Handmade Fan Shirt, New Shoes, New glasses, and a Fabulous Friend

I'm sure many of you have seen the movie "Pitch Perfect." In this movie Rebel Wilson stars as "Fat Amy." And I created this shirt based off a few of Fat Amy's lines within the movie (you'd have to see it to understand). However for me it's not enough to be a Fat Amy Enthusiast...so I made this shirt using stencils and fabric paint along with a $7 sweater from Walmart. It turned out great! (above the 01 is my last name and it turned out perfectly fine but I blemished it for Internet safety reasons)

 I am not a Jordan's fan. I prefer Nike or champion tennis shoes; however while my friend and I were yard saleing 2 weeks ago she found this particular pair for $1.25. They were worn one or twice if at all, they were still in the box increasing the value. The shoes were her exact size so she bought them because she loves the Jordan brand, but could never afford them. After some research I discovered that they were 2010 Jordan's, leather and suede exterior and memory foam on the inside. The original price was $230. To say she got the find of the year is an understatement. Go Breanne, I taught you well. 

As for me, I scored two new pairs of shoes! The first pair (to the right) was $25 at Payless, on sale for $19. They're a 40s style, cream colored, lace, memory foam shoe and I'm obsessed with them. As far as my knock-of-brand-chucks go they were a must have. Typically I look at quality in a shoe, but this time the One Direction fangirl in me kicked in and I bought them not for quality but for looks. These originally $60 shoes were on sale for $45. The first time I tried to put them on they tore at the seem down the side... Looks like were going back to Kohl's for another pair.

 Let me start off by saying that I love my new glasses, not just because of the way they look either.

• They weigh next to nothing and you don't even feel like they're on
• The light charcoal goes well with my fair skin-tone (It's not as harsh as black)
•  My vision span is bigger then it's ever been. All my life I've had narrow glasses but with these glasses it's like seeing the whole world for the whole time. I'll omit that for a while after I put my glasses on it was like just my eyes were on some kinda drug... again I had never had that much clear range of vision before ESPECIALLY under my eyes. I guess I had always accepted that past a certain point toward the ground it was going to be a bit blurry. Now that I can see every blade of grass, every elevated area, and every step I take it was actually hard to walk at first, haha.
• No nose pads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good friends are hard to find in this world... especially in today's world. Breanne drove all the way down from PA (7 hours away) to come visit me for the second summer in a row.








I promised myself, swore, that I wouldn't cry but right after she left there I was with my make up all messed up because Goodbyes are always hard. Despite the logic there is no way you were up here for two weeks... It went by so fast. It's gonna be another long year without you friend; and it's sad we won't be going to high school together like we've talked about for so long. On the bright side it was nice to just hear a familiar voice. To be able to hug one of my closest friends again was probably the best part of my whole summer. And more then likely all of this year. And as I sat there on my front porch I wish you would've turned back in so I hug you one more time before another year here starts. But I know that's not going to happen so I'll just wish you the best with your school year too. Best wishes to you sis, I love you.
 <<< We broke a swing set

 You are never too old for dress up; so we decided to dress up from our favorite time periods. While she dressed up as a lady from the 80s I dressed up as a 40s pinup girl...

 ~Hugs and love from Hayley

One Direction Concert

Since the day they started in 2010 I have been a fan of One Direction. To most One Direction is a cliché boy band from The UK; but to me they're so much more. They're my idols and in a weird way they're my friends. Friends because there music touches me and idols because they went for their dreams, even if it meant singing with 4 strangers to get there. Friends because they were there for me while others dropped out, and idols because they didn't let The fame and fortune get to their heads. Their music in itself is like a friend to me because it speaks to, and in an odd way the music understands. 

Say what ever you want but I'm not the only one who's been helped by their music...

Again judge me all you want but I truly believe music can heal people, that it goes strait from your ears to the soul; which is why when I heard I was going to a One Direction concert I flipped out! I screamed cried the whole nine yards (my mature, cool, and collected side disappeared momentarily). I have been waiting 5 years to see them so this concert means that much more to me as you can imagine. 

Despite my desire to meet them being beyond any scale the likeliness of me meeting them is slim; so I'm going to wrap up this post by writing what I would say to them

"Thank you for all the laughs, and your incredible music and everything in-between, I love you guys."

-Hugs from Hayley

Earth to Hayley... I mean Echo

I've cried over a ton of movies. The notebook, The book Thief, The fault in our stars, etc. I cry for the characters in these movies and for their situation not mine. This didn't make it any less emotional of course at the time, but after watching the movie called Earth to Echo... All those movies are just good movies and nothing more. Earth To Echo, a pg kids movie, has hit me harder then a baseball bat ever could and and has touched me more then any other movie or story I've watched and read. According to Google the summary of this movie is as follows,

1. "After a construction project begins in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck (Brian "Astro" Bradley), Alex (Teo Halm) and Munch (Reese C. Hartwig) begin receiving strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. They immediately inform their parents and the authorities, but when no one takes them seriously, the youths decide to crack the code themselves and trace the messages to their source. The youths' curiosity leads them to a robotic extraterrestrial who desperately needs their help."

   
   

   I've heard from everyone that this movie sucks and that it was a knockoff of E.T. But I guess I really can't go off of people's opinion anymore because this movie has put me in tears for an hour now. Maybe the sources that mislead me to believe that Earth to Echo was just another movie didn't see the power in this movie. Or maybe they just haven't been in my shoes. Either way it doesn't change the fact that this movie was about a lot more then Sci-fi and returning home a little Alien three kids named Echo. This movie was about friendship. Real friends people. I've never been one for the whole gossip thing, rumors, etc, but this movie made it seem pointless. Distance, sports, weight, race, arrogance, Narrow mindedness, fake people, fake promises, FAKE FRIENDS...Pointless and irrelevant. It made excuses foreign but forgiveness as important as a friend. Who are these people that stop being your friend for any reason these days. What is that? No you stick with a friend through the hard times and the good ones. You stick with a friend during that move and the years that follow. *Spoiler Alert* During this movie 3/4 best friends moved in completely different directions. Several years later they met up again and act like nothing ever happened. They mentioned that, "Distance is a mind game. No matter where you are in the universe distance won't break a true friendship." This movie opened my eyes, my brain, as well as close all the old doors and opened the new. 

   
   

   Although that was indeed a rant I'm at a loss for words with this movie. I've always been intrigued and felt connections with characters in any story (movies and books) but I've never connected so much with characters before. *spoiler alert* This whole movie was about returning this little Alien dude back to his planet while going on this wild adventure on their last night together before they all moved. The adventures reminded me of my own with my friends back in Pa. The characters all being in their own little 3-friend-groupe because they didn't fit in with anyone else as always been me and my friends. The open minded-ness and outcast-ness of these individuals reminded me so much of myself. Then the whole "last night" thing, the big night before the first friend moved, I too spent it with my very best friend. And then on top of all this the move itself and how it didn't separate me from my three best true friends.

   So I guess I'll end this by saying if you have the chance PLEASE watch Earth to Echo, it might touch you like it touched me

   ~Hugs From Hayley