Travel Time

From now until our wedding, we will be out of town almost every weekend. And lets be honest—I am not a very organized person, but my brain is wired so that when things aren’t organized… I am a little cray-cray. We went out of town last weekend, and it was a nightmare. I was packing things into a suitcase at 5 a.m. in the dark so as not to wake my roommate, and slugging random bags full of random things into the trunk and backseat of my messy two-door car at 6 am in the torrential downpour that happened to be occurring at 6 a.m., while the flippy-seats were hitting me in the face and my puppy wouldn’t leave the porch because of the rain and my hair was getting soaked… Yep… it was horrible. And the rest of the trip felt like a continuation of that moment.

Where is my other shoe?! I forgot tweezers! Blerg! It is raining! Where is my mind!?

Ha.

And so… while on that trip, I steeled my mind on one resolution: ORGANIZATION. It may indeed save my future marriage from failure. About $40 later, peace of mind: found.

How?

I made… a travel bag.

Purchased from Target for $25 (a little pricey, but worth it in the end) this adorable bag.

It has two big pockets and two small pockets, all zippered.

My idea with this is that I will have two of EVERYTHING I use or would need in the bathroom, so that I can literally walk in, pick up my bag, and head out the door. Packing accomplished. And it won’t matter if I am headed to a wedding or the beach, I have it all

Supplies:

The bag came with 3 small plastic bottles

I had 4 small bottles from a hotel—these are perfect for oils and things that you don’t need a lot of liquid…

And then I bought a couple more, just for extra liquid storage

Items in travel bag:

Shampoo

Conditioner

Aveeno lotion

Castile soap (for face, body, hair… it is amazing and a little goes a long way)

Face wash

Jojoba oil

Contact solution

Pain reliever

Hair brush (a tiny travel size one)

A soft bristle brush for dry brushing/exfoliating skin

Sunscreen

toothpaste

soap

deodorant

Razor

Headband

Bobby pins

q-tips

contact case

tweezers

nail polish

travel size hairspray

floss

And the finished product:

And I will be making a man-version for my fiancé in the next couple of weeks. I feel like it will be much less intricate, but maybe still helpful to anyone who hasn’t ever thought to do this.

Hello!

My name is Bess.

I am about to be a Louisiana housewife.

I am getting married soon and moving to the great state of Louisiana. Hello Cajuns and crawfish and words I can’t pronounce. Hello summer air so humid I could swim in it. Hello Catholics and straw-papers-are-closed-containers, lagniappe and New Orleans… who even knew this world existed?

My intentions for this blog are rather ambitious… I will be a young wife in a new place, trying to create a home sweet home. My fiance and I have decided that we want to be as healthy, frugal, and natural as we can be! So please stay tuned for my adventures in making home-made cleaning products, learning to garden and cook, budgeting, decorating, lots of DIY projects… you name it. Again, my intentions are ambitious. I plan to document and photograph my many adventures on what I hope will be our little mini farm [when we finally move into our house FOREVER from now].

So let me introduce my little family.

This is Toby. Meet Toby. He loves jumping in the shower to drink water, he doesn’t like to get out of bed in the mornings, and he may love his daddy more than me. His actual name (according to me) is Toby-Bear.

This was Toby when he was a baby. Yes… he is probably cuter than your puppy. Because I am the proud owner of the cutest puppy who ever lived.

This is Chicago. He is beautiful and wonderful, and my fiancé loves him so, so much.

And my fiancé J, who rides horses and chops down trees and fixes cars and takes me out on dates and kisses me and says the sweetest things you can imagine. I love him. I can’t wait to be his Mrs.

Love from a Southern Girl not quite in Louisiana yet…