Sunday, May 27, 2012

Happy Birthday My Friends

Happy Birthday my friends. 
Facebook is a beautiful thing. One of its finer parts is the Birthday Adviser that tells you each day who's birthday it is. Since this has been happening for a while people know can easily post on your timeline to wish you a happy birthday. For example on my birthday this past April 107 people wrote on my timeline. 
But then again, since it is so easy it is also easy to look like you just typed 'Happy Birthday' thanks to the reminder and that is it. I try to post a picture on their timeline or make something quick to add. I thought I would post them here just because I want to post more stuff more frequently. 
 

 


Monday, May 7, 2012

Pinatas


I said I would post more, so here is something new. Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone, and in honor of that I am posting some pictures of Pinatas. The first is from my mission in Mexico. I had made pinatas before and when the branch was putting together a Christmas party I offered to make the pinata. It took some work, but each night and on P-days I would work on it a little. The next is a pinata of me. In my last area the members wanted to throw me a going away party, so I offered to make a pinata. I had planned to have a little balloon head, but it popped, and so did the backup I had, so the family ripped off the head of an old doll and we put it on. Good times. This year I wanted to throw a Cinco de Mayo party, but my friends were going to be gone, so we decided to have a Cinco de Abril party. It was loads of fun, but I, like i had before, offered to make and bring a pinata. I tried to do something simple and traditional; un burrito, but its hard to make something really great on a poor college student budget. Pinatas are a lot of fun to make and design, but I have to admit, it is sad to see little children so eager to beat your art to pieces. *sigh*

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Lana del Rey

I have recently been obsessed with Lana del Rey. She is a up and coming singer-song writer with a very unique style. I listened to her album 'Born to Die" on Spotify and then I just had to buy it. I had wanted to paint her for a while, just because of her unique look, but my first sketches and trials did not look anything like her, just pointy nosed girls with flowers in their hair. These however got much closer to her look.