DAY 27 - SOMETHING THAT STRESSES YOU OUT

This might be a weird answer, but time stresses me out - in a couple different ways, but this is one of them. I like to work on projects start to finish, so if I don't have enough time I often won't start a project and then I get anxious about wanting to work on all these fun ideas I have. I hope this will be better when I have a craft room again to spread things out and not have setup/clean up each time I work on something.

DAY 26 - PHOTO OF TOWN WHERE YOU GREW UP AND WHERE YOU LIVE NOW

DAY 25 - YOUR DREAM WEDDING

. . . is only 2 weeks away! Can't wait to share photos!

DAY 24 - FIRST 10 SONGS ON SHUFFLED IPOD

Jack Johnson - Losing Hope

Across The Universe Soundtrack - With A Little Help
From My Friends

Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance

KT Tunstall - Under the Weather

Modest Mouse - Float On

Muse - Uprising

Lady Antebellum - Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Eminem - Space Bound

Train - Hey Soul Sister

The Script - Break Even

DAY 23 - SOMETHING YOU'VE LEARNED

How to curl my hair without heat, using a sock! This was the results of the first attempt. Trying again tonight. Also want to try rag rolled curls. Thank you pinterest!

DAYS 17 - 22

DAY 17 - SOMETHING YOU'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO ... my wedding! and MacKenzie River Pizza : )

DAY 18 - FAVORITE PLACE TO EAT ... PF Changs - yum!

DAY 19 - SOMETHING YOU MISS ... quick trips to the grocery store

DAY 20 - NICKNAMES ... Sarah Sue (by grandpa), Sarsh (by spelling mistake), Roper (by coworkers at preschool)

DAY 21 - ALLTIME FAVORITE PHOTO OF YOURSELF, WHY?
I wish I hadn't added this to my challenge list because it's just too difficult. I went with this one because it's the one I use on my sittercity and care accounts for families to see, so I must like it. I also really liked those glasses and wish I still had them.

DAY 22 - WHAT'S IN YOUR PURSE?
I just bought a new one so it's fairly cleaned out! It includes ...
- cell phone
- keys
- wallet/checkbook
- business cards
- mackenzie river pen ... they are the best
- extra hair tie and bobby pin
- lip gloss
- roll on perfume
- nail file
- color swatch of bridesmaid dress fabric
- day planner

DAY 16 - DREAM HOME

You should really just visit my Pinterest page to see all the home ideas I come across and love! We've had a lot of fun checking out new model homes ... whatever we end up in will definitely have a lot of projects to tweak it just the way we want it.

DAY 15 - YOUR PETS

Chad and I are currently without pets, although for awhile there was a parakeet that took up a corner space in a place or two in Montana. His name was Houdini because he could escape from his cage and I did not take care of him. I'm not sure what exactly happened to him, but one weekend when Chad and his brother had gone to Great Falls I discovered him stuck in the bottom of his cage and before someone was able to come help (I seriously would have done more damage if I had tried) he was gone. I don't recommend birds.

Between my brother and I we've had numerous fish and other water creatures, box turtles from school and hamsters. I don't remember any other little pets.

Tigger was dragged in from the street when we were little and in Juneau. She had to be put down while I was away at college because she'd gotten too old. I remember one time she got trapped behind some empty space at the bottom of a bookshelf and it took awhile to find her. She occasionally brought birds home as presents. She had 4 kittens that we named Gus Gus, Sarah and Tyler and something else before they all got new homes. Tigger loved to cuddle, she'd crawl under the covers with me and sleep there. I'm definitely a cat person and would love to have another, but Chad is allergic so we'll see if that ever happens.

Tess we got in 4th grade. She was a golden retriever and loved to eat up shoes. She was just getting out of her crazy puppy stage when she ran out in front of a car.

Maggie we got as a rescue from the pound. She was the most mellow dog. And kind of quirky. She liked to eat from her food bowl laying down in front of it. One morning after 13 years she just didn't wake up.

Some day we'll have pets again after all this apartment living is over.

DAY 14 - PICTURE OF YOU LAST YEAR/HOW HAVE YOU CHANGED?

- I live in Texas
- I'm engaged
- My hair is longer ... and I actual fix it up sometimes!
- I'm more spontaneous (just a little)
- I've ordered a beer for myself to drink and have finished it.
- I wear more dresses

GAH! This is hard :S Anyone else?

DAY 13 - GOALS

-- Exercise more! Hoping with scaling back on how much I've been working to regain some time for myself to do this.

-- Be as close to worry free as possible on the day of the wedding. At that point whatever happens will happen and I will do my best to just let it go!

-- Come up with some kind of system and tackle all these projects I wanna do.

-- Be able to seriously look for our first home

-- Stay in touch with people better. It was a new years resolution that I've been failing with : (

DAY 12 - SOMETHING YOU DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT

Lately it's been color swatches for the wedding. They have been a lifesaver to be able to take out and double check for just the right yellow when I come across things or make an unplanned trip to get wedding stuff.

DAY 11 - FAVORITE TV SHOWS

I've mentioned that we watch a lot of tv. So there's pretty much something on every night that we record so we can skip through the commercials when we catch up on them over the weekend. I'm debated on sharing them by day, but decided to go with what network they're on.

USA
- White Collar
- Covert Affairs
- Burn Notice
- Suits (it just started but I really like it)
- NCIS reruns
- Law and Order SVU reruns

NBC
- Community
- Law & Order

ABC
- Castle
- Desperate Housewives
- Grey's Anatomy
- Modern Family
- Private Practice
- V

FOX
- American Idol
- Glee
- Hell's Kitchen
- House
- So You Think You Can Dance?

HBO
- Eastbound and Down
- Flight of the Conchords
- Game of Thrones
- TrueBlood

SHOWTIME
- Weeds

STARZ
- Camelot
- Spartacus

HGTV
- Design Star
- Color Splash
- The Antonio Treatment
- Curb Appeal: The Block
- Income Property
- Yard Crashers

DAY 10 - SOMETHING YOU'RE AFRAID OF

I'm scared of bugs. Even little ones. They creep me out. And in Texas they are bigger :S We basically hose down the entry to our apartment and patio with bug spray to keep them out, but lately there've been a few crickets that have made their way into the bathtub?? So annoying. I'll find a glass to trap whatever I come across and wait until Chad comes home to let him handle it.

DAY 9 - PICTURE OF YOUR BEST FRIEND

Chad is my best friend. I was thinking about our wedding today and all the exciting stuff that will be going on and how much of it he won't be involved because he's the groom. I can't tell him about my dress because he wants it to be a surprise but it drives me crazy sometimes to not be able to tell him! The bridal shower and bachelorette party are obviously not for him to attend, and that's okay and the way it is, he'll hear about some of it all later. But I started thinking about the rehearsal and dinner the night before and having to say goodnight to him and not see him until it's wedding time! Right now it feels weird to me that I'm gonna wake up and be running around getting hair and make up done and everything else -- I'm sure on the day of I'll be so busy that I won't notice too much - but right now it makes me sad that it's not something he'll be around for, how foreign it will be getting ready and not be talking to him about how happy/nervous/exciting I am. I'll just have to think about how lucky I am to get a best friend for life.

DAY 8 - PLACE YOU'VE TRAVELED TO

I've been to Aruba twice. Once in 2007 with my parents and brother and then again in 2008 with my family and Chad. Both times were a blast. There is a lot to do there and it's easy to get around on your own in a rental car. The first year we stayed at a hotel on the beach and the second year rented a house with it's own pool.


There's a nice side to the island, where the hotels and beaches are, and a rocky side where you don't go swimming, but there's amazing waves that crash along the shore. There are a few little pools that water washes into, but the day we went it was too windy.

This is one of my favorite pictures of Chad. We took a trip on a pirate ship to do some snorkeling. Between the sites they take you to see (a couple different reefs and a shipwreck) you get lots of yummy drinks : )

We spent New Year's on the beach watching fireworks.

Both trips we did some windsurfing -- wish we'd done more, but it wasn't for everybody.

DAY 7 - BULLET YOUR WHOLE DAY

- Woke up
- Watched Weeds & Design Star from last night with Chad
- Took dress for wedding to get altered
- Trip to the store
- Late Breakfast
- Talked on the phone
- Tried starting a new project
- Paid bills
- Bought something online
- Stared at wedding to-do list
- Pinterest
- Snack
- Got ready for work
- More pinterest
- Checked the mail
- Worked at preschool
- Came home
- Made chocolate chips cookies for Chad
- Cleaned the bathroom
- Watched Remember Me
- Made sure Chad was up for work
- More tv
- Bedtime

DAY 6 - PICTURE OF SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY

Finished spaces. This one is done by Dan Vickery - a winner from HGTV's Design Star. I love it.

I enjoy decorating and really planning out the look I want. Luckily, Chad's style is similar, and if he doesn't have an opinion on a certain space I'm free to do what I please. For the most part it all stays in my head and I get so excited when I come across something that just fits perfectly. I will be so thrilled when we get into our first house to be able to thoughtfully plan and PAINT each room.

Until then I will come and work on your house anytime!

DAY 5 - A SONG TO MATCH YOUR MOOD

I don't know that the words are the best match to my mood, but every time it comes on the radio I crank it up and am happy that it's summer time!

DAY 4 - A YOUTUBE VIDEO

I realized when thinking about a video to post that I've seen a good deal of videos on youtube. It was hard to choose! So here's a few other favorites if you care to visit them.

-- Numa Numa
-- Flashmob on Weeds
-- The Landlord
-- Chaccaron Maccaron
-- Drunk History

What are your favorite videos?

DAY 3 - EXPLAIN HOW YOU GOT ONE OF YOUR SCARS

I have two scars. One is from having my appendix taken out a few years ago and that was probably like most other appendix stories -- you hurt, you see the doctor, you have emergency surgery before it bursts, stay a night or two at the hospital and then get to go home and do nothing for a week. I did have another doctor later tell me that it's a very nice scar and that whoever did it did a good job -- kind of random.

My second scar is actually older, I got it when I was a kid. I don't really even remember what grade I was in .... 4th or 5th maybe?

I was at the lake with my family and some friends that came along and were leaving from somebody's place after a visit. I was driving the boat and as we left the prop on the motor got caught up in a rope anchoring the end of the dock in place. The wheel started spinning around. My dad had recently made some modifications to the boat and there was some changes done on the wheel that hadn't been smoothed down yet. As it spun around something came around and cut my right forearm.

I didn't even know anything happened. In the midst of all that was going on I moved somewhere out of the way for the dads to figure out how to get untangled. Someone else finally saw my arm and asked what happened. Between 2 - 3 inches had been cleanly sliced open - deeply, I could see how thick my skin really was.

In most situations this is where you head to the doctor to get all fixed up, but that doesn't always happen in Alaska. We'd pretty much just gotten to the lake and the effort it takes to pack back up and get back to town includes a boat ride on the river and a drive. On top of that, I hate needles, so I did not want to go get stitches. My mom is a nurse so we went back to the cabin and she used steri-strips to put me back together -- obviously cleaning it and all that.

We stayed at the lake for the rest of the time and I have a fun scar. It doesn't really bother me that it's there. It's really smooth and flat - if you ran your finger across it you wouldn't be able to tell it's there. Sometimes it's a conversation started when someone notices it. I like to make stuff up about what happened - "knife fight" - but end up telling the actual story too.

DAY 2 - MEANING BEHIND YOUR BLOG NAME

Originally I wanted to come up with a name to put on the things I sold and using the word design seemed like a good choice because it didn't put a specific label on the products I made or might want to make. It made it really easy to have different collections of things. And then Sarah Christine because that's my first and middle name.

As far as using this as my blog name I wanted to be able to use blogger as a portfolio, but for the kind of website I really wanted I eventually broke down and bought sarahchristinedesign.com and learned a little bit more than I already knew about designing my own site. It's still a learning process.

So now it's more of a place to share works in progress for SCD, things that inspire me to be creative, a place to organize my projects ... all other elements of design. So I just kept the name for my blog as well instead of changing it to something more personal. Plus I'm just lazy about coming up with anything else that fits just right.

DAY 1 - PICTURE + 15 FACTS

Eeekk, why am I not in bed? I am so out of whack with working in the afternoons and not having so many morning commitments .... plus Chad's days off have been during the week so I'm very turned around. Gonna throw wedding excitement in there too. I'm so anxious to be in Montana and get married, get back and move and be in a routine. Does that mean I'm ready for fall?! Oh man.... maybe I am? I still need to get a tan though....


1 - I grew up in Alaska and lived in Montana and now live in Texas. I really don't like snow so this is probably the place for me.

2 - I'm from Alaska and don't eat fish ... or a lot of other things that most people would like.

3 - I can't wait to be a mom (no I'm not pregnant. . I just really want my own kids). I heard a song yesterday that went "she's got car seats with no kids" ... yeah, that's pretty much me

4 - I think I have 2 speeds .... sloth mode and energizer bunny. This morning I woke up and got a lot of stuff done in a shorter amount of time than usual and then the next 2 or 3 hours hardly did a thing ... got stuck in turtle gear. I hate not being able to finish something when I start it, so I had all kinds of time to sew today but because I knew it wasn't long enough to finish the projects I wanted to work on I psyched myself out and didn't do anything :S

5 - I watch a lot of tv. Thank goodness for DVR.

6 - I don't have an appendix anymore ... or my wisdom teeth.

7 - I love to take baths.

8 - I enjoy re-purposing stuff.

9 - Someday I will have a house with an amazing kitchen and bathrooms. My heart is set on glass tile.

10 - I'm a loud typer. Chad just told me I'm keeping him up : S I'm also a very fast typer, so I better finish this up!

11 - When I read a book I can't do anything else until I finish it. Who cares about eating dinner?

12 - I like sour things.

13 - It's possible that I could be addicted to amazing fabric and have a really hard time resisting buying a yard just to have some.

14 - I like shopping by myself, during the week, when I know everyone else is at work.

15 - I'm probably gonna write more posts for this challenge and then just schedule them to post on the appropriate days. I'm torn on if that defeats the purpose of the 3o day challenge or if it's more to get you posting and writing about things you might not typically think of.

30 DAY CHALLENGE

So ... jumping on the blog challenge band wagon! Here's my own version based on a few others I found out there. Ready, go!

1 – Picture of you and 15 facts about yourself

2 – Meaning behind your blog name

3 – Explain how you got one of your scars

4 – A YouTube video

5 – Song to match your mood

6 – Picture of something that makes you happy

7 – Bullet your whole day

8 – Place you’ve traveled to

9 – Picture of your best friend

10 – Something afraid of

11 – Favorite TV shows

12 – Something you don’t leave the house without

13 – Goals

14 – A picture of you last year, how have you changed?

15 – Your Pets

16 – Dream house

17 – Something you’re looking forward to

18 – Favorite place to eat

19 – Something you miss

20 – Nicknames

21 – ALLTIME favorite picture of yourself, why?

22 – What’s in your purse?

23 – Something you’ve learned

24 – Put your Ipod on shuffle, what are the first 10 songs?

25 – Your dream wedding

26 – Photo of town you grew up in and town you live in now

27 – Something that stresses you out

28 – 3 wishes

29 – Your zodiac sign and if you think it matches your personality

30 – Picture of yourself today and 5 good things that happened to you since you started this challenge