Crafty, crafty!

Sometimes, Katie and I find crafts online and try our novice hands at them.

And sometimes, those crafts turn out freaking awesome.

Not to too our own horns or anything.

Ok, it's not as easy as it looks.

First, we had to find a huge map. Good luck with that one.

Second, we had to cut out every single state.

Then, we had to trace every state on a piece of scrapbook paper, and cut them out again!

Whew!

And ta-da!

A beautiful work of art!

Oh, crafting! How we have fallen in love with thee!

The one you've been waiting for.

{shirt: Forever 21; cardigan: DownEast Basics; ring: Forever 21}

Today was a beautiful day in Mesatown. I got to wear a cardigan for the first time!

But that's not what this post is about.

For almost 8 months now, I have been deeply interested in a book.

It was something I never thought, in my wildest dreams, that I would read.

But one day, on a large rock in a forest, I had an experience that I could never forget.

I could not let go of that small whisper.

So, against everything I had ever believed, I read.

After I read, I spoke. I learned. I cried.

I felt unbelievable happiness, calmness, and comfort.

I believed.

On September 24th, 2011, I was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

It's something I've been scared to talk about on my blog because of the way people treated me when they found out. But I'm not scared anymore.

I know I'm the same person, the same Brittany; I'm just much happier than I ever have been!

I know I belong.

If you want to learn more about my church, go here.

Silly things.

I've been busy.

I've been doing a lot of things.

I've been doing a lot of serious things, actually.

So I'll start out with the silly, simple things.

Uno. Church activities sometimes result in making awesome delicious cakes and decorating them in awesome delicious ways. Yes, I like to use delicious to describe more than just food.

Dos. Working on fun crafts with my best friend. We've become obsessed with Pinterest and  finding cute crafty things to do.. if only we had time to do them all!

Tres. Sometimes your friends get sudden hulk-like strength and throw your guitar across the room in a fit of musical rage.. Or they just accidently bump into it during guitar class. I prefer telling people that the former happened, personally. It's more exciting.

Quatro. Harry Potter Puppy Pillow?

Cinco. I had my first Bahama Rama Mama. Oh my delicious. I'm so glad that Katie and I have nothing better to do than find sweet treats to eat on a Saturday night. If you've never had one, get off blogger and go get one. Now.

Ok, so that was just a bunch of random nonsense. Not only have I been bad at blogging, but I've been bad at picture taking as well!

But, October is my favorite month.

And therefore I'm making it a priority to be more creative and happy all month!

That includes taking pictures at every single activity I go to so that I can babble on about my boring life even more!

Aren't you excited?

ah!

You guys!

I have been a horrible blogger.

And I have left you all hanging for much too long.

Now that I feel my life getting back in order, and I feel like I can make time for things other than school, work and church, I promise I'm going to come up with some posts!

{I'm not promising they will be good.}

But they will be posts!

How are you guys?! Tell me everything.

I'll wear my pearls.

Lately I've been obsessed with playing my guitar.

It probably stemmed from be starting my guitar class at ASU, which is easy peasy lemon squeezy.

So! My guitar teacher gives me harder material to work on.

Which in turn makes me want to play more.

Which in turn makes me want to learn new songs!

Plus, I think it's been way too long since I've posted one of these.

Enjoy.

If I Die Young from Brittany Lewis on Vimeo.

I really miss blogging.

And I'm going to try and get back into the swing of things.

My life has been one big rollercoaster ride after another, I just haven't had time to sit and think!

But I think about blogging all the time.

And what my next post is going to be about.

And hopefully, now that I'm functioning properly once again, I will be able to bring beautiful posts back into your lives! Aren't you excited? I know, me too.

Thank you to all of you who commented on my post last week, it feels so good to know that you guys care.

I guess I should finish the rest of my story.

I was pretty much a mess the entire week after the break up.

I couldn't eat. I couldn't be around people. I couldn't talk.

I felt all week that I hadn't gotten the chance to have my say on things. To tell him he was wrong and that I knew it was true in my heart.

That Sunday I got that chance.

I went to his house and told him everything that I had been keeping from him all week.

The answer from him was a resounding no. This isn't going to happen.

I cried, I left, for church.

On my way to church I felt an overwhelming calm come over me, a comforting feeling.

I haven't cried since.