Thursday, November 12, 2009

Halloween Pictures and a New Piece!

I finally got around to uploading the pictures from Halloween! Better late than never right? I made a half tutu for my peacock tail and then I created a headpiece to match, I'm really happy with how the costume turned out!

I also added another piece to my Etsy shop today! I've been hard at work making holiday gifts making earrings, bracelets and necklaces! Crafting galore!

My sister came home for the 30th, I always enjoy getting to spend time with her!

My costume


My newest Etsy piece!

Hope your day is sunny and bright!

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Who are you?

I've reached 66 followers!! I'm so incredibly excited!

We're busy here at the house cleaning and are about to start putting up winter decor! (Yes, I realize it's early but I'm having my birthday party in a couple of weeks and Thanksgiving's a few days later and it's so much work that we decided to try to get a move on this year!)
I'm pretty excited that I have only two classes this week, Wednesday's Veterans Day and tomorrow's a teacher work day so I have almost an entire week off!
That time will be devoted to cleaning and tackling the extra homework that my professors decided it would be fun to tack on! (A relaxing week indeed!)

So, as I work the days away, I ask all you new followers this-Who are you!?
I have come to know and love so many of you precious bloggy friends but there are so many more of you out there I havn't really gotten to know!

This is me calling out all you lurkers, in fact I'm calling out all of you awesome bloggers who are out there!
Whether this is your first time commenter or not, make yourself known and tell me about yourself!
Family? Kids? College?
Do you blog? What do you blog about?
Are you a TV/Crafting/Photography/Music/Sport Fanatic?
What makes you tick?
What makes you smile?

Who are you wonderful new and old blog friends?!



Hope your week finds you fantastic and he sunshine finds it's way to your part of the world!



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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

'Tis The Season To Inspire Holiday Swap 2009

Inspire:(verb) To influence or impel

In your life, what Inspires you?
In the spirit of giving, in the spirit of the holiday season, how would you like to share your inspiration with someone else?

Spread the love and inspiration with the
'Tis The Season To Inspire Holiday Swap 2009!




You will be matched with a partner and send them a package ($20 maximum) filled with things that inspire you.
(The $20 max does not mean you need to spend $20, just that you should spend no more than that-feel free to get creative!)

Sign ups close: November 13
Send package by: November 25

Please include:

Your Name:
Your Address:
Your Blog Address:
Any Allergies You Have:
Are You Willing to Ship Internationally?:

Sign up with Mr. Linky (so everyone knows who's participating) and email me at summereyes91[at]yahoo[dot]com with the details!

I'll put up a second Mr. Linky as the packages start arriving so that the inspiration fun can be shared all around!
Be sure to make a post once you get your package showing what you received and link back up!

Feel free to take the button to help spread the word about this swap!
The more the merrier!

Understand that by signing up you are agreeing to send a package to another person so please only sign up if you're willing to follow through!

This is the first Swap I've ever hosted but I LOVE swaps so I'm excited!

Get ready to inspire!





Monday, November 2, 2009

27 Days of Thankful! Day 2!


What am I thankful for?

Day 2!

Doctors

For those of you who've been with me for a while, you know how much I struggle with medical issues (for those of you who don't, feel free to hit "The Medical Side of Me" button to the left).
The last two or three weeks have gotten scary with health issues.
I keep having these "spells" where I get incredibly dizzy (to the point where I'm running into walls) and nauseous and within a few minutes break out in a rash.
I also have severe "brain fog" where I have trouble keeping up in conversations and classes.
I went to the neurologist today and got another "Well, you should disgard everything the last doctor told you, I can't help you,I don't know what's wrong, I don't know who to send you but hope things get better for you, have a nice day."
I left in tears (there's only so many times a person can take hearing that) but returned home to a phone call from my favorite doctor who made an appointment for me to see him on Friday (he's hours away from where I live) and reminded me that no matter how difficult my case is, he's not going to give up searching for an answer.
I so dearly love this man!

Happy Monday!

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

27 Days of Thankful! Day 1!


Amanda over at Serenity Now is hosting the 27 Days of Thankful this month.
The idea is to post something big or small that you're thankful for each day, leading up to Thanksgiving!

Day 1

November.
Indeed I am thankful for the month of November.
November brings many things, my birthday, my aunt's death anniversary, the colors in the changing leaves of fall and most of all Thanksgiving, the reminder to look around and realize how much love I have, how many wonderful memories I've made and how thankful I am that I've come into my own and have finally begun to embrace who I really am.

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

My mom and I carved pumpkins and our little witch got set out this morning! Now we wait until nightfall when all the pumpkins will be glowing!



Witchy goodness!

My pumpkin!


My mom's pumpkin!


Wishing you a safe and Happy Halloween!!

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Naya's Christmas Warrior - Will you join me?

I have always had a special place in my heart for children, special needs and adoption. I'm not sure exactly how it came about but by the time I was in fourth grade I was determined that I would adopt a child with special needs.
Recently I came across a picture of a little girl, Naya. Naya is 5-years-old and has dwarfism.
She is one of a large number of children with special needs that Reece's Rainbow (a charity that promotes and facilitates international adoption and rescue for children with special needs, particularly Down Syndrome), is trying to find a forever family for.
You can view her profile HERE.
Naya is High Risk adoption due to her special needs and age. Most children with special needs in the Eastern European Countries that Reece's Rainbow works with are sent to institutions when they turn four. That's right. Four-years-old.
Naya's been lucky enough to remain in the orphanage as long as she has but needs to find her forever family and soon!

Here's where we can get involved. The cost of the international adoptions for these kids runs around $25,000 so in an effort to help the parents wanting to adopt these incredible kids, each child has an adoption fund.
Currently little Miss Naya has $10 in that fund.

I've decided to be Naya's Christmas Warrior and attempt to raise $1000 for her adoption fund before January 1st.

Instead of Christmas gifts this year, I'm hoping receive support in helping Naya instead.

If you would like to help me in the effort to being one step closer to this beautiful little girl having her own forever family, I've placed a donate button on the sidebar of my blog.
All of the money donated is tax deductible and will go to help Naya.

If you can't afford to donate monetarily but still would like to help participate in this effort feel free to take this button for your blog.



If you have any questions, feel free to email me at Summereyes91[at]yahoo[dot]com.
Thank you so much for your support!