Graduation Day!!!!!

"I'm going to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in History Education this Saturday! and because i'm graduating Magna Cum Laude, i get a cool gold cord!"

-Mike's facebook status

Today, Mike will receive his college diploma and start a new chapter in his life.

I'm so proud of my fiancée for giving his best even when he was sick,tired or frustrated. He never gave up and always reached beyond the set goals.

He's always been a fast learner and was 0.02 points away from a perfect 4.0!

(Impressive huh?)

Not only did Mike get amazing grades, he also worked, took care of me, and participated 

in several plays and a music group.

I can't wait to post pictures from today with Mike all dressed up and ready for graduation!

I love you Mike, I'm so proud of you.

21st Birthday Pics

I had a lovely 21st birthday last week! 

This is the birthday cake that I made for Jenni and I. It took me about an hour and a half to mix all the colors and bake the whole thing. I made it look super boring on the outside so that she would have no idea what was waiting for her once she cut out a piece! 

And THIS Ladies and Gentlemen, is the birthday present that Mike has been secretly working on for 2 months! He sewed me a pouch for all my crochet hooks and bought me a set of bamboo hooks too! Not only that...but he's painting each one for me so they'll all a little special in their own way. I was ecstatic when he handed this to me. He's never made me anything before and this is about the sweetest thing he's ever done for me. 

I love you Mike!

Here are the Birthday Girls!

(she turned 20 and I turned 21)

We're one year and a day apart.

This is a cute little chick plushie that Mike also got for me. 

We named him Freddy, and I crocheted him a little scarf because it's cold outside.

We also had a Christmas concert on Friday that Mike and I went to...here are a couple of pictures of that.

I hope your weekend was a good one. I've got 4 days of finals ahead of me (just took the first one this morning) and it's officially 12 days before Christmas!

Bye Bye!

DIY- Scarves

So, it snowed so much yesterday and today that they closed down campus. We weren't allowed to leave and those already gone had to call in to see when they could get back. The weather was terrible with all the wind and running form building to building in knee deep snow. Days like today make me extremely thankful for hats, gloves, boots, coats, and scarves.

Today's post is a tribute to that last one...scarves.

Here are some scarf tutorials that you can make yourself (for fashion purposes or warmth)! 

Just click on the picture for instructions.

 

Rainy rainy day...

Today was a grey, cold, windy, rainy day...

My feet got all wet and cold...

This is my giant umbrella. It's big enough to fit several people underneath. 

Gaaaah! Science Test Today!!

I'm sorry I haven't posted any new Christmas Decorations ideas in a few days but I've been terribly busy studying for my Science test.

Science has never been my best subject and I currently have a C- in the class. I HAD to do well on this test if I was gonna pass so I've been doing nothing but studying since Friday. Even while I've been eathing I'm thinking "ok...digestive system...what is going on in my body right now...where is the food going...what's happening to it...what chemical reactions are taking place..." and so on and so forth.

I took the test this morning and I don't think I'll find out how I did until after Thanksgiving Break

(I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!).

Anyway, after registering for classes for the spring semester, I hope to have a holiday post with a snowman theme!



Last Night

This is my best friend Jenni. She's on Northland's basketball team and they just got all their gear for the season. She was super excited about the  uniforms and the traveling gear but realized that all the team's duffel bags were exactly the same. She came in my room last night asking if I would make her something to go on her bag so she could tell it apart from the rest without looking inside each and every duffel bag.

I was very excited at the challenge...it needed to be something unique just for Jenni, and had to be finished before 8am the next morning (before they left for their first away game).

I came up with this...

It's a little plushie of the number 25 (her jersey number) with a little ribbon loop so Jenni can attach it to her bag. 

I'm really happy with how it turned out...I loooove buttons and tried to pick her favorite colors.

I was having fun taking pictures of my little creation...

just one more ok?

So while I was doing that, Mike and I sat in the hall and he practiced his history lesson on me (it's due today). I know he'll do great, I wish I could be there for the real thing.

He's a senior this year and I'll be sad when he leaves. I still have a wee bit to go before I can graduate, but I'm sure he'll be calling a lot next year to help me with homework (he's so smart). 

This is one of the flowers that I've made. I've only sold one so far but I guess that's because I haven't really been advertising them. Maybe later I can get more pictures up...

Oh! I just found some!

Anywho...I need to get working on some homework!!!

Later

Pine Cone Hunting

Just wanted to say that I was really inspired my all the pine cone projects that I posted earlier today, so my roommate and I went walking around in the woods looking for some pine cones. I tried putting the ones we got right off the tree that hadn't opened yet in the oven to see if they would really open up. Let me tell you...THEY DO! And the room does smell pretty amazing. Just make sure that you get them off the tree before they open up or else they just get hot and dont do very much. 

These are deer tracks...and guess what we saw a little while later on the hike...

Yaaay! I was so excited to see them. There were actually 3 but this is the only one I got a picture off.

We had a real bad storm here last week, and I guess the wind blew down a bunch of the trees.

This is my roommate. Isn't she cute?

Gorgeous!

The hunt went well.

These are the one's that we put in the oven. They actually turned out really well.

Anyway, end of the story is... we got lost and didn't make it back to campus in time for dinner. We had cold cereal and Mike brought us some more food that he had stashed in his room. The pine cones are currently in the oven baking away and they look wonderful! I can't wait to make something with them!

Goodbye and enjoy sleeping in tomorrow fellow college students!