This is Halloween

This year I was so in the mood to dress up but there were no parties to go to, I guess what they say is true, as you get older the holidays just aren't as interesting. That really is too bad, because I do love to dress up. On the day of Halloween I decided "You know what? I'm going to dress up any way." So I decided to Disneybound as a chimney sweep from Marry Poppins. If you want to dress as a chimney sweep in the future, it is very simple and can be made using things you already have around the house. Here is what you will need:

• Jacket
• Vest
• Poor boy hat
• Jeans
• Boots
• Scarf
• A pair finger-less gloves or a pair of socks that you don't mind ruining 
• Scrap fabric
• Pvc pipe or a broomstick 
• Pipe cleaners
• Black eye shadow

I used some fabric and fashioned them in to patches, and stuck them all over my hat, jacket, vest, and pants. I didn't have any finger-less gloves so I cut up a pair of (new) socks. Then I took some pipe cleaners and wrapped them around the twist in end of a broomstick (to make the actual chimney sweep). Added some black "ash" to my face for soot to look like I've been cleaning chimneys all day. Then, to make my hair look ratty, I crimped some areas, waved other areas, (my hair was already curled that day), straightened some parts, hid a few braids in there and a few twists, and presto...

the final look.

A spontaneous idea and a patch of pumpkins

My mom and I had a mother daughter date that was sort-of spontaneous, we went to Oak Glen and ate at Apple Annie's and had a nice talk and a delicious lunch and shared a cinnamon bun for dessert that was so good it could have killed me stone dead if I ate it on my own. After coming down the hill we realized we did not take one single photo of us, so I said "Lets go to the pumpkin patch!" and my mom was down of course because she likes to follow the sun sometimes, that's just who she is.

we had a really nice time just walking around and talking about the fun times we had when I was a kid, around the holidays. But my mother has a photographers heart and we had to make up for the pictures we missed out on, an I was in a goofy mood.

I wanted to be Sasquatch in the corn, I like to call this one Ash-squatch 

(I apologise for my hair, this was a last minute outing lol)

What I Wore

Clinging on to the last bit of summer I wore my blue floral skirt and shirt from Jason wu's Target collection, people always confuse it for Lauren Conrad but it's not, I like her clothes too though. But I am excited for the earthy tones that we get to wear in this season, I saw lots of fall inspired fashion at the pumpkin patch and I was in love.

XOXO AshLEIGH

DIY Decoupage Notebook

Wow, it has been a while since I last wrote hasn't it? Well to make up for it, I come bearing gifts... that you can make for yourself yay!!! I promised to put up some of my DIY projects so I'll start off with an easy one. This is a good trick for poor college students like me, in out lives we buy lots of notebooks but do any of them express who we truly are? No. That would be impossible, but we can take it upon ourselves to create a notebook that says here I am. So here we go, this is so simple I don't know why I  didn't think of this years ago.

Alright, three simple steps and a few simple supplies:

Here is what you will need:

• Magazines {or what ever you want your notebook to feature, I had some old Life magazines from the 60's that I've been wanting to use for some time (because I am a huge nerd for old ads)}
• Notebook
• Scissors 
• Mod Podge
• Paint brush

How to:

• First gather your supplies
• Cut out what you wish your notebook to feature
• (Tip: I like to lay out my cut outs on the notebook arrange and rearrange until I'm sure that is the pattern I want before I do the next step)
• Spread mod podge evenly on surface of notebook (avoid getting mod podge in three hole punch your pages will stick together)
• Take your cut out and spread flatly over wet mod podge (gently smooth over air bubbles with your finger)
• Let sit until first layer of mod podge is dry
• Gently spread mod podge over the surface of your cut outs make sure all of the cut outs that over lap are glued down, you wouldn't want to accidentally rip all the hard work you just did while you're using it at school  (mod podge may smear ink)
• Let dry 
• Show it off

I use mine at school and I get compliments on it all the time, they wont believe you made it yourself!

Enjoy your notebooks everyone keep checking in every so often for more DIY projects!

XOXO AshLEIGH

Gidget is the one for me

I was thinking about things that make me happy, and you know what came to my mind? My Gramma, so I thought, "hey, my Gramma lives just a little ways away from my school, and she rarely sleeps so why don't I just pop in after my Tuesday night class?" so I popped in. And I nearly scared her half to death. Once she caught her breath I came inside and I asked, "Gramma? do you know what I love?"

 "What?" she asked. "Musicals. but you know what's funny? My Mom does not like them. But you and your  sister love them, and my sister and I love them." Then Gramma said, "I guess it skips a generation..." So I told my Gramma how I loved spending time at her house as a child because we would always watch old movies, which at the time I don't think I appreciated, but looking back those really were great movies, that I still remember. My Gramma would have my sister and I watch old movies, My Great Aunt would have us watch musicals. And I just love them. So, my Gramma lent me some old movies, and I've been watching some of my own on Netflix, trying to see which Merlin Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn movies I like the best. And taking in the speech and the clothing and the mannerisms, and realizing just how different "my generation" is makes me so heartbroken, I wish the girls of today still behaved as they did back then. After watching a lot of these films I decided to review them. I'm going to start with the one I watched most recently, because it's fresh in my mind. 

Gidget (1959)

Gidget is one of my all time favorite movies, I used to watch it at my Aunt Gidget's house when I was younger, and I remember watching it on a loop when I got my tonsils removed when I was twelve.

 Encase you have never seen this movie here is the plot: Sandra Dee plays a young 16 year old girl named Francie who docent quite fit in anywhere, until she stumbles upon a group of boys who love nothing more than to "surf the curl", so she too takes up the sport, and although the boys giver a heard time she continues to prove to them she's more than "just a little girl", she can do what ever the boys can do better. She grows concerned that she is different because she docent like dates the way her friends do, will she ever feel that knock in the head with a sledge hammer love feeling her mom makes sound so attractive? well that's just how she feels when ever Moondoggie is around her, but she runs in to trouble when she sets up a fake date to make him jealous, and ends up on the date with Moondoggie himself! what will become of her ruse? 

There could have been more chemistry between the two main characters, you still root for the two to get together, still, the audience never fully realized how Moondoggie feels in return until the last few scenes of the film. Sandra Dee is marvelous in this, she comes off as so young, and so awkward, just like a young 16 year old girl would have if she were trying to impress a large group of men. Regardless of how I feel about the connection between Gidget and Moondoggie, if you have not seen this movie you really should, it is and always will be one of my favorites. 

I give it ******* out of ten. 

until next time when i will be reviewing another of my favorites Tammy And The Bachelor (1957) staring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Neilson

XOXO, ashLEIGH

Millions of girls float on their one quote, living on their last hope,on their last hope.

I just have the most fun time when I'm with my sister, this is us at a wedding. Savannah hates weddings, she says they have become too commercial; I on the other hand LOVE weddings they are a way to not only watch two people become one but also a way to dance and not get groped by random sleez-balls. Man oh man we danced at that wedding... You see, Savannah and I are not only white girls, we also don't know how to dance, not only that, but when we get together and we start dancing we tend to steal the show because of it's intense look-at-me-look-at-me hilarity. I have so much fun with this girl, I hardly even noticed the guests video taping us. Just kidding, I was painfully aware of those cameras fixed on us. But I don't regret busting those sweet moves on the dance floor because I felt happy while I was doing them. And you know what? If those old men ever figure out how to upload those videos on YouTube, I will watch them and laugh along with America remembering that the smile on my face was out of pure joy. XOXO ashLEIGH

Red, white, blue's in the skies, Summer's in the air and baby, Heaven's in your eyes.

Last night Davis bleached my hair, now I am blond, it's so weird. I dye my hair all the time but I still looked like me, don't get me wrong I like it, it's still in transition of becoming what I want, I knew it would be a process. I'm getting a lot of positive comments about it which is nice, I don't have a lot of people in my life that I have known for less than thirteen years so my new color comes as a shock to most every one, when i picked up my "little girl" from school today she said "you're so cute!" I love my job :)
I'm looking forward to what it will look like in the end, and I'm lucky Davis was willing to do this for me, I love him; probably because he's one of the people I've known for over fourteen years...
xoxo ashLEIGH

The State Of Dreaming

well it's that time of year again, school has started. And after a summer of looking through classes and pre-selecting them community college once again proves how unbelievably stupid it is. If I could go back in time and talk to my High School self I would have said "forget about community college, believe in yourself get scholarships and go to real college. It will be worth it."
I promised myself that this year I would turn it around, but after being skewed over by the secret rules of my school AGAIN I have decided this will be my last semester at SBVC I'm done with that place, yes I met many nice people, with whom I still keep in touch but if I ever want to get in to cosmetology school I need to get in gear.
I love my job, the little girl I watch over has stolen my heart and I miss her so much after not seeing her for more than a few days. I'll still have a lot of free time on my hands which worries me, but I am making a commitment to myself, (and maybe the fact that I'm putting this on the internet too will help me keep it) but I'm committing to myself and the person I want to become, I want to start working out more, I'm starting out small, just walks around the neighborhood  and not very long ones because sometimes I see shady people about. So I'm working on the new me, part of that is a new look, pretty soon I'll be blond, I can't wait!! And I'll get my tattoo I've been wanting! (key hole on the back of my neck, I'll explain the significance later). Despite the fact that all of my friends are away at school I'm really happy right now, in fact I haven't been this happy in a really long time, I think it has to do with my summer, It was amazing. So, because of my friend absence I need to step in to more social situations; I have always been pretty out going but this year I am forcing myself to make friends."Do something that scares you, often." so I will.

xoxo ashLEIGH