Blogger Awards

So one of my new favorite, everyday, down to earth type bloggers Tarleton West gave me the Versatile Blogger award! I’m not to sure what I did to deserve it, but it made me smile all the same to see someone that I don’t really know was interested in my blog!

The requirements upon receiving the award was that you have to write seven things about yourself and then pass on the award to seven other people! Sooo here we go!

1. I live in Oregon, and for the most part I really love Oregon!
2. I live to ride and show my horses, I love my Arabians :)
3. My favorite color is red!
4. I’ll be attending Oregon State this fall!
5. I love Italian food and Chinese food.
6. I have a clothing obsession.
7. I have growing collection of fashion magazines.
8. I love love love to bake!!
9. I love roaming around aimlessly.
10. I like to do all sorts of DIY projects!   

 

Now to pick seven bloggers!

1. Who Does She Think She Is, Madonna?
2. Rendez Fou
3. 2Treasurehunt's
4. Scarfff
5. Stars For Streetlights     

I could only think of Five people I guess that means I fail. Oh well. Hopefully these people see my new blog posts so they see that they won!!

Dorm Room Bliss Pt.2!

So quite a while ago I did a blog on dorm room decorating, and I just thought I’d showcase one of my favorite dorm rooms from one of my favorite new bloggers!

This is Piper Ellice’s dorm room, I kidnapped her dorm room pictures from her personal blog Tarleton West, with her permission of course. :)

The bar has now been set for how I want my little section of the dorm room to look when I move in over the next few days. 8 more days until I move to Corvallis!

Does anyone else have any dorm room pictures they’d care to share?

My Chocolate Chip Gooey Peanut Butter Cookie Mash Up

Ok, so after posting a picture of my fair winning cookies on my Facebook mobile uploads a few people said they wanted my recipe. Just so you know this recipe is rather time consuming, but oh so delicious! These are cookies your grandma would be proud of :)

So First the recipe for the initial cookie:

1 1/4 C. Flour

3/4 tsp. Baking Soda

1/4 tsp. Salt

1/2 C. Butter

1/2 C. Peanut Butter

1 C. Chocolate Chips

1/2 C. Sugar

1/2 C. Packed Brown Sugar

1 Egg

1/2 tsp. Vanilla

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees
2. Stir together flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. In a mixing bowl beat butter, peanut butter and sugars until fluffy.
4. Add egg and vanilla, beat well.
5. Add dry ingredients and beat until well combined.
6. Add chocolate chips

Set to the side!

Now your going to make your filling and topping!

1/4 C. Dry Roasted Peanuts, finely chopped

1/4 C. Granulated Sugar

1/2 tsp. Ground Cinnamon

1/2 C. Creamy Peanut Butter

1/2 C. Powdered Sugar

1. In a small bowl mix the peanuts, granulated sugar, and cinnamon, set to the side.
2. In another bowl mix together peanut butter and powdered sugar until completely blended. Shape into about 1/2in. balls.
3. Take your cookie dough and roll it into about 1in. balls than flatted then with your hand, take the peanut butter/powdered sugar balls and flatten with your hand.
4. Place the peanut butter/powdered sugar flattened ball on top of the cookie dough.
5. Fold the sides of the cookie dough over the peanut butter/powdered sugar center.
6. After you fold the edges and completely cover the center filling, roll the dough back into a nice ball careful not to let the center show.
7. Then take the ball and roll it in the peanuts, granulated sugar, cinnamon mixture.
8. Repeat, repeat!
9. Place on lightly greased cookie sheet. Flatten the cookies with a fork, but not as intensely as you normally would a peanut butter cookie, you DONT want the fork marks to show.
10. Bake for about 8 minuets, if the cookies are a little soft and gooey upon coming out of the oven just let this sit for a few minuets. I used parchment paper so I could just lift the cookies off the sheet to cool and replaced it with another sheet of parchment paper to bake more.
11. After the cookies are completely cool drizzle with melted baking chocolate! This makes them look wonderful, as well as taste even better!

 

So there’s my fair winning cookie recipe! I currently have these cookies at state fair and I should see how they did here real soon!

Let me know if you tried my recipe and what you thought!

Most Wanted.

So I’ve recently stumbled upon some really awesome really awesome items from some of my favorite online stores that I just thought I’d share.

I love these adorable headphones from www.redvelvetart.com $45.00

&& these classy looking boots that I’m pretty sure I’d never actually wear to do any form of outdoor activities in. www.modcloth.com $99.99

Unicorns :) www.modcloth.com $23.99

I love all of Twinkie Chan’s stuff! It all goes so fast though! I really want one of her cupcake scarves! www.twinkiechan.com

I want a new over the shoulder bag, the fact that its Betsey Johnson doesn’t hurt either. www.betseyjohnson.com $117.60

This is another Twinkie Chan scarf & mitt set being under the Yummy You name. I’ve never even had Sushi before, that should be on my most wanted list too.. www.tillys.com $89.99

 

BUT WHAT DO I REALLY WANT??

I really want for someone to re-design my blog for me and make me a new banner, I currently don’t have a good graphics program and graphic design has just never really been my thing on top of that.

Any takers?

Girl Crushes.

After watching 500 Days of Summer I decided I should make a list of all my girl crushes. Do guys have guy crushes? To me a girl crush is not a girl that ya know… In elementary school terms “like, like that”. Its a girl who I find beautiful, dresses well, is an amazing actress (or is wonderful at whatever it is that she is doing), and is just someone I wouldn’t mind trading shoes with for a day.

So first and foremost Zooey Deschanel.

She is just to adorable, I love her hair! Her bangs are always so perfectly placed and she just looks so flawless while remaining so simple looking and of course it wasn’t enough to be beautiful, she had to be an amazing actress and a wonderful singer as well. I love how unique her voice is. If I could honestly trade faces with anyone it would be her. That’s not weird, right?

Moving on.. Dita Von Teese.

She is just so classically beautiful! She’s one of the reasons why I always try to remain pale and fell in love with red lipstick. Amongst my goals of learning how to sew, play guitar and learn how to knit, it is how to get that 60’s-esque hair style!

Kat Von D

One of the things my father always likes to say about people with lots of piercings and tattoos is that they don’t know who they are and that they are trying to create some false sense of identity through their tattoos. And while I don’t believe this at all for the most part, I’m sure it maybe true for some people. One of the things I really like about Kat Von D is that she gives off this vibe of really knowing who she is. For instance she is not the thinnest girl around, fat no, skinniest not exactly, but she wears whatever she wants and she just beams with confidence. A trait I wish I had.

 

So these are my top 3 girl crushes! Do you have any girl crushes whom you look up to for some reason or just think they are gorgeous? And back to my other question do guys have guy crushes? And who?

My Thoughts On… The Last Exorcism

Before you go see this movie you must first ask yourself how much you like disappointment, and how badly do you really want to be disappointed. Now while I wasn’t entirely disappointed with the movie the ending did leave me wanting to drop the “WTF” bomb very loudly. I’m not going to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn’t seen it, however, just know that the ending is totally awful. It’s not like we didn’t see it coming, you find out how the movie ends about as soon as the “REAL” action starts happening midway.

It starts out very slow, giving you the run down on this preachers rise to divine power by age 10, and how by the time he is middle age he just doesn’t believe in the same manner anymore as he once did, because of some traumatic family event..blah blah blah.

It gets a little more exciting in the middle, then a little more towards the end, then it starts to go down hill, and then hill just levels out in a valley of awful, predictable-ness.

One thing I must say that was done right about this movie was the casting of the role for Nell Sweetzer played by Ashley Bell. Its just amazing how they can take a girl so beautiful and just make her look like an absolute train wreck-mess-innocent jail bait-crazy- psychotic-flexible- young lady.

Beautiful "Bell”

Ugly Bell

In her Teen Vogue interviewed she talked about all the crazy yoga she did to get ready for this movie.

All in all there was some moments in this movie I really enjoyed, and some I utterly hate.

What are your thoughts? Have you seen it? Want to see it? Leave a comment!

I <3 Nerds

This year I did all my school clothes shopping almost on Forever21.com and after dropping lets just say quite a bit of money I found a new category on the Forever21 website. Its called Forever 21 Twist I think it just might be the best collection so to speak that Forever21 has come out with thus far.

So… I kidnapped their look book and decided to post it here for all of you who haven’t seen it :)

Pictures courtesy of www.forever21.com

I find all of these looks adorable, the only thing is, is that I can’t see a lot of everyday girls pulling them off. Of course they look wonderful on this stick thin 13 year old boy body model with the pouty lips, but how many of us really look like this? Regardless, I would probably try to pull them off.

All of these clothes can be found here: http://www.forever21.com/category.asp?catalog_name=FOREVER21&category_name=Twist_RevengeOfNerds&Page=all