Here is my happy momma. She requested oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and a clean table. So that's what I did, and dad gave her a lovely extendable back scratcher.
Thanks a billion mom! We love your happy spirit and great food and amazing knitting creations!
I also love moments like these. I am scared of going on a field trip to King's Dominion with all my friends at the end of the year, but I have a lovely time just sitting here at the table with my mom.
And hello all! I have crazy vacation tales and pictures, which will come up in the future. But now, cherry blossoms! Woo!
closer...
closer...
too close! Back up!
Ahhh... there we go. A shockingly blue sky. But yesterday, that actually was the color of the sky. And I was going to have a very happy photo of the pretty pink and green and blue, but then my friend and I had to have a cherry blossom petal fight. And that is very important. (OH, the wholesomeness) I actually wanted to paint this, with acrylics or something, but we do not have those. First painting urge, here. Either way,
cherry blossoms!
spring!
happiness!
in her morning elegance...
Ha ha! Such a portrait! The picture looks sorta 80's... I don't know why.
And so another birthday almost come and gone. People were supportive and nice and friendly and nice and happy and fun and nice and it was all just good! Oogh. I am tired, but rest assured, I have survived my birthday.
And a link for you? I think maybe so, while I'm here. It's pretty happy and pretty inspiring.
Advanced Style. Don't worry... it's not difficult.
Heya, I'm back from holiday land. The land of cheesy potatoes and chocolate as far as the eye can see has now subsided... and now we kids are left to bum around the house without schedule. There is a sense of freedom, but also isolation as we are tempted to both pick up the phone and acutally talk to someone, and never pick up the phone so that we can stay on the couch in or pjs all day.
How about a glimpse of the last couple days?
Christmas in Pennsylvania. I just love the scene.
This is my sports shirt. (recognize the illustration?) Go team!
My paper fashions set is now complete, so that I can craft my way through winter break with some sort of clothing satisfaction.
As far as winter goes, it must still be young because we've had rain all day for the past couple days. Get colder, nature!
'Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday!
This was a trip we took to D.C. about a week ago...
And the chocolate shop we spent most of our time in:
Gifties are being passed about...
Thanks to all you good people out there in the world!!!
Now who would like to hear about my most recent clay-mation puppet obsession?
I have the head...
And mouths to stick to it! Yes, a mouth per picture, I assume. These are good nightly activities, making miniature mouths. That's also why all these pictures are so dull.
Over the next few days and maybe week you will mostly see pictures upon pictures upon pictures... and not too many words. But that's okay, right? We like pictures.
I took a big test today. I didn't really want to take it. It was the two-and-a-half hour long "I.B." test that is part of the application in order to apply to this fancy kinda programme at our local high school blah de blah de blah. I brought a banana with me and didn't eat it.
The test was early early in the morning (it's Saturday, so it wasn't at school. It was at another school). When I finished it felt like I had just woken up. I think I spent too long on each question, because I had to randomly bubble in the other half of the test. On the other hand...
I made first cuts! Oh dear. Hopefully I know what that means...
It means I am one step further to making the basketball team! Yeah! Woo!
It's been kind of a weird day.
1. take the test.
2. eat sandwiches and get filled with anxiety as your parents discuss Christmas plans. (the holidays are supposed to be happy, right? The holidays aren't supposed to be complicated.)
3. have some sort of breakdown about how impossible it actually is to replicate a professional stop-motion animation doll, unless you have 200 dollars.
4. go and practice basketball to stall your mood and your homework/artistic ability
5. take shoes off
More thoughts for you? These are advent gifties. I should do something creepy with them, doncha think?
A happy late hallows eve to you all!
I wish I had brought the camera for trick-or-treating. It was nothing different different, though, so this is good. I also went to a Halloween sleepover, and broke the record for staying up. Yup, 5 a.m., and believe me, I didn't get much else done the day after but rest.
