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Sebastiaan Bremer

DIY

okay so i love love LOVE little diy crafts and decorating things that you can make out of anything, so here are some -and by that i mean A LOT- of cool posts from the free people blog...

okay the truth-this is for my own convenience, so when i have a few extra bucks and a whole lotta time, i can come here for FUN TIMES! lol :P you can ignore if you like...

Layered friendship-bracelet-necklaces

Painted sticks
you could screw in some knobs, and have a coat rack, or some tacks and it could hold jewelry...!

Flowers and bottles

Mod podge vases
i want to do this on a cork board for a bulletin-board type thing

Home-made decals

LACE jars! (i love lace)

Pop-out butterflies

Rope rugs

Homemade camera lense

Wall decor with vintage frames

Fishtail braid inspiration

Feather hair extensions

OMG LOLLAPALOOZA I'M GOING TO LOLLAPALOOZA AND I AM SEEING MUMFORD AND SONS!!!!!

don't know who mumford and sons is?
CHECK THEM OUT

Memory Lane

My aunt went to France and brought back a song that my mother sang to my sister and I when we were little,

she would sing oh-so-softly into our tiny ears

"dites-moi pourquoi
la vie est belle
dites-moi pourquoi
la vie est gai
dites-moi pourquoi,
chere mad'moiselle,
est-ce que, parce que
vous m'aimez?"

and i just remembered it a few days ago and i have found a video of it
apparently, it is a song from the musical South Pacific,
which has had many many remakes and revivals and television versions
there is also supposedly and more contemporary version coming out soon
(insert shout out to wikipedia here)
anyways, i hope you enjoy it as much as i do,
it is very catchy and never leaves your head

plus, if you hum it, your friends might think you are a cultured, learned young adult...
(this version is obviously not the 1958 original as it has reba in it)

I was just going to write a post referring to J. M. Roberts' post and a certain quote. But then I started typing and I wrote and thought myself in circles, around around, so much so that I lost track of the idea and the initial point of the post became unclear to even me and now I am just giving up on trying to recover the thought because I have to wake up in the morning kind of early (for me at least) but I will still refer to the post because it was very thought-provoking - which can sometimes be a bad thing, but in this case, not so much.

I think that's the longest run-on sentence of my life.

Good night.



And for all you source Nazis out there - you who await any single persons' mistake of not giving the places they got pictures, videos, etc. - I have decided you need some extra fun. So, here I have provided some links and some sources. Do what you must, I cannot stop you from acting on your torturous gift-curse of a need to ensure every single blogs' credibility.
Source 1, 2, 3, & 4

Weaknesses

My sister sings in a traveling choir. It's a church choir for high school students, a lot of fun. So, she was singing at a church near me so my mom and I went and we were late. But anyways, when we walked in, I saw someone in the lobby that I work with and we started talking. He told me that his daughter used to be in this choir, but it's too hard for his wife to come. I must have looked at him confused, because after a few awkward moments, he said "Well, you know my daughter was killed."

What am I supposed to do after that blow?

I kind of stuttered and mumbled and said "Oh, no, I didn't."

He went on to explain that she was on a trip with a friend to help out at some church and then her friend fell asleep at the wheel and his daughter was killed in the crash.

I don't know how to handle these things.

He told me so suddenly.

I felt awful for not knowing, but how could I have?

Then, my mom came back from the restroom and we were going into find and sit with my grandparents. Hindsight is always 20/20. I didn't realize that since it was too difficult for his wife to come, he was there alone. I felt awful, still do, through the whole service. I should have asked him to sit with us. Should I have given him a hug? Something, I should have done something. I looked back once we had been seated and realized that he was alone, but he was gone. I would have gone to bring him to sit if he had been there, but he wasn't.

So I cried.

The whole thing was an impossible situation.

But it's weighing me down now and I wish I had better social skills and didn't come off as careless and self-absorbed when I really do care about people.

I lie a lot.

New Music!!! :D :D :D

Since I am home and able to explore and find good music, I've been able to get some music that pandora has recommended (genius idea, that pandora). Some recent newcomers to my itunes library:

MGMT
Bon Iver
Fanfarlo
Fleet Foxes
Johnny Flynn
Mumford and Sons
Noah and the Whale
Passion Pit
Frightened Rabbit
Angus and Julia Stone
Cherbourg

i've also deleted over 500 songs to clean things up a bit and get some new songs playing on shuffle...which doesn't seem to be very random. i've gotten the same song played four times in three hours of "shuffle"

oh and www.last.fm also has a page that helps find artists similar to the ones you like when you are in a new-music-discovering mood ; )

Questions

Lately I've kind of been wondering what it would be like to have a special someone. Just someone who enjoys a lot of the same things I do, but also does things I've never tried. Someone to grow with, to go on nature walks with. Sometimes I think that maybe he'll even like the same music and we can just relax and listen to music and pick out cloud shapes in the sun.

...Then, after a few minutes of daydreaming, something will bring life back into focus and I start to feel guilty for wanting someone to go through life with. Isn't that what God is for? Aren't I supposed to be happy and satisfied? I'm not supposed to want anything else, right?

Most recent musical discovery

Mumford and Sons

On a quiet Thursday afternoon...

Step 1: Brew some peach tea.

Step 2: Turn the lights off and let the sunshine trickle in.

Step 3: Watch the movie Amelie.

Step 4: As the ending music lifts, spend time thinking about how life could possibly get any better.