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Ha, ha, ha. Since the last time I posted on thing-a-day was on the 12th, I have obviously not done very well with making something new every day. I suppose I can blame my lack of posting on school work or the many college visits and auditions that I went on, but it’s really just attributed to my lack of persistence to do this every day. However, I figure I may as well still post what I have gotten around to do - less on the craft side, but I managed to take some pictures of what I did make… memories.

OH, that was bad! Ew, haha.
Anyway, here goes - mostly photographs.

Late night cupcakes in the cold! I love the store display - Crumbs, in Westwood.

Grins with missing teeth - February days in the park!

Filled my city with bubbles! At least for a minute.

Secretly planted flowers in the middle of the night with Katie!

The beach in Santa Barbara on a cloudy day.

Organized social activities for my choir - a trip back to childhood!

On the non-photo side, I made some index-card collages to send in the mail. Fun!

Besides that, I also baked a few batches of brownies, a round of dinosaur-shaped sugar cookies, made a home-made lava lamp, started a journal, and a bunch of other things that I currently cannot remember or photograph.

In any case, I am hoping that this isn’t my last post! I will be back in these last few days, I hope. But if this is my last post, I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed looking at what everyone else made - everyone is so creative! Thanks for reading, and perhaps our paths will cross again in the future.

Pretty day at the beach, photographed so I remember that the sun does still exist and Minnesota snowstorms do not last year round. They should end… about June, I’m guessing.

Let’s get in the car and go. Now.

Day 13. Done and done.

 I’m still experimenting with origami.  It’s something I always mean to try, and just didn’t until my first box yesterday.  Today I made another origami box, this time the theme was sand and I added some typical beach items on the top to dress it up a bit, make it more interesting.  Inside I decided it would be a good place to store our sentimental beach finds some shells and driftwood pieces.  Origami is easier than I thought it would be and enjoyable.  Tomorrow, I stretch from my comfort zone and do something a bit more complicated.

I recently took some of my handmade cards into a local flower shop to sell.

The owner loved them, and asked me if I could also do invitations for her daughters beach-themed birthday party.

Here is the prototype I came up with that I’ll be taking to her tomorrow.

What do you think?