54. Have a party, 58.) Have a Disney movie viewing party where are people need to “be our guests”, but it won’t be “under the sea” 88. Spa day

Well, with a somber heart, I begin this post. Today is Tuesday, August 13, the last day of summer. Also, with total sadness, I have to report that we didn’t finish all 101 things during this summer vacation. I guess life just gets in the way of things that really do matter. I apoligize on behalf of myself and Alicia for letting all 36,759 of you (or whatever) down. It’s sad to me to think that we had such high aspirations and we failed. 144 things were  a lot, but 101? Next summer, there will only be 50 things because it’s better to have quality over quantity, right? We don’t want to have a repeat of last year and for go bowling, we played wii bowling..that is not the point. The point it to enjoy everything we do and make people smile.

Now, yesterday, Monday, Alicia and a few of our friends came over to my house to get blog stuff done. However, what ended up happening is I made dinner (and it was delicious) and we sat around and enjoyed each others’ company. When we did decide to do stuff, it was 12:00 in the morning and well, it didn’t happen. So, I guess our little pow-wow could be considered a party because there were people, food, and enjoyment. I think that counts.

After our friends left the next morning, Alicia and I completed two blog items: the first was spa day, number 88. Spa day for us was using my Love Lettuce face mask from Lush Cosmetics and painting our nails.

The wondrous stuff that makes our faces amazingly soft and clean.

Alicia and I just finished putting on our face masks. Looking hot as ever, right?

All clean!

After, we painted our nails and didn’t take any photos. I picked a watermelon-y color and Alicia picked a sparkle-y red. When we finished our nails, we were going to have a Disney movie marathon, but, instead we watched Hercules on Netflix. It shocks me to think that as a young child I watched that movie. I know I hated it when I was little, but dang, it’s scary. All the freaking Disney movies are so scary. Like Sleeping Beauty. She gets cursed by a witch, goes somewhere she shouldn’t go and pricks her finger and almost dies. What the heck?!? Cinderella. She is a slave. Mistreated by her evil stepmother and then has to, with the help of her only mice friends, become a princess. Ok, maybe Cinderella isn’t that scary..but..Hercules was. The whole fighting scenes and Hades and Pain and Panic. How are young children able to sleep at night? Don’t get me wrong, I love Disney movies but dang.

Well, that’s all I have to say. Look for more posts later about the end of summer.

Much love and summer fun!

81daysdidn’tlastforever

Molly and Alicia

 

85. See how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia and Molly 🙂

A Very Crafty Day

Hey guys, so A few weeks ago, I know I’m slacking, Molly and I had I believe to be our final ‘crafty’ day. A very sad end, but however, it must have happened eventually. My Aunt especially must be devastated. 🙂

Anywho, so Molly and i were able to do three things 78. decorate Glass Cups with Polka Dots, 76. Make Washer Necklaces (or bracelets and whatever Molly’s was) and 13. Make String Art. If you saw our Vlog everyday for a week post, you may have seen the string art video, but I’ll post it again, just in case.

So, This day was a definite Pinterest Fail. All three of these things were from Pinterest, and the only thing that came close to being okay was my washer bracelet. But, that’s fine.

First, Molly and I decorated the glass cups with polka dots, what Pinterest failed to tell us is that after you paint, you must also cover it with Modge Podge, resulting in a trip to Hobby Lobby. However, the Modge Podge didn’t work either, Molly learned from experience, s now to add to our decorative plates, we now have decorative cups. darn.

Smile. 🙂

As she dots the cup, she works rapidly, but with a steady hand. yes, I was making fun of Molly. refer to the plates post.

very serious worker, as always

… get it like Dot Dot Dot, because there;s dots… nevermind.

i see you, just kidding I can’t, there;s paint in my way

Finished cup

I don’t know, honestly

cute face

cute face.. Part 2

#artsy. Just kidding, it’s paint and Q-tips on cardboard.

My 3 finished cups

I started getting bored

Cute Face… Part 3

Paint on my hands

Not too happy about it anymore

Finger painting yo

She’s not messy

Paint ALL OVER my hands

Our messy boards

Now, she’s messy

Paint on my hand, paint on my hand, looking like a fool with the paint on my hand. (American Idol anyone?)

Very excited with the paint on my hand

the 6 finished cups

modge-podge

mosge-podge

After we finished that, Molly and i attempted to make washer necklaces. I’m more of a visual learner, so the images from Pinterest helped me, however Molly just started looping things and I’m not actually sure what happened with hers. But, we made them, somewhat.

The washers.

How it should look, mine

She’s trying

Posing with the finished product

As Am I

So, serious

And, finally after that, we made String Art

Stop… Hammer Time

Oh, I know. I’ll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea. And then I’ll put that flea in a box, and then I’ll put that box inside of another box, and then I’ll mail that box to myself. And when it arrives, AH HA HA HA, I’ll SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER! -Emperor’s New Groove

Nails

The ingredients… or supplies, I’m too used to making food…

Hammering

Yep, those are straight

Straight as a ruler

She’s also so pleasant

Done. Praise the Lord

More Hammer selifes

Stringing and stuff

I have a nailstouche

She was very aggravated

redid the L like 4 times

almost done

Done

Happy that she’s finished

Woot!

And Done

And there we have it. a sad end to crafts, very Pinterest faily, etc. etc.

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia and Molly

9. Make our LIFE BUCKET LIST (Alicia)

 

Hey guys, well, my life bucket list is still a work in progress, and even though at yearbook camp last week we were told “You shouldn’t have a bucket list, you shouldn’t even be thinking about kicking the bucket yet!” there is still a list (a very long one I might add) of things I have always wanted to do. So, I’ll share a few of the fun/ interesting ones

 

• Visit all 50 States
• Set foot on all Continents (minus Antartica, however if that ever happened, I’d be ever so happy)
• Go zorbing
• Take the cliche kicking of the Leaning Tower of Pisa photo
• Ride a Gondola
• Live in L.A. and NYC at some point
• Take a gap year in between high school and college
• Watch the Ball Drop in Times Square
• Go to Hollywood
• Road Trip across the country
• SkyDive
• Cliff Jump
• Get a tattoo
• See a Broadway Play
• Study Abroad
• Watch every single SpongeBob episode from start to finish
• Build a legitamate sand castle, using buckets, seashells, and a cute flag on top

 

 

Well, there’s a few, there are so many more

 

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days (aren’t) last(ing) forever

Alicia 🙂

 

66.) Make a vlog everyday for a week and post it on youtube

Hey guys, so last week Molly and I vlogged everyday, some we were together, others we weren’t. But, here they were. Watch them, they’re fun. 🙂

Thursday July 18th- Make Shadow Puppets

Friday July 19th- Blog Award- nominations and such

Saturday July 20th- Go to the Dunes

Sunday July 21st- Day After Dunes and Molly’s Vlog- jobs i think

Monday July 21st- Smoothie Vlog and Just another Molly Monday

Tuesday July 22nd- 5 minutes with Maddy

Wednesday July 23rd- Make String Art

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly!

23. Go to the Indiana Dunes

Hey guys, so Molly and I went to the Indiana Dunes on Saturday, we pretty much explained it in the quick video, so here are a few more pictures from our day.

In the car

I’m ready

She’s ready

Awkward chair between us

Dunes and some trees

Lake Michigan

le sky

The Lake

The Dune

More Lake and lake goers

Molly’s feet

Chilling

Awesome panorama ruined by this dude

my feet, my very white legs which are no longer white

Cuties

Cuties again

hot hot hot

#attractive

We’re adorable

The burial process

sleepy

And done!

I am the headless- horsewoman, wait I only have a head. i’m the bodyless horsewoman

more burying

My initial

I was buried in the sand

Much Love and Summer Fun

81dayswontlastforever

Alicia and Molly

A Sleepover of sorts

Well, Friday night, the day before the Dunes, Molly and I had a very fun sleepover, which consisted of us getting a few things done, one of which already has a post, but we were also able to complete 71.) Blindfold makeup challenge and 89.) Dip dye our hair (ish).

What we learned from these two things 1. When dip-dying/hair chalking our hair, darker colors work best, You could barely tell that my hair was purple, however you could tell the navy blue color was present in Molly’s hair, and neck :). And, that if you are going to do the blindfold makeup challenge, you really don’t want a girl who doesn’t wear makeup in general (me) and doing it at one in the morning makes it so much more fun, especially when we are half-asleep.

First, we hair-chalked our hair, Like I mentioned earlier, Molly used a navy-ish blue and mine was a pastelly- purple. What you do, if put the hair chalk applicator thing on your hair and on the other side of your hair put your thumb and then slide the applicator down your hair, and repeat.

Before

Before

During

Some more During

 During

Fist piece done

First piece done

Blue hands!

After…. All of these beautiful pictures are after

 

And that’s that for hair chalking. As for the blindfold makeup challenge, we did one round of just eyeshadow, but then we realized that it’s no fun unless you have lipstick, mascara, blush etc. So we started over.

Before

Before

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Molly went first, and being a makeup extraordinaire she had a pretty simple time other than getting lipstick on my teeth, and the fact that she picked a blush color that was much too dark for my skin tone, giving me an orange ring outlining my face, but totally quick fixes. I, on the other hand, had a much more difficult time, especially when I ended up applying mascara to her mouth because apparently her lips felt like an eye, it was late, and apparently I had lost my mind. My favorite though,was when Molly said “Why are you applying my lipstick vertically? It goes horizontally!” I had no idea I was doing it vertically in the first place, like I said, it was late, But I know it’s been killing you all to see what we looked like in the end, So, here we go.

lipstick on my teeth

No explanation needed

And, that was our sleepover.

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever!

Alicia and Molly

18. Go to the pool

Hello all!

Get ready for a lot of posts because for the past two days, Alicia and I have been busy, busy, busy!

On Friday to kick off our extravaganza of getting blog stuff done, Samantha, Alicia, and I went to our local pool. Samantha’s wonderful family has a membership to this fancy pool and so she invited Alicia and I to go with; we accepted. We spent a good two to three hours swimming and jumping off the diving board and tanning..erm..burning. See, Alicia and I have this unrealistic desire to tan and it just doesn’t work. We end up more red and pink than golden brown. Sigh.

Also, with tradition, I ate a hot dog. Last summer when I went to Wisconsin with Alicia and her family, I ate a hot dog and then on Friday, I ate a hot dog again. The whole reason why I mention this is that I don’t eat anything that moos or oinks. If it’s a bird or a fish, I’ll eat it. And I have to say, no matter what videos like Food Inc or Peta’s videos say about hot dogs, hot dogs are good. Must just be an American thing..I don’t know.

Me enjoying my hot dog.

Anyway, that’s it; Alicia and I went swimming!

Enjoy this picture of Alicia I took. I got all photographer up in that joint.

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

 

69. Make Shadow Puppets

Much Love and Summer Fun
81 days won’t last forever!
Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

20. Create a Blog Award for Summer Blogs like us

Hey everyone! So, Molly and I have created a Summer Blog Award to get to know some more summer bloggers like us.
We have nominated 9 very amazing summer blogs for this award:Shay

Meagan

Sarah and Rachel

Abby

Alice

Anya

Micky

Danika

ME

Alright, so the rules for all of you summer bloggers who have received this award

1. Nominate 5 summer blogs for this award (not any blog who has been nominated in this post)
2. Make a post about receiving this award and nominating these people, and whatever else we make you all do next
3. Ask nine questions for people to answer (relating to summer blogs, not relating to summer blogs, doesn’t really matter)
4. Answer the nine questions that the person who nominated you asked
5. Put our link in the post somewhere so that everyone who gets the award can comment on our blog, so that we can follow all of you. 🙂
6. Also, put the blog award picture in the post as well, thank you all
7. Any questions??????????? Comment below or email us at 81dayswontlastforever@gmail.com

The Nine Questions

1. Why a Summer Bucket List?
2. What is the craziest thing on your list?
3. What is you worst summer memory?
4. What is the hardest thing on your list?
5. What is your favorite shampoo?
6. If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
7. What is your favorite inspirational quote?
8. What is your favorite childhood movie?
9. What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?

Our Answers

Why a Summer Bucket List?
Molly: We watched Julie and Julia and decided to make a blog to document our summerAlicia: Same as Molly, but after I read gonewiththesummer’s blog, I told Molly that we should give this whole blogging thing a tryWhat is the craziest thing on your list?
Both: Hand out lemons wearing shirts that say lifeWhat is you worst summer memory?
Molly: I don’t remember it, but when I was two, my right ring finger was caught in a side garage door.Alicia: Last summer, I spent a week on crutches and then a month later, spent three days in the hospital, not really a good summer at all, What is the hardest thing on your list?
Both:Getting everything done…
What is your favorite shampoo?
Alicia: Herbal Essences: Tousle Me Softly (Purple bottle)
Molly: Aveeno, Nourish plus moisturize
If you could be anything other than human, what would you be and why?
Alicia: A turtle, because they are really chill, swimming in the EAC dude (haha Finding Nemo) and they live long, Sandy Plankton tells me they live to be 100 years old,
Molly: A pair of shoes because I complete an outfit and help people feel confident or if I don’t like the person I can make their feet hurt
What is your favorite inspirational quote?
Molly: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get.” -Forrest, Forrest Gump
Alicia: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” -Marilyn Monroe
What is your favorite childhood movie?
Alicia: The Princess Diaries
Molly: The Little Mermaid
What do you see yourself doing in 81 years?
Alicia: Sitting in my nursing home with my 16 year-old great-granddaughter, pushing my life-alert button, and trying to set her up with one of the hot firefighters that show up. Molly: Running a Marathon

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia and Molly

44. Learn the Lyrics to “Pollito Pio”

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, Maddy, and Rosie

Be sure to check out our Bloopers video

P.S. Be sure to look at the original video and see how terribly we messed up

92. Complete driver’s ed

Hello all.

Yesterday, Alicia and I completed driver’s ed. It was a long 15 days. To get a graduated driver’s license, which Alicia and I are going to get, you have to do 30 hours of driver’s ed and get more than a 70% on the driving exam. We passed with Alicia getting 98% and I got a 96%. Now, we have to have our permits for nine months and we have to drive for ninety hours. Next summer, we will have our licenses which will be great.

Anyway, there isn’t much else to say except..

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

29. Go to Lincoln Park and 36. Take the Train Somewhere

Hey everyone, since Molly already made the post about what we did today, I figured I should stop procrastinating (like what I’m doing with my AP U.S. history packet, AP Literature reading, and Honors Pre-Calc packet) and just write this post.

Anyway, on Sunday, my mom, Molly, my friend Orlando, and I went to the Lincoln Park Zoo. But, instead of driving, we took the L (a train downtown) to the zoo. I had never ridden the L before, and it was just like any other normal train ride, except there was this old man, who was blind, and he was able to make it down a flight of stairs without his (guide stick is it?) touching the ground.  I can’t make it down the stairs gracefully, and I can see… just thought you all should know. 🙂

train card

Waiting for our train

So, that crosses of 36. Take the train somewhere. So, when we got to Lincoln Park, my mom kept walking and the three of us followed, and then we realized that we had gone maybe three blocks out of our way, and then after making up that ground, we were at the zoo.

So, it was about 90 degrees outside, so us Chicagoans, Molly, my mom, and I were extremely hot, but Orlando, who lives in New Orleans, had jeans on and wasn’t complaining about the weather at all. We were really jealous.

It was, however, still a nice day,and while Molly and I envied all of the animals who were not outside, who were probably sitting in front of a fan, drinking an iced tea, we still had a great time, and got to see some very fun animals.

A very cute meerkat, whom was given the name Timon, loved posing for me

FISH

Did you know that flamingos are really white? But the food they eat makes them pink. #funfactswithAlicia

Pretty bird

Our nation’s bird, how majestic. Did you know that the female bald eagles are larger? They are. #funfactswithAliciapart2

After visiting the main part of the zoo, we decided to head to the children’s zoo, which, at the age of 16, is still my favorite. In the children’s section, you can look at ponies, cows, goats, chickens, chicks, termites, bees, and farm machinery. My favorite part, however, was the petting of the goats, that is until one of the goats made the not-so-smart decision of trying to eat my shirt. After he did that to Orlando and me, we decided the smartest idea was to get out so he didn’t eat Molly.

Goats like me,

chilling on some tires

The goat that tried eating my shirt

Hanging in an egg.

 

Much Love and Summer Fun

81 days won’t last forever

Alicia, Molly, Orlando, and Lorene

Gorgeous view of the city

Molly and I on our way back home

How cute, my hair isn’t all one length… it slants

Just chilling on some tires

How cute

Me and my madre

And my hair’s in the way, so surprise there

We only took like 15 of these before we got one good one. Darn wind…

3. Make homemade chocolate turtles and 60. Sharpie plates and bake them

Hello!

Today Alicia and I did two things on our list. We first made homemade chocolate turtle…brownies. We were originally going to to make the candy that has a pecan and then chocolate and caramel covering it. We decided (well, I decided) the brownies would be less labor intensive and more delicious. Plus, we needed a way to bribe our friends into helping Alicia and me put together a manual for our yearbook class. We wrote almost everything for that book and we honestly don’t want to put it together. What can I say? The co-editors-in-chief are lazy.

Anyway, I found the brownie recipe on Pinterest. Pinterest in the world of having a summer blog is the greatest creation. We got all of our craft ideas from Pinterest. I’m addicted; it’s bad.

Here is the recipe we followed: http://www.cooksrecipes.com/bar/chocolate_turtle_brownies_recipe.html

They were really easy to make and we enjoyed the corner piece we ate. Gosh, it was so freaking good.

The butter and chocolate before it turned into batter.

Alicia stirring away.

Unwrapping the soft caramel for the drizzling.

Before…

Taking it out.

Putting the pecans on very seriously.

And, well ah! They are done!

While the delicious brownies were cooking away, we also completed 60. Sharpie plates and bake them. This is indeed a Pinterest craft. The designs people do are absolutely gorgeous. Ours came out great too. Except, there was one small blunder on the part of the former writing editor of a high school yearbook: I spelled knowledge wrong and then I baked the plate. However, because the plate was still warm, I was able to fix it.

While inscribing a Marilyn Monroe quote on her plate, she works quickly, but with a steady hand.

I was so proud of my plate however  Alicia and I didn’t notice knowledge was spelled wrong. Ergh.

The “finished” plates before we noticed the mistake.

My plates after I fixed the word.

The finished plates!

Much love and summer fun!

81dayswontlastforever!

Molly and Alicia

PS: Did you like Alicia’s shirt? That’s the one she made this year..I think?

PPS: I made our pretzels again. I think Alicia is the pretzel making good luck charm.

PPPS: My fantastic madre mailed the awards out to those fantastic people so congratulations to them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

77.) Make a glitter snow globe

Well, hey guys. As Molly has said in our earlier posts today we got a lot done yesterday. One of those items was 77. Make a Glitter snow globe. Well, if any of you have a pinterest or have attempted to do something from pinterest, sometimes things don’t always turn out as planned, this happened with the glitter snow globes… or at least we thought.

 

What the pinterest picture said to do was mix glitter glue and warm water in a jar of some sort, mix with a knife, and voila “Glitter snow Globe” So, Molly had a big prego jar and I had a small jar that has previously been the house of garlic (Molly’s kitchen smelled very garlicy)…

Molly was taking forever washing the jars

excited… as always

my jar

glitter

Anyway, what I was not told was only to put about a tablespoon of glitter glue into the jar, and since mine was like 8 times smaller than Molly’s, a teaspoon would have sufficed. Oops. Mine looks like glitter in a jar.

weird

uhh it was hard and glue-like

like i said, glitter in a jar

And, Molly on the other hand, when she put the glitter glue in the jar and started mixing, some weird chemical reaction started to happen and the whole thing was foam and stayed like that, so darn again.

we even added more glitter… still foaming

Jeez pinterest, give us girls a warning. anyways, the day after, they both look fine and dandy, which is good. But at the time, we were very aggravated with Pinterest but we’re good now. 🙂

the two finished products- Yesterday

the two finished products, a day later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyway, just a piece of advice, less is more, especially when you have a small jar, using a knife to mix is VERY VERY DUMB… use your fingers to mix the glitter… Like I showed earlier, the glitter is solid and your hands do the best job of making it… un-solid? It;s not liquid but not solid… I don’t know.

Anyway, if it does begin to foam, give it a day and it will be alright. 🙂

 

81 days won’t last forever

Much Love and Summer Fun

Alicia, Molly, and Maddy

we got very bored waiting for Molly, she’s slow

well, that’s mighty attractive

glitter

plastic bag on my head for the win

we had to ad more glitter and shake Molly’s

glitter and the finished product

the two finished products- Yesterday

Molly’s jar was confusing