How to Make Your Arm Look Skinny In Pictures

I'm a sorority girl, and lawrd knows we love the 'skinny arm', have coined the sorority squat, and love to tilt our heads (and sing songs, and drink, and wear matching clothes, among other things).

But seriously when I looked at this photo the other day a wave of internal panic struck. Does my arm actually look like that? Which is answered by an obvious hello look a the picture, but was easily solved with another set of pictures taken later that same day. Insert second 'skinny' arm picture here.

Moral of the story here, never pop your collar in pictures, ever, unless your looking to shatter any sliver(s) of self confidence, and revert to the tilted lean to restore all previous said confidence.

If there is one thing that is for sure, I'll be doin' tricks like this for years to come.

The 'Morning After' Advice

It's almost Friday, and that is simply amazing.
We're heading out to a Brew Fest this weekend!!!!
 (follow me on instagram for the play by play)

 As if summer isn't great enough already lets add Drinking Festivals. 
While this weekend is a 'Brew Fest', I have a feeling the weekend might include more dranks like strawbertias, (....mojitos, fireball, JD, and all other alcoholic beverages).

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I'm not trying to foreshadow any events of this weekend, but last year at the Brew Fest, I ended up finding blueberry beer and drinking eight of them, eatin' my body weight in chips and guacamole, and brought almost an entire bowl home on my shirt.  When we got home we were convinced we were locked out, until seventeen thirty one phone calls and a set of keys (that were in our pocket the entire time) were found. 
Yeah, it's gonna be a good weekend.

So I'm preparing to go thru the eight step 'morning after' drinking process...

Take a Purse Inventory

It might have gotten crazy on the dance floor,  and things may have gone flyin'.

Be sure you have all your cards, your ID, phone, camera, and anything else you might have brought out with you. 

Shower Up

Simple, I know, but it's likely your hair, breath, and body smell with the lingering staleness of beer, sweat, and possibly cigarettes.  Additionally there may be some stamps on your hand. You need to eliminate all of these things, as fast as possible.  A shower is the only cure. 

Do 'Damange Control' on your Phone

Check your phone to affirm what you don't know might not know from the night before.

See if you did the standard girl 15 texts and seven phone calls to that 'special' someone (unless of course you were with them). If you have it's probably easiest just to delete the evidence (delete all the texts and calls from your phone) and call it good. 

Hydrate

G2's are really the best thing to drink, and while your drinking it, swig down a ibuprofen or two (or four) to properly prepare the inevitable headache.

Check Your Bank Account

Check your bank account, lezbehonest, you probably bought a few more kamikazes fireball shots than you thought.

Comfy Cozy Up
Put on your most comfiest, coziest, pajama like yoga pants and tank/shirt.
Anything that feels more like pajamas and less like actual clothes MUST happen.

Eat...
something greasy. Breakfast burritos, Starbucks breakfast sandwiches, and bagels often do the trick.
I also enjoy goldfish, white cheddar cheese its, and

 Lounge
Sit down on the couch only after setting up your 'station'. G2, water, salty snack, and phone all on the coffee table. This way you're set up for hours, and don't have to move anywhere for hours all day.

Hope you all have a Great Weekend!!!!

P.S. I just watched Princess Dairies this week (it was on TV, and I was reminded of just how great that movie is.  Did you know that Christina from Greys Anatomy is also in Princess Diaries? I had NO IDEA!

How To Make a Button With Pages

I'm no blogging expert, but I am a Pages expert. 

If you have a Mac and don't have iWorks, you are missing out.

It's so easy to make cool things for the blog on it!!!

 

I have had success making buttons through pages, and I wanted to teach you all how as well.

Open a new pages document.

You want a Page Layout document not a Word Processing document.

 Insert the picture you want to use for your button/blog (using 'choose').

It's helpful if you crop the picture using picmonkey before.

 Move the picture to the corner of the document.

The very corner.

 Add whatever detail you want.

Using rectangle option is very easy and adds cute detail, but you can add any shape you want.

 All shapes will default with some sort of fill color, you want it to be no fill.

  You can choose the color of the border.

 Now that your have your border, you can edit your picture and adjust all the color settings.

 Then insert your wording using Insert Text Box (the name of your blog).

 Highlight the words to change the font.

There are many good fonts you can download on dafont.com.

 This is font is Brain Flower

 Once you have your font where you want it, etc. 

You need to crop the page you've made to be the exact size of the image.

You will go to Page Set Up.

 Select Manage Custom Sizes so you can set the page to the EXACT size of the image.

Type in the exact sizes of the image in the width and height.

 Click okay when you are done, there should be no white around your image.

The pages document will be JUST the picture.

Now you want to get it as a JPEG.

Here is how to do that:

Export your pages document to your desktop using the Export function

It will give you options, select PDF.

Don't worry it will end up as a JPEG.

Save it as a PDF in whatever file name you want.

It will appear on your desktop.

Left click and Select open with Preview

 It will open.

Then under file select Save As..

 The Save As will default to PDF

 But scroll up to JPEG

 Click Save.

Now you have an AWESOME image with all you want as a JPEG.

That looks like this:

Email me with any questions.

It's way easier than it looks.

If I can do it, you can it. 

I promise!