One Lovely Blog Award

Hi!

I was nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award!  Nancy, from the adorable blog Color Me Blush, was so nice to nominate me!!  

Here are the rules when you are nominated for the award:

1) Thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog.

2) List these rules and display the award logo in your post.

3) Add 7 facts about yourself.

4) Nominate up to 15 other bloggers you want to know better (*I added the "up to"!).

5) Follow the person who nominated you on Bloglovin.com (I still need to make a Bloglovin account!).

Seven Facts about Me

1) My husband, Alex, and I just moved from Tucson to Baltimore and we are loving it!  We're having so much fun :)

2) I'm a musician.  I played flute from fourth grade through my freshman year of high school and then I switched to percussion.  I have a bachelor's degree in music performance in percussion from the University of Arizona.

3) I love getting mail!  Whether it's a letter, my Birchbox, a surprise, or a magazine, I just love getting things in the mail!

4) I studied abroad in Ghana in 2008 and it was so amazing!  We were there for five weeks and we got to dance, drum, shop, and make art all over the country :)  We even saw elephants right outside our room!

5) I was on the Pride of Arizona Drumline for four years and it was one of the best things I've ever done!  So many of my best friends were on drumline with me!

6) I watch and love HGTV so much!  It's pretty much all I watch besides The Price is Right when I'm home during the day :)

7) I love making just about any kind of craft and right now I'm getting to do so much of that!  I have an Etsy shop that I started within the last few months and I'm having so much fun.

Here are the bloggers that I am nominating!

Naomi of Broke College Beauty

http://brokecollegebeauty.wordpress.com/

Angela of Angela Ricardo

http://www.angelaricardo.com/

Sarah of Stethoscopes & Lipstick

http://stethoscopesandlipstick.blogspot.com/

Dena of International Beauty Junkie

http://nohotmess.blogspot.com/

Andrea of Preppy Mom's Wanderings

http://preppymomm.blogspot.com/

Keeley of Dots & Dimes

http://dotsanddimes.wordpress.com/

Check out these great blogs and thanks for reading!

Broke College Beauty Blog!

Hi!

I think I've mentioned once or twice that I'm in the Birchbox group called Birchbloggers.  If you have a blog and you get Birchbox, you can sign up to be part of it!  There is a private Facebook group that you become a member of and there are also special things that you might hear about that you wouldn't otherwise.  It's a really fun group to be a part of because everyone reads each other's blogs, gives feedback, and likes to talk about makeup/beauty/hair/whatever!  Tons of my blog views have been from people in this group :)

About a month ago I wrote a post mentioning Naomi, a super-nice, fellow curly-headed girl I know through the Birchbloggers group.  She is the author of the blog Broke College Beauty and you should definitely check it out!  She posts about tons of different products (beauty and otherwise), writes reviews, and she's even doing a giveaway now!  She had written a really nice blog post after just looking at my Etsy shop and now she has ordered hair ties and headbands from me TWICE!!

Yesterday she wrote another awesome review about the hair accessories she has ordered from me!  What a great blog post!  I'm so glad to hear that she loves them and I love to read her feedback.  It is so fun to be part of a group of people that like Birchbox and blogging!  Since I am so new to blogging, it's nice to be able to see how everybody else is doing it :)

I just got a custom order for some wedding fans similar to the ones I have posted in my shop!!  Yay!

Thanks for reading!

Etsy Fun

Hi!

I've been having so much fun working on my Etsy shop!  I've gotten 4 orders so far, including a custom order for a bachelorette party!  

Birchbox has a group called Birchbloggers that you can be part of if you have a blog.  I have just started posting things in the group and I have read lots of great blog posts written by other girls in the group,  I've gotten lots of new Instagram friends, too!  Naomi, who is the author of Broke College Beauty, wrote such a great feature on her blog yesterday about my Etsy shop!  That was so nice of her!  She also just started blogging like me, and she has a really cute blog with lots of great posts and reviews on Birchbox products.  She ordered some hair ties from me, too!  I mailed her order yesterday and I hope she loves them!

This morning my parents and I explored a little bit more near our neighborhood.  I have been wanting to go to a place called Antique Row where there are lots of antique shops.  I couldn't find much information about it online so we just walked over there.  Turns out, most of the shops are closed on Tuesday!  But we had fun walking over there and looking at some really old buildings on the way!  We also found another really great art supplies store, Blick, that is close to our apartment.  So fun!

This church was built in 1761!

Alex is home from class now so we're going to go to the Inner Harbor for lunch!

Thanks for reading!