Being The Good + A Giveaway

I want to share a little secret with you. 

I love my blog, movement and Etsy shop that Paulina and I started more than most things. 

At my bridal shower, when they were quizzed on my favorite pastime they were all variations of blogging. I've had this little blog for so many years now - almost 5 - but it didn't really start growing until last year. 

Around this time last year I joined in Wifessional's Carabox Exchange and made some blog friends that are so dear to me. Since then, I've been going full steam ahead with my blog and Etsy. 

Let's be serious, for every person who comments "what a wonderful cause!" "I didn't know about this cause;" "Thank you for sharing;" "Wonderful movement, let me know what I can do to help!" and so on and so forth, tears spring to my eyes. [thank you!!!!!!!!] 

I want to do so much good in this world. That is my one life goal if you get to the roots of it. Do Good. Be Good. 

Do you have something like this in your soul? Where it literally screams out at you and consumes your thoughts and actions? 

Yes, I get mad and do selfish things sometimes, I am human. But whenever I have rational thought, it is pushing me to do good. 

Color Me a Warrior Queen is such a big part of this for me. For as long as I can remember, I wanted to start a clothing company with inspiring messages for girls and women. It always started as "the magazine" and grew into so much more. I want this to be a movement. I want you to feel moved to empower and be gracious. 

Partnering with Paulina was innocent at first. We liked each others blogs' and decided to sponsor each other. We ended up having a lot in common and haven't stopped talking since! 

Both of our blogs focus on being brave and overcoming obstacles, in different ways. Our shop is the epitome of the two of us - I like women strong quotes and she's more into fashion. Thus we have shirts and soon - stickers - and jewelry! It's the perfect combination but all of it stands with the message - we are strong women and we want to empower you! 

So what do you think? Have you checked out the shop? You can get 15% off with code FIRST15 on your first purchase.

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Wedding Wednesday: The Bachelorette Party

I have been anxiously anticipating this post all week and now that it's time I find myself utterly unprepared! Also, I am apparently really into alliteration!

Where do I even begin? [Maybe with an apology for all of the cell phone pix. The real camera pix have not yet been sent to me, but I'm too excited to share]

Two girls had to leave early for work, but this is the gang of us + our go cart driver

When I got engaged, I told all of my bridesmaids that I wanted the bachelorette and the bridal shower to be a surprise. I'm really into surprises and no one had ever thrown me a surprise party before. I did pick the location of my bachelorette party [San Diego] and which weekend it would be. From there, the rest was up to my maid of honor and bridesmaids.

They did such a great job!!

Instead of a couple of hotel rooms to house 9 of us, they found a house with enough bedrooms through AirBnB. I was the only person who had used the site before, so they were all a little weary before we arrived.

Surprisingly, we made great time on Friday and got there around dinner time! [Woo hoo no traffic!] The house had 4 bedrooms with room to sleep 11 comfortably; 2 bathrooms; a kitchen; living room; dining room and spacuzzi.

It was awesome!

Cards against Humanity! 

Obligatory "Bachelorette" cup and penis straw while drunk picture 

Spa stuff / typical girls' night! 

The first night we did a spa night. There were only about six of us staying the first night. We didn't actually get to the masks and facials because we got too drunk. So basically we painted our nails and eventually ended up in a luke warm spacuzzi. [I have pictures, but they will not be shared because my new bathing suit was too small].

The next morning we woke up and ate breakfast before heading to Coronado Island. It is just beautiful! I'd only ever been one other time because I am scared of the bridge to get there, but I will definitely go back!

All of us by the Hotel Del Coronado sign. This picture is really blurry :( But I know they took one with a real camera, too. 

This was a fun picture :) 

I am so happy that the rain from the prior week was gone! 

Full Bachelorette regalia at the really fancy hotel

Lunch time!

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Yum! Gelato :) 

Lauren, my best friend from pre-school

Emily, my best friend and neighbor since i was 12

My maid of honor and best friend, Molly! [if you can't tell, she and Emily are twins]

Katy, my partner in crime 

All of us in the bright gelato shop! The ladies working were so sweet! 

We walked around, ate, enjoyed the beach...and then went back to get ready to go out!

Around this time some strippers "showed up" aka a couple of my friends invited them because they didn't realize I didn't want strippers. I took one look at the guys outside the door and said "I'm out" and barricaded myself in my room until they left. The girls said they were handsy and had only ordered one stripper anyway.

I love this bag! It's hot pink though, not orange. 

I think male strippers are creepy...or at least the idea of them coming into my home. I could go see Thunder Down Under ANY DAY!

After we got ready, we took an Uber [If you use code V39H6 you will get a $20 credit for your first ride!!]   to Downtown San Diego to go out!

Krystal, my newest best friend. She is Iman's best man's wife and we spend so much time together! 

We ended up eating at Bootlegger. It seemed really awesome at first but then our service started to suck. As in, she forgot to ring in my food! MY FOOD. Which was the easiest because I ordered a hamburger and I filled out a sheet for her. I wasn't the only one to do this though, so I'm not sure how she misplaced mine.

Attempting to look like we enjoyed Bootleggers

The security guard was pretty cool. He wanted to take a picture with me? 

Also, they took forever to "rush" my food out to me. Drinks cost $10 for the size of an old fashioned. I.e. 1 shot of alcohol...so we left there and I was pretty sober.

We walked a bit and ended up at Altitude, a rooftop bar. I love rooftop bars. This one was smaller but I was stoked anyway!! We ended the night at Bang Bang! An Asian Fusion club that has a Ryan Gosling bathroom which I heard wasn't worth the wait in line.

The San Diego skyline! 

This guy gave us all a free ride because he gets paid by the advertising

Home again on Sunday morning, all hungover and awesome.

All I ate was Jack in the Box for all of my meals. Then I had a piece of cake for my future brother-in-law's 15th birthday and got a stomach ache. Another Jack in the Box taco fixed that. #hangoverproblems.

My bridal shower is this Saturday and I am so excited!

Also, check out this awesome Color Me a Warrior Queen giveaway below! Don't forget to head over to our Etsy shop :)

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Grab a Friend Blog Hop Co-Host

Woo! This should be a fun Tuesday!! :) 

A couple of announcements: 
1. Like the Color Me a Warrior Queen Facebook to get 15% off your first order [first 100 likes!]
2. Favorite the Etsy shop while you're at it. 
3. Take part in Her Campus' #LovingMe project
4. Join us in the blog hop below! 

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Link up here , answer a question , grab a blogger and be friends!

Every week this hop is created with lots of love + fun . So be sure to share it to more and more people can catch up and our lovely little hop can be large with more friends ;)

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When you go to follow your hosts , leave the answer to make their day + a bloggy present .  We all would love to share love back { will follow you back} .

This hop is for finding new friends & bloggy mates . So be sure to go and find yourself one . Hop over to at least three of the blogs. I am so happy cheery to see you all linking up with us every Tuesday . Yip-yip , you're rocking . 

Be sure to grab a button or link back so more people can see & mingle in.

Q: If you could travel to any place around globe right now , where and WHY would you go?

Jenn : 

I've had an obsession with the thought of traveling through South America since my Junior Year of College. I took a Latin American Architecture and Art History Course and felt like I was living through all of my professors stories. I would love the idea of being able to backpack through trails in the mountains in Peru, visit fresh markets in Brazil, and soak up the sun on the coast of Argentina. I also have to check out Panama, one of my Grandfather's favorite places and where he lived for years before moving to the United States. I'll just take a sketchbook and trek around documenting all the beautiful things I see and people I meet. 

Areeba: 

If it's about right now, I'd love to travel to Turkey. I'm obsessed to a Turkish drama series and I seriously want to meet some of those drama actors and see the places they're showing in the drama seriel.

Corinne:
I would travel to Australia. When I was 19, my brother, his wife and two children moved to Australia. They've not been back to England since and I've not been to visit them! My parents have travelled there 3 times but I've never been able to join them due to money, studies and work. They go for 6 weeks at a time and I could never afford to take that much time out! It's been almost 9 years since they moved, they have has two additional children in Australia that I'm dying to meet! I have 3 older brothers and the one that moved to Oz was the one I was closest to, I would baby sit my niece and nephew and they would stay at our house all the time. Now we only communicate though Facebook and Instagram, with the occasional Facetime chat when I'm at my parents house.

Rae:
If I could go anywhere RIGHT NOW, I would pick somewhere tropical like Antigua! It seems so relaxing and warm and I'm feeling beach-y. (California has cold beach waters). Plus, I would be spoiled since we are going to Europe in 2 months!!

Noor:
I'd like to travel to Australia right now because I need a grand vacation on beaches . Also , I'm craving summer so badly. So a quick Aussie holiday would be my fix.

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CMWQ: Self-Love Printable

I put together a little surprise for all of you...a FREE printable of this month's Color Me a Warrior Queen design!

That way you can print it out and put it in your room as a wonderful reminder about how much you love yourself!

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This is my very first printable so if it prints out horribly wrong [which it shouldn't...I tested it] please do not hesitate to contact me! That would be so sad :(

And since you love the design so much head on over here to purchase a shirt! Shirts are $25 with $5.95 shipping and you have until Friday to order them!



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49 Weeks of Doing Good

 Erykka and I decided to do the #dogood52ways challenge from the Do Good Bus. Every Wednesday night, we draw a new paper from the jar; complete the task; and invite our blog readers to partake. For more information on how this started go here.

Last week's task was a fun one! 

We had the plan to do a whole row of cars in a parking lot with a note that said "Just a stranger hoping to make your day," but Sunday didn't exactly work out for us. We worked on this week's challenge separately. 

Erykka did do a whole line of cars with daisies, and I got one car with a carnation. I then gave the rest of the bouquet to Iman because we've had a rough week, and I just love to see his smile!

These do good challenges do not have to be just for people you know or people you don't know. It's nice to mix them up!! 

This next week's challenge is definitely one that we will be doing daily - in fact, it is something that I do every day already!! 

I'm one of those people who is crazy about picking up trash. I feel bad when I dump water out in the parking lot [I don't know why]. Once, I broke up with a boyfriend because he told me littering created jobs. I almost socked him in the face. I participate in beach, park and desert clean ups. I grew up in Girl Scouts and live by the motto "pack it in, pack it out." As a server, you'll find straw wrappers and trash in my apron pocket because I obsessively take them off of tables as I stop to check in.

Of course, my room is typically a mess and has trash in it, but at least the outside world doesn't!! :P 

Join us this week because this is literally the easiest challenge we could have pulled! 

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In case you missed it yesterday, here's a lovely picture of me modeling our February design! #ColorMeAWarriorQueen! 

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