4th of July Weekend

This past weekend was the 4th of July, as I am sure you are all aware.  This is my first full summer living her in San Diego which is pretty cool.  San Diego is obviously a pretty big city with a lot to do and it's a pretty big tourist spot in the summer.  I always wondered what it would be like to live in a popular city where people would come from out of town to vacation, now that I do live in one I can say that it's pretty awesome.  I love San Diego; I would love to live in other places just because I want to experience new things but right now I am loving where I am at.  While I do spend plenty of days inside watching TV and such just like any other person it is nice to live in a place where there is no shortage of things to do; not to mention the beach is about ten minutes away from my house.  I have been trying my best on my limited budget to take advantage of the many things to do hear in SD and 4th of July weekend is probably the time that I had the most success with this.

On 4th of July day Arpi and I woke up and drove down to Ocean Beach which of course was packed.  So packed that we actually almost just left because we could not find parking.  We ended up finding a spot pretty far and just walking which was fine, it was a nice day and there were tons of people walking around in the area and BBQing and having parties.  After laying out for a couple of hours down there we had dinner at Fashion Valley mall and then headed towards downtown and Seaport Village for San Diego's famous fireworks show that can be seen from several spots in the city.  We ended up staking out a perfect spot on the Broadway pier near all the Navy ships and watched the show with about a million other people, honestly I'm surprised we were able to park at both the beach and downtown for the show that day, we definitely got lucky.

This is was in someone's front year in Ocean Beach, I obviously was not tall enough to reach the hole.

Our view of some of the buildings in downtown from the pier.

Waiting for the show to start

The USS Midway was all decked out in red, white, and blue.

Fireworks went off on three different boats in the harbor, we could always see the fireworks show from Sea World from where we were.  You may know this show after it was in the news last year for ALL of their fireworks going off at the same time, that did not happen this year, thank god.

That Saturday my family came down to SD to spend the day at Sea World.  We went for a little but but because it was the holiday weekend it was obviously packed so we didn't stay for too long.  We ended up going to Seaport Village and walking around and then going to dinner near my house afterwards.

A very proud California Sea Lion after being fed his lunch

This picture is self explanatory 

View of the bay and the Coronado Bridge from Seaport Village

An old restaurant in Seaport Village, I'm kind of in love with this old building

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend as well.  This was kind of my last ho-rah since my job started this week.  Yes my friends I did finally find a job; in retail at my local mall, YAY FINALLY!  I'll be busy the next couple of weeks working and MOVING!  I'm staying local just moving to a new little townhouse with Arpi and another roommate.  I've got a few DIYs for the new house and I'll be sure and blog about the move.  

DIY Painted Jars

I hope everyone had a lovely 4th of July weekend, I'll post about mine soon but first, crafting!  Last weekend while at my parent's house I got this urge to craft.  I really haven't in a while but since I am moving again in a month I have been having this overwhelming urge again to craft and make things for the new house.  My mom decided to feed my jar fetish and bought me a three pack of small jars at the dollar store.  Of course I already have every size and shape of jar out there, but, despite seeing countless tutorials on Pinterest and other blogs I have not yet tried out the whole painted jar thing.  Since these were only a dollar I decided to give it a go.

The first thing that I learned about painting the inside of a jar is try not to look at the inside while doing it, the outside is what you are going to see so concentrate on how it looks from that angle.

The second thing I learned is to be very liberal with the amount of paint you put in that jar.  If you use little paint you are going to be able to notice, especially if you hold the jar up to the sun.  Because of this i decided to do several coats.

Besides those two things, there really are not rules.  I did mine by basically blotting the inside with a paint brush although I've seen a few people that put a drop inside the jar and swirl it around.  I cannot attest for that method but I can attest to the brush and blot method; mine turned out pretty cute I think...

I would definitely recommend running you your local dollar store and buying a couple of these babies to try it out.