To test the limit of your patience, take six feet of millimeter long stitches out of finicky taffeta. Or keep your seams neat when taffeta is the most fray-ey fabric ever ( Read more... )

So today I slept til noon. Oh well, I had a busy weekend. In the morning/afternoon, I helped Mom clean the couches, and then we went to JoAnn fabrics. She got fake plants, I got fake silk. Oh faux. I was buying fabrics for my Cornell Quilt, which I spent the rest of the day working on. I like having little projects. Without a job this summer ( ( Read more... )

Today I babysat Mikayla again today. She's 14 and really doesn't need a babysitter, especially because her mom works out of her home office in a building on their property 10 feet from their house, but her family's kind of paranoid since their house got broken into recently. I'm being paid more to entertain her and get her out of the house from ( Read more... )

Why does Jillian Pickering keep trying to add me as a friend on facebook? High school was like a million years ago, and we weren't friends then!
Weird.

I've started the enormous project that is GUTTING MY CLOSET 2008. I had a great blast from the past going through the HUGE box of stuff in my closet marked "Carmel Stuff" that I haven't opened for ( Read more... )

So this morning I hit up McWethy, after sleeping in. I love having time off! Brittany said I could use some of her clay, so I did, and made two vases, and my very own utensils holder for my own kitchen next year! Should I make it match the plates? Perhaps. I'd have to put Celadon on thick and add cobalt to the rim. It's currently 7"x5" and that's ( Read more... )

Current Temp: 2 degrees
Feels like: -25 degrees.
I wish temperatures like this were a unique occurrence this block. I hate windchill. I also hate bitterly cold midwest winters. May not ski if January keeps acting the way it has. I already got some really good skiing in over break.

Time to study hard for my Renaissance Art Final! I'm rocking this ( Read more... )

I must say that I'm really enjoying Renaissance Art History. I love Chris; she's just such a fun professor. And I am really impressed with the way she handles some of the stupid or just-plain-wrong comments that students make sometimes. She's really nice about it. She never tells anyone that they're totally wrong about what they see in a painting ( Read more... )

Today I worked and watched Freaky Friday and made Emily brush all the matted parts out of her nearly dreadlocked hair (seriously, does her mom make her brush her hair ever?) while I waited for it to be Casey-time! I woke the sleepy boy up and we had yummy egg bake (which he'd never had) and grocery shopped (yay king soopers! yay King Kong tickets ( Read more... )

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glasses of water: 3 (i gotta step it up ( Read more... )