Wedding Countdown: 3 days

I forgot to mention on the last two posts that the flower ball I made is slightly larger than a golf ball. I realized it is hard to tell just by the picture.

Now for my creation of the day. This ATC is for the Cuban half of me. For this swap I had two partners, but I had to make an extra for myself.

I can't wait to see my husband tomorrow! I am so proud of him... he is going to nationals in the pole vault for the third time. This time, however, there will be 4 more of our team mates joining him. The first time he went, he was all alone. The second time it was him and Latrice. This time it will be him, Latrice, Jennifer, Andrew, and Will. Good luck to all of them next weekend in Turlock, CA!

I Love Vanilla Coke!!!

Today I went to my mom's PreK classroom to help out. The kids always do something funny or tell me something amusing, but today took the cake. I found myself with an admirer, and he made me these

I also have a few crafts to show you. After my failure with the twisted cloth flowers the other day, I decided the next day to try again. I used the same piece with glue on it for my first try just in case I messed it up again. Of course I had another glue mishap, but I ended up finishing it and then making one more. They aren't that great, but here they are.

Today I made a few ATCs, and I just now realized I forgot to take a picture of one of the Zentangle flower. Oh well. I'll just have to show you my very first fabric ATC. I used a tiny sewing machine! The border is the leftover from the Crown Royal bag that I used for the flower. The blue is a screen cleaner. Not too shabby for my first try.

Craft Creations

The craft blogs I looked at yesterday inspired me to start trying a bunch of different tutorials. Yesterday I decided to make a paper flower ball. It took forever! but I was pleased with the end result. I used a piece of 12x12 scrapbook paper and went to work ripping it into a little larger than 3.5 cm squares. Then lots of origami.... lots and lots of folding. I had to make each petal, use 5 petals to make 1 flower, and 12 flowers to make the entire ball. 60 petals! I think I might have lost my mind if the folding was complicated at all.

Today I made this flower I found, but it's lame. I didn't want to use my scrapbook paper so I cut out of a magazine.

So I decided to try making one of those fabric flower. The first method I tried to follow wasn't working for me, so I looked around for a few more. I used a Crown Royal bag for the purple cloth. I wound it up and liked how it looked, so I went to get some glue to put the thing together. I found the hot glue gun, but no glue sticks. Then I found the mini glue sticks, but now mini hot glue gun. After searching and searching I got really annoyed and decided to find something else. I found a tube of Scotch Maximum Strength Adhesive, but I couldn't get the stupid lid off!! I considered Gorilla glue, but there were too many warnings on the label and I didn't want to deal with it. As I was considering super glue I saw a can of a spray on adhesive, and fabric was on the label's approved list. To keep from making a mess in the house I went outside and sat on the concrete with cardboard to work on. Of course... I MESSED IT UP!!! I sprayed it on, but made one wrong move and the flower popped open and unwound. I made a desperate attempt to fix it, but the damage was done. Now my fingers are sticky, purple and fuzzy. I am done attempting to craft today. I'll stick with my lame flower and move on. Maybe I'll watch Tres Caballeros to make me feel better.

Wednesday Whatday?

I feel like a bum! I started out on Stumble Upon, which led me to some craft blogs... then somehow an hour and a half passed me by and the thoughts I had about working out have grown smaller. I need someone to work out with. I did find some awesome blogs to follow though.

This morning around 7:53 I gathered all my papers and got ready to register for Fall classes. If you get on the Banner system at 7:58 it will run like clockwork. The moment 8:00 rolls around the system bogs down because every single person who is eligible to register that day is on at the same time trying for dibs on the best teachers. I logged on a few seconds after my computer clock changed to 8, and what should have take me 20 seconds to type in the course codes and submit them took about 3 minutes. Lucky for me this has been the easiest semester I have ever had signing up for classes. In the past I have been wait listed, the school Internet flaked out because I was sharing it with everyone else trying to register, or I got error messages that forced me to call my advisor to get an override. Needless to say I was extremely pleased with how this morning went. In the Fall I will be taking Hydrology, Structures 1, Thermodynamics 1, and Theatre Appreciation. I'm looking forward to everything but Thermodynamics. Everyone says it's pretty difficult.

Wedding planning is going well... It has also taken over the kitchen table. Between the work-in-progress flower arrangements, the gifts that need to be finished, and the pile of papers used to keep track of all the madness, there isn't any space to actually sit at the table to eat.

There is also a large pile accumulating by the door of wedding "stuff". At least it isn't taking up my entire closet anymore.

Finally I will show you my attempts with gouache paint and India Ink. These are the ATCs for the number series on Swap-bot. The picture of the 9 is terrible, but oh well.

Happy late Mom's Day

I am having a great time at home with my family. I have been memorizing my lines for the play, doing more wedding planning, eating at my favorite restraunts that we don't have in Huntsville, and learning new art techniques from my sister. Yesterday she taught me how to use India Ink, and introduced me to Gouache... i know that sounds like a brand of chocolate, but it is a type of paint. Danni described it as a "if acrylic and water color had a baby." I had some fun with it, and today I plan on making a few ATCs using this.

Wedding planning is kind of a pain in the butt. I think that favors are Dumb. It's always something gets thrown away, and I hate the thought of being wasteful. I remember getting bubbles at a cousins wedding, and I don't even remember using them. Why give out candy... they just had cake! Because the wedding is outside my aunt's house we are using bird seed for the send off. Rice can kill birds when they eat it because it bloats up in their tiny stomaches. I just hope people lightly toss the seed instead of pelt us with it.

I started working on my vows yesterday. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do. Hopefully they turn out af good as they seem in my head.

Time to go eat breakfast and do a little painting. Maybe I should get some ab work in too. It doesn't feel quite right during my one month off to not be working out.

I'll end today with an old picture of Danni and I with a psycho dog we used to have.

15 Days until the Wedding!

Last Wednesday, 6 am... Luke and I bolt up to the sound of tornado sirens blaring. Then the rest of the day consisted of flipping through the news stations to make sure the insane string of storms and tornadoes weren't going to blow us away. After a very long day of that the power finally went out around 5 or 6. With no television we turned to the windows to watch the sky. A few more went through the area, and then all was quiet. The dorm's generator was supplying the hallway with light so as night time came upon us everyone started propping open their doors to let in light. Because the dorm is a U shape you can always see into the inside rooms at night when their lights are on. While the bedroom windows were dark, the segments of hallway were bright and full of life. We could see people playing soccer on the second floor, cards on the fourth, and even some people trying to find some light to study for their finals. We used flashlights to send some unknown code to people in windows across the courtyard. Every time a new window would start flashing we would cheer. Ethan wanted to celebrate when it was announced that Thursday finals were postponed. As each day went on the plan for finals changed, until finally they decided to just cancel them.

We found that each day goes by as fast as a sloth when our power resource is gone. We didn't have tv and computers to distract us and suck up all our time. We were outside nearly all day everyday until we left for Birmingham that Sunday. We walked along the train tracks, played in the waterfalls at Monte Sano, ate lunch in the park, played on the swings, and even got to look at the stars at night. Huntsville has so much light pollution that we can barely see any stars on a normal basis. No power = No lights = Lots and Lots of stars. Other than the ice cold showers, I had a great time.

I would like to request everyone's prayers for all the people that were killed in Alabama that day. There are still people missing, and the destruction in some places is terrible to look at.

On another note, these are the snow day scrap book pages I have so far.

I'm more than likely not done with them, so they might be changed up a bit later.