Drops Fallin..

Okay, first of all..I'm so sorry the video didnt work!! *sadface*
I am also very sorry for not posting in a horrible amount of time! But school started and work and life in general...and there has been a dearth of spare time. My apologies lovely readers! I hope these pictures make up for my absence :)

In case there is ANY doubt...I am completely and totally in love with my camera.

A drop of the eternal atmosphere...falling from the heavens,

Reflecting the world around them, in a gleam of refracted light.

A tiny world within itself, a globe teetering dangerously,

A thoughtful tear, fallen from the face of the sky, filled with the liquid burdens of the heavens,

Happy tears, or sad ones, who am I to say? The sky moves on, the clouds will clear, the roaring chasm will be filled.

Hanging on by one last tendril, a stuggle to survive, a primal urge to hold, to avoid being extinguished, seperated on the cold ground.

So do you guys like em? I had SO much fun taking them!! i went outside in my talls socks and crocs and took tons of pictures after the rain had stopped..I felt so photographer-ish :)

So since the video didn't work, I might as well give you the whole spiel verbally..I'm so sorry it didnt work..it just wouldnt upload, maybe it was too long?

Anyways.

I have a had a long relationship with acne..haha an abusive one, i like to say :P

But, but the last eight months it's been especially rough. What I was using for the greater part of that time was the AcneFree System

Which worked okay...but not awesome. I still got zits, and it made my skin really dry,

so i used Cetaphil moisturizer

 I'm sorry the picture is so small! Anyway and that helped some, but I wasn't totally satisfied.

At night I used Epuido, a cream given to me by my dermotologist

I use it only at night, as directed :)

Since I wasn't totally happy with my routine, I decided to switch. I had heard alot of good things about the Mary Kay acne system, so I decided to give it a try :)

I'm using right now--

Mary Kay Velocity for a face wash and cleanser. They are very light and great smelling, the moisturizer can be almost too light, I supplement with the Cetaphil :)

For my acne I use the Mary Kay Acne gel

Sorry again that it's so small! and then at night I still use the Epuido :)

So that's what I'm using right now, and so far it's been working pretty well..its only been four days, i can't wait to see where I am in a month!

Well I'm all typed out now...so I hope ya like it :)

Love,

Ari

Newness and Video!!!

HEYYY! and I am super happy tonight because I have a new "feature" that is going to be added to my blog :) A video tutorial about skin care and what I am using and stuff :) I've been watching so many on youtube I thought it would be fun to make my own! Enjoy!!

I hope it worked!! I will be making more as I try new things to keep you guys posted on what works! I know that skin care and acne issues is a huge deal to alot of girls, so I decided to show u guys what I'm using and how its progressing in hopesof maybe helping you guys :)

love u girls!!

Ari

As the Marshmellows Melt, So Does My Heart :)

She sits on her bed, a worn copy of Wuthering Heights before her, a mug of hot cocoa in her hand. The weather outside is dull and gloomy, but that doesn't matter to her, it simply help enclose her in literary world, with chocolate hints on the side. The cocoa burns her lips, but she sips on, rivited and slightly horrified as she reads the harrowing tale. The ever lost love of Catherine and Heathcliff, the torments Nelly has to endure, the awkward situation of the second Catherine is forced into Heathcliff's house as her father lies dying.
Its a tragic tale.

She looks up, blinking slowly, adjusting to reality. She's learned alot about life and love this year. She can hear the distant sound of the familiar christmas cd's playing on the stereo outside her room.
Yes. She's learned alot. Like love isn't something you can chase and then find, demand to fit your needs, or or even predict. Love something stronger, deeper, greater, like a river that can't stop flowing, the sun that can't stop shining. Not like the rainstorms that pound furiously then leave, a mere trace of a cloud left as a memory all that it leaves behind. True love does not leave, or falter.

Through the storms it grows stronger. It can be a rushing tide, or a small stream, flowing into harsh dry places, a balm to all the hurts in the world.
Love isn't confined to or by romance.
Can love be something that produces terror, such as in Heathcliff/ Are his mad rages really produced by thwarted love? Or simply his putting that love on too high a pedestel, making it the tyrant god that rules him?
True possesors of true love cannot love one then passionately hate another.

True love sees and loves all, though not all are deserving.
True love speaks the kind words and the honest ones, the words that are difficult to say, but must be said.
True love is the embrace that comforts the heartbroken, the punishment that help children know right and wrong, the smile that cheers the lonely soul.
True love can't be captured, but it can roost in a nest, the hearts of those who aspire to love others with a true love.
This all comes to her as she drinks in the sweetness of the holiday, within her mug, and everywhere around her. There is a warmth that comes with christmas, a special glow that just makes her feel good inside, like she's wrapped in a fuzzy blanket in front of a fire, while the world outside is cold, she is warm.
Maybe the warmth is love. The love from her family, from her friends, and from the God that came down to earth to give his life for love.
Yes. That's it.

Its really love that makes Christmas so wonderful. Its love that that makes anything wonderful. True love.
The chocolate leaves a mustache. She looks down at the pages. Catherine and Heathcliff got it wrong.
Love isn't something that'll burn you up or destroy you.
Love sustains you, its the backbone that holds up our lives.
She leans back and stares and the gray solemn sky outside.
"I'm glad,"
she whispers,
"Glad they're wrong."

Have a wonderful week, and tell me what you think of this story-like way of posting :)
love,
Ariana

The Camera Clicks and I Smile :)

Leaf hearts...I love finding heart in nature!! The next pictures have absolutely nothing to do with these...I but I loved taking and editing them!

These were taken when I went to the beach with my grandparents...It was a gorgeous day.

There were jellyfish all over the beach that day...blue and green colored ones.

I loved these three seagulls lined up in a row...and the one that's staring cheekily at the camera, pretty adorable, I must say :)

This weekend has been super hard, but I'm glad to say I've bounced back, and pretty much everything is back to normal! Sorry, today will be super short post, but I have math to correct and piano to practice!

Adios girlies!

Ari :)

All my love, and God's blessings, Ari <3

Hola mi lovelies!! Did you all have an amaaaazing thanksgiving? I sure did! My granparents were here and it was just a wonderful time to relax, eat, and spend time with the family! Well, the holiday has come and gone, but I still have pictures from the times we spent with our grandparents and the places we went...and that's what I wanted to focus on as far as photos today!!
The spot--Fort Pickens, down by the beach.
The company--My mom, dad, grandparents, and sister. And ME of course, grasping my camera the entire time!!

That's my grandmother and my mom, in the arches of the old fort.

That fort was really beautiful, there was something so majestic about it. It just seemed as if the old and cracked walls were just full of memories. I wonder what stories those stones could tell, of battles and bravery, tales untold?

This jail door especially made me think. What prisoners of war were once kept there? What broken and battered men were once held behind these bars?

And yet, among the stones, green was still growing everywhere.

I loved the door...with in a door...within a door..

Oh yeah. and there cannons everywhere.

All along the walls and turrets...

Me, my Dad, and my grandpa with his funky hat and sunglasses :)

My Grandma...looking beautiful :)

Well, I actually have to go now, dinner awaits and I'm starving! Enjoy the pictures, the little slice into our American history.

Ari :)

The Day devoted to Gratitude.

Happy Thanksgiving all!!
Yep, it's that day, one of the days out of the year where the whole nation gives thanks for the wonderful blessing they have recieved. And we as christians can be doubly thankful, because we actually know whom we are thanking, the wonderful Almight God of the universe, who made everything, who gives and takes away!! How amazing is He?
I have so much to be thankful for, I can't even list it all, but I think the thing I am most thankful for is love.
The love from my Heavenly Father, the love from my family, the love from my friends, the love from my church, the very fact that something as wonderful as love exists...that's what I'm most thankful for.
What about you?
So in keeping with holiday, I will try to love as Jesus loved--and do it everyday, just as He did. It DEFINITELY won't be easy for an imperfect being like me, but He gave his all for me, and so must I for him.
So enjoy the holiday!! Give thanks for what you have given, love those around you, and remember that this holiday only serves as a reminder...that this is what we should be doing everyday!!
And now some fall leaves...nothing reminds me of thanksgiving and autumn like fall leaves :)

I LOVE this one :)

So there you have it!! Enjoy the holiday..and remember the reason for the holiday in the first place..

GIVING THANKS!!

(the turkey is good too)

:)

Ari