Today is Friday, I slept in for another hour today, my Aunt canceled walking for this morning, she had to run errands before she had to go to work. It was nice sleeping in the extra hour!


I have really been wanting a cold bottle of Cheerwine lately, so I wanted to do a post about it. Because the last time I posted about something I wanted I got it. So here are all the facts I could find about good old Cheerwine! If you don't know what Cheerwine is it is Cheerwine is a cherry-flavored soft drink produced by the Carolina Beverage Corporation of Salisbury, North Carolina. It has been produced since 1917. 

When Kentucky's Maysville Syrup Company went bankrupt, L.D. Peeler bought the company and moved it to his hometown of Salisbury, NC. He renamed it the Carolina Beverage Corporation and continued making the popular Mint Cola.  In 1917, a traveling salesman from St. Louis sold the amped-up cherry flavor to the company founder, who had wanted to add a cherry soda to the Carolina Beverage Co.'s soda line-up to take advantage of the flavor's popularity. After a bit of tinkering, he landed on the Cheerwine recipe. By 1924, Cheerwine outsold Mint Cola, and the soda group's name was changed from Mint Cola Bottling Co. to Cheerwine Bottling Co.  Carolina Beverage Corp. and Cheerwine Bottling Co. are still owned by L.D. Peeler's family. When the patriarch passed away in 1931, L.D.'s son Clifford took over the company, and, today, Cliff Ritchie, Clifford Sr.'s grandson and the founder's great-grandson, helms the soda company.

The name actually comes from the drink's burgundy color and the cheerfulness drinkers experience after that first sip. 

 How intense is Cheerwine's carbonation? Ohio BBQ chain Old Carolina Barbecue Company tracked down old-fashioned soda fountains so they could serve Cheerwine, because the standard drink machines couldn't handle the carbonation.

While the other soda barons hit caffeine-lovers' lips in the 1800s -- a few decades before Cheerwine, the NC soda beat them to the cherry circuit. Cherry Coke and Wild Cherry Pepsi weren't actually sold in stores until the 1980s, while Cherry Dr. Pepper only arrived in the 2000s.

The first glass bottles and original labels with an adorable three-cherry design. 

The delightfully sweet, Tar Heel State-bred soda's first nickname was born early on and for obvious reasons, but a redesign of the label created the second moniker. Originally, "Bottling Company" was printed beneath the Cheerwine name, but that's since been replaced with "Legend since 1917".\

In 1953, President Eisenhower was apparently so overcome with excitement at his first taste of the soda, he was reduced to the two-syllable exclamation, "Ike likes!", proving that talking about yourself in the third-person always makes you sound like a moron, even if you're the President!

Until tomorrow!

Yesterday, I was looking through my old tinker bell jewelry and found this adorable bracelet that my Aunt gave me when I was like seven. This bracelet is so tiny that it won't even reach around half of my wrist!

It is silver charm bracelet with pink flowers sliver fairies with lavender wings and a purple flower and little plastic raindrop gems.

My hand for scale.

It made me think of all the memories of me at the age of seven supporting the LEGIT FACT that fairies where REAL. My big sister, Amber, wrote me letters incognito and said that they from a fairy named Zina and hid them under a stone duck, in flower pots, or in trees.

I became obsessed and had Tinkerbell everything that had her face on it. Because that was the year that the First Tinkerbell Movie came out and Tinkerbell merchandise was the rage. I had jewelry boxes, perfumes, jewelry, nail polish, rings, bedspreads, pillow cases, toothbrushes, folders, coloring books, *inhale* art sets, I Can Read books, glass dolls, action figures, purses, all the movies, all the crayons with Tinkerbell on the wrapper, AND a membership to the official Tinkerbell website. At that time I also liked The Rainbow Magic series, it is still going there are all these random talent fairies and these girls that looked just like me and my best friend, there names are Kirsty, (the one that looks like me) and Rachel ( the on that looks like Reagan)

Compare,

Top is me as a little dwarf child and the bottom is my on birthday last year.

Oh the memories!

Until tomorrow!


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Wreck It Wednesday!!!

Today is Wreck It Wednesday!

I have tons of pictures to show you I would love to show you all that I have been doing this week. I have been really busy with it and I cant wait to show you! All the pages are so terribly adorable, and I have been searching closets and rooms for stuff to paste into the pages on this book! I have found an almost finished watercolor set that I have had since I was like six and some pastels.

This one I got a little bowl of coffee and splashed it all over the pages and my kitchen counters...

                                    This one is one of my favorites it is a page full of awesome!

                                             My cat photo bombed this picture but you get the just.

I noticed that I didn't even put the picture that I wrote about on Tuesday! So here you go! Until tomorrow!

I have been busy the Wreck This Journal, I have water colored a few pages and because of my inpatients I blow dried it with a hairdryer set on high! It has been great fun doing all the different crafts and things every day! I have painted the cover a light blue and glittered it to death! It looks super cute! I can't wait to show you this great art piece! It is awesome!!  There is so much to show you that I think I'll start typing up a draft today to make tomorrow so much easier. Plus the lighting outside is perfect for pictures, but it means that I have to repaint my nails so they don't look NASTY. There is all sorts of craft supplies on these nail there is finger, acrylic, and watercolor paints along with sharpie and marker. I get a bit messy you know, just a bit! One page that I do want to share ahead of time just to fire you up for Wreck it Wednesday. I have a  page that has a arrow on it and the words 'document  time passing' I drew all 12 Dr. Who faces and THEY. LOOK. AWESOME. I can't wait to show you this masterpiece! If you don't know what Dr.  Who is I will explain, Dr. who is a British science-fiction program produced by BBC between the dates of 1963 and present day. It is about a character called The Doctor a 'Time Lord' alien that saves universes from disaster speeding through time in a time machine called the TARDIS that is disguised as a blue telephone box The Doctor never dies but regenerates into another figure. There is 12 of the figures all of them just as crazy looking as the next feel free to look them up!






Until next time. PUSHEEN!

I'm Back!

I just came back yesterday (Sunday) evening from that Camp that I posted about on Friday. It was all about Romans 6:18 "Being then made free from sin, we became the slaves of righteousness."  We got those drawstring backpacks and tie dye tee shirts with the words on the front, Repeat After Me: I Am Free, and on the back, Repeat After Me: I Am A Slave. 

The weekend we studied most all about getting rid of bondage. Also that we are free to do anything because by Jesus dying on the cross, he breaks our chains to the burden of sin.

 But that we need to make the choice to go with Jesus, to follow close to Jesus. God could bind us behind Jesus, to be bound to follow him with no choice. But he gave us that right to choose to follow him freely.

 I feel that it is very powerful to walk behind God with the faith that he will always help you along be the one that gives you the hiking boots to scale it and the belief that you can overcome it just as you will have faith that God will stay by you. There will still be a war, but God can be your shield and your victory.

 This weekend the song that I felt that inspired the meaning of that message was Break Every Chain by Jesus Culture. It is such a powerful song and I would totally recommend you to listen to this!

 Something that I want to add is that today, I got onto the computer to type this up and I plugged in my earphones and pulled up Pandora Internet Radio in a new tab but the song that came up on the Jesus Culture Radio was Break Every Chain.

Until Next Time!

Today I maybe more stressed than I probably should! For this whole weekend I will be going to a Christian Retreat/camp experience. This year I am going to be going with a friend with her church that I have been going to on Wednesdays.  I am stressed because I haven't packed so I am going as fast as I can doing schoolwork! My camp packing list is like nine inches long and my handwriting isn't huge. Not packing like this is soooooo unlike me. Usually I would have packed the week ahead, but the weekend has crept up on me so fast that I could never expect it. So I am like typing as fast as I possibly can but I keep on spelling things wrong! I always feel stressed the day before camp or the day of. My mind is racing of what I would I could FORGET AND WHAT I COULD LEAVE AT THE CAMP AND IF I WILL HAVE ENOUGH CLOTHES AND OH THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I'm going to miss my kitties! My Mom and Dad are both helping as part of camp but my big sister will be here the weekend alone. And I feel that Amber will leave the poor girl here alone little kittens dying of heart attack of being left alone! OH GOSH!

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH STRESS.

Until next time!

You don't mind the absence of a kitten right? Thanks

Alrighty, I was supposed to show my art yesterday but I did Wreck it Wednesday so today will be my day of sharing art... Here we go!

I'll add more when I have time those are ones from my pile of epic drawings. Today I am doing wedding dress shopping with my big sister. I can't believe that Amber's getting married!! *sniff sniff* I might try on some Bridesmaid dresses onto day, I don't know. I have the slight jitters so it was hard to actually write this Until tomorrow! 

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