my new look

hey everyone,

I'm sure you have noticed my new design by now! isn't it gorgeous? ashlyn (creatively you) did such a beautiful job. well, let's take a little tour around!

• first of all I have an accordian sidebar, with my pages
• i now have gorgeous buttons for you to take and share the love
• and i have a guestbook,and I would be honored if you would sign it!

oh, i'm so happy with it.

also I have a surprise I'm working on for you guys! yay!
a huge welcome to my new followers (39 !!) thanks for joining me on this adventure.

and today is National Human Trafficking Awareness Day...
here are a couple facts about slavery today:

• there are 27 millon slaves today
• every minute there are 2 children sold into slavery
• currently there is 200,000 people in slavery in the US
• there are more slaves today than any other time in history

and we are just standing around passing the time of day! 

I say DO SOMETHING

Grace Anna had a really good post on this!

p.s. an adorable giveaway are going on over at Grace's Place.

photo challenges

There are a lot of photo challenges going on right now....

so, naturally I want to enter :)

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entering in Gloria's  photo challenge "bokeh"

entering in lucia etc.'s photo challenge "the little things"

entering in Mary Ann's photo challenge "anything"

102 in 2012 {part 2}

Here is 

{PART 2}

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51. hug people more often

52. be more out going

53. buy more scarves (!!!)

54. buy another hat

55. organize my email account

56. organize my blogger account

57. have a spa night

58. bake something I've never made before

59. leave a comment on each blog I follow

60. memorize a book of the Bible

61. read through the entire Bible

62. post about my favorite movies

63. maybe do some book or movie reviews on here

64. buy/wear a wild color of nail polish

65. learn how to doodle with out stencils (ya, I don't know how)

66. put up a favorite quote in my room

67. go up to someone i've never spoken to and say "hi"

68. reread the entire Anne of GG series in order

69. paint my nails like this

70. make a friend via blogger

71. own a ring

72. take a good family photo 

73. be laughing and crying at the same time

74. post a tutorial on here

75. post a baking tutorial on here

76. curl my hair (and have it turn out)

77. make a cute hair clip

78. do my hair 5 different ways off of pintrest

79. leave a comment on every one of my followers blogs

80. send my friends birthday cards on their birthdays

81. memorize a chapter in Proverbs 

82. make a cheese cake

83. watch a couple new Shirley Temple movies

84. learn how to use makeup

85. wear sunblock (I am speaking from (bad) experiences here, needless to say, I gained quite a few  freckles this last year. :P )

86. go ice skating 

87. listen to Christmas music in July

88. have a picnic at "our" park for photographic purposes 

89. grow herbs

90. go on a walk in the dark

91. wear flip flops every day of the month 

92. get better at design

93. pray more specifically 

94. get an 100% on a Algebra test

95. make something and give it as a gift

96. make a cake roll

97. buy a book off of amazon

98. put a Bible verse somewhere random

99. put a wider variety of color in my closet

100. lose the weight I want to

101. paint my nails with polka dots

102. walk a mile everyday for 2 months

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*whew* That finishes my list for 102 in 2012 

102 in 2012 {part 1}

Samantha at Simple Delights did this over in this post and so I'm going to do it as well. :)

I will post about this as I cross things off of my list..and eventually it will be in my tabs, just like my bucket list is. :)

Ok everyone, here is my 102 in 2012 {part 1}

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So here it goes, 102 things I'm wait to do in 2012

{{PART 1}}

1. know Jesus more closely

2. complete the Project 64 Challenge

3. fill another journal

4. read 200 books

5. learn to paint my nails *keyword* neatly :)

6. exercise more

7. make something off of my diy pintrest board

8. paint my nails like this but with different colors

9. buy a necklace

10. read all/most of Jane Austen's books

11. watch all the Jane Austen movies

12. host a photo challenge on here

13. have my first giveaway on here

14. finish 9th grade

15. memorize Psalm 19

16. learn to sew

17. fill up my quote book

18. go to the Civil War Ball

19. watch Courageous

20. own Courageous

21. wear flowers in my hair more often

22. own a necklace with a camera on it

23. enter some of my photography into our county fair

24. go through my closet

25. have a guest poster(s) on here

26. get a little more creative with my hair

27. get bangs

28. go to a coffee shop with friends

29. complete at least 5 things on my bucket list

30. get the only book I'm missing to finish my Anne of Green Gables collection (Rilla of Ingleside)

31. learn HTML codes

32. stay in touch with people more often (mostly via email)

33. sleep under the stars

34. win a photography contest

35. enter my dinner rolls in the fair

36. have a sunrise photo shoot

37. learn gimp (i'm trying, it's so backward.)

38. read more/all of the Chronicles of Narnia

39. complete NaNoWriMo

40. memorize Proverbs 31

41. paint my nails red

42. write more letters 

43. do a photo shoot in a field 

44. take a picture with really good reflection

45. do this

46. take a photo of a feather

47. get pictures taken of me that I like :O

48. be more patient

49. write thank you notes

50. make someone's day

51. get a mp3 player

{PART 2}will be coming tomorrow...

Happy New Years!

Dear 2011,

You've been a wonderful year, the best year yet... I learned so much, lost so much, and gained so much. 

I laughed, and cried, I prayed and hoped.... 

Here is a quick re-cap:'

 In Febuary, I turned 13.... In May, I gave my life to Jesus....In June and July, I did school like crazy...In August, I started up this blog...In October, found out that this happened....In November, I learned a big personal lesson, and in December, well, I realized God has answered so much of my little prayers that weren't really that important, and yet He cared enough to answer them...

it's a New Year, and I'm a new person, all things from the past are in the past, I'm walking forward with high hopes, big dreams, and lots of prayers...

farewell, 2011

 it is a New Year, and that means (of course) change. But this is all good change...

to start with:

1. I'm getting a new design, and it will be up soon, not exactly sure when, but soon, and I promise you...it's pretty awesome. :)

2. I'm going to be doing project 64 this year. It is a challenge thats 64 weeks, but it isn't a big of a bite as the 365 photo challenge is. P-64, is a challenge that goes through a box of crayon and you take 1 photo a week of the certain color. If that doesn't explain it, you can read more about it at their website. Anyways, once a week I will be posting my photo on here. 

3. I will also be doing an idea I found on pinterest, what you do is take a jar/basket/container and throughout the year write down special things that happened on a piece of paper and then put them in your jar. Then on New Years Eve, you get to take them out and read them... :)

4. And last but definatly not least, I'm going to do something called 102 in 2012, which is a "bucket list/resolutions  for 2012". I'll tell you more tomorrow.

And I have chosen a word to represent my year....
hope

My 102 in 2012 list is coming tomorrow!

Happy New Years, dear hearts!!

(hope you'all had a great Christmas!!) And yes, I'm late on all my photos, so I'm not going to post them.) 

p.s. I guest posted over Struggles of a Maybe Teen Author yesterday (here)
And yep, *check* #20
p.p.s: scheduling on blogger is so cool
p.p.p.s: I'm entering into this photo challenge

with these photos

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