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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Reason #5 why I love my iphone...

Yep this is really in my top 5 reasons why I love my iphone.

I really like to read books that I'm not smart enough to read.

(I attribute this to my piano teacher Mrs. Amermann who made me play songs that were too advanced for me. But once I meddled through it I found such a great sense of accomplishment I felt the need to add this within other parts of my life.)

People are also generally surprised at my inarticulacy, bad spelling and lack of grammar in proportion for my love of reading.

What this all really led to was a very heavy purse which always had the book I was currently reading, and a pocket dictionary and a pocket thesaurus (which I asked for on my birthday during high school).
Ah, but now I have an iphone! My favorite application is dictionary.com! Here is a list of the words that I looked up just during the last 100 pages of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.

pneumatic
indecorous
sepulchral
bumptious
dolichocephalic
neurasthenia
coquettish

Such a beautiful language. Now I even know how to pronounce the words and their many forms because my dictionary.com app says the words out loud for me.

Ahh technology.(which is a very ironic statement to write after reading Brave New World.)


Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Baby Craziness

My sister just had a baby February 9th. I know I'm a proud aunt.
There is nothing better than being an aunt. I get to try out all my home-made weird ideas and because my nephews are so little they don't even know they are getting a present. I'm sure when they get a little older and realize what a present is they'll love it. I am the cool young aunt.
Anyways...the other night I was avoiding some homework (what's new) and I made some onesies for my new nephew, Asher. I thought you might like to see them...
Yeah I made them really easily. Anyone can do this faux screen printing. All you need is freezer paper, and iron and some paints.
1. I cut out all of the images from the freezer paper.
2. Then I took the left overs and ironed them on the clothe.
3. Next I squirted some puff paint on the left over holes and used a sponge brush to make the paint smooth.
4. Let them dry over night and peel the paper away and prepare to be amazed. (I sure was)

I love making slightly alternative baby clothing. Something that is brightly colored and sometimes witty.
oh yeah, the kid...here is the cutie!