Lipstick Diaries

- Melody 2 Comments

I’ve found a new hobby: lipstick. Growing up I always thought lipstick was for moms and, well, grown-ups. But with all these awesome new colors (besides mauve and dark red) from affordable brands like Revlon I can add color to my badself. 😛

L to R: 013 Smoked Peach, 004 Pink About It, 616 Wink for Pink, 011 Stormy Pink, 435 Love That Pink, 720 Fire & Ice, 677 Siren, 010 Wine Not

Up until a week ago I only had Pink About It, Fire & Ice, and Siren (which had an unfortunate melting accident in the car so that’s why this is the only picture of it.) We “found” some leftover money in our budget so I bought 5 new lippysticks! Wee.

The one of the far end, Stormy Pink, disappointed me a tiny bit. I thought it was going to be a lot more pigmented than it actually was. But, I still like it. And Smoked Peach is a very neutral every day color while Fire & Ice, Siren, and the other brighter ones are for days ending in ‘y’.
As you can see in the second picture, I wear Pink About It the most (the second from the left in second photo). Though I think that’s going to change to Smoked Peach and Wink for Pink.

Any favorite lipsticks? I keep a running tab of the colors I want to try. There are only three more on my list!

PS. Lipstick for a great cause.

Saturday Stylings

- Melody

cardigan: thrifted, tshirt: Target, pants: Target, boots: thrifted, scarf: Old Navy

I was trying desperately to balance here. I have awful balance. Obviously.

Yesterday I only had one class at 11 because my 10 class got cancelled. Yay for an extra hour of sleep but boo for still having to drive 2 hours for one class!

I’m glad I’ve started taking more outfit photos. I like/dislike seeing what I actually looked like in that outfit. And as always I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to take a hatchet to my hair and chop it the heck off.

hair tutorial from here. Though I don’t think it turned out as well. Stupid grown out bangs.

Thanin Duangporn

- Melody

Yes, you read that right. No, it’s not a bunch of gibberish. (And no, I didn’t have a stroke before writing this.)

Thanin Duangporn, from Vietnam, is the child Jason and I sponsor through Compassion International. At Passion 2011 as newlyweds we felt the urge to do something. When we walked past the Compassion booth in the Go Center (a place, up until Passion 2012, where causes from all around the world are represented. Here, you can buy animals for a family, pay for surgeries, loans, houses, and the list goes on! Read more here.) We stepped into the booth to see rows and rows of pictures of children waiting to be sponsored. Feeling so overwhelmed that I couldn’t pick all of them and couldn’t even meet them, I stared at picture after picture waiting for God to point me in the right direction. Thanin, honestly, just kind of happened. We picked him, filled out our information and took him home with us.

Since then, Thanin has sent us several letters. It’s strange because they take three months to get here! But when they do, I get so excited to see what he’s up to. In his most recent letter he had started back to school and was getting ready for Christmas. We, as horrible sponsors, have sent him only one postcard. But I decided, as another new found resolution, that I was going to write this kid so many letters he would always have something to read.
When you get a letter from your child Compassion sends another form for you to write back. So, as soon as I finished reading Thanin’s sweet letter I got to work writing him back. What do I say? I thought. What does he want to know about us? I just started writing random things. About how it rained that day, how we just celebrated our nephew’s first birthday, how many siblings Jason and I had, our cats (of course), what we did for Christmas, what Jason’s job is, what I study in school… some of it was just so mundane. How do you get to know someone who lives thousands of miles away? In our next letter I want to send him pictures of us so he can put some names with faces.

As I was writing I started second guessing some things I wanted to write. Like what our favorite foods were (frozen pizza, Chinese food…). Who knows if he’s even had those things or knows what they are? I mean, we are sponsoring him after all.

Does anyone else sponsor a child? Do you have any tips for writing to them? I really can’t wait to actually respond to him and for him to ask us questions about our lives!

A Few Things…

- Melody

It’s been raining. And I love it.

Random people have been showing up in my Pinterest feed that I didn’t follow.

My Gmail didn’t load all. day. HTML view suuuuuuuucks.

All my hair is getting chopped AWFF ASAP.

I’m backing up my harddrive and it is going to take 2 days. Forrealz.

There is a lot of stupid crap on YouTube.

In my head school hasn’t started yet. This could pose a problem for me.
That is all.

Gloom

- Melody


pullover: F21, jeans: Target, sneakers: Converse

These Target jeans are about the weirdest fit ever! They’re really stretchy, not at all like denim and the top is about 2 inches too low. I was constantly tugging on them all day. Blah.

We cancelled our Direct TV and Jason’s phone line last night to save more money this year. It’s so annoying how companies will bend over BACKWARDS to keep you in their service and yack your ear off until they can “save you money”. Geeeeez. Just cancel my service so I can do other things. It was pretty easy to cancel cable but AT&T was a different story. I got dressed to go run, cleaned my bathroom, ran the dryer, and cleaned out my purse while he was on the phone with the guy who was trying to “save us money.” Now, I’ll admit. Sometimes they have really good suggestions on how to save money. But when tax and other fees are included it ends up only being a few dollars. This guy… sheesh. When he and Jason started to say something at the same time he’d just KEEP. TALKING. until Jason gave up and let him talk. He kept coughing and yawning into the phone and just talked. and talked. and talked. But FINALLY he cancelled Jason’s phone so we could just use mine for the time being. So if you need to talk to us, call my phone or the house! 🙂

Gray Matter

- Melody


blouse: anthropologie, tank: pacsun, jeans: target, oxfords: f21, bracelets: f21

That Anthropologie shirt has got to be THE most awkward fit of a shirt I own. I mean, what’s going on up at the top? So weird. But it was on super sale and I didn’t try it on before I bought it. All that Anthropologie hype probably had something to do with it too.

Happy It’s Monday.