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A Super Easy Infinity Scarf and a Dilemma

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I have come to the horrible realization that next year, I will not be having the same type of access to a kitchen and ingredients that I have been enjoying all my life. For those of you who have been frequent, long time readers, you probably already know that I am a senior in high school and will be heading off to college next year.

I am super excited to move onto college life, but cooking will definitely be a new challenge and keeping up with the blog will for sure be difficult. I have not made my final decision on where I will be going next year, as I have not heard back from all the schools I have applied to, yet , so it is hard to say right now what kind of access I will be having to a kitchen. Even if I do have optimum kitchen time, it will still be difficult to buy and pay for all of the ingredients.

Now I know this whole introduction may not be the most exciting thing for you to read, but it really would help me if some readers would participate in my poll that I have in this post.

Because cooking and baking will most likely be a challenge next year, I need your help in figuring out what else should be shared on Beautiful Disasters. Now, I have been doing a TON of sewing and actually started crocheting over the past couple weeks, so sharing projects and tutorials could become an option. In addition to sewing, some more pinterest-esque DIY projects could be shared on here with tutorials. I could also share some of what is going on in my weird, boring life. I could share funny pictures that I find as I am wasting time being super productive, more on that later this week! Or maybe you just like my cooking or baking recipes and are like “BAKE OR DO NOTHING CASEY!”. Or..I..could…stop….blogging *tear* :`(

So please, cast your votes. Participate, because contrary to popular voting belief, Your vote DOES matter!!! :-)

P.S. You can select more than one option in the poll AND I know I spelled the second tutorials wrong in the poll..

AAaanndd here is the infinity scarf tutorial! Please cut me a little slack because this is my first time doing one of these sewing, craft tutorials, so I may have forgotten to mention some helpful details. Feel free to ask plenty of questions!

Here is the original post that I based mine off of from Sweet Verbena

Here are some things you should know before you start, size of materials and what the dotted lines mean on my little diagram that comes next.

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And now here are the steps to making your infinity scarf!

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This is what the final product should look like when you have turned it right side out. Sorry for the low quality pictures, not too easy trying to take a picture of yourself at 6 in the morning!

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Random Fact of the Day: In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum. They are extremely clean there!!

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My Obsession

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Hey guys, I just wanted to take a break today from the usual sugar-laden glutton that is around here and talk about my new obsession.

It’s one that actually happens to not really involve food…do I still have your attention?? ;)

I’m sure most of you, if not all of you, have heard of Pinterest. It’s great, we all love it and could spend the rest of eternity on there, but I have a website I may like even more. It’s called Wanelo. I’m always on there looking at cute new clothes. What’s best about Wanelo is that it shows lots of brands and stores that you have never even heard of till now! Then you can spend even more hours looking through that stores’ website and the cycle goes on and on.

Just like pinterest, you can “Save” your finds into different “collections” so you can always have your little discoveries on hand for when you happen to win the lottery and can go on your monstrous shopping spree.

Supposedly there is an app for Wanelo coming out soon, and I could pee in my pants I’m so excited!! The CEO seems super down-to-earth, also, which makes me love Wanelo even more! She even takes the time to actually respond to peoples’ tweets about Wanelo and such. She even followed me on twitter! Anywho, Wanelo is a super cool website that you should seriously check out. NOW.

Sorry for no recipe today, I promise I will have one ready soon!!!

Random Fact of the Day: The way a man stands—slouching or not—is 80% of a woman’s first impression.

Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with Wanelo.com, all opinions are my own, I just happen to love their site and want to share it with all of you!

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Week in Review (5/7-5/11)

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What a busy week! Sorry for just posting one little recipe this week, but I was BIZ-eeeeee!

Monday I showed you guys some yummy banana baked oatmeal, or as Katie from Chocolate Covered Katie likes to call it-boatmeal. This stuff is so yummy and a delicious way to start any day. I have yet to tried real oatmeal, you know the goopy looking kind, but I for sure love this baked version!

Tuesday I had a soccer game against our school’s rival. They are the one other high school in our town, so it’s a pretty big deal. We had our largest crowd ever, and it was also our team’s last home game of the season. It’s always fun to play our rivals because there’s a couple girls from my travel team on there so it’s pretty major to be able to have bragging rights for the next year. We ended up just beating them 1-0, an awesome way to end our home games for the season! Next week the road for play-offs begins

Wednesday I showed you guys Part One of my prom weekend. It was a weekend that surely did not disappoint, that did not have many moments that weren’t exciting.

Thursday I volunteered at an elementary school nearby and babysat a bunch of kids. I have to say, I had an awesome time. Being the youngest child in my family, I have very little experience with babysitting, but being a swim instructor helps quite a bit. By the end of the night, I had suffered a few battle wounds. Including a large bump and bruise on my hip from a crash in “Duck, Duck, Goose”. Those kids are quick! And FULL OF ENERGY! Seriously, where does it all come from?!

Friday I showed you all Part Two from my prom weekend. It was fun to have a weekend of just straight-up fun, but I’m looking forward to catching up on a bit of sleep this weekend. VERY much needed!

Random Fact of the Day: About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.

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Promming! (PART TWO)

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Note: This is part two of “promming!”, which is my adventures of last weekend with.. guess it. prom! For part one, click here. 

Once I got home I looked down the street and saw one of the girls in my prom group already taking pictures with her date. I was still in running shorts and a zip-up… so I kind of flipped out and ran all around the house getting ready. I threw on my dress, threw some make-up on my face and called it a pretty. I think my mom photographed every second on me getting ready. I’m honestly a little shocked she didn’t catch one of me in my underwear. *phew!*

We then proceeded to take more pictures than anybody ever would have thought possible. We were a little unfamiliar with the lens on our Nikon, so a bunch of our pictures turned out fuzzy, but we still ended up getting some good ones. We took pictures of just me at the house, pictures with my date at my house, pictures at this garden place with my whole group. It was one big picture frenzy. My mouth and cheeks got the workout of a lifetime.

After pictures we headed over to the dance. FINALLY! It was awesome!! It’s funny how similar prom is to a wedding. They served up salad, chicken, veggies, potatoes, and a choice of chocolate cake or cheesecake. I got the chocolate cake. If you know me at all, you know that’s like a total no-brainer question. And then we finally got to go on the dance floor and shake our bootys. It was an awesome time…my legs were actually sore the next day! (embarrassing) After the dance, we headed over to the post prom party at the park district, where they had tons of rooms with games and prizes and food and pictures. Sooo much stuff to do there. My date and I got a caricature drawing that turned out awesome. I look pretty great, if I say so myself. Hopefully he’ll give me a copy soon, I seriously wanna frame the thing!

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They had loads of prizes they were giving out every half hour like $50, $100, $250, $1000, iPads, beats by Dre headphones, gift certificates, you name it. I didn’t win anything but a few of my friends won money and gift certificates. The whole post prom party ended at 3 A.M. I was ex-hausted! I got home, took a shower to get all the yucky hairspray out of my hair, then passed out on my bed. I knew I had to get all the sleep I could because…

Me and a few friends headed over to Six Flags Great America for the day. We left around 9 A.M. and took the hour drive to get there. We got in the park, got in line for our first roller coaster, were soooo close to the front of the line, then an announcement comes on. “We’re sorry, but due to severe weather conditions, we’re going to have to close down this ride”. So we’re like, okay this sucks but at least we can go on some other rides. All of a sudden lightning comes from like every direction. I have never seen so much lightning, so close, in my entire life. The ground was literally shaking and it felt like the earth was going to crack. Needless to say, we took off in a dead sprint to the car. It was a total bummer that we just drove all that way to not even get to go on one roller coaster, but luckily we had a plan B. We headed over to one of my favorite places in the world, Lake Geneva (where my friend/date has a lake house) and ate lunch there at this incredible little place called Popeyes, not to be confused with the fast food restaurant, Popeyes.

After lunch, we decided to head back home and watch a movie at my house. We picked “Drive”, it’s got something for everyone. Blood and action for boys, Ryan Gosling for girls. #winning. Overall it was an awesome weekend that I would never trade for anything in the entire world. Maybe some mint chocolate chip ice cream….but probably not.

Random Fact of the Day: An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

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promming! (PART ONE)

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Note: I wrote this entire “Promming!” post in a single post and decided it was just plain too long and that nobody could possibly stay interested in my weird stories for that long sooo I split this little “promming!” shebang into two posts. Read on lovahs! P.S. sorry for no recipe, one will be coming at you soon. I’ve had zero time to even think about making a recipe and taking pictures and everything.

Okay, so I know I told you guys last Saturday that I would post pictures up from prom…so here we go. I’m not going to put up any of my date and I because I’m not sure how he’d feel about that if he just somehow found himself on some random blog. I know it’s unlikely and all and I’m just flattering myself but…I’m not going to risk it. Ehh well maybe one faceless pictures, that’s ok..right?!

I consider this okay…his face isn’t showing!

Here’s how it all went down. Starting from Friday. I went to school like any good junior girl in high school would do. That’s me! Then I had two meetings for soccer. Went straight to my nail appointment.

Now I’m not sure how this is anywhere else, but a nail appointment at the place I go to means NOTHING. I waited over an hour for my “appointment”. After the long mani/pedi I headed over to the tanning salon. Let me set the record straight here. I am not a person who ever goes tanning. This was strictly for prom. I had a yellow dress, bad tan lines, a ghostly chest. It was inevitable. I am not jersey shore wannabe. I have never actually seen a full episode of jersey shore, despite the rave reviews from my friends….*gag*.

After the tanning salon, I finally got home around 8:30 and was finally able to eat dinner. I was kind of close to eating the seat belt when I was driving home because I was so hungry. Not really, but if it was covered in chocolate I think we all know how it would go down.

On Saturday morning, I started out with a soccer game at 11:30. We had to be at our meeting by 10 A.M., so I consider that a slightly early Saturday morning for me. We won our game (woohoo!) then every junior and senior left the field in a full track sprint to their cars to get to their hair and make-up appointments for prom. Some people literally had 5 minutes to make it to their appointments. Thankfully I was able to take a quick shower to wash off the mud (it was rainy during our game, by the way) but I didn’t wash my hair because apparently thats a giant no-no for up-do’s. Thankfully my hairdresser was able to put dry shampoo in and make me smell and look all pretty.

Random Fact of the Day: Subway was started by 17 year-old, Frank DeLuca who was only looking for a way to pay for medical school.

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