As I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed last week, I saw a post by Skillshare. I’ve always wanted to make a repeat pattern but I don’t know how on Photoshop or Illustrator. I don’t have those programs anyway. T_T Thus, I was extremely happy to see this tutorial on how to make a repeat […]
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Using your Hand to Illustrate Birds
With Thanksgiving approaching in a few weeks, I was reminded of the turkeys I made in elementary school by tracing my hand. Do you remember doing this? In addition to turkeys, this technique can be used to illustrate a variety of birds. Turkeys Trace your hand on construction paper of different colors, patterned cardstock, or magazine pages […]
Thanksgiving Dinner and Politics
When trying to figure out what I would write my next blog post on, I thought: hmmm… is there anything I could write about including politics and good ole’ Turkey Day? So I did some research and came across loads of articles expressing the common grave mistake of bringing up politics at the Thanksgiving dinner […]
Thanksgiving: The Art of Cooking!
I love Thanksgiving – that is, almost as much as I love cooking! Today, I’ll be making one of my favorite dishes – un potaje de frijoles blancas con chorizo y morcilla (that is, white bean, chorizo, and morcilla stew). Here’s … Continue reading →
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and we all know what that means! Its that time of the semester when professors are trying to squeeze in just one more exam and paper before our glamorous four days off with family. Thanksgiving was a time where people truly thought of how they got to where they […]
The After-Thanksgiving Aftermath
It’s always after Thanksgiving break that the game changes. All of a sudden, the midterms are over, the papers get whipped out, and the due dates smack you in the face like a stealthy ninja. I did warn you about them, didn’t I? Somewhere between the pumpkin cheesecake hangover and the cracking of knuckles to […]
Blame it on the Tryptophan
Recipe of the Week: Apple Crisp Procrastination: the deadliest word in the human language. Or rather, the deadliest word in a college student’s vocabulary. A “break” is never really a “break.” So what happens when you have a ton of assignments to do and three Thanksgiving parties to go to in three days? Chaos. I […]
Thanksgiving & Black Friday – Muggle Style
And how is everyone’s Thanksgiving break unfolding so far? Any horrific family dinner stories that you’ll eventually laugh about in the far, far off future? Any wacky traditions that have now withstood another year? For me, I had a lazy blur of two days over here with Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It started with me […]