Who else is happy to say that they are finally on their winter break? If you're not a student, then cheers for the holiday season anyway!
I've had quite an absence from the blogging world since Halloween, so much has been going on it’s been crazy! Well, as for a few updates…I am working on some things on my bucket list, such as painting a mural! A friend and I are painting a mural of a WW2 scene for a woman who wants it for her son’s room. So far it’s turning out pretty nice, however it’s now been put on pause for winter break until we get back in January.
Some other updates include that I am making commercials for the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, I have already created one that will be airing in January. I should be making two others after that. I have applied for graduation, and this upcoming semester will be my very last semester before I graduate and enter the real world…Exciting, and terrifying at the same time, haha.
Roo-Roo got me an early Christmas present that I absolutely love, “The Big-Ass Book of Crafts” by Mark Montano. There are so many cool ideas in this book! Seriously, it’s amazing. Definitely expect to see some crafts from this book on my blog! Now that I have a few weeks of free time, I can finally do all the crafts and recipes I want to try!
Much love,
Xy
Friday, December 16, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween!
Lately I've become addicted to a website called 'Pinterest'. Although many people may have known about it for some time, it's still relatively new to me and has inspired a new creative spark in me. There's so many interesting things and possibilities on there! So, after a few days of drooling over cool crafts and recipes and such, I was itching to do something creative that didn't have to be school related. I decided I wanted to do something with what I could find outside. So, as my roommate (let's call her Roo-Roo) and I walked to a pumpkin patch today, I collected some leaves and such.
We found some great little pumpkins at the patch (they called them Wee-Be Littles, lol) and picked up some funky looking squash too. When we got back to the apartment with our pumpkins and my outdoor finds, I got out some supplies and got crafty!
First up was my little swan squash...thing. I added soome googly-eyes, and an acorn cap covered in glue then dipped in gold metallic powder, yet it still needed...something. So, I took some mini-bows I had (as I didn't really have any ribbon or fabric scraps) and sewed them together to wrap around it's 'neck'.
Then took a real swan feather and dusted it with the metallic gold powder, and glued it to the back for a tail.
So everyone, how have you decorated or carved your pumpkins this year? Happy Halloween!
First up was my little swan squash...thing. I added soome googly-eyes, and an acorn cap covered in glue then dipped in gold metallic powder, yet it still needed...something. So, I took some mini-bows I had (as I didn't really have any ribbon or fabric scraps) and sewed them together to wrap around it's 'neck'.
Then took a real swan feather and dusted it with the metallic gold powder, and glued it to the back for a tail.
After little swan squash was done, I moved onto a nature mobile that I made by threading some leaves onto a large stick I found. Turned out pretty cool, but I doubt it will look good for long as the leaves continue to turn brown...Oh well, enjoy it while it lasts, right?
(Does anyone actually know what those little pod/leaf/flower things are?)
Hopefully I can hang it up on a wall later. =) With that finished, I went ahead and decorated one of my pumpkins into a pirate, complete with a paper eyepatch and plastic sword! Still have to decorate my other little pumpkin...
So everyone, how have you decorated or carved your pumpkins this year? Happy Halloween!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Bucket List
As I had mentioned in my last post, I've created a bucket list! Well, both my roommate/best friend and I created it after wondering what we could do with our lives to not only look back one day and say, "Yeah, I did that!" But to also bring us together once a year after we graduate to keep in touch and reach our goals. Some of them may be a little out there, and we may not be able to do them for another 30 years, but we won't give up until we've crossed off everything off this list!
Our Bucket List!
- Travel all across Europe
Change a tire (alright, so maybe not 'bucket list' material, but it's an important thing to learn!)- Learn to dance the tango
- Learn to play a whole song on guitar
- Learn to play a Ukulele
- Eat at the world's best donut shops
- Roadtrip across the USA
- Take pictures with as many "World's Largest" things as possible
- Snorkel a river or spring (Roomie's suggestion)
- Learn to scuba dive
- Do TRUE rock climbing (i.e. not a 'rock wall')
- Sky Dive
- Go for a hot air balloon ride
- Pet a Cheetah (Bonus points if it's a King Cheetah!)
- Ride an elephant through India
- Write a book
- Illustrate a children's book
- Get our own art exhibition
- Teach a college course
- Meet a famous actor or actress
Learn German (I'm rusty though, gotta get back on it!)- Visit Japan
- Own a horse
- Wear a kimono
- Be part of a flash mob dance
Get a college degree (Almost there!)Go on a ghost hunt (For my 21st birthday my fiance took me!)- Visit the world's most haunted places
- Ride a bull (or a mechanical bull)
- Get something named after us
- Be in the newspaper
Donate bloodPaint a muralMake a music video (this is actually going to be one of my next projects for a class! I'm so excited!)- Make enough money to own a large house
- Restore a victorian style house
- Win an award
- Pay off college loans
- See Criss Angel perform
- See a Cirque de Soliel show
- See the Lion King on Broadway
- Go to a Renaissance fair
- Ride a jet-ski
- Go backcountry camping
- Learn to ski
- Build a snowman
- Learn to jump while on horseback
- Go horseback riding on a beach
- Play paintball (Roomie did this already!)
- Learn to play piano
- Learn to belly dance
- Visit the Submerged Scultpure Park off the coast of cancun
- Go on a canopy tour
- Go on a helicopter ride
- Go hiking in a rainforest
- Race a sports car (I'll leave this one to my roomie, haha)
- Go on an African safari
- Break a Guinness world record
Walk through a corn maze (The corn wasn't even fully grown, maybe up to our hips, but it was still difficult in the heat of the afternoon.)- Stay overnight in a haunted hotel
- Drive down Route 66
- Get in a human hamster ball
- Experience zero gravity
- Indoor skydiving (considering my roomie doesn't want to do actual skydiving, lol)
- Swim with dolphins
- Ride a camel
- White water rafting
- Visit the Grand Canyon
- Shop at the Mall of America
- Visit Mount Fuji, Japan
- See Dracula's castle
- Visit Yellowstone National Park
- See the Egyptian pyramids
- Go on an archeological dig (I believe that's what they are called, correct me if I'm wrong!)
- Make wine, including crushing the grapes!
- Island hopping in the Caribbean
- Watch a sumo wrestling match
- Go to Salem, Massachusets
- Dress up in Victorian attire and walk through a historical district
- Buy something we would NEVER buy (we get to tell each other what to buy) (Halfway done!)
- Eat an insect 'delicacy'
- Ride in a cable car in San Francisco
- Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras
- Participate in a food fight (preferably La Tomatina!)
- Build a bird house
- Repaint a breyer horse model and enter it in a competition
- Enter a competition
- Learn to make candles
- Participate in a reenactment of some sort
- Learn glass-blowing
- Sell our crafts and artwork
- Go on a wine tasting trip
- Get a complete makeover for fun
- Get a master's degree
- Become 'financially literate'
- Go on a major shopping spree (the kind you see in movies with lots and lots of bags in each hand)
- Sleep in a castle
- Stay at the Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas
- Fly first class
- Go on an overnight train ride
- Own a Tuscan style house
- Visit Tibet
- Take a yoga class
- Build a Habitat for Humanity home
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
- Create a cartoon
- Create a real website
- Go to the Sundance Film Festival
- Go to the Kentucky Derby
- Try 3 new exotic fruits (1 down, 2 to go)
- Eat at the undersea restaurant, Ithaa
- Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Go to Time Square on New Year's Eve
Learn to read palms (eh, sorta lol)- Go mudding (surprisingly, this was my roomie's suggestion!)
- Be in a tv show audience
- Start a snowball fight
- Get a henna tattoo
- Be on a reality show
- Visit a movie set
- Go to a Masquerade
- Attend a murder mystery party/dinner
- Attend a midnight screening of a blockbuster movie
- Do a 365 day challenge of some sort
- Put 3 dollars away every day for a year
- Ride a gondola in Venice
- See the "Wonders of the World"
- Watch a sunrise on the beach
- Explore ice caves
- Be in a parade
- Speed down the Autobahn
- Touch an iceburg
- Bungee Jump (I'm on my own with this one!)
- See the northern lights
- Speak in an accent for an entire day
- Roll down a hill wrapped in bubble wrap
- Win a giant stuffed animal from a carnival/fair type game
- Drop a watermelon (or similar object) from a high roof, see whose watermelon busts first
Teach Roomie to coupon (yes, I admit it...I am a couponer...a lazy one, but I still am xD)Save 90% or more on a couponing trip (and NO this does NOT mean clear shelves or any other stupid thing like that)- Visit the Winchester Mystery House
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Welcome to Xy's Sketchbook Moments!
Whoever would have known that coming up with a creative blog name would be so incredibly difficult, right?
Ah well, as this blog is still under some work and just now starting out, it may be a while for me to get the hang of things. With that being said, allow me to leave you with some small tidbits as to the adventures I have already been blessed to experience. Maybe even some not so blessed moments...
A fun little drawing I did of my character 'Nameless', yes that is his name. Enjoy life as much as you can, even if it's just the little things like basking in the warm sun on a beautiful day.
Ah well, as this blog is still under some work and just now starting out, it may be a while for me to get the hang of things. With that being said, allow me to leave you with some small tidbits as to the adventures I have already been blessed to experience. Maybe even some not so blessed moments...
- I have amazing best friends, you may hear about them every now and then on this blog.
- I am obtaining a degree in what I love at a school that I love.
- I have played with wolves, hugged skunks, and pet foxes.
- I've ridden an elephant.
- I've seen amazing artwork from artists I can proudly call friends.
- I am in love with a wonderful man.
- I've met amazing musicians, such as the men from Apocolyptica (backstage vip ticket!).
- I have been on a cruise.
- I have been to a foam party.
- I have attempted to be hypnotised...It didn't work, had to fake it the whole time! Ha!
- I have had major surgery on my spine to correct scoliosis.
- I've started a bucket list, because these little adventures are just a small taste of what I am hoping to get out of life!
A fun little drawing I did of my character 'Nameless', yes that is his name. Enjoy life as much as you can, even if it's just the little things like basking in the warm sun on a beautiful day.
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