Found Camera and a New Drawing

Yay!!!! I found my camera!!!! It was at a friends house and they did not know who it belonged to for a long time, but now I have it back!
Ok this is one of my newest anime drawings. I know they are not that great as of yet but practice makes perfect! =D

Art class and lost camera

Well! I had fun at an art class where we learned to paint trees! I would post pictures except that I seemed to have misplaced my camera. Wahh!!! So I have been looking for it but have not found it yet. I am praying that I find it soon and when I do I shall post pictures of my painted trees. 

Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!!

My little sister and I spent a fun single Valentine's Day together! We listened to music, painted our fingernails, played games, wrote valentines to our friends, laughed and had sister talks! 

It was a Valentine's Day to remember! 

Tree Pendant

I went and spent some time with my Sister-in-law this last week! We worked with her beads along with all the other fun stuff we did together! This tree pendant is what I made. She made some cool earrings! (Alas! I do not have a picture of them.)

Be a kid again with me

When ever I read this it reminds me of my childhood. :) 

This goes on the list of things to do this summer.

Mulberry Park by Judy Duarte

This is book # 1 out of the 30 that I want to read this year! Mulberry Park has some really fun parts and a lot of it also choked me up. But it was a really good read. I love how they resolved all the threads in the story at the end.

Book blurb:
Each day after work, Claire Harper drives to Mulberry Park and jogs for miles, hoping to find a respite from her sadness. It's a futile effort, until the evening a letter falls from its hiding place in a nearby tree. Inside the bright pink envelope emblazoned with the words "To God From Analisa" is a note written by a seven-year-girl, urging God to look after her parents in Heaven and help those she loves on Earth. On impulse, Claire writes back, hoping to preserve Analisa's innocent belief in answered prayers---even if Claire lost her own faith when her young son was killed in a hit-and-run accident three years earlier.

 

The New Year

This is my first post in 2014! And already January has flown by! I have some goals I want to meet this year so I am going to put a list of some of them and then post what I accomplish!

1. Make a pillowcase apron
2. Draw more (I will post pictures of what I draw even if it is not that great.)
3. Take a trip to visit friends
4. Hold an outdoor Mothers Day tea
5. Train my horse (He is halfway there)
6. Be able to do 20 pushups in a row (I can do 4)
7. Try new recipes (I will try to post what I make)
8. Read 30 books this year


 

I got a cartilage earring!

I got the top of my right ear cartilage pierced a month and a half ago! It hurt but not as much as I thought it would! I am able to sleep on it now but it will not totally heal until the spring! 

I am excited to be able to change it out at that time. :)

This quote is one of my favorites.

The game of Hostage!

There are two teams, of at least four people, with two cars, blindfolds, and two cell phones per team. two member, the "hostages," from each team gets into the opposing team’s car and is blindfolded so they don’t know where they are going. Both cars drive from the starting location and have a certain amount of time to get as far away as possible (the more time, the farther the teams will go, making the game harder). The blindfolded team members are dropped off wherever the car is when time runs out. After this they can take off their blindfold and text or call their team members in the car to try to find them. The goal of the game is for the teams to find the teammates who were taken “hostage” and make it back to the starting point before the other team.
I really want to play this at our next family reunion! I think it would be a total blast!

And yes this is a very random picture of a raccoon! It has nothing to do with the game I just wanted a raccoon!
 

What I am up to :)

So I have been back from Tennessee for exactly four weeks today! I am soooo happy to be home!! Recently daddy and I have started the filming for Physics 101! Yes! We are hoping to be done filming by October. Editing will take until maybe around this time next year. I have also been busy with my hobby making Flair pins, magnets, mirrors and key chains! I am hoping to attend a craft show as a vendor in August! =D Also I am wanting to sell them on Etsy but have not found a good way to get nice pictures of my inventory. =/ So as soon as I find a way my hobby might be online! I am very happy and excited about my life as long as Christ is with me!

Strawberries & Cream Popsicles

Strawberries & Cream Popsicles

 
Equipment 

• Blender or Food Processor
• Popsicle Molds

Ingredients

• 3  cups organic strawberries
• 1 can full fat coconut milk
• 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons raw honey

Directions
1) Puree strawberries in a blender or food processor. Add 1 tablespoon of honey and blend until combined. Set aside. 

2) In a separate bowl mix coconut milk, vanilla extract and 2 tablespoons of raw honey together. Mix until combined thoroughly. 

3) Pour 1-2 tablespoons of strawberry puree into each popsicle mold. Pour 1-2 tablespoons of coconut mix into each mold. Continue to switch between the berry puree and the coconut mixture until popsicle molds are filled. Place molds in freezer.

4) Allow popsicles to freeze completely before serving, about 5-8 hours. Once your popsicles are ready to serve, run the bottom of the popsicle molds under warm water to help release them from the molds. Serve and enjoy! 

This recipe filled 12 large popsicle molds.
Note: Other berries can be used in this recipe and frozen berries would probably work if fresh berries aren’t available. 

The website where I got the recipe: thecoconutmama.com

Life is short

Why are you afraid?

The Lost Art of True Beauty

At the convention in the Opryland Hotel I bought 4 amazing books! The one that I am reading right now is called The Lost Art of True Beauty by Leslie Ludy.

I thought it is really interesting how she says as little girls we always wanted to be a princess dress in flowy, beautiful dresses waiting to be swept off out feet by our knight in shining armor. (well I know I played that. :P) But when you get into your older teens you still have that want to be seen as a beautiful princess, but when we try to find it in today's standards of "beauty" all we get is emptiness.

Something that stuck out to me.
When Christ overtakes a woman's life and transforms her from the inside out, she becomes truly feminine-a picture of elegance, grace, and loveliness blended with sacrificial selfless devotion to her King...
She is enchantingly mysterious, holding her inner life sacred and guarding her heart with quiet tenacity. 


The book is really challenging so far but I am enjoying it very much. 
I am glad I bought it. :)
 

Opryland Hotel!

So I was just at a home school conference that took place in the Gaylord Opryland Hotel!
It was amazingly beautiful inside! I took about a hundred pictures, but I shall spare you all and just share a few of my favorites! These are all taken inside of the hotel! I had the pizza for lunch, It was a HUGE piece! =D

Don't quit.

Nail art decal!

Put some nail polish on a ziploc baggie and let it dry over night. (You can even swirl colors together.) In the morning it should be dry enough so that you can pull it off the bag and punch a design out of the dried polish with a craft puncher. Place the cutouts on your nails, paint over it with clear and instant decal! I don't have the stuff with me right now to try it but as soon as I get home I really want to!

Blog negligence? Not any more!

Soooo I have been very negligent of my blog!
I am hoping to do better even if I just post a little picture. :)
I am still in Tennessee volunteering at a in-home-business.
In four days I will be half way done!
The internet is so bad here! We are in the middle of no where so the signal is not very strong and because of that the internet will be super slow sometimes and others not work at all! Arg. But other than that things are going great!
I have been on my Pinterest account recently, having tons of fun and pinning lots of great things. :)

My horse Romeo

A conclusion to the post before this about moving my horse!

So that day we moved him again. It started snowing on us and got really cold! But we got there all tired, safe and wet. I gave him some hay, brushed him down and hoped he would stay this time!
We went back the next day and fed him, I did not see him but the food was gone so I knew he was still there! A few days after that I went and saw him again. He was there and came trotting over to me! I got to ride him for a bit. It was a very enjoyable time.

A very tired Romeo!

Eating at his new home!

Tennessee!

I am in Tennessee!!!
This is my sixth day as a Rubies Girl. I am learning lots of new things, for instance how to ship different packages and magazines. I learned about zip codes! That the very first number coincides with the group of states that the item is sent to!
On my second day I was getting a box of books to ship out from the garage but on my way back there was a floor lamp, since I was walking right by it...of course I just had to trip over the cord, break the light bulb and bruise my knee. =/

The outdoors are beautiful here! I am really looking forward to seeing all the trees leaf out!
Oh yes! While playing tag on Sunday I cut my foot because we were running barefoot! It is really deep but it has started getting better already! =)

The view right outside the upstairs window!