The Adventure Of Moving

Last year in June, I moved from one state, one I've lived in for my whole life, to another state....Fourteen hours away.
I'm starting this story on a Friday, a dark and cold night, I just got out of my youth group, which ended at 10:30, this will be my last time, I put down all my souvenirs and gifts from my friends in the grass, as soon as they hit the ground I was being bombarded by hugs, I didn't know if I'd ever see these people again, after all, we were moving, the next day, soon, after all the hugs and good-byes, by mom came to pick me up, and take me home, for the last time, I'm trying to stop the tears from coming down my cheeks, there's a big lump in my throat...But wait, my mom's phone rings, it's my friend's mom, she invited us to go to Stake'N'Shake with them, we had a grand time, we got some shakes, ate spicy peppers, and yelled "LIGHTING!!!" when ever lighting would strike. It was 12:30am when we got home, I went downstairs to go to the computer, my friend had wrote her email on my hand, and I wanted to email her, but the computers, were gone, packed up. I brush my teeth and go to bed exhausted from all the fun and bittersweet moments that happened that day.

All of a sudden, I am waken up by the sound of boxes being stacked and tape being ripped, "What's going on? It's only 8:30...Why am I up?"
I hear a strange whisper, "Is anyone in here?" a worker asked my brother, he said "yes, my sister is sleeping." well...At least I think he said it...I could've been dreaming...
I got up, got dressed in the bathroom, and started packing. Soon we were putting stickers on furniture, packing boxes with shoes, getting ready for the long drive ahead of us.

The ride was long, but it wasn't too bad, most of the ride I slept, and read, we stopped occasionally to let my dog out and go to the bathroom, and to fill up on gas, but eventually, and midnight, we arrived, at our new house? No, not yet, we're spending the night at our friend's house.
The next day we got up, my mom, one of my brothers and I, went back in the cramped van full of a bunch of...Stuff...My dad, and my other two brothers drove separately.
Soon we stop at a coffee shop, there's internet there, my mom is in there for about two hours...
And at last, we're in the city I'll be living in, and we arrive at our house, my dad and my brothers are already there, I look around, go into my room, not as big as I suspected it to be, but, it'll work. :)
We only have one rocking chair, a couch, and an air mattress for furniture, I slept on the couch cushion, it was a very tiring day...

Life with few entertainment systems and very few furniture is pretty fun! We would sit on the floor and watch movies on my brother's Xbox.

Overall, it was a bittersweet, fun adventure.

~Nana

Friendship bracelets

Recently learning how to make friendship bracelets I am now hooked. I've ranged from making bright happy colored bracelets to a little bit more sophisticated. (As shown) Happy Saturday! -Nilly

Art journal

This is my art journal (not extremely artistic) artistic isn't what I am going for, I'm trying to capture the texture if life (hence fuzzy pipe cleaners, tissue papers, water colors, bleeding ink, glitter and stitching... I literally ripped pages and sewed them back together.) I left raw edges, my journal is beyond imperfect its terrible but it captures the most important thing it can. It captures myself among its pages...
-Nilly

Beautiful things

It's amazing how easy it is to find beautiful things.. You just have to find the beauty! There's beauty in an old embellishment button because it holds a story... There's beauty is sunset.. Lets face it there's beauty in all!
-Nilly

Song Title/Lyric Art

Today I made this

Just normal "Made To Love"?
Look closely.

Inside the letters are the lyrics of the song.
I missed some of the lyrics cause I haven't heard it in a while.
And you can see how I made the letters, I wrote the letters in pencil, wrote the lyrics in pen and then erased the pencil. (Apparently I didn't erase it enough)
This would be really cool with "Forever Reign" or "Lead Me To The Cross".

You can hear Made To Love here.

~Nana

Halloween Adventures!

Halloween, between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, a day where kids go dressed up as characters and go house to house asking people for candy...What's not to love?
This year I handed out candy at a friends house, and usually when people hand out candy they say "Take two" or "Happy Halloween!!" Or some (rarely) say "trick." And close the door.
But not me, when I handed out candy to the kids I said "Merry Christmas!!" The first time I said it was out of habit, every time I give someone something I say "Merry Christmas!" I didn't realize I said it, til after I said it...The kid got a kick out of it though, and so did my friend! Soon my friend and her mom were telling me what to tell the kids, Happy Birthday, Happy Valentines Day, Happy Veterans Day (true story).
And as if it wasn't weird enough...I had a heart painted on my head...

Kids: "Trick or treat!!"
Me: "Happy Birthday!!" *Gives candy*
Kid: "Thanks!-Wait, what?!"
Me: "It's your birthday!! Congratulations!!"

The looks on their faces were priceless.

Those kids will probably remember me forever...Well, maybe not, but they probably told their parents about it! ;)


Merry Christmas!! (Happy Halloween!)

~Nana

Bubble art.

So I got bored, and made my own bubbles (3/8part corn syrup, 3/8 part dish soap, and 1/4 water) and put food coloring in the bubble mix and blew on the page! These are the results of my venture :)