lately.

Hey guess what?

I've finally worked out my life so that I can have time to blog and give you the attention you deserve! Hooray!!

So let's get caught up.

Here's what's been happening since the last time we hung out.

-I turned 24...woo mid twenties.

-I'm still living in AZ at my mom's house...but saving desperately so that I can get my own place as. soon. as. possible. Don't get me wrong, I love my mom, she's one of my best friends, but I am SO ready to have my own space it's not even funny. Anyway...I'll keep you updated.
-Weston was born!

-I no longer work at the elementary school and instead have a big girl job working for the most wonderful loan officer ever. ( I have never loved a job as much as I love this one. I ENJOY getting up each morning to come into work and I am NOT a morning person)

(first day selfie)

-I'm no longer getting my degree in art education and instead I'm pursuing a certificate in personal styling. (More on that later)
-I still have that wonderful guy in my life. We just went to Ohio last week for his cousin's wedding and I got to meet his family. T'was a wonderful trip :)

-I was in the musical 9 to 5 in May and am currently rehearsing for CATS(I know, so appropriate for this cat lady) which opens at the end of this month.

Aaaand I think that pretty much covers it! Talk to you soon! (really, for reals, I promise)

DIY: paper bunting sign.

I don't know if this is even necessary but I made a paper bunting sign for Weston's Baby Shower and took pictures of the process so just in case, here's a how to if you'd need some guidance.

step one:

choose your papers

 The colors for Weston's shower were a light teal and lime green so I chose a few different patterned papers in those colors.

step two:

trace triangles

 Make a triangle to trace onto the back of the patterned papers. I just used a straight edge and eyeballed it to make my triangle but if you have something triangle shaped you can trace that. I made mine on a piece of poster paper so that the paper was a bit heavier and easier to trace onto the patterned papers.

step three:
cut out triangles

step four:

add letters

Ok, I apologize I kind of skipped a step or two in here but I was so absorbed in making it that I forgot to take pictures so I'll explain it and if you need me to clarify please let me know.

So for the letters I took the solid green and teal papers and traced circles on them. I looked around my house for a circle that would fit best on my triangles and found that the lid to a mason jar worked best. Once I had traced and cut out my circles I laid them out onto the triangles so that a green circle was on each teal triangle and a teal circle was on each green triangle and glued them down. Then I arranged the triangles in the order I wanted them to hang. Next I wrote the letters on the circles so that they spelled out "Welcome Weston"(I intentionally left three triangles blank so I could have one on each end of the sign and one in between the words). 

Once the triangles were set I strung them on a piece of yarn and tada, it was ready to hang.

welcoming weston.

Earlier this month my cousin and I hosted a baby shower for her sister who is due at the beginning of April. She's having a little boy named Weston(the boy likes to call him Kanye Weston) and we are so excited to have a baby in the family(although this will definitely change the dynamics of EVERYTHING since I am currently the youngest).

Look how cute and preggers she is :)

Grandma-to-be made this friggin adorbz tractor and letters out of diapers and washcloths and bibs and other cute baby things. Love it.

So like, is there a game show where you play baby shower games? Because if there is I need to get on that show ASAP because I pretty much dominated in all the games. And in case you were wondering, no I was not the one who planned the games I just happened to rock at them, thank you very much.

The "Furrow" girls.

It was a lovely day filled with cuteness and now we're all even more excited for the babe to get here.

:)