Friendly Gift

OMG look at the adorable little bubble gum machine that a friend of mine made me! I just adore it! She did such a wonderful job, I just had to share it here and show you all. Thank you girl, I love it!

Our Inside Christmas Decor *so far*

I am going to make a few more things. These are just things that we had from last year. Wanted to share the pictures with you all :) I wanna make some of the things I mentioned in my previous blog post that I did on some of the ideas I had gotten from Pinterest. I just haven't gotten around to going to get the supplies yet but when I do I will post pics here! I also have a table centerpiece but forgot to take a pic of that.

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Quick Review: Dove Nourishing Oil Care Conditioner

Bought from Walmart $2.98 bottle. 
This stuff is seriously amazing in so many ways! First let me talk about the smell. Honestly, if I didn't know better I would have thought I was using one of the first Herbal Essence shampoos that came out. It smells just like that fruity floral fresh clean smell..omg seriously reminds me of a beachy summer day! Wow! Not to mention the smell stays on your hair forever...I could still smell it on my hair two days after using it. I do not wash my hair every day if you were wondering.

My hair is really naturally wavy/frizzy texture. it is pretty thick and very dry at the middle to the tips and very oily at the roots. Very unmanageable to say the least.

This conditioner claims to have nourishing oils that restore the hair and give back the minerals and oils that it lacks which makes it very dry and frizzy and just lifeless. It says on the bottle that it revives dry, rough frizzy hair. That it does! After just one use of this product I saw a drastic and I do mean drastic difference in my hair! When I got out of the shower and brushed my hair, I could tell right away that it didn't feel as coarse as it normally does. As my hair began to dry *I let my hair air dry, I never blow dry my hair* it felt so incredibly silky! I could not stop running my fingers through my hair! The next morning I used my flat iron on my hair to straighten it and honestly my hair has never ever looked better! My hair was very shiny, very soft and silky and I just couldn't stop looking at my hair and feeling it! I was completely amazed! I just can't believe that this conditioner had such a major effect on my hair! Finally I can say that I love my hair!! I never knew I could have hair that looked like this. I was going to take a picture of my hair but my camera batteries were dead and my cell phone camera was just not doing it justice at all.

So final thoughts before this becomes a rambling novel...If you have hair like mine..coarse, dry, damaged, lifeless, frizzy hair...GET THIS PRODUCT. I didn't get the shampoo, I just grabbed the conditioner because I have dandruff and I use medicated shampoos mostly but I am going to go and pick up the shampoo as well after seeing what just one time using this conditioner on my hair did for it! This product is so inexpensive there isn't anyway you can afford not to try it!

If you try it, let me know what you think. If you have tried it in the past let me know how it worked for you. I'm just inlove with this little baby!

Have a very blessed weekend beauties!

Late Night Organizing & Rearranging

Today was a very exhausting day. Not to mention very stressful for me. Sooo needless to say, how do I deal with stress? No, I don't go out to have a drink. No, I don't go shopping *well, maybe not this time :)*. No, I don't go out and party. I am weird. I am unusual..lol To relieve my stress I rearrange furniture and organize. So after dinner tonight I decided that I was going to rearrange certain areas of my bedroom and organize some things. I originally planned to do this soon anyway because I needed to make adjustments and take care of some lighting issues when it came to filming videos when I come back next year and start making videos again. I needed to put my makeup area  near my window so that I could use the natural light to film tutorials with instead of the lamps that I had been using. I was so tired of the colors being off and everything just not looking the same in the video as it did when I would take pictures of the look. I'm hoping that now I have the problem taken care of.

I still have some other things to take care of concerning my videos before I do come back. Like I said already, I really want to not only take this time to get everything in my personal life taken care, focus on more family time, but also use this time to fine tune so to speak how I do my videos when I come back. I am still learning when it comes to making videos and although my videos won't be as grand as alot of youtubers, I know for a fact that they can be better than the ones I was putting out before. I have a whole list of things I want to do to hopefully better my videos and make them more enjoyable and more informational for you guys.

Anyway, it's been a very long tiring day and I'm ready for dreamland but below are some pictures of my new areas that I rearranged tonight. Have a very blessed weekend everyone!

I just had to take a pic of this little table. I love it! 

So cutsie poopsie!

 This is now my new makeup area. The window is pretty big so I should have some really good natural lighting for my tutorials. After watching pinksofoxy's organization videos, I went through all of my stuff and got rid of alot of makeup especially. I used to have about four drawers of just makeup items and now I have only the top drawer in this dresser and what yous see on top. I am very proud of myself! 

 I had so much crap hanging on the back of my door. I still do have alot of stuff on it but now I just have my most reached for purses and my favorite fall/winter pink fuzzy hat...be jealous..you know it's fab! lol 

 This wall used to have the big dresser on it, the one I'm not using for my makeup area that I put infront of the window. I like it so much better this way because it frees up alot of walking room around our computer which we didn't have before and let's face it, in a small place like ours free space is good space..lol

This is the top of our printer. I just snapped this random pic, not sure why but thought I would throw it in. It's pretty cute. 

This used to be the place where I did my makeup. However the lighting just wasn't cutting it and despite the fact that I adore this vanity more than using a silly old dresser as a vanity, I couldn't move this one infront of the window because the big mirror on the back would have completely blocked out the window all together. Therefore, I had to just put some pretty stuff on the top of this one and use the silly old dresser..lol 

Nitie Nite! 

Fun Ideas for Christmas Decorating!

Christmas has always been one of my most favorite holidays! I have always enjoyed decorating and putting up the tree. One of my favorite things to do every Christmas is to sit around the tree late at night after everyone has gone to bed, no lights but the lights on the tree and just listen to some nice soft Christmas music and reflect on how blessed I truly am. It seems like around the Christmas holiday things become so much clearer in the sense that you really start to focus and pay attention to the small things in life and sit back and really enjoy them more. I wish it could be like that all year around, not sure why it couldn't, sometimes the world really gets in the way and becomes one big nasty distraction.  

Anyway, I am really looking forward to decorating this year for Christmas because I plan on making a lot of our decorations. I have never did this before and I think that it would be something really fun to start doing with the kids. We normally decorate for Christmas, put up our tree and everything the day after Thanksgiving. It is one of our family traditions *I'll share more of those with you guys in another blog post*. So, that time is only like three weeks away so I have been on Pinterest of course pinning away quite a few fun little things I have seen & I can't wait to start on them! I wanted to share some of the things I have found that I will be attempting to make this year for our decor. I am crossing my fingers that everything comes out cute enough to use because I'm not an extremely crafty person..lol 

Here are some of the things I am planning on making. If you make anything for your decor, leave me a comment below and share with me, I would love to hear! 

 We do this every year for the kids because of course we don't have a traditional fireplace for Santa to come down but we always just had them to put the key under the mat on Christmas Eve night before they went to bed. When I saw this I thought it was such a cute idea and will make it more special because the kids can actually pick out the ribbon to use for the bow and help make it as well! 

I thought these ornaments would be so cute to make for our tree! They are simple enough to where the kids can help, if not make them on their own and then save them to use every year. I am sure each year that we use them the memories we made making them the first year will be just amazing to experience over and over!

I completely fell inlove with both of these window treatments! They look so easy to do it's almost like..why didn't I think of that already! lol I love what the lights in the bottom picture look like behind the sheer curtains. Those curtains are the exact same as the ones I currently have up in our livingroom so it will be perfect! I thought the hanging bulbs would look really cute in our kitchen & bedroom windows. 

Normally every year we just put up outside lights and then a wreath on the front door, but after seeing how cute these look I'm for sure making these this year to also put outside to line our walkway with!

Well I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the things I am planning on making this year for decor. I think they all look fairly simple especially for someone like me who isn't that great with crafts..lol 

I will see you all in my next blog post & I hope your holiday season is filled with many blessings! 

Vee