Coming Right Up!

Hey Hey Hey, It's Kayy!

I havnt forgotten to post at all, but i've been so busy with taking trips that my friend has been so kind to take me on. We went to a mall two hours away a couple days ago and did some school shopping, clothes wise. It was so much fun! And then yesterday, I walked from my house, to downtown where I met my friend again, and we both walked to Joanns C: In total it was only 5 miles because my dad picked us up when we were done, but I have walked there and back which is like 10 miles -____- Ive done it a few times, i've been so out of shape, haha, I need to excersize more, but so far this summer I've lost 5 pounds haha, now I weigh about 105-110, which Isnt bad at all, but im still very lazy -A-

Anyways, and tonight, I will be spending the night at my dear friends house, and will be spending four days with her, I cant wait!  I go over to her house tonight, then in the morning we go to our high school orientation, then we're off for about a 4 hour ride to Grand Rapids, which I guess as a humungous mall with escalators, cant wait!! Anyways, then we spend a night a hotel, the next day is when we go shopping, and we spend another night, and then head back up here :) Just in time to do school SUPPLY shopping and to start school, haha!

Anyways, I took pictures when we went shopping the other day, and Ill make sure to take plenty of pictures over the next few days, and that will be the next post, it'll be a jumbilee of pictures and hauls, haha!  We might even stop at a Michaels craft store, ive never been there! Cant wait!   And don't worry, ill have plenty plenty of artsy pictures too, my friend and I plan to do lots of multi media things, sketching, scrapbooking, art journaling, painting, cant wait!!!

Thanks for listening to me ramble everyone! I'll see you soon! With a possible guest post by my dear friend, Cassidy, shes so arty, and her art is just adorable and awesome, ill have to steal some scans when she comes over :)

Schoool!!! Im already a Junior!

Hey hey hey it's Kayy!

I know I havnt posted that often, but its alright! Ill be post alot more now that school will be starting in exactly 13 days ;)

For me, school means inspiration, all the people are inspiring, sitting in Algebra II will be inspiring, my Advanced Art class will most definatly be inspiring. Sitting in Civics/Economics will surely bud creativeness out of boredome, but I really do love that class! Civics is for one semester, and economics the other. I was in Civics last year,, and I really did enjoy that class, but alas, my freshman year, I had to go to the hospital for appendicitis, and I was away from school for a couple weeks, and when I got back, I admit that I was not very smart. I got lazy, and did not want to make up my school work, and started not doing the new work I was getting.  Sadly, even though I deserved it, I failed 4 classes that year, Biology, Algebra 1, Honors English 1, and History.  So last year, my sophomore year, I chose to drop Civics/Economics (since I only need 3 years of history classes, its easy to make up)    And I gladly and quickly recovered all of my classes with flying colors, bahaha!  Even though you wont be reading this, I want to thank you Ms. Daniel for all the support you gave me!

Anyways, I always get excited to do the school shopping this time of year, to the point I become overbearing at times, haha. Anyways, I like to come up with my own specific school list, and thought I would like to post it to help anyone who needs it or anyone with kids.  Keep in mine that they are tailored to my classes, and I will be a Junior, so it may not be of great help to much anyone, but might help with the general idea? Anyways, here it is,

GENERAL:
Pencils (mechanical and non-mechanical)
Pens
Sharpie
Gluesticks
Highlighters
Planner
White-Out
Plastic project covers
Calculator
Notecards
extra notebook
scotch tape
paper clips
Binder with Page Protecers and Dividers (Homework Binder)
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ENGLISH:
Composition Book
College-Rule Notebook
Binder with page protecters and dividers
Pocket Dictionary
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CIVICS/ECONOMICS:
Binder with page protecters and dividers
college-rule notebook
Composition Book
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CHEMESTRY:
Binder with page protecters and dividers
college-rule notebook
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ALGEBRA II
Binder with page protecters and dividers
college-rule-notebook
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ADVANCED ART
Binder with page protecers
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Spanish/French (It is undetermined)
binder with page protecters

I hope it helped at least someone, haha!

Anyways, when I get money from selling my Netbook to a friend, I will be buying my own school supplies, I will also be decorating all my supplies (One of my favorite things)  And I think this year it will be really cool since I now have the skill of sewing :D

Anyways, Ill post all that junk and more when it comes, thanks for reading everyone! Ill try, no, I will be more frequent with my posts!! I promise! And If im not, i'm going to push myself to at least post every so often! I might even talk a friend of mine coming over to write a guest post, she loves to draw, and I loove love love her style!

Have a great friday everyone, bye!

-Kayy

Un-announced Hiatus

Hey hey hey, Its actually Kayy!

Sorry I havnt posted in so long everyone :( I guess I kind of went on an un-planned hiatus. But Im back, my posts will probably still be spaced out, but at least Im here again.

I havn't really done anything crafty for awhile, I kind of went through a rough patch with some stuff and such. But I'm about to get into sewing, so now I have something I can post about!

I've drawn a little bit but not a ton, nothing worth a blog post about, but hopefully soon that'll change.  I start school in about a month, Ill be going into my Junior year. And when Im in school, that seems to be when I get crafty for some reason, In school is where I get all my ideas and inspiration, haha.

So anyways, yeah, haha. I think I've finally figured out what I want to do for a career and living! I think I want to become a Highschool or College Art Educator or Teacher, haha. Because a little while ago I decided I want to go to an art college, or a college with a really good art program.     Ive even looked at a couple of possibilities where I might go.    I dont know where Im going, but I know what degrees I want to get.  When I graduate from high school (and have my college picked out) I will go there the fall semester and I will be doing all my Undergraduate classes. After those are cleared, I will be working towards my MAE which is my Masters of Art Education, and after that I want to get my MFA, which is just my Masters of Fine Arts.

I think this is the right path for me, but all this was figured out just last night, so I have alot of time to figure it out. I know there are a few pre-college programs I can get into right now, and usually I would go for the fall semester in October, but I want the chance to get to look at a few colleges first, so if I do end up wanting to do this, ill be taking the Spring and possibly Summer semmesters.

On a different note, I'm quite possibly going to be teaching myself how to play on an electric keyboard :)  I know, Im a month away from turning 16, and it might be a bit late to be teaching myself something that kind of seems really difficult for me, but If I really want to do it I think I can :)

Anyways, I think I've rambled enough, if you have thoughts go ahead and share them, Id love to hear them! Again, I apoligize for not posting for so long! Ill try to keep track with it! Because even though I'll have alot more stuff to post about soon, with this college hunt, high school, piano, and everything I might not be able to blog a ton, but hopefully Ill be able to use it as maybe a de-stressor when I can :) Im sure the blog will be okay :)

New Layout and Stuffs

Hey hey hey it's Kay!!

Sorry I havn't posted in awhile! I dont know why I havn't >.<  this is just going to be a quick lazy post though, no pictures... but there will be in the next post! Of which I will be showing you all a few of my most recent drawings (which have been turning out decently if I may say so)

Also, I was wondering if maybe you all would like to visit my mom's blog? Her blog is essentially at first about knitting, but theres little bits and pieces of things she works on, like cross-stitching and 3-D Graphics and all that cool Shiznit! Here's the link:  http://justlilbize.blogspot.com/

She's stll a ' lil' bizzee ' with it and is working on developing it more and more, so keep checking back every so often :)


And about the new layout, I am newly under the alias Kayy-A-Saurus, so I thought it only appropriate that my layout be of adorable dinosaurs, I love dinosaurs, and it's just a more overall cute theme, it's more blog like and I think it gives a better appearance. If you agree or disagree please comment below, tell me what you think, give me any suggestions :) please :)


Well, thats it for my lazy post, sorry I didnt have more to it! I promise to come up with a great post soon!

Have a wonderful night.
-Kayy ....  -A-Saurus

Just a Get-By Post

Hey hey, it's Kayy!

I just wanted to make a quick post, seeing as I havn't posted lately, due to laziness which led to nothing to post about! D:
But don't worry, I plan to get pretty crafty now, summer's getting boring! Haha, so Ill make something, plus I have a couple thoughts to share with you all.

So first, before I get into all that, I just wanted to let you all know that we brought our beloved puppy Maki home tuesday night, and he's just a little sweety haha! I follows me around alot, and we walked a whole bunch wednsday, poor guy, got all tired out and just couldnt walk! But yeah, hes been a bit of a pain in the butt as well, I've had to stay up almost all night every night for potty breaks, but, today we got him a little kennel/cage thing so that he can stay in during the night.

Moving on...

So, I've Hobby Hopped yet again, and I am now into fiber crafts, a.k.a. Knitting and crocheting.

Hobby Hopping - Having so many hobbies you only tackle one or two at a time; The act of changing to another hobby for a any period of time for any or no reason.

So, I've gone from sewing/quilting, to knitting/crocheting. Dont worry, I will come back to sewing, I just don't know when. I might go to scrapbooking, or painting, or writing or drawing, but for now I know Im into crochet/knitting. 

I told someone, and myself, and I've been meaning to for awhile, but I will be designing a crochet dinosaur or several crochet dinosaur patterns, I want to have a whack at it ;D   I've never designed a crochet pattern before, but I'm going to try. I usually prefer knitting over crochet, but, I dont know enough knitting to design a toy, but I do know enough crochet to do so (or at least I think so)

So yeah. :) But at the moment, I'm using a free pattern to make a stuff Totoro from the Miyazaki movie,My Neighbor Totoro, and from the Ghibli Studios logo.

This is that free pattern on ravelry:  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/blue-totoro (posted with permission!)

By the way, feel free to add me as a friend or send a message my way on ravelry, my username is
Kayy-A-Saurus

So yeah, thats what I just started today (well, i started the project today, but Im actually starting it as soon as I finish this blogpost :D)

Also, I said I had some, well, A thought to share with you.

My mom and I were discussing (a loooong time ago) about opening an Etsy shop for mostly crochet/knitting, but other things as well. And selling patterns on ravelry once we get good enough  to design some.

So,,yeah. thats all I wanted to share with you, Im just kinda thinking of opening an Etsy shop with my mom (just because I dont want to open two shops,and because Im a minor so I can't really open one myself anyways ;) )

So, sorry I didnt post about much, but yeah, have a wonderful night all, I'll post on how my Totoro and Dinosaur patterns turn out, bye.

-Kayy

Complete, Total, Utter Boredome

Hey Hey Again, Its Kayy! Ha ha, still lovin' it.

So, if you cant tell by the title, I'm pretty bored. Today, the last day of exams, and last day of school, I am in my 2nd exam hour (my 5th hour) which, if you've read my previous post, is my credit recovery class in which I have nothing to do.  Last hour, I had my Geometry exam, and it actually went by decently, I think I did well.  But now, I've been in this class for an hour, with another hour to go. I cant wait either, which is making it worse. I'm going to the movies after school to see Super 8 with Mike (that would be my boyfriend).

Ive seen a couple reviews about the movie, it sounds pretty cool, it was also the only one airing at the time we get out of school, so lets hope its a good movie.

I'm starving, ha ha. I didn't eat breakfast this morning, and since the exam days are half-days, there's no lunch being served.  My own fault for not eating breakfast xD ha ha. ill get something at the cinema, or the gas station. The cinema is WAY expensive. I am not paying 4 dollars for skittles. I'm sorry.

So... last hour, I drew a pretty cool whale with city buildings on its back. Id love to take a picture and upload it now, but of course cell-phones aren't allowed in school (which is reasonable, I'm not complaining) So ill just have to upload it later. I also have to do that post I told you guys about earlier, the one about the Creative Every Day challenge, ha ha, cant wait! I cant wait, just another week before I can get my puppy, I will also upload a picture of him when I get home. His name is Maki :D

What else to ramble about? Pass the time, pass the time, time slow, do you have a dime, id like to help the hobo.  There's no point to that rhyme, I'm just sort of kind of bored. Poor hobo :( I feel bad for homeless people. I'm thankful I'm not homeless, very much so.

Hmmm... click clack click clack,,, she should stop stomping her sandals. Hey hey, that was almost a, uhmm.. whats the word? where everything in a sentence starts with the same letter,, like peter piper had pack of pickled peppers,  ha ha. Wasn't it called an alliteration? Let me google that...

hey, i was kinda right :D cool.

I'm sorry if this post bores you, it bores me too. I'm sitting with nothing to do, ill go cry boo hoo. ha ha, I'm not too good at poetry, but I do write some, i should type them out, make a page for them or something... I don't know.

It got cold for some reason yesterday. All week, it was almost so hot it was unbearable, and then yesterday and today, it cooled down to the 60's

Fire Escape. Magical Northmen Tour. Senior Countdown. 1,2,3,4,5, 1, 4 Samsung 900DF. Location: Add. BIC Velocity Pencil #2. Sony, home back pwr off, option >

If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm reading random posters and objects around me. I would draw some more, but I've no ideas, i need to be inspired...  Well, instead of making this post even more boring, I think ill publish and go read some other random blogs. Works for me :)

Have a wonderful, exciting day everyone,

-Kayy

Where'd that come from??

Hey hey hey, its Kayy :) I love saying that ha ha.

Anyways, I meant to post a couple days ago, but, I wasn't sure what to post about :) So, I'll just ramble on and see what comes up.

I want to share some drawings with you guys! So far, I've only gotten 9 views, but I'm hoping for more :)

So basically, on Tuesday I was sitting in class with a friend of mine, and she had me draw a character from a story she's writing, and it turned out pretty well!

Sorry the picture quality is really bad, I promise to get a new one soon!

But yeah, that seemed to of gotten my mind going, and in my 5th hour (right after that class with my Friend) I was just sitting there with nothing to do. Its not that I just wasn't doing work, my 5th hour is my credit recovery class, because I messed up my freshman year, and ended up failing 4 classes, but, its OK. I went to summer school for one class, and I recovered the other three this year, so for the past month or so, Ive had nothing to do in that class.

As I was saying, I was sitting with nothing to do, and decided to pull out my sketch book. I whipped out a couple drawings, and I think they look pretty OK, here they are:

So, there they are, and I was kind of hoping for some feedback? I'm getting better, always trying anyways :)

So ( i need to find a way to stop starting every sentence with so!)  Yesterday, Today, And Tomorrow, are all exam days, tomorrow being the last two exams and the last day of school.   Yesterday I had my two hardest exams, Physics and English II, which actually seemed pretty easy, I think I did well. Today, were my two easiest exams, Art and Gym. Art, we got to listen to three songs, and then illustrate them. I illustrated a song by the Beastie Boys with a picture of a dancing robot :) Ill need to take a photo of it and edit it in here, ha ha.   And tomorrow, I would have my 4th and 5th hour exams, so, ill only be taking my Geometry exam since my 5th hour has no exam, but I still have to sit in class, or be counted as absent, fun fun.

So, yesterday during my English exam, I made a couple of drawing/sketches/doodles, Ill be making final drawings of them, and then sharing them with you in another post :)

Now, I want to show you a random mixed media painting I did :) It's not toooo mixed, but, its more than one media, so its all good, ha ha. I'm trying to explore into mixed media, and this is one of my first 'expiriments'

The Idea came out of a book called Drawing Lab, I don't remember the exact assignment, but it led to this.  This is just on some sketchbook paper, using charcoal, acrylic paint, gesso, marker, crayon, and something to scratch the gesso with ;D

Okay, so, over at Creative Every Day, I signed up for the challenge, and I'm so happy to be able to :)  and the theme that's free to use, is Metamorphosis. So far, my idea for a project, is to show the progress of my art/drawings, in a sort of timeline theme, that will be tomorrow or Saturday's post for sure. For today, I will be working on a drawing (to be included in the timeline as well) and that will have its own post when it's done.

Anyways, I've rambled about sketches, exams, ideas, and such, and I don't know what else to ramble your ears off about,, so I think I'll  sign off now, until I post again,

Have a wonderful night everyone!

My Mind: Symmetrically Unorganized?

So, this post is just a mindless ramble about doodling and such, I am not sure it will make complete sense (its already written on paper, I wrote it while bored at my grandmothers house, I will not alter it from the writing besides grammar/spelling mistakes)

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Would it be OK to call my mind Symmetrically Unorganized?

I'm unsure if this is a real term or not, but there is alot of thinking behind it.

So, last night (this would actually be about 3-4 days prior to this post) I'm at my friend's graduation party. But anyways, I'm sitting there quietly, and a couple of Michelle's friends are talking about doodling during class; and if I remember correctly, this is generally what was said,,

The more geometric, such as squares and stuff, your doodles are, the more you're actually listening in class, and the more squiggly and swirly your doodles are, the less you're listening

This isn't about whether or not I listen when I doodle, but about the way a mind is organized.

When I draw or doodle, I don't really doodle designs, I more like draw on my homework.

And when I do draw designs, I favor being symmetrical (which would be related to geometrical, right?) but I do love swirls and flourishes as pretty as they are.

This may not be a matter of mindful organization, but if it is, then I believe I lean towards the more, not listening (or unorganized) part of mind, involved with focusing on making this doodle more like a drawing and perfecting it. So, would that actually mean I'm organized, just in a different way? or would it mean I'm unorganized, and not focused?

I can be organized more tangibly, like how straight a label is on an envelope, (which by the way, i find stamping envelopes and filing papers to be pretty fun, and the noises are like music to me). And the times where I might have 'OCD' moments, like Tetris with a grocery shopping car, but with some other things I don't care how organized they are.

So, this post may be a big long rambling about nothing, but I think I like that, Symmetrically Unorganized, it just sounds cool to say/think.

Now I cant wait to draw and make art, should I take pictures of my processes? Or do before and afters? Should this blog be strictly about drawing/painting, or all my crafts and tidbits of my life?

I don't know, but I'm excited to find out, I hope at least one person finds this interesting,and that maybe, someone or some people will find this blog interesting as I get it going.

Thanks for reading my ramblings, I hope you all have a wonderful day, week, month, year and overall a rewarding life :)

(wow, I haven't written or typed this much in a long time, feels, nice)