Volleyball Number Tag

At volleyball, we got a back pack to carry all our v-ball stuff. Everyone in the club got one. The same one. So, after weeks of searching the contents of every bag before finding my own, I decided to do something about it, thus, a project was born.

I printed two of these volleyballs off from the internet.

I cut them both out.

Then cut out two clear vinyl circles the same size.

I got my trusty cricket out and cut out two 12's and two # signs.

Then I glued the volleyballs together, back-to-back, and glued a # sign and a 12 to each side.

I laid the vinyl down on top of it and sewed around the edges.

Quick hole punch, a little ribbon, and never searching through someone else's bag again!

This could totally be used for any sport. If you're a team mom or something, you could make them for everyone, or put names on them, or whatever. Just be creative! :)

xoxo CPTVPT

Toilet Paper Roll Flowers

This is a project that I've been wanting to do for a while. Because it requires toilet paper rolls, it took me a while to stock up! :)

This is my stash of paper towel rolls. As you can see, I've done some of these before, but the color just wasn't right. Yes, you do see a creepy plastic eyeball staring at you, just ignore it...

I measure 1/4 inch all the way across all of the rolls and drew a line with pencils.

Then I cut out EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. How many even was that? you ask. It wouldn't be that hard, you say. Well, you are more than welcome to ask my aching hand, and you just may end up with something aching when you do... 

  

THIS is how many it was.

Because of future plans that will be revealed in the, uh, future, I did my design to fit a ninety degree angle, so this was my guide.

I just started making flowery-looking designs and hot gluing them together.

I'd lay it out and change it a bit and then glue her down.

This is as far as I went with the picture taking, although in the future you will see more of this and the big project it ties into...

By the way, there are about four thousand, three hundred and sixty four point seven designs and patterns you could do with this. Toilet paper rolls--who knew, right?

xoxo CPTVPT

Fashion #6

If you didn't catch on to this before, I really love this style of shoe. And I also love lace. Look at those adorable "lace earrings", I love them. I really like the look of ruffled shirts being tucked into a classic pencil skirt like this, and I think it is easily "businefied" with a blazer.

Oh how I love polka-dots! :) Especially hair bows. And I really love coats like this with a nice fitted waste. I think this purse is a really good way to be kinda funky but not too weird. I don't even need to say a word about the shoes. :)

xoxo CPTVPT

365 Week #7 and #8

I was in Las Vegas for a volleyball tournament last week which is why I didn't post. That will happen in March and in April as well (only I'll be in Spokane and then Reno!)

Day #43: REFLECTIONS

 This was probably dangerous and not-at-all-safe, but I took this in the car while I was driving. I know, I know, but I hadn't gotten a picture for the day yet, and had to do something! :)

Day #44: COLORS

This is this cool squishy ball that we have that has all these rubbery tentacles poking out of it, I just like the texture. 

Day #45: BLACK AND WHITE

The bushes outside without their leaves and the sun coming through the window make a cool pattern on the blinds. I've always thought that and now I finally took a picture of it!

Day #46: WATER

This is the not-so-clean shower head in my bathroom. I don't take my camera with me when I shower! I just thought it might be a cool picture so I took it...

Day #46: ARCHITECTURE

Vegas! This was on Friday as we drove onto the strip for the first time. I took pictures of a lot of other things, but when you're hanging out the window of a car, it's hard to get pictures that aren't blurry...just sayin'.

Day #47: SELF PORTRAIT

I'll admit that this is a bit cheap. Of course, I couldn't take these pictures of myself, but my sister did, with my camera, so that's how its gonna be. :) This is me doing what I love. VOLLEYBALL! :)

Day #48:  OBJECTS OUTSIDE

This is the actual picture, the one below was also at the temple too though. On Sunday, my family went to church and then we drove up to the Las Vegas temple. I love when the temples have palm trees all around them. The temple was pretty unique, but--as always--beautiful.

I love these little squatty palm trees. They look just like pineapples! :)

Day #49: OBJECTS OUTSIDE

This is a picture from Vegas. It was just a part of a sidewalk that I thought looks cool.

Day #50: SELF PORTRAIT

Who said that self portraits have to be of the face? So, playing volleyball on Sunday, I was blocking and the ball bounced in an unfortunate angle off of my thumb. I played the rest of the day, but it swelled up really fast. This is NOT the swelling. I just taped it and played with it on Monday, even though it hurt pretty bad. The top picture was taken Tuesday morning, and the bottom one was taken Tuesday night. Not much swelling was left, but bruising WAS.

Day #51: LANDSCAPES

This is the view that I see from my front door. It's been pretty nice this week, but a little cloudy and the only snow is up in the top of the mountains.

Day #52: NATURE

This nature is inside. We had one of these before that my dad bought for my mom last year for Valentine's and it just recently died. So, for Valentine's this year, she got the same kind. She likes them better than bouquet's because the last longer. :)

Day #53: PEOPLE

This is my sister and my nephew. My brother, sis-in-law, and parents all went to dinner on Thursday night so my sister and I got to babysit. This is their youngest boy of two!

Day #54: VEHICLES

The sun was glinting off our lovely VW car so I took a picture of it. Luckily, this picture makes the car look like it's actually white... 

Day #55: NIGHT

Another desperate attempt...took this while I was driving home from my volleyball tournament yesterday. I just looked up and saw the temple glowing on the mountain, I couldn't exactly zoom without taking a hand off of the wheel, or I would've gotten a closer shot.

Day #56: OBJECTS OUTSIDE

This is our drainage pipe from the rain gutter on the roof, into our flower bed. I'm not really sure why I took this picture, except that when I went outside to grab the newspaper, I saw it and thought it might make an interesting subject.

Well, well. I'm almost to March! I know I've missed a couple Sundays and had to double up, but I'm working on it! Have a good week.

xoxo CPTVPT

365 Week #5 and #6

I'm sorry I didn't post last Sunday. This is my schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays I usually go straight from school to work to volleyball so I don't actually get home until about 9:30 at night. On Tuesdays and Thursdays I either go to school, come home and do homework, and go back to volleyball or; go to school, work out, then go straight to volleyball. On Fridays I work and then go home and SLEEP. In between those, I do homework, try to take pictures, and every once in a while I get to sit down... :) It's good to be busy but sometimes it's hard.

I had a volleyball tournament last weekend and by Sunday, I was lucky if I could even see straight...

Now that I'm done complaining and making excuses, weeks five and six of 365:

Day #29: LANDSCAPES

There has been hardly any snow except in the tops of the mountains. I went out and took this picture in the reflection of a big pond on one of our nicer days.

Day #30: SELF PORTRAIT

This is what I look like when I wake up in the morning. The only make-up I wear is mascara and I never wash it off. If I sleep with my hair wet, this is what it looks like when I wake-up.  

Day #31: FOOD

This is my daily breakfast! Raisins and honeynut cheerios! :)

Day #32 (February!): DRAMATIC LIGHT

It got kind of cloudy one night and when I got out of my car to go to volleyball, this is what the moon looked like and I had to take a picture.

Day #33: VEHICLES

This is bad quality but I got stuck behind a train, and THIS is where it stopped. LITERALLY. I sat there for about five minutes while it was moving, and then it stopped RIGHT HERE and I had to wait another ten minutes before it finally moved. 

Day #34: NATURE

This counts as nature, OKAY?!!? :) Like I've mentioned before, my cat likes to get on the car when you pull into the driveway. My window was rolled down ad he came to investigate.

Day #35: PEOPLE

I LOVE this picture! I think it's absolutely hilarious! This is my cute nephew gawking at the marble train that we had set up. Haha!

Day #36: CLOSE-UP (OUTSIDE)

This is counting as outside because it's in my car, okay? It's hanging by a lovely little bead rope from my rear view mirror.

Day #37: COLORS

In actuality, these colors are much brighter. I painted my nails for the first time in a while and I did them kinda funky. :)

Day #38: ARCHITECTURE

Architecture can be on a car, right? Our suburban has these orange lights on top of it and I always remember when we would be in a crowded parking lot, we'd just look for the one with the lights on top because nobody else's did.

Day #39: LOOKING UP

This is a light in our house. Basically, I just sat there one day and thought, "hm...those spiral looking things are kinda cool, i'll take a picture." (those were the exact word that went through my head, too.)

Day #40: AROUND THE HOUSE

 This is the foot of our serger. I never really realized how nice it is to have a serger at your house. I always just kinda thought everyone had one until 8th grade sewing class and nobody had ever seen one before.

Day #41: AROUND THE HOUSE

My dad found these shells on a business trip he went on. (it was either in Louisiana or Florida...not sure which.) Although this was totally accidental, I think this basket with the canvas liner "goes" with an ocean-y theme really well! :)

Day #42: CLOSE-UP

These are simply three of the most fabulous movies that roam the earth. (Do movies roam?)  Anyway, I am simply in love with these movies and SO EXCITED for the "Hobbit" to come out!!!!!! Okay, excessive exclamation points, sorry.

Again, I'm sorry I didn't post these last week.

xoxo CPTVPT