Favorite Sewing Project

One of my favorite classes I took this semester was sewing and home decor. I completed two projects, a crew neck and a bear. As you can see above, I chose a green plaid fabric, but for a fun reason. When I was little, those were the color of my sheets. So on the ear, I embroidered the year I was born and my name. I really enjoyed this project and overall it turned out very well. I hope to continue what I learned about sewing into my future, and hopefully I can continue to use these skills!

Some of Our Favorite Recipes

In our Practical Living class, our group that consists of Raegan on the right, Karissa in the middle, and me on the left, baked three different recipes. I chose to bake blueberry muffins, Karissa chose avocado toast, and Reagan cooked potatoes. Our group worked so well throughout the semester, and baked some pretty delicious dishes. A couple things I learned throughout this class was to soak your fruit in flour prior to baking. The blueberry muffins I baked turned out so good, and I give all the credit to that tip! I would also recommend cleaning as you go. For example, if you mix brownies in a bowl, as soon as you finish pouring the batter into the pan, soak the bowl in the sink. Throughout each of the recipes, we found this tip to be very helpful.  One of our favorite recipes we baked were the hot cocoa cookies. We made these for a Christmas cookie bake-off. We even won the contest that some of the teachers judged! Overall, we learned some very helpful things during this class and I can’t wait to apply them to my future into college. Below I will put my blueberry muffin recipe, which my group and I gave a 10 rating, which we would highly recommend using!

”To Die For Blueberry Muffins”

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

3/4 cup white sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

1 cup fresh blueberry

1/2 cup white sugar

1/4 cup butter

punch of cinnamon

Instructions:

Step 1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Step 2. Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and add enough milk to reach the 1-cup mark. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.

Step 3. Optional: To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking

Step 4. Bake 20-25 minutes or until golden brown

For instructions to this recipe simply click the link below!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6865/to-die-for-blueberry-muffins/

 

16th Birthdays

 

For my video editing project, I decided to do a video of both my cousins and I’s 16th Birthdays. I everyone who went on both vacations for pictures and videos, edited them, and put them in the video. This was quite the process becuase I had to match the pictures and videos to the beat of the music. As you watch the part on Turks and Caicos, you will hear what my cousin Dylan thought about his 16th birthday! Throughout my half of the video, you will learn about the different islands we went to and what we did there.

I really enjoyed creating this video. Not only to look back at in the future, but my grandparents to, who took us on the trips. I plan to continue making videos for my brothers 16th and my other cousins. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to go this year, with the virus… but we are hoping to do my brothers birthday next year! I will either be continuing their birthdays on this video, or making a new one for their birthdays. Either way, it will be really fun to look back on in the future!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Website About Healthy Desserts

In my Multimedia Apps class, we are currently designing websites. I chose the topic of Healthy Desserts in hope to provide families with healthier desserts to help improve their diets. I decided to choose the most common (or popular) desserts that would appeal most to the people reading my site. I also chose this topic because I enjoy baking and love desserts! But, sometimes it can be hard to find desserts that are healthy while tasting good. So I decided to use recipes I have tried and some that I will try before I am done with my website to ensure that all the desserts taste good while still having health benefits.  

I will be including where you can get the best prices on ingredients, health benefits of improving some of the ingredients in your desserts, and over 8 different recipes. I have stuff on each of my pages, I just have to edit each of them and add more blocks. I might add a few more posts as well. I am well over half way done too. I’ve been using my time as wisely as I can in class which has really helped me in this process of creating my website. 

 

 

Line Art

This year in Intro to Visual Arts we have done many various projects. Some of which included ink and this project, line art, etc… I focused on doing different things that express who I am in this project. Like the big city on the bottom, the pastel colors, and the ocean waves. Using these different techniques, helped this project to in a way come to life. We started by sketching on one square, then traced on the light box, then mirrored it 4 times. Overal, I think this project went very well. I liked the outcome and the colors I chose to use! My favorite part was coloring my final (traced) outcome.

Self Portrait

This year in our Introduction to visual arts class we have done a variety of projects that all use different techniques. This “self-portrait” project focused on the technique of using ink with various tips. We all chose a word that related to us (my word was dream) and we copied a book or music page then began our project. My favorite part of this project was seeing the outcome and being able to compare the picture of myself in ink to real life. I also enjoyed using the new technique of ink rather than the typical pencil or paint. 

 

 

 

 

 

Charcoal Drawing

 

This year, in my introduction to the visual arts class, we have learned many new types of art as well as many new techniques. This was one example of somthing I made. We were given objects to look at with a light source and were told to sketch what we see using different types of charcoal. I started by drawing what I saw, followed by filling in the light sources with white and “blending” and “shading” with the charcoal. Then I filled in the background to make it look like the objects are sitting on a table.

 

Introduction to visual arts

This year, we had a project to create a portfolio using different types of lines. These were some of the lines I drew based on different designs I looked at. This process was done by creating different boxes where I would then draw my designs on the inside. I really enjoyed this project and can’t wait to continue learning about the visual arts!