Cartwheels and Pearls

I'd like to wish each and every one of my amazing followers a merry christmas and heck, even a happy new year! Tomorrow morning, bright and early, I embark on a journey. or a roadtrip. You can call it either one. I've bee SUCH a bad blogger lately. I've been super busy lately but how about a few pictures? I found a Canon EOS Rebel T3 underneath the Christmas tree. I guess Santa really knew what I wanted. Or maybe it's a coincedence that there's $250 missing from my bank account. And the same amount from Mom and Dad's. Hmmm. Nawww. Anyway, I found it on sale at Target on Black Friday for around $500 including a case for free which is normally at least $40. And now for some photos to make things exciting:


Now it's time for church. You know, the lovely candle light services where all we do is sing amazing christmas songs and I always cry. Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last year where I almost lit a girl's hair on fire. Whoops! When we get back, I'll be sure to share some of my recent creations which does include food. That's something I don't want to talk about right now. Imagine a table FULL of cookies. Then a homemade (authentic!) Mexican buffet. Then imagine that table of cookies again. That's how I feel. Be sure to throw in a cup of coffee, a coke, and a bottle of water. I'll probably have to pee about 10 million times during church. GREAT.
Anyway,
Merry Christmas!

Over at I {heart} Naptime, there's a GREAT giveaway going on! They're giving away a Silhouette Cameo! Go check it out and enter!

Hello. I'm Margaret and I'm a pinaholic.
Yes, it's true. I'm addicted to pinterest.
It's amazing though.
You really can't resist it.
You can find me here or on the sidebar.
Follow and I'll definitely follow back.
Request an invite if you're not already on pinterest.
You don't know what you're missing.
It's seriously inspiring.
It makes me want to put my outfits together fashionably or even... clean my closet. GASP!
Not everything I try actually works out but I usually have fun.
Get on pinterest.
Now.
What are you waiting for?

 We decided to pull out my old leotards. Let's just say I wore them when I was in 3rd/4th/5th grade. So like 4-6 years ago. They still fit. Perfectly. It's sad that I haven't really grown.
Ignore my sister's uh lovely comment at the end there.

Maybe I'll study? or maybe not.

It was my first ever homecoming last night. It was pretty fun I guess. Of course, going to a Catholic school means there's a lot of rules of how we're supposed to dance. They were obviously pretty much all broken.

I just found the best iced mocha recipe at Coffee and Tea Warehouse. 

 Thankfully I was wearing my PJ's and not something I actually cared about.
 It's nights like these that I love having a backyard.

Today is the last day of Summer! That means....

I've been loving the hair series that has been going on over at Eisy Morgan. What about you? I usually opt for my hair down all the time. On occasion, I'll twist my bangs back. Sometimes I'll where headbands or hair clips to change things up. It doesn't usually help. For practice, my hair is always in a pony tail. Yuck. Two pony tails doubled up, my bangs twisted to the side with two clips and then the other pieces that didn't quite make it clipped to the other side. I usually also wear a thick headband over it. So the moral of the story is, I'm boring. I can't really french braid my own hair other than my bangs and I never have the patience to straighten my hair or curl it. I've been loving her hair series a lot.

Well anyway, at her link party features, I found a link to a tutorial by Raising 4 Princesses. It was for a gorgeous braided up do. Let me just say, on her, it looks amazing! When it tried it.... yeahh....
I did it on my little sister and I'll just let you see the results. Please don't laugh.
  Front
 Side...
 Back...
 Other side...
She has layers so it was a little tough. I tried this on myself and got similar results.
Don't laugh at this either.
 It actually looks semi good from the front...
 This side looks okay...
And yeah. No. This is not a style that will be worn out into public. Now go visit Raising 4 Princesses. Her blog is so cute!
 I'm off to a corn roast. Sounds fun huh? It's a school event. We'll see how it goes.

It's not very good but it's a start. I'm not a big fan of that shade of yellow but everything else was too greenish. Urg.  What else am I supposed to do while procrastinating Summer Spanish? More to come hopefully.

I now present... a real life CRAFT Post! Woot woot. Haven't seen one of those around here in a while.
As I was scouring thru pinterest, I came across a few posts pins about a Hex Nut Braided Bracelet. I'd seen similar version before but none really sparked my interest. This one did!
I decided to brave the garage...

 There are drawers and drawers of neatly marked bits and bobbles. Wish my craft room was this organized.

 The first drawer I found contained some oddly shaped nuts.


 The second one had some greater results.
 As you can see, those nuts are very dirty. How about we substitute rusty for dirty and keep things G Rated here. I looked for something to clean them and stumbled upon this mystery closest.
 I grabbed something that seemed like it would work and ran back inside.

 I grabbed my yarn, cut three one yard pieces and started braiding.

 I realized my hex nuts were a little bigger than what they had used.
 and they refused to stick to hot glue to keep them in place.
 I braided one inch sections
  And wallah!
It's heavy and awkward and will very likely rarely ever be worn. Either way, I'm proud of myself :)