hello. where has the time gone...

ohh boyy.... well first off, HELLO! Long time no post. The time has just gotten away from me over these past few months! And a lot has been going on! I don't even know where to start!
In May we actually went on vacation to CALIFORNIA! I was going to make a separate post for this, but I'll just summarize it here. We left the day after prom and made our road trip out west. We made a big loop through the north-western states down through Nevada, Utah, Nebraska, and Iowa back to Wisconsin. We stopped at Yellowstone, the Redwood forests, Fern Canyon and a lot of other national monuments and parks. We also went to Mount Rushmore and the Badlands!! It was an awesome vacation!! Here are some pictures of some of my favorite parts of the trip AND of the Pacific Ocean! 

Theodore Nat'l Park, ND

Yellowstone- Buffalo!!

Yellowstone- Emmett and Dad by the waterfalls

Yellowstone- The Lake with Sara and the Rocky Mountains in the back!!

Crater Lake

Giant Redwood

Fern Canyon

The seashore

Dad and Emmett In the OCEAN!!

Mount Rushmore!!

*sigh* the badlands... oh I miss 'em

I also got my first job this summer, in June, working at our local Strawberry farm!! It was actually quite fun! I was an Assistant Counselor at 4-H camp this year as well. 4-H camp was a blast just like last year!!

I actually took Samme to our first fun show where I competed in Barrel racing, poles, the flag race, keyhole, and plug. We didn't place but it was a really good experience and I plan on doing some shows again next year!

I am also doing volleyball with the high school this year again. I made JV1, but sadly our season is already almost over!! We only have three games and a tournament left! :(

Fair also happened. It went pretty well! I brought my civil war ballgown and a skirt and took 2nd for both! I brought some food and took three 1st's and one 2nd. I brought some visual arts projects and photography too. I also did archery again this year and took 4th place in the tournament!

I also somehow got a SUPER severe case of E-coli and they thought my kidney's were going to fail.... I could barely get out of bed to go to the restroom (which conveniently I needed 24/7) I am better now luckily thanks to God and the prayers from everyone!!

Ohh yeah... did I meantion that I'm a sophmore... I thought last year shocked me but this year really hit me like a load of bricks! 

I think that has almost caught me up. Ohh... and a post on Emmett's second birthday is coming very soon!!! I can't believe he's two!! Until then.

prom 2018.

Two weeks ago we had our home school prom! I was one of the nine prom committee members this year. Our theme was... CLUE! We had the entire building we rented set-up as a "clue board" with props distinguishing each room. To go with the theme we had a real mystery where everyone was playing clue in real life trying to figure out who murdered Miss Body, and later Miss White. The characters were as follows with the committee members who played them: Miss Body- Micayla ;

Miss Scarlet- Marie ; Miss Green- Maddie ; Professor Plum- Gabe ; Miss Karat- Josephine ; Agent Black- Buddy ; Miss White- Juli ; Miss Sterling- Naomi ; Miss Peacock-Myself. 

It was such an amazing night and it was the perfect weather, although mosquitoes tried carrying most of us away... it was a blast and I had so much fun! I got ready with my two friends Makenna and Emma (who just happens to have an awesome blog right over here- Aspiring To Be). Sarah also came this year (last years post) but had a commitment that ran into part of prom, but she still was able to make it for a couple hours! And, as we all know I'm sorta clumsy; and being the *amazing* person I am, literally went head over heels and face-planted.       yup.      i did.     not kidding at all.    and it was 100% NOT graceful. *applause for effort* Next year I'm getting a little bit shorter dress. Black and blue knees from face-planting are not worth the perfect dress. (or are they?!)

Anyway, here are the long awaited pictures of our dresses and of the night! 

Emmett and Dad! Lil' Bro being adorable!!

Makenna in her beautiful dress!

Emma and her converse!

Myself being a little teapot!

Group photo in our yard using out neighbors tree... lol

Micayla's (Miss Boddy) "dead body"

Being goofy at the photo booth ft. Emma

Meet Mrs.Green (Maddie) and Mr. Green!

Miss Peacock(Me) and Miss Scarlet (Marie)

Miss Karat (Joesphine) and Myself

Emma and her beautiful self

Myself... doing something weird...

Sarah in her beautiful dress!!

And Sarah's sister Caroline. What a cutie.

Nearing the end of prom we discovered another dead body... Miss White. And we soon discovered the murderer could no longer hide HIS tracks. It was... PROFESSOR PLUM with the wrench! Now the best part is... Prof.Plum is Miss.White's brother in real life. I totally did not give him grief about killing his sister.

I hope you enjoyed this post! What is your most embarrassing moment at any dance? Are you clumsy like your's truly?

we adopted five bunnies.

This happened sometime last month but I forgot to post it! 
I had FIVE bunnies! It was only for half and hour, but I had bunnies!!! So basically five baby bunnies were buried under the snow under our kitchen window, right next to our exhaust vent... There have been MANY fox sightings for the last couple of months and then we didn't see any bunnies in our yard for a couple days which was odd. So we decided to move the bunnies as their mom was dead to our understanding. They were self sustaining as they were eating all of my mothers tulip buds... so we spent some time with them and of course we named them... Their names were Daisy, Jack, Angela, Muffin, and Will! Daisy and Jack were the two I named! Here are a bunch of pictures that we took. This was the best thing EVER! They are in a new home and all together.

Daisy!!!

Top- Daisy; Bottom- Jack

Thanks for reading! Have you ever rescued or "adopted" any animals? If so what were they and what did you name them?? Have an awesome day!!

a civil war ballgown complete.

I did it... It's finished! I made my ballgown!! I took it to our county's 4-H clothing revue and took first and I might be taking it to state! It only took me since last summer to finish but considering I got it complete by my deadline I'm fine with that! So obviously here are the awkward pictures! These were taken at the revue if you're interested in knowing.

I look so... thrilled

CLOSE UPS 

Side view

Back view. Can I just say, I've fallen in LOVE with how I did my hair! Want a tutorial???

Let me tell you... my machine has quite the temperament, it loves to EAT sheer fabric. I may have began yelling at it on multiple one *cheeky grin* occasion in a Russian accent. Tip I learned after the fact: place tissue paper on the top of it and rip it out after you stitch! 

Here are my tips for ironing a civil war ballgown:  When ironing DO NOT I repeat, DO NOT lay the HOT iron on top of your hand!!! It hurts... no burns, just redness. Just always pay attention.  When ironing sheer don't accidentally turn up the temperature and burn a HOLE in your shoulder drape. Use a thin towel on top or simply don't turn up the temperature.  And lastly, always steal your mother to help; Thanks for the help mom!!

The most tedious part was probably the waist because I got to do my favorite part... pull one TINY thread that breaks like a hundred times through an entire dress, evenly! I broke the thread at least 4 times and had to "improvise". But it is the part that makes the dress feel like it's really coming together.

Misty, the homely self taught sewer realized one fatal flaw in her scheme to make this ballgown... She's only ever put in one single zipper in her life. Four years ago. So youtube and the seam ripper became her best friends! Three tries later she said good enough, and let me say this, I HATE the zipper foot . *dramatic pound of the key*

Thanks for reading my post (rather, my rant of my sewing excursions)! Have any of y'all joined this bandwagon of dress making? Tell me about it in a comment! Have an awesome day

                      Your's Truly,

another year and a record snow storm.

   I am officially fifteen...  yep... another thing to remember when I fill out forms *sheepish grin*  Anyway, the point of this post is to share what I did for my birthday! So, if you live in Wisconsin, you know we had a blizzard this last weekend. Yes, I know it's basically the middle of April, but I'm not sure if God got the memo. haha, just kidding. Seriously though, we got 33ish inches of snow, in three days... with some of the snow drifts at 4 or 5 feet. Enough said, I'm getting cold.

   So I had a joined birthday party with the lovely Emma *check out her blog- Aspiring to Be* and it turned out sooo great. Of course a bunch of people were not able to make it due to the weather but it was still really fun! Unfortunately... I don't think either of us took ANY pictures! So that means you'll just have to simply imagine it! Emma made some delicious looking pizza garland and she did an awesome job on it! We put it by the pizza bar; Emma's mom made homemade pizza crust and we made a bunch of delicious pizzas. My mom, Sara, and I made ice cream garland for the ice cream table! We had LOADS of toppings to go with our ice cream!! We played some games, and I learned how to play Mafia; lets just say I was a little confused but I think I understand how to play now, and it was pretty funny. 

   Sarah (not my sister) was the doughnut man and she was delivering doughnuts and got stabbed and a doctor saw and ran to her. Sara (my sister) saw while riding her bike and ran into a car so the doctor veered to Sara and saved her instead of Sarah. Love it. 

   Finally, we watched the Greatest Showman; and it was AMAZING! That's it, AMAZING! I've been listening to the soundtrack non stop!!!

   On my birthday we didn't do much. We watched some movies, including the Greatest Showman...again, and the Chronicles of Narnia for the first time (that I remember)! We played a couple games and just spent the day together as a family! I'd rather spend the day trapped at home with my family than having a busy day!

   That's what I did for my birthday! I hope you enjoyed this post! When's your birthday?? Have a great day!     Always,

a sneak peek into my crazy life.

     Yes, I've hit the ALWAYS SUPER BUSY point of the year with spring pretty much here and with only having 6 WEEKS, I repeat, 6 WEEKS left of school... I'm super swamped! So I'm going to share my crazy "getting-up-to's" with y'all! #greathomemadewords

       So if you did not know I am in a musical with our home school group, The Lady Pirates of Captain Bree! I am an Irish Pirate who goes by the name of Patty! Here are the details if you want to see it! Dates: April 20, 21, 22; 2018 at 7pm on the 20 and 21 and at 2pm on the 22! It's at the Clintonville Public High School Auditorium and it's FREE!

       As I said I am on the home stretch of my freshman year of high school! And honestly... I'm kinda ready for the summer break! I am the kid who cried when school was over... and who does something for school every summer... so this is huge for me!

      I'm an Air Conditioner at 4-H camp this year! a.k.a. Assistant Counselor. I'm with the second to eldest group (6) this year and I'm really getting excited! Except for the fact of playing gaga ball... 24/7.... for 5 days.... *face palm* Don't get me wrong it's a fun game and all... but you get sick of it when that's all the kids want to do...

     I asked Nevaeh(my little cousin) if she wanted to play a game and she said she wanted to play candyland. I pull out the board and we pick our characters: Backpack(me), Dora(Nevaeh), and Boots(mom)! Our Diego is unfortunately extremely chewed up... not sure how that happened but anyway.

Obviously Nevaeh won because she got the ice cream cone *and cheated her way to victory in my opinion* but it was fun to play!

      And I am pleased to say the Samme is just about up to her best again! I am finally able to lightly canter her again!! AND... We took our first trail ride of the season this week! We actually got two in but now... Wisconsin is being ever so gracious as to bestow more snow upon us... we literally got at least 7 inches or more....Back the indoor for riding

     And finally, here are some pictures I took this week while I was at the barn! 

On the left is Samme, the charming fella here is Ducati and the black blob on the right is Dude. :)

This is my favorite photo I took! This is Samme

And this is Ducati!

When do you get done with school? What are your plans for the summer? Do you want some posts or even vlogs of stuff at the barn? If so what do you wan to see? Let me know in the  comments. Thank you so much for reading! I hope you have an awesome day!
     Always,

diy polaroid photo display + creative things.

Today I'm going to show you how I made my Polaroid photo display! It was super simple and took under 5 minutes to put together. I don;t have a Polaroid camera so I just put photos of me and my friends! 

Supplies

-Yarn: any color (or use baking string like I did because I LOVE the tint!

-Tape or Washi Tape

-Mini clothes pins

-Polaroids or Regular pictures

-(optional)Thumb tacks

Step 1) Get a empty space or a larger picture frame. 

Step 2) Run yarn along back and forth and tape down ends and use thumb tacks on edges that are not cut if you find it slipping. Add mini clothes pins. I added six since I'm using normal sized pictures.

Step 3) Add Pictures and enjoy! I only had 3 printed pictures at the moment so it still looks a little empty but I'm so excited to see it full!

P.S. I will work on taking pictures landscape style from now on so there isn't so much empty spaces on the sides! Sorry about that!

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So here are some of the projects I finished recently. I've been working on updating my walls with some different art/diy's so that's why I made the photo display! 

I put this onto my chalkboard wall because it's a beautiful verse! And it will look great once I hang out some other decorations around it!

I just recently went to my first plank party! I wasn't sure what to do for a design I decided to do this design so I could add pictures of Samme and I together!  

Last but not least, this is one of my favorite bible journaling design that I've done in my bible so far! I'm hoping to have more of them coming in a post in the next couple of weeks! I used paper mate flair for the wreath and polaroid metallic markers for the writing. 

I hope you enjoyed this crafty post! What is your favorite passage or bible verse? Have and ideas for room decorations? Let me know in the comments! Thanks for reading and have a great day.

Always,

Nevaeh and Misty's Makeup "Tutorial"

Here is the link-https://youtu.be/voctCj38h4o   This is just a funny video my cousin and I made because we were bored. This is all for fun and dress up. I or her would NEVER ever wear this much makeup. lol. But I think she looks so much better before than after right????? 

Always,