It's your day!

To my best friend, Allison, on her 17th birthday.....

Hey dude! Yay! It's your birthday, and you're 17!! Sheesh. We're old. :) I just wanted to say that you are the best friend a girl could have! You're so much fun, and I love how you go right along with me when I want to randomly burst into song and dance in totally public places. I love how you know every single word to every song that may happen to pop into my head at those moments! I love how you can choreograph impromptu dance moves to "Don't stop believing", and, even though they may be super silly and not the least bit flattering, you do them with all your heart! :) I love that you embrace that no one can sing " Eye of the Tiger" well, and so just belt out the words in all your off-key glory.{Y'all know I'm doin' it right along with her!} I love that we can have a totally unplanned photo shoot in your back yard, and you always look fantastic! I love that we can talk about anything for hours, even if it's stupid and WAY teenage girl.

But most of all, I love that you are my friend!


O.k. Enough gooshey. Are you ready to sing? Get your voices ready...Here we go!..........

HAAAAAAAPPPPPYYYYY Birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to ALLISON!!!
HAAAAAPPPPYYYY BIIIIRRRRRRTTTTHHHHDDDDAAAYYY TOOOOO YOOOUUUU!!!!!!!!!

And many more..........

Do you know what day it is?

It's the 119th birthday of the ice cream sundae, and this is how google chose to celebrate!


Cute, right? But, of course, such a momentous occasion deserved a bit more celebration than this, so I hopped and skipped my way over to polyvore {ice cream cone in hand} and made this!

Happy birthday ice cream sundae!! May you have many more like it!!

My birthday

Friday was, as I'm sure most of you know, my 17th birthday!!!! I was in a play, ate super yummy pizza with friends, and got A TON OT PRESENTS!!!!!!!!!!! O.K. I'm good.

My hoard

From my parents:
Black stretchy belt-forever21
dark chocolate milky way bar-heaven{I'm pretty sure}
Forever21 gift card
A day at the spa for manicures!!!! what?!

From my Aunt:
A ton of button covers{that tiny blue cameo is one of them}
A purple flower pin
A heart necklace with matching earrings

From my friends{who also happened to eat the super yummy pizza with me}:
Three packages of really cute rubber stamps!

I think the picture on my gift card is really great!!!

Later that day, mom took me to the mall,{more specifically, forever21} and I bought this pocket watch....with money to spare. I love forever21

Those same friends who ate pizza made me this card. It's a pride and prejudice card with a Zakk and Adam twist

The front reads "From Pemberly Estate. Deliver to Erin{and them my last name, which you don't need to know}

Opening the card, I found a gangsta version of Mr. Darcy. The inside reads "Dah-Cy sez happy Buthday!!!!!" Oh, my word. I laughed so hard at that.

The signatures. Yeah.

Christmas Carol update..........

I had my first show yesterday{and my birthday, but I'll get to that later} It was for the school kids, and a couple homeschoolers that I know came, and they all, including my mom, somehow got front row seats!!!{Which is pretty amazing, considering most of them didn't buy tickets until Wednesday} My mom took a picture of a little girl that I babysit, who came to the show with her mom and her brother. She's about 3, and my mom swears she didn't move from her spot depicted below the entire hour{the regular show is two hours, but they shorten it for the school kinds}

Look at that. Isn't that the cutest thing ever? My mom actually asked me "Could you feel Hannah Staring at you? Because she had laser beams coming out of her eyes!!" That made me feel really good, that she enjoyed it so much.

......going on seventeen

Today is the last day I will ever be able to sing this song truefully, so I have been belting out the tune all day!!!!! In case you maybe aren't from America, or have perchance been inhabiting a cave, or some other dreary place without television, and don't know the song, I thought I'd share it with you. Liesle sounds a bit dreadful in this version, but, believe it or not, it's the only one I could find that wasn't a high school production!!! Imagine!!

Happy Thursday!!!!

~Erin

Tech week

It's nearly the end of tech week for Christmas Carol!!! I'm so excited! Tomorrow is not only the first show, it's also MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Woot woot!!

Anywho, I thought I'd share a couple pictures from the past couple days of rehearsals.{For more, visit Allison's blog}

I'm going to start off with my stage makeup transformation. It's pretty gaudy.

I suppose you can't see MUCH of a difference, but I think the eyes, definitely look strange!!!{BTB, my hair in the before shot, AMAZING!}

Hannah and her little sister, Heidi

Ah, Maddie. She's such a ham!

Allison's costume

That's all I have for now, but I'll be sure to take more tonight, and on the show nights, as well! Until I write again!

~Erin

A hat

So, Christmas Carol is only a few short days away! Six days, to be exact.{Let's pause while the author goes off by herself and happy dances to "Party in the USA"}

O.K. I'm back. Anywho, so the hat that the theatre provided for me was, well, atrocious. To put it lightly. It had a purple sparkly pointsetta, for crying out loud!!!!! So, knowing me, the only thing to do was to make my own!!!! And, to my utter surprise, it WORKED!!!!{Can I get a woot, woot?!....Andybody?...........Bueler?} But, back on track.........I took TONS of pictures, and decided to make a picture tutorial as a way to show my hat, AND, you'll get to make one, too!! How SWEET is that?!?!?!

You ready to get started? Well, O.K. then! {If you don't care about making an 1840's bonnet, and just want to see the finished product, scroll down to the end. But why would you want to do that?}

Supplies:
Straw Hat
Ribbon{At least enough to tie around your neck}
Hot glue gun
~optional~
Trim
Fabric

This is the pretty trim I used

We are attempting to achieve this general design.

Step 1: Draw the desired shape onto the outside of your hat. Then cut.
{tip: put the hat on your head, figure out where your ears are with it on, and start your line from there}

Step 2: Now, determine how big you want your brim to be, and then cut it down to size. {My brim is slightly smaller than I would probably have made it otherwise, but, because I'll be on stage, I don't want it to shadow my face.}

Your hat should look something like this, if you have followed the steps up until now.

Step 3: optional Cover your hat with some kind of fabric. I used red velvet, but it really doesn't matter what kind you use. Hot glue your fabric in place.

Step 4: Optional Hot glue trim around the head part of your hat, or wherever you want it. {Another good place is on the edge.}

Step 5: Optional Make 8 little bows out of your ribbon, leaving enough for the fastening ribbon around your neck. Hot glue six of them around the inside rim of your hat.
Now, if you want your hat to look like mine, you're going to need roughly 3 yards of ribbon{length varies on amount of bows/size of hat}

Step 6: Optional Take the last two little bows, and hot glue them in the outside corners of your hat. {They should hid the ends of your trim, if you put any on}

Step 7: Take your remaining ribbon and cut it into two even strips. Then, hot glue the ends so that they won't fray. Sew them to the edge of your bonnet, or hot glue them, if you don't sew.

And voila! You have a SUPER cute 1840's bonnet!!!!!! And you made it all yourself!!!!

Experiment with different shapes of straw hats, or styles of bonnets, and send me the pictures, or links to your blog posts about them! I would simply LOVE to see your creativity!!!

Happy Saturday!

~Erin

Quick update....

In case no one noticed..........................................


ONLY 16 DAYS UNTIL MY 17th BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!