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2009-06-27T11:34:00.001-05:00

I finally put some pictures on Flickr! Want to see my pictures?

Things in my House Thursday - Steve

2009-04-30T11:06:00.006-05:00

I am going to show you something that I started in August and didn't finish until about a week ago. It did not need that much time to finish, I just never worked on it. I got very close to finishing it, but then just stopped.

What is it?

It is Steve:

I can't help but smile every time I see Steve. I love the bright orange (my favorite color) against the darker blue.

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2009-04-23T12:21:00.003-05:00

I know, I've been gone a long time.

School is almost over and bowling ended yesterday. On the last day of bowling we got free pizza, prizes, and trophies. Everyone also got a "coupon" where they can bowl one game for free everyday of the summer (June-August). When Mom was looking at it she noticed something we found pretty funny:

I know it is hard to see, but near the bottom it says: "Say YES to Bowling, Say NO to Drugs"

Mom and I thought that was very random. I'm not saying it is okay to do drugs, just what does drugs have to do with bowling?

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2009-02-26T14:49:00.003-06:00

Last night, when I was going through a box full of clutter that I had hiding behind my chair, I found some jewelry making items. I didn't actually come across something for making jewelry to wear, but for making fan pulls. They were in my stocking from Christmas.

The fan pull I have had for about a million years was a clear dolphin. I would've taken a picture for you, but Mom has already given it to Goodwill. I have no idea why I had it or where it came from; all I know is that it had been there forever and didn't really go with my room. I decided to make one that did.

The reason the brown beads look off to the side is because they wouldn't fit on the actual swirly fan pull. I really wanted to use them though; they helped make the fan pull look like it actually belonged in my room. So, I just took a thin piece of wire, attached it to the fan pull, and put the brown beads on the wire. I think it looks better with the brown beads like that.

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2009-02-19T15:43:00.003-06:00

For TIMHT I am showing you this frame. So, this frame is super teeny with little purple rhinestones. My favorite about it though, is the picture (of course).

We have a friend named Ginger who houses many animals and lives in the country. She has about 78 million cows and dogs. She also has birds and cats (good mix). Anyway, now you know what she is like. Ginger is fully prepared and capable of taking care of any animal. The little raccoon in the picture, Frederick, is one she found without a mother. She had to bottle feed it and keep it warm. It was so cute and soft with little "hands". Once it got old enough she let it go; it was quite sad to not see Frederick anymore.

Cosas en mi Casa Jueves!

2009-02-05T11:58:00.003-06:00

There's my 3 years of Spanish working!

For TIMHT I will be doing a few weeks of pictures/picture frames in my room. First One:

Mother is guesstimating that I am three years old in this picture. Mother colored my eyes blue so they would stand out, I did not do the coloring.

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Things in my House Thursday

2009-01-29T11:38:00.004-06:00

This week's feature of TIM-room-T will be very revealing. You are going to learn something about me that few people know.

I am part reptile.

It's true. For one long season out of every year, my hands look like crocodile feet.

They hurt like a crocodile.

But I resort to creams, lotions, gloves and socks. Lately, I have been using the Tea Tree and E Antiseptic. Here's the thing, I can use one lotion for a few weeks, but then it starts to make my hands turn red and they burn. So then, I have to switch lotions for a little while. You see my dilemma? I hate dry skin! I have my dad to thank for my dry skin.

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TIMHT #22

2009-01-22T09:06:00.002-06:00

Yeah, I've been a slacker. I'm going to try and make this a good post.

Christopher and I have been watching a lot of MacGyver lately. I have the first six seasons on DVD. We are watching the seventh and final season on Youtube. It's cool that they are on Youtube because that way Christopher can put them on my Ipod.

Now, I need to explain MacGyver to anyone who doesn't know who he is. MacGyver can fix any problem. MacGyver is played by Richard Dean Anderson. He is a secret agent for the Pheonix Foundation. He is always getting into trouble, but he alway knows how to get out without using guns. He never used guns, he hated them. Mythbusters even did a whole show dedicated to him. They tried out some of his solutions to problems.

Awesome! MacGyver isn't is first name, Angus is. But, he doesn't tell anyone that until the seventh season, because he doesn't like his first name. In the pilot episode, his first name was going to be Stace. I'm glad it was changed.

So, that's my TIMHT post. I will try to post more often!

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Things in my House Thursday #22

2009-01-08T14:03:00.003-06:00

It's techinically winter here, but winter for us is not always that cold. If it snows, there isn't going to be that much. It is still winter though, so for TIMHT I am showing a snowflake I made about a year ago.

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Cake.

2009-01-06T15:59:00.005-06:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!!

For Matt's birthday I made a stadium cake. After making the cake, Mom and I realized that it wasn't that big, so I also made some cupcakes.

The cake was really fun to decorate. I got to decorate it with Becca. She was nice enough to let me come over to her house. She is a "professional" decorator, so I got to use her tools and she was able to give me some tips. We weren't sure how to decorate the cake at first, but Becca looked online and got some general ideas. She also had the brilliant idea of making little field posts out of floral wire and tape.

Oh, and Becca just so happens to make the BEST icing in the whole world. I deducted that after having several of her cakes. :)

Hope you liked your cake MATT!

Gift-Giving

2008-12-29T11:38:00.005-06:00

I know, I know; I'm doing gift-giving Sunday on Monday.

To Sourpatch:

Mom has a Pentax and I love it. It has so many cool features. My favorite is color filter. You can have the camera make everything black and white except for one color, like red. This Camera can go underwater and do tons of other awesome things.

For Caroline:

I love making things out of clay. Sculpey is my favorite. I thought you would like these kits for making things like jewelry and erasers.

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Charlotte

2008-12-20T18:28:00.007-06:00

I haven't done any pictures of Charlotte lately.

Plain clothes...

Getting her "nice" clothes; throwing a fit

Santa hat!

Here comes trouble

She's bossy like her mother

Christopher

Me in the santa hat

What is she thinking?

Well, those are the most recent of Charlotte.

Oh, by the way, I made more sugar cookies today. These have icing and sprinkles.

Things in my House Thursday #21

2008-12-18T10:15:00.005-06:00

I got this little silver tree from Walgreens. I origanally got it to decorate my room, but decided to let it sit somewhere else so the candle could be lit (and my room is really messy right now).

Now for your viewing pleasure:

The sugar cookies I made yesterday.

Do you like his orange highlights?

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Pronunciation

2008-12-15T14:45:00.007-06:00

Today is my Blogoversary.

The End.

Kidding, kidding, kidding.

My mother was saying I should write a poem for this post. I was not about to write a poem; for me, writing poems is horrible, but it did start another discussion.

Mom pronounced poem more like poim. Christopher thinks this sounds like "boing" so he immediately started bouncing around the kitchen saying, "poim, poim, poim" (what seventeen year old doesn't?). We all started discussing how families tend to pronounce things the same way..... but thankfully, Mom doesn't pronounce everything the way her parents did:

Warsh rag, shurff...

Hey! Somebody call the Shurff! All my warsh rags are missing!

One time, when my my mom was up in one of those "New" places, could've been York, Jersey, who knows; She was having dinner with her friend and her friend's friend (who was from the New place), we'll call him Temerity. So, Temerity was ordering whatever, say, the Herb Chicken (totally made that up). However when he said herb, being up north and all, he pronounced the 'H', unlike down here in the south. When Temerity said this, my mom was just in one of those moods where everything is funnier; so she started laughing really hard.

I don't think I would start laughing if someone said HHHerb, but I would think it was weird (and that's all that matters)

So there you have it, my Blogoversary post.

Mary "The Tin Can"

Things in my House Thursday #20

2008-12-11T10:27:00.004-06:00

I decided that instead of always doing something from my room, I would mix it up sometimes.

So, I just want you to know, THIS IS NOT IN MY ROOM! It is in the kitchen. :)

I used a chocolate cake mix, but I changed it a little. There was another recipe on the side of the box that used pudding mix; I made that one. The icing is made out of powdered sugar and milk, that's all! I made it last night, as you can see, half of it is gone. It will probably be gone by tonight.

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My CHAIR!!!!

2008-11-29T11:25:00.011-06:00

Last June (2007) Mom, Jessica, and I redid my room. My room had unpainted wood bookcases and bed, a very faded wall color, and had just become very junky.

We took practically everything out of my room (excluding things that couldn't be moved). We painted the walls, the shelves, and my bed. Then, Mom and Jessica made a trip to Target and got tons of baskets for "organizing".

My bed is "high in the sky" according to Charlotte so I had an empty space in my room, and needed some kind of chair! We looked and we thought and we thought and we looked, finally, in Pottery Barn Kids we found that pink chair you see above. Now at first it was wonderful, but it is just a step above beanbag material so over time it wasn't a chair, it was just something to pile things upon. When it wasn't covered in clothes (CLEAN clothes) it didn't look very good. That picture above was when we first got it so it still looks like a chair. I needed something better.

We looked and we thought and we thought and we looked. Then, Jessica and Mom saw the perfect chair at Baby Time. Baby Time is a warehouse type store (but not cheap) with all the coolest and cutest baby furniture and accessories. They have fancy cribs and CHAIRS - gliders, rocker, etc., for nurseries. Most of the chairs glide and swivel and are super comfortable. You get to choose what fabric you want on the chair also.

I paid for the chair with all my life's savings (I'm just barely kidding...). I really didn't want to spend so much money, it was the most expensive thing I had ever bought. I had earned money from selling Avon, but that wasn't the only money making thing I had. Sometimes I get money for my birthday and holidays. I also earn money from our neighbors whenever they go out of town: I pick up their mail, take care of animals and things like that.

Since I've depleted my savings account, I've been trying to sell even more Avon and one of the neighbors that I've 'worked' for before has already said they'll be going out of town in the early part of next year.

So, grand finale, here's the chair:

The fabric is flocked!

It is green, brown, and tan; I love it!! It's awesome and I enjoy having a nice place to read.

I have been Nominated. . .

2008-11-24T20:00:00.003-06:00

by Caroline

I nominate:

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Jessica

Sourpatch

TIMHT #17

2008-11-20T19:11:00.004-06:00

My collection of rocks!
My collection rocks! ;)

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TIMHT # 16

2008-11-13T16:47:00.004-06:00

My Bulletin Board

From my Sunday School teacher

Very colorful snowflakes

It's so true

Where have I read that before?

My doggie

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Things in My House Thursday #15

2008-11-06T15:11:00.007-06:00

My stuffed animals:

I got the yellow chicken from AVON

From Disney and Universal, those people just couldn't guess my age :)

My Build-a-Bears in the order I got them, L to R, Cinnamon, Freddie, Matthew, Daisy, Belle, Charlie, Patrick, and Rosie

Big Bear

Little animals

Mary had a little lamb ;)

Big Dog

Brownie

I wanted this bunny because it looked so much like the pet bunny my class had in kindergarten (the bunny's name was Brownie)

Christmas Bear

Green bear, I like this one because it's head can turn

Another frog

Squishy dog

Joe

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BOO!!

2008-10-31T15:05:00.003-05:00

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Testing out my camera with: Cornbread

2008-10-30T16:06:00.004-05:00

My new camera has some awesome new features. One of them is the food setting; let's compare.

Do you want some light green cornbread or some dark yellow cornbread?

Without food setting

With food setting

Mmmmm. . . That's delicious

TIMHT #14

2008-10-30T15:52:00.003-05:00

Yep, I carved it. . . today

Dimples

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Farmer's Market

2008-10-25T13:36:00.006-05:00

Today we went to the Farmer's Market. I love going there; the best time to go is on Saturdays. Saturday is when the "craft" people come. On the other days of the week it's just the "farmers". It isn't as fun to go when it's hot but once it gets cold outside it's awesome. Sadly, November 1st is their last day.

The craft/homemade people have all different stuff. There's goat's milk soap and lotion, jewelry, candles, coffee, and more.

Because it's October, there are TONS of pumpkins and weird gourds. I brought my new digital camera, and took some (okay, a lot of) pictures.

The earrings I bought

Funky gourds

Flat greenish/blue pumpkins

Turkey pumpkin

Turkey feet

Beautiful mums

Cabbage

Little pumpkins

Little white pumpkins

This is only one tenth of how many pumpkins there were, and they were HUGE

Greenish/blue flat pumpkin

Green pumpkin

Table of crazies

Little, tiny pumpkins still on the vine

Hmmmm. . .

Little funky gourds

Little striped pumpkins

I'm thinking about opening a Flickr account for my pictures, should I?

Things in my House Thursday #13

2008-10-23T15:33:00.004-05:00

I got this from my Aunt Nellie. For the past two years I have baked her something on her birthday, so she got me this for my birthday. She brought it over when I was at Veritas (school) but it was a pleasant surprise when I got home.

Angel of the Kitchen
I love making loose leaf tea so the teapot is perfect!

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