What We See

I think people have forgotten how to open their eyes. All they see are white puffs in the sky and tall brown sticks with green cotton candy around them. I don't see this. I see the golden rim that highlights the edges of clouds in the morning and how the sky changes from pink to purple when the sun sets. I see the way leaves flutter in the wind and glow when the sun hits them. The little pink clover by the tip of my toe and the way the grass dances on the prairie.

What do you see? Do you see the way moss appears on the sides of trees after it rains and how the once brown trunk is now covered with green? Do you notice the maze of petals on a rose as it unfurls? Do you see the cascade of ivy creeping over a fence or how the spiky purple blossom of a thistle matches the rest of it's prickly character? I do. I see each and every one of these.

We have become blind to nature and the serene landscape that we live in. I want you to go outside for three minutes, just three, and I want you to look around and see the little things you might have missed before. Then, come back here and tell me all the things you saw that you hadn't seen before. I want to hear what you saw when you opened your eyes, for what might be, the first time.

Blue

It has been about a year we got Blue I am not sure what type of dog he is. He was very little. My mom & dad went to Wichita and got him. When they got home me and my 2 sisters saw him and ran up to him and started to play with him. My dad got to choose the name( we got to choose Sissy name.) and he decided to name him Blue.

Blue is a black dog with some white under his chest with white paws. He has 1 blue & brown eye and then 1 brown eye. ( I just remember he is part Australian Shepherd.)  He really likes to jump a lot he almost jumped over my mom once. He is crazy, but he knows if we are mad, because he gives us these little puppy eyes. When we are not feeling happy he sits down on our feet, and licks our hands if we don't pet him. 

On day he went across the road and got in so much trouble, my mom finally found him and we told him to go to bed. He usually runs around in the woods when we let him out, and comes back once we call him. But if he goes into the lagoon he doesn't come back for a while.

I hope you like reading this now you know a bit more about my dogs. Bye! 

Offseason

Usually I am out having practice for a sporting event or going to a game. But right now, this is my offseason. I have no practice and no games, I don't necessarily like not getting to practice or working hard, but I like having the option to hang out with friends after school, or go home, or even take a nap. In certain ways I enjoy the offseason and I am not sure if I am going to enjoy track but I do know I can enjoy the time before track.

7th grade basketball

This is my team's first year playing school basketball. We were all excited that our coach was Mr. Lafferty. He is a really good coach. I was nervous about our first game. Our first game was against a team from Wichita. We won by a lot. We were all excited that we won the next couple games. During practice we would work hard until it was time for our next game. When the day of our tournament came I was excited. We were still undefeated. I think we were 9-0 then. We have one more game until our 7th grade basketball season is over and we are now 11-0 or 12-0. My goal this year was to go undefeated and I think that it is possible.

Baking Fail!

I love cupcakes! They are baked masterpieces. Brightly colored icing mixed with cake, and small at the same time! Ingenious! I could eat cupcakes for a whole day, and I wouldn't be bored. The variety and pleasure is heavenly. Unfortunately, I thought making cupcakes would be as easy and fun as making them.
My cousins and I decided that baking cupcakes would be easy. Why wouldn't it be? Apparently, we were really wrong. Our baking was so bad that watching us trying to bake was actually kind of scary. Eventually, we gave up and decided to bake a cake.
It didn't come out terrible. It just came out really, really bad. I dreaded even touching it, but when my cousins and I tasted it, and it actually tasted like a cake. It's appearance was the only problem. When I say it looked bad, I mean someone could have mistaken it for trash. We then did the only thing we could to make it look edible. We decorated it!
In the Christmas spirit, we decided to cut out triangles in our ugly cake and decorate them with candy and green icing, They were tiny Christmas trees! They looked absolutely great! I guess I can't really tell if they look delicious because I'm constantly comparing our Christmas trees to what they looked like before. It didn't really matter, though, because even though there was enough for everyone to have two, I still ended up with one. I was just happy that we could redirect how our baking fail ended.

Why I like dark type pokemon

                        

                                                         Why I like dark types
                    I like dark type pokemon because they are cool, awesome, and very strong. Dark types at good against a lot of different types and weak to some types. Every time I have used a dark type pokemon I try to make sure that they don't faint. Dark types are a little fragile, but also very strong at the same time. This is why I like dark type pokemon.

Wonderful Watercolor

Watercolor, one of the coolest kinds of media out there. Not like social media, art media. Paints, chalk, markers, things like that. You can use watercolor is so many different ways. It's great for blending colors together and making some of the best shadows. It's easy to change the shade and tint of any color. Shade refers to different kinds of that color, such as lime green, grass green, dark green, blue green, you get the idea. Tint is how light or dark the color is, you could make a color brighter with more white or dimmer with more black and, I know this sound odd, but sometimes you need to make a color grayer.

And that's just what you can do with the color of watercolor. Using different brushes and other materials you can change the way it looks on paper. Tapping a brush to create different size dots is popularly known as splatter painting, mostly used with watercolor but can be also be used with regular paints and other art materials.

I sometimes find watercolors hard to control and you can't paint over them very well but you can do other interesting things with them. One of my favorite things to do when I'm painting with watercolor is to sprinkle a bit of salt directly onto the wet color, and when it dries it make little dots of white where ever you sprinkled it.

Watercolor pencils are also another way to use watercolor differently. By coloring with these pencils you can mix shades without adding to much water and you can better control where certain colors and shadows go. It's harder to make the color you want with only using watercolor pencils and water, so, I like to do a bit of outlining with the pencils then add water color on top of that and get extra color on my final product.

Have you tried any of these techniques before? I'd like to hear from you what works, what doesn't, and different ways you've heard of to enhancing watercolors.