World According to Shia

1) Procrastination - I totally have a long Physics assignment to do yet I have no energy to do it ...  2) How the heck is Downton Abbey already over??!!?? 3) I am sitting here trying to gain the strength to at least do something useful and straighten my hair. 4) I blame my lack of caring and eagerness to get anything done on PMS.  Thank you all for your sweet comments on my return to the blog world.

I feel   I know I haven't blogged in a LONG time.   Remember me? I'm that girl who started blogging here as Shia - for some crazy reason. I started this blog in 2009.  2009?!? So much has changed since then! When I started here ... I started to write about things I thought about ... liked ... wondered ... you get the point.  So it was essentially the world according to me.  I loved my blog and even though I had under 10 followers, I didn't care.  I wrote practically everyday and things got better and better and then one day, I had 50 followers - including people I had never met ... then 75 then I was cheer-zing to 100!  It just got better and better.  Sure as my blog grew ... I progressed and things I blogged about changed. I feel like my blog became a little too superficial.  I feel like it became all about clothes and buying stuff.  Perhaps for a moment, I changed too, I only cared about clothes and buying MORE clothes and...

So every year we all try to start off the new year with vowing to fix everything we deem wrong in our lives. It's human nature I suppose to fear the calendar flip.  I often have to stop myself from feeling that New Year bandwagon guilt and the looming birthday.  Let's face it folks ... January is a difficult month.  I've always said that it kinda stinks that I have to start off the new year getting older (well on the 27th) but to heck with all that Negative Nancy ... it's like a band aid - rip it off and start the new year.   2013 was definitely a year of changes for me.  First wedding anniversary and walking away from the legal world for good.  (well hopefully for good - fingers crossed Shia here gets into one of the 9 programs she is applying for this July)  Changes do come with costs and can be scary in the beginning.  Everyone around me was pretty supportive but I have seemed to fall out of touch with some people that possibly don't u...

So part of my couponing, I have gotten these makeup wipes for cheap and/or free.  These wipes have a tendency to dry out once the pack is open so I thought I would make a box to keep them fresh.   Mod Podge is a crafters dream.  I just discovered it recently.  I bought this off brand at Michaels with 40% off coupon and got it for about $3.  I bought the tin at the Dollar Tree and I bought the paper at Michaels on clearance for $0.29.   Applied Mod Podge to the tin ... stuck the paper on it and then coated the paper with Mod Podge. The wipes fit perfectly and there is room for a small scissor.  I found a tip in AllYou magazine to cut the wipes in half for more use.  I tested it out last night and half a wipe worked well to remove all my makeup.  Also, I had to leave the lip as is because the tin would not close with paper added there but you can't see it with the box closed so ... who cares! Simple, cheap and super cute! I ...

(I took this pic forever ago in Ottawa, Canada on vacation!) So what is it about making something, buying something, eating something, loving something, hating something, seeing something, hearing something, reading something {the list goes on and on} that makes me what to blog?  So right now I have got blog craze on my mind so much that I didn't think there was any better way to express it in the post title than using that horrible word ... cray and it's so intense it calls for a double dose ... cray cray.   So why so cray cray?   You all might remember that I mentioned that I was all about couponing these days and I've gotten pretty good at saving money on our day to day groceries with a few times getting certain items for free, etc.  Yet I thought ... how can I pick up my game?  I mean why pay $1 for shampoo or conditioner ... how can I start getting more of these things for free.  So, I enlisted my trusty friend Google (she's such a...

So my Sunday was full of newspapers and my first Red cup!  Last week, I saw this link-up over at siddathorton and thought I would participate this week. Reading ... AllYou November Issue - This is my new favorite magazine - lots of money saving tips on practically everything to buy. Writing ... This blog post ... YAY I'm blogging! Listening ... to my hubby yell at the Seahawks ... YAY currently tied ... fingers crossed!  Go Seahawks! Thinking ... why does fall back just feel SOOOOO good? Smelling ... lavender air fresher ... I love lavendar! Wishing ... this football game would end... OT... BOO!  Go Seahawks! Hoping ... Seahawks win or hubby will be grouchy :-/ Wearing ... jeans!  It is finally cooling down in the hotbox state I live in!! Loving ... that half of my answers are related to a football game currently playing in the background. Wanting ... to figure out some great homemade gifts to give out to my family this year.  Last y...

So a while back (heck everything is "awhile back" since I haven't blogged in FOREVER), I shared with you all some cakes that I baked and shared my ambitions to make a coconut cake for my first wedding anniversary.  Since we had a destination wedding in Oregon and traveled the Pacific Northwest for about a month ... there was no saving the top (heck there wasn't even a top) to eat on our special day.  So I got to work looking for the perfect cake recipe.  My inspiration actually came from the same blog that I found the chocolate cake recipe.  I tweaked it a bit.  Added coconut and coconut extract to the batter and the cream cheese frosting then patted coconut around the sides.  It was so good.  The cake was super moist and had a yummy coconut flavor throughout. It is a tad messy to frost but I just kept scraping and patting.   My sister Debra's birthday was in August.  Her favorite cake has always been funfetti.   Read my previ...