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My Latest Creation

My sister's baby shower was last Saturday and I decided to make her a bag with pockets. I forgot to take pictures of the pockets, so you'll just have to imagine what they look like.

I decided to do my usual bag pattern, with a little ruffled twist. It turned out pretty well! I think she liked it. :)

Then I wrapped it up and gave it to her!

My friend Veronica and I decided to try on some of Maria's old prom and bridesmaid dresses the other day. It was a lot of fun!

These are my favorite pictures.

My mom says I'm all set for dresses. But mom...

FALL

is almost here!

I didn't take these amazing pictures, my dad did.

I usually don't get very excited for fall, but this year I really am! I bought a yellow scarf yesterday to fulfill my fall clothing needs.

I did take these. I think once all the leaves have changed, I'm going to drag my dad down to Zion to take pictures. I can't wait!

Random flowers that are sitting on our window sill. I have been asking my dad if I can get a flower box outside of my window. I think he's almost ready to say yes. Am I right, Dad?

I know, I know. BORING post.

Nature is my medicine. ~Sara Moss-Wolfe

HA! I saw this picture and laughed out loud.

I love nature. I tie in nature with everything. I take tons of pictures just to try and capture the beauty of nature.

Here is one of my many views on nature. I like to think that our Heavenly Mother played a part in making our Earth beautiful. I mean, I'm sure Heavenly Father wouldn't leave her out of such an important thing! She might have put in the touch of beauty into nature. The smells, the feel of petals, the tinkling of leaves.

My favorite time of year is when I get to drive up to Girl's Camp. There is beauty EVERYWHERE! I absolutely love wildflowers and the trees up in the mountains.

This is my favorite kind of forest. I absolutely love these trees. Although I can never remember what to call them... Aspens?

Nature just makes me feel so fresh and clean.

Hence the smile. Although I've noticed that when I smile, I have this sort of maniac look. Don't worry, I'm not crazy. Yet.

I like taking really close pictures of flowers. That way you can see the details and the beauty of the flower.

These morning glories are taking over our fence. The sun was shining at just the right angle to make it seem like the middle of them are glowing.

I LOVE FLOWERS!

... And pumpkins. But mostly flowers.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ~Albert Einstein

I like to incorporate nature into pictures with people in them. When I was helping out with Maria and Shay's wedding pictures, I was laying and squatting at awkward angles just to get a flower in there. I don't really like this flower... but it's nature!

This one is my favorite. Even though I didn't realize they were roses until I had buried myself in them. Very painful. But worth the picture!

I just have to say, look around you and see the beauty. Stop and smell the roses. Wake up early to see the sun rise. I had never seen the sun rise until I went out to the farm and raked the fields while the sun came up. It was so beautiful! Too bad the mountains around Hurricane don't really let you see the sun rise. But I will always remember the beautiful sight.

When I look at the details of flowers, I think: Who but God could have created such a beautiful and intricate thing? It boggles my mind.

Nature is a wondrous thing. Don't ignore it.

Now that I've gotten the point across that I love nature, on to one of my most recent triumphs.

Ceramics! I'm taking a ceramics class in school. Let's just say that at the first... I wasn't so good at it. The cup above did not turn out very well. I didn't do it on the wheel, but it was still all lopsided. At least the colors turned out cool!

We made a soap dish. I though this was pretty pointless because I don't use soap dishes. But hey, it makes a good pencil holder! (That was a suggestion given by Tanner. I don't know how he got that idea, but it could work!) This one turned out a bit lopsided too... oh well.

This is SUPPOSED to look squashed and weird. It's called a pinch pot. You get a big glob of clay, then pinch it into a bowl. I have to admit, I really like the color.

Sigh... my pride and joy. My first wheel thrown bowl! It took me forever to figure out how to do it. But I prevailed and now can make bowls by the dozen. I'm not saying that I will, just that I can. Sort of...

We are now working on slump mold bowls and wheel thrown mugs. I've already finished my bowl, but my mug will take some time to figure out. I will post pictures when they're done!

Hattie was following me around as I took pictures. She is so dang CUTE!

Sunday.

This is probably my favorite picture. I guess it's because the little girl reminds me of, well, me! And that is exactly how I picture Jesus to look like.

I don't really know what to say in this post, and I'm not in a very talkative mood, so I'll just let you look at the pictures.

The song below is my FAVORITE song ever.

General Conference... and random pictures.

General Conference was, as always, amazing. Gosh, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's music is so beautiful! Sadly, our couch is not very comfortable, so I had to sprawl out in different positions to get comfortable. But don't worry, it didn't distract me from the messages. ALWAYS watch General Conference. It's good for ye.

Must they always sing "God Be with You till We Meet Again"? It always reminds me of when they took the Apple Valley people out of our ward. They played that song and everyone was bawling. It's a pretty song, but they sing it all the time.

Anyway. I don't really have anything else to say about General Conference except that it was pretty cool.

I know, I know. I'm random. Hence the random pictures. Seriously, every time I do a post, I go through all our pictures and pick out random ones. Most of the time I don't use them, but this time I'm using all of the ones that I picked out.

Goodness. This is such a WEIRD picture. It has not been played with, I actually did stick my head in a kaleidoscope. It was forever ago, way back when I was... before I got into Young Womens. I don't know why, but my dad framed it.

Same with this one. He told me to rise up and out of the water while he took pictures. I did it again and again with a serious expression. He finally got frustrated with me and told me to smile. Being the smart aleck I am, I gave him my most cheesy smile. And, being the loving father that he is, he proceeded to frame it and enter it in the County Fair... and then he hung it up in our gallery. Sigh...

Mmm... Star Wars. I am thinking about being a Jedi Knight for Halloween this year. Do you think they would let me bring a lightsaber to school? I doubt it.

This picture reminds me of Calvin off of Calvin and Hobbes. I took this in a moment of complete bored-ness.

For some reason, whenever I look at this picture I want to break out into evil laughter. Strange? I think so.

These two pictures make me laugh every time I see them.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Whew. WELL, now that I have written a completely useless and pointless post, I must now go and eat some food.

I remember when I used to say "Toodles!" every time I was going to say goodbye. I'm glad I don't anymore, now it just sounds weird.

Toodles!

:D

Funny you should say that...

Well, Melissa, turns out I DID make you something out of that fabric.

I made my sister in-law Monica a bag awhile ago, and ever since then people have been bugging me to make them one. Apparently they really like rust colored fabric. Well... there is not a lot of rust colored fabric out there. So I got some different colors.

This is what I made Monica's out of. It had a brown lining, and I think it is way cute. I had made so much of those bags that I got sick of them. So I was wondering why people like those bags so much. They are actually really cute and really easy to make! It took me an hour to make all three of them.

Sorry Monica, if I made you another one, there would be a riot.

:)

Lori's

This was supposed to be her birthday present, but I never got around to giving it to her. Don't worry Lori, I'll give it to you today. I made all the bags way bigger than the pattern says to make it. Bigger space is always bueno.

Maria's

From the look of your baby's room, I'm assuming that your theme is red. Therefore, I made you a red one! Oh yeah, you were there when I bought this fabric.

Melissa's

And this one is for you, Meliss. :)

I don't know if the dark color will hide stains, although if it did get any stains, I'm sure you would be able to get them out.

Made with love!

(and fabric, thread, patience, and the music of Disney)