I never used to read...

Well I really never used to read that much. I always thought that there was something better that i could be doing.That was before the days of the TWILIGHT SERIES!!!!! I tried to read the harry potter books when they first came out and they were good but i was a very slow reader. They just didn't hold my interest very long and before i knew it the movies were coming out and i was only in the second book not even close to finishing it... So naturally i stopped reading and started watching the movies instead. Well recently i heard about these books and how amazing they were and i didn't really give it much attention till recently and bam i am the new reading champion, i started reading the first twilight book about 4 weeks ago and i am almost done with breaking dawn, the last book! I know, I know there are those of you out there that read these in like 4 days flat, but this is phenomenal for me. I have never read so much in my life before..... i LOVE THEM! The weird part is though, and maybe it is this way for everyone, but i start to think in my head as if i were writing a book too. Just like the story is through bella's perspective i have started to write me own little novel inside my head just going throughout daily routines. I know this sounds a little weird maybe, maybe not... maybe this is how people who read all the time always think and i have been missing out all these years.... anywho all i know is that it makes me see things in a new perspective that i really didn't even get a glimpse of before... I made my imagination do it's part though and not watch the trailer to the movie, which is stellar by the way, until i had at least read the first book so i could envision what everything looked like.... but better believe that i will be there midnight on November 21st!

Beading it up...

So I am fairly new to this whole blog thing and need to get down in dirty with all of the other details bought me and the hubby, but for my first blog i just wanted to gab about some stuff that makes me :) So yes i have gotten into a few new things lately. Although i would say that i have been a fairly crafty person for the majority if not all of my life there are ALWAYS tons of new ideas for crafts out there. Well i had been a big fan of the whole hemp necklace thing growing up, at girls camp, and with my sisters, etc. but i was and am not a huge fan of the smell of that real hemp stuff. It is nauseating... So i would just settle for the other fake stuff to try and reduce the smell and get the same effect, but for those of you who know it is not the same effect, just really scratchy... anyways i didn't do jewelry for a while after that.... until recently. I love to bead and make necklaces, bracelets and earrings now!! I just kinda experimented with the wire and crimp beads until something semi- normal and wearable was born and i have been a fan ever since.... Although it is a great new hobby it is also an expensive one.. therefore i opted to find a cheaper way, as i usually do with everything( no seriously everything...), and I began ravaging thrift stores for second hand necklaces. Not to wear though but to cut up.. yes i buy those ugly ones that nobody really wants because it could never match with anything... and then i dissect what each bead could look like as a part of something else... then i cut it up and make better, prettier things.. for cheaper. It is AWESOME. Although i wish i could get all of my beads and supplies this way it is not possible, but it sure does cut down on costs. DI has deals sometimes like two necklaces for 50 cents... which is better than the $5-10 you would spend for half the amount of beads at porters:) N E ways after i post more you will soon learn that i do a lot of things this way, take some thing thrifty and turn into something nifty.... :)