30x30 challenge: New outfits!

 Here are some of my first outfits for my 30x30 challenge!  These outfits have been pretty basic, but I'm trying to be more creative this week.  Maybe one day I'll even wear my hair down (ha!) if the weather ever decides it doesn't want to be over 100 degrees!  

On another note the garden seems to have survived the 3 days of 100+ degrees. Praise the Lord!  The basil is doing very well!  I'm making some pesto with it today.  I'm pretty excited about that.  I hope it will taste good.  

Well hello summer

Yesterday and today's weather have been quite nice. Not too hot and not too humid. I just looked at the forecast for the next few days and dang! I mean really, can it really be that hot here?

30x30 Challenge

I've decided to join Kate and Lauren in the 30x30 Challenge.  I'm a little late to the game, but late is better than never.  I had a hard time actually picking out my 30 items.  I finally did it yesterday and today is my first outfit :)
Here are my 30 pieces

Here's my first outfit

Happy Friday!

I hope you're having a great Friday!  This week has been a bit stressful, but with all good things.  So here's my High Five for Friday!
1.  This week was the last week of me teaching Chem 1203 lab!  Yay!  I had a great bunch of students, but that lab is not my favorite.  We celebrated today by having cupcakes.  Yes, I am the TA that brought my students cupcakes.  Hey I really just wanted an excuse to buy cupcakes from my bestfriend's bakery, Sweetcakes :)
2.  I gave my demo lecture for a teaching position this week!  It could have gone better, but I'm glad it's over and I didn't do too terrible! I'm ready to get better and start teaching my own lecture section in the fall!
3.  I learned how to use the grill!  Oh yes!
4.  I've made some super awesome crafting projects for my new vanity.  The are the best kind of craft projects one's that include glitter!
5.  Speaking of glitter, I personalized my garden hoe so that no one could confuse it for there.  I did paint glitter all over it.  Just because gardening is outside doesn't mean it doesn't need glitter.
I'm looking forward to this weekend!  Hope you have a great one!

Friday at last!

I love Friday!  This week has been kind of crazy!  Crazy is a great way!
First, Saturday my bestest friend in the whole wide world got married!
Crazy!
I kind of can't believe she finally got married and now she's Mrs. Smith!  The wedding was perfect!  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful, amazing, truly great best friend, and get to stand right beside her as she married Brad.
So amazing!
This is a picture of my hair for the day (not a great one but better than the others I took).  I did it myself and I have to say I was impressed.  I watch a tutorial from The Small Things blog and I practiced a few times before the wedding.  I love Kate's blog, you can find the tutorial here.

I've been thinking of re-purposing by desk into something I might actually use.  Clearly I don't do any work at it now since it's just piled up with lots and lots of stuff (okay junk).  So I want to make it a vanity.  I'm really excited about this idea.  I'll post again once I've finished it.  

This week I ate some of the first tomatoes out of the garden.  I'm pretty sure there is NOTHING better than a tomato right out of the garden.  Our plants are full of tomatoes, so even though these were the first they won't be the last.  Me and my dad also planted our plot the church that we're growing for the Cooperative Christian Ministries.  While I excited about the garden at the house, I'm even more excited about this because we're going to give the vegetables we grow there to people who really need it.  How great is that!  

Rachel made these cute "redneck" wine glasses for the bridal party at the wedding.  I've been using my ever since.  I'm totally in love with it.  This is my cherry coke slushy. 

Normally I've been posting my new shoes here and they are normally super high heels, but this week I got some desperatly needed new rainbows.  My old ones were about to fall apart.  I really like there because of the braided strap.  Also, there's my new tattoo!  I'm in love with it.  

Hope you had a great week as well!  Happy weekend!

Friday yay!

I haven't blogged much lately but I'm trying to get back in the habit! So I thought I would start again with a little High Five for Friday!
1.  We picked some watermelon radishes from the garden this week!  Not a great picture, but I'm sure I'll take more.

2.  I got new nail polish yesterday! And I'm in love!

3.  Yesterday I spent some time with my best friend Rachel and her sweet pup Bailey.  She's so sweet.  

4.  I found this bike at Walmart and I think it's amazing.  It needs to be my next bike.  I mean look at those pink tires, seriously!

5.  Freeze pops!  I loved these when I was little and I still do now!

Happy Friday everyone!

It's that time again!  Friday!  My favorite day of the week, of course!  Today is extra special because I'm on my way to Raleigh to see my little brother graduate from NC State.  I am such a proud sister.  He's pretty much a genius!  I'm also excited because I got 2 new dresses to wear to his graduations.  Yes I thought I need 2 dresses.  One graduation is in the morning (at 8:30AM really?!) and then a departmental graduation in the evening. I think that totally justifies having two dresses.  So now it's time for my High Five for Friday!
1.  I finally finished one of my many pinterest crafts!  A polka dotted tiered planters.  

2.  I got a new camera this week, because I wanted to have a small on I could fit in my purse.  I love my nikon, but sometimes it's a bit too big.  My new camera has all sorts of fun functions.  My favorite is already the one where it only picks up a certain color.  Yay yellow!

2.  I got a new camera this week, because I wanted to have a small on I could fit in my purse.  I love my nikon, but sometimes it's a bit too big.  My new camera has all sorts of fun functions.  My favorite is already the one where it only picks up a certain color.
3.  I got a new comforter for my bed at Target.  I had seen it several times and I couldn't resist it!  I need to go back and get the matching shams too.

4.  My new crafting project.  DIY screen printing.  I'm really excited about this.  

5.  I found some shoes I pinned on pinterest a few weeks ago on sale for 10 dollars.  How lucky did I get that they are my size!  I believe I was meant to have these shoes!  Okay maybe they aren't so practical, but they were only 10 dollars! 

Happy Friday to yall!