diy: Christmas tree

A couple of weeks ago there was a big storm at my parents home in Mesa. It blew a ton of branches off of a huge tree they have in the backyard. Charlie Brown and my mom inspired me to make use of these branches and turn them into an apartment sized Christmas tree!


I simply stripped the branches of their leaves and then spray painted them. I only used two branches for my tree since they were both pretty large. I originally planned to do them both entirely white but then I ran out of white spray paint. So, I decided to do the last half of one of the branches in gold. After only about two hours of work, I now have a cute, little, free Christmas tree for my apartment!






I am also in the process of hanging the little snowflakes on my bookshelves for added charm.

Aside from the little bit of Christmas decorating I have been attempting, I have been working 70 hour weeks which has not been great for my health. (let alone that I work with a bunch of sick little kiddos) so this week I came down with the stomach flu. but lucky for me i have some of the best friends in the world! my friend Doni, brought me over some early get well/Christmas presents. isn't she the best?!

inside these packages were, homemade chicken noodle soup, pedialyte and some other remedies to get me feeling better.
and for my Christmas gift...she got me a Hogwarts beanie and scarf!! as well as an adorable coin purse from etsy! (did I mention that tomorrow Doni and I hop on a plane to Florida to visit the WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER?!!?!?)not your typical vacation for two 22year old girls, BUT it is perfect for nerds like us. I realized that when we are together we either like to do things that would only attract the age group of 55 and older, or 5 and younger. along with HP world, we will also be visiting Universal Studios, Disney World, and Epcot! I have never been to Florida so I am so excited to see all these places. plenty of pictures and stories to come when we return!

sometimes we Fall

Doni and I decided to have another go at a festive autumn day. This time we drove out to Wilcox Arizona to visit Apple Annie's. The weather was unusually warm that day but it was perfect for harvesting. At Apple Annie's they have so much to choose from! We got to do the corn maze, pick sunflowers, pick fresh produce, and go down to the orchard where we saw a herd of deer run past!, and we picked Asian pears and apples! They have peaches as well but they were out of season. Since we went on a weekday the hay ride was not running but it also meant we had the whole place basically to ourselves.. including the fudge kitchen :)

This post is going to be complete overkill on the pictures, but the good thing about that is they are all self explanatory so you don't even need to read the text!



Half of the sunflower field had died but I loved how one seemed to flourish.


the bee's and I had the same taste in sunflowers, I eventually had to surrender and go for my second favorites.