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.

Baby goats!!!!!!!!!!!

Last Wednesday Calliope had babies!! She had a boy and a girl. The boy who was born firsts name is Giles. He is white with some blackish-brown spots. He had a harder birth because only one of his legs was forward when he was born. The girl was born second. Her name is La la Lola ( it is like that so it is four syllables long). She had both feet forward so she had a very easy birth. Lola is a light brown with a dark strip down her back, with a white and black head. She also has white legs with black knee pads on her front legs. They were small but are getting bigger and eating a lot and soon I probably won't be able to pick them up. They are very cute!!

Feather extension!!!!!

I got a feather extension!!! A couple of weeks ago at the grocery store the girl who checked us out had a feather extension. Then last week, when we went to get my mom's glasses adjusted, we saw a display for them and though they were even cooler. On Saturday we saw the girl again and asked her about it. I just got mine yesterday and it's so cool!! It's a strip of purple hair with a pink feather and three long white and brown ones. You could pick from a clip-on one or you could get one glued on. I got mine glued on because I knew that if I got a clip on one I would not wear it very much. You can wash it and every thing because it is real hair and the feathers can get wet because they are for fly fishing. If any one is thinking of getting one you should because they are so cool and look great!!!! I have a friend who I think will probly get one because I got one.

Hub 3DW :(

This fall we got the Hub channel. During the week at night from 7:00 to 10:30 they play old TV shows, such as Family Ties, Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley, Batman, and a couple of others. But the Hub has 3DW (3 Day Weekends) (which I hate) which means that on Fridays I don't get to see the TV shows I like. I still do school on Fridays so I should get to see the shows I like. My favorite Show that is on the Hub is Family Ties. It's my favorite because Michael J. Fox is in it. Family Ties is on at nine. When I first saw it I was expecting to watch Happy Days because they switched times. This Saturday ABC Family had on Back to the Future 1, 2, and 3 on so I got to see him on Saturday. I missed the second one so I only saw the third and first one. The first one was on after the third so now I only have to see the second one!!

Sewing camp!!!!!

Sewing camp!!! Friday night and Saturday was our county's sewing camp. On Friday night we made potato bags for a community service project. You would think sewing a potato bag would be easy right? Wrong! I had to rip out a lot be cause I sewed it the wrong way the first couple of times. They didn't have a lot of potato bag fabric cut out so some people made wheelchair caddies for the people in the nursing homes to sit on. Saturday was the day you made what ever you signed up to make. This year made a messenger bag and my brother made a quilted pillow. My brother cut his finger on the rottery cutter when he was cutting his squares for his pillow. He has been kinda sick all week so he was sniffing and coughing all day. When we were leaving he started coughing except this time he threw up. We had just finished talking to someone from our club so she got us a Ziploc bag for us.

My Birthday!!!

Friday was my golden birthday! I got two boxes of presents. In one box was a Webkinz fox from my brother. I named her Silky Nicole. The other box was a box of smaller gifts from my Mom and Dad. In that box was nail polish, a peel off face mask, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box DS game, sunglasses, a punch needle of a cow jumping over the moon, a hoop for the punch needle, and a Bert's Bees lip balm. We went to Pizza Ranch with Grandma Pat. She got me a ceramic birthday girl and a "Are you smarter than a 5Th grader" game. There were no movies that I wanted to see in theaters so we went and bought four! I got all three of the Pirates of the Caribbean and another one. The weekend Pirates marathon is over and there is still one movie left to watch. We watched the last Pirates one yesterday. I got a cheese cake for my birthday because I really like them and we don't have it often. We have two birthdays in a row at our house. It's my birthday, then Mom's so we have a lot of excitement!