The Road Less Traveled By

Pinterest Wednesdays

2012-03-21T15:03:00.000-05:00

Half way through the week!! This week being the students spring break and working at a university, let me just say I'm a little bored! Trying to do productive things while it has been rainy all week so far is VERY hard!

Food:

Pinned from here. A cheesecake fruit dip! YUM!!

Pinned from here. There are some wonderful food and drink recipes!

Fashion:

Pinned from here. I just love the grey and those Toms!!

Pinned from here. I could do without the tights but everything else I LOVE!!

DIY:

Pinned from here. Soo cute! Check out their craft section of their website here, it's amazing!

Pinned from here, about 3/4 the way down. I'm gonna be watching the Hobby Lobby weekly specials to get the "fun fur" yarn, or the equilvilant on sale!!

Hope you're enjoying your week!

Anna

High Five for Friday!

2012-03-16T14:30:00.003-05:00

It's Friday!!! Here's what's happened this week:

5. We went bowling on a double date on Monday and it was so much fun! We haven't bowled in a long time and I did horrible but it was a blast.

4. It's been beautiful outside!!

3. Two of our student workers turned 21 this week! Oh such an exciting time.

2. I'm teaching Cooper to walk with me without a leash and it's going pretty well.

1. My Birchbox arrived this week! I'll post soon on that, it's pure wonderfulness.

I'm linking up with From My Grey Desk for the High Five for Friday!

Pinterest Wednesday

2012-03-14T18:07:00.000-05:00

I've decieded to make Wednesdays 'Pinterest Wednesdays." things that I've found on pinterest that are either weird, or something I'd like to try, we'll see how it goes!!

So this week on Pinterest:

Food:

Pinned here. Aren't they adorable?! I might have to make these for the office!!

Pinned here. I'm not sure these can be taken to work, but they will definitely be made!!

Fashion:

Pinned here. I just love this!

Pinned here. Although I looked up to see how much the dress was and about fell over!! I'd love to have it though.
DIY:

Pinned here. I will be making this, just gotta finish a box of cereal, lol!

I couldn't find where it shows how to do this, ugh, but it is pinned here.

It's just so addicting!! Have a wonderful day!

Anna

Quite a Find

2012-03-13T12:50:00.000-05:00

I was at Bath and Body the other day and I found the cutest soap covers! Now, I don't know about you but the Bath and Body hand soaps are the only hand soaps I use because they're good for your hands and they have wonderful scents!!

These are them. So cute!

All Three

The Palm Leaves

The Vines

The Swirls

They just fit right over! Their new scents are amazing as well!!!

Anna

High Five for Friday!

2012-03-09T18:04:00.001-06:00

It's Friday!! Since I missed last week I'm going to combine them! Linking in with From My Grey Desk Blog.

Last Week:

5. After a Oklahoma State Women's Basketball win, one of our friends on the media team invited Ed to play basket ball with them on Gallagher-Iba Arena! They had so much fun!!

4. My mom came to stay with me Friday night and we had so much fun.

3. We saw Gabriel Iglasias on Sunday night at the Civic Center in OKC. If you have a chance to see him live, DO IT! It was the best comedy show we have been to yet!! It was SO GOOD!!!

2. Ed got a new truck!! Yay! He deserves this so much, I am so happy for him!

1. Grad fair at Oklahoma State was Tuesday and we got Ed's invitations, cap and gown! It's official that he's graduating with his Bachelors!!!! It's been a long journey but he made it through and I am sooo proud of him!

This Week:

5. Mom came to stay with me Friday night (I think I can say this for both weeks, lol) and she spoils the dogs, says it's her job, I can't imagine what's going to happen when I have kids!!

P.S. Puppy dogs are not allowed on the couches! So spoiled by grandma!!

4. I think I found an old door to do a headboard with! I keep thinking about it and I might go get it this weekend!

3. We sold "The Jewel" (Ed's old truck) YAY!! No longer our headache

2. I've been thinking up some crafts and recipes to try and share!

1. We celebrated 4 years together! We've been through a lot and yet we are still together, it hasn't been easy, no one ever said that it would be. But it's worth it.

He wouldn't got off the couch for a picture, lol! Good thing he's cute!

What's been good with your weeks?!

Anna

The Weekend Project

2012-03-04T15:11:00.001-06:00

I have recently moved and been doing projects here and there to make this place as much of a home as I can because I plan on being here for a while. So, with that being said, it was BEAUTIFUL outside this weekend so I decided to do some outside work.

Part one of the backyard was to tackle what looked like an area for flowers?!

See what I mean?!

So I got out the Wal-Mart sacks, because I have a plethora of them! And I got to pulling!

And more pulling!

Oh look flowers can go there! And it looks like there might be some good ones there already

And after I raked it out:

Cooper helped lol, not really!

And the total bag count is....................

9!!

Crazy right?! But it looks so much better and I told myself if I accomplished that then I would try one of those flower seed roll things that I have wanted to do for the past three years! I found them extremely cheap here. So I'm gonna do it this year! We'll see how they work!

Anna

High Five For Friday!

2012-02-17T10:02:00.000-06:00

I linked up with From My Grey Desk Blog to do High Five For Friday, where you list 5 good things from the week. So here's my top 5 for the week:

1. We got snow on Monday!! It was only maybe 3-4 inches and was pretty much gone by 5 pm, but it still made me very happy and I got to wear my new snow boots!!

2. My hunny surprised me with a new fish tank table, I had previously been using the dining roon table, lol!

3. These WONDERFUL flowers were on the dining room table when I got home from work, too!!

He has it so easy because one of my good friends is a floral desinger at a shop here in town and she does such wonderful work!!

4. We got a microwave! Lol, sounds so weird these days but the previous places we've rented there's been a microwave!!

5. I had the hottest Valentine's Day date! He's so good to me, we went to the place we have gone to for at least the past 2-3 years for val.

See what I mean?!

What were the five things that were wonderfu in your week?

Birchbox

2012-02-10T10:38:00.001-06:00

I follow another blog who started me wanting Birchbox. Now, as of right now, you have to get on the waiting list but it looks totally worth it!

Each month you get 4-5 samples of beauty products to try. You can rate them on the website and order full size versions. It's wonderful for finding those things you didn't even know existed!!

Here's the link to get addicted:

http://www.birchbox.com/?raf=13rnq

You can also shop beauty products, which are all decently priced, as far as beauty products go that is!

Memberships are either by year or by month. With the yearly membership you save a little money.

Get on the wait list today!! You'll be glad you did!

This is not a paid advertisement, just throwing out a little peice of heaven, every girl loves new beauty prodcts and what better way to get them than monthly!!

New House, Need Organization

2012-01-30T17:00:00.000-06:00

I recently moved into a smaller house so I am having to be a little creative. I've gotten a few ideas from a couple of the blogs I follow and Pinterest. (Side note: if you have any suggestions, please let me know!!)

Over the weekend I started with my bathroom, because it was the most annoying!

So here is project number one: Master Bathroom Cabinet, the only cabinet in the bathroom, that's right, no drawers or other storage places at all!

Emma, trying to help. "You're gonna clean this, right mom?!"

This is my mess, which was driving me nuts!!

Cooper, "That's quite a mess mom!"

What do you think?!?!

I did have a little trouble getting the drawers in, of course the lip of the cabinet is lower than the inside so they wouldn't just slide in because it was like 1/2 an inch too tall!! After a little frustration, and realizing that it was good plastic and was not going to bend AT ALL, I found that the top popped off and it made it short enough to get through and once it was in, I popped the top back on!

The drawers I got from Walmart for about $10, and the two plastic bins, one of which you can't see really, I already had!

Anna

My First Post

2012-01-28T16:51:00.000-06:00

Hi!! I'm Anna and welcome to The Road Less Traveled By blog!
First I'll tell you a little bit about myself I work at Oklahoma State University, I have a boyfriend of about four years and we have two furry children Emma is a chocolate lab and Cooper is a blue heeler.

I went to Oklahoma State to get my degree in Hotel Restaurant Management and I absolutely love working at my alma mater and love everyone that I work with.

With this blog I plan to show different things that I do around the house, things that I do with my furry children and other certain things that come along the way.

Things I love are Pinterest, of course, things for dogs, easy hairstyles from one of my favorite blogs, crafts that sometimes I don't finish and much more I hope you like what you read!

If you ever have any questions, suggestions or comments. Let me know!

Anna