Inspiration - video

This video took a long time to get from a mostly silly idea to what you're about to watch. I love YouTube and sometimes fall into the trap of wanting to make videos like the ones I like to watch. I just kept thinking of this quote from one of my favorite movies, Almost Famous.

Lester Bangs: You like Lou Reed?

William Miller: The early stuff. In his new stuff he's trying to be Bowie, but he should just be himself.

I need to not be Bowie, well in this case...you know what I'll let you guess.

Thoughts on Birthday Parties and Some Inspiration

I love birthdays and birthday parties. In fact, I love parties in general. Not so much in the 'excuse to drink' way but more in the 'excuse to decorate and plan and gather around a common theme' way. That's why I gave in to the bridal showers and bachelorette party tropes I normally would not find necessary, I just love themes! Birthday parties are especially great because the main theme is 'do what the birthday boss wants.' Sometimes what I want is just a stress-free day where I wake up late, have brunch out or in, lazily shop with friends or just enjoy the city, then meet up a larger group for dinner and drinks. It's a great way to get a big group together.

How To Use Adproval & a Giveaway!

I've been blogging for years, but I've been blogging on this blog for the past 5 years.  I've also been ad swapping (and even selling the occasional ad, whoo!) for that long. I started the way most blogs start by manually adding the codes and reminding myself to take them down after the agreed upon time. It was work, so I found a free service that would automate it and even provide a marketplace to help promote my blog. After a bit that place was no longer free, that's when I found Adproval. (I talked about my switch back in 2013, here.) Also, in case you missed it, I talked about Adproval yesterday in a video!

How To Use Aproval on Your Blog for Building Community - video

Be sure to come back to my blog tomorrow for the Adproval giveaway! If you have any questions about blogging or Adproval I'll try to answer all I can! 

Recapping the Recaps

Since 2012, I've been posting yearly recaps on this blog. Mostly as a virtual photo album crossed with a journal for myself but I also love reading those posts from bloggers I follow as well. I did not do one for 2015 I realized and it was the year where so much happened. One of my goals for this blog this year is by the summer time I'd like to finally recap last year and get prepared to recap this year as well. In the meantime (and because my birthday is coming up and the passing of time is on my mind) here is a recap of all my previous recaps.

It's My Birthday Month!

It's April, my Birthday month! I've decided I want to celebrate with you by throwing a month long blog party with giveaways and vlogs every day. Thank you so much for joining in on the fun! Here's how it works, every Thursday there will be a giveaway. (Be sure to read the guidelines each prize is provided by someone different.) I'll also be vlogging every day over on my second channel in addition to my weekly videos on my main channel. I'm sure I'll have other fun things to share and talk about on other days so stick around. If you ever want to check out what's happened so far, I've made a page that I'll be updating with all the activities along the way right here.

Is this a Film? - video

My ramblings about movie making and forgotten dreams. Also, it’s not about the gear, I'm privileged to have what I have. It just gets me down sometimes when I want my stuff to look/sound better. Husband, this is a hit I want a mic for my birthday. *love you*

Reading as Self-Care and my January/February Reading Wrap Up

Here's my reading wrap up from January and February. I've decided to try and do these videos every two months on my channel since I don't always read a ton of books in one month. Reading has been a helpful way of de-stressing and something I am determined to do more of in 2016!

BroadwayCon NYC 2016 - Day Three - Sunday

BroadwayCon day three was great! These first two photos were Instagram posts from that Sunday, and yes, I was Jemima again. There's more info on why in this post. (Main stage cosplay stuff) The second costume is Veronica Sawyer from the Heathers musical, full costume pics are here. So after the morning main stage and I changed into Veronica, I spent a lot of the day doing what I did not have the time to do the first two days, just walk around. It was an easy day, I browsed the vendor hall and got a few goodies, met some cool people, and got to see another show!

28 To Make

28 To Make is a free creative course I took in February from Creative Live to get into the habit of creating something new every day. I posted photos of all of them all on my Instagram.  The full course is here. I was going to showcase them on my blog as well but I thought it would be much more fun as a video. Thank you for watching and to help support me, consider subscribing.

Jemima Makeup - BroadwayCon 2016 Sunday

So on the last day of BroadwayCon, Sunday, I mainly cosplayed as Veronica Sawyer from the Heathers musical. Click here to see that costume! However, for the first few hours of the Con I was actually Jemima again. There was a costume 'parade' happening that morning on the main stage and my 'good friend' David Alpert told us to "bring our best" so I did the Jellicle thing...again. Since this was a rushed job and I was tired it's not my best. My line work somehow got worse from the day before but honestly, I didn't care. It was a fun experience cat-ing about on the main stage (with Anthony Rapp!!) so all was well. I hope you enjoy seeing an up-close look at the 3rd Jemima makeup in a week! Click here to see the full costume!

Found Favorites #27 Romantic Road Trip

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Found Favorites is back! So when Modcloth asked if I would peruse their site and pick out some romantic road trip must-haves, I said 'hit the road!' ...wait, that makes it sound like I said 'no'...I said 'yes' let's do this. Modcloth has such a pretty stuff.

Disney Pins & Monsters University

In this week's video I CRUSH YOUR DREAMS with some hard truths learned in Monsters University and show off my new Disney Pins! Thanks so much for watching!