photo experimentation (and ciabatta)

So for my digital photography class, our assignment is to make a Hockney-inspired collage.  This is my experimentation with Photoshop:

Interesting, yes?  You know what is also interesting?  Bread recipes that don’t tell you when to add the flour and what don’t rise nearly enough.  Bah.

Hi, I’m Bob. Do you like cheese?

I like Ice Cream

For Wordless Sunday – also part of my 365 project.

Happy Bastille Day

July 14, 1789.  An angry mob storms the Bastille – a medieval fortress-turned-prison in Paris, France.  They released the seven prisoners who were in the cells, though this was not the objective of the crowd.  The storming of the Bastille was a turning point in France and the beginning of the French Revolution.  In France it is [...]

Appreciate the cows.

Yesterday, we had breakfast at Chick-fil-A, lunch at another Chick-fil-A, and then we went to four other locations and ordered chicken nuggets and strips. And milkshakes:

Jack Hood

Will of Sherwood
Mr. Hood, who had not originally planned to come along, decided he might have fun. We created an Incognito Cow Costume for him:

We were very [...]

The start of the festivities (Cow Appreciation Day)

Guess what the Sherwood and Hood families were doing this morning?

(left to right: Shannon of Sherwood, A Cow, Will of Sherwood, Jack Hood, and Madelyn Hood.)
Ta-Da! We headed to our first Chick-fil-a of the day for breakfast at 8 this morning. We were the first herd there! The employees were very happy [...]

Mornings in the of Sherwood household

This morning my iPod wasn’t plugged into my alarm clock, because it’s currently downstairs in the sewing/guest room. It’s down there because yesterday I was working on my Cow Appreciation Day costume for Friday. In any case, because my alarm clock had no iPod to play, it instead woke me at 6:45 with [...]

Life, and stuff.

I changed the layout of the page – did you notice? I wanted 2 columns, so you can find things and see “who am I most like.” Ha. Unfortunately right now I’m using the computer that doesn’t have the sheep pictures on it, so…I’ll have to fix that next week. I [...]

Another day in insanity…

Day 4 of musical theater camp.
It was marvelous. I got a sticky note with the word “Ursula” stuck on my back. (We were playing a game. It could have been worse – a friend of mine was Dopey.) I recited Shakespeare. I danced the robot. I got candy thrown [...]

The Way of the Pie-Making People

Today my amazing friend Madelyn and I went to see the movie Hairspray. It. Was. Amazing. Go see it. Now.
Anyways, when we got home, we ate lunch and watched 2 Robin of Sherwood episodes. Madelyn agreed that Robin’s hair is really dumb. Then Mom and I showed Mads the way [...]