Instead of writing this mornings post last night, I was teaching myself calculus. I’m postponing the salvation army post until Saturday.
I Bag You
October 15, 2011 By
Let’s start with my old bag. Purchased off EBay from China for maybe 12$. It was great for the first month, than the hardware started breaking. I dealt with it until it became unbearable, then I jerry-rigged it by I wrapping a pipe cleaner around the two D rings on one side and a using a huge key ring on the other.
It worked, but eventually the pipe cleaners’ wire popped out and snagged my sweaters, and the rings’ pivot would get caught in my hair. So recently I covered them in duct tape. Not brown, black, or some other neutral, but blue!
It was broken AND none of my things fit in it. I had been looking for a new bag for a long time. My requirements were: a shoulder strap, strong hardware and big enough to hold my things.
Yesterday I took a trip to the Salvation Army with my mom, I found some good stuff, I’ll show them on Wednesday. But on the next block was a Goodwill, so we stopped in there and looked around, the bag section was chaotic. Suitcases were thrown onto the shelves and a lot of them sat in the middle of the aisle. I contemplated getting a briefcase, but I knew I wouldn’t, it was fun to pretend though. We skimmed the store and sitting by the end of a Halloween isle was this bag!
It’s a Blue Carry-On Samsonite bag. I’ve seen them before and considered them, but they haven’t been in the greatest condition. All this needs is a good vacuum job in the pockets.
But most importantly, it fits all my stuff, easily! And it was only 7 dollars.
Red Cross
October 12, 2011 By
But more like blue cross.
Clubs are starting their meetings this time of year. I went to a Red Cross Club meeting two weeks ago and got a registration sheet handed to me, but I wasn’t there to be in the club, so I started doodling. I had been in the club for freshmen and sophomore year and every time, I had to quit the club once softball conditioning or practice took up my afterschool hours. And I wasn’t very involved, and it was a new club, so we didn’t do much.
But I was there to vote for my friend, who was running for VP. So I took the registration sheet and started working on it during the transition time.
I quickly started with the red cross shape on the back of the sheet. I filled it first with band aids, and then medicine. Medicine was fun to draw and I kept adding different types of pills, but it got to be a challenge to come up with different shapes. And as the cross started filling up I decided to turn it into a medicine bottle, it has the measurements going down the side, the lid, and the label, which decoratively shows a bunch of crosses. I really like it, it was fun because normally when I doodle, it’s a scratch in the margins of my paper, but with this I actually thought about what I was doing and created something presentable. But having to wait 15 minutes for the bus afterwards helps that thinking process work it’s way through.
Turban.
October 8, 2011 By
Sometimes I wear a headscarf. But I call it my turban. I wear them a lot when I come home from school and want my hair out of my face.
I had read this post to learn how to tie the scarf first. But then this showed up on my feeds from a blog I just started following, AB Chao. The video picks up the pace after a minute and a half and from there, it is hilarious. Even this time, when I watched it a second time after finding the post, I laughed, and not just in my head.
I feel like a 50’s mom when I wear this!
Flat.
October 5, 2011 By
It’s the beginning of the rainy season. I love it. Last weekend when it was pouring, Mary and I went out and picked flowers to press. It was very festive, we wore rain boots, coats, and carried an umbrella. We were one of the few people out, and we walked around the neighborhood picking flowers. We had sneaky picking down. When we saw a bush that had lots of flowers on it, we would smell the flowers, or admire them, while plucking a stem casually. Or we would walk by, pretending not to notice the flowers, and stick our hand out to grab one.
Aren’t they gorgeous?
We lay them out of paper towels to they could dry and so we could pull any extra leaves off.
Then we loaded them into tissue paper pages.
And pressed them a little before we but them into big books.
Alice and Wonderland, and a craft book were sufficient. Then we put them under a big heavy basket on the bookshelf and tried to forget about them.
Here are some old pressed flowers, these ones above are a year are more old. It’s amazing to hold up the biggest flower and look at it full on. It looks 3D, but when you turn it 90 degrees it’s almost gone. Reminds me of Flat Stanley.
But these I did this summer, and they still smell good. I cant wait to open these new flowers in a couple of months, it’s the best part!
