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Day 21: I might be going to hell for this

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Day 21’s assignment:  “Write a ten-word love story. Bonus: illustrate it!”

After consultation with various people, I realized that I couldn’t do a sincere love story in 10 words. So instead I wrote this:

“On the big screen: Will you marry me?

HELL NO!”

By this I mean that if someone asked me to marry them while watching some kind of sports game among a crowd of hundreds of thousands, my response would be an emphatic NO!  I would hate that kind of attention.

Thinking that my drawing skills are lacking and that there must be other girls who have rejected these kinds of proposals, I headed to youtube. The following are comics illustrating my story. Made it in Paint which took entirely too long. I miss you photoshop.

From the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtPkxzHKLpk

Taken from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH9K74IFX80

I kinda feel bad making a comic out of other people’s rejections, especially the last one. That being said though, it is a terrible proposal  idea. I also almost changed the words “Hell No” to “As If!” to make it funnier, but was limited to changing the words since I used paint.

Day 20: A E I O UUUUU UUU E I O AA

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Day 20’s assignment: “Buy or make some clay (see instructions on page 238) and then use it like you never have before.”

I decided that it would be easier to buy clay in an assortment of colors rather than make it on my own. After work I made a trip out to Michael’s and bought a rainbow pack.

Now what to sculpt?

I was inspired by my friend Kayla who has a penchant for mushrooms and various other plant life. From there it developed into “I’m gonna make this into something out of Alice in Wonderland from the scene where the caterpillar is talking with Alice.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbntWU7pG8

I only made a few pieces since it was getting late: 3 mushrooms plus the mushroom with the caterpillar (constructed with the help of Sibling1). Then to take photos of my creations I used an 2011 Australian calendar as the background in the attempt to make it look a little trippy.** The top scene is a picture of the Great Barrier Reef and the bottom scene is one of the Australian coast.

Lost one of his arms in an accident 🙁

 

I think for a future project I am going to make a trippy diorama to display everything I made today.

*Speaking of Australia, I just imported my blogs from my UMW blog Barrier Reef Brief to here. Check, Check, Check it out!

Day 19: Row Row Row Your Boat

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Day 19’s assignment: “Create something that float on water (It doesn’t have to be a boat.)”

After deciding I couldn’t think of anything that floated on water beside a boat, I decided to once again brush up on my origami skills.

Too bad I could only remember the kid version of the song where Barney is thrown overboard, rather than the actual lyrics…

After teasing my dog Bentley about it (he really wanted to play with it), we headed off to the creek by my house.

Poor B will never have the boat to play with.

Ready for takeoff

The boat trip lasted about 5 seconds. 2 seconds after the launch, the boat hit a branch and filled with water. It managed to float a little bit more downstream before completely filling with water and sinking.

Bye Bye Boat

Next time I will try to construct my boat out of something more sturdy than paper.

Day 18: Crafting a Skull

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Day 18’s assignment:  “Work with the things you find in your (or a friend’s car if you don’t have one).”

Luckily today I ended up waiting in the car for a while before a doctor’s appointment. After rooting around for a bit I managed to find an unused dog bag.

 

I played around with various ideas then  decided to put a water bottle inside to give it a shape. I finished it off by using a pen to make some eye sockets.

The finished product:

 

 

Day 17: Eye Spy

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Day 17’s assignment: “Make something inspired by and/or that goes over and eye (yours or someone else’s)”

First thoughts: Clearly I am going to make an eyepatch today! Hmmm.. what materials should I use for this…

Later that day: Or maybe I should do some crazy eye makeup on me or a friend……

Much, Much later that day: Or maybe I will make Harry Potter Nerd Glasses out of cardboard and then spray paint it tomorrow…

Well into I-should-be-asleep time: I am going to make a mask!  1) Find Mask templates based on the Stravaganza books by Mary Hoffman 2) Print it out and color it in 3) glue to cardboard and cut it out 4) Coerce sibling into modeling for me.

Voila!

 

 

 

Day 16: Potato Print Cards

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Day 16’s assignment was: “Make a unique print by cutting up a potato or sponge, and use it to stamp on a material of your choice. ”

If I had ever done a potato print, it’s been eons ago. So I decided to carve up the potato in a few simple shapes: heart & smiley faces (thanks to my sister who helped me with these ones).

Then I dug out some paint supplies and got to work making my own cards to send to friends.

For the background color I used a sponge. Then once the background dried, I added the potato stamp. Now this could be tricky because one jostling movement could ruin the entire card.

Out of the seven or so that I made these are my favorites:

Now... who will I send this to? 😛

This first one came about by accident when I didn’t space my hearts evenly enough. From there it was a matter of thinking how could I fix this problem and then deciding the last heart looks lonely. Since it was forever alone, it stood to reason he was in the friendzone.

For this next one I decided I wanted to have a lot of angry smilies and one happy smiley. Since my sister is a fan of saying “Don’t drink the haterade!” I thought it would be appropriate for this card.

 

I like the simplicity of this. No captions needed.

Day 15: If George Washington was a pirate

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Day 15’s assignment was:  “What can you do with a just a dollar? Use a dollar bill as your medium or inspiration today. ”

Since I had done origami for Day 3 I decided that today I would have to do something different.

During my Chasing Summer trip a few months ago, I went to a bar in Key West whose walls were covered from floor to ceiling in defaced dollar bills.

Hundreds upon hundreds of dollars lay within grasp, however they were totally worthless. It was a cool idea, but also seemed like such a waste just to scrawl a name on there or something like “Vegans Rule”.

I decided that if I was going to deface a dollar bill today, I might as well make it funny (Also, I was inspired by a 9gag.com post)

After a visit to Crime and Punishment earlier today, I modeled George Washington after a buccaneer. Of course, he needed a catchphrase to go with his amazing moustache…

Day 14: I’m Like So Blonde gets a new Favicon

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Day 14’s Assignment was: ” Make something microscopic. How small can you work? Can you make something that requires a magnifying glass microscope to see?”

What popped in my head almost instantly was the idea of changing my favicon. My favicon* for the past year had been a yellow crown, which I chose for several reasons including that I couldn’t think of anything better.

Favicon= the small picture in the corner next to the URL

For this year’s favicon, I wanted to make something that better reflected my website/ purpose of blogging.  After casting around a bunch of ideas, I decided to head to the Noun Project for some inspiration.

My eyes landed on the camera and I decided that fit perfectly. I am photo nerd and have almost finished my 365 photo a day project (Only 17 days left!) I decided to make the background a yellow color to reflect the blondness of my site. Then I made the center green because I have green eyes (It’s all about ME ME ME on here… 😛 )

And after using my tutorial I wrote (totally had forgotten how I did it last time), I now have a new favicon. I definitely like it more than the crown, but still haven’t decided if this is THE ONE  that I want forever.

Day 11: May I never lose my left hand

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Day 11 assignment was: “Work on the other hand. Pick a medium you’re comfortable with, then work with your nondominant hand.”

I am part of the lovely minority who uses my left hand to write, which meant that today I would have to use my right hand.  In the past for fun I’ve attempted using my right hand to write things but quickly gave up. (How do you righties do it?)

Since taking a photo with my right hand today isn’t that challenging, I decided instead to color something from the “Sea Life Stained Glass Coloring Book” by Llyn Hunter. This way it would be difficult, but not totally impossible to do.

Let me tell you, coloring with my right hand was painful! Two minutes in coloring my sheet and my hand already started cramping.  Over the course of time in which I spent coloring the front and back of the sheet, I had to shake out my hand at least a hundred times.

Every time I picked up a different color marker and put it to the page, I’d realize I had put it in the wrong hand and would have to switch. Normally coloring in something is a mindless task, but this took a lot of mental effort  to not take the easy way out and use my left hand.

It also took a lot longer to color this page in with my right hand then it would if I had used my left.

This was definitely an interesting assignment and it  reminded  me that while I would be upset if I lost one of my hands in a freak accident, I would be even more annoyed if it was my left hand!

The final result of all my suffering:

 

Shine on through

My friend decided she wanted to have it for her car

Day 10: The Watery Grave

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Day 10’s assignment was : “Use only water as your medium or inspiration today.”

Due to various events this day I waited until the last possible minute to create something for the assignment. Which, consequently meant that I wasn’t thinking clearly when I decided to balance my camera on top of a water glass to get a photo.

Camera + Glass of Water= Watery Grave.

My face when my camera plunged into the water looked something like Day 9’s assignment:

WHAT HAVE I DONE?!

NOOOOOOO

And of course my backup camera works only half the time I try to use it.

All in all, today’s assignment was looking to turn out super crappy. The photos I got were laughable like the image below.

Totally Crappy

But, thanks to the power of photoshop/ picnik I managed to turn out a somewhat interesting photo….

Evil Eye

This photo was made in Picnik by  doing several edits such as adding a watery texture, changed the hue/saturation, as well as adding in the eye.

Monster Eye

I know I could do a lot more with these photos, but for now I am content to put the memory of drowning my camera behind me. I am attempting to rescitate it, but I don’t know if I will have any luck.

#DS789