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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.

My pirate WiFi connection disappeared last week, so I just worked out a bridged router solution with a progressive-scooter-dude-neighbor over the weekend. I’m still two posts late, but they’re coming people. Here’s what I’m working on this very minute:

Inspired by the prolific Beef this last Saturday, I’m making my first ball of Artisan bread. Heard about how to do it on the radio and looked it up on the web. http://splendidtable.publicradio.org/recipes/accompaniments_fiveminute.shtml You can make a batch with 3-4 ingredients and a little stirring, toss the risen result in the fridge for up to 2 weeks, then just slice off a glob any time you want to bake a really tasty bread. This is just the Dough at the beginning of the rising period. The smell is inspiring. When I held the bowl up to the kitchen wall, Ms. Liberty seemed to approve.

Below is what the science experiment looked like after 90 minutes.  The perfect excuse to nibble a bit.  Ahhhh.  Fresh rising dough flavor tastes like a promise you know will be kept =)

Technically it’s day two, but since I haven’t gone to bed yet, it still counts as day one, I guess.

It’s been a while since I’ve painted anything, so I just did a small, simple thing for day one. I actually forgot about Thing-a-day until the last minute, but oh well. I managed to get something done, at least!

The picture is awful, but hopefully by the end of this, I’ll be able to take a picture of a painting that doesn’t wash out.