Crafty Miss

In my last post I talked about adding little touches to my home. I've been focusing on that lately and have made some solid progress.

I went to the thrift store and got a couple little treasures:

 I love my new jars! I have a serious thing for blue glass and I love how this is a Canadian Mason jar. I think I'll use it to put little notes in all year so that I can read them next new years eve and reflect on how wonderful of a year it has been. 

Also I found a record and it was suchhhh a good find because look what's on it:

I have loved this song for years. So beautiful. Good old Cat Stevens.

Also I've been mighty crafty these days!

I've slowly amassed a number of owls in my living room...well, owl decorations! I just love them! My mom brought this wrapping paper home and I thrifted two of these frames and painted them black forever ago. It looks so good and now I can't wait to hang them. Fits perfectly with my living room!

According to the dollar store it is time to decorate for Valentines day so I will oblige! I love my garland of love

And finally me and my momma made a couple of these in preparation for my sisters baby shower this weekend

Her bow is much more beautiful but I like the baby one better! Good news is that I get to keep both of these. P-retty

Here's the most important news of all: I ORDERED A MACBOOK TODAY!!! You actually have no idea how exciting this is to me. It's going to take seven whole business days to come (BOO) but boy am I excited. I don't even know how long it's been since I wanted a macbook. It's actually sad how many times I've sat down and tried to figure out how I could afford one or bugged my family to get me one. It didn't work. Finally I just decided to grow up and get it myself. I now owe Apple $1,500.00 over six months (ouch) but I will do it. I'm a little stressed seeing as I also owe my mom $500.00 from when I lost my iphone in November and had to get a new one but I get my tax return soon and plan on making a serious budget plan. Most importantly: I WILL HAVE A MACBOOK SOON! I can't even believe it. So friends, this is one of the last few times I'll be sitting here on old faithful (and by faithful I mean crappy...slowest computer ever that doesn't even play dvds because it's effed).

Say bye bye:

That's all for now. I need to go get some reading done before I meet my mom and stepdad for Ben Tahn (BEST thai EVER) and then I'm taking Jordan to see Gangster Squad tonight. Also...no school tomorrow. Best mood ever.

xoTaylor

Pinterest Lovin'

I've been obsessed with pinning home inspirations these days. I keep looking on blogs and noticing so many little details in people's homes and wanting to have that care to each corner in my home as well. I hope to get to some thrift store soon so I can over time amass the little trinkets that will make my home special.

Here's some inspirations for my pinterest page:

Me and my mom have talked about redoing my kitchen. I am obsessed with the idea of getting a butchers block counter and screwing in spots to hang mugs. I'm also trying to convince her to let me chalkboard all of the cupboards!

How gorgeous is this kitchen. The blue makes me swoon

This is happening in my bathroom. I'm not sure how but my medicine cabinet will send me morning messages!

I love this set up from the plates, to the chair, to the beautiful clutter

These are the beautiful details I'm talking about. I love the old bottles and vintage books. I hope I can collect a dreamy set of knick knacks myself one day

Well pals that's all for now. I think this weekend I will get my butt to the store and buy some hooks for the hanging mugs. Can't wait to start adding more little touches to my home. 

My Man

I had to come and share this photo from the weekend with you guys. It just makes me smile. This is me being a human scarf. We're silly like that.

This December Jordan and I celebrated our three year anniversary. It feels so crazy to even think that I've been with someone this long. He's so amazing to me. Incredibly kind, silly, hilarious and strong are all words that could describe Jordan. I love him and if all goes well we will move in together when the time is right (read: when we are both done our schooling and have saved a decent amount for a down payment). I can't wait to get a tiny little fixer-upper with him and spend the days up to our eye balls in renovations. I may be getting ahead of myself here but I'm just saying I'm glad to have him as a constant in my life and I can't wait to see what the future will hold.

This post is to alllll the lovers out there (say this in a radio announcers voice- it's cool, trust me)

xoTaylor

Back to the Daily Grind

Today is my first official day back to work. I do not like work very much. I spend a lot of my time trying to sneak peeks at blogs and lusting secretly over pinterest boards in between doing my work. I am however, very lucky to have my job. I work as a secretary and since I work for my mom and stepdad, my job is pretty secure. They understand if I need to move my work hours around and sit down with me each semester to help plan around my schedule. Oh and I don't make minimum wage here. It's super nice, especially when I'm making full time cash in the summer. I do hate my boring old job and sometimes it feels like a place of unwanted stress but all in all I'm pretty blessed.

Another reason to be happy? My schedule this semester seems to suite me pretty nicely. I find a lot of happiness in getting to relax. Who doesn't? But I enjoy relaxing the most during the day time when everyone else has gone their separate ways and I can be alone without the pressures to visit with anyone. Does that make sense? Also I am NOT a morning person. I do like getting up at a decent hour to get things done but I really enjoy sleeping in a little and having a little time to spare before getting to work or school. Early schedules do not allow for this but my new one does! Almost every day I start around one pm (or later- woot) and so I get to make myself a nice breakfast and relax before getting to my day. It's awesome. Today I went to the gym, came home, made some lunch and smoothie and then lazed around a bit before work. So nice.

Tonight I need to seriously think about doing some readings...which I don't want to. I'm supposed to work until 9 but my stepdad said we could leave at 8. Yussss. So maybe I'll put that time to good use. I also have some purging I need to do in my closet. I'm such a clothes hoarder.

Well kids, I think I've typed enough to last you for the the day (probably more).

Count your blessings

xoTaylor

It's That Time of Year Again

Today was my very last first day of a semester. It was excited but mostly exhausting. I'm not gonna lie, I'm already completely over this semester. You know when you have a long time off of school and you come back all ready to use your new notebooks and make vows to stay up on your reading? Well I do plan to stay up on my reading but I feel zero excitement. Winter break is not long enough. I think that's why we have a reading week this semester, so we don't completely lose it.

I didn't have class until 2:30 so I got to laze around in the morning and I made me and Jordan smoothies and bagels for lunch. That was nice. School wasn't too bad. I had a class from 2:30 to 4 and one from 5:30 to 8:30 but we got out at 6:30 (awesome!). My books were super heavy though and the girl at Starbucks didn't type in my coffee and I didn't notice because I had a water and a bistro box so I stood around for about 5 minutes giving the barista who was ignoring me a look of death before I did the math and realized my drink was never put in so I stormed off and grabbed a cup o joe from Second Cup. Such is life.

The good news of this semester is that I only have class today and then class from 11:30 to 4 on Wednesday and then two online classes. Rad. I work Tuesdays and Thursdays so Fridays are all mine.

Good luck fellow book worms. 12 weeks left and counting.

xoTaylor

Jamaica

So the time has finally come to share my vacation with you! 

I mentioned earlier that it was crazier than we ever expected and it sure was. You might be confused that this post is entitled Jamaica when I was supposed to go on a cruise and go to Florida. That's why this was so crazy!

On the 21st my mom, stepdad and I left the house at 4am to head off to the airport and get to our cruise. We checked in and when we were going through customs we got stopped. They asked us to go all go to a separate area because something came up on the computer when they scanned my moms passport. After a lot of waiting they told my mom she wasn't allowed to fly because when we moved home from the states 10 years ago, because my Dad's visa expired and we still didn't have citizenship, her and my dad were supposed to turn in their visas but instead threw them out because they didn't know any better. Because my mom and stepdad have a condo in Florida they were afraid my mom was trying to go live in the states without permission. Apparently it was amazing to them that she hadn't been stopped before. It was pretty heartbreaking. All of the things I had been so excited to do flashed before my eyes. My mom and stepdad sat down and told me that my mom couldn't go but if I still wanted to that my stepdad and I could go on the cruise and meet Jordan in Florida after. Of course I chose to stay home. I couldn't imagine the vacation without my mom and would never let her spend the holidays at home alone. After we got home (at 7am) I went to sleep and my mom and David got to trying to cancel everything and get our money back. They cancelled a lot of things and got us vouchers for what we couldn't and booked a trip for me, Jordan, my mom and David to Jamaica over the new year and that is how we ended up in Jamaica. (wow that was a lot to type).

So, without further adieu, here are the pictures of our wonderful and completely unexpected trip

 Handsome man on our way to Falmouth (a historic town about 30 minutes from our resort)

 This is Falmouth- there was nothing to see but we walked around for an hour anyways

 

 There were SO many poor stray dogs and I had to resist the urge to bend down and pet their sad faces

 

We are really weird...but I like it

The trip was the most relaxing time I've ever had on vacation. I literally parked my butt on a beach chair every single morning until lunch, took a nap after lunch, grabbed a little more sun time, had dinner and then played games with the family over drinks every.single.day. SO nice. All inclusive is the way to go if you want to live in a world where it feels like you are the king. Everything is "free" (by which I mean you've already paid for it but you get to walk around the resort and anything you want is yours- so much food eating occurred this way).

So that was my vacation. I spent new years eve sipping strawberry daiquiris and playing UNO before me and Jordan kissed in the resort square at midnight while confetti and balloons fell around us. Pretty perfect.

Hope you enjoyed my very long tale of vacations lost and found.

xoTaylor 

I'm Back

I am back from my vacation!! It was pretty wild and completely different that we had ever planned but it all worked out and I got to relax in the sun! Amazing!

I have so much to tell you guys but I want to upload my pictures first so you can really see. It may take a day or two so be patient with me. We got back Saturday morning at 3am and then I spent the afternoon with Erika and her family doing a wonderful hike through the forest. So beautiful. After that I had dinner with my family and then Erika and I went to Toronto to see Shauna and meet up with a few people. We had so much fun last night laughing and dancing in this bar. I, always the boring one, chose not to drink so I could drive get into my own bed at the end of the night but I still had so much fun being silly with my best friends. Erika and I got home at 4 this morning so I am yet to get out of my pajamas yet today. I did however make myself a wonderful breakfast featuring a strawberry, banana, kale and flax seed smoothie. Try it out. Seriously.

I`m so glad to be back home and can`t wait to share my vacation with you.

Hope everyone had a very happy holiday season and hope you guys are still keeping to those new years resolution! I haven`t had any diet soda yet AND have seriously curbed the chocolate eating. Yay me.

Bye for now blog pals

xoTaylor