Day 21: 30 Day Challenge

Day 21: What's In Your Purse

My wallet-skeleton loungefly
passport-never know when you might need an extra id, and since I frequently forget my id in my boyfriends pocket....
sunscreen-not because I am particularly smart but because I try and always put it on my tattoo so it looks good in 20 years.
camera+spare battery
raybans
doggie poopie bag
LACMA tim burton exhibit tickets from yesterday :]

Day 20: 30 Day Challenge

Grr I thought while I was out of town I would be able to keep up on this challenge but had no such luck. But now I'm back from the pause!

Day 20: Nicknames
Main nickname is Shivy, just a shorter version of Siobahn. Also Shiv, shiv biv. I also get called pixie a lot because Im tiny and the short hair. My dad calls me periwinkle or Hot Rod, hot rod cause my first time fishing at 7 I caught 9 fish, and my dad couldn't catch a thing.

Day 19: 30 Day Challenge

Day 19: Something You Miss

I don't really miss much, I am more excited for the future. I guess I miss certain friends from highschool, but life will always make you drift apart from them I feel. I miss Santa Barbara I guess, a lot. I like the beach and the quiet and the fact that I knew that city, now I have no idea where anything is and it's super busy and dirty in LA. Our dog doesn't have as much fun, seeing as there is no dog beach for her and we don't have a yard anymore for her to play ball. I just try not to miss it and think ahead to graduating and marriage and babies. :]

Day 18: 30 Day Challenge

Day 18: Favorite Place To Eat
Ooohh this is a hard one! Ruby's probably. They have so much yummy stuff and the best milkshakes ever. In n Out is the best burger, rubios is my favourite taco, and I love Mimis too.

Day 17: 30 Day Challenge

So I was busy yesterday making Halloween cards so totally forgot to do my challenge! Sorry
Day 17: Something You're Looking Forward To
Christmas! I love doing creative things for Christmas and I love giving people gifts. Now that we are in our own apartment I cant wait to decorate and go all out. I want to do an advent calender this year and have so many other cute ideas on pinterest.

Oh My Goodness I Am In Love!

I just discovered the greatest website ever ( or at least I think so!). I was searching for a program that turns pictures into paintings, and a good one. I don't want to actually pay the people that make real ones but thought it would be fun to have 'paintings' of my dog. I found http://befunky.com and went a bit crazy. It's free, no downloads and you get to save your stuff! Here are a few of my favourites that I did of Boo, I can't wait to think of gift ideas and other images to alter, they even have a comic book setting that adds all the dots and you get to pick the colours! Oh man I might be a bit obsessed.

Day 16: 30 Day Challenge

Day 16: Your Dream House
ooohhhh I like this one! Well my dream house would be from the 50's and have lots of character. I would love to have a hexagonal living room nook area that I can put a christmas tree in and everyone can see it. I would love a reading nook and a his and hers bathroom, especially with a big bathtub and a multi nozzle shower. I'm building my dreamhouse on pinterest for when the time comes. :]

Day 15: 30 Day Challenge

Day 15: Favourite Books
I love books! I used to work at Borders (rip) until earlier this year when our store closed so I am passionate about books. I think my favourite book is Smack by Melvin Burgess-Ive read it dozens of times. Number two might be I Am Legend- a million times better than the movie, they actually don't have too much in common and well worth the read. I also love a lot of books I read in high school-lord of the flies, all quiet on the western front, sidhartha, etc. All in all I'm just a book junky and it makes me sad to think that maybe one day our kids won't even know what a book store is, it will all be electronid.

Day 14: 30 Day Challenge

Day 14: A picture of you last year - how have you changed?
This is a year ago tomorrow. Normally my changes are so dramatic (I won most changed in high school) since I change my hair A LOT. But I've been trying to grow it out since January and this is the longest I've had my hair in 8 years. In this pic my hair is pretty long for me, so the change isn't too much. But now I live in a big city and I'm in the next chapter, on towards marriage and babies and the rest of life. :]

Chalkboard re-vamp

So in Michaels the other day they had cute halloween themed chalboards with fine glitter on the edges. I already have a chalkboard but thought it would be super easy to replicate it and super cute. I taped off the white line with masking tape and painted with just a basic acrylic craft paint. Next I busted out my Martha Stewart fine craft glitter and modge podged it on an voila! Super easy-although I feel cleaning it to write a new message is now going to be not so easy but oh well!

Day 13: 30 Day Challenge

Day 13: Goals
Numero Uno is to get my but into a financial advisor and finish my application and start school so that once I'm out of school Jason can finally propose, I can have my dream wedding and be so crafty I'll make people. Short term is to get a job right now cause us both being unemployed is not fun. I wanna get more organized(dont we all) and eat healthier too. It's hard for me to be healthy when I'm naturally so thin, I don't have much to motivate me haah. Those are my goals. :]

Day 12: 30 Day Challenge

Day 12: Something You Don't Leave Home Without
Well as we have seen in photo's I love sunglasses so I don't typically leave home without my raybans. Other than that I'm pretty simple and only usually have my phone and wallet, occassionally I don't leave without lipstick but only on a not so lazy day. :]

Day 11: 30 Day Challenge

Day 11: Favourite TV Shows
I like pretty much all shows, minus Jersey Shore haha. I'm a huge fan of british tv, top gear, dr who, little britain, coupling. How I met your mother, big bang theory, say yes to the dress, extreme couponing, lost, house, tmz. Im sure there are more that Im forgetting haha. I just love having cable again so I can actually watch tv!

Day 10: 30 Day Challenge

Day 10: Something You're Afraid Of

Butter! I know I know it's funny, but we don't pick our phobias. I don't know when it started or why but I just don't like being around butter. I will eat it in my food but if it's in front of me on a table I don't like it and heaven forbid I get it on my skin- I will have a panic attack. This makes it extremely difficult to surprise bake for Jason since I can't unwrap or measure out butter.

Day 9: 30 Day Challenge

Day 9: A Picture of Your Best Friend

I am lucky to have 2 best friends! Above is my best friend Sara, we have been friends since middle school and I can always rely on her. And this is my best friend Simran! Simran started working at Borders with me and we hit it off immediately. We have so much in common and I feel like we are always laughing when we are together. Her and I are crafting buddies and pen pals! Since she is in sb and im now in la we write eachother letters every week with stamps and stickers galore!

Day 8: 30 Day Challenge

Day 8: A Place You've Traveled ToEngland! I was lucky enough earlier in the year to go abroad(thanks tax refund!). It was kinda just a spur of the moment thing, I just kinda mentioned that I missed my grandparents and the next day Jason and I were booking tickets and expediting my passport! We got a killer deal on the tickets and saved money by staying with family. It was our first real vacation together and Jasons first time out of the country. We couldn't have had a more amazing time and have so many great memories now.

Day 7: 30 Day Challenge

Day 7: Favourite Movies

1. Breakfast at Tiffanys- and pretty much any other Audrey Hepburn movie, I have been obsessed with her since I was really little.
2. The Princess Bride- Greatest movie of all time? I think it's a contender.
3. Gnomeo and Juliet- best humor and I love gnomes!
4. Batman/Indiana Jones/Star Wars
5. Amelie
6. How to Marry a Millionaire- Marylin Monroe is hilarious in this

That probably sums up my favourite movies. Now I have a lot I like but these hold a special place in my heart.

Day 6: 30 Day Challenge

Day 6: A Picture of Something That Makes You Happy

This is Knapps Castle. It is a hidden gem in Santa Barbara. Its a 15 minute drive into the mountains and a 10 minute flat dirt road to the Castle. It was built in 1916 by a rich mogul, George Owen Knapp. A week after selling it it burned down in a wild fire, so know all that is left are ruins. It is the most beautiful and serene place ever and I am sooo happy when I am here. You can't see anything but wilderness for miles. With the mountains cutting into the landscape and a lake off in the distance. This place makes me truly happy and grateful.Also my dog sleeping like this makes me happy :]

Halloween Mantle and Crafts Galore!

I officially finished my Halloween Mantle. I thought I was done a few days ago but then some things fell that needed fixing and I added another banner today. I don't have a real fireplace mantle so this tiny shelp will have to do for a while. It may be a little cluttered but I just have too many good Halloween things. I plan on showing a different craft every day this week.

This is the banner I made today and added. I printed old encyclopedia illustrations from the internet onto book pages for a more antique look. I also printed letters and spelled out spooky.

The second banner, but first I made, I cut out bats that I traced from online. I used a solid black paper and a black with silver patter and alternated. I hinged them together with jumprings I made from floral wire, it gives them a bit of movement.

Day 5: 30 Day Challenge

Day 5: A Song To Match Your Mood

Ingrid Michaelson 'The Way I Am

If there was a song about being sick, sniffly and sneezy it would be more appropriate today seeing as I am fighting off a cold but my boyfriend is being a good nurse.

Lyrics:

If you were falling, then I would catch you
You need a light, I'd find a match
'Cause I love the way you say good morning
And you take me the way I am

If you are chilly, here take my sweater
Your head is aching, I'll make it better
'Cause I love the way you call me, baby
And you take me the way I am

I'd buy you Rogaine when you start losing all your hair
Sew on patches to all you tear
'Cause I love you more than I could ever promise
And you take me the way I am
You take me the way I am, you take me the way I am

Day 4: 30 Day Challenge

Day 4: Your Parents

Wow I didn't notice I apparently have loved big sunglasses forever til I uploaded this!

I am thankful to have best friends for parents, not that they weren't parents but they were both. I've always been a Daddy's girl but am super close to my Mom as well. I was lucky to have a multi-cultural upbringing-my Dad is from England, came here met my mom, had me and never went back. I feel more well rounded and love the traditions and education I have had from my Daddy. My parents have always been so supportive and let me learn my own lessons which shaped me into a better person, and always let me be me. You want pink hair, fine! I didn't smoke or drink or stay out late or have lots of boyfriends so I got more leeway on other things because overall I was a good kid and they knew hair colour, etc didn't make me a bad kid.

Day 3: 30 Day Challenge

Day 3: Your First Love

My First and Only Love-Jason. As I stated in the first day of this challange, I needed a prom date, a friend said she had a friend, who 3 years before we had gone to Disneyland with who might be able to go with me. I remember him being very sweet and thought it was a great idea. We started hanging out the weeks leading up to prom, usually at Disneyland. He was my first kiss and my first love. I never expected that it would last and we always had an agreement that if we were to ever grow apart or have different goals in life that we would part. We grew closer together luckily and have started a life together. I can't wait to marry my best friend, unfortunately I want to wait til we are done with school and it's killing me! I'm obsessed with weddings and cannot believe I have to wait 3 more years, 8 years together! At least I know the day is coming and it will make it that much more special. <3

30 Day Challenge Day 2

Day 2: Meaning Behind Your Blog Name

I came up with Tiny Crafter pretty quickly when I was setting up my blog. It's not a play on words I had thought of before but it was perfect. One of my favourite songs, being a dancer my whole life is Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer'. This was on af my favourite's cause at 5ft 1 and barely 90 pounds I'm pretty tiny, or petite if you will. My whole family is tiny, except my Mom but I didn't get the height gene, my little sister did. So as a play on Tiny Dancer but I'm a Tiny Crafter my blog name was born. :]

Blog Challenge!

So while I'm not working I have no excuse for not keeping this blog up but yet I manage. Well I've been seeing these 30 day blog challenges and I said "why not!" Tomorrow I also need to post the Halloween crafts I've already completed and decorated with. P.S. my favourite holiday is Halloween!

Day 1. Introduce yourself, a recent picture of yourself, and 15 interesting facts.

I'm Siobahn. I'm 22. I do every craft imaginable. I live with my boyfriend and my dog Boo, they are my world. This is the most recent picture of me, with a dolphin at Sea World. :]
Facts:
1. Siobahn= gaelic(irish) name for Sara. Pronounced Sha-vonne.
2. My dad is from England and therefore he couldn't give me a normal name and instead picked a hard, non-phenotic name.
3. My belly button is neither an innie nor an outie; it is shaped like a star :]
4. I have one tattoo. I got in in memoriam for my Grandpa. It is a heart made of black licorice (his favorite) and a shamrock (his last name was Reilly) and says Papa. I want more in the future.
5. My dog, Boo, is an Azores Cattle Dog. She looks like a hyena and is wayy too smart. She is the only breed I have found where they cut their ears round, like a bear. (we got her when she was older or we would not have docked her ears)
6. I used to be a ballerina but at 5 foot 1 there was no future career for me.
7. I have always had short hair. Usually so short its almost buzzed. I freak out when it starts getting long. I am currently trying to grow it out though cause I want long hair when I get married. It's driving me crazy.
8. I recently have been craving large amounts of popcorn.
9. My dream car(as discovered last weekend) is a '54 Chevy Nomad Concept. Only 3 exist so keep dreaming Siobahn!
10. I needed a prom date for Junior Prom. In comes Jason. 5 and a half years later we are still together. That never happens but we are so lucky. (it hasnt always been easy but so worth it!)
11. My weakness is hello kitty. I buy everything with her. It doesn't help that I can fit in kids clothing and Target has lots of kids t-shirts for her.
12. I am going to school to be a CSI. I have always loved it and the science behind it and the more and more classes I take the more I love it.
13. I collect old photographs from antique stores. Usually not of people(although me and my gf give eachother 'fabulous ladies' photos) but of landscapes, cars, odd things etc. One of my favourites is one from the 30's of a racoon clinging to a tree from someones hiking trip.
14. I also collect skulls, owls, sea glass, and gnomes. :]
15. All my fish have Sea related gaelic names. I'm not going to torcher my kids with one so I'm getting it all out of my system through my fish. Right now we have Muirgheas meaning Sea Taboo.
whew that was hard!! Cant wait for 29 more days and Halloween!