its been a while.

Friends. Summer is thankfully fast approaching. Then I will blog more. 
But for now, these lovelies are what have been inspiring me lately.

I cant wait till finals are over and I can daydream more.  I am currently making a summer to do list that includes blogging more often. I am spending the break in Arkansas this year so I am sure my list will look a lot different than my usual city life one. Hitting up starbucks and new resturants will be replaced with spending more time outside and being on the lake at my dads. I am okay witht that=)

I just saw these pictures of this gypsy wagon on THIS flicker page. They just about killed me. I want this! I could live in this wagon for forever and be SO happy..my heart is happy...(drama.)

so so pretty.

-amanda.

wednesday words.

“We are all travellers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend” – Robert Louis

I am still on a "got to spend time with the coolest girls ever who happen to be my best friends" high.

spring fling.

hellooo spring break. PRAISE! This week my mind has been full of crafts I want to try, friends I want to love on, and books I want to finish that I usually cant even touch. Note, how none of those things are theology papers, Hebrew homework, or meetings that need attending. I'M FREE! Too bad its only for a week.
So here is whats up.
What I have been reading:
I am seeing what all the fuss about..still trying to figure out exactly where he stands. This is one I need to digest for a bit. Oh drama.

Rob Bell Love Wins.


What I have been listening to..

Ever since we saw these cuties at SXSW last weekend I cant stop listening..or dancing to Kopecky Family Band

What I have been working on..
I cant show u exactly what it is that I have been making because I think the only people who read this blog might just be the people who are relieving these little gifts.. so just forget you saw this =) But these are the things that have been inspiring me.

link

I am making a similar version of THIS for the residence in my dorm. Me and Momma Sarah have been wanting to do some sort of inspiration board for the dorm, I think this one is a great idea.I will let you know how ours turns out.

P.S my mom threw my the most beautiful 21st birthday party. I cant wait to show you the pictures so you can see how crafty she is.
Shalom, Amanda.

the best.

In 5 days I get to spend my 21st birthday in Austin with my best friends. I get to brag here..I seriously do have the best friends and I have been beyond blessed by them over the last years. These girls and I all left home and went away to different schools but have stayed super super close!They are all beautiful, smart and so so funny! I am the luckiest girl in the world. We are heading down to Austin on friday and are spending the weekend going to shows, eating great food, laughing a lot..and that whole turning 21 thing =) I am so excited!Thank you Jesus for these girls!!

ps. we get to see Hanson at 1am on my birthday.I will have to trick them to accompany me to this show. Think what you want..but I still love these brothers

hello march!

With all the comotion in my life the last fews days I almost forgot that it is now March=) i love march for lots and lots of reasons(a big one being its my birth month.)
Family life has been really crazy.Blog searching is very therapeutic for me. So thats what I have been doing the past hour. Wanna see what i found?


I am in love with Kelli Murray's blog and art. If I wasn't a broke college student, I would be purchasing one..probably this one..

I saw this the other day, and for some reason wanted it SO BAD. Its Katy Perrys OPI line. This one is Teenage Dream.(ps.I think my mom secretly loves her, she often slips how much she likes her songs into convos) I am not sure when I started loving the color pink so much, but i do, and I'm dealing with it.. Anyway, my mom sent me thins in a package today. YAA!

This blog. Man oh man, I would love to have this life one day!

My favorite dress from last weeks Oscars..seriously this color is so prettyyyyy

I have seen this multiple times lately on different blogs..i want it!!! I wonder how realistic it would be to build this in my backyard one day..when I have a backyard.

And if I could have this dress from Free People for my birthday I would be a happy girl..

oh, but wait I got flowers from a sweet boy today,so maybe I already am a happy girl=)

 Shalom ♥ Amanda

wednesday words.

This blog entry was written by Jamie Tworkowski (the founder of To Write Love on Her Arms.) I have kind of been in love with him, or his writing at least, for a long time now. You should read this one. He always hits the nail on the head. He is dang good.



Dear Valentine's Day,
Feb. 14, 2011 at 4:19pm
My friend Don wrote a blog about you today and his blog suggests that you used to look a lot different than you do today. He says that you are the product of a poet and that before this poet's pen, you were not a romantic holiday.
i think i would have liked you more back then, whenever that was. The truth is that you really bother me now. i think you bother a lot of people, honestly. You show up every year right after Christmas. You turn the windows pink and you sell your diamonds on the radio and i think i've gotten five emails from 1-800-FLOWERS in the last three days. i'm not sure how you got so much power.
Don't get me wrong. It's not that i don't like love. i love love - i think it's the best thing that happens on the planet. It's the biggest dream inside me. But i bought a lie somewhere along the way. i bought the lie that says i'm not alive if i'm not in love. i bought the lie that says if i love someone but then they stop loving me or they start loving someone else, then i must have no value or power or worth. i bought the lie that says if i'm not in love, then i'm as good as dead.
And if you believe that lie long enough, it makes a giant hole. It makes a hole so big that no one person could ever begin to fill it. Not even a princess. Believe me, i've tried. To fill it with a person, to fill it with beauty, to fill it with all the things you sell.
But i don't think it works that way. Bono says his songs come from a God-shaped hole inside of him. He's my favorite singer and he has a lot of things. He has great stories and a wife and kids and plenty of money. But in spite of all of those things, he says he still has this hole and he says that it's the reason that he sings.
i've been thinking lately that maybe i've confused a girl for God, a different one every year or two, since the first day of junior high. And man, that is a lot of pressure to put on someone, to make them God. That is a ton of power to hand someone. Especially when they're just a person. A person with questions and flaws and pain of their own.
So maybe there's a war, inside of me and for me and maybe my heart is the opposite of small. Maybe it's the opposite of cheap and empty and alone. Maybe it's sacred and enormous and wild.
To make a long story short, i think i've given you way too much power. i let you scare me and i let you name me and i let you tell me what i'm worth.
i don't want to do that anymore.
There are dreams inside of me and those are mine and my guess is that they're there for a reason. But for all the days like now where the dreams are asked to be only dreams, i'm gonna keep getting out of bed. i'm gonna keep living my story. i'm gonna believe that there is reason and purpose, and power in my life. i'm gonna believe that i'm alive inside a story bigger than my pain, bigger than everything missing.
It crossed my mind to try to ignore you, to try to go to bed early and wake up when you're gone. But i changed my mind. i am part of a gang in Florida and we're gonna get together tonight. We're going to open our computers and we're going to choose to believe that words are powerful. We're gonna do our best to tell someone something true. We're gonna ask people not to give up on their stories.
Valentine's Day, i don't hate you. i don't even blame you. Perhaps you did not name yourself. Perhaps you are the product of hundreds of years, hundreds of thousands of broken people and a million God-shaped holes.


The truth is that we're all living love stories.


Peace to you tonight.
jamie