Perfect Bedrooms

I have a new found love for bedrooms. I've been seeing pictures of all these crazy rooms on Pinterest and Tumblr for months, and I can't wait to have my own house so I can create the ultimate room. 

The London Olympics

I can't believe they're finally here! Under two hours and it will be time for the Opening Ceremony. I am so excited! I'm a huge Olympics enthusiast and I wish I was back home in Seattle right now more that anything. Michael and I would probably have been playing Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games 2008 all morning. Then Mom and I would've baked some crazy USA themed pastries and I would've nestled down with my iPod app in hand keeping track of all the events as they went by. 
But we can't always have what we want.
I'm going to have to make the best out of what I have here in my new temporary home and see how it goes! 

I hope you all are as excited as I am! Tata for now mates. 

Preparation

So since I'm going to be living as a ski bum this next winter, I might as well start planning what exactly that will entail. 

I'm going to be living in Colorado in a resort town, basically every skiers dream, and I'm super stoked! I don't care what anyone says, but winter is definitely one of the best months for fashion. Layers upon layers can be used in different ways for the ultimate looks. I'm trying to get some ideas of what to buy now so that I won't be stuck in ski jackets and Uggs the whole season. 

 Big army jackets are always super cute when paired with skinny jeans and beanies because that way it doesn't hide your size.

 The jean button-up under jackets is super in this fall and winter, lucky I picked myself one up a few months ago! 

 Trench coats over cute skirt outfits keeps an outfit cute without making it frumpy because of a big jacket on top.

As always, the rider boots with knee high socks over jeans or leggings is perfect for the cold weather.

Also, I'm going to dye my hair blonde when I have enough extra money. Yay!

Friday Faves

So lately I've been totally obsessed with fashion, photos, perfect weddings, and decorations. I'm going to start a Friday Favorites section and it will be just that, my favorites as of every Friday!


Favorite Song

Mouthful of Diamonds by Phantogram  - Audio

Favorite Fashion

 Sheer tops

Maxi skirts

Favorite Decor

 Light up liquor bottles

 Photo walls

Photo walls with Union Jack pillows

Favorite Celeb

Audrey Hepburn - Old fashioned but she was such a good role model!

M&C's Epic Road Trip part 1

Coming out of high school, every kid dreams about a massive road trip with their best friends or boyfriend/girlfriend, right? I know I did, and so did every other kid I knew at Shorecrest. So basically I attended my first year of college at WSU and about half way through I started talking to this guy I had met a few months ago that went to a high school not to far from mine. We hit it off and grew really close, even though we were 1,400 miles apart.. You see, he had moved to Colorado after high school, and I had stayed in state and went to a university. Months of talking every day and all night led to a plan. The ultimate plan. A road trip across half the United States, but we only had 9 days and limited finances to achieve it. We had to do it. Period. No questions asked. 
For me it was going to be a life-changing, first independent choice I ever made, total and complete risk. I would be flying down to Denver to meet up with him 4 days after my freshman year ended and we would then proceed to drive across Colorado, Utah, Nevada, a corner of Arizona, up the California, Oregon, and Washington coast until we reached Seattle. 
No big deal, right? 
I went for it. I was in such a funk that entire year that I needed something to spark my life back into action. I bought my plane ticket some time in March and on May 9, 2012 I got on a plane at Sea-Tac airport and flew (by myself for the first time) to Denver. He was there waiting, as we planned, and everything went perfectly. 
We lounged around his house in Breckenridge for a couple days, mapping out our route and figuring out where we were going to sleep each night. 
On May 13, we headed out around 5pm to begin our adventure. 

The scenery blew me away before we even left his town. This was taken at a gas station before we set out.

We drove well into the night, and what did we wake up to the next morning? Oh.. just Arches National Park in Moab, Utah. We pulled in when it was already pitch black and had no idea where we really were. All we knew was that we were in the parking lot for the most well known piece of land in all of the Southwest United States... 

Yes, Delicate Arch. The background of the Utah license plate and also what people imagine when they imagine this part of the country.

We had gotten up at sunrise after sleeping very uncomfortably in the Subaru that was so packed with stuff that we couldn't even recline the front two seats. It was a gorgeous morning with not a cloud in the sky and we took off down a trail that was conveniently connected the the parking lot we happened to crash in. And best of all? Only about 5 other people were there when we arrived, making photos easy and the experience just that much better. 

It blew my mind, obviously. 

We spent the whole day wandering aimlessly around this incredible place, surrounded by old people (because apparently only old people enjoy looking at rock formations in 90 degree heat). Never the less, it was great. 

We decided to stay that night in the tent, and it was probably one of the most miserable nights I've ever spent in one. Ever. Hands down. The wind was making the tent hit me in the head and I thought we were going to blow off a canyon somewhere. We ended up surviving though, and woke up to this sunrise.

It was a good day to be alive, and the days on this road trip only got better and better. This post is obnoxiously long, so I'm going to cut it here and keep writing about our epic road trip another day.

Moving away

Since my last post I have moved out of Seattle and to Breckenridge, Colorado. Randomly spontaneous? I would say so! The move was out of no where, and now a month and half later, I couldn't be happier with my decision. 


Living on your own in a different state is different than living on your own at college. When you live "on your own" in a dorm, you're surrounded by people and your parents are still paying for basically everything. When you actually live on your own in a house with other kids your age, you pay for all your own food and transportation, as well as little things you need here and there. No more calling mom from school and asking her to put $50 on your card so you can go shopping with your dorm mates. This has definitely been a wake up call as to what the real world is going to bring for me in the near future, and I think this has been a really eye-opening experience that I will look back on for years. 


I am starting to focus on living a better life, and with that is going to come happiness and wellbeing. I need to eat healthier and exercise daily on top of keeping in touch with the people that matter most in my life. Without all the people from my past I would not have had the guts to make this move, and I wouldn't have the social skills to start a life for myself with no foundation at all. Setting some goals for myself is going to be step number one in this new, and better, life. 

1) Call relatives at least once a week [this doesn't include Mom, Dad, or Michael]

2) Ride my bike more [living at 10,000 feet makes any somewhat strenuous activity really difficult]

3) Yoga on the daily [this is going to help me clear my mind and focus on bettering my body]

4) Don't start arguments with anybody [this isn't a big problem for me, but might as well throw it out there]

5) Journal and blog whenever the chance is presented [expressing myself in these two ways makes me feel as if I'm getting things off my chest and make for a better day]

6) Try to make friends here [I should probably stop walking around with my iPod in my ears all the time.. I've passed lots of people around my age that seem friendly and smile but I'm too caught up in my music to say anything]

Thats a good start! I'm going to execute a few of those things right now by posting this and doing some yoga tonight.

And on that note, here are some of the pictures taken in my first few weeks of living in Colorful Colorado!