At The Moment

LOVING // All the positive things I have been feeling. Life has been blah and a bit complicated lately. However I find myself dealing with things so much better. My compassion for people and myself has grown a lot in the few months. I am able to let things bounce off better. Which I have never been good at in the past. I'm not letting stress keep me up at night and I am able to calm myself down in stressful situations.

HATING // That some people just love to create drama. That even though I am in my thirties, drama still finds me. Adults that act like high school children annoy the heck out of me. Life is too short to fight with each other. Just move on if you don't like something or someone. Simple solution.

REALIZED // I can officially no longer drink alcohol of any kind. After only two glasses of wine last week, I spent my night in the bathroom. You can use your imagination to fill in the blanks. Drinking for me is a rare thing. Last year I also experienced the same problem after only 2 shots of rum. My body totally rejects it now. Which honestly I am totally okay with. I won't miss it a bit.

LOOKING FORWARD 2 // Spring of course. Long bike rides. Green grass. Beautiful flowers. Planting things in the dirt. Meeting some new people through cycling. A lot to look forward to this Spring and Summer.

LISTENING // I am digging Green Day's newest album. I started listening to them back in 1994. I was in the 8th grade! I've been a fan ever since. I remember how a lot of kids back then hated them and teased me for liking them so much. HA! Look at them now, they are still playing and making music that I love.

WATCHING // We just finished watching the entire first season of House of Cards on Netflix. It's a political drama that basically just sucked us in. Kevin Spacey plays the main character in the show. It really hits the nail on the head with how corrupt our government can be. I loved it and hope they don't take too long to make Season 2! We watched like 6 hours worth of episodes one day. (Don't judge me. lol)

The image is from a flower show I went to last year in Ohio. Link HERE.
What have you been up to??

Decor Love

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I love World Cost Market because they sell some really unique items. They have a lot of items that you can decorate your home with if you are seeking a "traveled" look. Not all of will be able to travel the world and buy treasures from different countries. I also love that they sell unique food, coffee and tea. Last time Cody and I went we sampled red velvet cake coffee. It was amazing. Also at Christmas time they always have some of the coolest ornaments! I still have yet to actually purchase something from them for my new home but hope so in the future.

Have you ever been or heard of World Cost Market?

My Mod Style on Tumblr

I have to honest,....I know nothing about Tumblr. I don't know how it works and I don't know how to design my page. I find Tumblr pages nice to look at and pleasing to the eyes. I wanted something with a simple layout where I can just share images from my blog and things I find inspiring.



If you are on Tumblr please leave me a link to your page below in the comments. I would love to see your page.
Visit my very new page HERE.

Don't forget to enter my current giveaway!
Win a Homemade Acorn Necklace and a copy of the Forks Over Knives movie c/o Aubrey from Project Lovegood!

Giveaway // Acorn Necklace & Forks Over Knives DVD

Greetings My Mod Style readers! My name is Aubrey and I’m coming to you from my little web abode, Project Lovegood. Project Lovegood is a website where I hope to inspire, offer a different perspective, and just encourage loving the everyday adventures.

I want to take this opportunity and offer a giveaway that emphasizes two things Jessie and I have in common: an adoration for nature and a plant-based diet. The winner will get both a handmade acorn necklace and a brand spankin’ new copy of the film Forks Over Knives. The acorn was plucked from my own neighborhood, cleaned, gutted and made into a necklace. I really love things in the raw, so I didn't paint it, just embraced its natural beauty. For how to make one yourself I have a tutorial here, so that you too can don a bit of nature on a necklace. The film, well, it has a very special place in my heart. I have bought numerous copies of it and given it to those near and dear to me, and anyone else interested because it covers information that I feel should be screamed at the rooftops. So this is yet another chance for me to share it and hope that you benefit from it as much as my family and I did.



This giveaway is not limited to the U.S. because I find the information in that film too precious to restrict. So wherever you live please feel free to enter. The only favor I ask is that once you see the film you pass it on to someone else. A little pay if forward action never hurts. Oh and, to do a quick plug, if you are a bit of a geek like me, please feel free to check out my brand new Etsy shop where I combine geek with fire writing. Cheers and wishes to all!


Thanks Aubrey for offering this giveaway to my readers! The Forks Over Knives movie is what inspired me to switch to a plant strong/vegan diet. I am so glad that one of my lucky readers with get to own their own copy of it. I agree with Aubrey, if you do win please pass it along to someone you love. The film is life changing and life saving!

Below you can enter the giveaway! I will announce the winner on Friday March 22nd! Good luck!
Find Aubrey at these links: BLOG // ETSY // BLOGLOVIN'
Read more about her awesome new Etsy shop HERE.

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Collecting Colour // Black & White

This month the color scheme was black and white. Some of the images I took were things that were black and white around my house. Other images I made black and white for fun. I think my favorite photo is of my black and white cat clock. He will be hung up in my office eventually. I miss taking black and white images. When I was younger I used to buy black and white film! Yes, when film was what everyone used in their cameras. LOL Feels like ages ago. If you have a question about an image please just ask me below. :)

If you decide to do this challenge, please come back and leave a link in the comments so I can check it out!!
Go HERE to link up your photos!
The Collecting Colour Challenge is hosted by Good Things.

32 Things Before 32 List // #20 Kicking My Coffee Addiction

If you are a coffee lover, the first thought you may have when reading the title of this post is, "Why the heck would anyone want to kick their coffee addiction?" Maybe addiction also seems like a harsh word and I should say "habit". Honestly for me I know it's an addiction. I crave it. I threw this on my 32 Things List because I knew the amount of coffee I was drinking most days was out of control. This is something that I have struggled with for YEARS!


There I am in a coffee shop in Solvang, California back in 2011. Boy did I enjoy that vanilla latte that day! My coffee habit started back in high school. I would drink a hot cup of coffee first thing in the morning and then drink a cold iced coffee on the way to school. I was even known to take caffeine pills on top of that, something I am not proud of now! My poor little heart. Fast forward through the years, on my 21st birthday I didn't even drink. Instead I had a group of friends over for a card night. We stayed up late and drank coffee. My friends and I would go out to restaurants just to drink coffee.

A few years back when Cody went through basic training I decided that I wanted to cut my coffee drinking way down. I was working at IKEA where they provided their co-workers FREE coffee all day long. I would drink up to 6 cups just while at work. That's not counting the coffee I had before work. I will say, I got a lot done when I was at work jacked up on caffeine! While Cody was gone I went on this health kick. I actually got my coffee intake down to one cup in the morning and it was only half-caff.

French Pressed coffee, my favorite way to drink coffee now.

While I was in Texas attending Cody's Graduation, I fell off the wagon. I went to Starbucks and got a vanilla latte. After that one latte, I started drinking them often again and picked up my bad habits. Back to all the free coffee at work (IKEA), back to more then one cup in the morning and goodbye half-caff! For this post I was able to pretty much click on any of my Flickr photo sets and find an image of me with a coffee cup either in my hand or next to me...

Drinking coffee in 80 degree weather at Disney World!

So it's only March and I'm already posting about kicking my coffee addiction. I didn't expect to start cutting back on coffee so soon in the year. At the beginning of February we fell in love with a new brand of coffee. We had been drinking the brand Millstone and some Starbucks. We tried a new coffee from a local coffee shop in town, DAZ BOG. This coffee is amazing. It's for true coffee junkies. It's so dark and strong. After drinking it everything else tastes watered down. I tried drinking some Millstone that we had left over and it tasted like water. I poured it down the drain because I hated it that much.

Well something strange happened to me after I started to drink DAZ BOG. I suddenly had a million pimples on my face. My whole chin and forehead were covered. It looked almost like a red rash on both sides of my face. At the time I was drinking on average two cups of coffee in the morning and then two cups of decaf in the afternoon. I craved it so I would just settle for decaf to satisfy my cravings during the day. I couldn't figure out what was causing the breakouts! It was driving me crazy. The light bulb went off over my head and I thought, "Maybe it's the coffee?"


I thought maybe since this coffee is stronger then other brands it was the reason I was breaking out. It's been a little over a week and I have increased my water intake and I'm down to only one cup of coffee in the morning. My skin has drastically cleared up. I would be happy with only one cup of coffee from now on. Or maybe even switch to tea with caffeine in it for some mornings. My energy level seems to have already increased and I'm not crashing as much. This isn't the first time I've gave up HUGE amounts of caffeine. When I have in the past I always find myself feeling better without it. Problem for me is coffee tastes amazing. I love it. That's why I don't plan to fully give it up. It's a treat now. I just have to have strong will power. I'm curious to see how I do when I go on vacation. Dun dun duunnnn....

A road trip without lots of coffee??? This will be a first for me. I just keep telling myself I WANT CLEAR SKIN!
Are you a coffee drinker or a coffee addict?

See my full 32 Things Before 32 List HERE.