The Yellow Dog Project

Over the past couple of years we have adopted two shelter dogs. With a shelter dog with often come interesting quirks.

For example- when we first got Annie she wouldn't eat unless one of us sat in the floor with her because she was afraid we would leave her and never come back.

Both of our dogs have progressed so much , but they still have some difficult days.  Bandit has the most bad days.  In order to help our walks around the neighborhood go as smoothly as possible we tie a piece of yellow fabric to Bandit's leash so people understand to give her some extra space.

Learn more about the yellow dog project in my video.

Finally recovering

Ok, so Friday night the fire alarm ended up going off for an hour...and the fire department never showed up. At about 6:30 am I thought it had stopped, so I headed back, then heard the alarm again. That's when I remembered the couches in the lounge of the dorm I had been taking refuge in. So I laid down on the old smelly couch and finally drifted off to sleep at 6:50...and my phone alarm went off at 7 :(

Earlier on Friday night I finished a hat I had been working on. I made it using a pair of Wrangler work pants that I bought last year and had used the lower part of the legs just a patchwork purse. I was able to cut out enough pieces to make three hats. The pants are a khaki color and the "wrong" side is an off-white. I liked the look of both sides, so I ended up using both sides of the fabric. The other two hats are going to have the Wrangler "W" on the brim from the back pockets. There was a cowboy at the craft show who really like the hat and told everyone about how I made it from some old Wranglers!

Angela and I got to the craft fair at 8 and set up our booth. We were next to a girl, who we found out goes to our school, she was selling some really cool necklaces she made. We didn't sell anything for the first few hours, but by the end of the day we both sold $24 dollars worth (I know that's not much, but it was fun) and the necklace girl gave us both a necklace. Angela and I are both going to make something for her and we are going to try to all three get together some time next semester and do something crafty. This was the first year for the church to have a craft show, and that's why the sells were a little slow.


So now I'm trying to make it through Tuesday and then I'll be done with the semester and be able to relax! Oh and I found some Wishbone episodes on YouTube that I'm watching!

Veteran's Day

To all the veterans, those currently serving, and their families:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Whitney

I cried

I came home this weekend so I went to my home church this morning. I'm always running late for church and this weekend I forgot to bring home dress clothes or even a coat. So this morning I threw on some jeans, a t-shirt and the vest I made and grabbed my camo jacket. I walked into church and found out that today was the Veterans memorial service. My first thought was a sarcastic "great, people are going to think I wore camo trying to be cool for the veterans." My pastor began talking about people who sacrifice their time with family members to serve for our country. He was talking about WWII, the Korean conflict, Vietnam, and both Iraq wars; saying that there are people right now putting our country first to serve in Iraq. Putting themselves in harms way knowing that some of them will not return home. Tears were streaming down my face. This is the first time I've known someone on active duty. I'm just so thankful that God has continued to protect not only Jon but others in his group. At the end of the service I was proud I was wearing my camo in honor of those who wear it every day.

More Costumes!

I love Halloween because I get to wear fun things and people don't say mean things about it...we should have Halloween once a week, or at least once a month. I wore my steampunk costume a week and a half ago for Club Alt, then Tuesday for Halloween geek night, and all day on Halloween.

The town I live in is a little weird...Halloween was postponed until Saturday because of the high school football game. So on Saturday after working the Autumn Days festival (I got to be a judge of the Salsa Showdown because one of the actual judges didn't show up!) I went trick-or-treating...for canned food. The Honors Student Association was collecting canned food for a food bank. I was tired of trying to explain to people what my costume is...so I decided to change up my outfit a little and go as a saloon girl. However I ended up going as a pirate because pirate boy wanted a pirate girl to match.

So here comes the pictures...


The air ship captain and the first mate





























Air ship captain again





























Mario wearing the hat I made





























Alice in Wonderland gang





























Pirate-the costume I made most of





























Pirates!





























Holy Crap! and pirate





























Pirate!





























Albert Einstein??
























I want a carmel apple....

Mailing and Money

I love the people at the post office! They are so nice! Every time I go in the lady that works there says how neat my envelopes and packages look and she likes to show them to the other employees :) We had a cool chat today about my sewing and that she loves how crafty I am. It makes me not mind so much the amount of money I'm shelling over to her :)

There is another office though that I'm not fond of...the finance office on campus. Today was payday...but I didn't get a check. The reason: I'm not paid up. Why: because they can't seem to figure out how to apply the same scholarships I've been receiving for the past four years. I was all excited about getting my first pay check for costuming and they made me sign it over to the school...yep, they made me do it. Lame isn't it?? If they can't get it straitened out in two weeks then I'm not going to be able to pre-enroll and that's kind of important since it will be for my last semester.

A Day at Ye' Ol' Medieval Faire

Ok, so as mentioned on Flashback Friday, this weekend was the annual Medieval Faire. Kevin and I went and had a blast!


After last years faire Kevin asked me if I would make outfits for us to wear and I said “sure.” However, due to lack of time over the summer (when I was planning on doing most of the sewing) and seeming to always be behind on schoolwork, I was afraid I wasn’t going to finish the costumes. So a couple of weeks ago I hit the thrift store and bought two button up the front shirts. I cut the buttons off and sewed the fronts of each shirt together almost all the way and made the rest of the front to be laced up. Then I paired my shirt with a bodice I made and the skirt I dyed over Spring Break and I made a doublet for Kevin to wear with his shirt (I didn’t get around to making pants). So anyway, it was enough of a costume for us…and some guy actually started asking Kevin some questions because he thought Kevin worked there. So I guess that means I did a good job on his outfit!

Anyway, we got up on Saturday meaning to leave around noon, but not getting on the road until almost 2. We drove to Norman and spent like 10 minutes just looking for a place to park. We ended up running into some friends just as we got there so we hung out with them for awhile. The Kevin and I say down to watch some of the SCA fighting. Then we got some drinks from McGilly Sassparilly, which is the most popular area there. They sell the drinks in these neat blueish/purple bottles and once you buy one the refills are pretty cheap. Every time someone tips one of the workers will hit the gong and yell “huzzah for the tipper!” Then we got a turkey leg and gnawed on that for a while. I always laugh about looking like a barbarian when eating a turkey leg…I have a picture to prove it, but I don’t feel like sharing it right now…

After eating we looked at the artist tents. I talked to one girl and she said she got her gypsy belt (I don’t really know how to describe it) for $12, and I wanted one so I was on a mission to find it. I found them for $25 and $30, so needless to say I didn’t get one. But we had fun looking at all the stuff. The clothes were the most amazing to look at, but boy are they a rip-off. A simple cotton peasant dress for $130?!? That’s pretty insane.

So it’s hard to write down how much fun we had, but I’m trying. I guess it all boils down to a day in the sun with the man I love seeing mermaids, mermen, pirates, gypsies, acrobatics, fighting (one actual fight as well as the scheduled events), food, wizard’s wine, and a lot of crazy interesting people.

Huzzah! One of the servers at McGilly Sassparilly. He was really nice and we ended up going through his line all three times :)














That guy is really cool, last year he carried around a giant mace












This girl dressed as a centaur or something like that last year, and looked totally neat.














This lady was funny. I asked if I could take her picture and she said "it's ok, I know you really just want a picture of the bird."












Well, I hope my writing isn't too hard to understand...it's getting kinda late. I'm trying to post a video of the acrobats, but it's taking a long time. Hopefully I'll have it up soon.

Do the Mardi Gras Mambo...

...down in Oklahoma?!? Does really flow like the real thing does it??


Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball was the theme for the fundraising event I helped at all day today (Saturday). I was helping out because I'm in an on campus organization and we have a banquet at the end of the semester and the theme this year is Black and White Mardi Gras Night. One of our sponsors saw the fundrasing event in the paper and contacted them about loaning us their decorations and they said we could use them if we helped decorate. Well...everyone else flaked out and I was the only one except for Whitney H for like two hours who helped. I was having a lot of fun so I helped for 9 to 3:30 and 6 to midnight.

So here is what happens when all the rich townsfolk turn out for a hospital fundraising event, where there is an Amish auctioneer (for real)! He was the coolest guy ever, but I didn't get a picture of him :(




I totally decorated that myself!













Mr. annddd Mrs. Elvis?!? Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf?!?













The coolest family there!










(BTW it's weird seeing a former teacher boogie on the dance floor. Also weird was a husband and wife placeing bets to see if my friend and I are over 18 or not...kinda strange.)

So, umm...yeah

I've gotten a little behind with things this weekend...I participated with connection weekend at church and ended going out of town to some friends' dorm for a super bowl thing. Afterward we played rock band! *


Anyway, my point is that I haven't had a chance to choose a winner for the giveaway yet...but I promise I will do it after classes today, so get ready.







*Once again fulfilling the urge to include a picture in every post :)

Field Trip to the Pow Wow

Yep, you read that right. I said pow wow.




















For one of the classes I'm taking I was required to go to a pow wow on Saturday and write a story about it. I had never been to a pow wow before and had no idea what to expect. A friend of mine went along with me and we nervously entered the arena where the pow wow was taking place. It turned out to be quite an experience. We missed the dancing competition, which disappointed us, but we still got to hear some of the drummers and see the dancers in their regalia.



































There were booths surrounding the dance area where Native American artisans were selling there handmade items. They were selling everything from jewelry to wooden jewelry boxes. We stopped for awhile to watch a young man carving a tiki style totems. Come to find out he goes to the same university as me. He was really nice and I ended up interviewing him for my paper.






















I ended up having a lot of fun at the pow wow. Seeing everyone there and the pride they have in their heritage made me want to trace my heritage back and see if I have any Native American ancestors. I hope I get the opportunity to go to another one soon, and hopefully get to see the dancers compete next time.