Wednesday, February 27, 2013
So is that like, car tint on your eyes?
This is mostly directed to all my lady friends (maybe some guys lol). So yesterday I decided to pamper myself a bit by having my eyelashes and eyebrows tinted at Beyond Beaute here in Deer Park. The process took about an hour or so, and I was definitely skeptical, but the girl who did it was awesome! For my eyelashes it almost looks like I have a bit of eyeliner on the top and bottom (not super noticeable) but if I went without mascara you would be able to tell the difference. My eyebrows are not fake looking, just look a bit more full. Anywho, it's safe for contact wearers since its a vegetable oil and all natural and will last 4-6 weeks but maybe a bit longer for the lashes. Def worth the money! So, if you hate putting on makeup as much as I do, maybe this is the solution for you, it was $19 for lashes and $25 for brows. Oh yeah, you have to go see Hong, she is hilarious and does a great job! :) The End!
My Favorite Philanthropic Companies
So I said I would get together a list of all my favorite companies that not only sell GREAT products, but donate a HUGE chunk of their earnings back to the people, whether it be here in the US or in a far off land outside of this great nation. Oh yeah at the bottom I will also put my favorite brands of various things as well and I will tell you why........ENJOY! :)
1) Humanwrit.es (yes that is the website) - I found this org sells nice journals and for every journal purchased (they're extremely reasonable and nice looking) 10 books are donated to schools in need.
2) Indosole - They sell cute flip flops and shoes with the bottoms being made out of tires! For every 2 pairs of shoes/flops they sell it keeps one tire out of the landfill.
3) 31 Bits (31bits.com) - They sell cute Ugandan jewelry that allows women in Uganda to start working for them and eventually become independent and own their own business.
4) Full Circle Exchange (fullcircleexchange.com) - cute handicrafts for the home or person, empowers women to overcome financial duress and rise above it.
5) Together We Rise (togetherwerise.org) - Sell cute teddy bear stickers and t-shirts, 100% of their profits go towards their cause, giving foster children a brighter future by creating fun events to get them interacted and engaged, great cause!
6) Bark Box (barkbox.com) - Each BarkBox is a monthly subscription that sends your doggy super cute chew toys as well as snacks and other awesome high quality goodies, well worth the money! Cheaper than going to Petsmart to buy new toys and snacks! Anywho, 10% of all proceeds are donated to a local shelter or animal rescue, I am a big advocate of this company! :)
7) Sseko Designs (ssekodesigns.com) - Uganadan women create super cute sandals with interchangeable straps to enable themselves to become more independent. This company also advocates that the women involved in this company go to college to become more educated to be able to find jobs or open their own business. I personally have a pair of these sandals and they are SUPER CUTE!
8) Toms (toms.com) - Most people have heard of toms, for each pair sold they donate a pair to a child in need. More recently they started selling sunglasses as well, for each pair sold they will donate a pair of eyeglasses to a child in need. Great company! Oh yeah, and their shoes are comfy and practical! :)
9) Punjammies (punjammies.com) - AKA The International Princess Project - This company helps former trafficked women/sex slaves get involved in creating their own income via pajama pants. These are super cute and the money generated from these pajama pants are what these women get paid to support themselves and their families. Sizes are true to size, VERY cute capri pajamas and pants.
10) Charms for Charity (charmsforcharity.org) - This org was actually created by a sorority sister of mine who has a love for animals (like me!) so each charm purchased helps an animal in need (100%!) and all the money goes to numerous animal rescues in need.
11) Krochet Kids International (krochetkids.org) - basically the same concept as Punjammies and Sseko, except this company also has people they help in Peru. They sell cute crocheted beanies as well as cute t-shirts, scarves, and more. Check this company out!
12) Mimi Green (shopmimigreen.com) - This company is not necessarily like the rest, but they create high quality handmade dog collars that you can actually have embroidered with your dogs' name and your phone number...these can be completely customized and are made here in the USA :) With that being said, although they do not donate a specific percentage of sales, they do donate a lot to the New Mexico Pug Rescue. All collars that are discontinued or not quite perfect collars are donated to this rescue for pugs waiting to be adopted. I've ordered two collars from them recently and can't wait to see the end result! :)
Well, that's all I've got for right now, but if you have any orgs you would like to share please do! I am always about supporting a great cause! :) Have a great day ya'll! :)
1) Humanwrit.es (yes that is the website) - I found this org sells nice journals and for every journal purchased (they're extremely reasonable and nice looking) 10 books are donated to schools in need.
2) Indosole - They sell cute flip flops and shoes with the bottoms being made out of tires! For every 2 pairs of shoes/flops they sell it keeps one tire out of the landfill.
3) 31 Bits (31bits.com) - They sell cute Ugandan jewelry that allows women in Uganda to start working for them and eventually become independent and own their own business.
4) Full Circle Exchange (fullcircleexchange.com) - cute handicrafts for the home or person, empowers women to overcome financial duress and rise above it.
5) Together We Rise (togetherwerise.org) - Sell cute teddy bear stickers and t-shirts, 100% of their profits go towards their cause, giving foster children a brighter future by creating fun events to get them interacted and engaged, great cause!
6) Bark Box (barkbox.com) - Each BarkBox is a monthly subscription that sends your doggy super cute chew toys as well as snacks and other awesome high quality goodies, well worth the money! Cheaper than going to Petsmart to buy new toys and snacks! Anywho, 10% of all proceeds are donated to a local shelter or animal rescue, I am a big advocate of this company! :)
7) Sseko Designs (ssekodesigns.com) - Uganadan women create super cute sandals with interchangeable straps to enable themselves to become more independent. This company also advocates that the women involved in this company go to college to become more educated to be able to find jobs or open their own business. I personally have a pair of these sandals and they are SUPER CUTE!
8) Toms (toms.com) - Most people have heard of toms, for each pair sold they donate a pair to a child in need. More recently they started selling sunglasses as well, for each pair sold they will donate a pair of eyeglasses to a child in need. Great company! Oh yeah, and their shoes are comfy and practical! :)
9) Punjammies (punjammies.com) - AKA The International Princess Project - This company helps former trafficked women/sex slaves get involved in creating their own income via pajama pants. These are super cute and the money generated from these pajama pants are what these women get paid to support themselves and their families. Sizes are true to size, VERY cute capri pajamas and pants.
10) Charms for Charity (charmsforcharity.org) - This org was actually created by a sorority sister of mine who has a love for animals (like me!) so each charm purchased helps an animal in need (100%!) and all the money goes to numerous animal rescues in need.
11) Krochet Kids International (krochetkids.org) - basically the same concept as Punjammies and Sseko, except this company also has people they help in Peru. They sell cute crocheted beanies as well as cute t-shirts, scarves, and more. Check this company out!
12) Mimi Green (shopmimigreen.com) - This company is not necessarily like the rest, but they create high quality handmade dog collars that you can actually have embroidered with your dogs' name and your phone number...these can be completely customized and are made here in the USA :) With that being said, although they do not donate a specific percentage of sales, they do donate a lot to the New Mexico Pug Rescue. All collars that are discontinued or not quite perfect collars are donated to this rescue for pugs waiting to be adopted. I've ordered two collars from them recently and can't wait to see the end result! :)
Well, that's all I've got for right now, but if you have any orgs you would like to share please do! I am always about supporting a great cause! :) Have a great day ya'll! :)
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Things to do before I die, great title for my first blog ever right? LOL
So with this being my very first blog, I figured I would go out with a bang and make a personal achievement list of things I would like to do before I die, basically to keep myself accountable to the world for either achieving these things or not. I have a lot of crazy ideas in my head that make people wonder, why the hell would she want to do that? But I love learning and experiencing, especially as I get older because of the fact that you only have one life to live, so why not make the most of it? Well so here goes on my first blog, my bucket list :
1) Visit Australia, I've always wanted to go there and I am fascinated by its beauty and the crazy shit you can see there that you can't see anywhere else in the world. (Great barrier reef anyone?)
2) Visit Ecuador to see the Galapagos Islands before they are ruined by tourists, beautiful country from what I've seen in pictures.
3) Skydive!
4) Buy land, a couple of chunks, all in Texas of course, but mainly in the Hill Country and around the Houston area.
5) Create my animal sanctuary (on my land of course!) so that I can rescue and re-home animals from shelters that have a high kill rate (or those I find on the street lol).
6) Create a tiny house, by hand, with very little help, I took engineering classes and will be obtaining my associates in engineering design graphics this semester, why the hell not? I want something I built myself, people build houses all the time, why the hell not me? Take a look at some of the houses I'm interested in:
Cute 2 bedroom house -> http://tinyhouseswoon.com/sauvie-island-tiny-house/
Cute coastal house, LOVE THIS! -> http://tinyhouseswoon.com/the-edge/
Elegant small house -> http://tinyhouselistings.com/smallworks-elegant-lane-cottage/
And of course, my original tiny house pic, although not more than a 200 square feet really makes one maximize space, maybe could be used as an outdoor office to get away? -> http://tinyhousetalk.com/candices-tiny-tack-house/
7) Be completely financially stable, that means NO DEBT, no student loans, no credit card balances, NOTHING........I am hoping to be there in a couple years, student loans and their interest rates are killer though.......
8) Buy the house Nathan and I are currently living in this year, doing a few remodel things to the floor and having it paid off within 10 years or less.
9) Do a Eurotrip of my own! I want to visit Austria (see my friend Nina!), Germany, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, and maybe France.........this would be a backpacking trip ONLY! No suitcases allowed lol.....I've always wanted to do a backpacking trip!
10) Visit New Zealand, a very outdoorsy country, ahhh gotta love it!
11) Visit Ireland, as much as it rains there it is still a beautiful country and I definitely need to go here.
12) Visit Alaska! Enough said!
13) Go whitewater river rafting in Colorado, West Virginia, AND Alaska.
14) Retire before I'm 55.
15) Ride a hot air balloon.
16) When I retire, I want to live self sufficient of needing to pay for anything.
I know my list is somewhat short, but I know what I want to do with my life, it's just having the means to do these things and not get in over my head financially but still being able to have fun. I have a wonderful support system at home (Nathan, the dogs, the cats, and the guinea pigs) as well as a great family who has always told me I can do whatever I set my mind to. I will be turning 28 next month so I better get onto planning some of these things, my goal is to complete at least 5 of these goals within 5 years :)
Janelle
1) Visit Australia, I've always wanted to go there and I am fascinated by its beauty and the crazy shit you can see there that you can't see anywhere else in the world. (Great barrier reef anyone?)
2) Visit Ecuador to see the Galapagos Islands before they are ruined by tourists, beautiful country from what I've seen in pictures.
3) Skydive!
4) Buy land, a couple of chunks, all in Texas of course, but mainly in the Hill Country and around the Houston area.
5) Create my animal sanctuary (on my land of course!) so that I can rescue and re-home animals from shelters that have a high kill rate (or those I find on the street lol).
6) Create a tiny house, by hand, with very little help, I took engineering classes and will be obtaining my associates in engineering design graphics this semester, why the hell not? I want something I built myself, people build houses all the time, why the hell not me? Take a look at some of the houses I'm interested in:
Cute 2 bedroom house -> http://tinyhouseswoon.com/sauvie-island-tiny-house/
Cute coastal house, LOVE THIS! -> http://tinyhouseswoon.com/the-edge/
Elegant small house -> http://tinyhouselistings.com/smallworks-elegant-lane-cottage/
And of course, my original tiny house pic, although not more than a 200 square feet really makes one maximize space, maybe could be used as an outdoor office to get away? -> http://tinyhousetalk.com/candices-tiny-tack-house/
7) Be completely financially stable, that means NO DEBT, no student loans, no credit card balances, NOTHING........I am hoping to be there in a couple years, student loans and their interest rates are killer though.......
8) Buy the house Nathan and I are currently living in this year, doing a few remodel things to the floor and having it paid off within 10 years or less.
9) Do a Eurotrip of my own! I want to visit Austria (see my friend Nina!), Germany, Italy, Croatia, Switzerland, and maybe France.........this would be a backpacking trip ONLY! No suitcases allowed lol.....I've always wanted to do a backpacking trip!
10) Visit New Zealand, a very outdoorsy country, ahhh gotta love it!
11) Visit Ireland, as much as it rains there it is still a beautiful country and I definitely need to go here.
12) Visit Alaska! Enough said!
13) Go whitewater river rafting in Colorado, West Virginia, AND Alaska.
14) Retire before I'm 55.
15) Ride a hot air balloon.
16) When I retire, I want to live self sufficient of needing to pay for anything.
I know my list is somewhat short, but I know what I want to do with my life, it's just having the means to do these things and not get in over my head financially but still being able to have fun. I have a wonderful support system at home (Nathan, the dogs, the cats, and the guinea pigs) as well as a great family who has always told me I can do whatever I set my mind to. I will be turning 28 next month so I better get onto planning some of these things, my goal is to complete at least 5 of these goals within 5 years :)
Janelle
