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This year is going to yet another dull one for us, but I plan on dressing up anyway and giving out candy to the little trick-or-treaters that manage to come by (if I don’t manage to eat it all first -ha! ). Thankfully they are SUPER easy to make – all you need is black paint (not pictured), a few cardboard paper towel (or TP) tubes, scissors, a sturdy headband, and tape. After I tape one on the horns down using the tabs, I wrap a piece of tape around the headband, then around the horn, forming an X where it comes back around and down to attach back to the horn. Along with the cape I found on Amazon, I also made my own glow-y staff with a broomstick, mini glow sticks, shrink-wrap and tape, and went crazy with some lime green makeup.

And hitting the big 2-5 to me is hitting the next big milestone after turning 21…because we all know after you turn 21, no one seems to care much about birthdays anymore unless you’re hitting a new decade. To mix things up this year and to get me pumped about my 26th birthday next year, I borrowed a this little idea from Leslie over at Southern Flair Blog and decided to do a 26 before 26 list and lay out everything I want to do before my next birthday. once and they turned out pretty meh), so I would love to try and bake a few more things this year. There’s just something so cool about watching people pipe out an bake macarons, and while I’m sure I’ll fail miserably, I would love to try!

This is probably a liiiiiitle bit different from your usual wedding-themed posts, but since we’re officially in the home stretch (THANK GOODNESS), I think I can finally think about all those things I would have done a bit differently… And despite going fairly low on the average-wedding-cost spectrum (did you know the average wedding costs 25k? ! We talked a lot about all sorts of “wedding” options – eloping, super small ceremony/reception, etc., but at the end of the day we wanted to have a good time with all of our friends and family and have a traditional wedding celebration. So while I love all of my girls and am ecstatic that they are in the wedding, I probably should have thought about how they were going to anything wedding-related before choosing everyone.

I’m quitting doing all of those things that other big-time bloggers say you should do – the CONSTANT promotion, daily blog threads, posting on social media a bajillion times a day….I’m I don’t have time to spend hours at my computer dealing with non work-related things every day, especially now that I’m (finally) starting real estate-related activities, so I won’t. I will say that I’m planning to write at least 1 post per week to get things consistent again, and I generally post daily on Instagram/Facebook in some capacity, but gone are the days of me spending long hours “promoting” my posts through blogger groups who’s members (while amazingly supportive) don’t genuinely care about what I write about or what I have to say, and with me being the same way. At the end of the day those types of things are taking a huge chunk of my time for not that great of a return (it’s not like I magically get thousands of new readers because of it), so I’m done.