down from a cousin or friend of the family and i loved them! 
and heres my new pair! my reinfacuation with these began about 4-5 years ago when a friend of mine in high school got a white pair and i really wanted the iridescent light pink ones
but i soon forgot about them while other things moved to the top of my "i need those" list until more recently when i saw them in the new sunrise leather by my house
i debated for months over weather i should get the red or blue (i liked the red better, but the blue seemed more practical) in the end the blue just looked better on my feet...and at $5 off who could resist? theyre super cute and comfy and you know what?
i absolutely love them!

(actually i believe ive worn them everyday since i bought them!)

happy easter!

here is the easter bunny bringing you some pretty decorated eggs

I didnt get any pictures of the all the eggs my sister and i dyed before most of them were made into deviled eggs like last easterthis was my easter dress for the year along with the sweater and shoes i wore to church

(that sweater was from the childrens department of target and i will post more later about how i transformed it)

I hope you all had a WONDERFUL easter filled with family, friends, food, and of course...eggs!

its official!

i have officially declared april to be catch-up month.  no not ketchup, catch-up! im going to catch up on all the things i have been meaning to do since school started in the fall and i started working and joined a sorority and my life was pretty much taken over! so expect many more post to come including things ive been meaning to post for the last few months!

after watching this video...

living in paris would be my ultimate dream

...not that it wasnt already : )

Hannah in wonderland