The Hunger Games 30 Day Challenge

Day 1: Your favorite character:
Day 2 Your least favorite character:
Day 3: A character you hate that everyone loves:
Day 4: A character you love that everyone hates:
Day 5: Your favorite fight/battle scene:
Day 6: A scene that made you laugh:
Day 7: A scene that made you cry:
Day 8: The character you are most like:
Day 9: Your favorite quote:
Day 10: Peeta or Gale:
Day 11: Something you hate about the series:
Day 12: A character you wish hadn’t died:
Day 13: A character you wish had died:
Day 14: Your favorite tribute (aside from Peeta/Katniss):
Day 15: Your least favorite tribute (aside from Peeta/Katniss):
Day 16: A question you wish had been answered in the book:
Day 17: The worst death:
Day 18: A song that reminds you of the series:
Day 19: Your favorite pairing:
Day 20: Your least favorite pairing:
Day 21: A pairing you don’t get:
Day 22: Your favorite book of the three:
Day 23: Your favorite secondary character:
Day 24: Your least favorite secondary character:
Day 25: Your dream cast:
Day 26: Your favorite scene in The Hunger Games:
Day 27: Your favorite scene in Catching Fire:
Day 28: Your favorite scene in Mockingjay:
Day 29: Your favorite thing about the entire series:
Day 30: A book/series that you would rec to fellow fans


 Day 1: Your favorite character: Clearly Katniss!!

Redesigned Toms

 So this dear thing called Pinterest has inspired me to do more DIY projects. So my first project is redesigned or upholstered Toms. I bought them about 2 years ago and they are covered in a knitted design, so naturally they'll start to unravel and get holes in them. Holes are in no way appealing so covering them was a must.

This is the finished project. And unfortunately I don't have progress pictures but all I did was get some fabric glue and fabric and glue it on. I also folded the edges in to keep it from fraying. I had to secure the glued fabric with pins until it dried and I added buttons for a bit of flare. I also matched the direction of the knitted stripes with my black and white striped fabric to give it that authentic Toms feel.

GNOMES, Gnomes, gnomes...

Well with the relocation of Crestwood's own personal Garden Gnome (really Laura W.) an idea formed for a fundraiser for Ty and myself so we can travel with iGo. And of course it has to do with gnomes!! It is like "Flocking of Flamingos" (http://www.fundraising-ideas.org/DIY/flamingo.htm) just with Gnomes... 

SOOOOOOO...... 

#1 We need a catchy name for our traveling Gnomes. My dad suggested Gnome Gnation and having all of our gnomes have different professions. So far on that we have a Rodeo Gnome and possibly and Priest. Ha ha. But Flocking of Flamingos sounds pretty awesome, our Gnomes deserve awesomeness too!

#2 We need gnomes or gardening pots. With lack of gnomes I do not believe that we will be successful. We're thinking we'll need about fifty. If you're wondering why pots keep reading...

#3 We already have two Gnomes.

This is our first gnome, Jones. We found him on the 50% off table at Ritter. My sister and I painted him yesterday instead of going to the football game. The paint brought him to life! He is our little rodeo guy!

This is our second gnome, Ower. We made him out of gardening pots!! His name came from the WOW website (if you can't figure out what that means, don't worry about it...) This is the one my dad said could pass as a priest, just because his hat is so tall. Trying to figure out how to do everything took awhile about three hours overall. Future ones should go faster for sure.

Sink or Swim

There comes a time when you are no longer under leadership and aren’t guided with what to do. At that time you have to decide whether or not to sink or swim.
Swimming is not the easiest thing to do because it takes more of your time, energy, and sanity. You are put in tough situations and have to think quickly. You must lead, fight, and work harder than you have before. Your burden is greater because people other than yourself are depending on you. But you must earn their trust and respect. You are held at a higher standard and are twice as responsible. But you have the chance to teach others to swim as well!
Sinking isn’t all daisies either. You are forced to see everyone else sink as well; a puddle of death slowly embracing you. A straight identifier of a sinker is they may try to swim but give up to easily resulting back to where they were before. Your burden is just yourself and no other. There is no responsibility only free-will.  It is hard to mask yourself as a swimmer when your sinking; it is evident to everyone around. It is an easy road to certain death for all, because a sinker can only teach others how to sink.
The swimmers need to arise from the crowd and begin to take charge, teaching others to swim, and pulling up those that are drowning. If not then we’re all sinking.
Will you choose to sink, or swim…