Thanks, Pinterest

Well if you haven't already heard me talking about it, I LOVE Pinterest!! Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can pin and organize any picture that you like, and you can even upload one or just pin one you find online. You can pin a picture from any website you are on. Pinterest links to Facebook so you can automatically follow your Facebook friends. You can have more than one board - some of my boards include My Kind of Style, Destination Dreaming (travel ideas), In my Future House, and Ever After (wedding ideas). It is also a great way to share DIY crafts, recipes, hairstyles, products, whatever! Don't worry, gentlemen, there are pictures for you, too. Science, technology, history, cars, etc. Or you can just make an account to organize some of your favorite pictures (for example, cars). Yes, I can probably count the amount of males I've seen on the site on just one hand, but I'm just throwing it out there. Click here to check out my boards.

The actual purpose of this post was to share with you a hair-do I did yesterday. I found this tutorial on Pinterest and decided to try it out. I don't think I did it exactly right, I probably should have criss-crossed the pieces on either side and then I also forgot to leave the top piece for the end and do the optional tease. But hey, it was my first time and um, my hair is 4 feet long. My pieces were a little long so I just had to do a bunch of pin curls. For my first try I was happy with the result though. :) 

 

Old Ads

Got an e-mail with a bunch of these old ads and thought I'd share some of them.

Crazy, huh?

Think about it

You are not the width of your waist, nor are you the slenderness of your calves. You are not your hair color, your skin color, nor are you a shade of lipstick. Your shoe-size is of no consequence. You are not defined by the amount of attention you get from males, females, or any combination thereof. You are not the number of sit-ups you can do, nor are you the number of calories in a day. You are not your mustache. You are not the hair on your legs. You are not a little red dress. You are no amalgam of these things.

You are the content of your character. You are the ambitions that drive you. You are the goals that you set. You are the things that you laugh at and the words that you say. You are the thoughts you think and the things you wonder. You are beautiful and desirable not for the clique you attend, but for the spark of life within you that compels you to make your life a full and meaningful one. You are beautiful not for the shape of the vessel, but for the volume of the soul it carries.

Paris dreaming

Doesn't this just make your heart melt? Or is it just me?

As I just showed this picture to my friend Becky, sitting next to me, I think my exact words were: "I feel like I'm just melting into a big blob of mush!" (?! Who says that?)

While Paris seems so far away and my heart longs to be there, I know I must look on the bright side and be grateful that I had the opportunity to actually be there. Sometimes I still can't believe it. When I look at this picture it just takes my breath away and it all seems like a dream.

You Are My Sunshine

What a cute idea.

As seen here on Etsy.