Loungin' and Relaxin'
Monday, September 23, 2013
@11:19 AM
This weekend was such a loungin', relaxing, somewhat-productive weekend. The benefits of having really shit weather is that neither one of us wanted to step outside in the cold crazy winds, large raindrop showers and cold, and grey ominous skies.
What did we do all weekend? Haha. Like I said, loungin' and relaxin'. We were up so late on Friday playing Grand Theft Auto 5. I have to say it's a fun game. I didn't really play per se but I got to roam around a bit and randomly punch some people haha. I watched my fiance play quite a bit and it's pretty fun to watch. A friend of his and him played all night and we were up until 4am. So that meant Saturday was a write-off. We were up late again on Saturday because UFC was on with some pretty good card fights. The most I moved around was cooking some lunch and dinner for us. Really good chicken ... mmm ... glad there are leftovers for me to eat tonight.
In the midst of all the game playing and lounging was more drawing. I am on a roll! I managed to finish one of my art projects that I am quite proud of. I took my sweet time with it and I have to say it really shows when you do. I carefully planned out everything (well almost everything). This particular one, I had the cherry blossom branch done a long time ago because I was originally designing it as a tattoo I would possible have for myself then I thought about it because I wanted to change it and ended up using it for an art project. Check it out. This is my progressive work then the final product!
My Work In Progress
The Finished Product - "Spring Beginning"
I did that in a matter of two days and already got myself started on a new one. I actually had an original of this one but the look is incredibly different and I wanted to make it look nicer with a different style. Plus ... I can't find the original. It's somewhere in my parent's house along with other artworks that I cannot find (which pisses me off). One day I'll find it. Here's the progress so far ...
Blue Breeze - Work in Progress
So I have been drawing a lot lately and it's nice. I even set myself up an instagram account just for my artworks just so I can keep track of what I am doing and it is separate from my personal life. My user name is
sharbarart if you would like to check it out. I tried to post whatever I could into with all the artworks that I at least have in my folders on my computer and wow ... I didn't expect such a welcomed response. I had so many likes that I guess it was an ego boost to my drawing skills. Looking through all of them and seeing the progress made me realize that I have improved a lot over the years. I was always so scared to draw something really nice because I was traumatized back in highschool.
I had a sketchbook that was my PRIZED POSSESSION. It was some of my BEST WORK EVER. For something at that age and just a beginning to my art days, I had never felt so proud of myself when it came to drawing. It made me wish I had a scanner or something back then but they weren't around much at that time. Anyways, I took it to school one day and the damn thing got stolen!!! I knew EXACTLY where I put it because, of course, I loved it so damn much and it got stolen. Ever since that day, I have been scared of drawing something incredible and still am to this day. That's why when I do draw something "nice", I take a photo right away or scan it. I'm slowly getting back into it again and maybe one day I'll do some commissions and make some money. Maybe that could be the side business that I have always wanted to start ... Sounds like the only logical thing at this point because all of my other ideas don't make much sense to me.
Anyways ... That's my weekend and my update on my passion in life ... art.
Labels: art, drawing, inspiration, life, memories, thoughts
Happy Birthday to Me!!
Sunday, June 16, 2013
@1:13 AM
I am officially 28 years old today! It's been so much fun for the past few days in celebration of my birth. On Friday my boss at work decided to treat the whole office to a luncheon because it was my birthday! Plus they were sweet enough to get me a birthday card with everyone's signatures and everything. It means so much to me because I've only been at this job for a couple of months and it's nice to feel that I have been welcomed to the company and feel like I've made friends because I love each and everyone of them!!
On the same day, our awesome neighbours (who have become such great friends now) and I planned a BBQ night for me with a fun fire pit for the night. My family, my France's parents and our friends were all there to celebrate! My parents brought soooo much food while my fiancé barbecued, they even brought me a birthday cake!! Our neighbours/friends all brought their dishes too and wow ... Lots of food!! Everyone was stuffed by the end of the night!!
Then we had a fire pit which is a tradition for us every other Friday. I wanted a chill birthday this year and what better way to celebrate my birthday and the summer by having another firepit night!! I love these kinds of moments where everyone just sits around the fire talking and laughing and creating such great moments and memories til the wee hours of the night. We were probably out there until 2am that night. So much fun!!
The celebrations are not quite done yet since today is my actually birthday. I know my future mother and sister in law are planning a dinner for our birthdays and Father's Day (my mother in law's birthday is just a day before mine!!!). It's gonna be another night of food that's for sure!!
Of course I treated myself for my birthday too lol. My neighbour and now good friend, Tracy suggested we go get pampered today so she got a pedicure while I gone my nails done. I got myself full French acrylic nails so I feel pretty lol. I've been wanting to get my nails done for soo long just never really had the push to do it. Feels good to finally be able to treat myself to it now that I can actually get them since they never allowed it when I was doing nursing. Now that I'm not in nursing anymore and work in an office I can make my hands as pretty as I want!!
So it's been pretty nice lately. Nice to have a bit of fun since having school and work has been stressful. Working most of the day and going to school at night doesn't really leave me much time to do certain things and have the fun I used to have. I am trying very hard to work hard and save money for the wedding and just contribute as much as I can to our lives together and also finally finish school and get my accounting diploma credentials. I can't wait to get everything done and finally start our lives and hopefully have our family. Everything I do is for our future and I will do everything I can to make our lives wonderful!!
I say this and am feeling very sentimental because not only is it my birthday but our 7 year anniversary is coming up too!!! It's on the 19th!! It's crazy to me that its already been 7 years. It really hasn't felt like it. I still remember so many things of when we were just first dating and it feels like they just happened last week!! In over a year it will be 8 years and we will be married!!! It will be many more years to come and I can't wait to start that chapter of our lives together. For now, happy 7year anniversary and I love you so so so much.
Labels: birthday, Family, life, memories, work
Dangerous
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
@11:49 AM
Having my kitchenaid stand-up mixer is dangerous. I have been baking like crazy. I've already made so many cookies, cakes and I was able to make crepes for the very first time! I constantly look for baking ingredients in anticipation of what I can bake next. My fridge is already stocked with cream cheese, milk, sour cream, creams, butter and I have an endless amount of sugar, flour, and icing sugar.
I'm always on Pinterest too looking for future recipes. I just love to cook and bake. I never thought I would love it so much. I always watched my mom cook and loved her cooking but never thought I, myself, would be decent at it. My mother even said to me that before she did t know how to cook at all!! She never started cooking until she got married and just learned from cookbooks.
I guess I was the same way. I never really started cooking until I started dating my fiancé. The one advantage I had was that my mom taught me along the way. She just had to learn from scratch with no help whatsoever. So I guess I'm lucky that way.
I'm lucky too that my fiancé loves my cooking. It feels good to know that he has his favorites of mine and always asks the to cook certain things cause they're really good. Boosts the ego if you know what I mean. It makes me feel better that I can cook decently since my mom is a good cook and his mom is an incredibly good cook too! It's like a bar I had to jump over because of course moms are an important part of some men's lives, especially when it comes to cooking.
Someday I would love to have my future son say, "my mom makes the best food! Nothing beats it!" OR "I love the way my mom makes it". Have a legacy you know?
That's why I plan on documenting all my recipes in a book or something and keep it for years and pass it on from generation to generation. My mom still has her very first cookbook at her house too. It looks so ratty and old but it's a TREASURE. I want something like that except it will all be in my writing. I want my recipes to be a family treasure.
What are your treasures? It doesn't have to do with cooking. Just something that you know you would cherish for a very long time.
Labels: life, memories
Loungin' and Relaxin'
Monday, September 23, 2013
@11:19 AM
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This weekend was such a loungin', relaxing, somewhat-productive weekend. The benefits of having really shit weather is that neither one of us wanted to step outside in the cold crazy winds, large raindrop showers and cold, and grey ominous skies.
What did we do all weekend? Haha. Like I said, loungin' and relaxin'. We were up so late on Friday playing Grand Theft Auto 5. I have to say it's a fun game. I didn't really play per se but I got to roam around a bit and randomly punch some people haha. I watched my fiance play quite a bit and it's pretty fun to watch. A friend of his and him played all night and we were up until 4am. So that meant Saturday was a write-off. We were up late again on Saturday because UFC was on with some pretty good card fights. The most I moved around was cooking some lunch and dinner for us. Really good chicken ... mmm ... glad there are leftovers for me to eat tonight.
In the midst of all the game playing and lounging was more drawing. I am on a roll! I managed to finish one of my art projects that I am quite proud of. I took my sweet time with it and I have to say it really shows when you do. I carefully planned out everything (well almost everything). This particular one, I had the cherry blossom branch done a long time ago because I was originally designing it as a tattoo I would possible have for myself then I thought about it because I wanted to change it and ended up using it for an art project. Check it out. This is my progressive work then the final product!
My Work In Progress
The Finished Product - "Spring Beginning"
I did that in a matter of two days and already got myself started on a new one. I actually had an original of this one but the look is incredibly different and I wanted to make it look nicer with a different style. Plus ... I can't find the original. It's somewhere in my parent's house along with other artworks that I cannot find (which pisses me off). One day I'll find it. Here's the progress so far ...
Blue Breeze - Work in Progress
So I have been drawing a lot lately and it's nice. I even set myself up an instagram account just for my artworks just so I can keep track of what I am doing and it is separate from my personal life. My user name is
sharbarart if you would like to check it out. I tried to post whatever I could into with all the artworks that I at least have in my folders on my computer and wow ... I didn't expect such a welcomed response. I had so many likes that I guess it was an ego boost to my drawing skills. Looking through all of them and seeing the progress made me realize that I have improved a lot over the years. I was always so scared to draw something really nice because I was traumatized back in highschool.
I had a sketchbook that was my PRIZED POSSESSION. It was some of my BEST WORK EVER. For something at that age and just a beginning to my art days, I had never felt so proud of myself when it came to drawing. It made me wish I had a scanner or something back then but they weren't around much at that time. Anyways, I took it to school one day and the damn thing got stolen!!! I knew EXACTLY where I put it because, of course, I loved it so damn much and it got stolen. Ever since that day, I have been scared of drawing something incredible and still am to this day. That's why when I do draw something "nice", I take a photo right away or scan it. I'm slowly getting back into it again and maybe one day I'll do some commissions and make some money. Maybe that could be the side business that I have always wanted to start ... Sounds like the only logical thing at this point because all of my other ideas don't make much sense to me.
Anyways ... That's my weekend and my update on my passion in life ... art.
Labels: art, drawing, inspiration, life, memories, thoughts
Happy Birthday to Me!!
Sunday, June 16, 2013
@1:13 AM
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I am officially 28 years old today! It's been so much fun for the past few days in celebration of my birth. On Friday my boss at work decided to treat the whole office to a luncheon because it was my birthday! Plus they were sweet enough to get me a birthday card with everyone's signatures and everything. It means so much to me because I've only been at this job for a couple of months and it's nice to feel that I have been welcomed to the company and feel like I've made friends because I love each and everyone of them!!
On the same day, our awesome neighbours (who have become such great friends now) and I planned a BBQ night for me with a fun fire pit for the night. My family, my France's parents and our friends were all there to celebrate! My parents brought soooo much food while my fiancé barbecued, they even brought me a birthday cake!! Our neighbours/friends all brought their dishes too and wow ... Lots of food!! Everyone was stuffed by the end of the night!!
Then we had a fire pit which is a tradition for us every other Friday. I wanted a chill birthday this year and what better way to celebrate my birthday and the summer by having another firepit night!! I love these kinds of moments where everyone just sits around the fire talking and laughing and creating such great moments and memories til the wee hours of the night. We were probably out there until 2am that night. So much fun!!
The celebrations are not quite done yet since today is my actually birthday. I know my future mother and sister in law are planning a dinner for our birthdays and Father's Day (my mother in law's birthday is just a day before mine!!!). It's gonna be another night of food that's for sure!!
Of course I treated myself for my birthday too lol. My neighbour and now good friend, Tracy suggested we go get pampered today so she got a pedicure while I gone my nails done. I got myself full French acrylic nails so I feel pretty lol. I've been wanting to get my nails done for soo long just never really had the push to do it. Feels good to finally be able to treat myself to it now that I can actually get them since they never allowed it when I was doing nursing. Now that I'm not in nursing anymore and work in an office I can make my hands as pretty as I want!!
So it's been pretty nice lately. Nice to have a bit of fun since having school and work has been stressful. Working most of the day and going to school at night doesn't really leave me much time to do certain things and have the fun I used to have. I am trying very hard to work hard and save money for the wedding and just contribute as much as I can to our lives together and also finally finish school and get my accounting diploma credentials. I can't wait to get everything done and finally start our lives and hopefully have our family. Everything I do is for our future and I will do everything I can to make our lives wonderful!!
I say this and am feeling very sentimental because not only is it my birthday but our 7 year anniversary is coming up too!!! It's on the 19th!! It's crazy to me that its already been 7 years. It really hasn't felt like it. I still remember so many things of when we were just first dating and it feels like they just happened last week!! In over a year it will be 8 years and we will be married!!! It will be many more years to come and I can't wait to start that chapter of our lives together. For now, happy 7year anniversary and I love you so so so much.
Labels: birthday, Family, life, memories, work
Dangerous
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
@11:49 AM
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Having my kitchenaid stand-up mixer is dangerous. I have been baking like crazy. I've already made so many cookies, cakes and I was able to make crepes for the very first time! I constantly look for baking ingredients in anticipation of what I can bake next. My fridge is already stocked with cream cheese, milk, sour cream, creams, butter and I have an endless amount of sugar, flour, and icing sugar.
I'm always on Pinterest too looking for future recipes. I just love to cook and bake. I never thought I would love it so much. I always watched my mom cook and loved her cooking but never thought I, myself, would be decent at it. My mother even said to me that before she did t know how to cook at all!! She never started cooking until she got married and just learned from cookbooks.
I guess I was the same way. I never really started cooking until I started dating my fiancé. The one advantage I had was that my mom taught me along the way. She just had to learn from scratch with no help whatsoever. So I guess I'm lucky that way.
I'm lucky too that my fiancé loves my cooking. It feels good to know that he has his favorites of mine and always asks the to cook certain things cause they're really good. Boosts the ego if you know what I mean. It makes me feel better that I can cook decently since my mom is a good cook and his mom is an incredibly good cook too! It's like a bar I had to jump over because of course moms are an important part of some men's lives, especially when it comes to cooking.
Someday I would love to have my future son say, "my mom makes the best food! Nothing beats it!" OR "I love the way my mom makes it". Have a legacy you know?
That's why I plan on documenting all my recipes in a book or something and keep it for years and pass it on from generation to generation. My mom still has her very first cookbook at her house too. It looks so ratty and old but it's a TREASURE. I want something like that except it will all be in my writing. I want my recipes to be a family treasure.
What are your treasures? It doesn't have to do with cooking. Just something that you know you would cherish for a very long time.
Labels: life, memories
I'm Shar and I'm a simple young lady in her twenties going through life like everyone else does.