The search is over.

I finally have a full-time job!!!! Wahoo!!! I have been interning with the Girl Scouts since August 24th in their fundraising and development department, and yesterday I was offered a full time position as program services/customer relations coordinator. I will be managing the shop there and scheduling events and tours for the museum, along with some other duties. I am so excited and relieved that my search is over, and I can't wait to begin this new journey in my life! It has been a challenging year facing rejection and doubt, but boy is it a great feeling now!! Thank you to all who love me so well and have supported and encouraged me during this time of uncertainty. I am so blessed by all of you. God is so good.

Navarre Beach 2009

I know this is probably long overdue, but I wanted to post a few pictures from our beach trip to Navarre back in August. We went down to celebrate my mom's 50th birthday, and we had such a fun week! We had a great week with our family and friends...we laughed a lot, played games, ate great food, and just enjoyed one another's company since our time together is few and far between with everyone not living in the same city. It is a trip I will remember forever with my family! I would give anthing to put my toes back in that sand right now...

Executive Women's International Auction

My friend Stephanie reminded me that I have not posted on here in a LONG time...and it's true. I apologize. So this post is in her honor, ha. I made this earring holder and two sets of earrings as an auction item at the Executive Women's International Chinese Auction. We have it every year in the middle of August, and it is SO fun! Everyone has a chance at winning (I usually never win because i'm unlucky), but it is still a blast. They asked me to make something for the auction and I was glad to do it! Hope everyone is doing well...Happy Labor Day!!!!!

Do you see it?

First, let me apologize for being a horrible blogger the past few weeks. Summer is my favorite time of year, and I am trying to soak up my summer days and enjoy them for all that they are worth. I especially enjoy the sunny days with all this rain we have had this year. I wanted to do a quick post to see if you see what I see. One afternoon a couple weeks ago I was out on the lake with a group of friends and we stayed out until the sun was setting, then we went to grab some dinner. We were swimming and I looked over to check out the sun as it was setting, and I ran to grab my camera from the boat because I saw something kinda cool. Do you see it? It's the letter "I".....Do you see it? I love it so much and can't wait to use it in a letter frame! Happy Tuesday everyone!!!

Her Heart is Full.

She's funny. She's wild. She's cute. She's bossy. She's sweet. She's smart. She's energetic. She's trapped in a little girl's body.

Last week we spent two full days together and played Old Maid too many times to count, tic-tac-toe, built puzzles, swam, watched movies, sang loud in the car, read books, painted, and laughed ALOT. I can't help but laugh every time the Beyonce song "Single Ladies" comes on and she screams "Turn it up! This is my JAM! (She's heard me say that)" and we sing it as loud as we can as she makes up her own words to the song. Enjoy some pictures from our day. There's no one like her. She hold the key to my heart.

Independence Day

We had a great 4th of July celebration filled with fun memories at the lake, a yummy cookout with hamburgers, hotdogs, watermelon, and dessert! We rode in the boat to this event called Rockin' The Docks for their annual fireworks show with thousands of other boats and it was so fun! Then we went back to amber's house and made our own fireworks show! Enjoy some pictures from the day, the fireworks show, and us doing tricks on my camera, haha! Hope everyone had a great weekend, too!!!

Our Nations Capital!

This past weekend I went with my parents and our best family friends up to Washington D.C. to visit my brother and to do some sightseeing! We had such a fun weekend that included a lot of walking and a lot of laughter. I couldn't tell you the last time I laughed that much. We visited Arlington Cemetery which was one of my favorite things we did. We walked around the monument, the WWII memorial, Lincoln Memorial, the White House, the Vietnam Memorial, the Smithsonians, the Holocaust Museum, Georgetown, experienced the Metro, and we got a tour of the Capital building through Congressman Duncan, who we later got to meet with in his office. We ate a lot of great food and had the best tour guide in the city (my brother)! Here are a few of my favorite pictures of the things we did. My two favorite history pieces that we saw were Ruby's red slippers on the yellow brick road (I had my very own pair when I was little), and the Hope Diamond, which is 45 carats of the world's largest, and most perfect diamond (it's flawless they say). Anyway, happy Monday everyone!!!

Dainty Necklace.

I haven't really made any jewelry for myself in a while, except for something to wear in a wedding. Funny how that happens, huh? Life has been busy with summer, and I have been so busy making things for other people that I just don't think about it much. I found this little bead that is in the shape of an imperfect cross, and I loved it. It is small, yet people seem to notice it a lot. It's simple, but it adds a lot to an outfit. I've gotten to where I don't take it off very often. It is on a thin gold chain, which you could get in silver if you choose. The price for this necklace is 15 dollars in the gold, and 10 dollars on a silver chain. Please email me at hrichards14@gmail.com if you have any questions or are interested in this item. I'm headed to D.C. this weekend to see my brother so I will be posting some pictures from that next week! Have a great weekend!

Megan & Scott's Wedding Weekend.

I have been without internet at my house for a few days now so I haven't been able to post, obviously. Just wanted to share a few pics from Megan & Scott's wedding weekend. Megan was a good sport at her bachelorette party, and she was so funny because it was definitely out of her element. Her wedding was at butterfly gap in Maryville, and had to be moved indoors because of the rain. It made for a sweet and intimate ceremony; Scott is so sweet and loves her so much! Enjoy a few pics from their weekend!!

Lead Me.

As I stumble around in this place of unknown, in this place of uncertainty, this is where I want to fix my eyes. As I wrestle with the battle of feeling unworthy and insignificant in this place that I call searching for a job, I have been brought to a place of being unbelievably humble. As a student in college when I thought about my future, it did not include this. It did not include worrying about the possibility of not having a job right out of school. Same with life though, right? We don't expect for hard things to happen, but we accept them, and we learn to be thankful for them and count it all as joy. Some days this is easy...some days it is not. I feel so ready to start this new chapter in my life. I feel excited to have something to get up for in the morning, but for some reason The Lord is telling me to wait. Wait on Him, wait on His plan that is so much bigger than I am. So I will. I will wait with paitence and fix my eyes on the picture above. Lead me to the cross.

College!

One of my projects that was on my to-do list before I got a job was to create a scrapbook of my college years. I didn't want it to take me a century to scrap each page and cut picures, scan them, and get doubles printed. I also didn't want it to fall apart five years from now. So, I decided to go on shutterflys' website and create a bound book with my pictures printed on them. You can write captions under the pictures so it's really great! I just came in the mail about a week ago and I was so excited...I have looked at it so many times and it brings back great memories of how much I loved college! I wanted to post it on here for the next time you want to create something like this. Alot of my friends have also used these at their weddings as their guestbooks with pictures in it for people to sign. And, we have also made them for everyone who has gotten married with sweet notes and advice from friends with pictures of us in it. So keep that in mind if you need anything similar to this!

Meet me in the mall.....

If you remember a few weeks ago that I made 3 different earring holders for a lady who requested them to maybe put in her store, this is a photo of one of them that I made her. I knew this was one of her favorite ones, but I didn't know how MUCH she really liked it. Today I was walking through the mall and I walked past Merle Norman Cosmetics and there was my earring holder hanging in the window!!!! I got so excited I could hardly stand it, but I tried to keep my cool and not linger too long in front of the window. I definitely walked slow, though, to get a good look at it. Next time you're near there go by and check it out (I probably will again)! If you are interested in this item or would like additional information, please email me at hrichards14@gmail.com

Happy Friday everyone!!!