getting better...soon

sick in bed since the beginning of the year :/ ahhh...great way to start off the new year eh?

i've been trying to eat good food to make me feel better. 1) homemade apple & spice porridge, 2) grandma's soup with drop noodles. I've also eaten some fun foods like this pintrest idea of bacon stuffed pancakes (but i use veggie bacon instead!).

sneezing, tissues, coughing, stuffy & runny nose, sore eyes & throat, & headache. ahh...slowly, but surly getting better.

(if you have a sore throat - drink lemon juice & hot water with honey. works like a charm!)

oh! by the way, i saw les miserables & the hobbit during my christmas! les miserables was fantastic! so so good. i was crying. many times... also the hobbit was so visually & hobbitly appealing. love those hobbits : )

ok. that's all for now. i'm off to sound more like darth vader...

happy 2013

i'm greeting the new year with side-bangs, fresh coral lip treatment, & a thrifted sweater. 

i'm slightly nervous about this new year as i will be cramming to finish my thesis this semester so i can graduate in may. also nervous because i'm not sure what i am going to be doing after. i just need to stay focused & take it as it comes.

i thought about doing a year in review like the other blogger family members, but decided against it. honesty because i'm lazy & am just starting to get sick :/

i saw blue valentine a few weeks ago for the first time. i loved it & i hated it. for those of you who saw it, what did you think?

i've been growing out my full bangs & making them into side bangs. i have my preference of what i like, but i want to ask your opinion: should i keep growing out my bangs or cut them again to make them full bangs?

i miss miguel.

number twelve: try wearing red lipstick out

 number twelve on my list of 25 things to do before i turn 26 is to try wearing red lipstick out. so, i went on the search to find some red lipstick. a friend sells mary kay & after much bugging, i finally had a house party. i got about $30 credit to spend on any product i wanted, so i was a happy gal. i picked out two shades of lipstick, one of them being "red". once it came in the mail, i was excited & also nervous to try it out. i took it with me on one of my mini trips to stay with miguel for a few days, determined to give it a go. so, one night as we were gussying up for the night, i decided to experiment! here is before:

 & after:

don't mind these crooked shots in miguel's bathroom. i'm still trying to get the hang of taking photos of myself, in the mirror, with my new nikon.
i rather liked how it turned out, but was still a bit nervous to wear it out. so when we were in the car, barely making it down his block, i said, "i can't do it!" & wiped it off...haha. since then, i have worn my red lipstick out, as well as some other shades of red & rather love the spunkiness i feel when i wear it : )

lina's 25th

i know this post is quite overdue, as my birthday was over a month & a half ago. but here they are! photos from the party i through myself. i designed four photobooth backgrounds, gathered three fuji instax cameras together, & filled three vintage suitcases together with props. to eat was a spread of cheese & fruit. i thought it turned out lovely : ) to see instagram photos, look up #linas25th 

miguel was my chef in the kitchen for the evening & made these caprese bites perfectly.

 photobooth #1 was just a dark sheet & colored paper cranes

 photobooth #2 was a little more involved to make. i tore strips from five different colored bed sheets i got from a thrift store & tied them to rope. it takes longer to tie them all than you'd think.

 photobooth #3 was just a vintage quilt i already had.

 photbooth #4 was probably the neatest looking. i got three vintage doors from a recycling center at the dumps for $1 each. they looked great, complete with a metal keyhole! then they were partly covered with pages from an edgar allan poe book. it gave a great effect.

 then i strung up the instant photos for people to take when they leave the party : )

it seemed like everyone had a good time, but i was so tired afterwards. i am more of a "sit-back-&-watch" kind of gal instead of a "life-of-the-party" gal ;)

25 things to do before i turn 26

1. blog more
2. make a zine
3. cook a new dish (almost) once a week
4. lose 20 pounds (8.6 so far)
5. develop etsy shop
6. make a miguel & lina journal
7. make a terrarium
8. bake bread
9. develop 120 film from diana
10. see cameron's accident site
11. go to the austin, tx blogger family meet-up
12. try wearing red lipstick out
13. donate ?% of a paycheck to an organization/charity
14. start a regular exercise routine
15. learn to play tennis
16. enter snickerdoodle cookies into the county fair
17. enter andes mint cookies into the county fair
18. be an extra in a film, tv show, etc.
19. work on relearning spanish
20. bike in a bike-a-thon
21. bike a total of 100 miles (52.7 miles so far)
22. sell my zine at a zine fair or to a distro
23. travel someplace i've never been before (atlanta!)
24. take photo booth photos with miguel
25. help someone anonymously