Oh, Happiness:)

#1 Thing that I'm happy about right now is that I finished my Mystery Bag Project! So, here it is! :D

^This was before I glued anything down by the way. Right when I saw the circular lego knew that it was going to be my focal point right away. The colored squares that you see in the middle of the cardboard is a bunch of erasers that I cut up into little pieces. The plastic container in the upper right corner is melted crayons and below it is there wrappers I ripped up. On the lower right corner is an eye glass holder, which I also tore apart. Lastly I folded and cut the pink foam into leaf like shapes.

 ^So this is the final product! As you can see I changed the direction of the erasers and I think it highlighted the focal point better. (Also this was taken with a flash and the picture below it wasn't). I was inspired by elements when I was making this piece. You can probably guess how I pictured the elements, but I'll point them out anyway. The blue area is water, on the whole left side is earth or plants, the giant circle lego surrounded by red, orange and yellow is fire or like the sun, the melted crayons in the upper right corner could be ice or clouds, and below it is the brown area which also could be earth (like sand or dirt).

 oh ya, I just added some numbers and letters to the middle blue section with a blue colored pencil because I honestly forgot about that guideline until now.

#2 Reason why I'm happy is that I just went to Target and got a green lap desk (that matches my bed) that I can use on my bed to draw or do homework because I don't like sitting on the actual desk right next to my bed. And, I also got blue curtains that match parts of my bedspread. My bedroom was remolded a summer or two ago and it went from a twin bed and a pink themed room, to two different shades of purple on the walls, and a leafy and flowery bright lime green (with a little blue an purple) bedspread on a full sized bed. My room finally feels complete. Now I just need to bug my parents to let me design more rooms... :)


#3 Reason why I'm happy is that I'm almost finished with my AP Lang summer book dealio; I have a whole list of books I'm super excited to read next, and lastly I'm eating my favorite cereal for dinner and I think I'm gonna watch Harry Potter sometime soonish. Aren't blogs great? They let you rant about everything you feel like, and people don't even have to read them, but the process of typing all this stuff just makes me happy too. :) :D

A Little Update

To anyone who cares- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was amazing, so go see it!!! :) :D

I've been working on my Mystery Bag project like a crazy person today. Now that I'm done arranging giant lego's, melting crayons, and cutting up erasers, I actually have to glue everything on! I've noticed that whenever I make abstract art I try to make it secretly look like something. This time I'm going to use all my large pieces to make a nature like theme -- I have foam that kinda looks like leaves, some fabric that will be water, the erasers and ripped up papers could be sand. I'm really excited to see what the end product will be with all the paint and everything finished. I'll post pics as soon as I finish!

Harry Potter!!!

If you all didn't know, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan girl, so since I'm super duper excited to go the midnight premiere of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2," I decided to make this as a little remembrance of this enormous finale. (Personally I think the texture isn't showing up that well on the computer. I have a Harry Potter Calendar so I got the general picture of Harry from that, but I tried to make it my own a bit...)

 Yes, I will dress up with my Ron Weasley t-shirt, I'll have my crazy Hermione-like hair down; I'll be wearing my key chain golden snitches on either a belt or purse strap; I may have a lightning bolt scar on my forehead too, but oh well- I will be accompanied by one of my friends as Dumbledore, and my brother will be wearing a small Gryffindor robe. Can't wait for the exciting night! 

And I desperately need to start on some art homework... :P

P.S.- Thank you again Leslie for getting me pretty much every piece of Harry Potter merchandise I just mentioned above! :)