Altered Notepads!!!

For the Altered notepad you need: A notepad, paper, glue, paper cutter or scissors, and decorations.

The making

  

Step one:  Cut the paper to the size of your notepad

 

Step two: Put on stickers or whatever you have to decorate your notepad with. 

 

Step three: Glue the paper to both or one side of the notepad. 

 

Now you have a beautiful notepad to write all your important info in.  Enjoy!

 



Take Me Home

The new One Direction CD, Take Me Home, came out on Tuesday!!!  I chose to buy the one that has the extra songs on it and only the phone booth is colored.  The red phone booth does add emphasis but, I wish they had left it all colored because the boys are black and white.  It is a really good CD, all of the songs are "amazayn".  I can't decide on a favorite.

There are 18 songs on the CD.  Two of these are songs from the previous CD.  They range from being sweet and tender like Little Things to wild and hyper like Live While Were Young.  I am really happy that Niall and Louis have more solos on this CD.  I also like that they helped write more of the songs.

They have a good balance of slow songs to fast songs and did a really good job of spreading them through out the CD.  I think the best fast songs are Heart Attack, Rock Me, and I Would because they have really nice beats and are fun to sing along to.  The best slow songs are Last First Kiss, Little Things, Summer Love, They Don't Know About Us, and Irresistible because they are really sweet and appeal to the female audience. 

I would recommend this album to everyone. 

Clyde the dragon!

This weekend I was looking up crocheted animals on pinterest and I found this cute little dragon!  He is so cute!  I named him Clyde and he is just a baby dragon so he does not breath fire.  Clyde also has a little brother who is blue and very cute.  He has not been named yet.  I think am going to make lots more of these little guys! 

                  This pattern was pretty easy.  The things that were the hardest was the starting of the head and connecting the feet, otherwise it was splendid.   You can find the pattern here.    I added some of my own touches to him.  I used a bigger hook for Clyde so he is bigger, I also used polar fleece instead of felt.  So for his ears I had to put two pieces of fleece together with two tooth picks in between so they will stand up and I also made them more of a triangle.  I put his tummy on upside down and smaller from the one in the pattern.  His horns are not a cone shape like the originals.  They also used embroidery floss I just used yarn for his mouth and fang and the lines on his tummy are not floss ether.  The arms I put half way down the body instead of right by the head.
When you put the tail on you should put it a little higher up then mine is because he will stand but not that well and falls easily.

State Fair!!!!! :D

On Monday my family and I went to the state fair! 

We went to the state fair because I had a 4-H needle arts project on display.  I made two crochet coffee cups and three doughnuts. We woke up at five in the morning and left at about six got there at like 8:30.  I got a blue ribbon on my project!  I really liked the judge I had this year.  Some times you will get a judge that doesn't say much or is kinda mean but, I had a very nice one :)   

When we were waiting for my judging time we went to the Education building.  While walking around we got to this booth that had a Justin Bieber cut-out at it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(I don't know why they would put a different shirt on him when the one he was wearing was perfectly fine)  I freaked out and kinda yelled Justin Bieber and ran to get my mom so she could take my picture by him :)

 

 

After my judging we were hungry so we went and got some thing to eat.  We always get this tornado potato thing that is a couple potatoes cut up in one long strip and then fried.  I always get a cinnamon roll.  The cinnamon rolls they make them all day long so they are fresh and they are SO good!!!  We also had milk and cookies!  I also had a Falafle.  I was going to get one last year but forgot so I had to wait a whole year to get one and it wasn't that great :(  It is not the kind of spices and stuff we normally eat.  I was disappointed. 

   

When we were looking at the stalls in the grand stand I saw a One Direction purse and I was trying to get my dad to buy it for me but he wouldn't :'(   

 

One of my good friends just entered a convent :'( and for her graduation gift I gave her a stuffed cat.  So when she left she gave me the cat to take care of.  So I then took the cat (who's name is Clover) to the state fair so I could send pictures of her to my friend.  Here are the pictures I sent.    We then left the fair at about 4:30, which is when rush hour starts, so we went geocaching instead of sitting in traffic!  We got home at like 9:00.  It was a long day and we were gone about 15 hours :P but, it was super fun and I can't wait till next year!!!  

 

 

  

Kool-aid Dyed Hair

This is my new hair!!!!    My mom will not let me dye my hair because of all the harsh chemicals :(    So while I was on Pinterest I found how to dye my hair with Kool-aid!

What you need.
  
        1 cup of water

        packs of Kool-aid ( How many packets you use depends on how dark your hair is)

        towel so it does not get on you shirt

First heat your water until it is boiling.  Then pour out Kool-aid packets into the water and stir till dissolved.  Then dip your hair in the mixture (find a comfortable position before you start) Have your hair in there for at least 10 minuets.  

When I did my hair I dipped it twice.  The first time my hair was in the stuff for 20 minuets and the second time for 10 minuets.

The after picture is one week from when I dyed my hair and it is still just as dark as it was when I dyed it.

Maranda and Willow :D

This summer we go two new bunnies!! Because the girl we have now will not have any babies!  We got Miranda and Willow.  Miranda is very naughty she always empties their water bottle and tips over the food dish.  She also jump off the walls of her pen.

 Willow on the other hand is very calm. 

Miranda is a lot bigger then Willow, I'm not sure why as they came from the same place and are related so I don't know why Willow is smaller. 

I had Miranda out today and the cat came over and when ever he came by her she ran over and looked at him.  It was so cute!!  She was also eating a piece of bark and digging.  She would dig for a couple of seconds and then look around like "I hope no one sees me!!"  and then would start digging again. 

When I went to put Miranda back in her house I saw that the corner of the pens clip thingy had come off.  So I got some rope and tied it on so they would not get out until we fixed it.  While I was tying the rope on the corner Willow came and was trying to pull it in and chew it up.  She did stop pulling on it after a couple of minutes so that was good.

Penguin Nails

Today when my mom was on the computer she found a nail tutorial web site!!!  I love to paint my nails!  So while I was looking at all the different nails I saw penguin nails!  One of my friends and I have this thing where we are penguin sisters so when ever I see penguin stuff I think of her.  We both kind of collect penguin things now.  These nails were a lot easier to do then I thought they would be.  I think they ended up quite nice and actually look like penguins.  I hate when I see really cool nails and I can't do them because they are obviously professionally done!

1.  Start with a plain nail.

2.  Paint your nail blue.

3.  With white paint a round nail shape but leave some blue on the side. (the white is the tummy)

4. Use orange for the feet and beak and black for the eyes(I do not have black so I used purple).  To paint the feet get almost all of the polish off the brush and do little swipes.  For the beak just do a little dot and try and make it longish so it looks like a beak.  For the eyes do two dots.                                      

Stephen Crane

For a CLEP book I have to read books by all these different authors. And the latest one I had to read a book on was Stephen Crane. The I book I read was (didn't finish reading :P) "The Red Badge of Courage." This was a very boring book, and I mean like clean out the barn instead of reading it kind of book! I read to chapter 11 and then the last chapter. I would not recommend this book, unless you like boring books about war and main characters who think to much how the war should be and what it isn't and how he's convinced their going to die. And boring stuff like that. But if you like that by all means don't let me stop you! Any ways I wrote a paper on Stephen Crane. I found it very hard to wright about his style of writing so here is the paper so if you may ever need to wright a paper on Stephen Crane, you might be able to remember this and maybe it will help. I always wright a little about the author at the end so that's why there is some information on him at the end of the paper.



Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane wrote about realism, naturalism, and
impressionism. Common themes in is
righting involve fear, spiritual crises and social isolation. Naturalism refers to the way that Crane felt
that humans didn’t have control over nature.
Stephen Crane was born on November 1st
1871. Crane was the eighth surviving
child of his parents. He started writing
at the age of four, and had some articles in published in papers by the age of
16. He left school in 1891 and started
working as a reporter and righter. His
first novel was “Maggie: A Girl of the
Streets.” Crane won international
acclaim for his 1895 Civil War novel “The Red Badge of Courage”, which he
wrote without having any battle
experience.
The focus of Crane’s writing is often centered around
man’s conflict with himself. For
example, in “The Red Badge of Courage”, the main character, Henry Flemming,
struggles with his ideals on what he thought war was going to be like and isn’t
and how he wants to be brave but isn’t.
He plays a lot of dialog in his head that doesn’t actually come to
fruition when the scene actually comes to pass.
Crane also tended to write from the unpopular point of
view. He writes instead about the lower
class and their struggles or the dark side of war instead of romanticizing the
events and eras in his books.
Another reoccurring theme in his writing is how man is
against nature and doesn’t have a lot of control over his destiny.
On June 5th, 1900 Crane died of tuberculosis in a Black Forest sanatorium (a health
spa) in Germany at the age of 28.