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Hi :)

My thoughts and Prayers are with those who are dealing with the Hurricane. May you all be safe and out of harms way! Please help each other! If you see someone or something that needs help, please help them.

Last week I started College. It has been liiiiike oh.. I dunno... we'll say 7 years since I graduated High School, been in any kind of school even! I've wanted to go to school for the past 3 years, I have applied for fafsa, looked into classes, done everything. Except register, and actually go to School.. I am only going on Tues. & Wed. - so part time because I didn't want to overload myself and then make myself not want to go ever again. ( Can I just tell you, that the people who work at the School that I am going to.... Not the brightest crayons in the box... VERY FRUSTRATING! That does not help. >:0 ) I am going for Culinary Management/Patisserie. I am so excited! This is the biggest step towards our goals! Also the scariest! Well except for when we actually move. But I think this might even be more scary.. for me. I've moved before, I've also gone to School before but not School for something that I will be doing and loving for the rest of my life. Winning. Last Wed. was my first day. I cried all day. I was so nervous. When I walked into the College I was like 'Oh yea this is awesome. I am so gonna rock this. I got this!' Not. I walked to the wrong class first, then I walked into another class that I thought was mines, I sat for a few minutes and I thought to myself.. 'These people don't even have the same books I do' So I asked and I was in the wrong class. I did make it to the right class in time. Wasn't late on my first day! That is all that really matters right? Well, also the fact that I didn't have one of my books, I had gone to the School book store 3 times, and like I said... The people who work there. They are 0 help. So I really didn't want to go back and deal with it.. But I didn't have time to run to the Half Price Book Store ( also, haven't been there? GO! ). We didn't need it the first day. Hubby is running to the book store tonite to get the book for me. Tomorrow starts my 2nd class, so I will be at the School from 4pm to 945pm! That's so long. But there's about an hour break between the 2 classes. So, time to do homework and I'll have to remember to bring a book or some crochet to do.

I joined a book club. Well, actually. My online friends and I started a book club. I am pretty excited! I really love to read, and sometimes I need a little kick in the butt to do it, or to broaden my horizons! If you are interested in it, check out the blog. I think we will be doing it blog based with a voting system. If you are interested in joining  I will have to let you know how to get in on that. We just started it 2 days ago! Here is the link to the site. Check it out! It will be so much fun!

Do you watch Breaking Bad? Oh man. This show is good!! I am catching up on Sundays episode right now as I type this. Holy Cow. I think if you don't watch this show, you really should give it a shot! I really love Bryan Cranston as Walter White. I didn't like the show Malcolm in the Middle, and I really thought that was all he was in until he came to this show. But he has been in A-LOT of stuff. He is in How I Met Your Mother! He wants to build the penis building. Anyways. I like him, and I like Breaking Bad! Have you seen Ugly Betty? I never watched it but someone told me I need to give it a try... I didn't think that I would like it but I kind of loved it. I was really sad when it was over. waa.. I would like it if they would bring it back or at least made a movie or something. They kind of ended it dum.

That's all for now. sorry for a kinda all over the place! Have a great week. Please be safe everyone! Love one another! <3

xxooo
Odi

Life is Short

Life is short. Today I said goodbye to a friend forever.. It was really very hard. One of the hardest things I think that I have ever had to do. In my 26 years on this planet I have only ever been to 4 wakes and 2 funerals. One for someone who overdosed when I was in high school, and at that time it was not a great friend I was more going for moral support and 2 were for my pretty much grandparents. I loved them and they were hard to deal with but they were old and they lived full super happy lives. Today I said goodbye to someone who was only 2 years older than me. He fought cancer for 2 1/2 years. He was a great man. He of all people did not deserve to go this way, and of anyone who I could think of beating cancer, it would have been Matt. I am lucky to be able to know such a wonderful man. RIP Matt! Love you gonna miss you ! Cancer sucks.

xxooo
Pan

Shark Week!

Hi there! Do you know what this week is?  SHARK WEEK! OMFG I LOVE SHARK WEEK! Its almost like a Holiday in this house. I have been so excited about it, I even painted my nails for Shark Week! AND I took lots of pictures so that I could share the tutorial with you all! yayyy!

First, I wanted to tell you about a pretty neat little 'event' of sorts from Zoya Nail Polish. If you click on this link and sign up ( for free ) it will give you a voucher for a free Zoya Polish, and if you add 2 more polishes the shipping is free. The shipping regularly is like 7$, So its like the cost of the nail polish to ship, but if you have the money to buy the other 2 I think its totally a deal. Hubby said I might be able to buy some this weekend. But I think I saw on the webite it was good until April or something. I think I will have to go look again because I really love these polishes and their practices ! I got a few Zoya colors from the Copious thing. At least one of them should be coming today. I walked to the mail box in the rain with my dog I was so excited, only to see the mail hasn't ran yet. WHY OH WHY MAIL DO YOU WAIT SO LONG TO COME TO ME! Everyone I know gets their mail at like 11 in the morning. I don't get mines till like 5- hubby laughed when I texted him to tell him, He said 'lol babe the mail doesn't come till like 430-5 now' WHAT?!! Ridiculous.






Ok.. So, onto the tutorial. Are you as excited as I am ?

First choose your colors- I chose Essie-Beach bum blu for the nice blue to be the ocean water, Sinful Colors-slate ( This would have been better mixed maybe with a little bit of silver or a little less dark grey ) for the shark body and fins, LA Colors-white for the teeths and the eyeballs. ( LA Colors is also a cruelty free brand and I got this at the Dollar Tree by my house! ), Zoya- Gia for the red, bloood part, and OPI- gone gonzo for the glitter over the blue!  You will also need some blue painters tape and a pen  (you can also use a nail polish pen thingie but I could only find one at Walgreen and it was 9$. No thanks), to draw the shark and fin, and scissors to cut the drawings- remember to have the tape larger than your nail for easy peel off.




First, paint your nails your blue base color. Let it dry well.

Then you will draw on your painters tape. ( I am not a great drawer so my shark is kind of demented, but I think for free hand its pretty good!! ) I only did my left hand since it would be way too hard to do both hands.

Now take the grey color and paint, let dry pretty good and remove the tape.

 I painted my middle finger nail with splotches of red to look like blood! Making sure that my grey color is dry, I put some white dots on the grey open mouth part to look like teeth. My pointer finger is supposed to be a shark comming up from water with its mouth open but it didn't work out as well as I would have liked.

 Let everything dry really well, take the blue glitter and paint over the blue parts you want to sparkle like water! Let dry, and you are so done. And you have a wicked awesome Shark Week Manicure!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial! I would love to see yours if you followed my tutorial! You can email yours to me at peacesignhearts@gmail.com and I will post them on here! Thank you so much for reading! Have a happy Shark Week!!

Ps. That bright, pretty crochet in the back is the bag that I am working on! :DD 

xxooo
Pan

Happy August!

Hello Friends!! Happy August!

Really quick before I forget I want to let you know that copious.com is having another 10$ credit giveaway. So that means, you get 10$ free when you sign up using this link, and then another 10$ credit using this link ( avaliable until August 11 @ 11L59 PST. Once you claim it, you will have 5 days to use it ) . So that's 20$ free! Well, you will have to pay 1 penny. But still!!!! that is pretty sweet! So go take advantage of it. They have lots of stuff- fashion, jewelery, shoes, nail polishes, all kinds of stuff!!

So last week I went to take the dog outside and there was a package on my door stop, ooh I wasn't expecting anything. Guess what it was? It was the correct colors of the red heart yarns for my blanket !! Yay I am so happy! So once it cools down I can finally finish that baby! It is going to be so gorgeous! I am currently working on making myself a bag/purse. I cant wait for it to be done! I probly will be finishing it up soon. Its an easy project. I need a easy project, I have  been trying to work on some mittens and I can not seem to get the pattern! I will get it though, I have a super awesome idea in my head and if I could get it right, Christmas presents this year are going to be aweeeesomeeee!

Yesterday on facebook I saw that there is a Saved by the bell edition wet n wild nail polish. Holy cow. I NEED THEM! I used to love watching Saved By The Bell!! The colors are so very 90's and bright and gorgeous. Love them.

Fall weather has been here lately. Like mid 70's and really nice. I could get use to this! I hope it stays. We got a pretty great rain yesterday! I had to spend the whole morning and after noon down at the college ( oh hey did I tell you that I am now registered for classes to being being a pastry chef! sooo excited! ) By the time I got home I was exhausted, I figured by the time I got home that the rain would be done, but it rained and it even thundered while I took a 5 hour nap. I usually really hate taking naps, they make me super cranky and give me a headache but this one I took yesterday was truely amazing.

I want to share with you a tutorial of sorts. I painted my nails and I did kind of a jawbreaker/marbley effect and I really thought it was super cool. Its not super fully equipped with tons of pictures but I will explain the best I can! ok? Sounds good. Here it goes. :D Please forgive me if its messy, it is my first tutorial of any kind.

First I chose my colors, I chose kinda funky bright colors, but you can choose whatever colors you think would look nice. I used the small tiny little brissle brush. I took the white and used it for my base coat. Let it dry good Then take the color you want drop a drop or 2 on some paper, put the small paint brush on it and plop it around on your nails, no specific pattern or way- whichever your heart desires! Wipe your brush and let this color dry, when its dry repeat with the other colors. When your done, of course add glitter. bahahaha >:D

I hope you enjoy. Thanks for coming! Next time I try a tutorial I will take more pictures!

xxooo
Pan