"Camping"



I am writing this from a tent! It's dark outside, but I have a camping lantern so that I can seee! I'm not anywhere super exciting or anything, just in the ol backyard but it's just as nice. The crickets are chirping and some other bug or bird is making weird noises from the tree above. And of course I hear the cars on the street and what not but I'm trying to ignore that :P

I woke up this morning in a much better mood than the last few days and spent time with Jesus. That was definitely needed and is probably why my day was pretty nice. I've been lagging it on the Jesus time lately :/ We went down to Colie's today which was a nice change of pace. We got Taco Bell for lunch and stopped at this cool art place. The lady sold ALL kinds of stuff. Scraps of paper, beads, buttons, wine corks, old hardware, material, and soo much more. And all for pretty cheap too. There were so many wonderful possibilities to create art! But somewhat unfortunately but sorta not, I spent most of my time outside of the shop. Two girls were doing a "class"(sorta) and giving people ideas on how to reuse old t-shirts. I used a free tee they gave me and made it into a skirt! How cool is that? I went home and made another one :) Pics below!

But a few random things first...

Here is a puzzle mom and I did last night. I wanted more puzzles so I walked to the dollar store and bought this one and another that I'm sure we will put together soon. It looks teeny(which it is) but there are 350 itty bitty pieces. 



Played speed scrabble with mom tonight. I'm not sure if it's a real game or just something my family came up with. But you start with a certain number of scrabble tiles and try to make crosswords. Whenever someone uses all their letters to complete their crossword, they say draw and everyone takes another tile. You do that until all the tiles are gone and someone uses all of theirs to win!

Mini how-to: turn an old t shirt into a skirt!

All you need is a t shirt, needle and thread, and scissors.

Cut the shirt about an inch below the sleeves.

Fold the top of the bottom piece over twice and pin it to keep it straight.

Sew it up! I used green cuz I thought it was fun!

 Here is a quick photo of the one I made at the store today. I should have actually put on a cute outfit... haha o well. It's just a cozy skirt to wear around the house or over leggings or something. Woo!

And here I am, in the tent! Listening to Regina Spektor "Blue Lips". Love this song!