Camping

It's always nice to get away from the city once in a while and just breath. I'm lucky that I live so close to the Los Angeles National forest--a 45 minute drive can take me away from fast pace living and into the beautiful mountain wilderness. At times I feel like I'm not getting in touch with nature as much as one should, not seeing the night sky the way that it was meant to be seen; or, not taking time to live in the moment and recognize the beauty that's all around me.

The Los Angeles National forest has so many breath taking views and camp sites--I look forward to coming here every summer. The sites are clean, people are friendly, and we're always in good company.

This is Link, my boyfriends dog. He's such a cutie and this was his first time camping. 

The s'mores kits I made for the Lawn Fawn Youtube channel were at hit! I was so happy everyone loved them--some even mentioned how they didn't want to even open them because they were so cute, and to help out I grabbed one and ripped it in half (completely destroying it) to show everyone that it was perfectly fine to demolish them, hehe. Later, after we were all coming down from the sugar high, I snapped this picture of one of the s'more labels and I thought it actually looked pretty on the ground. They were scattered all over the floor and I was happy that they were enjoyed.

The night sky is something I always look forward to when I go camping. Since I could remember I've been so curious about the stars and night sky's--so you can imagine how pleased I was just by the camp fire staring at it for hours. I saw so many shooting stars it was amazing!

The next morning we went for a hike and were looking for as many great views we could fine. We definitely weren't disappointed. I feel like only 24 hours here wasn't enough but I just have to be thankful that I even got the chance to go and I'll be coming back a few more times this summer--that's for sure.

DIY, S'mores Kit

This weekend my family and I celebrated my dad’s 61^st birthday at the beach, and when there’s beach, fire, and good company—there are s’mores! I’d planned on making these s’more kits when I found out we were going to beach for his birthday, and when I started prepping them the night before I thought this would be too cute NOT to share on my blog.  

Since I’m a blogger I tend to have some pretty random things on hand—for DIY’s and such. So when I was creating these S’more Kits I pulled out all the favors boxes and bags I had in my closet. I ended up having two types of treat bags, and a set of gable boxes. I first tried the gable box but quickly discovered that the full size Hersey bars didn’t fit in that box—so I tried out the 5 x 7 Kraft bags and they seemed to fit nicely. Not only did all the s’more ingredients fit great into the Kraft favor bags—they also seemed perfect for a male’s birthday party. 

I used my Lawn Fawn alphabet stamp set, Milo’s ABCs, to create the ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment; and, I used the ‘Dad’ sentiment from the Avery Elle stamp set, The Man, to complete the ‘Happy Birthday Dad’ on the bag. I think it came out really nice. To the right of the bags I show how I organized the chocolate bar, crackers, and marshmallows into the treat bag. There is enough for two S’mores in each package. 

Lastly, I closed them by folding the top of the treat bag over, and I created a pennant flag with a ‘S’more?’ sentiment. My dad is known for cracking cheesy jokes—the kind that are so unfunny that they become super funny, haha. So I thought this pun would be cute.

Well I hope you enjoyed this easy DIY!