Beautiful Wall Collage

I finished it!

Isn't it TOTALLY AWESOME?!  You can't see everything perfectly, but the stuff I've added to it since that post where I told you about awesome stuff I've been doing is: some bottle cap thingies, the AIA cover I already told you about, a star wheel (the white circle thing), a Looking for Alaska cover (under the a), and a Glinda of Oz cover that I made (I didn't trace it I promise! You can find close up pictures of that on my tumblr.). So yeah!

(Coming up: Beautiful Bookshelf)

An Imperial Affliction

The epigraph of one of my favorite books, "The Fault in Our Stars," is from a book called "An Imperial Affliction":

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder prisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that?" I asked.
"Water," said the Dutchman. "Well, and time."

It's the perfect start to the book.

Hazel, the main character of The Fault in Our Stars, lives and breathes An Imperial Affliction. She's read it probably a hundred times. She travels to Amsterdam with Augustus Waters to find the book's long lost author, Peter Van Houten.

An Imperial Affliction is not an actual book.

You can imagine me, full of the buzz you get when you finish a really good book, sitting at the computer and googling over and over again: An Imperial Affliction. Peter Van Houten. Sitting in disbelief that this wonderful thing does not, in all actuality, exist on the face of the earth.

People design covers for it all the time.It's kind of real now because we know what it's about and what it might look like, but we will not know how Hazel felt when she read it the first time, because we can not read it the first time ourselves. Constantly googling pictures of covers others had designed, I did not feel fulfilled. Of course, I still won't because I have not read the actual book An Imperial Affliction because it does not exist.

Something was missing from my bookshelf.

So I made it. Sort of.

Of course, it's just the dust jacket. The pages inside do not tell the story of Anna. The narrative doesn't end in the middle of a sentence like it's 

But I think it is happy with my other books. And I designed the whole thing all by myself and without using a computer once. So I win.

awesome stuff I've recently made

My wall collage is almost done. I've been working on it for like a year since I moved my room to the basement and it has been really fun to just work on it when I'm bored. Now I  just have to finish a couple pieces of art I'm working on so I can hang them up!

(Left to right from the top: dichotamus key to benthic macroinvetebrates, watercolor painting from at class in March 2012, flag of Nerdfighteria, My Neighbor Totoro Thingy, cardioid, 3D papercraft ampersand [&], TFiOS cover, [blue w/ clouds], color pencil tree drawing, my name in3D papercraft typography, owls, swirls, triangle sharpie drawing inspired by Vihart, DFTBA collage, Richard Feynman collage, various lines are Washi tape. This will probably have a post of its own soon.)

Necklaces! So Karen Kavett is a graphic designer that makes awesome videos on YouTube. The necklaces were inspired by her a lot. I made this ampersand necklace with a bottle cap, but couldn't really wear it because the cap wasn't heavy enough to keep it from flopping all over.

A couple days ago I went over to my friend Fiona's house for a sleepover. We made some charms out of beads and old buttons. I was really happy with how they turned out, but I already have a gazillion key chains.

So…

I love them! I think my favorite one might be the one that says loud/big on the bead (they have words on both sides). 

I love making awesome stuff!

I Made That!

Well, I did make myself an AWESOME dinner and was going to write about it.  I took pictures, but it just isn't cool without them.  So I won't write about it.

So, I got the font to change, not exactly how I wanted it, but still good.  Who knows?  By the time I'm done posting, it may change itself again.  And I still can't comment.  WHY? 

PS:  Never mind about the font, it's still the same.

WHY???

THE FONT.

I keep trying to change it, beacause right now, well, it's ugly.  When I try to change it, there's this preview thingy and it looks fine on there, right?  Well, I clike 'view blog' and it still hasn't changed. 

On top of that, Blogger won't let me comment on ANYTHING.  What in the world?

AHHHH

This is really annoying!

I keep trying to change the font, but it keeps screwing itself!  I'll try again...

Can't Decide!

I can't decide what I want my blog to look like.

I keep changing it.

But I hope you like it.