So apparently it's illegal to dress up as Batman in Australia. And Halloween isn't that far away.... Phy, watch out. I'm headed your way. This Halloween is going to be fun. (and 331 days until BrickFair!)
This crazy shirt quilt I'm making is so crazy that my cat Hobbes decided to take a nap on the pieces that I currently have laid out on the floor: Sewing is the most incredibly difficult thing, I've realized. However, if I get this done, I'm going to have something awesome for my bed in my dorm room. (and 332 days until BrickFair!)
I PLACED SECOND!!! SECOND!!! In a BZPower art contest! Yay!!! Second place is like....one of the best things ever. Thank you so much if you voted for "The Tree House" during the contest! I wouldn't have done as well as I did if people weren't kind enough to go and vote for it. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Woo hoo!!! You're never going to get the actual prize for getting second. Sorry. -FN
Even though it has been out for ages, the Wall-E soundtrack is so great. Anyway, what are some of your favourite movie soundtracks? Last day for voting in the final round! If you do vote, thank you so much! (click banner for a link to the voting page)
(Click, please!) Please direct comments/critiques/maybe a vote or two in the polls/constructive criticism/cookies (if you have any) to the topic. I'll be grateful for any feedback, especially as I haven't done coloured pencil work in quite some time. Thank you!
The PDX Adult Soap Box Derby occured a little while back, and since my family is really involved in soap box derby, we decided to head up to Mt. Tabor, where the race is held, and watch a bit. It tends to have a really good turnout and some very interesting car designs (especially this year). The A Team and....well, I'm not sure what they are, but they make me giggle. Delivery truck and firefighters. Flinstones and a Indiana Jones tribute? Mousetrap and the Red Menace. At the race, th
19 now! Or, 6,940 days, 166,560 hours, or 9,993,600 minutes, depending on how you measure the passage of time. So, now what? I should probably be writing some sort of deeply sentimental entry about the wisdom I've gained through the past 19 years and all the awesome memories I have and how much I love all the wonderful people I know and then thank each and every one of them, but.... NOW IT IS TIME FOR CUPCAKES! Woo hoo! (not actually mine, I just think they're terribly cute) We shall se
WANT. Like, I would sit around my room at school and drink pomegranate juice from these and act really overly refined. It's funny that you think you'd be drinking pomegranate juice from those.-FN
My parents decided to go with the Cash for Clunkers program and get rid of our old red Volvo station wagon from 1990 and use the money to buy a shiny 2009 light blue VW. My mom dragged my brother and I out of the house and we did a quick spin around the neighborhood in it, which was really nice, even thought it was like 10.30 at night. Super smooth driving and such. Unfortunately, it now means I have to learn how to drive stick, so blah for that aspect of it. ALSO: My mom wants to get a cus
So this is a mosaic that I made in either 2003 or 2004 that I had sort of forgotten about until I was talking with ChocolateFrogs a while back and he wanted to know what it looked like, and when I was cleaning my room, I found it peeking out from under a chair, so I dragged it out and got a picture of it. Looking at it now, there's a lot of things I think I might end up changing, like the shape of the bottom 1/3 of the shield part, the way the axles and front of the car have a very odd bend to
Some great and rather odd quotes (especially that last one) from some campers this session.... "MASTER CHEIF IS BILLY MAYS?!?" "If you ever have problems, move to Boston, because everything is normal there." "People from Canada are cannibals. I know that because I read it in a book."
In lieu of being unable to go see the midnight viewing of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (which I am ridicilously disappointed about) as I'm currently working at a summer camp and have no way to get to a movie theatre, I'm posting these mini cakes that I made for my friend's 18th birthday last year. Yay! =D "My parents are dead, my life sucks, I can't hold a girlfriend, and I'm always surrounded by goblins!" "Let's bother Snape! BOTHER BOTHER BOTHER." "Alas! A cornucopia of love
Today during lunch they were like "Let's learn some songs!" and I realized that I am sort of out of practice in regards to a lot of camp songs, so I pulled out my song book from Namanu and I've been reviewing them for the past hour or so. Unfortunately, the tune of some songs that they sing here at Meadowood varies from what I've learned, so it's been a bit of an adventure trying to put another version of a song to memory. And, I feel slightly awkward as there's a ton of camp songs that I k
So (if anyone cares to know), I decided to enter the Pimp your Blog competition (despite my better judgement as I'm leaving tomorrow to go work at a summer camp until August third, and don't really know just how much time I'll have to use the internet each day for updates and such). But, why radio for my blog design for the Pimp Your Blog competition? I could have gone with numerous band-themed designs (U2, lady danville, Barenaked Ladies, Death Cab for Cutie, etc.) but once again, I seem to
I walked after a bus through an airport parking lot for 15 minutes in order to see EW for about eight minutes, much to the amusement of my brother and EW's troop and probably EW as well as we were on the phone with each other the whole time. Picture ('cause this actually happened (that's right, I'm lookin' at you, Sumiki)): I'm not really sure what he's doing here, but look at the crazy LEGO people from Oregon!
Gotta love it when my friend randomly calls me up at 10 PM and is like "I'm sending people over to pick you up. We're all watching The Labyrinth. Bring popcorn." It was a good evening, especially as I've never seen that movie before. Annnnnd, for my dad, and all the other dads out there: (I would put up some picture of my dad and me looking ridiculous or something, but I think these dessert burgers are a lot cooler)
Look! Look at what my friend made with the pictures I took of our art party painting we did this past weekend! And this is a better angle of the final painting, which shall reside in my friend Jordan's apartment:
Once upon a time, there was a little five year old girl. You could consider her relatively normal and such, except for the fact that unlike the majority of five year olds, she absolutely loooved the band The Beatles. She had a Beatles calendar (but that will be another story for another time) and would always go and listen to her parents Beatles CDs and would also eventually have several years where she annoyed many DJs at the local radio stations with her constant phone calls requesting Beatl
Cleaning wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for it feeling like I just threw away about three-quarters of my life. Mom, don't you dare touch those LEGO bricks.
Ok, so one balloon by itself is pretty cool. Like, you can play volleyball with it, or entertain a cat, or fill it with water and throw it at someone, you know, tons of fun stuff. But. what if you had several thousand balloons? All in one room? And then you added some college students who just got done with finals and have a bit too much energy? The results are quite astounding: One half of the mastermind team that started this entire thing. Raaaave! For a comparison to just how tall the ba
I took over 900 photos last Sunday in Salem at the local qualifier for the soap box derby world championships. I think I should lay off the shutter button a bit. However all I have to say is "EDWARD YOU DID IT! YOU'RE GOING TO AKRON!!!"
So, I had a dream last night that I was back at college and a tornado hit my school and I remember watching the tornado ripping through a wall while I hid under a desk. This wouldn't be so weird if it weren't for that when my mom was a kid a tornado hit her school and completely destroyed it. And you think this was a weird dream. You have no idea what you're in for.-FN
I am now the owner of a lamp that looks kind of like the Pixar one, a picture frame, Cranium: Turbo Edition, some random silverware, an iron, a retro-looking wall clock, and two pizza pans. This is all due to my friend Zach, who came back to grab something he forgot during the move out of his room and we came to the discovery that the last person to move out of the room (our RA) decided that he was just going to ignore the huge pile of garbage he had left in the room, as well as everything in
So, I'm done with finals. Wait. Hold the phone. I'M DONE WITH FINALS!!! Ok, that was so worth the five minutes it took for me to change the colour of each of those letters. And even though the last eight hours have been some of the most stressful in a very long time, I think my favourite part was when Kerry walked over to my computer, looked at the part of my final I was finishing up and said "You're insane. That's a good thing" and then walked off. It was just so utterly random, and th
