Pinterest Doily Lamp

Pinterest. Only my new favorite thing ever. Well....at the end of the school year in April, I found a doily lamp I really wanted to try! So right away this summer I got right down to work collecting doilies from garages sales, thrift stores, or by having people buy them for me. Ha, well....it looked a lot easier than it actually was. Kristen and I had quite the frustrating day attempting it (for the second time too, I think), and we just used as much glue as we could but it still didn't work! And now, finally, on my FOURTH try (I was freaking determined, ok?) I succeeded!! It's the coolest thing ever!! Ok, I literally just finished it a few hours ago, so it's not technically a lamp yet...still gotta attach it to the light fixture. But here it is!! I'm so proud!!

So excited :) It'll hang from mine and Leila's room with a light in it and it will be beautiful. 

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ABC's of Summer 2012

Almost there!! This summer has been a totally different change from life at Covenant. I love making lists so here's an ABC list of my summer :)

• Auntie Megan :) The summer started out with me seeing Finley and I've spent the summer eagerly awaiting the birth of Jessica's baby due this December. I'm an awesome Aunt, ok??
• Baking soda. I started washing my hair with baking soda only (no shampoo. no conditioner) and it has been amazing!! My hair is like ten times nicer than it used to be and I don't have to do anything to get the curls to look good. Never realized how much shampoo dried out my hair and made it frizzy. So throwing out my shampoo was such a good decision! Yay!!! Ultimate success!
• Crafting Wars!! New show on TV I started watching on Tuesday nights.
• Dancing. Just kidding. I don't dance. Ever. However, I saw a preview for a new dancing movie and it made me wish I knew how to dance. 
• DeMotte....
• Drought. Please rain more! 
• Emily. I feel kind of bad that I'm not actually referring to my sister Emily right here. I'm referring to Emily off the Bachelorette. That's right. I was one dedicated fan this season and I really liked her and she made good decisions about all the guys!
• Ear cuff. Ordered one in the mail and it's still not here!
• Football ♥ Bought a football like my first week home because that's how important it was to me to get one.
• Free catalogs. Oh how I love signing people up for free catalogs when they least expect it.  
• Golf course. Went to dinner at someone's house last week and they drove me around Sandy Pines Golf Course and it was absolutely beautiful! I guess I never realized how beautiful golf courses are. Makes me (almost) wish I liked playing golf!
• Garage sale! We had a garage sale and I made a grand total of.....drum roll please.....twenty-five dollars!! Haha.
• Gun!! I shot a gun for the first time! It's seriously one of my new favorite things to do now!!
• Harry Potter. I had an awesome plan of reading books I'd never read before but nope. I accidently picked Harry Potter up off my shelf and haven't put them down since. I just read the last summer why on earth did I start again?!
• Hiking at Indiana Dunes! People don't think there's a beach and dunes in Indiana. But there are. And hiking up there is so much fun and I even did the 6 mile hike! I should get a medal! 
• Indiana.  
• Josh and Jess. My sister and brother-in-law and I just love going to their house and eating their food, watching weird movies about killer evil bunnies that possess people and stuff like that. Good times. 
• Kniman. A town smaller than Covenant's campus that I had the good fortune of working in a few times for a guy that had to sort magazine labels. 
• Laughing
• Letters! My favorite form of communication other than actually talking to someone!
• Monsters Inc. Bought it at a garage sale for a dollar (and it was my mom's money!)
• Nuggets. As in chicken nuggets. Twenty for $5 at McDonalds. 
• New friends! Just what I needed to survive the summer. 
• Oreos. Only my favorite ever. My parents have been kind enough to buy me some but they always forget to get double stuffed!
• Piano. Slowly...I have started playing again. It's been good.
• Pinterest. My new Facebook only it's way better.
• Quiet. I'm the only person under 50 in my house so it's pretty darn quiet.
• Ready. Getting ready to leave.
• Running like once a week. 
• Soccer alumni game. We totally won. I was totally out of shape. 
• Skype has definitely been helping me keep in touch with friends! Especially Hannah in Germany!
• Shopping. Discovered I hate it. After years of being just ok with it I decided I really do hate it. Probably because I have no money. 
• Tomatoes and other vegetables and fruits I've convinced myself to like and I really do like them now! 
• Uno is Josh's dog and we are watching her while they are in DC. She's terrified of storms and, what do you know, there's supposed to be storms all week and she's decided that I'm going to be the person she turns to since Josh isn't here to comfort her.
• Vacuum. I vacuumed today.
• Weeding...met a very cool person by getting a job weeding for her.
• Walks! I've gone on many quality walks this summer with many different people. My dad. My mom. The Brummel children. Kristen. Finley. Laurissa. Uno. 
• X This is probably my least favorite letter of the alphabet. Not only this summer, but always. 
• Yellow. That's the color of our grass and I have taken it as a personal insult to my watering grass skills so I am going crazy setting up the sprinkler all over our yard. I must admit, though it is still partially yellow, it is looking better than many of our neighbors' lawns. 
• Zoe our really annoying dog I can't stand. Wow. What a note to end on.

Summer 2012--two more weeks!

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