Last year, I created one of my favorite makeup looks to date, which was inspired by a short but achingly poignant poem by my favorite poet, Andrew Coons. i have loved with hands closed and hands open both are accompanied by their own type of pain You should check out…
Oh the best laid plans. I had great plans this weekend for experimenting with new makeup looks but I came down hard with an awful head cold. I’d have to blow my nose within minutes and ruin everything. It sounds like the perfect time to snuggle up on the couch…
If you follow me on Instagram, you may have noticed that I am mildly obsessed with Twenty One Pilots. Their new album, Trench, is coming out on October 5th, and I am super excited about this post-apocalyptic world hey have created. As soon as the first single (Jumpsuit) dropped, I…
So, if you are new here, I have been living with Chronic Pain and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for quite some time now, and for the most part, I’ve gotten to a good place in life with it. You probably wouldn’t even know it if you saw me out and about.…
Just a week after kicking off my 30 by 30 challenge, I knocked of concert 1 of 3. Theory of a Deadman is one of my all time favorite bands, and I have been head over heels since I heard the first 4 notes of Santa Monica. They put on…
You guys, I just had the best birthday on record, just the most amazing group of people at work and friends in my life, and everyone went out of their way to make my day special. My early 20’s were… rough… and i’m really excited to sign this decade off…
Ok, so super long title. But I thought I would check in here. See, I love blogging, but I just kind of burned out for awhile. That, and I am trying this thing where I just don’t force it. There was a time where I as putting a lot of…
Where has all the time gone? Probably the same question can be asked of my wine stash… I have been doing a terrible job of keeping up with things on the blog, although I have been working on a few costumes in my free time, and make sure to check…
I’m a huge music fan. Its something that can ground me when my mind gets dark and twisty, and it helps me mentally gird myself against the pain when things get rough. I’m also kinda cheap when it comes to already owning things that work, so it may come as…
From the first moment I heard “Addict with a Pen” by Twenty One Pilots (my first TOP song), I was hooked. I cannot begin to express how much the lyrics speak to me. It is something so raw and beautiful to address the terrifying and incapacitating feelings that accompany mental…
Hi! I'm Alyce. 
