July 4th pinning...

July 4th has to be one of my favorite holidays.  It's the perfect day to get together with family and friends and to have a big cookout, homemade ice cream, some fresh strawberries and end the night with a sky full of fireworks.  Can you think of a better way to celebrate our freedom? Well as usual I have been stalking Pinterest to find the newest cutest July 4th decorations and here is what I have found that I am absolutely LOVING (None of these pictures are mine, I don't take any credit for them) I am LOVING these table set ups! How cute are all these decorations?!?!!

These would look so dang cute hanging off the deck at my apartment!!

 Adorable and would be a great hit for the kiddos!

These centerpieces are adorable! I am going to try to make something similar this week!

  I think my dad has some extra wood laying around somewhere I can paint on this week... :)

 Can you imagine the look on the kid's faces when they saw these at your cookout?

 If you know me then you know that I am in LOVE with mason jars so as soon as I saw these on Pinterest the wheels in my head started turning...I can't wait to make these!!

How are y'all celebrating our freedom this Thursday? Any fun cookouts or barbecues?

I can't wait to see everyone's pictures on Instagram!!

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July 4th pinning...

Sugar Love boutique + July goals

Is it already Monday? The weekends always fly by but they seem to go by faster now that I have moved out.

Buuuut this week will be a shorter week...thank the Lord!!!!     S U G A R   L O V E   B O U T I Q U E Needing a cute new dress? Go check out Sugar Love boutique!  When I saw this dress on their website I knew I had to have it!! It's so cute and definitely the perfect dress to wear on these hot summer days. Have you seen this dress anywhere else?! I haven't either, that's because Sugar Love has all the latest and not to mention cutest dresses out!! Don't believe me go see for yourself and tell them I sent you! Go check out their website and don't forget to follow them on Instagram & twitter!!           I didn't post my June goals because ya girl was on vaca in the mountains but I am going to post my July goals! Here are my May goals in case you didn't see them: -Finish up with finals and papers for my LAST semester at Motlow (can I get a HOLLA?!)
-Celebrate 3 years with Matthew
-Find furniture for my apartment
-Clean out my car and wash it
-Organize my Pinterest boards
-Blog 5 or 6 times a week (absolute fail but still trying to work on this!!)
-Land a job in good ole Cookeville
-Do at least 2 new DIY projects and blog about them 
-DRINK MORE WATER
-Take vitamins every morning
-Buy a stranger a drink behind me at Starbucks
-Clean out closet, giveaway clothes & organize the rest
-Go on a date with Matthew
-Participate in a social media free weekend
-Go biking early in the mornings at least 3 times a week
-Continue saving MULA $$$$
-Enjoy the outdoors
-Have a themed date night in with Matthew
-Have more girls nights

and now for my July goals:
-Finish decorating and organizing apartment
-Decorate the walls in my room!!!!
-Continue saving MULA $$$$
-July 4th projects
-Make my own laundry detergent
-GET A NEW CAR (what what!!)
-Drink more water
-Take yoga and a spin class at the Y in Cookeville
-Blog more!!!!
-Find a place to ride my bike in Cookeville
-Try some new recipes
-Finish cleaning out my room back home
-Go on a couple of dates with Matthew


What are your July goals? Send me your links I want to read them! Have a great Monday!

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DIY Candy dish..from the Dolla Tree

HAPPY FRIDAY!! I don't know about y'all but this week has flown and I mean f-l-o-w-n by!! Not that I am complaining or anything because I definitely love me a weekend!
Remember about a month ago I shared with you my sisters surprise Tiffany & Co. themed birthday party? And remember how I promised I would do a how to post on the different things I made? Well I didn't lie because I am sharing that with you today...finally....I know.

Well guess what?!

I bought this at the Dollar Tree...it didn't look anything like this when I bought it but almost everything came from Dollar Tree!!

Don't you just LOVE a DIY project with stuff from the Dollar Tree? 

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I had some crazy picture in my head for this little project and I knew exactly what I wanted to get and how I wanted it to look.

This is actually a glass bowl on top of a glass candle stick holder.

What what!?

I am in love with how it turned out!

I used Gorilla glue to glue it together and bought the spray paint at Wal Mart.

This cost me about $6 considering I already had the Gorilla glue.

I just glued the bowl on top and then let it dry for about 30 mins and then spray painted it.

Don't use too much of the Gorilla glue because it expands as it dries.

I also made this one...

It's a glass bowl on top of a drinking glass. 

I did the same exact thing as the one above!

It was my first time ever using spray paint and let's just say I am looking for everything to spray paint now, I loved using it!!

Have any events coming up you could use this in?

If you make one let me know so I can look at it!!

Week 2 of training will be over this afternoon as soon as I clock out and you all know what that means...

6 more weeks of training!! 

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!! :)

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DIY Candy dish..from the Dolla Tree

That one time...

I moved out on a Sunday night and started work the next morning at 7:30 a.m. oooh yeah that was last Sunday!!!!

I'm alive...sorry I have been such a bad blogger lately, like really bad but hopefully that will all change this week and from now on!! I started my new job last Monday morning (6/17) bright and early at 7:30 a.m. with a mountain dew in hand. I am working full time since I moved out. I worked full time for about a month but that's about it, I am so used to working part time that I am completely exhausted...guess I won't be making fun of my parents for going to bed early anymore, ha! So 1 week of training down....and 7 more to go BUT I can and will do this! I have only heard great things from this company and I am excited to work for them.

The moving out part.... It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be, I was really nervous for some reason. The only thing I am struggling with is not having random things around...for example the other night I needed a toothpick, if I was at home I would have just walked into the kitchen and grabbed a toothpick, no big deal. Well as silly as it sounds I didn't thing to put toothpicks on my grocery list...so I didn't have a toothpick the other night. Oh well it could be worse, like running out of toilet paper...oh wait.  Yeah that happened the other night too. But we won't go there. It's okay I know you are laughing...I did too. So I have made four a few stops at the grocery store last week picking up things that I wouldn't usually pick up every week. I keep telling myself I will get the hang of this whole living on my own thing...someone tell me I am right?? Okay, that sounds dramatic it's not that bad. I really am enjoy it and I am having fun!! I have made a few new friends at work already and they are pretty great. I am excited to get to know them better!

If you are following me on Instagram then you saw that on Monday after my first day of work Matthew drove over an hour to see me, took me to El Tap and got me a dozen red roses...

 MELT MY HEART Y'all I just love him.  I am just so thankful for his love. Lucky really doesn't even begin to describe it. How have YOU been? I feel like I have spent the past hour or so just playing catch up and reading all y'all's recent posts...missed them all!

One last thing! This is one of my absolute FAVORITES to sing at church and we sang it this past Sunday night and I have been singing it in my head on repeat so I thought I would share it with you! It was actually recorded at CYC. I love love love CYC and I am hoping to go this year as a chaperone Have you heard it before? Don't you just LOVE it?!!

Oh one more thing...promise it's the last

I held a snake this weekend..what what!!

I held it behind the jaw so it couldn't bite me, ha!

HAPPY TUESDAY FRIENDS!

Make it a good day!

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That one time...