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Fall is my favorite time of year.  EVERYTHING is better about the fall.  It's cool outside, the food is delicious and the clothes are so comfy! Give me cozy sweaters and sweatshirts everyday!  I have more fall things saved on my Fall Pinterest board. What do enjoy doing in the fall?

Spotlight Saturday- Norvelle KnickKnacks

CharLOVESville

21 day Fix

I'm trying a new diet starting next week, after I get back from vacation. I'll write more about it later, but follow the link to my Pinterest board!

21 Day Fix recipes

Wordless Wednesday

Purple hair, purple, punky colours, need a pick me up. 

Pizza Pizza!

Spotlight Saturday -L’Oreal Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara

I love makeup. I don't wear it very often, but I love it. I love how it brightens my face, and makes me feel good about myself. I have WAY too much of it, for someone who wears it so rarely. Lipsticks and glosses and stains are my weakness. But, this isn't about a lipstick, that'll be another week.

In a make group that I'm part of on Facebook, people have been RAVING over L’Oreal Voluminous Lash Paradise Mascara. Saying that it is a dupe of Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara. I recieved a sample of Bette Than Sex a few months ago in my Ipsy bag a few months back. It makes my eyelashes look amazing! but, it isn't cheap. I looked at Ulta a few weeks ago, and it was $23. I had to pass on it.

I was at Target today, and saw the L'oreal Voluminous Lash Paradise for $8.99 and decided to give it a try. Pictures below of before, and after. 

Before mascara. As you can see, my lashes are pretty long to begin with. Lord, I need to get my eyebrows done!

Look at those lashes!!! Look how long they are now! And how dark they are!  This is after one coat, and look how curled they are! 

Sideview. Look at that curl!!!! 

I love this mascara. I have a new go to, that I'll be wearing all the time. I'm going to try and start wearing makeup more often. It makes me feel so good about myself. I don't feel bad about myself. But makeup makes me feel good! I'm going to try and wear it more often, and write some reviews of the new things I get. 

What is your favorite new makeup? Or what is your favorite makeup, that you've worn forever? 

Wanna check out some other bloggers who participated in Spotlight Saturday? Click their blogs below! 

Whispered Words Forever Captured

Sassy MerMom

Outer Banks Vacation- Wordless Wednesday

James and I had a weekend away to the Outer Banks, to celebrate out two year anniversary together.

Top Five Wednesday

My friends and family are really good at giving advice. I always take it into consideration what they say. But, I might not follow it. In the end, they are usually right.

1)If you don't love it, don't buy it.

My mom has told me this my entire life. I apply it to everything in my life. If I like the way I look in a pair of jeans, but I don't love the, I leave it at the store. If I am shopping for a new desk chair, and I don't love it, I leave it at the store. There are too many options to own things that you only like, and not love.

2)If you don't learn anything, at least have fun.

When I was in elementary school in Culpeper, there was a few months that Mom dropped me and Karen off at school every morning. As we'd get out of the car, she told us this every morning. 

3) Give him a chance.

My boyfriend James and I have been together for almost two years. Our anniversary is this weekend. (I'll be writing a mushy post about us later this week!) When a mutual friend first tried to set us up, I was very resistant. I'd gone through a bunch of bad breakups. I had been taken advantage of. I was tired of guys only trying to talk to me for sex, and when they realized that sex isn't wasn't I was looking for, they'd disappear. But back to James.I thought he was too dorky, and for being an IT guy, it didn't seem right that he had his Facebook set to public. My friends told me to stop judging a book by it's cover, and just go out with him. They were right. He's dorky in a video game, comic book, nerdy way. I'm dorky in my own bookworm, Disney princess, Harry Potter way.

4)Don't drink when upset.

Alcoholism and addiction runs on both sides of my family. I've always tried to avoid drinking, or other habits like that, when upset. I don't want to get into that habit. 

5)Pray often.

I don't go to church as often as I should.  I love my church. I love the women in my Bible Study group. I still pray a lot. I  know that things are out of my hands, and it's not up to me. I'll pray when things are good. I'll pray when I need guidance. I'll send up a prayer for patients at my desk, that seem to be struggling. It helps me feel better. And I know that there is always someone there, listening to me. 

Nicole at Whispered Words Forever Captured also wrote about the advice she's received.  Make sure to check it out!

What is the best advice you've received? 

Wordless Wednesday-Grandpa Noel and Ollie

Welcome to The Pickle Patch!

I decided this weekend that I am going to change the name for my blog. I named it Rain Boots Needed years ago, when I tried blogging the first time around. The day I named it, I was wearing my favorite rain boots, the black and pink polka dotted ones. But it's time to update!

Why is named Pickle Patch? First of all,  anyone that knows me, knows that I love pickles. Heck, my good friend Rachel over at Sassy MerMom had her dad make me some pickles for my secret Santa Christmas present. And no, I'm not pregnant. I've always loved them.

Second, have a small crafting business, that I occasionally use. I really need to make time to craft more. I love to make things. I have sold wreaths, bookmarks and tutus. It's just fun and relaxing to me. And earning some money on the side, for something that I love, is fun. It's just easier to have one name for everything. So, here we go!!!!

P.S. Thank you to Nicole at Whispered Words Forever Captured for my new headers and logo!

Wordless Wednesday

I'll be at the beach in 8 days! 

Spotlight Saturday

I love Dollar Tree. It is my go-to place for party supplies. I threw a bridal shower today for a good friend of mine, and I knew I could get the majority of things I needed to buy, there.  Including the food, I spent  a total of about $115 for the shower at 4 stores. I purposefully bought food that I will eat later on this week. Of that money spent,  $40 was at Dollar Tree. Decorations, prizes for the games, plasticware, tablecloths, game pieces, etc. Dollar Tree just makes it fast and easy. 

Late Night Rambling

I don't even know what I'm going to end up writing.  I'm probably going to delete this later. 

It's 1 am.  I've finished an entire bottle of wine tonight,  so I'm kinda tipsy.  I've been watching 13 Reasons Why, and I'm all up in my feelings.  I just finished episode 11.  Clay's tape. I'm not sure if I can keep watching. 

I was so glad to be done with high school. i graduated in 2004. Almost thirteen years ago.  I had almost no friends in my classes. One of my best friends and I fell apart junior year,  and didn't become friends really again until I was 22. Another friend and I stopped talking,  over a stupid guy,  spring of senior year.  Most of my other friends were in all honors and AP classes, and I wasn't smart  enough  to  be with them.. Or they were younger than me,  so we didn't have classes together.  Or they were at other schools.  I was so lonely. But at the same time, I didn't  want  anybody to notice me. I would sit not in the front row, but not in the back either. I could go for days in my classes, without  saying anything. And nobody  noticed. I just felt invisible. 

I wasn't like Hannah. I wasn't suicidal.  But this show, is much harder for me than the book was. 

Wordless Wednesday

This is my favorite place at work to just stop and catch my breath, when things get overwhelming at work.