Bored at Work...

I was bored at work and started playing with the pens and highlighters + printer paper. 

New Painting

Last night I decided to work on my new canvas. I pulled this out.

The Academy of Science

Today Kaela, Erika, Gerald, and Chris took a FREE trip to the Academy of Sciences. It was awesomely fun. This was my second time going. These are a few photos

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum

Today I went to the Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum with Gerald and it was great. Today is Gerald's 20th birthday!

China Town

This afternoon I had an adventure in China Town San Fran. Every once in a while I have the urge. I got bubble tea which was AMAZING and a favorite treat of mine. I also went into the jewelry stores and learned about diamonds. The people there are so pushy, I told them I didn't want to buy anything today and they kept pushing it on me haha.

Apple Pies

This is what my family called them. They are pastries filled with apple stuff. I made some home made ones with my aunt/uncle in Georgia a few days ago. They're SOOOO good.

First you boil apples, then you peel them, then you mix them in with cinnamon, sugar, and whatever else you want. They should be all squishy like pie filling. 

You cool that [they froze it and then dethawed it?] 

So then you get canned biscuits. You take one out and split it in half hamburger ways. You lay out wax paper and put flour on it [so the biscuit doesn't stick to it] and you put the biscuit on it, putting flour on top of the biscuit too. You roll out the biscuit until it's REALLY thin [a little thicker than card stock paper] and then you put a spoon[or more] of the coldish apple stuff on it. After that you fold over the biscuit so it's a half circle and you press the open edges with a fork so they are totally closed. 

After that you put a little butter on top of the whole thing, and about a spoon of sugar and some cinnamon. 

I don't know what temp you put the oven at but you cook the pies from 15-30 minutes. We made around 25 of them. 

Oh yeah spray the pan. 

Scholastics Award Winning Pieces [2007]

I got 3 sliver keys for these digital images. 

Being Home

It's nice being home in my room [pictures above] with my crazy colors and my chalkboard rain cloud. I have the same sketches on my wall and the same messages on my cloud from high school. It brings back good memories. 

New Notebooks

I'm in Charlotte for break and my mom and I decided to take a small shopping trip in the university area. I got some ginger candy [a favorite] and two new notebooks which I'm excited about. I love blank notebooks and journals and sketchbooks. These are so cool because they look recycled and sort of vintage. They have a red cloth cover and brown subject tabs. I don't know if I will use them for school or just for lists. 

Some More of my Fall'08 photography projects

A few photos I took from fall'08

Photos I took while exploring SF with my Dad 2008

Sienna Miller's Old Engagement Ring

I am in LOVE with this ring. This is exactly what I want for my engagement ring. It is vintage, 9 diamonds set in platinum on a gold band. I don't care how many diamonds it is and I don't care what kind of metals it's set in [but platinum is prime] I just like the round shape and I love how it's simple and not a big honking ring.