Well, goodness, there's a lot to catch up on....

Well, first off, I finally bought my ipod!

After babysitting and dog watching, I finally made enough!

I basically just got it so I could post to my art instagram more.

It's crazy how that's pushed me along to do more art.

I'll be like "AH! oh no! I have nothing to post and it's been 5 days...*shrug* I'll just make something new"

I've gone through phases of just giving up on art, and this is the longest I've gone continuously doing it, and I know I'll continue once CBA starts back up, because I'm taking an art class!

I've been keeping up making my strawberry smoothies!

Mom said I'm going to turn into a strawberry..... =/

Did I tell you that my pottery finally came  in?

Well it did! I have 9 completed pieces.

(Excuse my screenshot from instagram... But here's some of it!)

I went along with Mug Swap this year. 

You sign up on a lady blogger's site, fill out your address, etc, she gives your address to someone, and sends you an address, but the person you're sending to doesn't know who you are until your package comes. It was a lot of fun!

I went with an apple & red theme for my swapper.

It was hard to figure out her style from her description of herself.

But it was fun! I might do it again next year.

This was from when I went up to Rachel's house.

We made index cards for each other in a trade.

I still need to redo this one so I can hang it on my own wall.

I'm sorry, but this cheese! UGH.

I finally got to try it.

I remember from my old church in VBS kids would bring in their lunches and some of them would have these little round, personal cheese wheels, and I wanted to try it so badly!

All my 16 years, I finally got to try it.

In fact, I'm going to go get one of the fridge right now.

Featuring:

Random photography:

(I looooove clouds)

I recently made my very own dreamcatcher!

This picture doesn't do it justice. I think it's very lovely.

And the best part is that everything was right downstairs in our craft room, except for the feathers and circle, I had to go buy them.

Oh dear...I took a selfie, on the way home from church.

I was so excited and amazed at God when I heard that dad wanted to go see the puppies.

I doodled.

I was smiling!

I can't wait to have her back in my arms.

During vacation I bonded with the hermit crabs.

I want one so bad.

But they're all stolen from the wild, they aren't breeded.

Which is why I can't support the stores that sell them.

I truly want one though.

I bonded with the little guy in the light blue.

Sisters!

Ocean wind= selfie probs.

Movie night!

It was such a good movie. 

Oh my goodness.

So deep.

Ocean treasures.

I never find sea glass.

I think sea glass is really pretty.

Mini crab! SO cute!

A personal favorite of mine...Mmmm.

My ocean treasures:

See my conch shell?

I found a conch shell on the beach!

That never happens!

Photos of my favorite place:

I just love it there.

And seeing the sunrise...and sunbeams through the clouds.

Absolutely lovely.

My most recent art:

Please excuse that these are screen shots!

Doing art at the beach is the best thing ever.

We had a wonderful time away!

Stephanie

Yearbook Workshop

I decided it's been a long time since I've posted. Let's seeeeee.....what has happened lately?


Most recently was the CBA Yearbook Workshop. We have 12 staffers this year and.... we're all girls! Our teacher said that this is a very odd year because normally boys dominate the yearbook staff.

                The first day was photography, so we all got a half hour outside taking pictures.

I had Rachel run down the driveway and Maureen, who was closest to the camera, hold out her hand and look down, and had Rachel put her hands on her hips and look up.
I think it turned out looking really cool!

The first day a half hour before the workshop was over, we all got oversized t-shirts and were told to refashion them for a fashion show the following day.

I had just told Rachel that it would be really cool if our t-shirts this year said "Oh Snap!" And had a camera logo. Therefore, I made one myself.

and hashtag: we're all in this together (from high school musical)

And while everyone else was making a shirt, I went out of the box and made a bag.

And goodness everyone was saying I was going to win, I had the creativity part down,

but not the presentation part, they brought out two more lady teachers from CBA, and that made it even more nerve-wrecking to walk the runway, I admit, I sped through, and my bag was a little more than a blur to them, by the time I was off, the yearbook rep was still reading the card about what I created. whoopsies.  

The Staff:

After the photo above, our teacher asked if anybody had anymore picture ideas, I piped up and said that I did.

And she told me to arrange everyone the way I wanted.

I got to set up the picture below! Eeee! 

(It's supposed to be like we're standing in an arrow form.)

All in all, I'm really excited to see what our staff can put together this year.

We've got our theme down, but that's a secret.

Our wonderful teacher and the 5 editors are getting together separately before CBA classes start to iron out some quirks and figure out our theme more.

-Stephanie

To Mandie

Mandie passed away.

Though they said she died with a heart attack.

I believe she died in peace, with heaven's gates opening, and God stepping through and watching her trot towards Him, and wagged her tail, meeting God for the first time.

He's taking care of her until I can be up there with her again.

This is my poem I managed to write yesterday while pain and loneliness was all I felt:

'I will never get enough

of her touch

of her smell

of her comfort

For there is no way to record

the ways she smells when she's wet

her shivers during a storm

how her soft brown eyes would comfort me when I was upset

She has always been

my best friend

my protector

my joy

I will never be ready  

to let her go

to forget her

to move on

I will always

love her

care for her

remember her

She has always been more than a dog or a friend

She was my family.'

And  all those hugs I have given her now seem priceless, because as I want them most right now and I can't hug her again.

All of her kisses, licking my face, and sometimes even my feet because she was so silly, now feels like something gone, gray in the distance.

How she would be so annoying during supper time, demanding she have some of our human food as her own.

How she would come into a room so happy sometimes, and if you were on the floor, you'd be rewarded with a whack on the head from her tail.

Even watching her happy little behind as we took her on walks and we would get so embarrassed because she would drop a load, and we didn't have a bag with us to pick it up.

How she would run through the house and you'd have to rush to the sliding glass door to let her out on the deck, because once her walk was over, a dip in her dog pool, and a nap came immediately behind it.

How our front door has her nose art smeared all over it from sitting too close to the door while watching the traffic drive by.

How she would come rub her body against the couches when she was wet, a habit we were never able to break.

The way she would press her pink nose against my door in the morning, I'd hear her nails clip clap on the wooden floor and feel her wet nose come up to my head on the bed telling me to wake up, for the night was too long for us to be apart.

How after that, she would go over to my aquarium and lick up any dropped fish food on the floor.

How she'd be laying on the floor, and I'd widen her front legs and sit there as if I was sitting on her lap.

How when I would be cuddled in her bed and she'd rest her head somewhere on my body.

I loved that feeling.

Mandie had so many wonderful quirks that can never be replaced.

She was unforgettable.

I love you, sweet girl.

With all my heart.

Stephanie