mauwa, delaney, hannah, & chey

I went to the dam near my house after school last Wednesday to have a photo shoot with a few of my friends! 5 girls, 2 hours, 482 pictures, and some gorgeous lighting later;

xoxo - hope

my weekend {a wordless post}

xoxo - hope 

DIY: heart garland

I've seen a ton of these cute little heart garlands around the web lately and decided it was high time for me to make one for myself! I was mainly inspired by this post, but still managed to put my own creative twist into it!

What You'll Need:

Old Book Pages

Construction Paper

Scissors

Needle & Thread

Instructions: 

1. Cut out several small to medium paper hearts out of the construction paper and old book pages. 

2. Use the needle and thread to thread all of the hearts together. I basically just put the needle through the bottom of one side of the heart and brought it up through the other side.

It should look a little something like this once you've threaded some of the hearts together;

Basically, that's all you need to do! Just keep threading the hearts together until you've got a row long enough for your taste! I ended up doing two different garlands then pinned them together in the center. This is what mine turned out like;

(bad picture, but you get the idea)

They're super cute and super easy to make, so give it a try and let me know once you do so I can see your results! :)

xoxo - hope

sneak peak

A little sneak peak of a photo shoot with a few of my friends;

More soon!

xoxo - hope

corbin

When my mom and her boyfriend made the decision to move in together I was super excited because it meant that I would basically be gaining a little sibling! A cute one at that! Corbin alternates between staying at his moms house and at our house every two weeks, and it works perfectly because just as he starts to get annoying it's time for him to go to his moms! ;)

Anyways, he came here from his moms house on Friday, so I took him out to the field/trail behind our house on Sunday so he could ride his little spiderman "ATV" as he likes to call it, and we (obviously) took a few breaks to grab some pictures!

You guys should expect to see a whole lot more of this little guy on here from now on! ;)

xoxo - hope

from the airplane window

There's something so beautiful about having a birds eye view of our planet, and I will never get tired of seeing the patchwork fields and deep blue ocean from a different point of view.

Do you enjoy flying?

xoxo - hope

on growing up, and such

When we were younger we would talk for hours about what it would be like to be a teenager, what it would be like to grow up, have special privileges, and be given responsibility. We would talk about our plans for the future, most commonly, what we wanted to be when we grow up, and although the goals are slightly more realistic now, the conversations are still there.

Why is the future so soon, yet so out of focus? Why are we so unsure of the decisions that need to be made? I want answers to these unanswerable questions, and I want to know what it is that I'm supposed to do with my life, because sometimes I feel like college or university isn't even something I need to do, but I know that for the sake of my future, I should plan for it anyways. 

Sometimes I feel like my life would be too boring if I'm not constantly abroad, but like everything else, who knows how I'll feel in a few years time. 

If you're a teenage girl between the ages of 14 and 18, I'm sure you know what I'm going through. If you're younger than that, all I can say is brace yourself, and if you're older, I would love some guidance. 

This thing called life? It's crazy. So please excuse me while I go watch teletubbies on YouTube and pretend to be three again! :)

xoxo - hope