Crazy last few weeks!!!

Hey everyone! So it has been really crazy the last 3 weeks at my house. I have finals in 3 weeks, I'm trying to do school AND keep up with my extra curricular activities as well as both of my blogs on here AND my youtube beauty channel. And unfortunately, I have dedicated all of my time to college. So that is why you haven't seen any new blog posts or new videos up in quite a while and for that I apologize, but I have to say (please don't get mad at me when I say this) that school comes first for me right now. I'm hoping that I'll be able to film a haul video this weekend as well as hopefully do a blog post on my beauty blog.



BUT in other news, I had my re-audition for my church's worship team and my worship pastor said I'm on the team for vocals!!!! I am beyond excited because I have been wanting to branch out in addition to being on the team for choir, I just wanted to do some single stuff. So I am so excited to be able to lead our congregation in worship on Sunday mornings!!!


Anyways, just wanted to update you guys and let you know that everything is going great, I am just insanely busy with school right now. Well, I better go study for finals! Have a great weekend everyone and I'll hopefully be blogging again soon! :)

First week of college: Complete!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a wonderful Sunday night. One of my new years resolutions was to give this blog some love, since my beauty blog has been taking all of my time as well as my youtube channel....BUT as you can see that resolution has failed. I apologize for not keeping up with this blog, but I just wanted to share with you that my first week of college at Thomas Edison State is complete!

I have to say, I am really enjoying my class and all my professors. I have completed the first 2 lessons in my Comparative Worldviews class as well as 2 exams for the first 2 lessons. So tomorrow, I begin my third lesson and probably will start my 4th lesson on Wednesday. I get my lessons done within a couple days, which is nice because I can go as fast or as slow as I want. I am well on my way to getting my BA in Music which I am beyond excited about! :)


I am finally starting to realize that the changes that were made in the beginning and end of 2012 were made for the better. Because of the things that happened, I am a better person and I have learned SO much about myself over the past 6 or so months. You could say I have been changed for the better! :)

Anyways, thats about it for now! I'll continue to try and remember to update this blog more often. As school picks up more I may not be able to get to either blog as fast as I have been, but I will try my absolute best. Also, it would mean so much to me if you would go check out my youtube beauty channel! Here's the link: www.youtube.com/mariahsierra94 there will be a makeup collection video coming soon!

Have a great night everyone and I'll be blogging again soon! :)

Christmas Decor/house tour!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a wonderful Wednesday afternoon! I watched emilynoel83 (aka Emily Eddington) in her recent "Holiday House Tour" video, and I got inspired to do a blog post on my Christmas decorations and just an overall tour of my house all decked out in Christmas decor :)

So lets get started:



First, this is my bedroom/makeup room and I recently re-designed my room to be more "college age" appropriate :) anyways, my walls are a turquoise color and I found this mini Christmas tree at Target. I just thought it was so cute and the best part is its turquoise!!! :D

So I just sat the Christmas tree on top of my vanity and I think it adds some color to this side of my room because this wall is a beige color and the other 3 walls are the turquoise color :)


Here's what it looks like:

Next, as you come out the door of my room you see my big Christmas tree in my living room. Now this tree my parents had gotten a few years ago when they had decided that a fake tree was best for our house because we didn't want to keep cleaning up all the little pine needles that kept dropping on the ground. Plus, my animals specifically my cat liked to play in the water basin that we would sit the tree in :) Anyways, heres a picture of the big tree:

Next, as you go around the couch to the front door, you can see another mini Christmas tree sitting beside the end table:

This tree was actually given to me when I was in the hospital on Christmas last year by one of my bosses at work and we thought we would go ahead and pull it out for this Christmas :)

Anyways, next as you walk out of the living room, you come into the kitchen and the first thing that catches my eye is this jar on my kitchen table that my mom has put those glittery ball ornaments inside it :)

Now in my kitchen window overlooking my backyard, we have our nativity scene set up with some real Christmas tree clippings and mini candles around it, as well as the cross :)

Above my stove, my mom has also put some garland up on top of my cabinets :)

I almost forgot to mention, as you look downstairs you see yet another string of garland, Advent candles and ribbon that my mom has put up :)

Next, as you walk down my hallway from the kitchen, we put a hope chest in the middle with candles, beads and a red cloth on top :) as well as another mini Christmas tree! (in total, scattered around the house, we have a total of 6 mini Christmas trees)

Finally, as you walk down the hallway into my bathroom, we put a big red candle holder on top of the counter as well as some real Christmas tree clippings :)

Next to that counter above my sink, we have put a couple candles and some more beads on the ledge of the mirror :)

Well, I think thats it for my Christmas decor/house tour! I hope y'all enjoyed this and I would love to see what your house looks like all decorated for Christmas! Have a great rest of the day everyone and I'll be blogging again soon! :)

FINALLY a College Student!!

Hey everyone!! I wanted to share some really exciting news with y'all!! I graduated high school FINALLY!!!! :D After I came home from the hospital in September and recovered from surgery, I started back to my school stuff. I was bummed because I only had about a month left of stuff to do right before I was told I was sick and I was admitted into the hospital for a month. But alas, I got everything done! I completed everything 2 days before Thanksgiving and an added bonus, I have a month off before school starts!! I start classes January 2nd and my graduation party is December 15th! I'm studying to be a Music Therapist and a high school music teacher, along with training my 8 month old puppy to be a therapy dog.


So I am so excited to start college and another kind of exciting yet scary thing is I am moving next year as well. I never have moved before and I don't like change, so this is a very scary territory for me to be in but I am trusting God to help me through this new phase in my life. There are alot of changes going on within the next year but I am excited about them :)


Well, thats it for this quick post! I just wanted to tell you guys an update on my life and share these exciting new things with you. I hope you all have a great night and I hope you enjoyed this! I'll be blogging again soon! :)

Room Renovation is FINALLY complete!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Monday afternoon! I'm sorry its taken me so long to make a "finished room renovation" post, I've been super busy trying to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas and just everyday life has gotten in the way. But, my room renovation is FINALLY finished!!! I'm so incredibly happy with it, my friends from college say that it has a very classy feel which is true :) I painted 2 walls turquoise and the other two walls are a light beige color, I think its kind of looks like the ocean :) anyways, here are some pictures:

So I have a couple quotes on my walls. The first one is down in the picture on the bottom left. It says "Faith Not Fear" and the reason I put it up was 1) I love the quote and it has helped me through all my recent medical stuff. 2) I also put it up in memory of a very close friend who passed away last year and she used to say this quote a lot. And the other one is down in the picture on the bottom right, that one says "If Music be the food of love, play on!" its by Shakespeare and its from his play Twelfth Night. I've just loved this quote so much and I thought it had to go on my wall! :)

Here is one more picture of something that I couldn't fit into the photo collage I made above:

This vanity is on the wall that has my bedroom door on it because it was the only place where I could put it and still have room around it. It is also next to the wall that says "Faith not Fear." To give y'all an idea of how big my room is, its only a 12X12 but I was able to fit a lot of furniture in it :)


I had my sister, my grandparents and my parents help with the painting and decorating. My grandma is a great interior designer, so she helped me place all my decorations and such. My sister was so sweet and she came over and helped with the grueling paint process, which took not as long as I thought :) I mean with me, my sister, my mom, and her best friend we got it all finished in a few hours! :)


So thats my room renovation! I'm so happy with it and plus everything that I put in there can go with me when I move next year with the exception of the paint, obviously :)

I hope y'all enjoyed this and I hope you have a great day! I'll try and update on this blog more often! :) If you haven't checked out my other blog "Beauty Beat" here's the link: www.mariah-cantstopthebeauty.blogspot.com :)

Room renovation!!!

Hey everyone!!! I hope y'all are having a great Saturday morning! I wanted to share with you what I'm doing for my room renovation! So I thought that I since I am a freshman in College, I would update my room to be a more "grown up" room :) I am going to put a vanity in there with a mirror and lights running down the sides of it. And I am going to put all my makeup stuff in rolling 3 drawer bins and store them underneath the vanity. Then I'll put the sterilite bins that I have in my closet with my other makeup and brushes on top of the vanity. I am really excited about this new set up! I bought the paint to re-do my walls in teal and a pea- green color, then I'm going to write some quotes and verses on my 3 walls with the teal color in black paint. And then I'm going to hang some fun things on my walls such as a wood guitar that I made in last year's VBS camp at my church, also some awesome wall decals that I saw at Target not too long ago. Anyways here's pictures of the colors I'm going to paint my walls and picture of my room so you guys can see how big it is. FYI: my room is a 12X12 :)

So comment below and let me know what you think of the new colors! I love the teal, not sure if I like the pea-green color so if you have any ideas of another light shade to pair the teal with, please either tweet me or comment below! :) have a great day everyone!! www.twitter.com/mariahsierra94

Also, in case y'all were wondering I am finally home from being in the hospital for a month!! I've been home for 6 days so far :) thanks for all the prayers, I really appreciate it!! :)

Arts Camp day 5 and showcase...

Hey everyone! Well, Arts Camp 2012 is complete! The last day and the showcase night went very well last night! My music class 1st grade-4th grade kids did a great job with their performance, I am so very proud of them! I didn't get home until about 11:00pm last night because the clean up took the longest to finish. I'm going in today to finish what we didn't get done after the show. I had awesome people helping me during this week, I am so thankful for them I don't know what I would've done without their help!


This week and the 12th year of Arts Camp was awesome! I am bummed its over, but I know there will be next year! :) Well, thats it for this post for today! I have today and tomorrow to rest up before I have to jump back into my regular routine, so I'mgoing to get ready for the day to go back to the church to finish cleaning up from last night. I'll be blogging again soon and I hope y'all have a great day! :)