Forever Beloved

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EIGHTEEN | VLOG

Today’s prompt: Record a VLOG! It can be about anything you’d like!


So, when I read today’s prompt I was like what will I say, how will I ever talk on one subject, oh my goodness I’m so nervous…and then I started talking and talked so much I took up all the room on my phone.  This is seriously like take 7, so by this time I was sure not going to record it again.  The end is cut off basically because I’m too wordy (and take too many pics that obviously occupy all my iPhone space).  So here is the ending in typed form…you know a photographer has to go where the best lighting is!  I’m so excited to go watch everyone else’s vlogs, and get to put voices with the blogs I stalk daily! Have a super great day y’all!

So here it is y’all, my very first ever VLOG!


My very first Vlog! from amy cutler on Vimeo.

Side-note…I never realized how much I talk with my hands until I watched this video.

SEVENTEEN | OBSESSION

Today’s prompt: Just for fun, your latest obsession. What can you not get enough of these days?

I asked each one of my littles what my current obsession would be and we all agreed…chickens!  In this house, we are animal lovin’ fools. I must add, I was also born with a touch of farmer in me. So for years, having backyard chickens has crossed my mind. Every time I would bring it up, I was met with a resounding no. But this girl, she’s a persistent one! I guess I just wore them down until the answer was yes {actually, more like an I guess so}.

I spent months researching different breeds, narrowing down what ones I wanted and one day I just took the plunge and ordered them. I just jumped in blindly with both feet. I kinda roll like that sometimes. I think that might be a quality of mine that drives my Mama nuts.

The first chicken we got were ordered online and came through the mail.  The postal worker had a bit of shock in her voice when she called and said you have a package here, and I think it’s chirping.  The breeds I got first were golden laced wyandotte, buff orpington, buff brahma and cuckoo marans.  Once they came, we decided we needed a few more.  Off we went to a local farm and brought home a few black copper marans.

The next year I got the bright idea to hatch out my own.  I mean, how fun would that be!  So I borrowed a friends incubator and went to work.  I’m so thankful I did.  My favorite roo passed away suddenly, but I was able to collect a few eggs beforehand.  I knew if I hatched them out, they would be his offspring.  Out of my first batch, only one egg hatched.  I thought he was super lonely, so I went to TSC and bought 3 bantams to keep him company in the brooder.

I wanted to try my hand at hatching out my own again and I still had a few breeds I wanted.  It’s all about the egg basket looking pretty y’all.  I found a listing on Ebay for hatching eggs that included the breeds we wanted.  Once they came in the mail (and warmed up) I put them in the incubator.  That hatch yielded six babies.  Of course half of them were roo’s, totally my luck.  We’ve since gotten rid of two of the roo’s, they were super aggressive and kept terrorizing my ladies.

We’re in the process of building a new coop.  The current coop is an old camper, and it just doesn’t have the room we need.  With the room we’ll have in the new coop and run, I have room to add a few to my flock.  And with that, I have a dozen eggs in my incubator.  I currently have this huge desire to have olive egger layers.  With an olive egger roo and my black copper marans, I can hatch out my own.

If you have had a huge desire to get chickens, like I did, you can read a blog post I wrote last year about what I wish I had known before getting chickens.

What about y’all…what are your current obsessions?

Younique GIVEAWAY

I love giving stuff away especially when I know that when you use it you’ll love it too.

As you may or may not know I am a Younique Independent Presenter. I joined Younique because I fell in love with our 3D+ Fiber Lash Mascara.  I have hooded lids and always felt as if my lashes were barely visible.  As soon as I applied the mascara to my lashes, I was hooked.  See my review HERE.

I signed up to be Presenter and now I get my products at cost! Sweet! And because I love to share things I love with you it couldn’t be more perfect.

I’m giving away a few of my favs!

The goodie bag includes:

1 Liner/Shader Brush
2 Moodstruck Minerals Pigment Powder in Enamored and Adorable
1 Lucrative Lip Gloss in Luscious
And a super cute Younique Makeup Bag

Liner/Shader Brush:

This double ended liner/shader brush works great for brows, applying eye liner and smudging to achieve a smoky look.  The shader brush fluidly blends mineral pigments for a diffused finish-and the liner brush creates smooth, even lines, wet or dry.  I use this brush every single day to apply my gel eye liner. 
 
Eye Pigments:

Each Moodstruck Minerals Pigment comes with a sifter. Sometimes companies don’t offer a sifter and more of the product ends up on my shirt or vanity table than on my face. It keeps the product neat and clean and helps with any mess. Pigments like these are easy to work with because you can tap the product upside down a few times and then grab color from the inside of the cap. The pigments are all really rich in color and velvety smooth.

The colors blend smoothly with other products (lotions, rosewater, mascaras). PERFECT for ladies who want to create their own makeup shades, tinted moisturizers, temporary hair streaks, tinted nail polish, tinted lip gloss, eyeshadows and eyeliners…the list GOES ON!

Lip Gloss:

The lip glosses are a rich spread of color, very smooth and highly-pigmented — bright, bold, or subtle. These lip glosses are non sticky and very creamy. They are like a liquid lipstick.  The application is very smooth and does not streak. The color payoff is amazing!

Here’s the great news, I’m giving one lucky reader all this for FREE {$58 value}!  I know, right. We all love free! Giveaway is open to international readers as well as U.S. and Canada, and will end on Friday 9/28/15 at 11:59 PM.

For 1 entry (mandatory):
Head to Younique and take a look at some of the other products they have to offer, they don’t just make mascara (you can find more before and after photos and purchase the mascara for yourself there too)! Then come back here and leave a comment on this post letting me know what other products you might like to try.

For +1 entry:
Pin an image from this blog post and then leave a comment with the link to the pin!

For +1 entry:
Join my Facebook Group HERE.

For +1 entry:
Share this giveaway on Facebook or Twitter and then come back here and comment with the link to the post!

(Max 4 entries per person.)

If you don’t want to wait for the giveaway, you can head here to buy the products for yourself.