Goals For 2017

Happy New Year! 

This year I have a lot of things that I hope to accomplish ( as I do Every Year) but this year I am more dedicated to getting these done then ever before! 

I am calling these goals rather than resolutions because it seems like resolutions never get done and I don't want these to be blown off a month from now as most resolutions are. Most of these goals are constantly continued things that need to be worked on so they can never necessarily be checked off of a list but I just hope that at the end of this year I can look back and be proud of what I've accomplished. So with out further adieu-

1. I want to continue to grow and get better at writing

2. I want to get better at posting and get to posting at least once a week but hopefully more like 3 times a week

3. I want to get my camera working and do more videos

4. I want to make cherish notes the multi-video weekly thing it was originally going to be. 

5. I want to grow as an artist/ designer/ and creator

6. I want to create and finish more incredible projects 

7. I want to establish a more stable income doing the things I love

8. I want the KNITche or/ and the other shops I work at to grow and be more successful than the year before

9. I want to be able to continually add to and revise this list as I get better and find more things I would like to accomplish

10. I want to become more organized and set a steady flow for my work and life 

11. I want to continue to learn and grow in every aspect of my life

And that is it, hopefully I can comment on this list as the year goes on to reflect and revise, I would love to hear your guys lists and your thoughts on mine! I hope to talk to you all again incredible soon! 

I'm ready to set sail (and start the year off right), 

                                 Ms. Sinking Ship

Exploration and Experimentation

{It's kind of odd because when I am thinking about what I want to say for this post I always have all of these ideas and I have this great article all planned out in my head but every time I actually sit down to write it I can no longer remember any of the things I was originally going to say. So with that being said, hopefully if I just starting winging it, at least most of it will come back to me, also fun fact about all of the posts on this blog, after I write them the first time I search for little errors like spelling or missing words but I don't actually re-read through it before I post it. }

I've come to a point in my life where there's a lot of things I want to do and try and write about but I always feel like, maybe they don't match with one another or maybe that is different from what I have been doing and it's kept me from doing a lot of things, I've also noticed that I can't necessarily decide on what I want to do anyway so putting those things off are kind of dumb, the point being, I've decided that I am going to try all of it, for a lack of better words at the moment, because why not, nothing is holding me back. For the next few forevers, (I don't know exactly how this journey if you will, will last) I am going to try new things, reestablish and just enjoy my life, and I am going to record it all, on all of my various connected platforms, while doing so, finding my voice in all of the things I do because right now it's a confused jumbled mess. 

With all of that being said, I want to hear from you on all of it, things you do like, things you definitely don't, I want to know what is working and what isn't so I can keep making the content you guys are enjoying and start cutting out the stuff you don't. The posts are most likely going to be all over the place and a mess, they will also not have any other explanation other than this heads up, so you know now what is going on when you see all of them. I'm very excited to start this sort of project and I hope you guys enjoy this as much as I already am. To kick things off - here is a poorly done, out of focus, speed-painting, water color video I did earlier this week. 

Ready to set sail (and hopefully make sense in all of this),

                                                      Ms. Sinking Ship

Back On Track,

It truly has felt like forever since our last encounter, and it has been forever since any actual posts have been made, however, we're finally back (For now at least)! MY computer troubles seem to be no longer and how relieved I am for that! As well as, I don't know how many of you remember, but I few months ago I spoke of some changes that were going to be made with the lay out of the site, this is also under way and is very close to being ready! And the new year is coming as well, and with that other exciting changes, I will be doing a lot more collaborating with SWAT Entertainment for those that enjoyed the halloween vlogs back in October / November, and next year I am going to be starting a series similar to the daily drawings I did of my outfits earlier this year, except with an Art Journal I am going to be working on. 

I hope to get back on track with everything after all of the ups and downs this year has brought with the blog and I can't wait for the new year, I have a few posts that I want to make over the next few days about the new years and things like that, and I will also try to start up some of the videos again sometime soon as well! 

Ready to Set Sail (and get on with things  so this post will eventually have some point),

                                                                     Ms. Sinking Ship

Southern Belles Photography (Review?),

Being a senior in High School nowadays, one thing that is often entailed are senior pictures. I had the opportunity to become a senior representative of and have mine taken by Southern Belles Photography, the entire expirence was great. The entire process took place over the course of three days spread over a few weeks.

It started with our first meeting this is when I got to know the photographers, Rachel and Ashley. After meeting we discussed things I enjoy, what settings I prefer to be in, (rural or urban) and various other things to get ideas of  what I want out of my pictures and where to take them, we also decided on times and dates during the first meeting, which later had to be changed due to problems on my part (which they were very understanding and helpful with when it came to rescheduling I might add). 

Then came the shoot, I met them early one morning within a few weeks of the last date,  we met on a rooftop and there is where I showed them my outfits and decided which ones would work best for the shoot, then I sat down and had my hair and make up done professionally. Once that was done we spent a little over two hours running around the Brick Town area of Oklahoma City finding cute nooks and crannies to take pictures, they both would shoot pictures as I posed and joked around in the spots we found, then by lunch we were done.

 After that date I don't see them until two weeks later when I got to see all of the pictures they've taken (All of which turned out incredible and I can't wait to post more when I can). In this last meeting we discussed the packages I could choose from to buy and other things about the pictures and experiences, as well as a few more things about being their senior representative. They also provided snacks at this meeting which was great because food is always a bonus. 

One of the best things was being we did not have to buy anything right then, they actually encourage you to take a day or two to think about all of the packages before deciding that way you can get the most for your money, instead of being like most photography places and trying to force you into buying things before you have a chance to throughly look things over. 

Over all the entire experience was awesome, I know I don't write reviews and things like this very often but this was something that after my experience with them I would recommend them to everybody, and so, I am. If you live in the Oklahoma Area I would severely suggest looking into Southern Belles Photography, because I give them two thumbs up and if you are interested in them you can find them on their website right here:

http://www.southernbellesphotography.org

to get information and contact them about setting up dates for yourself as well!

I'm ready to set sail (and finish the two other posts I wanted to write this week),

                                                                                  Mrs. Sinking Ship

P.S. I enjoyed writing this review for you guys and it is something I've been wanting to try out, what did you guys think. I know all of this new stuff I've been talking about is a slow process but I'm really liking a lot of this and I want to hear if you like it too. (:

We've Been a Blog for a Year Now?

Mateys, I have been waiting for October for a lot of reasons, (its like the greatest month ever) one being that I thought it was around the time I start my blog last year and I was super excited to do something really fun and cool for it and it was going to be awesome, how ever, when I was looking today I noticed that I actually started my blog earlier this month on the 10th and so I missed it. Who cares though I'm going to celebrate anyways,



and to add to that, I'll tell you a few fun things that will be coming!
First off, there are going to be some updates on the site because I have been working on that, once I get it how I like it there will be some more fun stuff going on and the little bit of everything we have on the site will be easier to find.
Second off, more videos are coming, I have been working on that as well, most of them will be more makeup tutorials because those were super fun and you all seemed to enjoy them, but there will be a lot of other things as well.
And lastly, I will doing something fall / halloween-like at least once a week for the entire month of October so get ready for that bundle of joy. I don't know if you guys love October as much as I do but   if you don't your probably going to enjoy it even less after I shove all of this October joy down your throat.

I can wait to get started and spend another year with you guys! I'm sorry this post was all of the place, but I'm just super stoked for all of the things that are about to start coming, I hope you guys enjoy them just as much as I do.

Ready to Set Sail (and get my Halloween on),
                                                        Ms. Sinking Ship

Tutorial Tuesday? Back to school make up,

Hey Guys! So, today I wanted to try one of the new ideas I have for the blog, and I figured a great way to do it would be to throw it in with all of the other awesome back to school stuff I'm going to be doing over the next four weeks leading up to the beginnings of school, if it all goes well I'll most likely keep doing them because it was pretty fun to make. I do however want to apologize for the video already because I was having some problems with my allergies when filming it so I sound gross and also pause mid way through every sentence. There's already a lot of things I want to do to improve the following next three (and hopefully more) videos that will follow this one, so just bare with me while I try to figure out the best way to get these going for you guys. With out further adieu,

Back-to-School Make up tutorial: Color Pop Smokey Eye (I'm still working on the names too, don't judge me)

This video can also be found on our Youtube channel (We have one of those?!) Along with more of the videos to come and maybe some other cool stuff I might try out in the next few months for the blog. As for all of the products used: 

Base Shadow: Smashbox Pop Studio Ultimate Palette - Frost

Crease Shadow: Smashbox Pop Studio Ultimate Palette - Fizz

Above Crease Shadow: NYX Avant Pop Art Throb Palette - Purple 

Eye liner: Smashbox Gel Liner - Deep Black

Mascara: Tarte Lights, Camera, Lashes - Black

Blush: Smashbox Pop Studio Ultimate Palette - Passion

Lips: Tarte Lip Surgence - Light Color? 

That's it for this tutorial, I hope you guys like it there will be at least three more, if you guys have any specific looks you want me to do for back to school or have any feedback at all on the video I'd love to hear it and if not I'll see you guys later this week for more back to school fun,

Ready to set sail (and keep the fun coming), 

                                                             Ms. Sinking Ship 

Back to school grab bags!

Ahoy fellows! For the next few weeks we are going to be doing a lot of hopefully, fun back-to-school stuff for you guys, we're going to have make up tutorials, fashion tips, etc. and to make all of that even better The KNITche is going to grab bags each week instead of a back-to-school sale, all of them slightly similar but different to the ones before it. All of the bags will be of the same price range and for that week only so if you want the bag, you have to grab it before it's to late! How ever, you will not know what each weeks grab bag looks like until that week, this weeks is shown above. I will be nice though and tell you the basic contents of each bag each week so you have a basic idea of the ones you might want to check out.

Week One: Pencil / Make up Bag (w/ vintage crystal buttons)

3 Yet-to-be Released Purple Line Bows

1 of our more elegant Bows

1 Scalloped Long Finger Knitted Scarf

Week Two: Knitted tote bag

1 Softball Style Bow

1 Crochet Orginal Styled Collar

1 Scalloped Collar

Week Three: Long Pencil Pouch

1 Cable-Knitted Waist Belt w/ Vintage Stones

4 Yet-to-be Released Purple Line Bows

Week Four: Drawstring Bag

1 Crochet and Felt Bear 

1 Elegant Bow

1 Basic Circle Scarf

This week you can customize the bag by picking the color of the pencil/ make up bag all of the other items are based around, so which ever color you pick from our variations, all of the items with coordinate with the bag in some way or another. 

You can get more detailed pictures and order here: 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/theknitche

Along with These grab bags how ever, there will be fun little promo codes on here, my instagram, the KNITches instagram and many other places for fun little sales and things so keep your eye out for those. I can't wait to see how these next few weeks go with this and with the other little experiments we are going to try here on the blog! 

Ready to set sail (and send off the rest of this weeks posts),

                                                                            Ms. Sinking Ship

I'm Back!

Hey guys, it's been a few months sorry to stop posting so abruptly for such a decent amount of time I got busy for one and two I couldn't find anything to write about. I was trying to pressure myself to write specifically about things and not what I truly felt. That sounds silly because I never really posted much anyways, but it was more of a self revalation thing rather than anything else, but I've come over that and I'm no longer doing ten thousand things constantly, (just maybe five thousand things instead.) and I'm excited to actually get this blog up and running! I'll start posting soon, I may have segments or they may just be random, I have had a lot of ideas and I want to try all of them so things may be kinda crash course for a while but it'll definitely keep things interesting! My post may range from little things like what's going on that day or a little bit of photography taken, something like that to big things like DIY tutorials or reviews on things who knows! I'm ready to get going and finally see what's in store. I hope all of you are still on board with me too.
                              Ready to (actually) set sail,
                                                         Ms. Sinking Ship

0309 Pinterest obsession: tumblr journals,

I've always had a joy for scrapbooking, collages, and journals. I've also always had a love for odd pictures, sayings. etc. These journals bring all of that together in the cutest manner and I can't stop obsessing over them, within the last week I filled my Pinterest with thousands of these pictures, now I've sat through and picked my favorites to show you. You can find all of these on my Pinterest or just pin them from here if you like them too. I'll be trying ideas I have from some of these soon and can't wait to see how they turn out.

Now I'm ready to set sail (and keep pinning!),

                                                                 Ms. Sinking Ship

Into the fashion glass

First off don't judge my title.. I'm working on it. Second of all, this might not stay up any ways, I'm indecisive if I want this to be the first fashion post or not. I'm very intrigued (overly obsessed if you've seen my fashion pinterest board) with things like pastel goth and grunge. My outfit was inspired by that and my love for Alice in Wonderland. I wore a Disney Alice in Wonderland sweater and Disney Alice in wonderland tights, in between those I wore a longish black circle skirt at my waist. I found this outfit to unexpectedly comfortable and was fun to wear as well. 

Ready to set sail (and fall into a rabbit hole), Ms. Sinking Ship

A welcome and An Explanation!

Ahoy! You might have followed my blog before you might have not. I recently moved over from weekly because I didn't like how they were set up I will soon carry over those blog posts and many more that were in the process of being made. I'm sorry for the inconvenience of the change of site. There are still many things to be done to this blog to make it a nice as the last ( though it wasn't that nice any ways if were being honest. ) So, be prepared and keep looking for the great changes and updates to come. I'm so excited to further our voyage even if it was set off track, I'll talk to you all soon.

                  So ready to set sail, Ms. Sinking Ship