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My Month in Pictures : October 2013

So I know I haven't posted in awhile but never the less here is a new series that I am starting up here on marshmallows and sparkles.

This month flew by.  I seriously thought that Halloween was in a couple weeks.  I really liked that it finally became time for sweater weather here in LA, and that Trader Joe's came out with their apple cider.  Although all the autumn leaves have not fallen yet, I still feel that winter is coming so fast.  With the month of October going by so fast, who knows how soon Thanksgiving is going to be.  I wish that fall would last just a little bit longer, but then again I don't because I love the holidays and Christmas and all.  Alot if people have already decorated for Christmas and I fell left out from all of the amazingness.  My mom won't let me put up decorations until after Thanksgiving!  Anyways here are a few pictures from October.  Bye! 

~ cotton

or one... 

so I didn't take a lot of pictures this month that I can show you, a lot off pictures are with my friends so I don't want to post them on here.  But you can enjoy a lovely picture of some macaroons that I ate.  They were amazing, my favourites were the salted caramel, pistachio, and the apricot ones.

Other Faves: 

laurenconrad.com

honey nut Cheerios

"royals" by Lorde

Halloween!

infinity scarves

combat boots

my fuzzy pink blanket

pumpkin biscotti

chocolate covered almonds

Links!

emmalinerose.polyvore.com

cottondandelion.tumblr.com

Instagram : marshmallows_sparkles

Twitter : cotton_sparkles

YouTube Channel : just kidding. I wish!

tumblr

tumblr!!!
so i finally figured out how to use tumblr.  Well sort of, i never go on there or anything but mine is cottondandelion.  So yeah check it out if you want to.  i think i posted about mean girls.. anyways yeah bye.
~ cotton

Falling into piles of leaves

well hello there everyone! so I'm finally making a blog post... Anyways I hope you are all having a lovely fall so far an I decided to talk about fall today.  Fall is usually marked by the start of school, but because some weirdo decided it would be best to start in the middle of summer fall is now marked by the change of weather.  Contradictory to that, it still feels like summer here in LA, even though it is "fall".  One of the hardest things to do here in LA is figuring out the seasons.  The weather here is very weird, it feels like summer in the winter, and like winter in the middle of summer.  Since the weather varies day by day there is no marker to the start and end of each season.  Another hard thing to do is to figure out what is appropriate to wear, with the crazy weather.  When it felt like fall here I was able to wear fall clothes, like sweaters, scarves, and boots.  but when it is very hot, like in the high 70's, I would rather wear shirts as in a t-shirt.  fall is also called "sweater weather", but that doesn't always work out here in LA.  One of my favourite things about fall is apple cider, or more specifically caramel apple cider.  I make my own caramel apple cider by heating up "spiced cider" from Trader Joe's and then mixing in the most amazing caramel sauce in the world, the fleur de seul caramel from trader joe's.  Now unfortunately, Trader Joe's carries spiced cider as a seasonal drink, and the last time my mother went  there they didn't have any, which is terrible because now I can't drink caramel apple cider.  Another great thing about the change of season is redecorating.  today I was very productive and put up fall lights in my room and cleaned my room, because I don't follow the trend "spring cleaning", it's more like "whenever I feel like it cleaning".  I also decided to paint my nails because they looked terrible, I opted for fallish shades.  I also like that the leaves are all pretty during the fall time.  one thing that a lot of people like about fall is that Starbucks has pumpkin spice drinks.  I plan to try this hopefully this season, but because at the beginning of summer I told myself that I was going to try the cotton candy frap and never got around to it, I don't know how much I should trust myself with this one.  Anyways I hope you are all having a wonderful fall so far and I hope you have a wonderful day! Bye! 

~ emily (or cotton which ever one you call me)

Amazingly creepy but true video

its so sad how animals are treated and prepared these days...

this isn't mean girls

bloglovin.  What is bloglovin anyways? 

Hi guys! what's up this is cotton as u have already probably figured and today I decided to do a really informal blog post. Think a vlog or YouTube video written out.  Anyways this is going to be full of randomness so yeah.  Anyways, I just finished all my homework for today and I decided to work on my blog.  Since I haven't really done that in a while.  Anyways, first of all what happened to me and my "oh I'm going to post on the weekends!" thing.  Well I really don't know.  So sorry about that but enough of that I decided to do a tag because this is a YouTube video inspired blog post isn't it.  And what is more YouTube video than a tag? (except cat videos of course).  So may I present to you the 10 things you probably didn't know about me TAG!!!

1. I ice skate and I have landed a double axel (in the harness)

2. The only place out of the US i have been was Germany (I went when I was in kindergarten)

3. I played violin for 8 years before I quit in 8th grade (blame it on the parents) sorry mom and dad

4. I have never ever had a Starbucks frappacinno (to myself) 

5. I am the absolute worst at learning names on the spot

6. I have weird philosophies to life

7. I believe that anyone will be able to be who they want to be they just have to get rid of the person taking that spot (don't actually follow this it's not a philosophy it's a belief

8. My actual name is emily (suprise suprise) my friends call me cotton because of their AP US H teacher.  and I actually like the name cotton. :)

9. I love being organized but I'm to lazy to stay organized for long periods I time 

10. I really love to bake (too bad I'm afraid of heat aka fire or the oven)

And that's 10 facts that you didn't know about me but now you do know!  I hope you enjoyed this informal blog post and I will post again soon. Bye!

{cheerful music} 

still in that YouTube video theme

lol 

cotton 

What is my summer like?

Well it is obviously the summer of a dream.  I mean just look at the list of things I have done!

• Gone on a 2-week road trip to the most boring places in the world

 

•Gone to music camp! Yay!

•Read Confessions of a Shopaholic! yay!

•Finished my mandarin homework yay!

•Finished more than half of the most boring book in the world, Marco Polo, and btw I do not recommend reading it

•Worked on math homework (whoopie)

•Read one page of my summer reading assignment (hooray!)

• Procrastinated on writing a book report

 

• Went to a week of skating camp 

• Volunteered at VBS

• Went to the Nordstrom anniversary sale and got a lot of fall clothes. Yay!

and drumroll...

 

• Have never gone a day without being told to do my homework

So as you can tell from above, I have been having the most ideal summer I could ask for.  For those of you who have not caught on to how sarcastic I am being right now, I'm just going to tell you : sarcasm.  Here is my list of things that I would have rather done.

•Slept in everyday and have a latte and oatmeal

• Gone to the beach and relaxed

 

• Gone on a SUMMER vacation to fun places!

•Had done more shopping!

• Spent time with my besties (Mellia, Lily, &Andrew)

• Cleanteth my room and organized 

 

• Done DIY projects

 

• Worked out w/ Lily 

 

•I still love the Nordstrom sale!

Yeah that's my actual ideal summer.  Anyways I hope you enjoyed that and all and I guess I will write to you guys soon. 

Bye! 

❤ Emily

Notes: My family went to many national parks this summer on our vacation.  Let me just tell you, I hate national parks.  I am also not in summer school, my school just likes to torture it's students by giving them loads of homework over the summer.   The full title of Marco Polo, is Marco Polo : From Venice to Xandau.  I went to Arrowbear Music Camp, which is located between Lake Arrowhead and Big Bear.  I attended the Choral session. Mandarin is one of the many languages spoken in China and Taiwan, as well as other places.