Stress Kills.

Moving wasn't & still isn't as easy as we all made it out to be. Maybe it's getting the best of us & having these events planned & wanting it to be perfect is also on my list. Planning the event can be stressful, but the outcome is the best reward. I'm just hoping for the best this upcoming weekend.

Tonight, although there was yelling, crying & a lot of bull shit, in the end we just settled in, do what we normally do, laughed a lot & went to bed. If there's anything I learned from tonight is that you can't let everything get the best of you. No matter how mad you are, how stressed out things are, you have to learn to set it aside sometimes.

Nothing can just easily change, things do take time & in order for you to keep your sanity, you have to remain at some sort of peace with yourself & the ones you love. I messed up...that I do admit.

Sigh.

I will be finding more ways to relieve stress, to help myself & not end up angry over petty things. I hope that the communication we have all formed, we have a better understanding. I do know though that sometimes there are things that are said & although you think it's ok, some people will react differently. It all depends on how you say it. I will defend that to the fullest & there are times you have to just let your guard down & say sorry & I will keep attacking until that's done.

I don't know. Random ramble. Stress kills!

Slowly. . .

It's slowly coming together! As you all can see it's getting its own touch. There's more to add, things to hang up & this is just my room. Steff's room is coming along as well. We moved into here just saying lets take what we have & then gradually buy things that we need. That is exactly what we've been doing; IE: That futon that I had gotten when I moved into the old place is in her room with her furniture & it's still so relaxed. It made the setting in her room at such a high level. In my room I am trying to add some other items just to finish it up. Once we're done with our rooms we are going to focus on the living room, then the guest room/office & lastly the kitchen. I know the order seems weirds, but it's like buy something here, add it, get something for there, add it.

I love the fact that our apartment uses only two of the same colors but each room speaks volumes of it's own, makes you feel at ease in so many different ways. The dynamics of these rooms, sigh I love it!

I will continue to update everyone on how the apartment is looking. I know you saw it a week ago & above is what it looks like now. :) Two-thirds of the way there.

As for my "To Try" list, I am going to continue with the 5 photos a week, sending out e-mails for features. I also want to attempt to cook a new dish this week since we recently have gotten some items for our parents to help with cooking. I need to add one about the apartment, so...unpacking another 4 boxes. Lastly of my "To Try" list I am determined to make Steff's birthday in six days, AMAZING!

So much to do so much do - not to even mention new jewelry ideas that I am going to come out with & start selling in the next two-three weeks! =X

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend.

xo's.

Eye Exam Time.

It's about the time of year for me to get an eye exam. As you all know I wear glasses & honestly I enjoy that I can wear those or my contacts because it allows different styles & looks onto my face with eyeglasses frames. lol I know it sounds silly but I have no problem wearing my glasses. I've been looking for a new pair & have been trying to get ideas of what style I'd like.


The internet is the best way of finding glasses online & there are tons that I looked into. I personally was looking at GlassesUSA.Com & found several that I thought would look nice. The website offers various styles, colors, shapes & sizes to fit your face. The part I enjoyed most was that you could take a picture of yourself & get an idea of how the glasses would look on your face.

All the pictures posted are courtesy of GlassesUSA.com. If you notice the styles I posted are either "in" at the moment, or similar to the ones that I have now. The brown ones I have are similar to the white glasses that are posted. My brown ones are actually a replacement pair instead of always wearing a nice pair of Prada ones that I have. Hence the reason I picked the Kenneth Cole pair out to have as the main pair of glasses & then switch it up with one of the other two.


Having back up eyeglasses are always nice. You never know when you misplace them. So after I go get my eye exam I plan on going to GlassesUSA.com to order an extra pair of one of the three styles that I have chose. There are tons of others & it was hard to narrow down which ones would be my second pair.


If any of you could help me by going to GlassesUSA.com & picking out a pair of glasses that you think would look nice on me & link it I would appreciate it. I need ideas & why not get ideas from the people who see me & read up on me, the people who have an idea of what style would look nice. Once you have found a pair for me, I will view it & narrow it down further. :) I honestly just want to use the promo code offered, because I could save a lot more money with this website than others.


Hey! If any of you are even interested let me share the code with you:
Take 20% off any pair of eyeglasses and get FREE US shipping with the code: New2012
Take 10% off any order of prescription glasses. Code: Blog10

Happy glasses hunt!

Oh My God BECKY!

It's Tuesday & I'm updating my blog!
Let's see...what should I share?! Oh wait, I know!

WE MOVED INTO A NEW APARTMENT!!!
& let me just say there's a lot of work that is going into this apartment, a lot of decorating, cleaning, organizing, but so well worth it! I couldn't be happier with finding the place, seeing it & coming here to live. This is hopefully the place where no one feels they are going to go insane. I hope this is the place where we can come home to, kick it & just relax.

It's a two master bedroom, third room which will be the office/guest room, nice living room space, kitchen that leads to the very well sized bathroom. My closet is huge, but I still question how many things I have & not having the space to fit all these things. The only issue was the people who lived here prior to us. They were absolutely filthy & we're hoping that the paint, the new furniture, the art will all place it together.

So I wanted to share what the place looks like currently. With our vision we are hoping it's going to look gorgeous. The space so I can get a nice backdrop making do some shoots, the office/guest room so I can work on my jewelry & blog. With the money we are investing, how broke we are going to be, we are hoping this will all be worth it.

Using the Photosynth app I pieced together pictures of my room in the current state. There are things in here that won't be after we're done. When we got the cable & internet yesterday we set things up & the only room where you can sit is my room.

You can see I moved a bit when I was turning in a circle to use it, but it looks so cool when you're looking from the phone. The photo is going around the room how you take pictures of it. Here you just see it in how I took it & pieced it together.

Well as you can see: the bed color, the items that we have laying around, the door between my room & Steff's, the door to go in the hallway. The curtain we purchased Sunday, we moved in Saturday. The color of the room Jazz & I chose. Steff has a nice light hot coco color. We then used those two colors throughout the entire apartment. The fresh paint & new rug gave these rooms the life we needed. & the natural light is amazinnnng!

Anywaysssss....besides my excitement lol! I hope everyone has been doing good. Trust me I've been reading up on your blogs when I get the chance.

Tomorrow I will be getting questions together for the features. :)

xo's - Ahlexandria

If you haven't been following me on Twitter you should. I couldn't contain the excitement so I shared it there & posted a few photos.

Tuesday.

Another week has gone by & things have been completely hectic. As I've stated in my previous post there are things that I will be sharing soon. I will share them in photos!

Also, next Sunday expect to read up on a challenge/give away that I thought of having. It should be very exciting. I'm ready to see what you all come up with. :)

How are all of your resolutions coming along? I honestly did make any but what I already have been wanting to do. So I will continue with my growth & progress.

Remember no matter what happens, what we experience helps us build. Being weak is a strength because you can not be strong without knowing what weakness is.

3rd Sunday Of The Year.

Can you believe we are already into the third Sunday of the year!? To think that the holidays have already passed, the weather is actually getting to winter weather (at least here in NY/NJ) & you're slowly getting used to using 2012.

I am trying to get up with my blog like I said I would. I have been slacking though on my "Try List" only because things are slightly hectic at the moment. There will be more news to share in regards to it, but hopefully by February I will have everything ready. Besides one things I will share soon, the features I am trying to organize on my blog, the earrings I am going to create again, the list I am trying to follow, & my regular day to day things - it's seriously slightly hectic. lol.

Although I want to create another "Try List" for this week, I am going to continue with last week's. I want to try & complete things to the best of my ability & not 'half ass'. So hopefully the upcoming Sunday I can share other things that I have completed from that list.

I did start using my camera a bit more. If you follow my Tumblr you will see some of the random pictures I've taken. If you follow me on Twitter you will see more of a day to day with my Instagram posts. Either way, I have been trying to see the world in a different eye, not the bland views that many others see. I want to create an image from what people see normally, into my vision of beauty.

This week I picked the top pictures I believe I took:

Natural red colors. No edits on this photo.

The brush in Union Square, NYC. The cold chill that day.

Warped mind set. Messing with the camera.

Steffy's hair just slowing while using my 'fisheye' lens.

I know they're all a bit random, but it's random things that sometimes are intriguing.

Hopefully you all had a wonderful weekend. Let's see what I can get into this upcoming week. :)

Blurred Red Stripe

Blurred Red Stripe a photo by Ahlexandria on Flickr.

I have been taking photos that I've taken & trying to mess with them a bit. This one doesn't seem like I may have done a lot but I did. Besides that fact that it was already blurry I added more tone to it.

Doing things like this is a project for myself for the year. Just pick my camera up, take shots of whatever/whomever & either posting them or messing with them. It kind of makes it exciting to take photos because you never know what you can end up putting together.

I have to thank Steffy for being such a good sport. Now with the new tripod it seems like I will be able to do still shoots & even self shoots.

What camera do you use? What do you like taking pictures of? & what is your favorite thing about seeing a photo?

It's Tuesday Already?!

I thought a day away from blogging would go a lot slower. Yesterday I was already trying to think of what would I post for today. But today is just a start of my Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday journey. I have been considering other days to post for different reasons; one of them being a Saturday to sharing my "Try List" & which bullet(s) I accomplished. The other day would be a Wednesday to get back into doing features. A feature is a interview (video by the person, video with me asking the questions, or typed up) of a blogger, artist, photography, vlogger, designer... WHOMEVER I wish to share with everyone on my blog. Anyways....that is in the works, so be ready when I ask you to be featured.

If everyone has an iPhone they definitely know what Instagram is. It's like the Twitter app of photos for iPhone users. Apparently they have one for Android users now called "Lightbox" I believe. Either way it's a nice way to just share anything you'd like. Today I ended up sharing an outfit I wore along with just a random photo of me.

My floral Forever 21 dress was on sale at the beginning of the year. I threw on a grey sweater with my navy knitted tights. The grey combat boots I got myself for the holidays.

The curly fro has been out & about once a week. I have been trying to wear it out more often. I also don't put too much product in it, or as much as many girls that do have curly hair. I haven't used gel in more than a year & I am definitely trying to keep it that way. By the way, how can you not love that purple knitted scarf from Forever 21?!

I hope everyone's week is going good so far. There's a lot to stay tuned to....I'm also trying to fulfill at least one thing on my "Try List" so let's see when that update comes up. ;)

Sunday.

If you've noticed I've been trying my best to keep up with my blog & add all varieties to reach out to all kinds of readers. It has been interesting trying to do a "365" blog, but I have decided to just have selected days of blogging. Every Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday I plan on having a blog posted. If I do blog other days they are extras, some exceptions.

I also will be trying to add more photography as well as going back into personal blogging this year. It's going to be a slight challenge, but my thoughts will go down more. I want to get to do some more features, or additional features with different questions to showcase; bloggers, artists, gurus & great people. It's always nice to network & get to know others. Why not pick selected people to go on your blog that others would be interested in?!

Did I mention I am going to continue posting about outfits that I throw together. Once again, I am NO fashionista...it is nice though to be able to see what someone can do with things & how they view clothes & styles. On top of it I do get great prices on the things I wear. IE:

Thursday: My super awesome navy Hello Kitty sweater I got for Christmas from Steffy I felt went well with my tweed tan shorts. I threw on some navy tights & my high tan boots Jazz gave me. Steffy also got me that awesome red bag from Old Navy & my mom got me my lovely watch.

Another thing I want to add is a weekly "try" list. Thanks to Brit & her idea of a "bucket list", I am going to create 5 things I want to try, do or even fulfill this week on Sundays. At the end of the week or the following Sunday (considering a Saturday post) I will tell you which one I chose to do & how it went.

"Try" List:

- Write down ideas for new jewelry.

- Read the next chapter of the school work.

- Complete a test for my school work.

- Eat veggies & drink water all day.

- Take the camera out & get 10 shots.

Lets see how it all turns out.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

! Create a "Try" list & let me know how it goes.

Alcohol.

It seems to have the weirdest effects on some people.

Growing up around people who drank, to see how they would act. To see how things ended up in my home, how out of hand things got. Then to work in clubs, to bartend & see how people couldn't handle themselves because of the excessive drinking. It really does make you rethink of much you should drink, or who to associate yourself with when they drink.

Last night was a bit insane because although not my close friends, it's just the level that things got because of alcohol. Young females fighting with one another, abusive, all because alcohol completely changes them. For me to find one stranded, come back to the town we live in, for me to stop the violence that could have occurred. Due to the alcohol, the reactions, the words that were said to one another, the fists that were thrown.

People shouldn't drink if they are going to act like that. If they're going to drink it should be to a limitation. The fact that someone can go to that extent. It's completely mind blowing!

Self control is important. Just because you have self control & composure doesn't mean you can't have fun. It's all about enjoying yourself, but not allowing something like alcohol to have control over you.

Fan Mail?

Not that I should be talking about Tumblr on here, but some of us do have Tumblr aside from our "main" or personal blogs. Now Tumblr is like the popularity contest of blogs. In all honestly it is hard to find a very good blog to read & catch up on on Tumblr. But now with all these different changes going on to just make it worse for the natural bloggers.

Tumblr is the new Myspace of blogging. It makes people feel they have to constantly; reblog, get likes, post too many pictures of themselves that are hip, & answer tons of anonymous questions that are pointless. Now to create this fan mail option & on top of it to call it that. For that allow messages to be unlimited for people who want to show their "love". Like in all honestly who the hell gets "Tumblr famous" that has substance on their page?

Pardon my mini rant, I'm just wow'd by how that site has changed drastically. How people now feel the need to sit in front of their screens to get more attention by being someone online verses being themselves.

/end rant.

By the way, HAPPY THREE KINGS!

What Is Your Deepest Fear?

Think about it...what do you consider your deepest/greatest/biggest fear? As odd as it may sound, I really believe that is mine.

As much as blogs don't come as easy, I am going to attempt to make them once a week.

Face Products Pt. 1

I know I said last year that I would make a post about some of my facial cleansers & products. It's always nice to come across a blog that has things that you can relate to: their opinions on products you'd like to use or never thought of using. I chose one product that not only I, but Steffy, have been abusing lately.

When it says it "tingles" & "refreshes", it sure does do that! I either use this in the morning &/or at night while I'm getting ready for my day or bed. It's really just nice when you leave it on for 3-5 minutes, or at least until it dries up. Once you wash it off (I personally use cold/warm water for my pores),  you will feel that sensation that the bottle is describing. The facial cleanser goes anywhere from $3-6 in this size in any Rite Aide or drug store. It's worth the money, as well as some of their other products.


Hopefully posts like this can help others. My face isn't the clearest of them all, but I really do have a cleanser for the morning & at night. I also have astringents that I have as well as moisturizers. I have a big bin & things hidden in the house of different items that I purchase, especially on sale.


If anyone tries this, or uses it please let me know.


FYI: Hot water opens up pores. When you get out the shower you should rinse your face with cold water. Also when cleansing your face you should use cold/warm water so the pores to not open up. Open pores can collect dirt and cause blackheads & pimples.

New Year, New Ideas.

Apparently I completely forgot what it's like to keep up with a blog. Thanks to Steff convincing me in creating a blog post every single day, I am challenging myself to keep up with my .com. As hard as it is to think about what to post, I am going to try to do my best to not only share myself, but keep my readers entertained.

I am trying to figure out ways of organizing this blog, as well as getting a look that I will be completely happy with. Thanks to the many people who have been helping me put my blog together; Keys & Dari, I can say it is motivating me more to want to make sure my blog is on the up & up.

It's hard to gather my thoughts to put together posts because I don't want to bore anyone. At the same time though blogging is for me & sharing it with everyone is just my own way of reaching out. With that said, whatever I do over the next year will be my way of reflecting back. Whether it is the words I type up, the photos that I take, the growth of myself or the people in my life, it will be on here for me to see.

So here goes to day three of updating everyone, sharing what is in store this upcoming year.

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Steffy & Red Stripe

Steffy & Red Stripe a photo by Ahlexandria on Flickr.

I have to start getting back into the hang of just picking up my camera. The other night I got to mess with the camera, & Steffy ended up being my model for the night. Of course our usual Red Stripe night & just great laughs.

Let's hope I can share more of the random photos that I take.

Two-Zero-Twelve

It's a new year & I haven't blogged in a month. Maybe because I have had no idea what to post about, or the fact that I was keeping myself slightly occupied.

Although it's a new year, I wouldn't say there is going to be a new me, but a growing, constantly learning, open minded individual. I want to learn more, achieve things I have in mind & get more involved with my blog. Although they are considered "resolutions" & it does seem easier to do starting the first day of the new year, I can't guarantee I won't be venturing off from time to time. The goals that I do have set up though, I wish to share on my blog & add more to my blog to keep my readers & dear friends interested.

With this being the ending of the holiday season, the start of a new year, it's important for me to thank all of you who have been there for me throughout the entire year, those of you who I have met who have been positive, & the important people who have stood by me. You should always be thankful for everything, every single day, but I had to emphasize it one more time that I am extremely grateful!

Along with wishing everyone a new year I wanted to share some of the goodies I received for the holiday.

Besides the lovely bags that my best friend Steffy got me, I also purchased a nice bag for myself. You can't go wrong with some new bags (although I recently found tons that I got while thrifting lol). Steffy also got me my new film camera in my favorite color. I am absolutely excited to get some photos done & framed with it. I purchased the film the other day but let me say it's slightly expensive. To add to my cameras & accessories I received a tripod from my darling Jazz. I am excited to be able to actually put my Canon back into works. I messed around with it the other day + I always use it to take photos on here. My mother is always making my pockets fatter for the holidays, hooked me up with cash to buy items that I recently purchased. My father got me a sound bar that is awesome too! It definitely projects the sound that I need for music, for movies, even just for the radio. I'm very happy with the items I received this holiday or gave to myself.

Hopefully I can get my ideas together & start posting more & also making them a reality. Bless you all for this year & remember don't ever stop growing. Growing is an important factor to life.

New Years 2012 Outfit: Laced top, pink pearl spaghetti strap, back laced stockings, high waste grey shorts & heels.

xo's - Ahlexandria