Thoughts…

Hey you all! I am doing a post today on a new favorite outfit! My goal for my outfit is to combine it with modesty, fashion sense, and color coordination. Lately I have been noticing how most of the world is expressing themselves. This is what I’m picking up:

No. 1- Everyone wants to be noticed no matter their background, life, or experience.
No. 2- People equate dressing immodestly with being pretty.
No. 3- The girl with the biggest purse wins.
No. 4- People will change their thoughts and personality based on the people they’re with.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? If so, then I will let you know that I am struggling with this. I am challenging myself right now to be an example, “…in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.”
– 1 Timothy 4:12

With all that being said, let me show you what my outfit was today!

This is what inspired me: (the retail version)

What I wanted…with a follow up on my Blog! by kmesser featuring skinny leg jeans

This is what I was looking for:
– a color coordinated cardigan
– a sequined shirt
– a pair of flats from Old Navy
– a pair of gray skinny jeans

This was the Thrifteen result:

I got this:
– the cardigan was $4 (thrifted)
– a sequined Christmas gift, $30
– the pair of flats turned out to be the scrunchy kind. I thought it still looked cool. They were also $4 (thrifted)
– the one-buck-wonder gray skinny-jeans ($1)
the Totally Thrifty Total: $39

Soooo? What are your thoughts?

Have a good day!
Thrifteen 🌻

My (finally) Finished Roller Coaster:

So, I was able to get my coaster in for the date it was due, even though we have been very busy lately. (See kerrybraintree.blogspot.com, and my mom’s post, “Congratulations!”) I was able to make it through with the help of some of my very best friends. Here are some pictures and videos of the roller coaster. Before you get to the bottom of the page, try and guess what the name is of the coaster. I think you’ll be able to figure it out! = )

Got the name yet? If you can see this picture clearly, you’ll find out. If not, then the name is below these two pictures:
 
The Paper Tiger Roller Coaster!
As you can probably see, our main materials for the coaster were (1.) Paper, and (2.) tape.  ; )

This is the first way to watch the roller coaster make its way down the track. 

This is the second way for the roller coaster to make its way down the track. 

Play the videos below in a row. I had some technical difficulties meshing them together. These videos are showing you the other way the marble can go. I made a fork in the track.

Tell me your comments on it. It’s still a work in progress. Hope you like it!

Hannah

Warm Eggs and Roller Coasters:

This is not a formula for instant nausea. There is no need to panic. I would just like to tell you about two different things I have been doing lately. Let me first tell you about the “ Warm Eggs” part. This a tip for when you are making cookies: When I make my chocolate chip cookies, I always leave the eggs that I will be using in the recipe out so that they become  room temperature. For some reason, this makes the cookies you are making to be light and fluffy. Before I learned the egg trick, my cookies were as hard as a rock and as flat as a pancake, until now! Now my horror cooling in the oven has turned into light fluffy cloud cookies, which equals to “brownie points” for me, coming from my family.

The other thing I would like to tell you about would be the “roller coaster” part of my title. Where I have to build one. For school. Whoa.

I have an assignment for school to build my own “roller coaster.” We have been studying how roller coasters work in science. The roller coaster I am building will be done in a very tiny fashion. As in a marble will barely fit to roll down the track. I am going to have some assistants help me, though. There is nothin’ like a helping hand! As I rolled on down to Office Max to make some copies of the blueprint to build the coaster, I couldn’t help but think, “ How in the whole wide world am I going to do this???” I had glanced at the directions a couple of times, but never read through them completely. Let me describe how, even in the short glances I had, how I could sum up the blueprint. CONFUSING!

 

< just to let you know, that is NOT the roller coaster I am building, this is just and example of a roller coaster.

 

Anyway, I will most likely take a picture of the hopefully on-time and finished assignment. Oh, and Novacom still hasn’t come yet. It was supposed to come yesterday. I wish could make a magic button to speed up FedEx deliveries. There is always a first time for everything.

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Hannah