HAPPY FRIDAY!

Yesterday I spent the day cleaning my room and bathroom. Since I'm now done with school I have more time on my hands to get organized! My room was a wreck! I cleaned out my closet, under my bed, drawers, and organized my new book shelf my parents gave me for the birthday! I'm so proud of myself...I arranged my closet by winter clothes, dresses, pants, and shirts! Next week I hope to tackle my kitchen and living room closet! Here are some before and after pictures! Don't laugh!

Before

  
After

Doesn't it look much better?!

Last night I went out with my friend Katy to Johnny Carinos to eat Italian food! It was fun! Katy is an education major too...she is doing Senior Methods (which what I was in this past semester) in the Fall!

  Katy and Me

After dinner with decided to go see The Backup Plan with Jennifer Lopez! It was perfect because there was a showing right when we got to the theater. I loved the movie...it was super cute and hilarious!

 Hope y'all have a good Friday!

It's 5 o'clock Somewhere!

THANKS EVERYONE FOR THE COMMENTS ABOUT MY APT. ON MY LAST POST!!

So this is my last week before school starts. :( I am trying to relax and have fun before I start going to class everyday and having to studying. I am so not looking forward to it! However, I do like being on a schedule...for some reason I always feel better when I am on a schedule. I guess I feel like I get more accomplished. Today my friend Natalia moves back to College Station...she is moving into a duplex that is like 2 minutes from my apartment so that will be nice!

I think I am going to re-paint the red above my cabinets. I feel like it looks like a daycare...Ha! My decorations look so dull up there now....they just kinda blend in with the red paint. I think in the next month I am going to paint it the goldish tan color too.

But I LOVE the red wall now....I think it looks great. Yesterday I was finally able to hang some pictures onto it. I think it looks really Retro. What do ya think?


Do ya'll understand the picture...it took me awhile! HA!
Have ya'll ever heard the Jimmy Buffet song It's 5 o'clock Somewhere? Well the stars/moon up at the top of the picture represent somewhere and the clock in the left corner says it's 5 o'clock. Isn't that not the cutest thing? I hung my red clock above the picture too!

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

Painting Party!!!

Yesterday afternoon my dad came to College Station to help me paint my apartment. I have been wanting to paint my living room/kitchen for awhile now...I am so happy it is finally done! My friend Kristan also helped us...she was such a big help! Thanks so much Kristan! When my dad got here we went to Home Depot to pick out the paint I wanted and to get the supplies. Afterwards we went an ate at Los Cucos....which is my favorite Mexican restaurant here in CS. So...it was after 8:00 before we started painting! Ha! We finished most of it last night by like 1:00...today we just had to do touch ups.

This past summer I added leopard decorations to my apartment for a new look. I decided to paint the walls in my living room a goldish tan color. It turned out GREAT! It matches perfectly!

I really wanted to hang up the cute curtains my Aunt Tina made me this weekend but the curtain rod we bought yesterday did not fit. We went all over town today looking for another rod but all the stores were sold out (this weekend is move in weekend here at A&M....so I'm guessing that's why). I am hoping I can get them up SOON! They are going to look great with my new wall color!

Here are some pictures of my living room before I added the leopard decorations and painted it:

BEFORE:


BEFORE:


NOW AFTER...


Isn't that leopard lamp not the cutest thing? I have been looking for it at EVERY Hobby Lobby and I finally found it yesterday! It was only $14.99 too!!


I decided to paint the wall above the table in my kitchen red. I am not sure if I like or not? I also painted above my cabinets red too. My mom came today to pick up my dad and she is not too sure about it either. What do YOU think? My mom thinks it should be painted the goldish tan color too. (I could not hang a picture on this wall yet because it was still too wet).


Another view:
I am SOOO pleased with how everything turned out! I feel like I live in a new apartment! I am so worn out...I will definitely sleep good tonight!!!!

Cake Balls, Sushi, and Paint Tape - I know RANDOM!!

So my friend Kristan is rooming with me for five days this week since she cannot move into her apartment until Sunday. She needed a place to stay while she was working this week. Kristan absolutely LOVES to bake...I mean this girl would bake something everyday if she could. Her favorite is cake. I told her the TLC show Cake Boss needs to hire her! Ha! She has been wanting to teach me how to bake so the other day we baked Cake Balls. Kristan got the recipe off of Kelly's Recipe Blog and they are soo yummy! They are also SO easy to make....

1st- Pick out any cake mix you want. We chose yellow cake mix.
2nd- Bake the cake according to directions on box
3rd- When the cake is still hot crumble it in a bowl and mix with a can of frosting
4th- Refrigerate bowl for about an hour
5th- Melt almond bark (white or chocolate) into bowl and dip balls into bark

AND YOUR DONE!! THANKS KRISTAN FOR TEACHING ME HOW TO BAKE! HA!

Last night my cousin Caitlin called to see if Kristan and I wanted to come over to her boyfriend Matt's house for awhile. Kristan decided not to go since she was really tired from work and wanted to rest. So I went for awhile...Matt just moved into a new house and it is SO nice! It's not at all the regular college guy's house! Matt had bought some Sushi he wanted Caitlin and I to try. I have never had Sushi before and neither had Cait. We were a little nervous before eating it as you can tell by our faces in the picture below. Ha! It was soo GROSS! We both didn't like it...I think Matt got the Sushi at a supermarket. I have heard before that Sushi is usually better if it is good Sushi? I really do not know what that means? Do ya'll like Sushi....where can you eat good Sushi at?

I got back to my apartment last night at like 11:00 and I was thinking I would probably find Kristan passed out on the couch. But this is what I found when I walked in....

Kristan had surprised me and had taped up my whole living room/kitchen so I can paint it this weekend! I was so surprised....I told her she did NOT have to do that! I felt bad that I was out having fun and she was in here taping up my apartment! I thought she was going to be relaxing and sleeping while I was gone! THANK YOU SO MUCH KRISTAN! This really helped me out a lot for when I paint on Saturday!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! I will post pictures on Sunday of my newly painted apartment!!

I need your HELP and Bachelorette Talk!

I need your help!! Last year when I moved into my apartment I decided to do an orange/red/black theme for my living room. This summer my Aunt made curtains for my living room out of red/leopard fabric that my mom picked out. I think the leopard fabric is going to look great with all my other red stuff! The curtains are short...most of the fabric is red and the tabs are going to be made out of the leopard print.

Curtain Fabric

Next month when I get back to CS I am wanting to paint the window wall for sure in my living room. The question is....should I paint the window wall a reddish color OR a dark tan? At first I wanted to do red...but my mom thinks a tan would look better especially with a black rod. What do you think?!?!

Here is a picture of the window I am going to hang the curtains on. I will probably get a black rod to hang them. I may paint the TV wall too....I haven't decided yet though.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think!!!!

Moving on to The Bachelorette - The Men Tell All:
- I hope Jake is the next Bachelor!! He is so cute and sweet. Some of the guys were really dogging him tonight though!
- Dave is a JERK! Seriously, would you rather marry Dave or Jake?
- I heard that possibly Michael and his twin brother may be the next Bachelors...that would be interesting!
- I cant believe Wes did not show up! He must of been really embarrassed for how he acted on national television.
- Where was REID tonight since he got kicked off last week? It looks like next week at the finale he is going to come back!
-So who will Jillian give the final rose too?

Ed? Those swim shorts were a little too much last week! Ha!
Kiptyn?

Or maybe Reid?

Show Us Where You Live Friday- Black/White Bedroom

Over at Kelly's Korner she does a post every week that's called "Show Us Where You Live Friday". This week is the Master Bedroom tour. I moved into my apartment last August and I decided I wanted to do my bedroom in all black/white. I really like how it turned out!

Hope you enjoy the tour!

View from my bedroom door

I really like my comforter...it's really comfy and doesn't get too hot. I like to be cold at night and in Texas it get's way to hot in the summer! I think I got it at Target/Wal-Mart last year. Sorry I forgot which one! My sheets are black and white pin-stripped.


I bought these cute mirror hangings at Ikea last year

I have had this wicker night stand ever since I was like one year old. It was white but when I moved into my apartment last August my Dad painted black for me! I thought it turned out pretty good! I bought the black and white polka dot candle at Hobby Lobby. And of course on top of my night stand are my People Magazines!

The lamp I bought at Target. My mom LOVES the story behind this lamp. It was marked $80 and we thought that was really high. It's cute...but it looks like it's actually made pretty cheap. So my mom asked the manager about the price and he thought the price sounded really high too. So he sold it to us for ONLY $25!!! My mom always loves good deals!

I bought two black and white picture frames to hang in my room. I believe I got the frames at Garden Ridge. I printed out the photos in black and white too.

I love this little shelf I bought at Target. The picture on the right hand side is one of my senior pictures. I am sitting in a black and white chair shoe. I bought the LOVE sign at Garden Ridge. Isn't that little bag cute? It's just a gift bag....I thought it matched perfectly!


Here are the black and white curtains my Aunt Tina made me! I think they turned out really cute! She just finished making some red/leopard curtains for my living room....I cant wait to see them!

Here is my little study corner. This is where I spend my time studying for school, blogging, and checking my Facebook/Myspace.

Thank you for visiting my blog!

Show Us Where You Live Friday-Living Rooms

Over at Kelly's Korner she is hosting a thing every Friday to show off a room in your house. Last week was the Kitchen Edition and this week is Living Rooms. I live in an apartment in College Station and attend A&M University. I moved in last summer and was so excited about decorating my apartment. I decided to do my living room in red/black/orange colors.

Here is a view from my kitchen of my living room

My mom gave me this bakers rack last Christmas. I love it! Also, I bought those orange/red pillows at Pier 1...it took my mom and I FOREVER to find the perfect pillows to match!
My TV I am so proud of! I bought it with my Vegas money I won last year.

I love this picture! I got it a couple months ago from Garden Ridge.

5:00 o'clock Somewhere


My couch used to be under that flower picture (I got it from Target last year) and the chair used to be under the window. I decided to rearrange it a couple of months ago and I think it looks much better like this! It brings the picture out much more.
I am wanting to paint one of the walls in my living room a reddish color. What wall do ya'll think I should paint? The one where the chair is, where the window is, OR where the TV is?

Show Us Where You Live Friday-Kitchen Edition!

Over at Kelly's Korner she's doing a Show Us Where You Live Friday- Kitchen Edition. Here is my kitchen at my apartment. I'm in college at Texas A&M University so I don't have a too fancy kitchen...but here it is!!