{Day 5 - Funny}

Locked out of the house. :) don't worry I really am laughing. 

The key is on its way. 

{Day 4 - What I'm listening to}

I love music! And I totally go through waves of what I listen to on a regular basis. I listen to worhip music consistently, with a splash of Broadway, jazz, classical, and country. 

Since I've moved to Wisconsin I've really loved listening to my group. I miss these guys a lot. Back home we led worship every Sunday night. It has been so nice to be able to listen to our favorite songs since I've been away. So glad they humored me when I asked if we could record some of the songs we sang together.

 

{Day 3 - Happy}

Hard to choose a photo of what makes me happy. I mean just one photo. Here are two...ok it's actually 4. My SF Giants made me very happy this week. They won the pennant and are going to the World Series! I was pretty happy. Totally jumped around the living room cheering. My mom was quite entertained. 

Fall is another thing that makes me happy. Pumpkins, leaves, colors. I love them all!

{Day 2 - Fun}

This is one of the things I do for fun. I love taking scripture, song lyrics, and quotes making them fancy. As I've posted before doing this is relaxing and keeps my eyes fixed on Christ. 

Photo-a-Day {Day 1 - Selfie}

I've been trying to figure out what to blog about lately and found this fun photo-a-day idea. Technically it is for the month of May, but it's my blog I can blog what I want to! Hmmm...I should write a new song! Sounds catchy! I ended up changing the list slightly because I realized that day 6 was "Man Candy Monday." Didn't quite want to go there. Lol! So here is my list. 

1. Selfie
2. Fun
3. Happy
4. What you're listening to
5. Funny
6. Shoes
7. Somewhere you've been
8. Smell
9. Love
10. Something you hate
11. Make-up
12. Friend(s)
13. Animal
14. Memory
15. Favorite movie
16. What to look forward to
17. Sweater weather
18. Fall favorite
19. Something new
20. Wish
21. What you did today
22. Motivation
23. What makes you confident
24. What you're doing tonight
25. Flower
26. Dream 
27. Smile
28. Water
29. Scarf
30. Warm and cozy

Here is my selfie. I took it a few weeks ago. It was a beautiful day and I had the day to myself. I drove to Marinette and went winter coat shopping. I would have taken a new selfie today, but it is a bad hair day. Woke up too late to make my hair look like I wanted it to. Oh well, I like this pic. 

Grandma's Birthday

I really enjoyed planning my Grandma's 90th birthday party. 

This was one of the pinterest ideas I found and was able to do as a decoration. It was a very fun puzzle. And even better my grandma wanted to put it up on her living room wall to keep looking at it. That meant a lot to me. My grandma can be very hard to please so when she wanted to put it up at home I knew she liked it.  

I copied a bunch of pictures in black and white and glued them down. 

The key though is to make sure you copy different sized pictures. I needed several small pictures to cover up little spots. A couple of them had people cut out, but the goal was to get a bunch of pictures of my grandma. 

The brown paper was paper that came in a package I got not too long ago, but you could use wrapping paper as well. 

Eric Carle, Flags, and Pete the Cat

 I love doing projects with my class! I'm thankful that we have an art teacher at our school, but I can't help but plan other art projects throughout the month. There are so many amazing ideas. The first couple weeks of school I read a bunch of Eric Carle books so my class. My 1st and 2nd graders loved them. They especially loved the amazing artwork that Mr. Carle creates for his books. So I just HAD to come up with an art project with painting tissue paper! It took us quite a while to get it finished because I only had a few kids paint at a time. But they painted large pieces of tissue paper red and blue. After they painted they used a popsicle stick to add lines or swirls to their paper. It turned out really well! I was so excited at how well my students did on this. Deep down I was afraid it was going to be a disaster. But they took their time and were very careful. 

I chose to have them make flags since we read about flags in history during the first couple of lessons. They had to remember how many red stripes to put on and how many "stars" (we just painted dots) to paint of the blue. 

When they were finished I let them use the scraps to make whatever they wanted. 

I made Pete the Cat rocking in his school shoes. :) 

Fingerless gloves

Look at what I made last night! 

I've been itching to work on a craft project of some sort and decided to try these last night. I found the pattern at Crochet Dreamz. I sat down with my mom to work on them and ended up figuring it all out on my own. They aren't exactly the same size, but hey it was my first try! My grandma has a bunch of yarn that she never uses so I think I'll make a bunch of them! I might even add a button to them like the pattern showed. I'm so excited to finally have some free time to craft! 

Looking forward to making more! 

More doodling

Sorry to keep posting similar things. I've just loved doodling lately. I find it so relaxing and it helps me keep my focus on Christ. 

Lunch break doodling

It has been a long week. Not sure how I would have made it the last few days without the Lord. 

I need some serious crafty/artsy time soon. In the meantime doodling during my lunch break today will have to do.