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.

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.