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