Saturday, April 25, 2015

Netflix: Whats Disappearing Forever & Whats new! This May!




With only a few days left in April, it’s time to learn what you’ll need to watch before it disappears off of Netflix FOREVER (or at least until they renew it). Here’s what’s coming and going on the streaming site in May!

 First we gotta pour one out for the following flicks:

Leaving May 1st:
6 Bullets
 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue
 A Knight’s Tale
 The Accused
 Airplane!
 Airplane II: The Sequel
 All I Want for Christmas
 Along Came Polly
 An American Haunting
 Baby Genius: The Four Seasons
 Baby Genius: Underwater Adventures
 BASEketball
 Bitter Moon
 Boys Don’t Cry
 Bratz: Babyz: The Movie
 The Brothers Bloom
 Call Me Claus
 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
 Cecil B. Demented
 Deuces Wild
 Diving Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
 Fantastic Voyage
 Finding Forrester
 Friday the 13th: Part 7: The New Blood
 Funny Face
 Ichi the Killer
 Into the Blue 2: The Reef
 The Jewel of the Nile
 Life is Beautiful
 RoboCop
 Romancing the Stone
 Sabrina
 The Secret of NIMH
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
 True Justice (Season 1)
 Valkyrie

Leaving May 2nd:
Flight

Leaving May 3rd:
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Leaving May 5th:
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
 Frank Skinner StandUp: Live from Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena
 Grumpy Old Women Live
 Russell Kane: Smokescreens & Castles Live
 Skyfall

Leaving May 6th:
1428
Leaving May 12th:
Grimm’s Snow White
 Robot & Frank

Leaving May 13th:
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milo

Leaving May 15th:
Buffalo Girl's

Leaving May 16th:
Fun Size

Leaving May 17th:
Bridezillas (Season 9)
 Cloud 9
 Dane Cook: Rough Around the Edges Live from Madison Square Garden

Leaving May 19th:
Red Dawn

Leaving May 20th:
No Woman, No Cry

Leaving May 23rd:
Silent House

Leaving May 28th:
The New Guy

Leaving May 31st:
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia


Here’s what’s arriving!

May 1st:
Beyond Clueless
 Jimi: All is by My Side
 The Last Waltz
 Legally Blonde
 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
 Longmire (Season 3)
 No No: A Dockumentary
 The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
 Shameless: Series 10
 Underclassman
 Witness (Season 1)

May 2nd:
 Lalaloopsy: Festival of Sugary Sweets
 LeapFrog Letter Factory Adventures: Amazing Word Explorers
May 3rd:
Anita
 D.L. Hughley: Clear
 Royal Pains (Season 6)

May 5th:
A Few Best Men
May 6th:
The Longest Week

May 8th:
Grace & Frankie
 Puss in Boots (Season 1)
 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas

May 9th:
Jinn
 The Liberator

May 12th:
Extraterrestrial
 Fruitvale Station
 Magical Universe

May 13th:
The Identical

May 14th:
American Restoration
 Counting Cars
 Dance Moms
 Duck Dynasty
 Hoarders
 Modern Marvels
 The Universe

May 15th:
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 4)
 CyberSeniors
 Dawg Fight
 Give Me Shelter
 Granite Flats (Seasons 1-3)

May 16th:
First Period

May 17th:
Tinker Bell and the Legend of NeverBeast

May 19th:
Before I Disappear
 Girlhood
 Zombeavers

May 21st:
Between (Season 1)

May 22nd:
H20 Mermaid Adventures
 Inglourious Basterds
 Jen Kirkman: I’m Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)
 The Other One: The Long, Strange Trip of Bob Weir
 Richie Rich (Season 2)
 Transporters: The Series (Season 1)

May 23rd:
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
 The Boxtrolls

May 24th:
Love and Honor
 Welcome to the punch

May 26th:
Graceland (Seasons 1&2)

May 27th:
Before I Go to Sleep

May 29th:
Hot Girls Wanted
 Mako Mermaids (Season 3)

And that’s all for now folks! I'll keep y’all updated as more titles are leaked. In the meantime, happy streaming!

Monday, April 13, 2015

Lovely Little Critters: My store



So for a while I have been wanting to open my own online store, and make my own postcards and bookmarks. I have actually made some bookmarks as gifts for people, and they loved them. And it made me think, what are things I like to make? well, I love cute little bookmarks and cute postcards! So after doing some searching and some rough drafts of little designs, I decided to make a few postcards to try to sell! This is something i've been thinking about doing for a while, but never thought it would be something people would like or even notice honestly. Well, i'm taking the plunge anyway!
I decided to go with Zazzle because they make it pretty easy to set up a store, and I named my store LovelyLittleCritters! I want it to have a woodlands critters feel to it as a base theme, but along with other cute little things I design on postcards. And I'm going to be making as many as i can! I even added some stamp designs to go with the postcards! I love this, creating little things that I'm proud of. I really hope you check out my store, wether you buy a card or not, send me some love and feed back! I want to be successful in this! And I want to share my lovely little journey with you!

LovelyLittleCritters

Sunday, April 12, 2015

All About Mordecai!




About two years ago Nic and I found this little fella outside, abandoned by his new mother. He seemed to be the runt of the litter , and she didn't want him. So she just left him in the middle of the yard. When we took him in, he fit perfectly in our hands. Just looking at him, you could tell he was the runt, but also, they he was definetly sick.
When we took him to get checked out, the vet said he had a very bad ear infection, so bad they the poor little black kitten wouldn't raise his head at all! He always had it laying to his left, basically on the ground. They pretty much told us he was a loss cause, is sick with more than an ear infection, and just is not worth it. BUT, he had our hearts. We kept him, gave him all the medicines he needed and soon he started to look better! but he just would not raise his head, weeks later and he still leaned it to the far left.
One day he just started running around and we were beyond happy!! He was getting comfortable with us and our home. As he ran around we noticed, he ran with his head still leaning to the left. We realized that having that ear infection heal with his lying on his left ( cause it hurt him too much to move) made his head permanently lean to the left. It was odd, sad and cute. But he was alive and getting healthier! and thats what counted.
His oddest quirk has to be when he panics, he has no idea what to do, or where to go. So he runs in a circle heading to the left- yup. Poor thing! He'll run for a full minute if he's really freaked out. Like the day we brought him to our new apartment, he did nothing but run in circles for about five minutes before retreating to the safety under the bed.


He is finally, getting use to this new home and he honestly seems happier than he was before- having us both here with him. His head is still leaning to the left, I'm sure that will never change- but his mood is beyond sunny!
I thought it'd be nice to share the story of our little love with you- he's so special to us. And such a sweet little creature.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Home Sweet Home





Today i am feeling pretty thankful, because Nic and I have finally moved in together! The feeling of having your own home, just the two of us is so amazing- i am so beyond happy. I love our home, its a combination of both of us and jeez it shows. Needless to say, i brought about a million books with me. Honestly most of my boxes were filled with books, and he handled moving them like a champ! what a fella. I thought id share a few pictures of our up and coming cozy home! We still have the dinning room to set up, I've been using that space for empty moving boxes and general trash, so its the only untidy spot here! And today, i tried to put together the book shelf, and i got two parts put together, but that was as far as i got. I just couldn't figure out how to put it all together! So my husband (feels good to say it! husband!) put it together!

I think my favorite part of our apartment has to be the back wall with all of our frames, some new some antiques, and the book shelf. The frames always reminds me of the heights antique shops because that is normally where we go for fun sunny off days together. Needless to say, we will be adding to that wall. Under the frames is a small royal blue bench with two cute pillows. We got the bench from target (thanks to our wedding gift cards, we have plenty of room for sitting!). We wanted sort of a small reading nook area- but also wanted the option of moving the seat when company was over. We love that bench!


The book shelf, the awesome wonderful bookshelf which carries some of my favorite things. Books! in fact, i had too many books and had to take up the two shelves above our built in desk. Is it weird that I felt proud I needed more book space? The little nic-nacs on the book shelf are from our travels, Hawaii, Mexico, Puerto Rico- We love to travel.

We are planning on buying the dinning room table and chairs next weekend, so that room is still bare and waiting to be prettied up! Along with our own room, which is missing a few things, we just need the time to move the furniture in is all!








One thing ill mention is that in every photo here, there is a wedding gift we got from friends and family. And i just want to say thank you, thank you so much for taking the time to go out and think of us. For attending our wedding and celebrating with us. We got so many lovely things from everyone, and they are helping us start our lives and marriage just right. Thank you.

Also, again, I'm still loading wedding pictures (there are a million!) and will be doing a wedding post soon! Thank you for checking out my little corner on the internet!

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Story Time Writing Challenge: Little Black Box

Little Black Box
By Ariel Morales



I tend to keep little reminders of lovely parts of my life boxed up carefully- trying to preserve the feelings of that moment. Small things, tickets, a pressed yellow flower, a map of Puerto Rico and a small velvet black box. Just big enough to conceal in your hand. I take it out of its hiding place every few months- and run my fingers on the soft fabric. This is the box that, when it opened, I saw my future heading straight towards me and I said yes. 
We were in Vegas, a city that had become our home away from home. We'd been up and down the main street, or the strip as they call it, plenty of times. It was flooded with glittering lights, people, amazing street dancers and fountains that seemed to dance with the music playing all around us.  We headed to the middle of the strip, to take the eiffel tower ride at the amazing Paris hotel. It was cold, so I held on tight as we bought tickets to take the clear glass elevator up 15 stories to the top of the Vegas eiffel tower. I was terrified. Heights never bother me too much, I've ridden in planes plenty of times, but that elevator with its glass doors and floor seemed to be hovering mid air. I held to him tighter, and pushed my face against him- " its too high!" I said. He squeezed me. 
At the top we all stepped out onto a clattering grated floor- and I looked down onto the strip. Small people everywhere, the city seems like its own sun, and the empty black desert around us seemed so alone. It was beautiful. He came up next to me and put his arm around me, and kissed my head. 
He led me to a smaller area where it was only us. He put his hand in mine and told me how much he loved me, and wanted to spend his life with me. I stared into his watery eyes and told him I love him too, always and only him. He let go of my hand and got down on one knee, pulling out a small velvet box, just big enough to conceal in his hand.
"will you marry me?"
On the plane ride home we were inseparable - curving into each other as if we were in our own world. Married, I was going to marry my best friend and see him every day. I was so happy, so in love that my cheeks got sore from all the smiling. I turned to him, and asked if he still had that pretty black box. He gently handed it to me, and I placed it in my bag.

Some things, no matter how small, can have all the meaning in the world.
****I was inspired to write this after reading about the story time challenge on a friends new blog, anonymouslyjaded****



Also, ill be doing a wedding post soon! still fixing up and collecting pictures from friends and family, so check back for that in a few days! We still don't have our hi speed internet set up so loading up pictures takes an eon. Hope you enjoy my little non fiction story!

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Sneak Peek! DIY: wedding programs!


If you haven't noticed, I love to go the route of DIY, for bookmarks, parties, gifts and right now, my upcoming wedding! Today in doing our wedding program and we decided like the rest of the wedding, it shall be DIY! So, here we go.

First step is finding a template, or design for your program (or invite).

When I had gone to Michaels for some craft materials I browsed their invitation section. And I was surprised to find that they sold kits for making your own invitations and programs! Very cool. The thing I did not enjoy too much was the price, running up to 80$. Being a frugal penny pincher, that was way to much! So I figured, well, all I need is a template that I can edit the wording of- ill check Etsy! And there, I found an abundance of people selling their designs templates! For between 5-20$! What. A. Deal. We decided on a template that had a lovely heart at the top of the page, with the ceremony all laid out (you can also edit the writing!). The one we chose was a whopping 8$!


Here is what it looked like:

No specialty paper, no edits, plain template.


Next, since you'll be printing from home, make sure your printer has ink, is set up to receive commands from your computer. We are going to be making hole punches at the top of the cards so we can tie a bow with twine, so if you want to do that you will need a hole puncher, scissors, and a spool of twine, and make sure you go out and buy the kind of paper you want! We are going with a brown type paper.

Here it is: I got a pack of this paper at Office depot, 250pgs, thick and perfect for programs and invitations!


Once you finish editing the words, if you decide to change or add to what it says, you will go ahead and print! I ended up printing two cards to a page. So if you do this, you will have to cut out each card.

I got these other materialist Walmart! Good price too. And of course you will need coffee, to keep yourself awake!



Next you will punch the holes in the cards, cut up the amount and correct length of twine you will need, and pull the twine through!


Once that's all done, its time to tie bows!!  Cute, tiny and the final touch!
And then the finished product!



our wedding is in three more days! I am feeling really proud of all the DIY wedding projects we have been doing for this special day. It makes it that much more special and unique. I haven't put every project on here because as you can imagine, I am busy! Moving today and wedding errands to complete in three days! But I do hope whoever is taking looks at these posts loves them as much as I do. I can't wait to be Mrs. Ariel Morales <3 p="">

#MoralesWeddingParty