I can't - I have rehearsal.

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Ahhhh Kansas.

Wow. Not starting off so great with this blog, huh? Thursday got away from me, I will admit. Combination of sleeping in too late (don't look at me like that - it's still summer!), movie, working, and rehearsal. Kind of been a lot of that this week - work and rehearsal that is. I have a show opening next weekend, so there's a lot of rehearsing happening. Afraid it makes for not a whole lot of interesting things to talk about.

I will however talk about my show, because if you're in the Kansas City area, you should come check it out! It's called You Can't Stop the Beat!: Rock on Broadway and it will be at the Barn Players August 16, 17, 18. It's the benefit concert for the Barn, so on Saturday there will be a silent auction and dinner in order to raise money. The show features songs from shows like American Idiot, Aida, The Wedding Singer, next to normal, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Bring it On, and more. It's just genuinely a good time - if you can come I promise you won't be disappointed! For more information and to purchase tickets, click here!

Other things that happened this week:

• Went swimming
• Saw "We're the Millers"
• Hung out with my little cousin

Hopefully next week will be a little more eventful and I'll remember to actually keep to my schedule!

Thanks for reading, dear reader!

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Editing a Movie

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I swear I don't photograph the sky as much as this blog makes it seem I do.

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to be in an indie film. The experience I had filming this movie, Intermission, was one of the best experiences of my life. The cast and crew got along really well - we became this giant, weird, crazy family that just clicked right from day one. Being on set and getting to film scenes reaffirmed that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. An actor's life is the life for me.

A behind the scenes shot of the movie, photo credit to Micah Husereaux.

It's been a few months since filming wrapped, and I've really missed it. Today, however, I got to sit in while my friend and director, Lolo Loren, worked on editing together the final product. She showed me a good chunk of the rough cut, and I'm so impressed with how it looks. It's so much fun to get to watch myself and my friends do our thing, and I can't wait to watch the whole thing from start to finish, and share it with all of you. I'm just so proud that we actually made a movie and it looks seriously good.

Lolo hard at work making a really awesome movie. Did I mention it's awesome? Because it's awesome.

I've been putting in additional work on this film - running the official website, Facebook, and Twitter. Call me the social media liaison. Part of this job is taking all the behind the scenes photos, slapping a watermark on them, and posting them onto the website. So I've been doing a lot of that.

My photo editing station for the day.

Other things that happened this week:

• I ombre'd my nails
• I saw the Conjuring
• Started this blog

Pretty boring week, today aside. I promise I'll try to do something exciting for next week. Until then!

Thanks for reading, dear reader.

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July DIY Roundup

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The sky does some cool stuff every now and then.

Since it is the first of the month, I thought I should have some type of monthly roundup post where I can show off the DIY things that I've done from the past month! I consider myself to be a somewhat crafty person, and I do love sharing. So without further ado, here we go!

Pinterest Picks:

This section is about the DIY things I've done from Pinterest, with links to those posts!

52-Week Money Challenge

This challenge is a good money-saving idea! Basically, every week you put in a dollar, but each week this number increases. So on week one you put in $1, week two you put in $2, week three you put in $3, ad nauseum until you get to week 52 (which is a year later) and you put in $52. After a year of saving up, you will have saved $1,378! I'm doing this challenge with both my mother and our friend Jacki, and we're all saving up for different things (my mom is saving for a trip and I'm saving for a car) We're also all putting in additional savings each week (instead of spending our change we're saving it up, and I am putting in $10 after I give a guitar lesson). I've never been successful at saving my money up, but it's something I need to be doing, and this is a good place to start.

Other DIYs of the Month:

These are things that I either found out of outside of Pinterest, or thought up myself.

Lace Detail Shorts

I am super proud of how these shorts came out! They were just standard, boring shorts that I've had for a while. When I went to a thrift shop with my friend Alice, I found a shirt that had this cool lace-ish detail on them and I thought that they would look cute on my shorts. So I bought the shirt, cut the details out, hemmed my shorts so they weren't quite as long, and hand stitched the details on the sides. The stitching took a while, but it was ultimately worth it. Shorts like these would have cost a pretty penny in the store, but I did it for about $2 and 2-3 hours.

Indoor Plants

A while back I bought a 5" glass terrarium from Urban Outfitters (similar item here), thinking that I would love some plants in my room. I started off with grass because let's be honest, any idiot can grow grass in a controlled environment. The grass rocked (grass grows really fast), but it was tricky to keep it trimmed. So this month - after buying a small terra-cotta pot from a thrift shop, an Eggling in wild strawberry, and a suction wire basket - I planted some things in my bedroom! Spearmint in my terrarium and lavender in my little pot. I like having the basket suctioned to my little window because that means it gets the most sun (my terrarium only gets sun in the early morning). Nothing has sprouted yet, but that probably has more to do with my lack of attention than anything else.

Bathroom Baskets

I have a cabinet mounted to the wall in my little half-bath, and this cabinet only has one shelf for things. I had noticed that the shelf was getting cluttered with all my headbands, jewelry, and products that I use on a daily basis. I looked on Pinterest to see if I could find any good solutions, but came up empty. The next time I was at Target, I saw these little metal baskets and voilà! The baskets just fit, and I can put my headbands in one, and my daily products in the other. I have them hanging from Command hooks, and it's worked out pretty well.

That's it for this month's DIYs! I hope this has inspired you to try out some crafty things of your own! Let me know how they go in the comments below!

Thanks for reading, dear reader.

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The Start

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I do not condone taking pictures while driving on the high way.

My name is Anne. If you are reading this post, than this blog already has more traffic than I expected.

I've never really tried my hand at blogging before, mostly because I figured that no one really cared about anything I thought about or liked or wanted to hear from me in general. This might end up being true, but I'm going to continue on as if I have hundreds and thousands of people reading because otherwise this would be a bit depressing, no?

So why the sudden urge to start blogging? It's something that I've been subconsciously thinking about for a while - having an outlet to talk about things within the relatively safe parameters of the internet - but the real push came from a quite popular blogger/YouTuber named Louise, otherwise known as Sprinkle of Glitter (here is her blog and here is her YouTube - she is fab and you should check her out if you're into make up and crafts and all things girlie). I've just recently discovered her stuff and just found it to be very positive and creative and cool. And I thought to myself, "I could do that! I might not get as many readers, but hey why not give it a try anyway!"

And here we are.

I don't want to make all my posts super long, because no one really has the time to sit down a read a million pages of text. So to keep this post somewhat brief, here is what this blog is shaping up to look like. I will eventually have a schedule, but I haven't quite nailed down all the specifics quite yet.

• Updates on my life, including pictures, once a week! Perhaps having to post about the things I'm up to will help me to get out of my bedroom and actually live.
• A roundup of things I've liked the past week, including products, videos, music and more! Part of being on the internet so much and really just living in general that I love is sharing the things that I love with other people and maybe even turning someone on to something that they didn't previously know about.
• Random, possibly unscheduled posts! I don't really know what else it is that I'd like to do for sure. I don't think I'd like to post every day because then I feel like this outlet would become more like a chore to me, but I don't want to limit myself either. There might be special posts where I talk about a specific thing that I'm loving or that I'm involved in. Haven't quite decided yet.

As you might be able to tell, I am definitely open to ideas - What would you like to see on this blog? Feel free to leave me a comment! I'd love to have a sort of back & forth with all you lovely people!

Thanks for reading, dear reader.

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