I CAN'T STOP WATCHING THIS AND NOW I THINK I MIGHT WANT A BABY ELEPHANT.

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A LITTLE STAMP.

I spend so much time getting inspired (read: Pinterest) but I never actually do anything with that inspiration. This afternoon I decided to carve a little stamp out of an eraser using a printmaking tool and it was super quick and easy!

A SPRING BREAK TRIP TO ARIZONA AND THE GRAND CANYON.

Here are some pictures from the trip my family took to Arizona a couple weeks ago!

I'm from the northwest, so the terrain was so different. I could definitely get used to palm trees, warm weather, cacti, and In-N-Out Burger, though!

A LITTLE BIT OF ARIZONA IN LITTLE BITTY PHOTOS.

My family took a little spring break trip to Arizona in search of some sun. We found it! It was so beautiful and a nice climate change to the seemingly endless rain we have in Washington. I'll post a few more photos from the trip later, but here are a couple instax photos I snapped while we were there. (These were all taken on my Fuji Instax mini camera, by the way!)

GOALS // PRINT MORE PICTURES: CHECK.

One of my (many) New Year's goals this year was to take and print more pictures! Having an iPhone helps because it means I have a camera on me almost all the time. It's also nice to have apps like Instagram that make editing easy peasy and it is so much quicker than uploading my photos and editing them in Photoshop.
So a couple weeks ago I ordered some of my Instagram pictures on PostalPix. I got them in the mail and it was super fun to actually hold the pictures in my hands rather than just looking at them on my phone. The quality is really good and PostalPix was really easy to work with (if you ever want to order iPhone pictures I would totally recommend them!)! I decided to update my room and make myself an Instagram wall! It's fun to have all of the pictures up on display.

KONY 2012

KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.

"Where you live shouldn’t determine if you live."

Have you seen this video yet? If not, watch it right now!! I saw it all over Facebook and decided to finally sit down and watch it. It's about 27 minutes, but SO worth your time. The video is all about raising awareness about the Lord's Resistance Army in Africa which is led by Joseph Kony. This army kidnaps children and forces them to kill and mutilate other people, often including their own families. The Invisible Children organization has decided to start a campaign called Kony 2012 which aims to "make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice."
You can visit their shop and purchase t-shirts, bracelets, posters, and even a starter kit to support this mission! It is so inspiring to live in a place where people are able to make change like this happen. 

FILM PHOTOGRAPHY // NISHE

These beautiful photos by Nishe make me want to pull out my film camera again! I can't stop looking at them. Lately I've been relying on photos I took a long time ago rather than getting out there and photographing the current things. Time to dust off my camera.

How do you stay inspired to keep your camera out?

SNAPSHOTS // CADBURY MINI EGGS & MOVIE NIGHTS

On Friday after school I got together with some of my close friends and we went out to dinner and then back to my friend Bethany's house for a movie night! She kicked her husband out of the house and us girls ate an embarrassing amount of candy, air-pop popcorn (post about that soon!), Trader Joes coconut cookies, and pumpkin muffins. We watched the movie "Hugo" (any of you seen it?) and it was beautiful! It was so well done and the story was really unique. It also didn't hurt that it took place in Paris. 

Side note: why in the world have I not been eating Cadbury eggs my whole life? I tried some for the first time on Friday and I haven't stopped eating them since! They are so, so, so good(!!)! 

Have you seen any good movies lately?

PLAYLIST // FOUR

These songs have been playing on repeat lately.
What have you been listening to? I always love music suggestions!

BREAKING THE SILENCE & ELEVEN THINGS.

Well it's been a while. Here's what's been going on in my life lately:

-The gaping holes where my wisdom teeth used to be are (thankfully) slowly closing up! Yay for solid food!

-I quit my job at a local grocery store where I had worked for two years. I loved the people but with the busyness of school and the summer it seemed like a good time for me to say goodbye. I think babysitting is going to be my new form of money-making.

-I'm getting my nose pierced(!!!!)! This is something I've wanted to do for years and years. My old job didn't allow any facial piercings and my parents were really against the idea but they finally gave in! 

-I have a new special manfriend! (I first typed out "boyfriend" but that just sounded really cheesy so I thought "manfriend" sounded more sophisticated. I'm having second thoughts about that. Hmm...) We started dating a couple months ago, actually, but I don't think I ever blogged about it. Anyways, he lives in a land far, far away- we met at a Christian camp in Tennessee this past summer- and he is one of the most Godly, wise, and hilarious people I know. Since he lives on the other side of the country we have to resort to sending one another long messages every day and having multi-hour Skype dates on the weekends. It's hard to have him so far away, but I'm anxiously awaiting a time in the future when it won't be that way! I'll have to blog about how we met sometime. It's a pretty creative (all credit definitely goes to God!) story!

-My best friend and I are designing the school yearbook (all by ourselves!) for our senior project (what were we thinking??) and I'm pretty sure I'm having nightmares about page layouts and missing deadlines.

one of the very first film photos I ever took. it makes me miss summer and being barefoot.

I've seen this "eleven random facts" post floating around the blogosphere so I thought it would be kind of fun! Normally there are other questions to answer too but I decided to cut it down a bit. Here are eleven things you may/may not know about me:

one // I drink a ton of water. I also spill a ton of water on myself. You would think at age eighteen I would have mastered the art of drinking water from a cup/water bottle but I constantly find myself awkwardly wiping my dripping wet chin and trying to hide the unfortunate water stains running down my shirt. I'm working on it.

two // I love plants and flowers. I have plants in vases and old bottles sitting on most of the flat surfaces in my room.

three // I love wearing things with stripes. Last year my mom banned me from buying any more shirts or dresses with stripes on them but I've thankfully managed to get around that. I always feel a little more like a Frenchwoman when I'm wearing stripes and that makes for a very good day. :)

four // I bite my nails.

five // I have really thick hair. When I was in eighth grade I decided to be dumb daring and get it cut short. Basically, to sum things up, it looked like I had a giant puff head. I've been growing it out ever since.

six // I eat way too many Taco del Mar kid's bean burritos. (They are only $2.07! And super delicious!)

seven // I play the guitar and piano and sing. My favorite times to play are when I'm leading worship at my church and when I'm the only one at home.

eight // It is raining right now and there are little bits of snow in it. Hmm. 

nine // I get distracted really easily. (See number eight.)

ten // I've always secretly wished I was a ballet dancer. 

eleven // I've wanted to be a teacher since I was three years old. I'm thinking about teaching middle school history if other people don't end up scaring me out of it! 

...and congratulations if you made it to the end of this abnormally long blog post!

xoxo 

Megan

GOODBYE WISDOM TEETH.

my new sans-wisdom teeth diet

On Friday morning I had my wisdom teeth taken out. The surgery itself was a piece of cake (thank you anesthesia!) but when I got home it started to ache quite a bit. I've been basically chilling on the couch, catching up on Modern Family, reading blogs, pinning pretty things, watching French documentaries, downing pain meds and Advil, and sleeping! This is the life.

Have you had your wisdom teeth taken out?

FONT LOVE // LOST TYPE CO-OP

I love good fonts and just about every font on this website is awesome! It runs on a "pay what you want" system so if you can't pay anything you just have to type "0" in the box and download the font!
My favorites so far are Cubano, Lavenderia, Carton, and Wisdom Script!