Who's your valentine?

So I'm trying this new thing were I try to post at least something everyday...we'll see how that goes...

Anyway...I go through these phases. These "craft" phas

es as they should be called. I am having a phase right now.

Basically what happens is I just come home and get this like crazy urge to do billions and billions of crafts and while I have finished a few, most of the time my urge comes and then passes in about a day. :( For instance, over Christmas I decided that I would make crafts and only crafts for my friends and their christmas presents because it would be cheaper. Little did I know that when it comes to crafts I am kind of a perfectionist and want everything to look as best as it can, so I buy only the best materials which cost a little bit more than expected! But in my defense...my christmas gifts this year were adorable!

This is one that I made for one of my best friends who is going to be an elementary teacher soon and I was pretty happy with how it turned out!

So since it is getting ready to be Valentine's Day I of course want to do Valentine's crafts! My favorite site so far is marthastewart.com! Seriously love her! I mean even though she went to jail...the lady knows how to make a kick-ass wreath! So I went on and looked at some of the crafts she had for Valentine's day and this is what I came up with...

Seriously adorable right?! Oh goodness...this is a problem...

Well I have decided that I am going to choose one and hopefully I will choose the materials from the clearance section :)

Post the love

I came upon this website today called: www.postthelove.com and I would recommend that all of you go on and check it out! It is simply a website where people from all over the world can go on and post random thoughts and memories they have on the love in their lives. There are pictures, poems, videos, you name it!

This particular entry was by Channing Tatum, the actor who created the website, and I found it extremely awe-inspiring and exquisitely beautiful. I totally want to make one now too...

Procrastinate now...don't put it off.

Every once in a while I get inspired...

this is not one of those times.

Hahaha! Just kidding! No but seriously I am inspired.

I haven't shared yet, but I am a music major at my college and I love it, but boy is it a crazy life! You'd think that after three years of this I would get used to it or come up with great procrastination prevention ideas...but sadly that is not the case.

For instance this was my day today...

4:00 AM- Scared half to death from a "Dream" plaque that my best friend Aztec gave me. For some reason I thought your basic push pin would hold it up...guess not.

6:00 AM- First alarm goes off

6:15 AM- Second alarm goes off...this time it's one of the annoying chime ones so that I feel obligated to get up and make it stop

6:20 AM- finally wake up and start to get ready, much to my dismay

7:45 AM- leave house for 8 AM Music History class

7:46 AM- realize that my ice scraper is broken so I resort to scraping off the inch of ice on my windshield with my Fame CD case

7:50 AM- Finally get to class and proceed to learn about classical string quartets... exhilarating let me tell ya

8:50 AM- done with class and hang out with friends till my next class while trying to prepare a presentation for said class...yeah that didn't work out

10:10 AM- Contemporary Issues in Music Education class

11:15 AM- Teaching General Music in the Secondary Levels class

12:20 PM- Concert Choir...where I proceed to mess up our french songs with great enthusiasm

1:25 PM- Finally come home and eat a tortilla...yeah I'm poor what can I say

2:00 PM- Attempt to prepare for my first opera coaching

3:00 PM- Go to the music library to get the music for the lead sheet I need to prepare for tomorrow

3:35 PM- First opera coaching! I've been in opera all three years at college, but this year I got three roles in our spring productions, so I'm a little busy...

5:00 PM- Come home and start on my jazz lead sheet

5:15 PM- Realize that my lead sheet will be a lot harder to write than I intended on it being

5:45 PM- Give up on the lead sheet, to come back at a later time

6:00 PM- Cement my butt on the couch to start mindless surfing on my laptop

Which brings us to now...so yeah. Those procrastination prevention ideas aren't coming along as well as I thought they would.

However I did see this amazing video on my "second mom's" blog of Bobby McFerrrin that brought my inspiration full circle. So in attempt to inspire you all and hopefully make me procrastinate less...here is one of my favorite Bobby McFerrin videos. PS I saw him in concert and it was probably one of the best concerts I have been to in my entire life! If he is ever in your town, GO SEE HIM!!!

Now I shall go work on my lead sheet...but first I need to watch my Monday night television shows...