Shopping

Last night I went shopping for artsy things.  Most specifically, scrapbook paper (for cardmaking) and acrylic blocks (to put my new clear acrilic stamps on and so I don't have to borrow my mother's).  Oh yes.  And possibly some nice thick yarn to use with my stick weaving kit my older brother got me for Christmas.  Well, after our breif trip to Michael's, where we sepnt only just over an hour, I came out with a couple sheets of paper, a bag of black and white buttons of various sizes, a few interesting beads, and some new drawing supplies that I hope are good quality.  I really have no clue about those things. 

I spent about half an hour in the bead isle.  I should have watched the time more carefully because I hardly had time to grab a few sheets of paper later.

Then I saw the bag of buttons and grabbed one.  I've been needing black and white buttons of varying sizes.  I use them for eyes on my sock critters.

Then I noticed I was right by the pads of drawing paper so I decided to look for pencils and things.  I normally draw with your average mechanical pencils or those yellow things kids get for school.  I wanted something nicer.  And I probably did get something nicer.  I now have four new woodless graphite pencils that I will experiment with after school.  I also decided to get some coloured pencils.  So now I have a twelve pack of woodless coloured pencils.  How nice.  I just need to try them out now!

I was flabbergasted at the prices for one brand of pencils.  It was right about two dollars per pencil!  There were these huge packs for that brand (Prisimcolour, I think) that had 120 pencils.  *Jaw drop*  I'd LOVE to have that pack!  And maybe I'll get them after getting what I am currently saving up for.

"And what is that?" you ask.

It is a Cannon EOS Rebel T3i camera.  And it's taking me forever to save up for.  Mainly because the only money I earn is babysitting money.  *sigh*  But it's going to be wonderful when I do get it!  I have a wee little Cannon point-and-shoot type thing.  It's pink.  And black.  Need I say that it's time to get rid of having a pink camera as my main camera?  I've decided it's time for a good camera.  One that you can change the lenses on.  And one that has a veiwing screen that flips out away from the camera and rotates.  (Yay!)  It's going to be cool.

Anyways, folks, that's my latest (and not exactly greatest) adventure!  Stay tuned (or ignore me compleatly, it doesn't really matter) for my next post!

Catching up

I think I should actualy post a few things once in a while, don't you?

Well, since my last post, several tings have happened.

My dad died.

I had my last drama performance with my drama club.  And my drama club closed.

My brother graduated.

My little brother's baseball is over (finally!).

My uncle M came for a visit with his kids.  Morgan went home after spending one night.  Steff went back to collage after spending a night.  Then the next day we found out that Morgan was in the hospital.  The cause? Attempted suicide.  Please pray for him.  My uncle thought my sense of humor was great.  He loved my one liners that I just shoot off.

My grandma M came for a visit as well.  As did my uncle J.  And my uncle L and aunt MS and their two boys.

My mom's friend K came for a visit as well.  We floated down a river on tubes for fun while she was here and also went riding tenasee walking horses.  Fun!  The river was freezing and my horse was short and just being trained.

I'm taking riding lessons again. (finally).  Rosie will now canter both leads pretty well on a circle that's about, oh, say, thirty feet diameter?  Good for her!  She'll also do turns on the forehand either way, we tried getting her to do the two-track but failed.  And now we're teaching her to do turns on the haunches.  She'll also run around on the lunge line both ways, even at a canter. 

Two lessons ago, I almost fainted.  I had a belly ache prior to the lesson and then it sort of went away, but so did my vision, hearing, and sense of direction.  Needless to say, that lesson was canceled.

I've been playing around with photoshop (I call it PS.  Do not mistake with PlayStaion).  I'm getting better each time and my most recent project is a pegesus.  He's supposed to be Artham P. Wingfeather from the Wingfeather Saga in horse form when I'm done.

I watched the Jurassic Park movies.

I wrote several poems that turned out decently, if I do say so myself.

I came up with most of the main plot line for a book.

I read about fifty books.

I still havn't finished science.

I took a Spanish course.  Learned a lot and can now sort of reconize several phrases when they're spoken to me.

The wheat fields are harvested. (yay!  Easier to ride Rosie in now)

I've quit feeding Rosie hay because she needs to slim down a bit and there is PLENTY of grass for her to eat since she is the only four legged beast in the pasture.

The pups have grown and are now nine months old and still very cute.

The lawn is turning brown since we can't really water it since we're on water restriction, just like any summer.  Other years have been worse.  Once we could only water between certain hours on certain days.  Otherwise people WAY down the pipeline will have nary a trickle of water.  The pipe system was not well thought out.

I've babysat a ton.  Six kids at once for several hours once.  Earned enough money to buy a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet to aid me with my art.

I'm going to turn the things I do with PS into a class for school and get credits for it.  Same with having Rosie.  I'm taking Western Rider 1 this year and getting credits for that.

I feel a little spoiled since my mom bought me TWO pairs of LuluLemon pants.  So comfy!!

And I think that's it.  Expect most of my posts to be like this.  I kinda forget I have a blog sometimes. :p