To The Sister in College

Hey everyone, my sister's name is Kelly, she has always and always will be my best friend. Two days ago she left for college which I was well prepared for. I knew that life was moving forward and me and my sister were moving into an exciting lifestyle with college, and driving, and work. So this was normal, and I was ready for Kelly to head off.

My true fear was that Kelly would be immediately grown up, she would have a boyfriend, she would stop coming home for Christmas, she would move into her own place, and she would feel far more mature than me. But I was wrong, only two days after she left I realized that I would be thrilled for her to have a boyfriend. If she wouldn't come to my Christmas, I would go to hers. If her house was halfway across the country I would fly out there and visit her every so often. I realized that life really does move forward, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. If anything, we should enjoy it.

So Kelly, I don't know if you read my blog but I love you and everyday I think of you and I will continue to forever. I am excited for life to move foreword and I am excited for school to start so I can stop missing you. It isn't like I miss you desperately, I just think of you often and notice your not being here.

PS: The bathroom stays super clean without you :P

200 Favorites!

Help me make it to 200 favorites with my Starbucks DIY Bracelet on CraftGawker. To do this all you need to do is click the heart button on the following link
http://craftgawker.com/post/2012/08/23/36967/

I don't know why I have this goal but I just do! Thanks so much



Other than that, I plan to do my DIY a day soon, for now I need to purchase supplies, and my local thrift store is closed on Sunday :(  Tonight I am making a tutorial for hair curling so look forward to that!

Major Increase

Hey everyone! I found a way to post my tutorial on a website called craftgawker and I am guessing that is what is bringing in all my traffic! I love it! Anyway, this week I am going to do a challenge for myself called "DIY A Day" I am hoping to come up with a DIY for every day of this week starting today. So, be excited and hold onto your panties

I will be posting tutorials

DIY- Starbucks Cuff Bracelet Tutorial

I am a major fan of Pinterest so feel free to repin this!

Fabreze Fabric Refresher

Hey guys, I have yet to find a nice spot for my new bra but, today I would like to talk about Fabreze!

So we have all seen the Fabreze Fabric Freshener commercial where people go into a gross room and think it smells like a nice house because people sprayed the couches with Fabreze. May I just state, I would get a hell of a headache in a room that smell like a gallon of fabreze. I have never tried it so I don't have a real say in how it is, but this is how I think of it.

There was once a chair that was 50ish years old, it came from my grandmother and there is a legend that a wedding ring diamond was lost in the cushions and has yet to be found. Well, today I looked at my sister as she ate a peach on this chair. The peach dripped into the chair and we watched at the stain disappeared. But we both knew that that sticky peach juice was now a part of the chair. That was when I wondered if we could clean it. That led me to think of spraying Fabreze on it, till I realized that that Fabreze would be just like that peach juice. The fabreze would drain into the chair and become a part of it, sticking to the fibers in the chairs cushions. Later more Fabreze would be sprayed and inside the chair the cushion would start looking foamy and the cushion would slowly get thinner and thinner as the fibers stuck together when sat on.
That is my take on Fabreze Fabric Refresher, like I said, I have not tried the product but I have reason not to.

Soon I will hopefully have a tutorial on how to make a Starbucks bracelet, so stay tuned

New Bra Deserves It's Own Drawer

Hey everyone! I am proud to say that I have made it to over 100 views! Yay! I am thrilled. Anyway, yesterday I went shopping and found a new bra. Bra shopping is quite the challenge because you have to try them all on and it takes for ever. I usually do my bra shopping at target but yesterday i was at Nordstroms. Nordstroms is very fancy and it's bra department was very butiful.

At Nordstroms I grabbed several nice bras to try on and headed for the dressing room. There was a nice lady in front of me who was going to try on bathing suits. The dressing room '"guard" opened a room for her and said, "Hi, what is your name?" the girl responded with her name and then the guard said, "Great, well I will come back to check on you and get sizes for you." Very nice right? Well then the guard comes to me, opens a door and sais "Here" and then she leaves. I guess I look too young to spend money and deserve nice dressing room treatment. Whatever, I continued with my search.

I tried on the first bra, which was from the clearence section, it fit better than any bra I have ever worn. I put it in the maybe pile and tried on several more.

meanwhile the girl next door was getting great service and asking for other service. Not me though

Finally I found the PERFECT bra and looked at the price. $45. WHAT? $45 dollars for a freakin bra?! thats nuts. So then I looked at the price of the one on clearence.....

$78


.....On clearence! Who pays that much for a bra? Anyway, my mom then came in and asked if I had found a bra. Well, I explained the prices and she agreed that 78 was rediculous. She wanted to get me a bra that I could wear without complaint so I showed her the $45 one. She told me she was buying it no matter what.

So here I am, with the perfect bra. I have a problem called, it needs a perfect spot. I feel like none of my other bras deserve to be near it in the drawer.


Where do I put my beautiful bra where it won't be contaminated by the itchy, rude, grey, target bras?

For now it has it's own side in the drawer......

Mix Tape

Hey everyone! I am getting a fair amount of views every day which I really appreciate, thanks! Anyway, my sister is turning 18 on August 19th and then she is heading off to college. I am making her a mix tape for her birthday which is oh so classy! I am falling short on songs, but here is what I have so far:

Piano Man
500 Miles
Roll On
Les Champs
Down by The Sea
Your Song

Any other ideas? I need at least ten songs for a solid mix tape.

Thanks

Dark Side

Ok, admit it, you all knew I wouldn't make my nail polish holder. I actually did look for a spice rack at some thrift stores but have yet to find one, and I promise I will keep searching. 

I hope you're wondering what the title to this post means because it is somewhat obscure. The title is a reference to Kelly Clarkson's current hit song, "Dark Side." When me and my sister first heard the song we were in a giddy mood and laughed at how scary this song really sounded. Here are the lyrics to the beginning

There's a place that I know

It's not pretty there and few have ever gone

If I show it to you now

Will it make you run away

Or will you stay

Even if it hurts

Even if I try to push you out

Will you return

That is just the beginning, and personally if I were the person she was talking to, I would not return. Anyway, we instantly started planning a music video and invited our friend to do it with us. After a week of hearing the song we all started to actually like it.
Here is the video

Pinterest

I am addicted to Pinterest. If you have ever been on that website, you can see how I would get addicted. I spend most of my time looking at DIY boards and have found more than 100 projects that I plan to work on. I have yet to start one...
Anyway, today I am starting my first Pinterest project! My sister and I both have a large shared collection of nail polish. We like to create designs on our nails in our spare time, thou our nails stay un-polished for most of the school year. Our collection is currently resting in an old Crocs bag. We usually stuff it all into a tiny wire basket but I found and idea on Pinterest that will give us a place to put our nail polish!
here it is

it is an old spice rack that has been painted.

And that is what I am doing today! I promise to post pics of before and after

Netflix!

I love Netflix, like I said in my previous post. I highly recommend it. These are my favorite TV shows on Netflix that I have watched with my sister. (Not in order)

Grey’s Anatomy

Roswell

Lost

Desperate Housewives

The Vampire Diaries

Kyle XY

How I Met Your Mother

Pushing Daisies

I have enjoyed them all. If you are looking for some TV shows, check these out.

Men I like from these shows (because I know you really care, and I am a teenager):

Dr. Shepherd (no brainer)

Max

Charlie and Desmond

None from DHW

Stephan

Kyle

Ted

Ned

It is way to hard to watch a show and not like any of the men. DHW was entertaining enough to keep me going without an adorable man.

Ah-Men

Men are adorable. I am completely accepting of those women who like women, and those men who like men, and the men that like women, but personally, I am a fan of the men. It is a fascinating concept of who you like. In fact a common truth question in the game of “truth or dare” is often, what you like in a man. Well friends, I have never ever had an answer to that question other than their personality. (According to many of my friends, personality is not included as a trait) So, I finally came up with several things that I look for in a man.  You want to know now don’t you? Well, surprise, you have to wait till the end of this post to see what physical traits I am interested.

My sister and I love to watch TV shows on Netflix. I will post later what shows we like, but anyway, we like to admire that sexy and cute men in these shows and wonder if these people exist in real life. (Yes, is the answer to that question) Kelly and me have very different tastes, but always support each other with who we like. Kelly for one, is into the scruffy sexy men, where as I am into the clean cut sweet men, who have the ability to grow out there hair and let me see a little sexy in them. It’s quite great because we rarely love the same men, but we both kind of love each other’s. I don’t know if that is clear, but Kelly and me get along pretty dam well when watching TV shows.  So yea, just wanted to share that with you all.

Answer to the truth:

I like men who are medium sized or short (I am short so tall men are tough) I would go for a tall man if he were fantastic. I like dark hair, preferred to blond but again, no real preference. I love all eye colors. Honestly, I have never been on a date (yes I am almost 17) so I really don’t care about looks.

Well, thanks for stopping by. I hope you are all faithfully reading, but if not, I appreciate that you showed up today.

Men I like from TV shows will be on my Netflix post

From Blogger, to Tumblr, to Blogger again

So, My last posts have all been transfered from my blog on Tumblr. I switched to Tumbr to increase my views because it is a poppular site, but today I returned to blogger because I learned you can not comment on posts on tumbr. You can only "Like" and "Re-Blog" things. Which is weird. so yea, I am back in black or shall I say, back in blogger!

I hope to see people around on here, it was a violent switch because i was getting so many veiws, but we shall see how this turns out. I love all of you who are here, check out my posts to see what you missed.

The Roof

Hey guys and gals who have happened upon this fabulous yet empty blog! I welcome you to A Little Fringe. As most of you know, I have been traveling during the past few weeks and I am currently writing this post in the car on my way to Kelly, Wyoming. In Kelly my family owns a small one room cabin with no running water (yes, that means we use a porta-potty.) I have been coming to this cabin all my life, and we still have not built a bathroom. I am sure you are wondering what I do at this cabin, if not then you should ask more questions. Anyway, in the small town of Kelly, Wyoming my sister and I hang out with our AWESOME friend. She has known us forever and vice versa, we have not always been friends but over the past few years we have been great friends. We like to make music videos (I will post one) With music that we wrote. Well, my sister wrote. It is a ton of fun to hang out with her. For two years we have been climbing onto the local school roof at night, and hanging out up there. It was really fun till we got caught!

What Happened That Night:

The three of us were all on the school roof at about ten o’clock. We had to sneak onto the roof that night because there was a carpet and upholstery man (later known as Cam) on his phone at the school. We figured he was working on carpeting the school and then we realized that he was there at 10 pm…. a little late right? Well, we snuck past him and onto the roof and hung out. We waited in silence to see if he would leave but he did not. After about half an hour we decided to paint our nails with the nail polish we had brought. Keep in mind the roof is not flat, it is slanted. In silence we painted our nails and after an hour had gone by we sat in boredom. Cam was still at the school so we couldn’t talk. We decided to start whispering and that was when Cam walked over to the front of the school where we were barely visible. He shouted “YOU BETTER GET DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW.” We stayed silent, sure he could not see us, and would just leave us alone. He continued to say that he knew we were up there and that we needed to come down. I forget if he had threatened to call the police, but I don’t really know. Anyway, as he calmed down a little we finally responded with a brief “ok we are coming down” then guess what he said? He said “It’s ok you can stay up there, just be careful.” All that for nothing! We sang songs on the roof for another hour while he worked. We were waiting for him to leave but we were so cold and felt so awkward that we left before him. We snuck across the roof and bolted through a hole in the fence surrounding the school. Cam came every night and stayed till 1:00 am or later. We are guessing that he was sleeping at the school and he could not accuse us of trespassing because then people would find out he was kind of living there. It was quite the adventure. We went up on the roof a few more times but always left as Cam was driving up. To answer your question of if we will go up this year, oh wait you didn’t ask that? Anyway, No, we don’t plan on going on the roof.

We also do fun things like canoeing, rafting, hiking, climbing, ect. Wyoming is an awesome place as long as you are in the right town. I will definitely post the video’s we make this year. All of our videos are on youtube, so just comment if you want the link to our account. 

Well, thanks for listening to my epic and yet very un epic adventure. I plan to post again soon, when I get Internet again 

Out of Camp

Hey everyone! I just got out of my family camp and I am enjoying internet at a nice little cafe in Minnisotta. Not much is going on, I am extreemely dissapointed to see that season 8 of Greys Anatomy is still not on Netflix, but I think I can hang in there a bit longer. The family camp I go to with my cousins consists of skits, age group activities, mud hikes, canoeing, kyaking, and playing. It is very fun and I am siked for next year! I am thinking of some fun posts and I promise to get them up soon. On my car ride to Wyoming I will be able to write in the car. So yep, thats all, my friend is getting a blog and I can’t wait to follow it. 

If you want me to follow your blog, posta url in the comments

On My Way Out

Hey everyone! sorry for my pathetic lack of posts, but I have been buisy….. sort of. Anyway, tomarrow I am leaving to go on a trip across the country to Minisotta! In Minissota my sister and mom and i go to a family camp with my two cousins and their parents. May I mention, these are the coolest cousins ever! The camp mainly consists of classic camp crafts, skits, food, and family time. I have gone to the camp for about eight years now and Am so excited to add this one to the list. It is a very fun camp. Then I plan to go to Wyoming to stay in my families one room cabin and just hang with friends. After that I shall return home! So yea, thats my summer. Sorry again, I plan to keep up with this blog along my trip but who knows. Wish me a fun trip?!