the presley adventure blog

Blog Abandonment and New Announcements

2012-06-28T10:50:00.002-04:00

I have been a terrible blogger lately. I haven't posted in ages. As always, I still have a lot to say about everything, I just can't find the time/energy/will to write and edit the blog. I have been blogging for about 8 months, and I have just lost my real passion for what I was blogging about. I love the Bachelorette and running my mouth on my opinion but thanks to DVR, I don't feel the urgency to watch each episode as the come on, so the posts weren't very timely. Also, I wasn't doing a large variety of projects anymore, just mostly focusing on perfecting my designs and work. Which brings to another announcement:

I am soon opening an Etsy shop!

I have been immensely busy preparing inventory and perfecting things, working on branding and design, and testing the market. When the shop opens I will make an announcement on Facebook. I love creating more than I love writing about what I am creating, so when the projects started to take precedence, I kind of let the blog slip.

But my blogging ways may not be completely over, they may just take on a new form.

I also am taking on another big project, they may get a blog of its own just for documentation sake. Recently, my sweet grandma passed away. My grandma was a master crafter and writer, an amazing and Godly woman that everyone loved. I am the only grandchild who has a real passion for creating things the way she did so I took on a project. It's a big scary project that is currently sitting in the corner of my craft room, being intimidating. She has a box of unfinished quilts, and I decided I wanted to finish them. So, when the day comes that I stop being afraid of quilting and all the challenges that will come with it. I may start a blog to catalog my experience, seek advice from quilters and reminisce about my Grandma. This project will be long, and very focused so I think blogging about something so specific and emotionally charged will be less of a task than just general blogging about dumb crap.

I want to thank all of my readers for the support and for listening to me ramble. You guys came to read my ramblings about 6500 times in just the 8 short months I have been blogging.

Thanks again :)

June: Organization, and catching up on The Bachelorette

2012-06-21T16:35:00.000-04:00

June has been a crazy month. I haven't been blogging like at all and I have severely neglected my lovely readers. I had some problems with some bad computer stuff infecting my website, blah blah blah, technical stuff, blah blah. It is all fixed now. Also, I traveled to North Carolina to see my family for about a week in the middle of June and decided to bring home my little brother to stay with me for a couple weeks. So things in the Presley household have been a little crazier than usual. Anyways, back to business.

I have been a little behind on The Bachelorette, thanks to DVR, I can catch up. And catch up I did!

I don't have too much to say about the last few episodes except that Kalon is tool, good riddance.
Also, Ryan is douchey tool, also good riddance.

I love Arie, and they have the strongest connection of anyone on the show. But Sean is adorable and seems like a good fit for her too.

Speaking of 'her'...while I was in NC, I had some down time and I picked up a gossip magazine with Emily as the main story. It painted a not so pretty picture of her. They addressed the points that she is very vain, obsessed with money, and is kind of bitch. I really don't want all these things to be true because I absolutely love her, and considering the source I am going to say that they are most likely just exaggerations of her personality.

Best Quote from The Bachelor/Bachelorette Series:

"I wanna go West Virgina hoodrat backwoods on his ass"

Anyways, I caught up on the Bachelorette and now I'm hooked back in so expect a Bachelorette blog next week.

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I haven't been into too many new projects recently, because the sheer volume of the unfinished, projects waiting to be done, limited space and time. But I have been trying to organize my family's massive amounts of clothing.

Between baby A, D and myself, we fill about 5 dressers and two very large walk in closets. We have way way way way way too many clothes. (We are in the process of going through and getting rid of a good majority of them)

As most of you know, dear husband has joined the Navy and that means it will soon be moving time, and I don't want to take 5 tons worth of clothes with us, and I really want to pack as few boxes as possible. (If you pack less, you have to UNpack less later on)

On pinterest I saw a neat picture and caption that said fold your shirts with the print/pattern up and store them vertically (see picture). This is amazing. It packs a lot more into a space and you can see everything without having to dig and rummage through the drawer. This would have come in very handy in college and the days of dorm room dressers and closets. Storage space is prime real estate!!


This packed about 2 drawers into one!

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I haven't been into too much else, I am getting ready to do lots of painting projects in the next few days/weeks, so expect to see some summer painting posts. Also I am going to try and start making some cool summery accessories so keep watch for that too!

Happy Summer

Better Bikinis: give your suits a makeover

2012-06-03T10:00:00.001-04:00

I love shopping for bathing suits and summer clothes! I pretty much just love bathing suits and summer style, because it means one thing: summer is here and going strong.

Lately I have overloaded my Pinterest with bikinis and summer dresses, and studded shorts and floral crops, and awesome sandals. I am a summer girl 100%, through and through. But I haven't bought a new bathing suit yet this season, and now I feel like I can hold off on that for a little longer.

As I said earlier, I love shopping for summer, but I do like to be financially savvy and get the best out of what I have bought. I also, like most women, like any advice that will a) make me look better in a bikini or b) make a bikini look better on me.

Ladies, if you have any triangle tops, or even any bikini bottoms, you have potential for a killer new bathing suit style.

I ran across a tip on Pinterest about changing up how you tie your triangle top from a tumblr blog called Goldfish Kiss , I decided to try it out and browse her site, which I fell in love with. And I also found a tip for making those boring bikini bottoms morph into the awesomely flattering scrunch-butt bottoms. I have a few triangle tops and basic bottoms that are the staples in any girls bikini line up, but I was getting kind of tired of them, and I just felt that they were boring. I was actually planning on going through my suits and getting rid of some. Now, I am back in love with all my bathing suits and will not get rid of any of them! (Okay, maybe I'll ditch last year's floral, sequined monokini, which was not my best idea)

Triangle Top= Wrap Top

This tie is great for the ladies who weren't exactly blessed with bounty in the chest area. It creates much more flattering shape than the usual triangle top halter tie and I know it is the same amount of fabric, but it feels like more coverage and better support. I may never wear a regular triangle halter again.

Regular Triangle Tie

Wrap Top Style

This gets a little tricky, so here is the you tube video from Goldfish Kiss to make sense of it.

Bikini Butt Scrunch

This basically changed my outlook on how good my butt could look in a bikini. Your basic bikini bottoms are pretty bland and probably aren't as flattering as they could be.But with a little floss (insert butt floss joke now), a needle and about 2 minutes, you can give your boring bottom a makeover! All you do in take some floss, stitch right down the center of your bikini bottoms about 6 inches or so, pull the floss tight to create a scrunched up ruffle and BAM! Your booty now looks fabulous in those formerly saggy bottoms. It also helps stretched out, a-little-too-big bottoms to fit better. No more losing your bottoms in the ocean or down a water slide!

So now you can go and play with your old bathing suits and make them fabulous. One of my old bathing suits (pre-pregnancy, that's how old it is) is now my new favorite of the moment.

Here is another Goldfish Kiss Bikini Facelift I tried :

This tie takes the strings that would go around your neck, and you tie them in the front. I really like this tie and the way it looks too.

I also branched out a little bit in another way. I have been mixing and matching tops and bottoms lately. I know that is something that most beach babes have been doing since the birth of the bikini, but it is something I have never done before, due to my compulsion to be "matchy-matchy". But now that I have have broken the bonds of matchy-ness, I feel so free. I might go to Target and buy a mismatched bathing suit, or maybe just a pair of cute bottoms, or a sweet top. But I don't know if I could ever go back to matching again.

By tying my tops differently, giving my bottoms a butt scrunch and mixing and matching, I have successfully expanded my bikini closet without buying anything new (D will be so happy!).

But now, if when I do buy a new suit, it will really be so much more!

happy summer, and you're welcome.