Green Picket Fence

 This is my new absolute favorite vest. It probably will be for the rest of the year at least. I just absolutely LOVE the corduroy added to the pockets and the back. What do you guys think? I would love to see what your favorite vests are? Leave a comment below! 💚

Birthday Sledding

Sledding on my birthday sort of has become a tradition now. My birthday is three days after Christmas so its the perfect time of the year to go for a sled. (Wow, I just realized how late this post is...) My friends and I went two years ago, and we went again last year (last month lol), and we'll probably be going again this year. All of my friends work during winter break, including myself, so we hardly to get to see each other, except for on my birthday.

January Wallpapers

I love having cute wallpapers for my laptop and phone but finding them isn't always the easiest. So I searched and searched and searched, and found several good ones so that you won't have to! Heres a few of my favorites below that I think fit well for the month of January.  Enjoy! :)

*To save on your desktop: right click on the picture and click "Download Linked File".
*To save on your phone: click on the picture, and then after it opens on a new page, hold down on the picture and press "Save Image".

New England Cookies

Wow, its been a while! I feel so terrible for not staying constant on this. But I'm back and I have quite a few posts planned so stay tuned cause there will be more! 😆

I first wanted to post about some cookies I made for Aubrey from The Coastal Confidence. I just want to start off by saying, I have no idea how she found or why she wanted to feature my cookies! I see it as a blessing from the Lord and Him showing His favor over my life. Because of the feature she posted, my profile started to become a little more known and now I have a network connection! So, thank you Jesus! 

But yeah! Anyways, Aubrey from TCC reached out to me and asked to make some holiday cookies and I asked her what kind specifically did she have in mind. Like, did she want candy canes, Christmas trees, snowman, etc. She told me that snowflakes and Christmas trees would be nice and to then surprise her with other ones. I took on the challenge and that day I started to brainstorm. I looked up on Pinterest for ideas, I studied her style and I concluded with light houses, fisherman sweaters, Bean boots, and that classic holiday red truck with a tree in the back! These will probably be some of my favorite designs I've ever created. I'm so grateful for this opportunity that was brought to me. It pushed me to making these designs, that I probably would've never thought to make if Aubrey didn't ask. :)

Delayed Holiday Outfit

SOO embarrassing that I'm just now posting my holiday outfit, but I really wanted to share so I'm posting anyways. lol Speaking of the holidays, I'll take this time to write about how my holidays went! So I finished finals on Friday, December 9th. I know its ridiculous that I'm writing about something that happened last year! 😆 Soo long ago! (Yeah, I'm still telling that joke). Anyways, I didn't go home til' Monday, December 12th and I started working the very next day in the morning. Like I mentioned before on a previous blog post, I work at a cute little bakery in Leavenworth, WA. Leavenworth is known as "the little Christmas town" or "the town of lights". It's super cute during the holidays. Every shop and every tree is covered with lights. And for that reason, the holiday season is the busiest time of the year! And I mean BUSY. They have to close all the streets to have enough room for all the tourists. At the bakery I work, we get a line that goes out the door and goes as far as to the end of the street. And the line never ends until we close. It is insane. But I absolutely love it. Everyone is in such a cheerful mood from being in the holiday spirit and I get to bake cookies all day long! 

Here's the bakery I work at!  ⤵  :)

What I've Been Up To

This past week was pretty crazy. First off, it was dead week (the week before finals) so I had lots of studying that I needed to do but had a hard time doing so because I had my first cookie order! Decorating cookies is something that I love to do, and it would be a dream to do it as a living. Doesn't that just sound like the best job ever. "What do you do?" "Oh I decorate cookies" lol. I don't know about you, but that sounds like the best job ever to me. And maybe too good to be true... but we'll see. :)

 The order was 80, cute but simple, snowflakes. The design was new to me, but I loved making them! I love learning new designs and I think I'll be using this design again in the future. I was worried about how much space I would be taking over in the apartment, but my four roommates were really understanding about it. Who doesn't love waking up to the smell of sweet cookies? 😆  

The cookies were due Friday in the afternoon. I started them on Tuesday, worked all day Wednesday, and finished them on Thursday. Just in time to deliver them the next day. The drive was about three hours away so I would of delivered them Thursday, but my mom didn't like the idea of me driving three hours in the dark, which is understandable since it gets dark so early now a days. 

The cookies were a hit! Everybody loved them. I got many compliments in person and online. I do have another order due soon and I can't wait to show you what designs I'll be doing. Stay tuned! 

Just a little reminder for myself and maybe for you: "Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people." (Colossians 3:23) 💛

Christmas Apartment Decor

I decided to do an apartment decor post because of the many sweet compliments I was getting. :) Thank you for those by the way! 

When I decorate my "home away from home" place (i.e. apartment or dorm room), I like to decorate with things that aren't specifically for Christmas. If I'm going to be spending money for decorations, I want to be able to use them for more than just the month of December. And I won't even be at my apartment for most of it because I'll be going home for winter break. That's why I decorate the place more for just winter in general. Snowman, snowflakes, trees with a little snow frost (not ornaments), etc. I want it to be worth the money I spend, so I would like to be able to use them for at least two months. Now at home, where I'll actually be spending Christmas, I go ALL out. 

Anyways, now onto the pictures! First I'll show you a picture of what it looked like originally just so you can see what I added or changed.