Hey, Today Is the Day!

Just wanted to say right now:
I am very excited!
About everything!!
About CHRISTMAS, and living, and cleaning my room, and starting college again next month, and.... just everything! :)
It's a funny, but nice, feeling.

Also, I want to list things I am thankfully to God for
(because remembering everything He does for me is very important!)
My beloved chum, Caroline, always inspires me to turn my thoughts this way. :)

~ my sister Lizzie.
~for playing dress up again( see picture above)
~ being able to find yummy non-dairy food to make & eat!
~the sound of the classical radio ....playing all day long. :)
~Mom's amazing-super-industriousness! If only I can learn to be so awesome. ;)
~the Bible. Yes, wow, really.
~the promise of getting together with friends & family more this month!
~the possibility of SNOW~!
~my little brother. He is so creative, he's building a huge model airplane right now!
~ribbon!
~cookies.....yum!
~books (just finished a re-reading of The Scarlett Letter, and I'm working through Debt-Free U still. Both amazing!)
~God's grace.
~having things to clean! Really, it's interesting. I may complain about doing it, but the very fact I have a home, a room, and a room of my own is a huge thing.

This is the picture of a Scarlett Tanager I started late Monday night!

I think I am highly attracted to color & solid black lines. ;)

 

 

Here's our beloved Maxi! <3 What a sweet poochie!

He likes napping on my bed. :) And he's almost 7 years old now!

Here is the room damage before! There are two huge piles (winter & summer clothes) taking over my bed!!!

If I'm ever going to get those Christmas cards out, or gifts made...this desk has to get clear as well!

Here we (me, myself & I) are half-way done! Whew...now to attack the closet and the stuff under the bed!

I am using Ashley Skabar's Dairy-Free Cooking site on About.com to make some sumptious things for the family! Her recipes are delicious and invaluable to us as a family, what with 3 of us needing dairy-free foods!
Here are a few recipes that I'm working on right now (and need to get back to ASAP!):
Deviled Eggs
Roasted Garlic Hummus
Yellow Cake
Dijon Caramel Chocolates

(c) http://www.papaspantry.org/2008Pg/Classes.htm

That last one is sounding really yummy....

When you read this, try to think of what being alive as a child of God really means. :)
It's positively a MIRACLE.
Love,

.:. Mode Republic .:.

What an announcement I have to make! It may be news to some of my readers to learn that I've 'made it' on a international modeling website! Yep, it is true. Mode Republic Inc. is something like LookBook.nu, and is a free way to get your name (and face) out there for modeling.

A LOOKBOOK look.

 

Now, first things first: I did this because I was interested to see how the online magazine & lookbook features worked in combination. I don't really want to BE a model for a living; it's a rough job. That said...

It certainly came as a surprise to even myself when I turned up on the front page of the Mode this week for one of the favorite top looks!  (See screen shot below.)

The look that got featured was this one that I named "Chumberry". it was the first look I put up! I did notice that many of the outfits found on the website utilize soft, subdued colors; it's seems to be the 'mode'. Which is is precisely the reason I have to be surprised that I got voted for at all, because my outfit shouts "COLOR!". :) But that's just the way I like it.

I actually have two other looks up on my Mode Republic model profile as well. Take a peak, leave a comment, tell me what you think! It's a trivial sort of hobby, but it always gives me pleasure to dress nicely and to share my finds with others. This is one way to do just that. :)

So, yeah that's interesting. :)
[moving on...]
~Hannah aka "LittleWren"

P.S. - Please let me know if you get a Mode account; I want to vote for you! ;)