The Costume

I dance with the Va-Dels dance group in Tremonton UT.  My class was given the assingment of creating a "hip-hop" outfit with a pair of black and silver high tops and a lavendar tank top.  To keep with the theme of black-silver-purple my mother started cutting apart a black sweatshirt from Walmart.  Then she quit and I finished.  This is how it turned out:

 I actually just  barely made the flower tonight and I eally like how it turned out.  The back is a piece of the sweatshirt that I cut off, the wire infront of that is actually used to hang picture frames.  The grey/silver flower in the center is actually a flower that my mother had that she didn't mind me using.
Of course I had to add giltter to it, so I used the kind that comes in an aresol can from Walmart.

 The picture below is the story of what I used to make the flower.  I absolutely love hot glue guns, they are a girl's best friend.  I also love glitter that comes in spray cans (I didn't know that it came in aresol form!!!). 

 My mother just walked down here and said "So all we need to do is make you mad, and you'll get all creative?!?!?"  My answer, "Yes, it seems to work doesn't it?"

Have a nice-hopefully-not-freezing-day tomorrow!!!

Baby sitting

My older brother and I were babysitting some family friends children and KungFu Panda 2 was on.  I popped some popcorn and the following scene ensued:

POPCORN. . . . 

 FEED ME!!!!

YEP, THAT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED!

Sunny thought day. . .

So I was playing around with more photos in Picasa today and ended up with these.  The picture of Hugh (Cody said it looked like Peter Pan) and the red sunflower (yes, it is a sunflower!) were over exposed.  I applied a focal black and white to all of the pictures and then applied a soft focus to the over exposed ones.  The orange flower is one of my better original pictures and I merely added a tiny amount of saturation to the focal black and white. 

 I also found this picture that my mother took of me while we were finishing laying sod.  There are three facts about this picture; 1) yes that is a goat pen, and no I am not wearing shoes, 2) Yes those are boot cut jeans that are rolled up to just below my knees, and 3) bare feet and boot cut jeans do not mix, you end up with really dirty cuffs and clay stains don't come out. . .

I know that it is December, but think sunny thoughts!!!

Such a wonderful thing. . .

I had to download Picasa to re-size a few pictures for a poster that my mother made.  After fixing the pictures I had a little time to "play" with a few pictures. . . I now love (very, very, very much) Picasa.  The ones I re-touched are below.

One of my favorites!

The first one I retouched. . .

 

It was a lot of fun playing with all of these pictures.  I am so excited that I finally figured out which of the actions only colored part of the picture and turned the rest of it black and white.

The "Rad" snow man

 It snowed a little while back, and then (more recently) last night, but all of the snow from this escapade melted off. 


Don't you just love the hair on this guy?!?!











The full body shot of the "radical" snowman.  I came home from somewhere (I still can't figure out where) and was told to "Take a picture before it melts!!!"

Then the close up of his face.  I love the stick for a nose, and the former-stakes-turned-swords-turned-arms. 

The oven. . .

Today it was raining, so I cleaned the oven. . . it used to be orange, now it is white.

Four SOS pads later. . . 

While there are some orange spots, there aren't as many. . 

Belated post. . .

Well. . . I found the chip to the camera quite a while ago, but I didn't take the time to post the promised pictures.  These are all pictures of planting things in the cold frame and seedlings in the box (I haven't found the pictures of building it though . . )

The box is divided into 15 square foot plots. . .

There are fifteen different plants in the actual box, even though only the radishes, beets, a few turnips, and the broccoli came up. . . 

EEEEK!!! The handle is coming off of the firing strip. . . 

The solution to the window literally flying off of the hinges, a much heavier frame. 

The radishes have two "true" leaves. . .













Well that is all of the pictures of the cold frame. . . so far that is.  I really hope that the experiment works out, especially since I wrote a five page (I think) Methods and Materials section.