welcome home november . personal

i have always had a beautiful "fling" with november. it gives me chills and makes me smile. all at once. every thing changes once the first comes around. it is this beautiful thing that changes my mindset and just about every piece of me is filled with warmth. the mornings become brighter the evenings quieter. it is a wonderful thing and makes me love everything about the world 100 times more than before. november brings autumn, hot tea, holiday season, sweaters, & lots of love. every year once november leaves i feel crazy, like my love for decemeber isn't enough. like i shouldn't even like november. november and i have always had a wonderful thing but them december came and swept me off my feet!

what is your favorite season???

xoxo-Hails

Rain

With fall comes the beautiful, amazing, & wet rain! I absolutely love it. I am so over joyed when I wake up to the sound of rain, at midnight. It brings me such happiness to sit there so late and just listen. I feel as if I am all alone & everyone in the world is gone, just me, alone, forgetting all my troubles & worries just for a few hours. I may sound odd when I say these things because most people compare rain to sadness or tears, I compare it to beauty, grace, & happiness. I think of all my blessings and as if the rain drops are my best friends, being close & calming to me. 

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I literally fall in love more with the rain every time it visits. Blessed is the word I would use to discribe how we all should feel when it rains. :)

xoxo

DIY | Glitter Jars

Another one before the last movie of the night, three so far....

Just a fun little decor for my new room!! i will post photos when it is finished!!! <3

Here we go, again:
Glitter Jar 3 min. {per jar}

1st
you pick out your color glitter & get your glue, {you can use hot glue if you want} and find your jars!

 {excuse the iPhone & Lens cap, thank you!}

 {Izze bottle, mason jar, & mini jar.}

{I just choose silver glitter, I was going to do two different colors but, like this one the best}

2nd & 3rd
Apply a good amount of glue evenly around the entire jar & once done "gluing" add your glitter. {This is best done with a bowl underneath the jar while pouring the glitter, see photograph.}

{repeat with as many jars as you wish!}

That is it!! It is a easy, fast, & fun way to add some fun & sparkle to jars or any container! I did the mason jar with strips & the bottle plain just like my mini. :)

FINAL PRODUCT:

 {then add to any bedroom or office area!}

 {ignore the Ibuprofen...}

I hope you all had a great & fun Saturday! Comment below & let me know what you think! What is your next DIY?

DIY | Feather headband

So this Halloween my costume needs a few "accessories" & I wanted to make one of them. It is a simple & super cute feather head band! I decided that it would be easiest & cheapest to make it myself. I wanted a little bit of a challenge and a fun thing to do over the weekend! I wanted to share it with all of you! You can adjust the colors & feathers you use. I choose these because the pink went with my dress & the black went with my high heels & the gold was just a fun extra bit!

Here we go!
Feather headband approx. 5-10 min.

1st.....
You get all you supplies {I went to Joann's & got a tiny bag of little feathers, the pink & gold, then another baggie with just one big black feather. I also got a roll of elastic, sequined, gold "string"; you can also choose how thick you would like it to be.}

2nd....
You measure your head/the "subjects" head, you can also messager a headband that you have that fits you well. {Turn on the hot glue gun after this step.}

3rd
You cut the elastic a little bit less than the size you measured. It will stretch, you want that.

4th
You can now hot glue the two ends together. I used hot glue & it worked perfectly, you can also sew the ends together. No matter what you will need the hot glue. :)

5th
Now that you have your beautiful, basic, headband, you can now start to design you long sort & medium feathers {I used one big black feather & one medium gold feather with four little pink ones.}

6th
You can, once you have arranged the feathers, hot glue them together.

7th
Now you are ready for the final step hot glue the headband & feathers together! Now the beautiful final product!

I hope you are all having a great fall & a fun weekend! Now I am off to bake some pumpkin bread & go shoe shopping! {FYI: I want my costume to be a surprise, I think/ hope you know that I decided not to be Mary Poppins. haha}

Hailey & Angie's day!

So, angie & I are here and we decided that we would like to do a post together. And melissa asked us if we would. Now, melissa, you have to do a post, too!!!!

So I will hand it over to my favorite girl, angie to type the rest.

when I arrived  we wanted the three stooges and we posted collage together and I colored. Hailey ate pie while I typed this and I played with the film camera and we are going to paint our nails.

here are the beautiful collages that we made {the first one: mine & angie's fun photos, second one: angie's favorites, third one: Hailey's favorites.} If you like or are interested in having any single photograph I will be pinning them on my pinterest page :) {link on the side bar, the pink "P"}

angie's:

mine:

fall to do list

Source: crushculdesac.tumblr.com via Christianna on Pinterest

Welcome to September! With fall right around the corner (September 22!) and school starting back up everywhere around me, I am getting the urge to make lists and get things done. I love making lists, I find that it’s a great way to regroup and organize.

Either way, with a new house, you can imagine my to do list is through the roof. It’s easy to lose control or miss something in all the thought clutter, so, here is my to do list for fall:

• get new bedding - once we sign all the papers we will have 24 days to move in, that seems like a lot, right? well, not so much. In our time frame & with our working & school schedule we will only get to move things in little bits. {not to mention the fact that we are moving things from my Opa's house with us, also.} So that means Kylie & I are getting new/bigger beds from my Opa's house so we need bigger bed sheets, comforter, ect.

• make friends - at school every year, i make new friends. I love doing it too! I love seeing all the new people & meeting them. In all my classes I have a wide range of different characters & personalities.

• figure out our life financially – yeah…

• read lots & lots more- these cold days are coming so staying inside for most of them will be, great! I can't wait to wear jeans with long sleeves & a vest! I also have tons of scarves to wear. :)

• plan a day-today schedule- {not a strict one but, just a basic outline} I need one! I can't wing everyday on what to wear, when I do homework, when I have a snack. I NEED a set schedule. Soccer is easy to plan for I know the dates ahead of time & esspcially Varsity I only go to the games so Tuesday & Thursday, done. haha some might think I am nuts for needing a schedule but, I need a structure to grow off of. So all the other things can fit in, when needed.

• Try my VERY best in school - DUH! SCHOOL COMES FIRST {right after family} sorry my freunds you gotta wait.

• decor - for room & house! With this new two story house, I need to get going on pinterest projects & different photography projects for the house. I am already doing two for the house! {& one for my room}

• clean up, current room- I have got to pack & fix all the holes in the walls from photos, my white board, decor, inspiration boards, & lights. sounds like a lot but I can do it in one day just pack all the wall stuff up & start filling holes. :)

So fall is coming, very soon! I can't wait! I am over the moon about not having to move in the hot sun; instead we get to move in the chilly wind! I personally love fall, the chilly days of school & then coming home to homework & a hot cup of tea{ of course after 5:30, end of scheduled homework time & reading, I have movie & tea} I just love it!! hopefully, we get lots of rain this year!!! <3

 What is your fall To Do's?