Sushi? SHUSHI?

Sushi? SHUSHI?, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

";You think this is about sushi??" - Monster's Inc.
I tasted my first sushi. It feels...memorable. So memorable that I STILL get sick thinking about it. Yup, that good. I officially, strongly dislike seafood of all types. Most people would argue that tuna sandwiches and fish sticks aren't seafood. I would agree! If they classified as real seafood, I wouldn't like it!

Give Him Praise!

Give Him Praise!, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

Some musicians from Chicago joined us at Campus Church and we had an awesome time.

Fever!

Fever!, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

I'm not sure what came over me. My comp I teacher asked me to sing a line from my favorite song in class. So I belted out the first couple'a lines. Afterward my classmate walked out with me and said, "I was sittin there and thought, 'Oh man, she's singing!'" I felt just as surprised.

Strangers in the Night

Strangers in the Night, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

I experienced my first, official bat-fright. I laugh every time I look at this page in memory of my frantic reactions. Boy, afterward I thought this was hilarious but at the time I almost peed my pants from fear. Pure fear. While pinning the bat to my wall with my broom and said to my mom with a quaver in my voice, "This will make a great journal page."

Wed - Sat

Wed - Sat, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

While packing this summer, Jon and I found a strange little recorder-like instrument. I learned to play "Concerning Hobbits" on it and felt pretty pleased with myself. Watermelon Days was held in Fayette that week also. I sat for two caricatures and an "arm" painting. The fireworks at dusk were marvelous as always!

Feebee's Birthday Circus

Feebee's Birthday Circus, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

My mother works with a girl who throws parties for her puppy! Hilarious!

Pretty Panda

Pretty Panda, a photo by Emmy Cheeseburger on Flickr.

I haven't logged on and played with my blog in ages! Our scanner is acting like a big baby and won't play nice. I told myself I wouldn't use my camera for blog posts but I'm not sure I have much choice now.

Monopoly

I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Rings. I'm also a huge fan of game nights. Combine the two and you get awesomeness!

Squishy, Stretchy Mice & Cheese

Yay for strange and random things that we find in Michael's! When my brother showed them to me, I just couldn't pass them up! Honestly. How many people do you know that can say they own stretchy mice and cheese? I'm willing to bet it's not a lot.

Jaidan's Bunny

Over top of the letters on the side, I put glitter glue and it looks really neat in person! If I do say so myself... :) This was my first White-on-White painting (if you can really give it a big title like that) and I just loved doing something different!

Last minute trip

We were sitting on the couch, it's about 12:30 and it was Mom's last day off while Jordan was with us (we traded her for my brother for 2 weeks) and our plan to go to the pool fell through. So we started looking up things to do in Iowa that would be fun for a girl of 6. We found out that tickets bought after 5:00 were half off at the state fair so we packed a lunch and started out for our 3 hour drive.

We didn't get to see the art building which kinda bummed me out but we still went on two rides with the little girl (carousel and ferris wheel) and we ate deep-fat-fried twinkies, and snicker bars AND a twinkie log (frozen twinkie dipped in white chocolate, almonds and covered in whip cream).

This view is from the top of the ferris wheel. It was the first time I'd seen an amusement park lit up at night.

Ooops, went out of order!

Ooops, this page was supposed to come before the last one but oh well. Anyway, I still put Catalina Dressin' on my pizza.

Artichoke Boot?

This picture represents part 2 of my crazy summer (actually it's part 3 - no, 4 - cuz I had camps and VBS in between here somwhere). We took my niece Jordan to a nature park for the day and her favorite part was walking around the flower garden where we found this strange phenomenon. My drawing really doesn't do it's queerness justice.

Steve and Miss Millie

Real "southern hospitality" means that you let 11 sweaty, stinky, gross northerners who have been working on your house all day, into your home, cook them a good Cajun meal and even let them sit on your sofa.

Beautiful Biloxy Bag

I went on a mission trip this summer to M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. We helped rebuild houses for Katrina victims. I say "rebuild" cuz that's what we wanted to do, but what I really mean is "repaint". I had the best group a person could ask for and even though we worked in a heat index of 105, it felt good! I get to go again in January and I'm just countin down the months!

In the middle of the week we had a free day where we got to be tourists so we went to the beach, ate out, went sight seeing, and did a little shopping. That's when I set my eyes on this gorgeous bag. It was fifteen dollars, and I'm a bit of a penny-pincher since I don't earn a whole lot (10 dollars a week for mowing the lawn) but my mom told me that if I didn't get it, I would regret it for a long time.

I wish I could say that my bag held only the most romantic things: an old first-edition of Alice and Wonderland (I actually can't stand that story), love letters from my true love, a pair of cute reading glasses (I'm really near-sighted. Don't need reading glasses) and the like....Unfortunately all it holds right now is the school books I take to art while I wait for my class period.

It's been a while

So it's been a long time since I've last made a post on my blog, and I've actually missed it. We had some computer problems so I wasn't able to use my scanner and I've been crazy busy this summer. But not so much that I couldn't get a little drawing in. So here comes a whole slew of pictures, so get ready!

Oranges to Oranges...

This makes me giggle every time I see it! My DVD Math teacher (I'm homeschooled, can't remember if I put that in my self-description) , Paul Ziggler of Systematic Mathematics says when you're learned to add and subract fractions, "You can only add and subtract like things: Apples to apples, oranges to oranges, bananas to bananas, and hippopotamuses to hippopotamuses!" That quote will stay with me for the rest of my life. It's very moving. And I think of it every time I play this game.

Bunny?

Also on the art club field trip, we ate at Bananzas (which wasn't all that it was cracked up to be in my most humble opinion) where they had vending machines! My favorite! So there were little critters and I simply had to have one. When I first got this little guy, I (and many others) honestly thought it was some mutant dog with buck teeth, but the fluffy tail cleared that up.

Dice

I went on an art club field trip and along with visiting colleges and art shows, we also stopped at the well-loved, Hobby Lobby where I bought these awesome beads (that I still have yet to use) and two .005 Micron pens with which I used to draw this picture. Love Hobby Lobby!

Forgotten

I realized that I had forgotten to scan these journal entries in and post them! I don't really like either one of them, but here they are.