Happy Blog Birthday!!!

I can't believe it! To think a whole year of my life has been documented on this blog! And now I get to celebrate my blog birthday by going to Seattle, WA! But that was just coincidental haha :) Nice how things work out sometimes right?

When I started this blog I couldn't imagine where it would be after a year. Well, the year's gone and my blog is still alive! I have a lot more followers than I expected after a year and I've made such great friends and connections through the blog! I've grown more as a person, writer, and photographer and my inspiration is growing just from knowing you guys are enjoying it :)

So, what did I do on my blog birthday? Here it is all captured in photos for you all!

 The day started off at 3:30am when we all got our bags finalized. Then at 4:30am a limo picked us up from our house to bring us to the airport! We had an hour flight from Indianapolis to Chicago followed by a 4 and a half hour flight from Chicago to Seattle...and we've arrived! All these time changes are really messing with me right now haha!

Just by driving around Seattle I've already fallen in love with this place!

Then, we all went to the Seafood City Market. Out of my whole family I'm the only one who hasn't experienced life in the Philippines so coming to Seafood City was a bit of a culture shock for me! But I loved it! It was so cool to get a taste of the Philippines and on top of that my brothers and I were able to pick out our favor childhood Filipino snacks that we haven't had in a while!

I also got these beautiful pieces of jewelry as a present from my aunt! And those are real sea pearls! I'm planning on showing these more closely later because they are too beautiful not to :)

And here's a picture of the Torres family reunited (besides one of my aunt, Nenita) from left to right:

Mila (my mom, second oldest), Rita (the middle child), Carmen (my grandma), Gavino (the youngest), and Teresita (the oldest)

And now it's 11:54PM PST July 1, 2012 which means after a 28 hour day I should probably get some sleep 

Have a great day everyone! These next two weeks are going to be exciting!

Packing and Tracking

With only about three days till our flight to Seattle I've decided to start packing! Which for me, can be a very difficult time just because there's so much I want to bring just in case things don't go according to plan but I don't want to go overboard because I still want to go shopping there. Have you ever seen the Jenna Marbles video "How Girls Pack A Suitcase"? Not only is it completely funny but it's 90% accurate to how I pack... embarrassing haha :) Do any of you ever look at a suitcase and kind of freak out about fitting everything in it? I sure do...I'm going to need those vacuum bags that make everything smaller!

Soooo what I have done for this trip to try to make it a bit more organized I've written out a checklist for the things I need to bring and have taken photos of my clothes and what I'm going to where for each day! Yay dorkness! Haha...yeahhh...but hey whatever works right?

Also, remember when I said that I was planning on only wearing clothes I've remade? Yeah I completely over estimated my powers of focus haha! Most of the clothes I'll be wearing will be remade but not all 14 outfits, no way! I still have three pieces to finish up and four t-shirts to start and finish. It'll take a lot of focus but usually once I get determined to do something I don't stop until it's done...so I'm hoping these are one of those moments...tehe I've been such a slacker :)

Along with all this packing chaos, I've also been adventuring online for more places to go to! I think I'm mostly excited for small thrift stores and coffee shops! I feel like I'm going to come back from Seattle even more addicted to coffee than I am now :D Hopefully two weeks is enough time for me to do all these things! One can only hope right?!

Now I'm off to finish my clothes! 

Have a great day everyone!

Sometimes Change is a Good Thing

I've been waiting patiently and eagerly to do this post, I've just been waiting for everything to be official and settled before I announced it! Maybe it's just me, but I've been noticing that a lot of the blogs I read are moving to a new city or to a new house...and now I can say I'm one of those blogs :D

Now, we're not drastically moving out of state or to a different city but just to a new house but this house is beautiful and I'm so excited to start decorating my new room! One of my favorite things about the house is that it's a one-of-a-kind house! Also, my room is so amazing! It's a 12x14ft room with an additional 8.5x10ft alcove! 

For the past few weeks I have been exploring the internet for ideas to do in my room. Thank goodness for Pinterest and Tumblr! I have found such great things that I'm planning on doing and I wanted to share a few with you guys :)

 Painting my room one of these colors...most likely Blue Rain

A desk that we saw at Anthropologie! It would be fun to make and it's super cute!

I really want my own sewing work space in my room

 Instead of just having a regular bookshelf wouldn't a tree bookshelf be amazing?!

I am completely loving the idea of having one of my walls be chalkboard...and yes it is because of my love for JGL and (500) Days of Summer :)

So there's the start of this exciting adventure! I'm so excited to share with you guys the process of creating this new house of ours into a home :)

I hope everyone has a great day!!!

Strings Attached

What do you get when you add me+a friend+string+a camera?

A photo shoot!

Enjoy :)

Have a great day everyone!!! 

And a thanks to Abbie for being my model! 

Hope you all enjoyed the photos :)