Travel

Graceland, Memphis

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Graceland

If you’re just checking in, I just came back from a week long road trip with some friends. To recap, we were in the Outer Banks, North Carolina for the majority of the trip, made stops in Asheville, NC, Nashville + Memphis, TN.

Our original plan involved us staying in North Carolina the whole time, but because of circumstances and opportunity, we took advantage of having a rental car and decided to drive through Tennessee making Memphis our final stop. My friend expressed how visiting Graceland has been a dream of hers, and we made it happen. It was something I never planned on doing in my life, but I’m happy we did. It was a fascinating experience, and one of my favorite stops on the trip!

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Travel

Nashville, TN Highlights

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Day four of our trip was a big traveling day for us. We left the rental house in the morning, drove all the way to Asheville, NC for dinner, and then drove to Nashville, TN to the motel to sleep the night away. It was loads of driving, and we arrived to Nashville so so so late. And the motel experience was pretty uncomfortable, almost to the point where it felt as if we stepped into a horror movie, but I won’t get into that because it’s in the past and I’m alive. 👐

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Travel

North Carolina Highlights

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(A cool mural that was not too far from where we stayed.)

It’s wild to think about all the traveling we took part in within the week we had our rental car.
The four days we were in North Carolina, we stayed in the Outer Banks, and took a few trips around town to see what the Outer Banks had to offer. The majority of the time, we found ourselves chasing the sunset and looking out for awesome nature spots. It was a very picturesque area.

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Love Notes

Eat, Pray, Love Notes

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Graffiti In Athens

Gonna be honest, I’m kinda disappointed I haven’t found any murals or graffiti in the area of North Carolina we’re staying in. But then again, I guess that can’t be a bad thing at all. In my eyes, it’s both good and bad, but I really shouldn’t complain. They got a nice thing happening here on the eastern side of NC. They take care of their city.

In the meantime, I really still have much more graffiti photos from Greece, so that’ll keep this Love Notes section busy until I gather enough photos from other locations.

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Travel

Down The Coast We Go

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Nags Head, North Carolina

So I’ve had quite a number of family friends ask me, “didn’t you go on enough vacations this year?”. I did, but I’m trying to do this thing where I say yes more than no when good opportunities comes along.
Two weeks ago, a friend asked if I wanted to go on a road trip to North Carolina. Her aunt has a summer house that had a week free between being rented out and my friend wanted to reserve it for that week. I don’t have an excuse to really go south, so here was an excuse and opportunity. This year has been trip-tastic, so I figured why not go out with a bang and end it off with a rando road trip to the Old North State.

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Canvas Art

Mermaid Wall Art

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Mermaid Art

I think one thing that’s really cool is how everyone has their own interpretation of what they think mermaid art is. Really random topic, I know, but I wanted to share what my interpretation is. Spoiler: it involves scales, blue-teal-green, and a whole lot of glitter.

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Fanship

Fast & Frightening Type

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L7 Fast & Frightening Quote

As I’ve shared my love for empowering 90’s grungey bands, L7 (who recently reunited, woo!) was one band that was on rotation in my CD player for a long time. They’re straight up badass women who prove stereotypes are wrong when it comes to the idea of women being “fragile” and “weak”, especially in the rock world known as the “boy’s club”. They’ve made so many shocking headlines (I was going to insert a link, but they’ve had so many shocking moments that there are too many moments to single out just one moment from one link…what?). They basically had a lot of “unlady-like” 🙌 moments. Okay, I’ll stop with the “air quotes”.

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Upcycle

Tie Dye Shirts

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Tie Dye Shirts

A few years ago, my brother decided he wanted to tie dye a bunch of his shirts just for the heck of it. No reason at all. He goes through weird phases every so often.

Of course he got tired of having these shirts and offered them to me before he got rid of them. I can’t say no to tie dye so I took them.
Knowing me, I tried to come up with plans to change these up and maybe even put them in my shop. I didn’t have intentions of keeping them for myself as my closet is already filled with clothes.
I kinda winged it, but I had the thought that the first plan was to take the sleeves off and do a swap with other fabric.

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Wardrobe Transformation

This To That // Gwen Stefani Pants

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Gwen Stefani Settle Down Pants

Let me take a quick second to tell you about one person that inspires me to no end. But you can probably already guess since her name is in the title. Yea, Gwen. I’ve already written about how much I love No Doubt, but I probably will mention it a lot more in the future. Fair warning here.

Anyway, as a lot of Gwen fans can probably share, she’s the reason why I started taking sewing seriously. I went from sewing clothes for my Barbies, to wristbands (I sewed a lot imitating Gwen’s arm accessories during the Rock Steady era), to sewing shirts for myself, and I can’t stop. I have been for years inspired by her cool style and she inspires me to try to be cool with my style. I don’t know if it’s working, but I do what I can.

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