Blog: Jessica Leigh La Lou
Blogger: Jessica
Location: Texas
What we like about her: Jessica is sweet, enthusiastic and blogs eagerly about her life.
Wow, she sounds amazing… tell me more: With a variety to her posts and an obvious affection for her family and cats – Jessica’s blog is sure to cheer up your day!
Lightning Round: the place where we ask THE hard-hitting, important life questions that you all need and want to know…
Your favorite movie quote is?
Oh goodness! You have no idea how much of a movie buff I am…well my whole family actually. I have quite a few choices but my favorite is probably from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, (with a French accent of course)
“Your Mother Is a Hamster and Your Father Smells of Elderberries”
Genius. Simply genius.
The song that never fails to make you crazy-dance is?
I’m a dancer. Well not professionally of course, but I love to dance. Many times my sister has walked in on me shaking my stuff, I think I’m pretty good, she doesn’t completely agree. Haha. So anyways! Lately my favorite dancing song is Knocks You Down by Keri Hilson (among others). There was one night when I was dancing around, just for my own enjoyment of course, and decided I wanted to attempt a ballerina jumpy, twisty thingy. So I did! And I landed weird, causing my left foot to go sideways and CRACK! I ended up with a sprained foot. Needless to say, I keep my ballerina interpretation minimal after that incident!
What TV show would you like your life to be?
You know, I really love my life and all the amazing people that are close to me! But for questions sake, if I had to choose a TV show it would probably be Scrubs. I love all the characters especially JD, Turk, the Janitor, Dr. Cox, Elliot, Carla… well pretty much everyone on the show! I’m not the only one who loves this show. You see, my family will be scattered all over the house, doing their own thing until someone yells, “SCRUBS IS ON!” And then everybody plops down on the coach and the laughing commences.
If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
Holy guacamole! This is one thing I have certainly considered. Okay, remember that one show Heroes, which used to be really cool until Sylar never actually died and they began killing all the main characters off? You know Season Uno? Well anyways, I would love to have Hiro Nakamura’s power! He could teleport and stop time. Oooh if only! If not that then there’s always apparition, after all I do attend Hogwarts and am besties with Harry himself. 
Isn’t she delightful? I love her! Check out her lovely guest post below and remember to drop by her blog and say hi!
What a great start to 2010!
Things have changed. When I began my blog, I was unsure about so many things in my life and on my blog. “What am I supposed to blog about?” “How do I get people to look at my blog?” Those are just some of the many questions that flooded my mind. Then there was school, which was just around the corner. I was nervous and afraid that things would be like the previous year: difficult. But as school started up again, I suddenly started finding my way…making better friends, enjoying my classes, and my blog began to reflect that. Many things have changed and come true, I am still in a slight state of liminality but things will continue to change as my dreams are put forth and I discover even more of myself.
In the future…
I want to find a career that I enjoy doing
Continue being close to my
crazy, funny, lovely, energetic, amazing family!
(haha wow that’s a mouthful!)
Find some way to use all the French I learned…
Besides saying random bits to my friends…:D
Move somewhere that snows…
Write a book
Find love
Open a Patisserie
And keep blogging! 
So I can continue getting to know wonderful people like YOU! Hehe.
Happy 2010!!
It’s February and Diamond’s is back! Even though we weren’t posting last month (totally unplanned…) we have been busy gathering things together, planning exciting new features and making amazing friends to share with you!
First though let us introduce to you our newest member of Diamonds in the Rough!
Jennifer from The Novelista Barista!
Some of you may have seen Jennifer’s Coffee Cup awards (the first one being our own Nicole!) so we know that she has amazing taste in blogs and we can’t wait to see the blogs that she finds to share!
Oh and in other news, February’s theme is Liminality and Dreams!
I can’t wait to see what our guest posters come up with!
Blog: My name is Yeh
Blogger: Molly
Location: New York
What we like about her: Molly has a fantastic sense of humour and her blog is so much fun to read.
Wow, she sounds great… tell me more: She also lives in New York, is incredibly creative and loves food which gives a great variety to her posts.
Lightning Round: the place where we ask THE hard-hitting, important life questions that you all need and want to know…
{What made you start your blog?}
I’ve always kept journals. Since I first read Amelia’s Notebook in the second grade, there hasn’t been a time in my life when I didn’t keep a journal. I write about daily happenings and people and ideas and adventures and stuff… and it’s sort of silly though because I always write as if I’m writing for an audience, but I never let anybody read them! I guess there was sort of this idea in the back of my mind that I’ll once upon a time bury all of my journals and have somebody a zillion years in the future read them. But, I mean, I’d rather have quicker satisfaction than that. So I would say it is the desire to have people read about my adventures paired with the discovery of The English Muse and the Rockstar Diaries and Nico Muhly’s blog , {also add one terrible creative growth stunting relationship that had just ended}, and there you have it: the birth of Mister Blog!
{Where do you get your inspiration from?}
I like to think that I lead an exciting life, but at the same time, I think it is actually the idea of a blog that inspires me to do things (as opposed to the things I do or see being inspiration to blog). What I mean is, since the birth of Mister Blog, I’ve been more inclined to try new things for the sake of a good post. Someone will stick some gross looking concoction in front of my face and say, “eat this!” And whereas six months ago I would have looked at them as if they were absolutely nuts, these days I rather think, “Well if this tastes like shit, it will surely make a good blog post…” Or. I’ll be sitting in some weird bizarre social situation (imagine, my latest where I somehow found myself at an Upper East Side Christmas party full of what I imagine were former fraternity brothers and sorority sistas (now in their late twenties) dressed in Santa hats and not much else…) and the only reason it doesn’t completely suck is because I’ll be looking to find some hilarious way to write about it. This usually makes the whole situation way more amusing.
Granted, those posts usually don’t make the final cut because of my two rules for my blog. Those are:
1. No sad things
2. No bad words.
Except for sometimes.But I also love writing about food, specifically mustard and cheese (and the ever-famous mustard cheese).
{Muffins or cupcakes?}
Ok, so my school is literally within a ten-block radius of Crumbs, Buttercup Bake Shop, Magnolia Bakery… and a few blocks further is Kyotofu… I am spoiled rotten in cupcakes. And they’re all delicious (especially the red velvet at Crumbs). But, if I must be honest, what I really want to do right now more than anything is to march in to my school’s cafeteria, rip off the top of a corn muffin, eat it, and then throw away the bottom. Is that SO lame?!
{If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?}
Is a British accent considered a superpower?
{How do you take your tea?}
Accompanied by a three-tiered plate of sandwiches, scones, and sweets at Alice’s Tea Cup with mum when she visits me in New York.
A huge apology to Molly who was great at getting me her answers and post to me in time – its my fault that this didn’t get posted in December – I forgot that although I was taking a break from my blog, I wasn’t taking one from Diamonds.
However its not the dates that matter but the guest blogger and her blog - so check out Molly’s fantastic post below and definitely check out her fantastic blog! I promise you won’t be dissapointed!
Rhianne xxx
All I want for Christmas… that money can’t buy
1. For cheese to be at the bottom of the food pyramid.
2. A ride on the Polar Express.
3. To be a camper at summer camp again.
4. For my apartment to be transplanted a few yards away, on to Riverside drive with a view of the Hudson.
5. To be fluent in French, German, Russian, Mandarin, and Magyar.
6. A castle in the Berkshires. Or anywhere, really.
7. A soda machine in my apartment. But instead of storing soda, it would store mustard.
8. A unicorn!
Did you get that all, Santa?
K, Thanks
Happy holidays, everybody!!
Molly xx
Merry Christmas
and a happy new year from everyone
at Diamond in the Rough!!
Blog: Exposed Brick
Blogger: Jackie
Location: USA
What we like about her: Jackie is happy and cheerful with fun pictures and great posts!
Wow, she sounds great… tell me more: She also takes amazing photos, has the cutest dog, makes large scale scrap books and makes great lists!
Lightning Round: the place where we ask THE hard-hitting, important life questions that you all need and want to know…
If you could have one superpower, which would you choose?
When I was younger, I would always answer this question with “selective telepathy,” but now I’d rather fly. Telepathy would take all the magic out of getting to know people, and it’s a sure way to get your feelings hurt. I’d much rather let people tell me what they want me to know, in their own time. Meanwhile, I’d be soaring through the sky, free as a bird without a care in the world.
Who is your fashion idol?
I’m so lucky to live right next door to my bestie/fashionista extraordinaire, Kateigh of Poprocks & Photographs. On Friday & Saturday evenings her living room turns into a catwalk as she helps me decide what to wear for our weekend adventures. Our fashion show/giggle fests are one of the many things I love about having Kateigh in my life, I kind of, sort of love her a lot.
Your favourite movie quote is?
“Love is the only shocking thing left on this planet.” – Valentine’s Day The song that never fails to make you crazy-dance is?Will.I.Am’s “Big & Chunky.” When I first moved into my apartment, I crazy-danced to it every night – it even had it’s own special set of moves. The best part was when I played it for each of my two sisters (at separate times & locations) they each executed an almost identical dance to mine, without ever having seen my version!
Your favourite blog is?
Carrie Goes to Kilimanjaro. Carrie, 25, ended a toxic relationship, quit her job and booked a three month trip to Kilimanjaro where she will be working to improve the lives of children and infants. She leaves in February, but until then, she’s making up for lost time and documenting her adventures along the way. Her story is so inspiring. So many people have these dreams & get sidetracked with life, but she’s doing it, she’s following her dreams and that’s just incredible to me. It also doesn’t hurt that she’s my sister & I’m crazy amounts of proud of her.
Money can’t buy you love, but it COULD buy you……?
Plane tickets, train tickets and fun! My dad was in the military, so we moved every few years and my parents were always taking us on all of these crazy adventures. It was always really fun for us to learn about local history and different cultures together. I think that’s why travel is so important to me. I have a ton of really exciting trips coming up that I can’t wait to document and share.
I wished for independence and self-reliance.
I wished for a space of my own.
I wished for success in doing something I loved.
This year I am thankful.
This year will be the first Christmas that I am independent.
It is the first Christmas that I am self-reliant.
As I decorated this space of my own with twinkle lights and garland, I was so grateful for the wishes I made last year.
I was so grateful to discover that I have the ability to make my dreams come true.
This year, there are few things that I want for Christmas.
I want to spend the day with people I care about, and I want each of them to
I want to watch a child’s face as they discover what lies beneath Christmas wrappings.
I want the kind of warm embrace that makes butterflies dance from your head to your toes.
Most of all, this Christmas, I want to make a whole new set of wishes
& I want to spend the next year making them come true.
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Blog: All Things Bright and Beautiful
Blogger: Gemma Louise
Location: England
What we like about her: Just like her blog Gemma is bright and beautiful with a refreshing attitude and positive outlook.
Wow, she sounds great… tell me more: She also takes amazing photos (both in front and behind the camera) and shares some fantastic finds!
Lightning Round: the place where we ask THE hard-hitting, important life questions that you all need and want to know…
What made you start your blog?
At the time, I had just broke up with my Ex and one of the reasons we broke up was because I was living my life through his. I lost touch of who I am and what I wanted to do. So I started a blog to rediscover myself and note what I’ve achieved in a year without him. I’ve travelled most of Europe, opened up a shop, I’ve found out who I am and what I like and don’t like.
Do you prefer muffins or cupcakes?
Oh tough question. i think muffins only because my best friend calls me muffin
Where do you get your inspiration from?
Everything, Everyone, Everything I do, Everything I find, Every where I go. Inspiration is everywhere, Its just whether you look out for it or not.
Your favourite blog is?
Free People – talking of inspiration. Every time I look on this blog I’m highly inspired, to do or make something creative!
What famous woman would you most like to be like?
Oh good question Marilyn Monroe, She is gorgeous, curvaceous, a real woman, talented and sexy!
How do you take your tea?
White and cold, oh, no. Most people are going to kill me for saying that. I love all hot beverages, but cold. mmmm ice coffee!
I absolutely love this girl and her blog so I’m positive you will too! Check out her gorgeous guest post below and then head over and say hi!
Rhianne xxx
Christmas is a big things for me and my family, I love this time of year sooo much.
Firstly the cold weather! I have very pale skin so I burn ridiculously easy in the not so hot summers we have in England, this is the time of year my skin can recuperate and breath. Secondly the hot chocolate… actually scrap that, A WHOLE LOT OF CHOCOLATE is consumed in this month, unwraping presents, my family and I find people are generally a lot move giving.
But honestly all I want for Christmas this year is to be happy and to start next year on a good note. As where last year started horribly. and I mean horrible, tears galore.
Have a great Christmas Guys and Girls!
I want a kiss under the mistletoe this year. Very doubtful I’ll get one though! 
