Furniture Painting

I recently visited a childhood friend and her home is just beautiful with many unique touches in all the rooms. I had to ask how did you find these items! To my surprise most of the furniture were things that I had already seen all she did was paint or change certain things to make it more unique. Let's just say that sparked my interest to do something with my furniture. I had to start with my room and by the looks of everything you might realize I take a long time to finish my goals. I do them but just takes longer. I am still not sure why blue because I am spoiled with the Cali weather but still wanted to bring some light to my room. Home depot is honestly the best, you can do the whole virtual view before even committing to anything. Let me know your painting tips!

P.S The whole add vanilla drops does work!

Disaster #1 

After Picture (:

Always Smile
-Mahaleth

Future Party Planner?

The possibility crossed my mind due to this whole summer, I somehow found myself organizing and planning baby showers, baby gender reveals, birthday parties and social gatherings. That was a mouthful! I am taking this moment to write that I am in awe by all the blessings my family and friends have received this year. By the way the year is almost to the end and guess what! HOLIDAYS are in the countdown. I must admit I am summer Cali girl. But there is something about everyone spirits that bring a lot more joy than any other type of the year. A few things to remember when planning it is mus to choose a theme, the moment that is chosen everything else will flow much easier. If you have a few weeks to plan, look for specials, buy things little by little and it seriously won't hurt your wallet at the day of the event. I mainly used pin interest for inspirations but I did my own twist to many of the things I saw from there. The main event was Amy's surprise baby shower #2. Being a hostess is not a joke, there is a lot do's and don't. Let me know your guidelines.

Gifts for the games!

                          

Baby #2

Keep smiling
-Mahaleth

2015

We have started a New Year, but many times we focused too much on the new things that we will be doing, All these new goals eventually make us feel overwhelmed. The small changes or choices we make everyday are what last longer throughout life. One thing I noticed that helped me these past few weeks is to set my goals and accomplishments again. And something to help stay accountable would be doing my inspirations boards. I started off this year with many positive goals and after all the positive energy gone, from many surrounding me, I needed to do something else and find my own inspiration within, Let me tell you it is much difficult said than done. However, we know this journey of life requires you take it one day at time and make it count. 

I challenge you to do an inspiration board of your goals and accomplishment you set yourself on January 1st. It can either be on pin interest or old school (board and magazines) but do them to remind you this is just the start. Happy 2015! Let's continue to fill our pages with memories. 

Love 

-Mahaleth 

Goal 1: Launch my fashion line this year. (:

Goal 2: Take care of my health!

The little things that make it Fall

I will start off with saying I love summer, it has always been one of my favorites seasons, but then again I really do enjoy fall. I don't really get to experience the fall and winter weather as most people do because I get spoiled with the Cali weather! I have been loving the smallest and neat ideas we been putting up in order to make it more fall and get into the Halloween spirit. What are your traditions for the fall?

Love our table runner! 

love

With fall comes flowers that won't die on us!

This place mat was a neat idea!

         

At the Irvine Pumpkin patch!

        

                         Painting pumpkins instead. Please note there will be a total mess to clean up afterwards!

This was actually boomers pumpkin patch (:

Door contest anyone?

Life Happens....

We sometimes take on too much in life when we are already struggling to balance family, work, and various activities as it is. But the neat thing is, yes you can do it all, if you are really passionate about it and genuinely happy. The most important thing we forget sometimes is being happy in all of the things you take on in life. If we are not then maybe consider it is not worth giving your 100%. When we do find those things that makes us happy, it is when we then need to learn how to balance it all. It various from people the way they organize themselves or not. But I have found it helpful keeping a few days dedicated to certain things. Usually work and classes have already a defined time set already, but finding time to hang out with family or friends can vary. A weekly or monthly schedule comes in handy that blocks off those set times already and gives you a look at your free time. I used a schedule from a school template, but I also rely very much on my phone's calender. I am not really an agenda type of gal because I either forget about it or lose it after a couple of months in. I rather do weekly schedules and the most important reminders on my calender phone. So far it has worked but I would really love to know more ideas, especially with the holidays coming at us like a flashing thunder!

Back to school snacks

With classes starting this fall semester and doing the various activities I basically get myself involved I tend to snack on way too much. Vending machines and corner carts are my favorite places to go to. But sometimes they are closed or I am way to rush to buy my cookies, muffins or bread. (I know I have an issue!) Instead, I decided to bake banana bread and chocolate chip cookies for this week's go to snacks. I am seriously considering baking all my snacks for next couple of months in order to a. eat a little bit healthier and b. save myself some money. I been slowly letting go of Starbucks and making sure I do my own coffee every morning. But I can't quite give up my breads or cookies so I looked up a few recipes from Miss Alyssa blog and made my own batch.Quite tasty and I really hope they last me for the whole week. Any snacks you can't be without? 

Mixing all the ingredients for the banana bread.

Banana bread recipe at www.jumpersandjasmine.com

Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe at www.jumpersandjasmine.com

Thank You Cards

A thank you note comes a long way and I got reminded of this just recently. It feels more personal, more thoughtful and sincere. Even though emails, text messages, and all these applications we now have in our phones are a lot more resourceful and useful I still go back to handwriting thank you notes. I pulled out all my thank you cards and they vary from a simply thank you to beautiful images. Any specific place you purchase cards? I would really love to know. (: