My dad and I.

Polaroid of my dad and I taken at the Taste of Chicago.

My dad and I drastically drifted apart for a lot of time during my pre-teen years up until almost nearly recent. Which is unfortunate, but that's life. I'm happy that we're recently gaining more of a consistent relationship and seeing each other as... you know, humans. At this point in my age, I'm realizing the values and similar personality traits that I have in common with each of my parents. Out of a bunch of things I learned from my dad, these are three things that I think we strongly have in common: 

1) my will to survive and stubbornness to do what I have to do. 

2) my curiosity of the world and travel.

3) wanting humble happiness and security.

Happy Fathers Day, dad.

mum's day

wishing my mom a happy Mothers Day while she is visiting her mother and soaking in the heat of Guadalajara, Mexico... and to all you momma's out there! Either it be a momma of your children, your pups, your kittens... your bunnies... ect. :)

Family Vacations.

I lurked through an old photo box my mom has while I was at my parents house.
These are some family vacation photos that I snatched for my framed collages.


What I've been up to lately:
- Circus!
- Christmas decorating
- Rescuing a cat! [pictures soon]
- Garland banner tutorial for Becca's blog.
- Craft show and sewing inventory for the holidays.


Other than that, today is Cyber Monday!
That means that it's the last day to receive 20% off at Bird Trouble.

Mama and Bowie!

Happy Mother's Day to my mama & all my mama blog readers!

I gave my mom a pretty shirt and two future appointments to get her eyebrows done. Right now, we're at my grandma's house eating a massive amount of tacos and watching movies. It's been a good day (minus my horrible allergies).

ALSO! Happy belated birthday to Bowie! He turned 3 years old on May 6th. :)

I know I haven't posted since my giveaway winner post. What have I been doing lately? Work, school, school, work, work, work, errands, work. My finals are in 2 weeks so after that... get ready for a very large shop update and a monthly blog schedule!
So that brings up the next question for you, my readers: What would you like to see my blog about?

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! See you tomorrow for 10 Things I Love Monday!

Beach date!

And here's a video!



I wanted to take advantage of the kind-of nice weather today, so me and Bowie went to my "secret beach"! Any time I need to get away or relax, I go there. It's actually really funny because it's in the middle of a very wealthy subdivision with some of the biggest houses I've ever seen. I just go and hang out there. I'm sure they think I'm crazy.

Do you have anywhere you can escape to?

Happy Saturday! & lots of pictures!

I woke up super early today and I don't even know why. :( Last night, I couldn't fall asleep... I was feeling so anxious and I kept thinking about everything I wanted/needed to do so I woke up and totaled out my sales for this month. That made me feel better so I finally went to bed but when Bowie moved this morning, I woke up and felt anxious again. I figured I should just wake up since I never get to see the sunlight anymore ;). Well, I looked out the window to a ton of snow on the ground here in Chicago. Personally, I hate snow (I know, I know, everyone else loves it) but Bowie loves it! Check him out!


Isn't he so freakin' cute?

For Christmas, I made my mom a purse since she's been asking for one for like 2 years, haha. I actually really, really love how it turned out and I'm thinking about making a similar one for the shop.



I took all new photos of mostly all of my items for the shop today. I felt like I needed them to be more creative and cohesive. Since I've been moving all over the country this year, my pictures have been taken everywhere I've lived. I really love the way these new pictures look. The chair in these photos is my chair in my craft room. I actually have two of them. We got them off this girl on craigslist because I loved the green but the seat was a gross vinyl and I had to change it to my green houndstooth. It makes me want to reupholster everything I have, haha. Here's a picture of some of my stuff piled up on my chair.

& in my wire basket I found at a thrift store in Wisconsin for $3! This is where I store them and just put them in my closet on a shelf.


& to end my Happy Saturday blog post, here's a funny story:
About a month ago, Nate accidently dried his wool Ben Sherman sweater. He loves Ben Sherman and he looooooooooved the sweater. Well, as you can guess, the sweater shrank A LOT. Now, it fits me. :) hahaha