Graduation

I hate that it's been a while since I wrote here, but everything has been really busy lately. My graduation with the homeschool group was Friday night. So now I'm officially finished with high school. How does it feel? Not too different yet. I mean, I have this huge weight on me about decisions for my future, but that's been there for months and months now. I really didn't care about having a graduation. In fact, I didn't want to do it, and I only agreed because it was so important to my mom. But now that it's over, I'm so glad that I did it. The whole evening, service and reception, was so nice. I was so nervous about getting up in front of so many people, but that was the only bad part. It was fun and pretty enjoyable. A homeschool graduation with 6 graduates is so much more personal than a normal high school graduation. It was also emotional. During the slideshow, there was a picture of me and Granny and Grandpa, and that got me teary-eyed. It's moments like that when I realize how much I miss them. And then they read some things that my parents had written about me and to me, and that made me teary-eyed, too. Anyway, I had a lovely graduation. And yesterday I also got some of my grades in the mail. It turns out that I made a 97 on my senior research paper! :) I couldn't believe it. I'm so happy, because I was a little worried about it. I mean, I like to write, but I don't think I'm very good at it, especially a research paper. But I was very pleased with my grade. I did my paper, about the attack on Pearl Harbor, for Grandpa, because he was a Navy veteran and a Pearl Harbor survivor.
Well, I really wish I had time to write more, but my cat Jack is hungry and begging for his food. :) I've been up later than usual, and I'm ready for some sleep (but I'm glad J.T. won "Survivor"!).
Until next time,
Kristin (missvintagegirl)

First Blog

So...this is the first entry of my first blog. Here lately, it seems that I've been exposed to a lot of blogs- crafting blogs, homemaking blogs, and the Susie magazine blog (check out the website at susiemag.com). I've wanted to make one for a while and I got really inspired by the ones I've seen. I decided to try it out, and I hope I can keep my blog going. I don't spend a lot of time online, and even when I do, I'm usually doing something else at the same time. Yes, multi-tasking (which I'm not very good at). :P For example, I'm watching the judges give Ty Murray their comments on "Dancing with the Stars" right now, as I try to type.
I've been scrapbooking like crazy over the past week. My homeschool graduation ceremony is this Friday night, and all of the graduates get to have a table set up representing the things they love. I've been making a scrapbook of our last family vacation, my senior trip to Disney World, to put on my table. It started out as a nice little scrapbook, but it kind of ballooned and got a little out of control. :) Still, it's so lovely, or at least it will be when I finish it tomorrow or Wednesday. Speaking of tomorrow, I'm planning on getting some supplies for a few new sewing projects. I'm going to make another Buttercup bag (found here: http://madebyrae.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-buttercup-bag-sewing-pattern.html), this one a little bigger than my last one. And I'm also going to try to make a dress from a Simplicity "Project Runway" pattern. I'm pretty nervous about that, because I've only make one dress before. It was from an easy pattern, but because of the 5 inches of ease, I thought it made me look fat. My mom adopted it, though. So I'm a little nervous about this one, but also pretty excited. Who knows how it'll turn out? Oh, the adventures of sewing.
Until next time,
Kristin (missvintagegirl)