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Monday, April 27, 2009
First glimpses of summer fun...
This is what over $2,000 dollars in books and a summer full of preparation classes for the bar exam looks like. Pop can for scale, and remember Genaro and I each have our own pile -- twice the fun (unfortunately not for the price of one though! hehe!)
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Finals
Busy working away, trying to finish up those last few classes before graduation. Still finding time here and there for cupcake design and this year's autism walk-a-thon here in Portland.
Sunflower cupcakes! Oreo centers, frosting petals, m&m ladybugs, and fruit roll-up leaves.
Autism Walk-A-Thon 2009
Star of the show!
Attack Kenzie!Can't tell we're all related with the super pale skin and same exact hair color! :)
Cassandra loooooved the matching shirts.
Happy face and happy pose!
Sunflower cupcakes! Oreo centers, frosting petals, m&m ladybugs, and fruit roll-up leaves.
Autism Walk-A-Thon 2009
Star of the show!
Attack Kenzie!Can't tell we're all related with the super pale skin and same exact hair color! :)
Cassandra loooooved the matching shirts.
Happy face and happy pose!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
off on spring break...
Lots of work to do, but some fun family visiting too over spring break next week!
In the mean time, two fun things to put on the blog:
1) Perhaps not strictly "fun" but I enjoyed the point it makes.
All credit to the Cartoonist Stuart Carlson
2) And another fun thing to put on the blog: the coloring book for lawyers!
Uncle Bob actually gave us a copy of this. One of his patients is a lawyer and when he mentioned a niece in law school they insisted he give us a copy and brought one in to their next appointment.
Here's a link to the fun coloring book:
http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/Coloring-Book-for-Lawyers.pdf
In the mean time, two fun things to put on the blog:
1) Perhaps not strictly "fun" but I enjoyed the point it makes.
All credit to the Cartoonist Stuart Carlson
2) And another fun thing to put on the blog: the coloring book for lawyers!
Uncle Bob actually gave us a copy of this. One of his patients is a lawyer and when he mentioned a niece in law school they insisted he give us a copy and brought one in to their next appointment.
Here's a link to the fun coloring book:
http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archives/Coloring-Book-for-Lawyers.pdf
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Lincoln City Trip
Our family has a favorite little motel at the beach, and mom, dad, Genaro and I escaped there for the weekend. Genaro and I brought along a lot of law text books, but we enjoyed some walks on the beach and the amazing view too!
Lincoln City, the beach city, has an awesome tradition of placing glass floats out on the beach for people to find and keep. My dad is an avid beach comber and has been trying to find a float since they began placing them out. He wakes up early and spends hours walking the tide pools and combing the dunes. I sleep in and stroll on the beach leisurely. Dad has found zero floats. I have found one, and Genaro and I found a second one last year. Now certainly my dad deserves a float, right? Well Genaro and I got him an early birthday gift and gave him a gift certificate to make his own glass float. Here are some pictures (and video) from the glass float making!
After getting molten glass onto the blowing tube, you roll the molten glass over chips of colored glass that will melt into your project as you warm it up in the super hot ovens.
The different colored glasses melt at different temperatures and you need even heating so you have to slowly spin the molten glass mix in the furnace, it gets so hot it is almost dripping off the end of the pole.
Here is video of dad twisting the glass to make swirled patterns of the colors. You can see how hot it is by the glowing color and how it droops from side to side when it is turned. Oh, and you can see the pug who hangs out by the warm furnaces hanging out on a chair in the background.
The pole the glass was on is hollow. A tube is attached to the end of that and you slowly blow air into the mass of molten glass to make a small bubble and then work all the way to the full float size. Here is the float after my dad blew enough air into it to make it the right size. The worker actually detached the float pretty easily, and then put one last chunk of molten glass on the bottom to make a foot for the float to rest on. (They also stamp the year and the name of the studio on the bottom of the stand, which is kind of cool!)
The final, amazing product. Craig Chapman glass works? Sounds good to me!
Lincoln City, the beach city, has an awesome tradition of placing glass floats out on the beach for people to find and keep. My dad is an avid beach comber and has been trying to find a float since they began placing them out. He wakes up early and spends hours walking the tide pools and combing the dunes. I sleep in and stroll on the beach leisurely. Dad has found zero floats. I have found one, and Genaro and I found a second one last year. Now certainly my dad deserves a float, right? Well Genaro and I got him an early birthday gift and gave him a gift certificate to make his own glass float. Here are some pictures (and video) from the glass float making!
After getting molten glass onto the blowing tube, you roll the molten glass over chips of colored glass that will melt into your project as you warm it up in the super hot ovens.
The different colored glasses melt at different temperatures and you need even heating so you have to slowly spin the molten glass mix in the furnace, it gets so hot it is almost dripping off the end of the pole.
Here is video of dad twisting the glass to make swirled patterns of the colors. You can see how hot it is by the glowing color and how it droops from side to side when it is turned. Oh, and you can see the pug who hangs out by the warm furnaces hanging out on a chair in the background.
The pole the glass was on is hollow. A tube is attached to the end of that and you slowly blow air into the mass of molten glass to make a small bubble and then work all the way to the full float size. Here is the float after my dad blew enough air into it to make it the right size. The worker actually detached the float pretty easily, and then put one last chunk of molten glass on the bottom to make a foot for the float to rest on. (They also stamp the year and the name of the studio on the bottom of the stand, which is kind of cool!)
The final, amazing product. Craig Chapman glass works? Sounds good to me!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Cupcake designing!
Some Spaghetti and Meatballs (noodles = piped frosting, meatballs = ferrer rocher chocolates, sauce = strawberry jam, parmesan = shaved white chocolate)
Turkey place settings for thanksgiving (made with help from Welshie boys!)
Cupcakes to celebrate friend getting U.S. citizenship!
I bought a really cool cupcake decorating book called "Hello Cupcake!" at powells last year and since then, we've also made christmas tree and snowmen cupcakes, christmas light and christmas ornament cupcakes and cupcakes decorated like pool balls, I just don't know where the pictures for those ones are! :)
Monday, February 16, 2009
The Worst Day of the Year ride!!!
Portland has a number of fun rides throughout the year, and on February 15th, statistically the rainiest day of the year, is the "Worst Day of the Year Ride." We took part this year and here are a few of our photos. (funny side note -- this was the 8th annual ride, and since they've started it has NEVER rained on the day of the ride!!! Not that we're complaining!)
This is the Community Cycling Center (funds raised by the ride go to them!). They do tons of awesome stuff, including teaching kids how to be safe riders, they run a program where low income individuals can earn bikes, and one of my favorites is a stealth "get lit" program where they go out at dusk and equip unlit cyclists with front and rear lights! Awesome!
Lots of people dress up for the ride. Here is my favorite, the Blazer bike, with various Trailblazer bobble heads on the back!
Another good example of the costumes, crazy girl with chicken on her helmet and superman-like underwear! 18 miles goes pretty fast when you're laughing at all the costumes and you have rest stops with hot chocolate and cookies! :)
This is the Community Cycling Center (funds raised by the ride go to them!). They do tons of awesome stuff, including teaching kids how to be safe riders, they run a program where low income individuals can earn bikes, and one of my favorites is a stealth "get lit" program where they go out at dusk and equip unlit cyclists with front and rear lights! Awesome!
Lots of people dress up for the ride. Here is my favorite, the Blazer bike, with various Trailblazer bobble heads on the back!
Another good example of the costumes, crazy girl with chicken on her helmet and superman-like underwear! 18 miles goes pretty fast when you're laughing at all the costumes and you have rest stops with hot chocolate and cookies! :)
We've been doing things, just not blogging things...
A few pics from a family trip to the Oregon coast Aquarium
Jellies!
Kenzie checking out some fishies and becoming part of an exhibit.
Puffin friend!
Genaro converses with the ginormous crabs -- they look straight out of the movie Alien, and they would follow people and LOOK at you. If not for that thick glass, I'm pretty sure they would attach to your face and soon a mini alien would burst from your stomach.
Jellies!
Kenzie checking out some fishies and becoming part of an exhibit.
Puffin friend!
Genaro converses with the ginormous crabs -- they look straight out of the movie Alien, and they would follow people and LOOK at you. If not for that thick glass, I'm pretty sure they would attach to your face and soon a mini alien would burst from your stomach.
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