Faith gave us all flowers as part of the Res-Life training, and my goal is to keep it alive for the summer, so here are some "BEFORE" shots, we'll see how it goes in August when I take more photos of it on the last day of UB!

Pet Peeve

For Upward Bound this year, I planned the Res-Life orientation in coordinace to games from Minute-To-Win-It. While setting up the game Amanda worked on her door decs and Katie worked on a scraf. Basically it was an amazing night, I should have taken some more photos, but I just got these couple of Amanda doing "Dizzy Mummy" as we tried to figure out the rules, regardless, I think they are pretty amazing.

We move into the Upward Bound residence hall pretty soon, and Amanda and I went over early to bring some stuff over and to move her in before she headed off to Atlanta (and missed staff training for a lovely conference). Anyways, when we walked into her room, we were met with quite possibly the ugliest wall paper of all time.

Mullen and I went out thrift shopping because we were at a loss at what we actually wanted to do. I knew there were some ice trays that I wanted at Goodwill, and it was a nice chance to finally meet Katie instead of awkwardly only kind of knowing her. We started with the Hands of Hope Thrift...

Sometimes you can make ugly decor a little cuter.

Lori, at work, got a new chair that helps her with her back problems, and yesterday afternoon we decided to have a Friday test-run of the greatness of said chair. I have to say it was more terrifying than a roller-coaster, and equally as unpleasant. Going back in this thing was about as...

Not a whole lot to say about this one. Caitlin and I were in AC Moore and we decided to try on some lovely masks. They reminded me of the masquerade scene in Labyrinth!

The great thing about Hipstamatic is that it is always right there with you for the moments you could've missed if you didn't have another camera! I believe that is the greatest aspect of mobile photography right now! Such an instance was when Nikita, her family, and I were in Wal Mart and we came across this lovely coconut pulp! Fist of all, this is disgusting (I hate coconut), but that isn't where the true interest was to be focused.

This year for Mara’s birthday I wanted to get something semi-spooky, yet classy, and I found that very directly on Etsy (they have everything!). I came across these wonderful anatomical screen prints on repurposed dinerware! It was serendipitous to say the least. I ordered the...