Friday letter's

 

 

Dear yesterday, you were too good to me. Dear Friday, I love you, that is all :)
Dear Cookeville, you are great and I am loving it up here. Dear little sisters, I'm excited to spend the weekend with you!! Dear weather, I am ready for you to start cooling off. I'm ready to start wearing my cute boots ya know what I mean?? Dear new Chacos, my little happy feet just love you. 



Dear Matthew, I love you. I love our relationship. 
Thank you for being my best friend.
Loving life with you. 

 

 

 

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DIY chevron jewelry board

Here lately I have been obsessed with necklaces. I feel like it compliments most of my outfits and they are just too cute. I have never really been a big jewelry person so I have never had any earring/necklace/bracelet, etc. holders so I was just hanging my necklaces on my drawer knobs. Then that got annoying with having to untangle them and not being able to open the next drawer without the necklaces getting caught in another drawer. I didn't want to buy a necklace holder when I knew I could make my own, even though Hobby Lobby has some super cute ones but... savin dollas make ya holla. So I kept looking on Pinterest but I just didn't really like any on there. They were either too small or too big or just not what I wanted.   So after walking around Hobby Lobby one day I found some foam board and thought I could use that and make a CUTE necklace holder.      

    What you will need:   1.) Foam Board  (I bought mine at Dollar Tree it's almost $7 at Hobby Lobby so get it at Dollar Tree if you can!!) 2.) Adhesive spray (I bought mine at Hobby Lobby but can be found at Wal-Mart also) 3.) Fabric 4.) Drawer knobs or pushpins 4.) Scissors 5.) Gloves (I HIGHLY recommend gloves for this because you will be spreading the fabric with your hands over the foam board to get all the air bubble out and the adhesive spray will come through the fabric and get ALL OVER YOUR HANDS)     Step 1: Cut the foam board down to the size you want.

      Step 2: Measure the fabric for the foam board, you want to have enough fabric to where you can wrap it around the edges.   Step 3: Spray the foam board with the adhesive spray. edges and all.   Step 4: Smooth the fabric down quickly, the adhesive spray dries quick. Smooth out all the air bubbles. You might have to lift the fabric up on the edges and spray a little more of the adhesive spray so that it sticks.   Step 5: Flip the foam board over and spray ONLY the edges and smooth it all down, make sure you pull the fabric as tight as you can so it doesn't look bad on the front.

    Step 6: Take the knobs (or pushpins) you decided on and just push it through the fabric and foam board.  It will not break the foam board and you do not need any type of tool to do this. Just twist it until it goes through both.

   These are the knobs I used, I found them at Hobby Lobby

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21st birthday celebrations!!

My birthday was last Tuesday and let me tell ya it was great!! I absolutely love celebrating birthdays not just mine but everyone's, it is such a fun and exciting time.

 

    Tuesday morning Matthew started out my birthday with a surprise...donuts! We LOVE Big O's donuts here and it's a struggle not to go there everyday as I am passing by to go to work haha   and then Matthew couldn't wait any longer to give me my present so he made me close my eyes and hold out my hand and this is what I saw when I opened my eyes...

 

YA GIRL IS GOING TO SEE LUKE BRYAN IN NASHVILLE!!!!

With FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE and THOMPSON SQUARE!!!!!!!

dying.

 

Matthew and I saw Luke Bryan a couple of years ago at the CMA fest and I have loved him every since.   Matthew brought me and my friend Sarah lunch during our break. We all ate outside because the weather was great and who doesn't love a birthday picnic?  

 

 

My beautiful flowers from my parents!



 

 

After work 10 of us met at El Tap for my birthday dinner!

I hardly knew most of them last year at this time, if you would have told me a year ago that I'd be celebrating my 21st with 10 people I hardly knew yet I never would have believed it. I have only been in Cookeville for a few months but I am so thankful for this precious group of friends that made me feel so surrounded and celebrated that night.



 

 

 

whip cream up my nose, gettin wild y'all (just kidding)   After church that night we all went back to my apartment and I opened my gifts and my Olivia made my key lime pie, woo hoo!! (THANK YOU OLIVIA, I know you are reading this) This was her first time making it and it was delicious and it looked perfect!

 

 

 

After everyone left I got my roommate to make a picture of Matthew and I with my tickets... the struggle was real y'all. The lighting was bad too...boooo bad apartment lightening.   AND then when I thought all the celebrating was over Matthew threw me a surprise birthday lunch Saturday! I woke up Saturday and planned on going and getting my first pair of chacos, I had a coupon and got a student discount so I was pretty excited.

 

 

 

  Matthew asked if I wanted to come over for lunch, he was grilling some chicken. Grilled chicken is my FAV. So I told him I would be over there after I got my new shoes, haha. I drove over to his apartment and saw my roommates car at his apartment. HOLD UP.   So I go inside and everyone is sitting around and they all yelled surprise! We had fresh salad, grilled chicken, baked potato, green beans and rolls...hands down my FAVORITE meal. Then brownies!

 

 

 

 Roomie picture

 

 THANK YOU Matthew for everything! This was by far one of the best birthdays I've had and you did so much to make it special and I appreciated it all. LOVE YOU   Over all my 21st birthday was AMAZING! I loved every minute celebrating with my friends!!  

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Adding light to your closet- rope light.

In my apartment I have this long closet. There are two doors on each end and there is NO lighting inside the closet. When I first moved in I was a little shocked by that. I have been thinking of different ways to add lighting so I can see in there. On top of my dresser I have all my jewelry and recently I added a mirror to the inside of my closet door and I have been doing my makeup there. It is close to my window so I get a lot of natural light which I  L O V E. Anyways back to the lighting... I bought these touch lights at Wal-Mart a couple of weeks ago and thought it would brighten things up in there...

 

 

 

No just no



obviously this was not enough light, not that I use my closet much at night but I do like to pick out my clothes and jewelry the night before so ya girl needs light!!!!

 

So I had these for about 2 weeks and then I saw some rope light at Wal-Mart and it was like a bell went off in my head, DUHH. Why haven't I thought of this sooner?!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

It came with hooks but there was no way I could hook it to the wall. So I just ran it across the door seal on the inside of my closet. There is nothing holding it there, it is just resting on top.

 

 

 

 

 Very easy and only $12.99!! Woo hoo!    Don't forget to enter to win a $150 J.CREW gift card and a $75 TARGET gift card...HERE



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Adding light to your closet- rope light.