Notice

Just so you all know, I will be posting a jewelry making part 2 as soon as I get pictures.  It will probably be about making necklaces with barrel clasps.  I am also hoping to post a few of my favorite favorite hairstyles.  I might do videos for the hairstyles, but I might not.  It all depends.....

-Jaime-

5 Random Things Post

Hey Everyone!!!!!  It's Jaime, I know I haven't posted in FOREVER!  

The first random thing is quilts.  I just finished a baby quilt, and it's so cute!!!  It's my first quilt and really simple, but still cute.  Its theme is cute cartoon frogs.  Me and Mom went to the store a while ago and found three froggy themed materials and one plain green.  Court just finished cutting out squares for a quilt and she just a few minutes ago started sewing.

The second random thing is Mikey.  He came back for a visit!  He's grown soooo much.  He's taller, can talk more (though he's forgotten a few animal sounds), and has really long hair.  When we watched him a little while ago, we actually put a barrette in his hair to hold his bangs back.  Shhhh...don't tell his dad.  :)

The third random thing is August.  This August we kids are going to go to our grandparents house in North Carolina.  We are probably going to stay there about a week.  And their neighbor has offered to let us swim in her underground pool.  I can hardly wait to go there!!!!!

The fourth random thing is just a couple hairstyle blogs that I like.  The first is cutegirlshairstyles.com.  I really love this blog.  It has some really cute hairstyle ideas.  The other is princesshairstyles.com.  I really like this one too.  They both have really cute hairstyles.

And, last but definitely not least, my fifth random thing.  Aunt Becky and our cousins are moving back to Virginia!!!  I'm so excited!!!  They had moved to Delaware, but they found it wasn't a very nice place.  Their were alot of child molesters around their and they didn't feel safe.  They're moving back into a giant house.  I think it has about 7 bedrooms and is two story with a basement.  So yeah.  But I'm so excited!!

Well, that's it for my five random things post.  Hope you liked it!

-Jaime-

P.S.  If you read this, I miss you Lexi!!

Contacts For Courtney

Guess what?!  Forget about guessing; I'll just tell you.

Yesterday, I went to the eye doctor.  I haven't been in about 5 years, so...  Yeah, it's been a while.

They ran through all the tests and told me that my eyes had hardly changed at all.  They also said that my eyes would be perfect for contacts.

 The man who examined my eyes had actually offered me tinted contacts in the case that I wanted to change my eye color, and although I really like blue eyes, I figured getting those kind of contacts would be like trying to be something I'm not.

Not to mention, God made me who I am, and I wouldn't want to change that.  And so, I went with the clear contacts.  =)

Once the man had finished checking my eyes, he sent me to this lady who showed me how to put my contacts in.  I thought it'd be kind of hard to get them in, but it was a snap!  =D

The lady was all like, "I love you...  You're so easy.  Some people take hours...."

Once I got my contacts in, the lady told me all about how to take care of them and gave me a bag with some starter supplies.

I also picked out new glasses while we were in there.  They're different than the ones I have right now, but they aren't bad.

Took me a while to pick 'em out though.  The lady kept giving me all these different pairs of glasses, most of which looked really WEIRD on me.  O.o

I'm pretty happy with the ones I picked out though...  And I'm ESPECIALLY happy about the contacts.  I've been waiting YEARS for these things!!

I can hardly even feel they're there.  It's almost like I can just automatically see.  =)

Well, I guess that's it for now.  Later!

-Courtney-

 

I'm Almost Done School!!!!!

I'm almost done all my school for the year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I finished Science, I finished Language Tuesday, I'll be done History next week, and I'll finish Spelling and Math in two weeks!!!!!!!  I'm so happy!!!!!!!

Then I can finally pay more attention to crafts and making things for my hope chest.  (I got a hope chest for my Birthday.)


-Jaime-

P.S. Sadly, we probably won't be having a garden this year because our garden spot has a disease and is killing all the plants we planted.  But, Dad says we might be able to do a few of those upside down, hanging plants on the front of our house.

Jewelry Making Part 1 Earrings

Hey everyone!! I thought I'd just do a post on how to make jewelry.  It's really pretty and fun to make.  This post will be about making earrings. 

Here's a picture of some earrings I have made.

Items Needed

I apologize that I don't know what these are called, 

but I will call them pins.  You can get the kind

with the loop at the end (left) or the kind with the

flat edge at the end (right).  I think the latter are better.

Earring hooks.  You can get these at craft stores.  

These came from Ben Franklin Craft Store.

These hook well onto the pins (the looped ones)

in the top items-needed picture.

Pliers and wire cutters.  Some people like to have 

another set of pliers, but I find one pair sufficient.

You will also need small-holed glass beads of your choice.

 To start, string your beads onto your pin.  Make 

sure to leave at least 3/4 inch of the pin showing....

Then, using your pliers, pinch the pin right above

the beads and bend the pin away from 

yourself at a right angle over the pliers.

Then, shift your pliers upward onto the other edge of the pin.

Then, curl your pin back towards yourself around the pliers......

Like so...............

Then, bend the long piece of the pin around underneath the pliers, above the bead(s).

Like so..............Then just clip off the last
little bit of the pin that you couldn't wrap.

Then bend the loop on your earring hook to the side.......

Slip the other part of your earring in, bend back the loop, and there you have it.

 Again, these are very pretty and fun to make.  If you're first getting started making jewelry, it may be a leeetle bit expensive.  Not too bad, just a little............Well, hope you like 'em!

-Jaime-

The New Kitchen Floor and the Visit

In the middle of our chicken coup project, Mom and Dad decided that they would like to put new tile in our kitchen.  So for a few hours on Friday, we ripped off the old tile stuff.  Mainly me (Jaime) and Will, because Court had gone with Mom and Dad to the store.  Well, after me and Will had done most of the floor, I called Dad and told him jokingly to bring home icecream.  He just laughed and said that was funny.  

Well, Mom, Dad, and Court got home and they seemed surprised at how much we had done.  Then Dad said, "Jaime, we got something for you," and pulled out two tubs of icecream!  I gave him a huge bear hug and then Mom and Dad did the rest of the floor while me and Will sat on the counter eating icecream (the table had been taken apart and moved to the other room).  It felt kinda nice watching someone else work.  Plus, Will had driven a paint scraper into my finger and my hands were scratched up from the pieces of tile.

Then, on Saturday, our cousins came over, which was a COMPLETE surprise because they live in Delaware.  And we kids played the whole day--Rodney, Tyler, Will, and Court played with airsoft guns, me and Rebekah played baseball, and Trevor switched back and forth, mostly playing basketball with himself.  Taylor wasn't there--she had gone to play with some friends.  We kids also went for a bike ride, but some people had to ride on the pegs because we only had five bikes, and we had seven people.  And then on the way back I tried to get off the pegs and fell because my shoe lace was stuck.  But the bike was practically stopped, so it wasn't too bad.  Then, Aunt Beque and our cousins were waiting for friends to pick them up for a few hours.  Then, it was already 6:30, so we didn't get much done.  Mom and Dad managed to put this blue primer on the floor.  Then Annie tried to walk into the kitchen and Mom freaked, saying "I don't want blues clues all over the living room."  Mom and Dad also put concrete leveling stuff on the floor, but that's all.

And today, I woke up at about 8:30 or 9:00am to the sound of talking and pounding in the kitchen.  After a few minutes, Mom and Dad pop into the room and say "wake up, we got breakfast".  Then Dad starts waving a sausage egg mcmuffin in front of me--only it had no egg, because with the egg the sandwich cost $2.80 and without the egg it cost $1.00.  Breakfast was grand.  It was a nice change from having cereal for breakfast Friday, cereal for breakfast Saturday, no lunch, and cereal for dinner Saturday.

But then it took forever just to get one corner of the kitchen  tiled.  And then the tile cutter kept breaking the tiles rather than cutting them.  Then, the drills we were using to mix the mortar all died.  Then, we had to grind down several parts of the kitchen floor because it was uneven.  Then, the mortar dried!  So we had to throw away a ton of mortar and a bucket because the mortar was stuck to the bucket!  And when I say stuck, I mean stuck.  With all my strength, I couldn't pull the mixer out of it.

And now, we're going back to it.  Sorry I don't have any pictures, but Mom and Dad probably wouldn't want me to take any.  The job, with all the bad stuff listed above, was pretty unnerving.  =)

-Jaime-

Summer Camp Ad

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knew about any good summer camps that a 12 year old, 16 year old, and a 17 year old could all go to.  I want a Christian camp that is CHEAP.  I looked up Christian summer camps and almost all of them were 300 to 1000 dollars at LEAST.  The cheapest one I found was 125 to 300 dollars a week.  I would like a camp that costs about--I dunno--50-75 a week because there are three of us kids.  PLEASE leave a comment if you know of any.  I REALLY want to go to summer camp this year.  Court and Will have done it but I couldn't.  At the time I was too little.  So, once again, PLEASE comment if you have any suggestions.  Thanks

-Jaime-