Erika Elle

Books and Movies 2012

2013-01-01T19:09:00.001-08:00

Happy new years! Just want to start off this blog by wishing you a great new year. In this post I am going to share the books I read and movies I saw in 2012. There isn't many books because I slacked off in reading, but feel free to leave some suggestions for me in the comments below and I will hopefully get to read all of them by the end of this year.

Movies

American Reunion

The Dark Night Rises

Project X

What's your number?

The vow

One Day

The girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Warrior

Jack and Jill

John Carter

The Hunger games

The rebound

Avengers

Blood in Blood out

Les miserables

Premium Rush

Training Day

Flight

21 Jump street

Paranormal Activity 4

Alpha Dog

Sinister

Snow white and the huntsman

Looper

Trouble with the curve

End of watch

Battleship

The campaign

Step up 4:Revolution

Prometheus

Madea's Witness protection

Ted

The woman in black

This means war

Sparkle

Books

The Happiness Project

Fifty shades of Grey

Fifty Shades Darker

Safe Haven

Half up with bun

2012-11-06T23:07:00.001-08:00

So today was a very important day in history. It was the presidential election and Obama was reelected as president. Don't want to go into too much detail because I feel politics is a very very touchy subject and this post is mainly about my hair, but I just decided to make a little side note about today because it was the first time I actually participated in voting. I was a junior in high school when the last election took place and was not 18 years old. Anyways enough about the election, moving on to my hair.

For this hairstyle I first separated my hair in about a quarter section and secured it with a elastic hair tie. I wouldn't say it was half because it was less then that. The way I created the part was by taking my two thumbs and went straight up from the tip of my ear. Next step I did was gather my hair and created a low bun and secured that. All i did to complete this look was spray the bun with hairspray.

Bobby Pinned back

2012-11-05T18:58:00.000-08:00

I know this hairstyle is really simple. All i did was take about a 2''-3'' section of my hair, took two bobby pins and pinned it back. I found a lot of hairstyle ideas from magazines so hopefully i will have more interesting hairstyles on the way.

Braid, Curls and Ponytail

2012-11-04T18:38:00.000-08:00

Today this post is going to include how i did my Friday, Saturday and today. So I am just going to go ahead and let you know.

Friday Nov 2

Side Braid

All I did for this hairstyle was gather my hair to one side and then I braided my hair. Don't mind how tired I look. Took this picture late at night.

Saturday Nov 3

Curls

For saturday I curled my hair. I just split my hair in half and curled my hair with a 1'' curling iron and added some hairspray. I actually didn't split my hair down the middle but created a side part so I can create more volume.

Today

Ponytail

For today I didn't really do anything besides homework, chores and be extremely lazy. Getting used to the time change. So I just put my hair up in a ponytail. The point of this challenge is to get me away from having my hair in a ponytail or keeping in straight down, but i decided that I can have both of these hairstyles at least once this month. I have already lost the "privilege" of putting my hair in a ponytail. That means I really need to be on top of creating different hairstyles this month.

Check back tomorrow to see what I did to my hair. I hope you guys enjoy this challenge as much as I am.

Hairstyle Challenge

2012-11-01T16:11:00.002-07:00

I don't know about you but I hardly ever fix up my hair nice. I usually have it down straight/curly or in a ponytail. Sometimes I just don't have time to do anything else to it while getting ready in the morning. So in order for me to change this, I decided for the month of november to do different hairstyles. This will really be a challenge for me because I will have to be creative. Hopefully I can complete this challenge and motivate myself to do my hair differently for a month. I will be posting up a picture everyday of my hairstyle and give a brief paragraph on what I did to create the look. So here is day #1.

Curly with a poof

So the first thing I did to create this look was create the poof. I took about a 2-3 inch section of my hair, teased it a little bit and then bobby pinned it back. I used two bobby pins and placed them like in an x formation. The next thing I did was curled my hair. I took a 1 inch curling iron and just curled away from face. After i finished curling my hair I just added a little bit of hairspray. Pretty simple i know :D. Feel free to take part in this challenge and share how you styled your hair. Make sure to check my blog for tomorrow's hairstyle.

New Years Resolution and Goals

2012-01-03T15:08:00.000-08:00

I decided that since I am still sick and not in the best condition to film a video, I am going to write about my new years resolutions. I do not have that many, but I think that having only a few will allow me to be successful in following them throughout the year. So here are my new year resolutions for the year 2012.

1.Meatless Mondays- I did a research paper for school and the topic I chose had to do with animals rights. While researching I came across a video that really caught my attention. Now, I love meat and no way will become vegetarian or vegan, but devoting one day (Mondays) to not eat meat is my way of showing that I do have the animals in my thoughts.

2. Join a dance class- During my 4 years of high school I was involved in dance. I miss dancing and performing. The joy of dancing is indescribable. Dance is a great stress reliever and is great for keeping a nice figure. My goal is to join a dance class and participate in it throughout the year.

3.Be consistent with youtube- I know that in 2011, I made videos, but for the past few months I was not consistent. I think my last video was put up in Oct or Nov. Can't really remember now, but my goal is to have a video up everyday or every other day. I know right now I am not off to a good start, but that is because I am sick :(.

Now those are 3 of my new years resolutions. Hopefully I am successful in completing them. However, i do have some goals that I want to accomplish this year.

1.Spend my 21st in Seattle, Washington

2.Go to Hawaii in the summer

3.Imats La

That is all I can think of right now. Pretty simple. I hope that this year is successful and I accomplish all that I have on this list. What are some of your New Year resolutions

Books and Movies 2011

2012-01-01T14:05:00.000-08:00

I know it has been a while since I have posted anything up on my blog. The last time was Oct 31st. I am very disappointed in myself. However, a new year has started and I have many plans for this year and one of them includes blogging a lot more. This blog is going to share some of the books and movies I watched this year. I thought it would be a cool post to share with you. Here is the list

Books:

The Help

Where the Wild things Are

Eat Pray Love

L.A Candy

The Secret Garden

A Single Shard

Sugar and Spice

Imaginary Enemy

We'll Always have Summer

A Stolen Life

True Confessions of Heartless Girl

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

Number the Stars

Just Listen

Bumped

Tuesdays with Morrie

The Alchemist

Who Moved my Cheese?

Sweet Little Lies

By The River Piedra I sat down and Wept

Straight Talk No Chaser

Story Of a Girl

The Unwritten

Liar

Movies:

Bridesmaids

Takers

Transformers:Dark Of the Moon

X-Men First Class

The Hangover:Part II

Dear John

The Social Network

Just go with it

Real Steal

Paranormal Activity 3

Eat Pray Love

The Tourist

Tangled

You Again

Footloose

Sherlock Holmes:A Game Of Shadows

The Twilight Saga:Breaking Dawn Part 1

New Years Eve

Happy Feet Two

The Peacemaker

Soul Surfer

Moneyball

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Drive

Crazy, Stupid Love

Something Borrowed

Blitz

Fast and Furious:Five

The Green Lantern

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II

The Adjustment Bureau

Friends with Benefits

The Lincoln Lawyer

Captain America

Cowboys and Aliens

Scream 4

Insidious

Bedazzled

Sucker Punch

Limitless

Unknown

No Strings Attached

The Eagle

This concludes all the books I read and movies I saw in the year of 2011. Feel free to leave some of your favorite books and movies from 2011.

October Collective Haul

2011-10-31T14:28:00.000-07:00

Target

Sonia Kashuk Nail Polish(Taunting Teal)-$4.99

ELF Studio Blush(Pink Passion)-$3

Globe Piggy Bank-$9.99

17 Magazines(October and November Issue)-$2.99 Each

Sidecca

Kleancolor Nailpolish Collection-$6

Urban Outfitters

Book-$18.95

September Haul

2011-09-28T13:26:00.000-07:00

Here are the Prices to the items I showed in my September collective haul.

Costco

A stolen Life:$14.99

The Help:$9.99

Swapmeet

Brushes and Case:$6.00

Kohls

Originally 44.00

Purchased at 17.60

Originally $44.00

Purchased at $13.20

Originally at $44.00

Purchased at 22.40

Sweater tops Originally $30.00

Purchased at $14.99

Denim Originally $36.00

Purchased at 20.99

Cookie Lee

$38.00

Cookie Lee Wishlist

2011-09-18T14:48:00.000-07:00

Just yesterday I went to a Cookie Lee Jewelry party. There were a couple of nice jewelry pieces I found, but I ended up only buying one. It will be featured in my September Collective haul, so be on the look out for that. I ended up taking a Fall/Winter 2011 catalog home. While looking through it, I saw a lot of pieces that I liked and would want to have, but was not on display at the party I attended. I decided to make up a little wish-list of the pieces I fell in love with. Below are some pictures of those pieces.

$34

$36

$22

$34

$28

$32

Of course I know I am not going to get all these pieces and that is why I decided to make this wishlist. From all the ones pictured above, which one is your favorite and do you own any Cookie Lee jewelry? Cookie Lee has a lot of other great pieces. I highly recommend checking out one of their catalogues.

Rags to Riches Haul

2011-08-20T15:10:00.000-07:00

Are you familiar with the program "Storage Wars"? If you aren't there are bidders that look at old storage units that have been abandoned and bid on the storage that they feel will be the most profitable. Most of the bidders have their own shop and it so happens that I went to "Rags to Riches Thrift Shop" in California. This shop is owned by Dave Hester which is one of the bidders on the show. You can find out more information about the show and characters by looking at the official Storage Wars Website.

While I was there, I bought one item. I bought a cute Chico's vest that I honestly think would be cute to wear on Labor day, Memorial day and even 4th of July.

Back reads:"We the People....Pride....Honor...Respect"

Original:$34.99

After Discount:$17.49

I am thinking about wearing it on 4th of July even though I still have a year or 11 months to think about it. Hey, its never to early to plan wardrobe right? What are your thoughts on it and do you watch Storage wars?

Michaels and Public Library Haul

2011-08-07T19:15:00.000-07:00

Michaels
-Wall Decor
"If you are confident, you are beautiful"
Original Price:24.99
Had 40% of coupon from local newspaper ads
Price after coupon-14.99

Books from Public Library
-True confessions of a heartless girl by Martha Brooks
-Imaginary Enemy by Julie Gonzalez
-We'll always have summer by Jenny Han

*Books have to be returned

Target Haul

2011-08-05T23:49:00.000-07:00

I have decided that I am not going to do hauls on My Youtube every time I shop, but do one collective haul for the month. However, I will be posting up blog pots every time I shop. I hope that makes sense. If you are following my blog, you have the privilege of seeing all the items I purchased throughout the month before I actually make the video to put on youtube. This is going to keep my blog active and I hope that you enjoy my posts and this new idea. If you have any suggestions feel free to leave in the comment section below.

The basket of goodies :D

Awesome Wall Decor

Original Price:$14.99

Sale Price:$14.00

Seventeen Magazine

Price:$2.99

Different Education Cards

Price:$1.00 Each

Total:$6.00

Basket

Price:$2.50

OC Fair(California)

2011-07-21T13:36:00.000-07:00

*Note* All pictures were taken by me

Museum of Tolerance

2011-07-18T16:14:00.000-07:00

I am assuming every single person who comes across this post is familiar with the holocaust. It was unfortunate that this event occurred.Many innocent lives were taken and it is something that hopefully will never happen again. I am not here to make anyone depressed.

I am actually here to introduce The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California that remembers all the lives that were lost. I had the privilege of going to this museum this past friday(July 15,2011). This is a very nice museum. The museum is very well structured,affordable and has different exhibits one can enjoy. Check out the Website for more information. I just want to mention before hand, that there is absolutely no cameras allowed in the museum.

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2011-07-18T09:16:00.001-07:00

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Santa Monica Pier and Beach(California)

2011-07-10T22:59:00.000-07:00

Cute Beach house I saw

Entrance to the Pier

Taken from the second floor of Mariasol Mexican Restaurant

Entrance to Amusement Park

*Note* All photos were taken by me.

4th of July

2011-07-04T23:29:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

I know I haven't been posting a lot lately on my blog. Just been so busy and if you follow me on youtube you would know that I am actually up north where my mom is originally from and have not had internet access until now. I hoped that everyone had a great 4th of July. I know i did. My family had a BBQ for my nino. It was actually a birthday party. His birthday is actually the 7th, but its never to early to celebrate someones birthday :P. What did you guys do?

Social Media and Favorite book

2011-06-22T17:30:00.000-07:00

Good evening. Right now its going to be 5:30 and I decided to complete my daily challenge. I am completely surprise I am doing this early. It is day 22 and I have to share a website and my favorite book. Now as most may know its 2011 and its pretty hard not to be glued and addicted to the internet. There are so many different ways that the internet is a part of our lives. Homework being turned online,internet in phones,and not to mention just for pure enjoyment. I am guilty for using the internet any chance I get. I have many social network sites. But some of my favorite are facebook, twitter,youtube and of course not to mention this site. I check those sites a numerous amount of times each day. Its pretty ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, no one forces me and I completely love interacting via internet. I Just hope that my social skills don't get affected by it, but I highly doubt that because even with texting and sending messages, I always write out things correctly. But enough about me. What are some of your favorite websites.

Now day 4 of this youtube and facebook challenge was to share my favorite book. I remember choosing Number the Stars by Louis Lowry. Its really a great book and I am pretty sure most people are familiar. It gives a little information about what life was life during the holocaust. That is still one of my favorite books but I really Like all of Lauren Conrad books as well. I have all her books. I enjoy them a lot and I am actually going to be using her Style book to pick up some items I can add in my closest. What is your favorite book? I am in need of some books to check out from my public library.

My Recipe and I won't forget

2011-06-21T23:36:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone so basically right now there is a helicopter going around in circles and cops down my street. Its somewhat scary. However that is not what I am here to write about. I am here to write about todays challenges and they are to share a recipe and share something I wish I could forget.

The recipe I am going to share is baked chicken. It is extremely easy. Just make sure you are old enough to use the stove or have parental permission and/or supervision.

Chicken(thigh,legs,breast,)

Seasoned Salt

Lemon Pepper

Pan

1:First start off my washing the chicken

2.Season your chicken

3.Put in oven

4.Bake for 30-45 minutes

I promise you it will be completely delicious. If you are not sure about following my recipe you can always google it. =]. Feel free to send me your favorite recipe.

Moving on to the second part. I personally do not like just forgetting about things. I think everything happens for a reason and everything that happens is supposed to happen. So forgetting about things is not in my nature.

Hobby and Traveling

2011-06-20T23:30:00.000-07:00

Good evening everyone. Once again it is late. I feel wide awake for some reason. I guess its because I have a lot of exciting things happening soon. I am going to Imats this saturday,going to a concert in July and going on vacation in August. I am just so stoked for the vacation. But moving on to todays challenge which is day 20, you probably guessed from the title what it was going to be about and it is to share hobbies and share a picture of somewhere I would want to travel to. It was also coincidental that today one of twitters hasthtags was a vacation wishlist and of course I mentioned the same places I will be mentioning here. However before I mention where I would love to travel to, I am going to share some of my hobbies. Well I love dancing and singing. Those have been my hobbies ever since I was little. I have so many home videos of myself when I was younger just singing and dancing away. Recently though my hobby has to be making videos. I love the feeling of making videos. Ideas are endless for me. Its really fun. Its been about 2 months and I love it. I have 25 subscribers and I am so thankful for them. That means 25 people like to see my videos and want to make sure they don't miss one. Youtube is extremely fun.

So as many of you know already if you read some of my previous blogs. You would know that I love traveling. I want to explore and I just love all the things you can learn while traveling. My ideal life would somehow incorporate me being a teaching and traveling around the world. That would just be awesome for me. But of course I need money. That is why I am going to school. So I can get educated and get a job. =]. Well the places I would love to travel to are of course the whole United States. I know I live in the U.S., but I think it would be so awesome to visit every state. That is actually one of my goals I have. I would also love to travel to Rome, Venice, and Italy. Those are the 4 major places I would love to travel to before I vanish this earth. Hopefully, somehow, someway, it can happen. =]

United States

Rome

Venice

Paris

Talents and Letters

2011-06-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, so today was a very busy day. I celebrated fathers day. =]. My whole family and I went out and ate. We had great breakfast at a local restaurant.I appreciate everything my father has done for me and like I had wrote in my previous post. I am for sure daddy's little girl. We look alike and have the same personality. =]. But today is day 19 and I have two more challenges to complete. The first one is to share a talent of mine and than share a letter. I am really not sure whether the second part of the challenge means an actually letter like from the alphabet or a letter that was given to me. I am completely confused with that. But back to the first part. Talent is something that I believe I lack. Many people can sing,dance or play an instrument extremely well. As for myself sure I can sing and dance but do I consider it my talent. Not really. Those are things I like to do. I honestly believe I do not have a talent, but just have certain things I am interested in.What are some of your talents or things that you like to do?

Well for the second part I will have to insert the picture of all my letters =]. I have many letters. Some of them I have had since junior high. I am not going to be a junior(third year) in college. I can't seem to throw them away, but I know one day I will.

Well I think that about concludes this post today. I will be checking in tomorrow. =]. Good night.

My day and Insecurities?

2011-06-18T22:48:00.000-07:00

Good evening everyone. It is somewhat late and I am extremely tired. I had to wake up super early today since I was having a garage sale. I did very well and was impressed with the amount I made. Today is day 18 and the challenges were to choose something I wanted to share and than share my biggest insecurity. I decided that for the first part of the challenge I was going to share my day.

So like I mentioned above I woke up extremely early. I was up at I believe 5am and have been up since than. My eyes are burning so bad =[. The garage sale went very well. It lasted about 8 hours and I got rid of a lot of clothes I had that were still in great condition. The money that I received from the garage sale is for my trip that I will be taking in August. I am so excited and I bought a photo album to put all my pictures. I will for sure bring my camera and maybe do some vlogging. After the garage sale I ended up going to my friends house and than came home. My day was pretty relaxing and I am so tired. I am forcing myself to keep my eyes open.How was your day?

Now to move on to a serious note. Insecurities. I am at the point in my life where I am completely content with the person I am and what I look like. It took time to get to where I am but I am happy to be here. So many people spend their life trying to deal with their insecurities while I am just happy and I am not worried about them. There is so much more to life than to want to look perfect. I guess you can say I take like pretty seriously and I am just happy to be me. =]

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2011-06-18T14:37:00.001-07:00

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Art Piece and Impact

2011-06-17T23:43:00.000-07:00

Hello, I completely almost forgot about posting up my challenge. I would have completely messed up today if I did not remember and I would have been mad at myself. But anyways, today is day 17 and I have to share an art piece and something that has made an impact on my life. Well just for the purpose of time I am not going to share pictures. Most of these challenges do require pictures. I will probably add pictures in tomorrow or something. I am not really an "artsy" person. I do not have a favorite artist but I did grow up with Diego Rivera in my house. My mom loves his artwork and has had his painting in our hallways,bathrooms,and of course in here room. So I do enjoy his paintings. I will for sure add pictures of his paintings later. Please feel free to tell me who your favorite artists are and share some of the paintings you like. I will for sure check them out.

The next part is to share something that has had an impact on my life and I have to say two things have had an impact of me and that is graduation from my college. I graduated with my AA and now I will be working on my Bachelors. I am extremely excited. It will be a new chapter in my life. Last but not least, youtube. I enjoy making youtube videos and I started in April. It pushes me to be creative and that is what I love about it. I also love the fact that I am meeting awesome people. What are something things or who is someone that has inspired you.

Well that is about it. I have to actually go to bed. Have to wake up early since I am having a garage sale.