She's Crafty (And She's Just My Type)

So, as I write this, I should be doing my art homework. Just so you all know, I want to write for you guys more than do my homework (big shocker). Mom, if you're reading this, I'm just taking a break...

But, in the spirit of all things crafty, I decided I don't really display my crafty side as much as I would like. At college I learned that there is a difference between being artsy and being crafty, and I've embraced the fact that I am a more crafty, stupid gimmicky projects type person rather than a sophisticated and super hip art person. Also, I feel like I'm not that great at the fine arts, I'd rather make t-shirts and monopoly boards and magic Zelda armor and whatnot. So, because I'm celebrating my embracing of my crafty side, I wanted to show off a few past projects (esspecially my most recent ones!). Enjoy:

Magic Zelda Armor
(craft foam, hot glue, spray paint, gems, and keyrings)
I think this may have been one of the most absurd things I've ever made and one of my favorites! Mostly because I'd never even tried anything like this before and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I am, however, still searching for the perfect blue beads to complete it...

Masquerade Masks

(mask, sequins, feathers, dowel rod)

This is my latest project, and is one of three masks I did for an upcoming masquerade ball that my roommates and friend will be attending this weekend. I'm pysched at how they came out, esspecially this one, I love the sequins and feather. And I'm sure I'll be making at least one more for the HCSA formal, which is also masquerade.

Jonas Brothers Sneakers

(canvas sneakers, elmers glue, hot glue, patience, computer printouts)

Probably one of the best gifts I've given. These were the lovechild of an unheathy obsession with the Jonas Brothers (not mine, though Kevin is adorbs) and a good find on a Target clearance rack.

Necklace

(chain, charms)

Just one of several necklaces I've made over the years, salvaging beads from the clearance rack, my mothers craft stash, and other necklaces. I wear this one the most and get the most compliments though.

Obama Jeans
(jeans, Sharpies)
So, Peas-n-Carrots or any other Republicans reading this might get saucy about these, esspecially in light of the heath care bill passing Sunday, but I'm a democrat, and as such was big on showing my support this past election. I pretty much just drew on a pair of jeans that were ripped beyond repair anyway, but I love them, and they're still in my election box, along with the newpaper from his win and my awesome Sarah Palin book <3.

Beatles Wall Art
(canvas, acrylic paint)
These are currently hanging above my desk *sneaks a look up at them.* I kind of just though they'd be a cool thing to do on the adorable little canvases (about 5x7).

"I'm a Little Teapot"
(pastel)
From Tay-Tay's class in highschool, just a practice drawing that I really liked.

Frankenstein Bag

(masking tape, duct tape, promotional postcards, sweat, blood, tears)

This was annother of my 'best gifts of all time.' Made from about 20 promotional postcards for my school's show that were strewn about the school for months, sadly this bag didn't last quite as long. Though textbook tested, apperently not tested intensly enough, and it died shortly after being recieved. But I love the idea and the end result before it was killed.

So I guess that concludes my little eco-centric trip (although if you're interested more of my stuff can be found on http://www.craftster.org/, my username is bold_as_love) ahope you enjoying seeing my stuff as much as I did making it, and I know that even though I changed my major (but am keeping my art minor) I'll always have crafting to come back to whenever I need some random gift that I'll never be able to find in stores or online for that special occation. But that's all for now, because I have a drawing to finish! God help me!! Ttfn: ta ta for now!

Welcome, welcome, welcome Springtime

Look at this, here I am, posting again! I toldja I'd be back. Todays topic: thing I like vs things I do not like.

Things I Like

• Insanely nice spring weather.
• People swordfighting on the quad.
• When UD's food isn't complete shit.
• Pretzel fish.
• Dressing up (nicely and in costume).
• Not doing homework.
• Sleeping in.
• Not having class on Fridays
• Comments on my formspring *hint*
• Masqurade masks.
• Lady Gaga.
• Spring-y music.
• "You Make My Dreams Come True" by Hall and Oates
• Playing rummy (4000).
• Sitting out on the quad.
• Good looking guys playing shirts vs. skins anything on the quad.
• Cleanliness.
• Target.
• Not having speech homework.
• Sequins.
• Mario Kart Double Dash.
• The Zoo.

Things I Don't Like

• That there are no couches in the dorm.
• Always having two art projects due the same day.
• Spray paint.
• Spray gloss.
• Boobs.
• Homework.
• My bangs when they don't feel like straightning.
• Sunburn.
• Waking up for things.
• Smelly dorm rooms.
• People who play frisbee too close to people sitting and enjoying a picnic lunch.
• Alarm clocks.
• Not recycling.
• People who are good looking but assholes (what a waste)
• Schoolwork on the weekends.

100 POSTS!

Happy 100 Posts Everyone!! To be honest, I didn't think I'd stick with this stupid blog as long as I have, and clearly from my recent lack of posting I'm sure you didn't either. Thanks to all who read, I'm glad someone enjoys my rambling. And to celebrate:

100 Things To Do Before You Die

1.  Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.  
2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
3. Swim with a dolphin.
4. Skydive.  
5. Have your portrait painted.  
6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.  
7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.  
8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
10. Be an extra in a film.  
11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
12. Make love on a forest floor.
13. Make love on a train.
14. Learn to rollerblade.
15. Own a room with a view.
16. Brew your own beer.
17. Learn how to take a compliment.
18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
23. Send a message in a bottle.
24. Ride a camel into the desert.
25. Get to know your neighbors.
26. Plant a tree.
27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
29. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
32. Be the boss.
33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
35. Sit on a jury.
36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.
37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
40. Be someone's mentor.
41. Shower in a waterfall.
42. Ask for a raise.
43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
44. Teach someone illiterate to read.
45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.
47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
48. See a lunar eclipse.
49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
51. Experience weightlessness.
52. Sing a great song in front of an audience.
53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.
54. Drive across America from coast to coast.
55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
57. Write your will.
58. Sleep under the stars.
59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
63. Forgive your parents.
64. Learn to juggle with three balls.
65. Drive the Autobahn.
66. Find a job you love.
67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
68. Overcome your fear of failure.
69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
72. Grow a garden.
73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
75. Accept yourself for who you are.
76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
79. Attend one really huge rock concert.
80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.
81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
82. Give to a charity -- anonymously.
83.  Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
86. Fart in a crowded space.
87. Make love on the kitchen floor.
88. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
89. Create your own web site.
90. Visit the Holy Land.
91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
93. Create your Family Tree.
94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
95. Make a hole-in-one.
96. Ski a double-black diamond run.
97. Learn to bartend.
98. Run a marathon.
99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

 carpe die(h)m everyone. happy 1oo. Here's to 1oo more.

Spotted Around My Life

So, as is per usual, I'm taking this opportunity to clear all the random pictures of things I take and put them up on my blog for your personal enjoyment, so enjoy.

I deffinatly posted a picture of this before. It's a toilet paper dispenser in one of the art building bathrooms. Someone wrote "what will you do with your life" and it was there for awhile, so I added "find adventure." The dispenser and wall around it is now covered in other answers.

So, this Spring Break I quested with my favorite questers. And on our journey we decided to go and poke around this incredible cathedrel that we'd all always passed and admired from afar but avoidede actually seeing due to its mysterious affiliations with a certian crocodile-keeping, cult-like religion. Needless to say we ventured in, and were given a full tour of the gorgous place. Just goes to show you that a sense of adventure can get you into all sorts of cool places.

I just thought this was funny/shady so I took a picture.

I love being creepy in the parking lots on campus because people always have the best bumper stickers. I wish I still had the Questmoblie just so I could stick this on the back because it is so insanely accurate.

These are the most incredible things I have ever seen in real life made out of snow. Three igloos that, if you look at the building behind, are taller than the first floor. Completely hallowed out inside too.

Ahh, humanity, your sick and twisted suggestions for going green. Also useful, the person who suggested recycling condoms. Classy. And we wonder why our environment is the shit show that it is...

Found this on the pilliars at the library entrance. Words to live by. I love finding stuff like this.

A Letter to My Loyal Fanbase

Dear Three People Who Still Read My Blog,

If you're out there, I love you and I appreciate you. I want you to know that, dispite how it may seem, what with me not writing anything interesting anymore. I'm sorry. I love you, and I'm sorry, that's all I've got for you. I'll change. God, it sounds like we're breaking up. But, here, I'll make it up to you. Double posts! Here goes:

I'll start by getting you caught up with myself, your favorite blogger. I have now done something that over 80% of college students will do (and no mom, it's not drink, that's 84%): change my major! No longer will I be found prowling the art building, random assorted supplies in hand, scrambling to finish my design projects. Although I'm keeping an art major (I'm only 6 credits away), I am now an Elementary Education major!! Also, to everyones relief (including ours) the Quad will be reuniting next year, same dorm, same room, joined by a whole flock of new freshman in 2A! They'd best be nice too...cause....we're living with them. Other than that, did some questing over break <3 and....yeah.

Things I've Learned:

• No one person on this green earth knows everything that applys to your scheduling. No one person can help you, you need to go and find three different people who each can tell you a small bit of what you seek. You then must solve the riddle of the Spynx and return the Golden Idol to the Hidden Temple. Then you may schedule.
• I'm a crafty person, not an artsy person. I've learnered there is a difference.
• Sunshine can bring college kids out of a dorm faster than if the whole building spontaneously caught fire.
• Apperently, door key swipers are not matience's priority.
• Walking around the building to swipe your key at the back door is a lot more pleasent when spring is here.
• Lady Gaga = <3 (I didn't really learn this, but was re-re-re-reminded)
• There are interesting things to do in Bucks County, even after all these years...
• Craftsmenship is important.
• If I lived in DC I could be making an easy $45/week.
• Some people are actually jackasses. As in, doing pointless things for no other reason than to annoy someone else in a stupid way, like flipping over full recycling bins....wtf?
• Mickey Mouse was originally a rabbit named Oswald until Disney lost the rights to him, so the chopped his ears off and made him a mouse.
• Walking to the education building requires sneakers.
• One can only eat at Galley so many times a week.
• UD gets worse everytime we get back from a break...
• Speech sucks.
• Changing your major is the most stressful/greatest thing ever.
• I can't multiply fractions...
• But I remember what prime factorization is and how to do it.
• There is no greater feeling of relief than when the female model enters the room rather than the male on the first morning class back from break.

<3 Wow, I missed this. I know its been so long since I last wrote and can't remember all the lessons I learned since. Esspecially considering my last entry was complaining about snow and now I'm raving about the sunshine (have I mentioned how GORGOUS it is?) TTFN: Ta ta for now!

Also: for those few of you who read this, you should also write on my formspring page, where you can ask me all sorts of things with or without revealing who you are. Challenge me! Why? Because I love talking about myself to anyone who listens and the internet lets me do it without feeling like an ecotistical, pompus ass.

Peace an' Blessins'

Some New Stuff I've Found...

...while I was rebelling against blogging.

This made me laugh.
This kind of grossed me out, but then I kind of dug it. The 'living on in others sketchbooks kind of got me.
This made me gain back a little of the faith I'd lost for humanity.
This just staight up made me smile.

Hope it does simliar things for you.

Today I Learned...

• It's good to be back :)
• People talking in the stairwell to their iPods most likely have iPhones...
• Kate Nash is perfect music for my weird moods.
• You can never trust Peas-n-Carrots when it comes to school store hours.
• The cleaning ladies are deffinatly married. Confirmed by one saying "My wife and I..."
• You can learn a lot about how people see you by what they propse you make a speech on. Apperently I'm a Harry Potter, Gaga-aholic with love for the quest and who inspires thoughts of goats and lumpis? Well, the first half is pretty spot on...
• I miss my family.
• That my roomates are really awesome, and I don't know what I'd do without them.
• Cleaning ladies spend the time they don't spend cleaning our bathrooms plotting how to most inconvience everyone in the building.
• That really, the same rules for children also apply to awkward, older male models: only speak when spoken to, don't stare. put that thing away!
• I've managed to train the whole hallway plus the roomies bf to save their caps!!
• That the only time I have good throwing aim is when I really shouldn't...sorry Annie <3
• That I am a pathetic idiot. Well, I knew this, but I remind myself frequently.
• There are still some good and chivilrous men out there, sometimes all the assholes out there make me forget the good guys exist.
• That 'doppleganger' is actually not a very common term.
• That the author of 'Willy the Wizard' actually has the gall to try and sue JK. Ahhhh-hells-nah.
• Chacha and I are back on speaking terms!
• That the Ray-J's replacement (hereby known as GI Joe) is actually a pretty nice guy. He actually struck up a conversation with me today.
• Sometimes you feel things you never thought you'd feel. And it's refreshing.
• That the HC printers only work when you don't need them to. When you do, they fight you teeth and nail.
• Sometimes talking to people makes you feel good because if you're having a problem you realise you're not the only one. But sometimes it makes you feel small and stupid and completely trite, like you don't have a single original bone in your body.
• Bangs are a very tempremental hairstyle.
• The adverage hourly salary of a nude model is $25-$30 per hour. Which boils down to about $300/week for two studio classes that meet twice a week, for those of you who are intereseted :)
•  My poor little iPod mini has once again reached its max capacity...looks like another song clear-out is coming soon.
• Sometimes even though you check twice and step extremely carefully on what you're sure is not black ice....it is.
• People have a tendency to find random animals/dinosaurs in my sculptures.
• I'm stupid. Did I already mention that? Maybe I did, but it's how I keep my ego in check.

Things

With Krysti, not Demitri Martin, unfortunatly. Here are somethings that I dislike.

1. When you get angry at someone because they haven't responded to your text, but then you realise you never actually sent the text.
2. When the aformentioned text gets saved as a draft because, honestly, who uses drafts?
3. When you pick up a bottle (usually of iced tea) and it's unconfortable sticky. Ewww.
4. When plans you're super excited for fall through.
5. When you really want something to happen and you have a really realistic dream where it happens (and in my case I actually remember said dream) and you wake up and are super excited, but it never actually happened.
6. When you go and try to be a sanitary person and wash your hands and are in a rush and fail to realise the clump of hair/toothpaste/soap/food shit that is all over the sink in time.
7. When Lady Gaga is not on the radio.
8. When you're snuggled up with people in the most comfortable arrangement on the face of the earth and someone has to move and you know that even if they're not even near you it will never be the same. UGH.
9. When you realise how much your little brother misses you, even though he'll never actually say so.
10. When you have a list of a million movies you want to see but when you get to Blockbuster you can't remember any of them.
11. When Blockbuster doesn't have the one you can remember.
12. When you have to wake up, and your feet hurt but you have a bunk bed so you have to step on the stupid rungs so you don't die.
13. When the GPS falls off the winshield and you can't reach it while driving.
14. When you go to a store and really want/need something they used to have and they don't have it.
15. When you go to a store with money and you can never find anything but when you go with no money you find a million things.

Things I Like About Snow

Seeing as I am currently enveloped in two feet of the stuff with the expectation of eight more inches on Tuesday, I decided to dedicate a post to everyone's favorite white and fluffy weather phenomenon.

Things I Like About Snow:

1. I like how if you go out early enough in the snowstorm no one else has been there and you have no idea where the paths are and you get to blaze your own. And the people walking after you will be like 'hey! the footprints are here, this is probably the right way to go' even if it isn't. And it's kind of a power-trip.
2. I like throwing snowballs. And the occational ice-ball. Because, face it, there's no better way to release pent-up agression towards someone and pass it off as a jovial wintertime tradition.
3. I like falling on ice. Hey! I wasn't using my tailbone anyway groundskeepers, so there's no need to salt the paths...it's like my own personal ice rink everytime I leave my dorm! Awesome!
4. I like that snow masks everything. The dirtiest, ugliest place in the world would look beautiful blanketed in snow. It's like cover-up for the earth. 
5. I like getting my money's worth out of my rainboots.
6. I like hot chocolate from Gordy's. And I like the feeling of supiriority and sophistcation that comes with holding a little coffee cup with the little coffee collar on it.
7. I like turning the heater on and then climbing into bed with it still on and forgetting how hot it gets and then waking up covered in sweat because the room is eighty five degrees.
8. I like eating snowflakes.
9. I like seeing people express themselves in snow-art. Whether it be giant igloos (pictures to come) or snowangels, or snowmen, it's always unexpected and makes me happy.
10. I like having my jeans be soaked and my thighs get windburn from inside my jeans. Nothing makes you feel quite so alive as a few raw limbs.
11. I like that the campus dosen't get deserted.
12. I like that I get an excuse to wear the million scarves that I have hanging on Ashely and I's bedpost.
13. I like that when I'm cold and come in I get to turn on the heater and then the room smells plesently like burnt dust for an hour or so while the room warms up.
14. I like the way that everything is always bright when there's snow on the ground.
15. I like that only the friendly people brave the cold, ergo, if you are out in the snow, you are probably friendly.
16. I like that campus has its own version of the Naked Cowboy. Except he just wears shorts, a tshirt, and a cowboy hat when it snows. And exhibits the same degree of Southern charm.
17. I like riding on the bus while the underqualified (and usually grouchy) busdriver tries to get us to the mall, or tries not to pick us up from the Goodwill plaza.
18. I like that people still sit on benches and leave their butt-marks. It makes me laugh.
19. I like singing Christmas carols even though its not Christmas but because they're about snow and it's snowing.
20. I like using snow to wash my hands because last-minute I need to splatterpaint and art project and need to get my phone out of my pocket because someone has to let me in the back door when I'm done but my hands are covered in paint.
21. I like that it could hypothetically get me out of class :)

A Brief Hiatus

That's what I've decided to call those empty weeks since semester started and this blog sort of died. It makes me sound productive and sophisticated, like I was recovering from a particularly nasty sprained thumb or searching for inspiration in the alleyways of Bangledesh. When, truth be told, I've just been a combination of lazy and busy. So, to keep you all in the loop, here are some new things that have happened since we last talked.

• My hair has decreased by approx. 2 inches in lenth and I have gotten bangs (I refuse to confess how much of an influence my new Lady Gaga razor glasses had over my choice).
• I made myself some awesome Lady Gaga razor glasses, as featured in the video for 'Bad Romance.' The most admirable use of Honors College ink I could ever imagine.
• I now have one pint less of blood (O+) and one more useless tshirt.
• The aformentioned tshirt has already been ruined with paint.
• I have one contraband dining tray stashed somewhere in my room. Shhhh!
• I now get to sleep in until at least noon 5 of the 7 days of the week.
• I still hate laundry.
• I'm working on conquering my fear of eyes.
• I'm planning a wedding (for a project fellas, don't worry...)
• I am now a Project Runway fan (why didn't I find this sooner!)
• My days of two third floor studio classes have gotten infinatly better due to the discovery that there is an elevator in the art building.
• I've listened to 'Party in the USA' and "Bad Romance'  more times that I care to admit.
• I've made more of an effort to learn the dances to the songs above than I care to think about....
• I am helping to plan a prom (Dream. Come. True.)
• I have come to appreciate now more than ever the importance of a good pair of rainboots.
• The quad has gone 'eco' with the introduction of a Brita filter and some reusable water bottles.
• I have almost a full box of plastic bottle caps stashed under my bed which I'm collecting for extra credit in my psych class.
• I now have an art locker

So, that's my life recently, in a nutshell. Sorry if I disappointed my three or so loyal readers by not posting in awhile. I'm not really sure why, seeing as you all know how much I love to talk, particularly about myself and my adventures. Until next time: ciao bellas!