My most recent painting project of turning an rock into a realistic Armadillo. The hardest part was actually finding an armadillo shaped rock, which I owe all to my mom for successfully tracking one down :)

This is my pasta sculpture(s) for my one of my art finals. The assignment was to chose a collection of something (in this case pasta) and turn display it in an interesting way. The added twist is that the objects couldnt look like anything else. So I attempted to make them be a type of "building blocks". This was much more time intensive more difficult than I originally thought. Each pasta scupture took around 3 to 4 hours a piece, not counting the few I had to throw away because they were too similar to an everyday object. The one made out of spaghetti noodles took 7 hours to complete (my patience grew). I am proud of this project, it by no means is my finest work, but with how hard I worked on it, I am happy with its outcome.

There have been several Christmas events, but I have foolishly forgotten my camera for all of them except this recent cookie decorating :) But thats alright, because I am pretty proud of them!  I love how tiny they are

 There was never a better weekend then Thanksgiving Weekend! I was able to see my niece for the first time and held her every chance I could get :) I spent an enormous amount of time with the ones I loved.  The five days I got to spend at home soon had me feeling like I had never left. Nate even got to start a grease fire while cooking the turkey

Group Trip to Chicago :) It was fun to visit Millennium Park again and feel familiar with the park area. I also got to visit the the Chicago Art Institute which is an amazing place with endless amounts of art work to look at. Absolutely overwhelming amazing

My new niece was born on November 12th! I can't wait to see her in person next week for Thanksgiving :) She is a huge, pink, adorable baby. I am in training to make sure i am strong enough to fight Katie for a chance to hold Adeline. In my personal opinion she looks just like Anna when she was little :D

I am so so so thankful for the blessings God has given me with my beloved nieces and nephew, my adoring parents who are so insanely supportive of me, my loving sisters and brothers who txt me every now and then to check up on me, the best friends a girl could ask for, and a chubby cat who still loves me even though I abandoned him. There is no way I deserve all the blessings He has given me. It is so incredibly humbling to sit back and think of how much God has had his hands over my life. 

This is our 6ft tall ice cream inflatable sculpture! We made it out of trash bags and packing tape and some wonderful pipecleaners my mom sent us :)