Water and Wild Horses

 I love the ocean. I love wild horses. Therefore Shackleford Island is amazing :)

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Me encanta el océano. Y también me encanta los caballos libres. ¡La isla de Shackleford es increíble!

 

I took what seems like a hundred pictures to get a few good shots. At least I'm persistent!
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Les saco muchos fotos y tengo un poquito de fotos buenos.  ¡Por lo menos soy muy persistente!

These are photos of the wild horses, and although they are wild they are actually very used to human presence.  They didn't even seem to notice me and walked past without giving it a second thought.

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Gracias a Díos, los caballos no me dolieron porque ellos no tienen miedo de los humanos.

Anyways, there were other things on the island that interested me too.

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Estaba muchos otras cosas que me interese tambien.

Barnacles

Independent

What I've been listening to:

Curls and Swirls

What I'm listening to

Think About It.

 Would you trade this

For this?

A rise in prices is nothing compared to the extent that others are sacrificing due to its power and greed.

[The pictures are not my own]

White Christmas

I had my first white Christmas yesterday. It was absolutely beautiful and came out of a dream. I woke up and looked outside, then started running and screaming around the house with my sister like every sane person should do on Christmas morning :)

 

then of course we had to make a snowman!!

so now frosty lives in my front yard :)

paint!

Well it's almost Christmas and that means I'm scurrying around trying to get all of the gifts together. This year my family and I decided to make eachother gifts instead of buying them. That made me really happy because now my creative juices are gushing out of me! Yesterday I was painting anything and everything that I could get my hands on. I painted a picture frame, coasters, my teapot, two little cups, and a tiny cream cup. Today I'm finishing a frame for a friend, painting another teapot, working on my moms present (a mosaic breakfast tray), and hopefully will start my sister's present (which I can't say in case she reads this before Christmas).

Other projects that I will be working on before school is Kurt's NC State stool, a window pane, and a few more coasters!

I am seriously in love with this blog: prudentbaby.com it's full of so many amazing practical craft ideas!

Here are the finished projects that I have pictures for:

[The window pane]

[The coasters]

 

 

[The mosaic breakfast tray]

Blahdeefrickindah!!

It's exam time and in order to allow us students time to study for our exams, there are no classes. So of course I have a major urge to do anything that is not related to studying!

So in honor of icky yucky boring studying (which I was doing... I'm really just taking a break to complain about it), here are a few links to great project ideas that I would MUCH rather be doing:

I found this idea while dreaming up my dream house. Here is an awesome way to use wallpaper that you probably never thought of (at least I didn't):

The Terrier and Lobster blog

I really love coasters. I have a set that I brought back from Chile and I am so in love with them. I never thought about making my own, but I stumbled across this idea and now it's high on my to-do list:

Make your own coasters!

When I go downtown I always see the cutest hair pins in the world and they are always very overpriced. I thought to myself "I could definitely make that on my own." And so I did. I can't show them right now because they are presents (SHHHH) but I will show you another idea that I found for making a different style of cute hair pins:

Fabric Flowers

I LOVE mosaic things. I want to collect broken glass and stones and ceramics and anything that I find so that I can make my own. I found this how-to while browsing and I fell in love.

Mosaic Stepping Stone

I am in love with Moorish art, the way that tiles are used to decorate houses in Morocco and southern Spain are just beautiful. Take a gander at this site:

Mosaic houses and tiles

Those are the things that I'm obsessed with right now. Now back to studying...

Vuelos en mis Sueños

A veces, tengo algunos sueños en lo que puedo volar en el cielo con las nubes. Deseo que tendría las alas, como un pájaro bella, para ser libre de todos los preocupaciónes y simplemente volar entre el tierra y la luna. Me divertirme y haría lineas y diseños en el cielo como los aviones. Bailaría entre los nubes y seríamos libre de todo el mundo.

Es una cosa precioso ver el sol se siente en el horizante entre la tierra y las nubes. Los colores bailan con el uno al otro en una baile que está muy breve.

Wrightsville Beach, NC

Mystery Solved

I found a roll of film that had been sitting in my camera bag just waiting to be developed.

The film was almost a year old, think about all the mysterious memories that were hiding in that little canister!

So mainly it was me just playing with my camera and didn't take photos of anything really important, besides the one of Kurt and me.

Oh well. I still like them!