ombre fail

I love to DIY and most of the time the projects turn out wonderfully, but other times I just fail, I fail miserably. Anyone who keeps up with the latest fashion trends knows that ombre is HUGE! So here is what I did step by step and there will be pictures but I am going to tell you up front that I was less than impressed with the final product. 

SUPPLIES:

- white sweatshirt/shirt/whatever you want to dye

- pink dye/ whatever color you want. 

- a bucket 

- plastic trash bag

- lots of paper towels 

STEPS:

1. I washed and dried my white sweatshirt.

2. Mixed the dye according to the instructions on the bottle. I used Rit dye. 

3. I personally wanted the entire sweatshirt to be shades of pink and not have a weird white looking ring around my neck so I QUICKLY dunked the entire sweatshirt in the dye. 

4. Left roughly 3/4 of the sweatshirt in the dye for 20 minutes.

5. Left the last 1/2 to 1/4 of the sweatshirt in the dye overnight. 

  

AND STOP! Here is where I ran into a problem the dye at the bottom of the sweatshirt did not look as dark and concentrated as I would have liked to I followed the dye directions and washed the sweatshirt and went and bought another bottle of dye but a shade darker than the first and dipped the bottom 1/4 of the sweatshirt in the dye for roughly 30 minutes. Now before I washed it looked great but then I washed it and BAM! the look was gone. So if you have any ideas that could help me fix the problem please let me know.  

Body of work.

I love tattoos, the look, the meanings, the inspiration for each and every one of them is unique and interesting.  I have two tattoos of my own a Harry Potter tattoo on my wrist and an Alice in Wonderland tattoo across the front of my ribs. They both have very special meanings and really describe me as a person. If you can't tell by the origins of both of my tattoos I am a complete nerd. A lot of people think my Harry Potter tattoo is really cool or they think I was really dumb for getting it and I will regret it later. But I am going to tell you why I got this tattoo. Not only is Harry Potter a brilliant series but J.K. Rowling and the characters of Harry Potter have taught me so much and here is a list of what they taught me:
1. Real love does exist and it can be painful, beautiful, fleeting, or long lasting. But when you truly love someone you will love them till the end of time.
2. True friendships overcome social status, differences in opinions, time, and the toughest of hardships.  You are better with them than without them and they will always have your back.
3. Confronting fears no matter how silly or how dark, we are all afraid of something and we can defeat those fears if we only remember to turn on the light.
4. Finding inner strength even when you are at your weakest. Because everyone has something to fight for even if it is just for themselves and no one else.
5. Doing what is right in the face of adversity. Even if everyone else is doing it, you should always do the right thing even if that means you are the underdog. Good people do exist among the darkness and pain.
6.There is nothing stronger than a mother's love.
7. Books can change the course of history.
8. Life is unexpected and complicated but creates the best and deepest relationships.
9. To see the world with an open mind. Judge people for who they are not what they are.
10. Magic exists everywhere, even if its only in your head. But why shouldn't that mean its not real.

Well there you go not only did Harry Potter teach me life lessons but it was my escape during Jr. High and High School when I was being bullied. My mom read me the books when I was younger and as I grew up I was able to run away to the magical world of Hogwarts.

My second tattoo says " Never Lose Your Muchness" which is from the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland. The Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) says " You used to be much more muchier" and it just stood out to me and really spoke to me. So I chose the line Never Lose Your Muchness, which to me means never lose what makes you who you are, and never lose that spark you have inside you. Those are my first tattoos and I plan on adding more to the canvas of who I am. I am going to upload another tattoo I am thinking about getting that I just designed. Not sure when I will be getting it because I want to move off campus with Ryan and get a puppy! I WUV PUPPIES! But any way it is the Moon goddess dream catcher and my name means moon goddess so it is kind of perfect. Well have a great rest of the weekend. Stay classy and stay inked.

Staying chill

Well here we are again ladies and gentleman...
HAPPY BELATED HALLOWEEN!!! I hope you had a great night whether you were just handing out candy or dressed up and partied.  Halloween is my favorite holiday and even though I did not dress up I did have a lot of fun hanging out with my friends in English Corner. We decorated pumpkins and played games. The funniest moment was when we were playing Apples to Apples and the adjective/green card was "sexy" and one of the Japanese girls laid down the noun/red card "Girl Scouts". All the American students could not stop laughing and we had to explain to them that Girl Scouts are little girls who sell cookies. Needless to say they did not see the humor in it that we did but it was definitely a learning experience in the differences in humor across cultures. Then I went to the Steve-O performance and it was hilarious! I mean to die for funny!  Steve-O obviously has one of the funniest and most disgusting job ever. And on the note of jobs...

Have you ever had a job that your absolutely dread going to and it just seems to drag by no matter how busy you are? Well that is how I feel when I am at Sonic, even though I get home kind of early every shift it still seems like I have been there the hole day. And I think that is because I am so used to everything going so fast. For example; it takes seconds to have a conversation with some one on Facebook, Twitter, or text message, we go to fast food places and get our food in minutes, and pretty much everything is live and at our finger tips. Maybe I just need to SLOW WAY DOWN and just let my life come to a chill speed. Get up in the morning, make a cup of coffee sit down and watch the news and actually start to take in what is going on in the world. Speaking of coffee, it may just be me, but I love the way milk or creamer splashes into coffee it just looks so soft and airy. Anyway I think I need to start my days off a little earlier and just let my self slow down and not be in a super hurry. I think we should all slow down and just take time to enjoy each moment because I know that sometimes I get to going so fast I forget when I did something and the days blur together.

On another note, not many people read this blog or even know it exists but apparently my boyfriend didn't even know I blogged. I find this kind of funny cause we tell each other everything and I am actually texting him about it right now cause he went home this weekend. I love him so much and I keep telling myself that I have to work at Sonic for us, so we can live together in a few months and start a life together. I have to keep the goal in mind to get through the work days. Tomorrow will be really hard because I work a 1 to 7 p.m. shift. But like I said I have to think about where I am trying to get. At least I have Saturday off and I can do homework and just chill.

Well it is time for this blogger to get some shut eye. Stay classy and stay chill.

An Idea!

So I am a huge fan of Pinterest and I came across an idea for bloggers to incorporate into their blogs daily or weekly, or monthly, or decadely. You make a list of what you are enjoying, listening to, eating, and etc to kind of give your followers ( which I have 1, super sad face) an idea of how you live your everyday life and get me into the habit of writing more often and such. so here we go.

Currently..
1. Listening: to Erin and I type on our laptops to each other on Facebook. Yes we are those people who prefer to talk back and forth on Facebook as not to offend someone who may walk by or in this case we are talking about the "other" roommate.
2. Eating: I ate a bacon flat bread sandwich and potato soup and it was delicious, thanks for asking.
3. Drinking: Right now I am obsessed with mango smoothies. The just make me feel tropical.
4. Wearing: Uhm this is an odd question... I am wearing black leggings, a white t-shirt, a blue sweater and knock of black glittery Sperrys, which I love greatly.
5. Feeling:  a little anxious and nervous about my first shift at Sonic tonight and a little annoyed with the entire day but things are looking up cause I get to go back to the imaginary state of Nebraska to see la familia.
6. Weather: Mother nature is bi polar or PMSing or something cause yesterday was like 80 degrees then today it just dropped off to like 40 degrees. I just want it to stay at this lovely fall weather so I can wear boots, sweaters, and jeans.
7. Wanting: all this Presidential campaign bullshit to be over with. Personally I am an Obama fan but that is just me and if you want to be a Romney fan that is cool too. We are individuals with our own ideas and wants and goals. But I am ready for it to be over so I can watch Glee on cable again. Also its clogging up my email.
8. Needing: I am needing a giant cup of hot coco/ french vanilla cappuccino, a blanket, and a good movie like Pride and Prejudice starring Keira Knightly
9. Thinking: about fun goody bag ideas to get the English Corner kids for Halloween.
10. Enjoying: the fact that I am laying across this chair and not sitting in it because I am about a million times more comfortable this way.

So there it is. I guess I will try to do this weekly just to keep myself and you all up to date on all the important things in life. Stay classy and enjoy the mixed hot chocolate drink.

Well hello...I'm back

well hello...

I have been away for far too long and i apologize. Between working all summer and trying to make a long distance relationship with my boyfriend, Ryan, who lives in the Kansas City metro, function correctly I have not really had time to do my blog. AND I can honestly say I missed it A LOT! Well what is new in my life you may ask, here is a list.

1. Ryan and I made it through the summer wonderfully. It was really rough but here we are back in college for our second year and have an even stronger bond than before.

2. I added International Studies as my minor and have decided that I want to travel the world and work at National Geographic.

3. I joined a group on campus called "English Corner". It is a group of English speaking college students that team up with English as a Second Language (ESL) students to help them learn English. It has been extremely beneficial to me and culturally and personally enriching. I love those kids so much and they have taught me so much.

4. I have FINALLY learned how to use Twitter and have continued to use it correctly # , @, and all. So you can follow me @cyncreek.

5. The getting healthy thing kind of hit a dead end and I need to start it up again cause well I am just not happy with my body and I know that every one is beautiful and beauty is only skin deep. But my thought process is that if I feel good and look good inside and out then I will feel beautiful. I think that makes sense and well to me it does.

6. I pierced my belly button and I am thinking about doing my nose next. But Ryan likes the little studs and I like the look of the rings. So we will see how that goes.

7. I got a job at Sonic! WOOT WOOT! I start tomorra, I will have to let you all know how that goes. :)

8. I have been reading A LOT! And when I say a lot I mean I have been flying through books and just cannot seem to get enough of them. The only down side to this is that my Kindle broke and the select key will not select, so my electronic library is void to me at the moment. But currently I am reading "Seriously... I'm Kidding" by Ellen DeGeneres. I highly recommend it, not only for a good laugh, cause she is hiiilllarrrious!, but because she has a lot of good advice.

9. I live with three other girls this year and I love two of them and not so much the third. My roommate, Shelby is hilariously honest and kind of the funniest-bitch-you-will-ever-meet kind of girl and she and I are barely in our dorm cause we both have boyfriends. Which gives us something to bond over.  Erin is very, how do I put this, Erin is freggen comical and kind of more reserved than Shelby or I, but once she gets going she is a real comedian and super down to earth and easy to talk with.  And finally the one who does not sit quite right with me. Emily, she is over the top religious about certain things and she is two faced and plays the whole "oh! I am so sweet and innocent and the perfect Christian blah blah blah" and I just do not buy it!  I, for example, am not all the religious of a person and I do believe in aliens and maybe for all we know God, Buddha, Zeus, and the Hindu gods are just having a tea party up there. I don't know and I am perfectly fine with saying that I am not sure what I believe. Also I do not care what religion you are or if you believe that one day we will all turn to mermaids and worship a giant dolphin, I don't care, just treat me and my ideas with respect and I will treat you the same. But she told me NOT to say any of my anti Jesus, atheist stuff, which for the record I made one comment about how the dinosaurs died but she expects me to put up with all her out loud praying and other religious things she does after she pretty much told me I did not have a freedom of religion because I do not believe in God.... BAAAHHHHH!  Any way back to my examples, for example tonight she made a joke about Asgard and Loki and Thor needing to guard their backsides ( you can draw the joke from that I think) also she tries to be all offended by violent things on T.V but comes into the room tonight after playing this game called Humans versus Zombies and says and I quote " I like violence" as she is covered in fake blood. Sorry for the rant, moving on......

10. I should be studying for my Government and Politics class but I am writing on here. It is amazing all the things you can come up with to do instead of studying. Like cleaning, dying your hair, writing a blog entry, watching your boyfriend play Skyrim, decorate for Halloween, eat Taco Doritos and bean dip, and etc etc. You get the point.

Well there you go, you are all caught up with my life. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns leave them in the box below.  Stay classy and try to stay young, growing up sucks. And I will leave you with this final quote.

"You're entirely bonkers, but I'll tell you a secret...all the best people are" - Alice in Wonderland