Something new I'm trying out this year: a quick survey that'll help me learn what you liked (and didn't like) over the past year, and what you'd like to see more (and less) of in 2015. Click here to check it out (you can answer the questions anonymously if you want - and remember to submit a reader question if you have one!).
Thank you so much! Excited to hear what you have to say.
Happy Friday!
I legit cannot stop crafting. I am also aware that RG is not a crafting blog exactly, but I can't help it: must share. So many ridiculous handmade whatsits coming up. So many!
The look on Angelina Jolie's face when she ran into one of the Sony execs who slammed her in those leaked emails is EVERYTHING.
You have to hear how much Pharrell made for downloads of "Happy." It's depressing, mostly because it makes you think about what musicians who are not Pharrell make. ...Can somebody fix this, please?
My son did not sleep for eleven months. Like, at all. It was as exhausting as it sounds. And the fact that he did not sleep made it easier for me to follow the advice of the zillions of people who told me to put him in his own crib as soon as possible so he could learn how to "self-soothe" (a.k.a. cry endlessly, forever and ever and ever), mostly because not-sleeping next to me and not-sleeping over there in the crib that was ten feet away from our bed (because we lived in a one-bedroom apartment at the time) was six of one, half a dozen of the other.
And what it all added up to was that none of us slept. Ever. For the better part of a year.
Speaking of holiday beauty, here's the look I whipped up for Kendrick's Winter Formal, which I think works for any holiday party (minus, perhaps, the mask…although that one's your call). I went heavier than I usually do, with bold eyes and bold lips, because I feel like the holiday season lets you get away with a more dramatic face. Add that to the fact that the formal was actually a masquerade (more shots coming up!), and there you go:
I wore ALL OF THE MAKEUP.
I’ve never been a big resolution-maker, but I think that’s because they just feel so exhausting, like a chore that, once completed, gets moved to the Outbox and never thought of again. Except resolutions don’t have to be a huge deal, a now-or-never checklist created on the morning of January 1st: they can be small decisions to live more thoughtfully, in a way more in line with both your priorities and your dreams.
The experiences we have coming up in the next few months are big ones, with lots of traveling both in anticipation of where we’re leaving and in preparation for where we’re headed, and I want to make sure that we don’t just “get through” these trips, but rather take the time to celebrate this opportunity that we’re getting to explore the world together….because it’s a gift; it really is.
Which brings me to my #AlamoDriveHappy travel resolution.
