Vanilla-Spice.net http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress A blog with lots of crafty tips, tricks and links. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:55:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Beautiful Bunkbeds http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2010/03/beautiful-bunkbeds/ http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2010/03/beautiful-bunkbeds/#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:55:28 +0000 Nichole http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/?p=751 picture_top

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Welcome to March! One of my favorite feelings is changing the calendar to a new month. A new month seems so fresh and exciting. You can turn a new page on the goals you tried the month before or create some new ones. Mostly I don’t use a purchased calendar; instead I download and print one off to post on my bulletin board. This month I am using the Resolved Calendar from Cottage-Industrialist. I love the fun and brightness of this calendar which I also used last month. Go ahead and download it to use yourself! If this calendar is a bit much for your taste, I also love the calendars M.Writes creates. You can download the March calendar here. Happy March!

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Simply Cauliflower via Summer Harms

Yumm. If I wasn’t in a dorm room I would definitely try this easy meal. Thanks Summer.


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Grocery Planner via Design*Sponge


 

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I’m here. Emmaus Bible College. Why didn’t I blog about this five months ago? I was posting for the first few weeks of school. I’m not sure. Do you expect me to understand my own mind? It is a mystery to me. Perhaps it is because I wasn’t posting a lot of informational posts over the summer months. I did a lot of restructuring my blog and updating old posts with updated formats. That project isn’t quite done but I am pretty happy with how my blog posts are organized currently. I’m thinking about redesigning the layout sometime but that is an entirely different project.

Back to school. I can’t believe how blessed I am to be studying here. When I graduated from high school in 2005 I thought I wanted to be a webdesigner which wouldn’t have involved going to school but more self studying. Anyways I have done websites for several people and like doing it as a little side income but I came to the realization that I enjoyed the creative process more for myself than for others. After I came to that realization I worked a couple of different full-time jobs and took a few general online classes. During that time I was doing a lot of praying and asking God for direction in my life. Eventually I came to the realization that I loved working with kids. Someday I want to homeschool my own kids. Those two insights led me to decided to pursue a degree in Elementary Education.

So here I am at Emmaus Bible College getting a double major in Bible and Elementary Education. I’m just starting school while most of my friends have graduated with a four-year degree. I’m okay with that though. I know why I’m here and am dedicated to learning and absorbing as much information as I can. (Dorm room pictures and stories from the first semester will come soon. Check back.)

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]]> http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2010/02/rainbow-bright/feed/ 0 The Mad Hatter is Back http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2010/02/the-mad-hatter-is-back/ http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/2010/02/the-mad-hatter-is-back/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:48:12 +0000 Nichole http://vanilla-spice.net/wordpress/?p=699 It is amazing to believe that an entire semester has gone by since I’ve posted. I’m going to have to go back and share some of the highlights of last semester in future posts. Needless to say the combination of lots of homework, a very bad internet at school, and a broken camera made posting almost impossible. I’m back to blogging again; dealing with homework, the internet has been upgraded, and I got a new camera for Christmas so I should be good to go. I’ve missed it.

Resolutions for the new year:
1. Getting back into the habit of having a daily quiet time with God.
2. Some kind of daily exercise habit.
3. Blogging again!
4. Connecting with others more.
5. Responding to correspondence in a timely manner.

I’m keeping my resolutions fairly simple this year. I think it is important to always be looking towards where you want to be and working your way towards that in small daily steps. A review of how last years resolutions went will be coming shortly. The picture above is me dressed up as the Mad Hatter in case you were wondering. Our floor dressed as Alice In Wonderland characters last semester for an all-floor volleyball tournament.

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