Love

i just got this for my car!!

i'm so excited it's not even funny.
no really. it's not.
haha

Radical Ministry

This past weekend I went on a retreat with my school's Confirmation I group. I swear it was one of the happiest retreats that i've ever been on. I helped run it with about 10 other people. These people are some of the greatest people that i have ever known and i am so extremely blessed to have them in my life. I love them with all of my heart. They are my family.

But anyways, i was talking with my old youth minister, Tim, and we were talking about a group we sort of started at my church but after the first few meetings, unfortunately, it sort of fizzled. Now, he lives in Arizona and one of the really dedicated members of the group is in college in Indiana. (Notre Dame, Woot Woot!)

But that doesn't mean that our radical ministry has to end. It might have sort of slowed for a very long time, but it's only hit an impasse. It can still be revived.

So my question to you is this: do any of you have any ideas that we can act upon that is "radical" and can help do even a small thing to help the world? I'm not joking. Please, I'd love to hear what any of you have to say.

Thanks!
~Lili

Everyday I Vow To...

So I've decided that in order to reach my goal of being a person that does more than just schoolwork, in order to be a person with a story, i need to start doing even little things every day so that eventually i can build up to greater and much larger things to change the world. Here's what I have so far:


-give at least 3 people a hug
-talk to someone i don't usually talk to
-spend at least an hour straight (not scattered) doing something besides homework or anything on the computer
-tell someone something about how i'm feeling that day. not hold everything inside all the time.
-ask someone who looks upset what's wrong and listen to them if they decide to tell me
-hug someone who looks upset when words don't work
-give a complement to at least one person...especially randomly
-read a couple of pages in a book that's not for homework
-read something inspirational/ watch a short video about something inspirational.
...as always, this list will hopefully be added onto.

Inspiration Blogs

So many of you might know, or you might not, that one of the biggest goals that I've had for practically my entire life is to be more creative. Recently I have found a few blogs that have become my sort of muse(s? can you make that plural? I've never heard it that way.)
Anyway, I've decided that I want to post their sites on my own blog because I want to spread their magnificence to others so that they can inspire others as they do me.



Number 1.
name: whichgoose
blog link: http://whichgoose.blogspot.com/
this girl is positively...what's a good word...phenominal? creative? incredible?
some mixture of all those and more.
I found her first on Etsy but then lost track of her and managed to find her again a few months later. And then I found out she had a blog and I followed her on there, and I am so glad I did. I look at all of the beautiful things she has created and all of the things she posts that she's done and I am inspired to do stuff for myself, create stuff, do more with my life. So thank you Ms. Whichgoose (a.k.a Emily)

Number 2.
name: goodthingscatered
blog link: http://goodthingscatered.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-year-new-recipes.html
so as many of you may know, I am a baker. I love it. It makes me happy. And I think I'm kind of addicted. (to clarify: bake food not drugs ok?)
I actually found this blog a long time ago when I was looking for a recipe for blueberry scones to bake with one of my best friends, Emily. The women who writes this blog has hundreds of recipes; the perfect combination of recipes with pictures to accompany them, and reviews at the end to make you absolutely sure that this is the food you want to create. As mentioned in one of my previous blogs: one of my new years resolutions is to not bake so much but to also cook so that everyone can eat some of the delicious stuff I make without getting all worried about calories and fat or vatefer

Number 3.
name: thedrifterandthegypsy
blog link: http://thedrifterandthegypsy.blogspot.com/2010/01/pretty-books.html
So I only recently found this blog and I am SO happy I did.
The person who wrote this blog posts the most beautiful pictures I have ever seen in my entire life.
She also posts different projects she's started herself and with others and even the rest of the world! I wish I had signed up with her I Heart project. It's this like notebook thing that is being sent all around the world pretty much in which everyone who receives it makes a collage and puts it in the book. So awesome! I want to do something like that some day. Anyways. If you read this blog, please look her up.

Number 4.
name: notebookdoodles
blog link: http://notebookdoodles.blogspot.com/
This blog is a site full of happy and inspirational pictures featuring quotes that have been masterfully put together by the person who writes this blog. I swear. I go on this blog, and even on the crappiest of days, it makes me smile. So thank you so much for making my day every day notbookdoodles. you are amazing.



PLEASE PLEASE LOOK UP ALL OF THESE PEOPLE EVEN IF YOU DON'T READ MY DESCRIPTIONS! you will understand when you see them. and you can thank me later:)

THESE! i want these.

Sale price: 22.450,- Kr.



i don't understand the price. what does it mean? if you do understand, please, comment and enlighten me. much obliged

~Lili

Things I Absolutely MUST Do In 2010

...and if i don't...just please help me make sure I do. Much obliged.

• start sewing. I'm planning on starting with some cute aprons because I already have the material, and then I'm going to make a pair of floury shorts for my friend Kelly and I.
• start a chapstick line with my friend Marissa in order to get money for....shopping. Yeah. we're gonna be the next teen business starters you see on Chanel One. Lord.
• start my garden in the back yard that I already have planned out in my head
• FINISH my room. It's gonna be perfect.
• start dressing in the way the styles and outfits that I've already created in my head
  

side note: gosh I have all these plans in my head! If only they would turn into a reality.

• start legit photography... ask my uncle where I can acquire a nice camera for cheap
• bike ride
• expand my baking to cooking so that people will actually eat my stuff without worrying about silly calories and shtuff
• llllllllllllllllllllll. that was Hazel's (my new kitty) doing. love her to pieces
• make a bunch of hair pieces
• get overalls, decorate my straw hat, learn how to embroider, embroider gloves... then use all of this to garden in my garden
• take a pottery class
• start being more creative. As always, I want to be more creative!
• stop being lazy and go to the park and have fun
• get my license
  
• get a gym membership...and then actually use it...more than once.
  
• become more patient with certain people
• find a place that I can drive to that's secret, all mine. an escape.

this list will be continued as I think of more things
I love you, and a very Merry New Year to all.
I can't believe we're entering a new decade!

Inspiration

In my many moments of procrastination, such as my writing at this very second, I like to think that I am really using my time wisely by sifting through the world wide web. In my long and arduous traveling of the Internet I search for things that inspire thought and wonder and creativity and action.
One result of my searches appears in one of my very first blog posts: the slam poetry performance by Anis Mosjani.
Here's another site that I have found courtesy of my fellow procrastinator, Kelsie Fierce.

http://photoholic.tumblr.com/

one of my favorite pictures from the cite is:



the caption under was:

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”

—Niels Bohr