Day one.

So, as my previous post stated today starts the 30 days of lists "event!" Yay! I have so been looking forward to this. So, much so that I forgot to make my notebook for it! Oops. No worried though, I woke up a little earlier this morning and put a little scrap paper note book together and I think it turned out pretty darn cute!

The little book I made.
Each page is a different fun scrapbook paper!

Day one's promote was "a few things around yourself." Pretty easy right?

soon to be mother of 2blog-a-holicprocrastinatordreamercar singerfansonwifebeach loverphoto takerstudentcrafter

I think this list thing is going to be really fun. I'm not going to be posting my daily lists. It will probably be a twice or maybe three times weekly recaps on what my lists have been. I will be posting my lists everyday on my flickr photo stream though.

If you have no idea what I'm talking about go check out the "30 Days of Lists" Blog. It's pretty much a list promote blog for the month of March. What's great about it is that it only takes a few minutes of time a day. For someone like me who keeps track of just about every second on her day this is so perfect. I can't wait to see what promotes are to come!

On a side note: If you don't see my around as much I do apologize. March for everyone I think is going to be a very exciting but crazy month. So many wonderful things are happening in my life and they just all seemed to be in this month! I will still be blogging of course; it just might not be daily like I have been doing! I have kind of been feeling like this:

Well, not really.

Thanks for being awesome!

10+1 Random Facts about me

I’ve seen this on blogs like run with scissors and I thought it was a cute way to get to know a little about me. 10+1 Random Facts about me:

1.) I was a Theater Major in college and I thought I was going to be a singer/song writer all my life but now I’m a photography major and I have no idea what I’m going to do but I’m going to enjoy the time I have.
2.) I’ve been to Poland, Germany, and Israel on mission trips and I hope to travel more. It’s true that you can never understand what you have until you see the way other people live and I want my daughter to learn that as well.
3.) I’m both extremely outgoing and extremely introverted at the same time; leave it to being a Gemini.
4.) I’ve written a science fiction story that no one will ever read.
5.) I have dyslexia but I’ve learned to thrive with it no matter what anyone says. I don’t see it as a disability; it’s just a different way of looking at the world.
6.) My mom bought me the complete seasons of Gilmore Girls last Christmas and I’ve already watched every episode at least five times.
7.) I love Jesus and have an incredibly strong faith in God but I can’t stand religion.
8.) I’m a movie addict; I love getting sucked into a good story with beautiful character, lovely colors, and great cinematography.
9.) I have to sleep with a light on; I have an unnatural fear of the dark and of zombies… don’t ask me why I don’t know.
10.) I love to read but I don’t do it nearly as much as I should.
11.) I’d rather be behind my camera than anywhere else.



Happy Trails!

whats in a name?

Since I’ve been blogging at a ramped rate I decided to dial it back a little bit and explain a little of whom I am and what this blog is “about.” I’ve always been a web savvy individual, this is not my first blog but it’s the first blog I’ve written in a very long time. I blogged about silly things and basic life stuff back in college and I attempted to run a few websites when I was in high school, which, well who knows what happened to them. When I first discovered Etsy.com I loved checking out artist’s websites and blogs to see what stories they had to tell behind their art work and I knew that I terribly wanted to sell on Etsy too. Soon after a good friend of my, Becky, started her blog. She’s such a wonderful writer and very inspiring which made me want to start a blog as well. It took a couple of tries but “with a chance of” was finally born!

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Now you may ask “what the heck is up with that name?” I know, if you read anything about running a website or blog or company it will tell you to keep is short sweet and easy to remember. “Something with a chance of other stuff” doesn’t seem all that easy, but I think it’s catchy. The term actually comes from the idea of weather. Living in Pittsburgh the weather is ever changing from “Sunny with a chance of clouds,” or “Cloudy with a chance of thunder storms”or“This weather is so unpredictable that it has a chance of doing anything.” I never stick to the same niche for very long, I’m always bouncing around in what I want to do, what I’m interested, or what I make, so I knew this blog wasn’t going to be steam line and I need the title to explain that. There’s a little of this something but sometimes you’ll get a little of that something too. When I was first describing the name “with a chance of” people assumed that it had to do with taking chances, in some ways it does. Withachanceof.etsy.com still hasn’t taken off but it will soon I hope, it is one of the things on my “Before 26” list.

All that stuff brings us to where I am today. Living in Phoenix, AZ with my wonderfully crazy family and enjoy it as much as I possibly can. There are a few things that have kept me going since we’ve moved here other then my family: blogging, school, Hanson (music), and facebook. I’m so glad I can keep busy writing and being creative, it filled a great big hole and I’m starting to discover who I am. Thanks to everyone who has been reading, just started reading, and encouraged me to write and create.

I can’t wait to see where this ride is taking me…

Happy Trails!