Religion, Politics and Twilight Typography Freebie

So I've delved into the satisfying world of typography lately and in honor of Breaking Dawn (which I loved) I decided to share this print with the world.  I've noticed no matter who you talk to, which ever team or a-team (hahaha) (you know, like lack of team because they don't like Twilight and are anti, apathetic or angry) a person might be on, *everyone* has an opinion.  So I share:

Feel free to use or share or even edit as you'd like, just please credit me if you would ;)  And please flame responsibly.

Quick Update

Hi!  So I've been neglecting Suddenly Sellers for a while.  I've been experimenting with other blog ideas which I still plan to implement, but poor SS has been left by the wayside for a while.  (Along with my Twitter, etc.)  But now I'm back (insert cheezy trumpet music here)!  And I *plan* on doing more posts in general here.

Some projects bouncing around my head right now that I'd like to post about soon:

• Making non-dairy yogurt and yogurt cheese from * Flax * milk :)  This will definitely be an experiment and since I haven't been able to find anyone else online who has even tried it, I might fall completely on my face... but that's worth it in the name of science, right?
• An 18" (American Girl Doll sized) Arwen doll (y'know, from Lord of the Rings?) that I've been working on for a while now.  Her Blood Red Dress is coming out lovely and after I'm done with that I plan on doing her rewigging, repaint, ears ;) etc.  She's eventually bound for Etsy, I think (if that's the best place to release her on the world, I mean :D )
• A line of Disney Princess inspired shoes, partially inspired by Nichelle's Disney Princess Hair Accessories ~ The thing that's held me back on this one is working on a good color medium that won't crack when people walk.  Spray paint would be good enough for my own shoes, but I'm afraid to sell a pair of shoes that might end up all crackly before long :P
• And a myriad of other, random ideas.

If any of these sound cool to you, let me know.  If I have excited cheerleaders I'll be more likely to prioritize a project ;D

Much love,

Calise

Edit: Oh yeah, and in the meantime, check me out on Twitter, Pinterest and check out my <3's on Etsy :D

Tangled Scattergories

   
I just finished writing up the game we're going to play at my birthday party on Saturday.  It's a simple variation on the game Scattergories, but with categories themed around the movie Tangled :)  Some of them are obviously associated with Tangled or Rapunzel... some are a little more out there lol.

I made up enough categories to play three rounds and I thought I'd post them here so that anyone else having a Tangled themed party--or just for family game night--could use them.  Remember, I made these up for a party of mostly adults; if your game is mostly little people you'll have to change your categories to make sure the game isn't too hard.  Enjoy!

Game 1

1. Famous Princesses
2. Foods made in a Frying Pan
3. Things that are Yellow
4. Hairstyles
5. Birthday Party Themes
6. Famous Horses
7. Dances or Dance Steps
8. Holidays
9. Famous Outlaws and Thieves
10. Types of Lights and Lanterns
11. Things that Smolder
12. Phrases Moms are known for saying

Game 2

1. Famous Mothers
2. Things that are Purple
3. Famous Buildings and Towers
4. Girls' Names
5. Things at a Birthday Party
6. Bodies of Water
7. Things kept in a Wardrobe
8. Flowers
9. Famous Villains
10. People Famous for their Hair or Hairstyle
11. Hobbies
12. Oscar Nominated Films

Game 3

1. Strange "Dreams" for Thugs to have
2. Famous Singers who have also Acted
3. Famous Blond People
4. Things that Glow
5. Funny Boys' Names
6. Famous Reptiles, Amphibians, etc.
7. Ailments and Diseases
8. Songs that mention "Time"
9. Things made with Nuts
10. Stories with Young, Female Main Characters
11. Hair Accessories
12. Things that usually do not get Stolen

Getting Revved Up for My BIRTHDAY!

My birthday is next Tuesday.  The 26th of July.  I've always found that to be a nice date. This year I'm turning 22.  I always have a hard time admitting that because, whether or not you believe it from my blog posts, people usually think I'm older than that and admitting how young I am makes me feel like a baby :P  Heehee  And if my age itself didn't date me in a young way, my chosen birthday party certainly might. I'm having a Tangled/Rapunzel themed party!  Heehee  And not only that, but it's going to be formal dress only :)  Now, this is extra silly in light of the fact that it's going to be family only, but I don't care.  Everyone needs a reason to dress up once in a while. Here's the invite (slightly edited for privacy) that I just sent out:

Make your own free digital invite

Side note:  I <3 Smilebox.  Especially since Hallmark.com charges for all their good e-cards now :P  Smilebox rocks my socks.  (Wow that really rhymed)

Planning my own birthday parties has become a grand tradition for me.  Ever since I was turning ten and got one of the American Girl boxed parties ("Pajama Jam") that I planned for *months.*  I must say the best party that I've planned was my twelfth; a Harry Potter party that included moving portraits (thanks to our video camera), owls (yarn puff-balls with eyes and beaks), wands (sticks from our backyard with sparkly pipe-cleaners wrapped around them) and quidditch (on skates...okay that didn't go so well...try to skate while keeping a broom between your legs...also the snitch got lost and we never found it...I guess that means the game's still going today...).  I thought it was pretty spiffy for a twelve-year-old.  ;)

And while my party this year will have a touch more sophistication... who really cares?  Parties are about having fun right?  I think adults should often step back and take themselves less seriously.

So anyway, I'm excited to turn 22 and hopefully it'll be the best of both worlds--being a well-developed, happily married adult, while not giving up the fun and excitement of being a kid.  Or glitter, tutus and tiaras.  Can't ever give up those.

Final side note:  My sweet parents gave me a gift certificate to go out to sushi so we're doing that on my actual birthday :D!  Soooo excited for a romantic sushi night with my stud-muffin!

A Simple, Healthy Meal

Tonight I made soup.  It rocks, if I do say so myself.  Only problem is, I never measure anything.  The cool thing about soup, though, is that you never really have to.  Just don't over dump the salt until you've tasted.  I consider that the only rule for soup ;)  So here, for your pleasure:

Suddenly Sellers' Grain, Legume and Veggie Soup

1.    Fill a pot with:

• A bunch of water
• A bunch of mung beans (or whatever beans you like.  I use mung bc they're good for reducing bad heat in your body which I need with my skin condition.)
• A bunch of pearled barley
• A bunch of lentils

2.    Set said pot to boiling.

3.     After a little while of the beans and grains boiling add:

• A bunch of frozen lima beans (Google Chrome doesn't think "lima" is a word.  It kept insisting I capitalize o_o)
• A bunch of frozen mixed veggies
• A bunch of quinoa
• A few heaping spoonfuls of beef flavored Better than Bouillon or bouillon cubes (or use beef broth + some water at the beginning instead of just water)

4.    Sometime while those are cooking add:

• A *lot* of onion powder
• Quite a bit of salt (but wait to go overboard until you taste)
• Garlic powder to taste
• Italian seasoning to taste
• Black Pepper to taste (not very much)
• White Sesame Seeds (this is not too important, we just had them already and I wanted to add extra healthy :) )
• A splash of soy sauce (I added this bc it needed an acid to off-set the taste.  You could probably add a splash of vinegar or lemon juice with similar results, depending on your preference)

5.    Cook until everything is... well, cooked ;D

6.    Enjoy! (while trying not to burn your tongue like I always do :P)

I made my soup really chunky, but you can make yours as thin or chunky as you want.  Isn't that the great thing about soup?  You can add whatever the heck you want in whatever broth you want and it will almost always come out great.  Just be careful with the salt. :)

Random Bookmark #3

Want to start composting?  Here's a simple, straightforward tutorial I bookmarked forever ago on how to create a DIY Compost Bin :)

Toni @ The Happy Housewife did it for $15 in 30 minutes!

{See it Here}

I'm going to get around to this one someday ;D  I'm always amazed at how much I throw away that's compost-able  :P  Enjoy and make your plants and garbage happy.

Random Bookmark #2

One of my favorite bookmarks ever.  Makes me laugh every time.  A very unique ad from Best of Craigslist (warning: other Best of Craiglist pages can be uncensored and it shows!  This one's just awesome.)

Thumb tack "Push Pin" Wonderful Item !!! $0.32 

{See it Here}

Check it out and have yourself a giggle :D

Random Bookmark #1

Here is my first post in a long and hopefully easy to create series sharing random bookmarks from my *extensive* collection. :D Enjoy.

This one comes at you from A Girl and a Glue Gun:  How to Make Fabric Rosettes.

{See It Here}

Something anyone needs to know how to do ;)  This one never gets old.  Thanks Kim!

Chirp

Now Tweeting.  Check me out @FabulousReality
https://twitter.com/#!/FabulousReality

ah...rain!

I am sitting by an open window as the rain pours down exquisitely outside.  I love rain.  Is anyone else obsessed with rain?  Like will get really really excited when it starts raining and really really disappointed as soon as it stops?  So soothing, pretty and cozy.

Rain and my three favorite pictures (two I've taken, one with me in it) of the past few months.  Yes, I'm a little obsessed with black and white too.

My sweet, incredible, gorgeous husband...I have a serious crush

My nephew and brother-in-law

Me and my Justin

My photography and photo editing skills are improving, to my great satisfaction.  I have a Samsung S860, which is pretty point-and-shoot, but I'm getting the hang of it, I think.  It has a really rough time without a lot of light, but that's pretty normal, right?  I love it anyway.  Oh, in the bottom shot I'm wearing my insta-cardi -- shirt to cardigan in about 1 min.  I took before shots so that someday I can do a mini-tutorial.  Someday when I'm posting a lot more often.  Not today.  Today I'm listening to the rain.

Hurray for New Font!

Don't you just *love* my new post heading font!?!?!  I'm super excited, mostly because I was able to do it myself :D
If you'd like to do the same, go see these wonderful people to see their tutorial all about it.   :)
Don't worry, if you follow the directions exactly it's not as hard as it looks.
YAY!

Obsession #1: The Joys of Cheesecloth

 

*sigh*

Isn't it beautiful?

Now, I know this isn't technically the first obsession I've blogged about...well, almost every post has been about an obsession of one sort or another...but this is the first one that I'm putting in this new shnazzy category.

So I was hearing tell on many blogs of people using canvas paint drop cloths as curtains because they were simple, industrial looking, pretty and cheap.  I thought that was awesome and looked them up on the Lowe's website (the Home Depot website is cruddy) and though they didn't have much in the way of drop cloths online, they did have an inexpensive cheesecloth.  Now, I wasn't sure I remembered the texture of cheesecloth so I looked it up and surged with glee when I realized it *was* the beautiful, soft-draping gossamer of my dreams.  So pretty and soft, and yet so industrial/distressed looking! *SIGH!*

I can't wait until I can use it for curtains and pillows and bedthrows and shawls...and I bet it's super dyable so it could be in other pretty colors (although I like it white or natural)...and it's inexpensive and...and...well, just look at it again:

 

 Photo from http://www.gourmetsleuth.com 

okay if you're bored of that picture, here:

 

Photo from http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/

The ones on the top are lovely dyed cheesecloth :)

  

Photo also from http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/

I loooove these bright ones!

  

This one too is from http://suebleiweiss.typepad.com/ 

I was looking around at her site (I found it from Googling cheesecloth pics) and she really has exquisite stuff, and an Etsy Store so check her out!

Anyway isn't cheesecloth just delicious? Okay, so I can't believe I just used that word, but I just want to squeeze it, drape myself in it, and stare long hours at it.  It has the same strange appeal as the sparkly toy balls that have the almost soft friction to the outside of them...does anyone know what I'm talking about?  No? Okay.  Well, I like cheesecloth.

In the iconic words of What's Her Face from Teen Girl Squad,
"uh, hi. i like music. and um... cloth."

Okay so...

So I haven't posted anything in the better part of a year, because my last post, Pregnant, turned out to be incorrect and I didn't have the heart to follow up on it for so long.  Not going to go into detail about it right now.  But now that I have that off my chest and can go forward without people asking me how old my daughter is, maybe I can get back to some blogging around here.
Sometime I'll do a full post on pseudocyesis or false pregnancy (would have posted a link, but they all make me sound like an idiot) and the kind of emotions that come with it. :P It stunk.
Anyway, I don't know if any regular blogging is coming, but I thought I'd clear the way for it.
(I'm really not as cynical as I sound in this post, this is just a super sensitive subject.)
Thank you for all your sweet comments on the previous post!  I hope that soon we'll have reason for congrats again :)
Calise

Pregnant!

I'm at the end of my 15th week of my very first pregnancy :)  I've wanted to blog about it for months now, but we wanted to wait to tell everyone until well into the second trimester.  Plus, this seemed like a good time since Justin and I are moving to South Carolina next week...finally.  It's been good here in New Mexico, but I am ready to leave this apartment and enter a new stage in our lives.  Anyway, more about this later, but I am glad to finally report our good news.

Here's my ticker from Lilypie, although I don't like how they count weeks :P  Justin and I just have a hunch it's a she so thus the pink and name.

Micro Loans

So I've heard about micro-loans before and I was reminded of them when I read this blog post on Our Evolution.  I think they're an absolutely amazing idea.  And I was so excited to read about Kiva, a website that connects people who need micro-loans with people who want to lend to them.  The greatest part, I think, is that you don't have to have a ton of money yourself.  You can lend as little as $25 toward a loan and your money combined with that of others will help a person to start a business or make money in some other way that will help them get on their feet.  And as they pay the money back, you can use it to help someone else who needs a micro-loan and the good cycle continues! YAY!
Anyhue, so awesome!

Photo from Kiva.org