Pinterest Series: Yoga to Induce Sleep and Stretches to Energize the Morning

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I think these poses actually worked. I'm not an insomniac though, so it could have been because I was just tired anyways. They were a nice way of winding down and I did feel like I could sleep while doing the poses.



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I never noticed my morning being anymore energized than it already is with these stretches. I did notice that I was just achy while doing them and the first days it hurt doing the stretches. This could have been from exercises from the day before. A few days later I stretched really big like a just waking up stretch and doing that with these moves felt much better.

Pinterest Series: Browns and Creams

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It's so pretty, although mine could be darker to match hers.

Pinterest Series: New Year"s Eve Makeup

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First Try:

Second Try: I noticed her eyeliner was a lot darker and thicker.

It's pretty, but where the glitter liner sits on my eye doesn't work. When my eyes are open the glitter touches my crease, so when I shut my eye you can see that glitter has transferred to other areas of my eyelid and that ain't pretty.

Favorite Things: October

FOOD:

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When I start seeing pumpkin and apple recipes, I know it's fall.
Doesn't this look AMAZING!

Lifestyle:
Something to do everyday.
It seemed overwhelming when I first filled out my calendar that I had to go somewhere everyday this month. But it's kind of nice being busy too, it makes me feel like I have a life haha. The nice thing is at least one weekend is filled with hanging out with friends.

Phone Wallpaper
I found cute wallpaper for my phone on pinterest and it's all fall related.
These are the two I've been using. You can find these others here.

Books:
I want to post this before Halloween, so you guys can have pumpkin wallpaper and maybe read some spooky books. Right now I am reading In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters and it's a little spooky. It's set in the early 1900's during the Spanish flu epidemic and it has ghosts, lots of ghosts. Bonus: there are a few creepy pictures included. Also katytastic from youtube has a list of scary books to get you in the mood for Halloween in the video below.

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Outfit Inspiration

pink shirt

jeans

later wore tan canvas flats

 some pretty girly bracelets 

Day to Night in bed

Day

turquoise/teal shirt

grey cardigan

black skirt

medallion trinket necklace

bangles, brown bracelet

Night In

Switch to a comfier grey sweater and black yoga/sleepwear pants

Pinterest Series: Pretzel Dogs

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My hot dogs were short, so they look like the Michelin Man. They were really good though. My family usually makes pigs in a blanket, which is hot dog and cheese rolled into a crescent roll from a can. I was missing the cheese in these, but the homemade dough was so good. The family said I need to double the batch next time and I might add some cheese.

I had a little extra dough, so I tried to make a real pretzel, but it was too short. The dough without the hot dog is just as delicious. 

Pinterest Series: Books Worth Reading

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I give up!

Book: War Brides by Helen Bryan

Worth Reading?: I don't know.

Another one that I did not finish. I just get bored so easily. It seemed promising at first. It's historical and I'm all about history. I hated the way it was written though. Each chapter is a new date and they could be two years from the last chapter. What? What happened during these last two years? Another thing is there were way too many characters. It's based on the lives of five girls, but then you also have a bunch of extra characters for each girl. It was hard remembering who's who.

Obviously this lady and I have totally different tastes in books and I'm going to predict that I will find that most of these books are not worth reading, at least for me. The next book I can already say that I will most likely not like it also. His books are what you read in a high school English class, such as, oh we'll say The Kite Runner. I like young adult, dystopian, rom-com, paranormal books. I should probably fix that since I'm going to be an English major, but there's a difference between reading a book for pleasure and reading for school, you know?

Disclaimer: Now you know I'm an English major, don't expect well written posts. This is definitely a place for all my sloppiness, save the grammar for school. Ok and also because I write these pretty quickly and write anything that pops into my head.

Pinterest Series: Neapolitan Cupcakes

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So obviously I'm messy with my frosting. I don't care as long as it tastes good. Also I'm lazy and said "forget that" to making everything from scratch. So I bought a chocolate cake mix, a funfetti cake mix (because there was no vanilla), and strawberry frosting. It came out tasting really good still. Though I think tasted the vanilla and strawberry more than chocolate.

I feel a little like Finding Nemo

Coral/ Orange Cream shirt

Black and white skirt

Black flats

cuff bracelet

Favorite Things: September

Food:


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I've been making this smoothie a lot lately. It's ice cubes, I use regular milk and peanut butter, cinnamon, and a banana. I recently added nutmeg because of Fall and chia seeds to keep me full longer with long school days. It tastes really good and it does keep me full for a few hours.

TV:
Big Brother
It is over now, but I am addicted to that show. I usually get tired of reality shows after a few seasons, but I never do with Big Brother and I think that's because it only comes on once a year in the summer. So I have a lot of time without seeing the show. This season was weird because I didn't have anyone that I really liked or really hated, but it was still fun.

Makeup:
ELF's eyebrow kit

I use ELF's eyebrow gel and then I use the brown powder on the right. I like it a lot. I haven't really used the brown gel. I think I used it once, but I like using the powder more.

This is ELF's crease brush, which I love. Especially if I want to do a cut crease or keep the shadow in the hollows of my eyes. It's .

Music:
I've been really into these songs.