Spring Break is Coming

This Friday, I am heading home because it's Spring Break. Sadly, Henry has to go home to Maryland and I won't see him for a week, but it'll give me time to catch up on some things and ask my parents if I can go camping this summer with him...

My figure toning class ended yesterday, so it's easier to sleep in.

The swan is coming along nicely. The neck is done and I will work on it more during the next week.

That's all for now!

Making a Graceful Swan

Image by fesoj via Flickr

So, I was looking through pictures on Google of dragonflies. One thing stuck in my mind: They're not too pretty close up. I decided to scratch the insect idea.

After typing in 'flying creature' in the image search, I saw something that made me think, "Duh!"

I have decided to make a swan out of recycled plastic. Obviously, since my last name is Swann, I laughed a bit at the irony. Or lack of.

Today was our first day working on the project, and my professor had many plastic bottles for our use. I picked out a lot of white bottles, using a few clear ones I had brought with me. I'm going to use the water bottles for the neck and stuff them with plastic Wal-Mart bags.

One bottle was Snuggle Fabric Softener. Not thinking, I turned it over to cut the neck off and spilled Sweet Almond Essence on my jeans. Needless to say, I smelled pretty good for the rest of the class.

In my next class, I had to draw a classmate using various techniques. I say 2 out of 4 of my drawings were awesome. I'm starting to enjoy conte crayons. They helped bring out the skin tone, and made it look a lot better than the black and white version. She seemed to like the drawings, so I hope I didn't offend her.

Crossing my fingers for a three hour delay so I can sleep in again. Only having two out of five classes on Thursdays are great for my sleep patterns.

Masking Tape Shoe???

A few weeks ago, my Design II professor assigned a strange project to us. We were supposed to make a shoe...completely out of masking tape. Considering the last project was to make something out of cardboard, we weren't all that surprised.

Today was the turn-in date. I had finished everything except the tread on the bottom of the shoe. I knew I was going to get points taken off, but I didn't really think much of it.

My teacher seemed to enjoy it, so I think I'll at least get an A.

Earlier in the day, I had to give a speech. I hate public speaking, but it was a required course for my major. The speech was informative on the history of knitting. I like knitting, so it was a good topic. Everyone seemed to like it as I stood in the front, shaking from head to toe.

It's been an eventful, stressful day. I'm just glad it's over.

Next project: Making a flying organism out of plastic. I chose a dragonfly. :)