Paper Flowers

I used to want to become a florist when I was little (including a bunch of other random professions). I love flowers and seeing beautifully arranged bouquets. Recently I've seen a lot of bloggers talk about paper flowers. Flowers made by paper. After researching more into this, I began having this hunger to make these DIY flowers myself. I haven't actually tried, but here is some of the things I found while browsing.

This book is all about different paper flowers you can make! It comes with a lot of patterns at the end of the book that will help you to make the flowers. The book itself is also beautifully photographed and put together, which makes me want it so bad! Find it on amazon or barnes & noble

The house that lars built is a blogger who I follow and love. She's a very talented crafty artist, especially when it comes to flowers. Paper flowers are one of her specialties and she also teaches workshops on making them. 

Check out this blog post where she links other bloggers who show you how you can make paper flowers.

Also this one.

A beautiful mess is another blog I love that is written by two sisters. And they also had a post on how to make paper flowers. I think the website 100 layer cake partnered up with a bunch of bloggers to do a post on paper flowers so you can find more through their website as well.

I feel like I killed two birds with one stone on this blog post because I got to talk about paper flowers anddd the blogs I like!

I definitely want to try making some of my own awesome paper flowers but well shall see, because I literally have crafters block right now...

Rose Garden & Egyptian Museum

 First stop was the San Jose Municipal Rose Garden! It was so beautiful!

Wrong setting on camera, so this picture is pixelated, oops!

Next stop was the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. $7.00 for students & free parking!

Recreated Egyptian Garden

Mummified fish

Mummified monkey

Detailed paintings on a tomb

Recreated tomb

Model of first Egyptian Pyramid

No left eyeball, EEK!

Totally not worth $.50 but so worth it because it has a scarab on it!

The museum is pretty close to our house and has a fair admission price so my sister and I decided to stop by because we had some extra time today. We got to the museum a little before it opened and stopped by the beautiful rose garden nearby. A quick, necessary break from our normal daily toils.

September Favs

I remember seeing the trailer for this show while waiting to watch a movie at AMC, and I thought it was so dumb. I started watching it(because my sister) and I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT SO MUCH! It's a reality tv show about the Robertson family, who created and run a business making duck calls. The show is hilarious and heart warming at the same time. I just finished season one and am onto season two! You NEED to watch it, you'll be surprised at how much you enjoy it!

I've been listening to Birdy a lot this month. Her rendition of Bon Iver's Skinny Love is one of my favssss but I never really listened to any of her other music until this month. She's only 17 but her voice is amazing. A lot of her songs are really sad, so be careful not to get too down! Check her out though, because she is really talented. 

i'll miss days like this

Getting fast food at night, chillin' in the car, and joking around with my siblings. Nights that I definitely will look back on and miss because I love spending time with my brother and sister :)

The flash makes it look like these pictures were taken with a disposable film camera, doesn't it? I like the effect.

the days

I posted this picture last week on my instagram but I just feel like it completely depicts what I feel about life right now. With school and work, life has been so busy. Every night I just lay in bed listening to Katie Herzig's pandora station and zone out thinking about nothing, exhausted from my day. These are the good days though, I know. I remember being a freshman in college having super big dreams about what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to be the Mother Teresa of this generation. I wanted to be a human being that made an impact on this world. Haha, when I think back on it, its so funny. It sounds like such a childish dream to want to change the world, but I realized that as I am getting older my dreams are getting smaller and smaller and its so sad. My friend was telling me that she really wanted to go into advertising. Never officially having any experience in advertising, she told me she also had a back up plan. When she told me this I told her, no, if advertising is your dream you shouldn't fall back on your second choice, run after your dream, your first pick. That's when a bell rang in my head and I thought, UHH, you should listen to your own freaking advice girl. Haha! So right now I'm going back and forth on "YES! I'm gonna change the world!" and "Who do you think you are?!". But what should I do?

So, here's a list of things I like/love:

-children

-fashion

-photography

-traveling

-sports

Wellllllll, these are all really broad categories, so i guess... go from this? HAHA. I have a year and a half of college to find out, but I figure I should try everything while I am young! We'll see where life takes me :) 

I do believe that God has big plans for me, that I shouldn't worry because He created me specially and will make sureee my life doesn't go to waste.

Watch out world! Mary is coming!

spontaneous sf trip

My family decided to go to San Francisco shortly for dinner. And although we weren't there for long, it was an exciting trip. It seems like I always post about San Francisco here but I do loveee going there!

Instant Camera

Just got a Fujifilm intax mini, can't wait to use it!