Done

Helloooo everyone, I'm back again. Been busy with figuring out if I'm graduating and guess what? I am, so I've been running around figuring out what to do with the day of graduation. Yikes! I found my dress for the ceremony and now that my degree is wrapped up I have to figure out what to do with myself. I've been working and will continue to work as well as now do a part time job in my field. The upside to all the tedious little school things being done is that I can now focus a more on my blogging and in general writing. Woot! Woot!

In the previous two Quinceaneras I made the girls a gift.  For Janet I made a life size version of her childhood bunny and for Ariana I made her some blinged out converse. For my niece Lupita I'm going to make her both.  Blinged out converse and a stuffed Pikachu... random but that's her favorite plush animal.  Sooooo I'm going to make one from scratch

I'll be updating my progress over the next few weeks.  The quinceanera is in July so I will be updating as it gets closer to then. :)

Also as a graduation gift my boyfriend got me tickets to see Pierce The Veil! :D I cannot describe how surprised and how excited I am for this. I'll be blogging about that concert soon too when it happens :D.

Update: Up Next in July

Hey everyone that reads this blog, guess what??? There is going to be another Quinceanera coming up soon. I have yet another niece that will be celebrating her 15th birthday with the dancing, the dress, and the people in July. So keep an eye out for that next blog in July about her party.

These are some of the salt shakers decorated as flowers that my sisters-in-law made for Janet and Mimi's Quinceanera. This time around for my niece Lupita they will be making swans. Which I have never seen crochet...but then again my sisters-in-law are really into that.

Pink one from Mimi's Quinceanera

The swan for Lupita's Quinceanera table decorations.

On our trips to go dress hunting I came across these random statues for Quinceaneras that I found at guess where? A dollar store, which is odd but they're actually a really nice quality of Quinceanera figurines.

Also here are some cute dresses we saw while out and about looking for the dress.

Quinceanera #3

So this is the last quinceanera that my family celebrated right before the end of the new year. This was my niece Ariana's Quinceanera. I had a little bit of an extra touch in this one because I made some sparkly converse for her to wear when she was dancing Buy a cover them with Swarovski crystals which made him really sparkly. I also made little candy bags that were placed at each table. I did have a recording of her surprise dance but unfortunately it got deleted Before I could get my hands on it so I don't have a suprise dance but I do have Some of the dance thing that happened. I hope you enjoy the pictures and the videos. Like always I had my set of questions about the experience for Ariana.
Me: Did your quinceanera turn out as well as you thought it would?
Her: Yes the party turn out as well as I thought.
Me: What was your favorite part about the Quinceanera? What was the most stressful part of it?
Her: My favorite part of the party would have to be the dancing party. The most stressful would have to be the surprise dance
Me: Let's talk about gifts for the best gift you got and the worst gift you got?
 Her: Worst gift would have to be a this purse that wasn't exactly pretty to me. And the best gift would have be this cute karate bear or money I kept finding in the birthday cards :).
Me:What was the most memorable part of your party night?
The most memorable part of the night would be the dancing. I got to dance with my best friends, especially the one that was moving soon. It was great being able to dance with my friends and my family (my cousins, aunts and uncles)
Me: For the church service what was the best and what was the worst?
Her: It was tooo long. LOL like all church stuff the service is long. I also had some trouble reading the rite of passage speech in spanish. My spanish isn't perfect.
Me: What would you have done differently for the church ceremony of your quinceanera?
Her: There's nothing I would've changed for the church ceremony part of my quinceanera.
Me: What would you have done differently about the party?
Her: I wouldn't change anything about the party. It was good just the way it was.
Me: Let's talk about keeping your practice is what did you like and what did you not like? Also what was the hardest part about having a quinceanera?
Her: The practice was fun and I enjoy spending time with my friends and cousins but I didn't like that the boys always went away when practice wasn't even over. The hardest part would be making sure everything was okay and ready about it on the day of the quince.

Her on the day of the practice pictures.

The venue was gorgeous. It was so neat and elegant, a bit of a way out of town but it was a beautiful spot for a celebration like a wedding or quinceanera.

Quinceañera #2 Janet's

Hey everyone sorry its been awhile I've been busy with school and all the craziness of my life. This blog post is about my niece Janet's quinceañera . As you can see from your pictures and video her dress was blue. Her special day was fun, and it took a lot of planning.To start off the surprise dance that the boys did with Janet was kinda hard for them to learn especially when all the boys have never really danced or moved their hips. It took a LOT of LONG practices over the summer. While she was busy with that her girl cousins and I all decided hey let's do a surprise dance for her, we can totally do this in a week...yeah not the best idea we ever had. We were trying to learn it within a week and not tell her. Unfortunately she caught us in the act by snapchat and selfies her cousins were taking and forgot that she was in the snapchat group convo. She busted us when she got a hint through snapchat then called her two sisters who were at practice. It ended up working out because then we had her involved and in the surprise dance.

This is Janet and her surprise gift. I hand made a life size version of a little bunny she used to carry around when she was a little girl. Everyone loved the bunny and even took it out dancing.

The first video is Janet's surprise dance with her boys and the second one is Janet and the girls. Sorry  for the quality of this video due to the song and the Warner producers having problems on Youtube  I couldn't get this full video on there but here it is the girls surprise dance for Janet's Quinceañera.

I'm Coming Back!

Hello everyone! Happy New Year! I'm coming back with an update on the last two quinceañeras that my family had. There's going to be another one coming up this summer. I'm sorry I haven't been posting like I was it seems that life had a few obstacles for me to jump through before I could get back to writing. I also would like to announce that I'm going to be publishing one of my stories that I've been working on. But all in good time, I'm still having it be reviewed and edited. I've gone over it about a hundred thousand times but I always miss something. So I will be blogging as I wait for the editing to be done and then make my corrections and set that ship to sail and pray not everyone hates it. See you all soon!

The First of 3 Family Quinceaneras

Hey everyone! Hope everyone is having a great summer, I'm writing to you today about my niece Mimi's Quinceañera . Woot! Woot! My niece turned 15 in May but due to the church and the venue the celebration was held on June 20th. I'm going to share with you some of the questions I asked her and what she responded as well as her surprise dance!

Me:
 1.Did your quinceañera turn out as you thought it would?
2. What was your favorite part of the quinceañera ?
3. What was the most stressful part of the quinceañera ?
4. Let's talk about the gifts lol what were the best gifts you got and what were the worst?
5. What was the most memorable part of the night
6. For the church service what was the best what was the worst? What would you do differently for the church ceremony of your quinceañera ?
7. Also what would you have done differently about the party
8. Let's talk about your quinceañera practices what did you like and what did you not like?
9. What was the hardest part about having quinceañera ?

Mimi's Responses:
1.) Actually, my quinceañera turned out better than I expected.
2.) Hmm.. My favorite part of my quince was either the "regalo sopresa" which was when both Maria and Mario came out to dance Or when the Banda came in playing cause I had no clue what so ever that I was getting a banda.

3.)Stressful part about the whole quinceañera planning was probably getting everything done at the very last minute.
4.) The gifts were pretty interesting to see lol um the best gift was either the flowery backpack or the red big "bitch bag". The worst gift were the leggings and a nail polish that used to be shown on TV. I also got a plastic cup and sandwich box food thing but it wasn't a bad gift.. I just found it pretty funny cause no one would really expect getting something like that as a quince present haha.
6.) For the church service everything was okay.
7.) Although my court and I didn't get to rehearse for the actual day, everything went pretty well. I don't know if anything could have been changed.
8.) Any changes to the party.. I don't know if any changes should have been made at all just because I thought everything went pretty well. Although organizing a little more could have helped that night.
9.) The hardest part of quince practice was probably getting my court to focus from time to time. One of the scariest parts for me about quince practice was probably doing the lift. I was afraid I would slip or something.

Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster Review

I was walking around Walmart when I found Beautiful Disaster. What caught my attention was the cover and the description of the book. Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. She also has a past she doesn't ever want to talk about or go back to. When she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One Night Stand, Travis Maddox. He is dripping sex appeal and temptation, he's lean, cut, and covered in tattoos. What else could you possibly ask for? Travis comes from a all boy family. As a child he lost his mother, which probably has something to do with the whole Walking One Night Stand status he has. Travis spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days on campus. He is deeply intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, so much that he's willing to risk his current lifestyle. Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, both are in for a tug of war of the heart. I had never heard of the author, Jaime McGuire but I'm glad I found her book. Her first pages drew me in, I'll be honest here Travis is a alpha male character but he does however have his soft side. It all comes with the territory of his past, the same goes for Abby (except she's not an alpha male lol). Niether one of them has had a fairytale childhood and you see it in both books Beautiful Disaster is the book based on Abby's POV, and it serves as the backbone of the series. Then in Walking Disaster you get Travis' POV, which definetly adds more to it and it becomes a window into his soul, because you get to read his thoughts and feelings. I would recommend these books if you're looking for something new to read that has a bit of edge to it along with romance and some catchy names for the main characters!


"If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever." A very well learned lesson in Beautiful Disaster and Walking Disaster.