Not a fashion blogger (PART 2)

Here's the second edition of Sunshiney Rach: Not a fashion blogger. Truly the only things preventing me from being A+ at that job is the following: a boyfriend (friend, even) to constantly take my picture, being stuck with a crappy camera and a self timer, LIVING IN A WARM PLACE (because too much snow on the ground to want to go out to take pictures in).  Basically, what I'm saying is I need a boyfriend, stat. Ok maybe not, I enjoy not having to rely on others for my happiness.

With that being said, I'm CRAVING spring. Like seriously craving. I also want to inform you I broke up with Mr. Groundhog so that's probably why you can figure we had a bunch more weeks of snow. I know I know, send your hate mail right this way:

Sunshiney Rach
20 degree lane
snowy, NJ.

For all you stalkers, you know where to find me.  So with the help of my awesome camera I got for hannukah freshman year of high school(?, seriously gd bless this baby), I took some awesome (or not so awesome) shots with my AMAZING watch c/o Arvowear.

I got this little valentine because of a twitter contest, that Arvo occasionally does! Actually, I first found out about Arvo through a giveaway on a fashion blog and once I saw Mr. Time Sawyer...well...you know what they say....be still, my heart. The sad part is, I thought Demi Lovato came up with that phrase for the song I always jam to in my car rides to and fro (NEON LIGHTS!!!!)

LIKE NEON LIIIIIGHTS....Ok. sorry. It's now stuck in my head. Demi 2, Rachel 0. Clearly we can tell I'm not a fashion model because of the carpet to wall ratio in the background of the left photo. And on the right? Well I tried showing off my watch so it was like a "yo-ho" type of pose.

And fashion bloggers do this type of shenans, so here it goes:
Shirt: Tj Maxx
Pants: Forever 21 (Last spring)
Sandals: DSW
Watch: Arvowear (le duh).

All in all, let's put our PJ's on right, keep the spoons in the kitchen, and don't do a weird dance that you think mother nature will approve of. Trust me, she's laughing at you, too.

So mother nature tell me what it's going to be take your pick. Let one of us go: me or him the terrible snow? PICK HIM. I'M TOO PRETTY TO GO.

XO,
Sunshiney Rach the not-so-fashion-blogger
Ya fave girl

My happy place. Where's yours?

Last night I found myself searching through shelves and shelves of books. The dummy ones. At my favorite place ever. THE BOOK STORE. It actually baffles me how they have such silly ones, but hey they are pretty simple and quick enough to read skim. I was one of those people reading them.

When I was about to leave, I went to the fashion section to stage a nice little photo op. I'm not sure if staff saw me reorganizing books, but hey, not sorry about it. I went to pick up my phone and stage some instagram good-ness, but my phone died. So I left, and was basically pissed at my phone for failing me at THE WORST OF TIMES. A for effort, Sunshiney Rach.

I took notes and stress ate candy. Clearly.

Also found a book that I was confused about because I totally didn't give the okay to my publishers to make it go live? And the fact that they changed my name. How rude.

So then I stumbled across this bad boy in the infamous "Professional Blogging for Dummies"....

Must find out what type of hard drugs the 27.0 percent of people didn't get opportunities from their blog. Or maybe it's more like what were they doing wrong? What rock were they hiding under? Clearly Patricks or something because I don't think I'd go anywhere near there so okay, ultimately, you're right it makes sense.

But I'm part of the 73 percent. I've gotten SO many great opportunities from blogging:

1. Did you see yesterdays post? With the help of social media and companies with twitter accounts, I got a decent amount of views! I know it's not about that. Ever. But for this post, it was. My point was to make sure everyone read about it because its an important thing to teach others about. Just one of those thangs.

2. I won a twitter giveaway! Not sure how, but hell no am I complaining! Its a leather watch c/o Arvo! Can't wait to blog about it! Legit I'm a huge watch person, except I'm also that person that only buys 19.99 watches at Targé(t). Fancy shamncy.

3. I am now helping out at Sweet Lemon Magazine. Sweet Lemon is an online magazine directed towards the Gen Y-ers! Make sure to follow at (@SweetLemonMag) on instagram to see what I along with the others from the team post! Even from this, I am so excited to see what else comes my way!

4. Learning how to build my own blog, I can not only help others, but myself. You're thinking DUH RACHEL. No but really, I'm trying to create my own business. Bear with me here............

I couldn't have gotten this far without the opportunity I've gotten from blogging.

So hey you 27%? You're drunk. Leave....Peasants.

I also love saying peasants recently. 

What about you? What opportunities have you gotten from blogging?!