{DIY} Wall Photo Collage

I found this amazing blog by accident, but I have loved it and I am now a faithful reader.

Every so often she has a do it yourself project post and this time I decided I would try it. It was a so simple and it didn't cost me a penny.

You will have to click the the link above to see what I am talking about but...

In her photo wall collage she did all her pictures a sepia color, I chose not to since I already had enough color prints and I didn't want to pay for prints.

She did hers a lot more coordinated and thought out I just put my pics up in random order. 

The thing I love about this project is it's so easy and you can fit it in any space big or small and add or subtract as many pics as you want.

Here's how mine turned out and it probably took me about a 1/2 hour to do by the time I cut all the pictures to 4 x 4.

I decided to do a row of 5 x 7's to help fill up some of the space. I love how the 5 x 7's break it up a little bit.

As you can see I didn't go all the way down to the dresser top because I want to be able to add more pictures.

I LOVE how it turned out and every time I walk into our room I'm reminded of all the great times we have had from before we got married to now.

Read her post on how she did it, she goes into more detail and has more pics to go along with her tutorial.

If you decide to make your own I can't wait to see how amazing it turns out. 

Our Car Stole Our Keys

Have you ever locked your keys in your car?

Well we have and last night was a nightmare to say the least..oh boy!

So we had a fabulous time eating dinner with my family and as we were about to leave I asked Adam if he had the keys since he drove us to my families. He didn't have them and I was worried that I had lost them.

I told him to check the car and see if they were in there...sure enough they were in the ignition...oh man

So my grandpa graciously offered to take us home, so we gathered our things and hopped in his car and started going home we got about 10 minutes away from our house when Adam asked wait how are we going to get in the house if our house key in on the key ring that's in the locked car...OH BOY

I told him call your sister she might have not have pulled the latch on our third garage while she was getting her stuff out yesterday..well she did pull the latch which we told her to do.

We then debated on whether we could find a way in...We all decided it would best to drive back and get the spare key to our house that my grandparents and mom keep in case of emergency's. So we headed back and I called my mom and asked her to meet us a quarter of the way there to help with the drive. She met us at 9800 south we got the key and made our way back home. We got home got the spare car key. I rode back with my grandpa so I could get my car and drive it back home. It was way late by the time we actually got everything taken care of..

It was a nightmare but on the plus side it nice to spend that extra time with my grandpa. 

All in all everything worked out fine but I hope that doesn't for awhile.. and we will probably be making a few more house keys and hiding them so we have a way in if something like this happens again.

I'm sure that's happened to everyone who reads this if so leave a comment or make your own post about a time when you locked your keys in your car.

Hope everyone had a great Easter!!!  

[LIFE]boats..

What would you do if you only had one day, one week or one month to live?

That is a hard question one I hope I never have to find an  answer to but for me... I know I would quit my job for one thing. I would be with my closest family whenever possible, I would sing a little louder and dance a little longer. I would laugh more and cry more. I would talk more and probably take more pictures. I would take more walks, see more things. If possible travel to a wishful destination or go on a few road trips. I would eat more and drink as much diet coke as I wanted. I would give more hugs and more kisses. I would be with friends. I would not care about the weather or the time I would care less about my looks I would wear what I felt like wearing. I would write letters for those left behind expressing my love for them. Most of all just LIVE IN THE MOMENT!

The reason of all this is this...

Since I have Monday's off I find myself bored/procrastinating the house work and so I turn to Netflix and usually find something to watch. This past Monday I was searching some of the new releases and I came across this movie...

{Here is the Synopsis}

When confronted with his mortality, Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) impulsively buys a vintage motorcycle and sets off on a road trip that starts in Toronto and ends up on Vancouver Island in the town of Tofino. Humorous, profound and extremely moving, One Week uses the great Canadian landscape as the backdrop to the story of a man and his life's journey. In the search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.

At first I thought It sounded boring but I decided to give it a try and not judge it based of a tiny synopsis. It definitely wasn't a blockbuster or anything but it reminded me of something you would see at a film festival. I would recommend it and would watch it again. 

At the very end there is this monologue and I loved what it said.

You get those rare moments of clarity those flashes when the universe makes sense, you try desperately to hold on to them. They are the lifeboats for the darker times, when the vastness of it all, the incomprehensible nature of life is completely elusive. 

So the question becomes or should have always been.

What would you do if you only had one day, one week or one month to live?

What lifeboat would you grab onto?

What secret would you tell?

What band would you see?

What person would you declare your love to?

What wish would you fulfill?

What exotic locale would you fly to?

What book would you write?

What would you do?

We all have dark times in our lives but the happy times are our lifeboats and sometimes grabbing a hold of one is all that will keep us from sinking. I sometimes feel as though this blog is in a way a lifeboat for me. It holds some of the most happiest things of my life, things that I want never to forget moments that are now in a way frozen in time. I love that I can grab onto it whenever I need to remind myself that even though I may be going through a rough moment I can look and see that the magical moments out number them all. 

This is quote from one of my favorite blogs (check it out)she says this:
  The reason I love blogging is: Somehow this ritual of stringing photos and words together makes me more grateful, more aware, more present.-Kelle Hampton

To Strive, To Seek, To Find and not to Yield

New Calling

I received a new calling yesterday.. I am going to be a primary teacher for the 4 year olds! I have 4-6 children in my class (so far 2 boys 2 girls). It will be a fun adventure and I'm sure I will grow to love them just like I did my sunbeam class that Adam and I taught! 

Soul Surfing..

Last week I saw this movie...

I loved the movie, I thought it had a great message and also the surfing in the movie was amazing. I've known surfing to exists and I've seen people attempt it but it didn't look anything like the amazing surfers in this movie. I have since been fascinated by the idea and the risk/reward people get from it. I looked up the word surfing on Wikipedia and it says this about surfing. 

Surfing is a surface water sport in which a person (the surfer) rides a board on the crest of a wave as it carries the surfer towards the shore.

That makes it sound so easy. But the amount of energy and patience it takes to surf in incredible. The amount of time and energy people put into surfing is amazing, to some its a way of life their world revolves around it. I had no idea that people take it so seriously and that its a way of life for some. I always just thought it was just a hobby but its not and that's what makes it so much more interesting. I love watching it and seeing the amazing things people can do. I now wish it was a lot more acknowledged as a sport than it is. 

“The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding…. if you’re out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don’t land on soft snow. It’s usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you’re tumbling underwater.”

-Frederick Lenz 

  Patience is a characteristic that surfers should learn particularly now that breaks are attracting more crowds than before. It emphasizes the importance of persistence to become a true surfer. Reaching that bend may require more effort than other sports because of the uncertainty of the open sea.

 That seems so true with other sports you have the tools to accomplish what your goal is but with surfing you are counting 100% of what mother nature gives you. To me that is more of a sport since you have to work harder at accomplishing your goals that way and the satisfaction in knowing you got what you needed without knowing it was going to be there in the the beginning.

One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surf-board, and a wave. - Naima Green

"I like to tell people who never surf that surfing is like taking a shower, except it lasts a life time. We are the lucky few who get to play in God's soup and we are better humans because of it." - Bill Hamilton 

The fact that not only have men dominated this sport so have women. That to me is awesome!!

(pic from wallpaper-network.com)

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport. - Kelly Slater

(picture from wallpapers.net)

Surfing is the most blissful experience you can have on this planet, a taste of heaven. - John McCarthy

I would love to learn to surf but A. I don't know how to swim. B. I am not near the ocean enough to invest in the lifestyle. C. I probably don't have the patience to surf.

So..for now I'll just watch as other amazing people make it look so easy! 

Surfing, alone among sports, generates laughter at its very suggestion, and this is because it turns not a skill into an art, but an inexplicable and useless urge into a vital way of life. - Matt Warshaw

(picture from Wikipedia)

Lately

There isn't much new going on in the Collet household..same ol..same ol but thats ok I like it that way sometimes.

Here are somethings that I am excited for..things I have done or am looking forward to doing...

First and foremost our family has expanded by 1, my cousin Ben and his wife Melissa welcomed Jacob Payson Pistorius into the world on 04/11/11. He is so precious and amazing!!

I read Nicholas Sparks new book Safe Haven in about 24 hours...such a great read, I couldn't put it down!

We are planting our trees we bought this weekend excited to see the finished look and to watch them grow!

I put blond highlights in my hair 2 weeks ago and I now have some bangs..love it 

 

The book "Two Kisses for Maddy" comes out tomorrow!! If you haven't heard about it go here and read his incredible story.

Nala is 20 months old and is cute as can be... 

Were going to Florida in little over a month..YAY

Other than this nothing much is happening

be back for another post soon...

 

Our [Garden] Journey...

I wanted to document the start of our [Garden] since this our first time taking on such a big project. I'm a little nervous not going to lie..but we are hoping to succeed. We are also planting flowers and trees.We recently purchased trees and shrubs and we are picking them up on the 16th of April. I am excited at the prospects of what the outcome could be.. only time will tell!!

Here is what we will be planting in our 3 4x6 foot garden boxes.

* Corn

* Jalapeño Peppers

* Green Onions

* Lettuce

* Tomato

* Red and Green Peppers

* Watermelon

* Broccoli

* Carrots

* Red and Yellow Onions

* Green Beans

* Celery

* Pumpkins

* Basil

* Parsley

* Cilantro

* Spinach

* Chives

* Sunflowers

As for the trees we are planting

* 5 Austrian Pines

* 2 Little Leaf Lindon

* 6 Amur Maple

* 3 Quaking Aspens

* 6 Eastern Redbud

* 9 Lilac Bushes

As for the flowers we are planting

* 10 Rain Lilies

* 26 Gladiolus

* 16 Ranunculus

* 10 Blazing Stars

* 10 Mexican Hats 

For now all that has been planted is a few of the flowers