vote on a name for the new blog!

So I got to thinking about it... and I google searched 'words like UNKNOWN'.

Why? Because I don't know where this is going to go, what it will hold... and it will be a name I'll never have to change. Because there is always something unknown.

Here are some of my choices... I'll be making a poll in the sidebar, so if you could either comment or vote over there that would help me out a lot! I'm super indecisive so you may not realize it, but you really are helping me.


borderless-
faraway-
limitless-
uncharted-
incog-
terra-
vague-
myst(from mystical)-
plex(from complex,perplex-
dicipher(to succeed in understanding)-
alchemi(from alchemy...my life->what it turns into)-
uncanny-
archaic <3-
static-
arcane-

Thank you guys!
Alyssa Rachele

It's me again

Well, I'm back again.

I never started that new blog I was talking about... but yet I'm still thinking about it months later. Maybe I should do that.

Lots of new exciting and not exciting things have happened in 2012. Nothing quite fantastic enough to tell you all about :)

Alright, I don't even know why I'm posting, but I want to get back into this blogging business. And surprisingly according to my stats, there are at least 300 people who still look at my blog daily. That's pretty sweet! So I need your help.

I don't know where to start.

What do you all want to see on my new blog?

Craft tutorials? Pinterest craft tests? Photography of mine? Stories of my life? Knock offs that I've made? Interiors that I love and can give you tips on how to DIY? Other awesome blogs and features of tutorials? Thoughts on being a Christian girl? Tips on being awesome? Vlogs? Fashion that I love and would totally have except I'm poor? All of that?

Because you'll probably end up with all of that in a mixed up jumble if you don't give me some tips!

I'm in it to win it this time I think. I think I may be ready to start this all over again. Just better this time :) I may start a shop soon. A REAL photography business.

I'm learning about Photoshop and cameras right now, so you can tag along with me in my journeys!

Alright, I'm done blabbing.
Peace out.

Alyssa

Out of the Box

Whoah. That was a good one!

Anyways, I decided on going with a new blog. And I was just going to ask you for help with names... but I kinda like the title of this post.

Out of the Box.

Or not.

Here are some words I like for the title of my blog, and if any of you are creative geniuses, I'd appreciate it if you threw some of them together or mashed up some of your own thoughts for me. :)  Anything will go, I don't care how stupid it is or if you have one suggestion or twenty.

nymph. dreamer. minimal. woodland. box. simple.

Yes, I know they're really random.

The basic idea is something not too specific for one genre of anything. I don't want something merely for crafts or photography or life. I like random. Whimsical. That way I can change it around when I want to, but keep the same name.

I'll have craft stuff, fashion, photography, food, life... and basically everything. It's gonna be fun.

If it helps: I want something modern, white, clean lines, vintage, some pops of color, graphic, and i like unicorns. here's some picture inspiration for what I'm thinking:

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Oh and I like the punk-ish hipster galaxy styles too.

So yeah... have at it!

*hugs*
Alyssa

What should I do?

I (totally and completely obviously) haven't been posting like... at all recently. sometimes I forget I even still have a blog. I know, I know. Don't judgeth me.

I had a super busy summer filled with 96 hours of volunteering and many MANY more of volleyball. I went on a retreat and started school the day after, two weeks ago. I've been doing pretty well. It's my first year of highschool and volleyball practices are at 2, 30 minutes away from my house. So I was worried about doing school at 5 and 6 at night. But so far I've been doing well and getting it done before practices. Though next year I won't be able to for sure, so I hope they change the practice times!!

I kinda quit taking pictures, taking care of my cat, working out, cleaning my room... I think you get the picture. I was pretty much dropping out of life. Well.... okay so friends, volunteering and volleyball were my life.

BUT THEN>>>

yeah nothing happened. well something happened but I know not what. I started getting more crafty, started etsy stalking, making things, cleaning, doing school and being responsible. Yeah then like all my friends dropped out of my life. I'm not sure if it's just school or what but ... yeah they're like all gone. I'm not positive what to think of it. Nothing happened, but people just stopped talking to me. And I'm not the annoying type so I haven't bothered them.

And I have no idea where I was going with this, but a life update I guess. OHHHH yeah never mind.

ADD sorry.

So I've been thinking about my blog more, and I want to start up again. Do something new.  A fresh start.

But even though I'm pretty sure I've already basically lost you all, I don't want to lose my nearly 400 followers I spent so much time and money trying to get. But I can't transfer them to a new blog and I don't really want to have to start over all anew.

MEH.

What do YOU think I should do?? Would you come join me on my new blog? Yay? Neigh? (and yes I know that's not how you spell them)

The end.

Love y'all.


If you're still reading this... thank you. And triple thank you if you comment. :)


<3 Alyssa - the long lost blogger

be inspired today.  you are loved. :)

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xox
Aly

TUTORIAL: Pokemon Nails

I grew up with one older brother. He was my biggest influence and my best friend ... I wanted to do everything he did and I lived most of my childhood being a big tomboy.  We watched power rangers, monster trucks, scooby doo and pokemon. We climbed trees, built forts, played some intense pillow fights and everything like that. Dang I miss those days... haha! But Pokemon was huge with us. We both bought decks of cards and played pretty hard core :) And I will admit that a year and a half ago we got back into it and we went out and bought new decks and played every spare second for about a month until i was creaming him and he tried making the rules change for him (he always has done that) and I got mad and then we quit.

Anyways... moral of the story... I miss my brother. Okay no it's actually that I decided to make pokemon nails but I just realized how good of a life I have. Who knew God could work through something silly like this and make me appreciate life more? :)

ANYWAYS... enough with my ADD!! I made pokemon nails. And I want to show you how you can, too. So here we go, you ready?

You need: Red, black, white, base and top coat nail polish. tape.

1. the usual. Fix up the nails and base coat... you know the drill!

 

2. Get black. Paint a stripe down the middle of your nails like so:

3. Wait for that to dry. Cut some painters tape (that's what I prefer to use... I think any kind will work!) in a small strip and put it on top right down the middle of the black.

4. Paint white on the bottom and red on the top.  Let it dry and do a second coat if needed and immediately peel the tape off after your last coat.

 5. Paint a black circle in the middle of each nail. Let it dry and do a smaller white dot in the middle of that.

6. Let it dry and then top coat and you're done!

This was my first try ever, so I'll be trying out a different technique soon and I'll let you know if that one works better.

Thanks for sticking around and I hope you enjoyed it!

Alyssa

My New Rainbow Hair

Wow I never even finished my little 'journal's! Sorry! I'll get on that if I can! Anyways... I figured I'd update you with a little sumthin :)

Introducing.... my new rainbow hair. :3

 I used soft chalks from michaels and water. :)

{sorry for all the pictures of me............ yah i'm my only willing model in times of boredom. there are many more. it's scary.}

Just experimenting today, and i will be probably for the next two weeks. So expect more wacky hair posts!

Thanks for sticking around guys! I love you all!

Aly

Prolife Bootcamp Journal Part 1

As i said in my last post... I went to a Prolife Bootcamp this last Wednesday night - Saturday night. I guess I'll just let myself free and write whatever i think of haha :)

So I had like 6 friends who were going and they had all attended the year before and they really loved it. To me it sounded like a kinda lame weekend full of sitting, listening, getting like no sleep, and a bunch of information i already know. Not exactly what I wanted to spend 4 days doing. But I really don't know what i was thinking and i just said I'd do it to get them all to shut up about it. :p

i found this to be very true!

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Then next thing I know it's Wednesday at 5 pm an hour before we need to be there and i'm not packed or anything. I'm what you'd call a procrastination queen ;). So i packed and we drove to the Church and did some icebreakers and then we were broken up into our 'small groups' that we'd be doing a lot of stuff with all week. I somehow managed to get in a group with none of my friends. Yeah. My luck. But then I was thinking about it and I decided that it was obviously God's plan and there was going to be some good coming out of it. :) But that first night we literally did EVERYTHING with our small group and i never got to talk to any of my friends and i was scared that the whole weekend would be like that!

i want these pajamas so badly. anyone feel like getting me them?! :D

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 So on Wednesday we split into our guy/girl rooms and all the girls went to brush their teeth and put pjs on. Okay you all know i'm homeschooled right? Yeah i've never really had to take my makeup off and be in my pjs around a bunch of girls that i don't know. I mean it wasn't bad except here's the deal... out of idk... maybe 20 girls there were THREE of us who wore makeup. Everyone else was that obnoxious natural beautiful with absolutely perfect skin. So I was scared that i was going to look like some horrid zombie and scare them all. The next day i learned that these girls are all just such wonderful people. They really are. They never once judged any of us and i don't know how to explain it they're all just so nice and loving. :)

So we did our night prayer and went to bed at midnight (which is the official lights out for everyone)

part 2 coming soon :p

Q&A's

Hello lovely followers (if anyone still even reads this)

Guess what? I did a guest post for Megan and Alyssa over at their awesome blog Sisters In Christ. :D Go check it out!

and even though my summer is going to be crazy starting tomorrow... i'm going to try to write about the experience i had at a ProLife Bootcamp i went to wednesday night- last night. it was so much fun and just all around so amazing! only problem i had was the nasty burrito's and small hours of sleep. i slept 13 hours last night. it was crazy fun! :)

so be on  the look out for that and then i'll have a Q&A post where you can ask me any questions about anything!!! :) i really hope ya'll will! oh and i went to Florida... haha forgot about that. and it's only been like two weeks. haha

Have a fantastic day!
Alyssa

GIVEAWAY WINNER is......

KAITLYN from Kaitlyn's Photography! :) congratulations Kaitlyn!!!

I'll email you soon. thank you all for entering!

Aly

Cheesecake :)

just poppin in... :) i'm going to have my dad help me figure out how to get the videos to upload that way i can start vlogging a lot more!

xx

A

btw...

the postcard giveaway closes on the 14th of May :)

GIVEAWAY: PrintRunner 100 Custom Postcards

Have you lovely readers ever heard of printing your own custom postcards? PrintRunner, a wonderful online printing company has offered to give away 100 postcards to any one of my lucky followers! Before I get any further, here's a little background on this sweet little company:

"PrintRunner.com was established with little more than a small press and a dream. Ten years later our company became one of the foremost quality printers in Southern California. Our commitment to provide the best value and high quality full color printing at affordable price made our company grow. PrintRunner is a full service high quality printing company located in Chatsworth, California."

Want to know the details?! thought so :)

100 5x7 postcards. 4/0 front only printing. 14 PT. UV coating on front. Rounded corners. Ready to ship in 4 business days. No proof. 

GIVEAWAY ONLY OPEN TO US RESIDENTS 18 YEARS AND ABOVE.

random writings. about my dream future. :)

*it may look daunting but i think it actually may be worth reading... haha it's up to you!*

I don't know. A while ago i was thinking about my future and what i want to do with my life, and i decided that i want to do something great. I don't want to be a hero. I don't want to be a celebrity. I simply want my family and friends to be proud of me and respect me. And not to just respect me because i work at some fancy place or have some high paying job; I want to be respected for who I am and what I've done.

I want my grand kids to brag about me. I want them to tell their friends what I did, and how they want to be like me when they grow up. I want my name to be written on the sheets they have at school that ask "who's your hero?" by my great grand kids. I want my legend to live on. I want my kids to do great things too.

I don't know what kind of great things i'm going to do yet, but i'm sure as heck gonna do them. Why just live? There are people surrounding us everyday who don't have enough money to pay for food and shelter for their families. There are people who don't even have homes, and they sit there on the side of the road, whether 100 degrees or -10 degrees, and simply ask for a few dollars or a pair of socks. They don't ask for houses, they don't ask for hundreds of dollars, all they ask for are the necessities to live. Many times we drive by and we just think, "oh, there's another gross hobo." and give it no more thought. What are we?!?! Are we any better than them? We're humans, they're humans. Life just went a little better for us and we're lucky to be able to afford food and houses. These people can't even afford a blanket.

They aren't poorly raised, nasty, disease-filled creatures. They're people just like us. they don't have homes to shower in, they don't have money to buy food to eat, and they don't have any shelters. You think they want to live on the streets? I mean i know there are some people who choose that way of life but there are others who would rather be any other place. believe me.

I want to go work at a ministry that helps homeless people. I want to hear their stories and document them. i want to help them. I can't explain it there's just this big bubble inside of me that grows and wants to be let out every time i think about it. Just the thought of being able to positively affect someones life, even just one person, it's.... it's wonderful.

Another thing I've been dreaming about the past two years is going on a mission trip. I want to go to Africa or Haiti or somewhere and live with the people. Maybe help teach a school. Just spend time with them and learn their way of life and live it with them. Befriend all of the kids, spending time everyday teaching them a sport or playing with them. It's this thing in me that i just like crave that so badly. it sounds stupid to most people. Why would you want to go starve yourself and live in a hut with a dirt floor? Most teenagers want to meet Josh Hutcherson or something :p (i mean yeah that would be cool... haha but tbh i'd rather meet Jennifer Lawrence. i think we'd be like immediate best friends. And i have a mini girl-crush on her) But me? no. If i had a choice of staying in the world's finest hotel and meeting any celebrity i want or going to go live in Africa as a native for a month I know which one i'd choose. The one that would make a difference in my life. Not a "ooh i got to touch Johnny Depp!" difference, a real deep difference in my heart. i'd have a better understanding of what's going on around me. I'd have a connection with children over there. i may even get to teach them about God. 

So yea. i'll stop boring you now. Just kinda felt like writing that... :)

 xoxo

Alyssa

7 Things: a Q&A post :)

 It's a Saturday. One of those lazy ones that you just lay around all day. Everyone in my family is gone somewhere... flower shopping or something. So I'm sitting here listening to Pandora (one direction ;) and i decided to do a quick post. happy birthday :D 

(all the questions via Gentri Lee)

 Funny Photo of myself:

(from a bad photoshoot i need to edit and post...)

 1. Would you rather your life be a constant vacation or always stay home?

Constant vacation. They both have their ups and downs but considering I'm home schooled.... I'm already home all the time :) And i never want to come home when we're on vacay!

2. What is your favorite book?

hmm... Hunger Games/Catching Fire or Life as We Knew It :)

3. You have to be on a reality tv show - which would you choose?

i don't really watch any... but if Design Star counts as reality-ish ( i mean come on there's a lot of drama!) that would be my choice. I'd fail though :)

4. What is your favorite form of exercise?

Well. Hm. I don't know... just like doing the little stuff that adds up. Like pushups and crunches, you know? 

5. What is one thing you've never tried but you're convinced you hate? (food activities etc)

Something I've never tried? I don't really hate a lot of stuff i haven't tried. But i'll say liver or any organ lol :p

6. Do you have any hidden talents?

if i told you they wouldn't be really hidden anymore, would they now? ;) haha okay honest truth. No. Not really. I'm not really good at anything so ... yeah :)

7.What's the best prank you've ever pulled?

Okay. Actually it's a really long one and I'm still playing it ;p

 So I have two friends who are brothers. And I told them that one of my other really good friends asked me out and we're dating. So i originally told them this on April Fools as an April fools joke, and when i told them they were like in MAJOR shock! It was hilarious. so then i told them it was all a joke and stuff. But then I told my friend (who i was supposedly dating) and he said let's go for it and keep the prank going. So then I told them that I only said it was a joke because they sounded mad and like they didn't like the fact that two of their friends were going out. ;p So my friend (the one i'm "dating") and I are both playing up on the joke by talking to the brothers and being like "oh my gosh i love soandso so much and we went on a date and it was so much fun and we're going to the movies next week!!!" Haha. It is awesome. And actually... we're all going to a dance tonight and I guess this'll be the first time we're actually going to have to act like we're dating in person. I have no clue when the joke will be over but when they find out it was all a joke they are going to be SO mad :D It is awesome. 

oh and a sidenote is that all of our friends know it's a joke but them. So they all play with it too and even my mom knows haha :) It's so much fun!!!

so i guess that's it for today :)

xoxo

Aly