Masquerade!

October 30th, MASQUERADE! i went to the school dance as Christine daae (die-yay) after slaving away to make my dress for a long time, it turned out great!! thanks again mom! here's what we based the dress off of. :)




and here's the actual dress! we made a mask too (well my mom made it, amazing huh?!)














the dress is actually a wedding dress we found on KSL, that we changed to be more costumey. it was so huge!! i couldn't fit in the car very easily lol, but the WORST thing was trying to go up stairs without tripping on myself. when i walked in to the dance, everyone stared at me, like seriously. it was so embarrassing! i hate everyone staring at me, but yeah, when we walked in the gym to take pictures, the whole crowd turned... haha must have been a good costume? :P anyway it was sweltering in the ballroom where the dance was held. never been so hot in my life! but it was awesome! i could dance just fine, well mostly in that dress it turns out. i had a ton of fun! my date was Ubeeng Kueq (yeah, go ahead and try to pronounce that one :P) he's an amazing pianist, who has played with the Utah Symphony :P he practices 4 hours a day. i only wish i could practice that much!! but I'm lucky if i get one hour in :'( it's not fair! anyway yeah he so good, i don't think i should consider myself a pianist anymore...pretty much. anyway he's nice guy :) here are some pictures of us.














as you can see it was a little awkward, but that was when no one else was there, lol and we really didn't know each other, like I've said before :P oh well! we had fun. here's our group, we went as different movies (and in my opinion we were the cutest group, because there were about 5 groups going as cowboys and Indians! and 80's workout, and sports, SO hackneyed)

Gerardus and Sarah Jane as Sweeny Tod and Mrs. Lovett



Susannah and Greg as Tinkerbell and Smee


Amanda and Marcus as Elizabeth Swan and Will Turner


Celeste and Jeremy as Galadriel and Frodo their costumes were SO perfect haha, Jeremy didn't even wear shoes! and he drew hair on his feet haha

here's a Eliza and Sterling as Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak from 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (their costumes were SPOT on too.

here are Shannon and Taylor as Queen Amidala from Starwars and here are our group shots at my house

and here's us eating dinner :P i might as well post them all :D my mom set the table REALLY fancy.















We ate chicken cordon bleu which was SO delicious! and spinach salad, and really good rice, and the most delicious rolls! and for dessert we had chocolate mousse, SO perfect! mmm :D but one of the coolest things about the dinner was what Celeste's dad made. it was a GREAT idea because if we hadn't done it, i reckon it would've been pretty quiet and awkward ;) so what he did, was create a mystery story, using the characters we dressed up as, just like clue. it was amazing! we all got parts of what happened in the evening, then we had to try to figure out who killed 'mr. body' haha. we all thought it was smee!!! but it turned out to be darth vadar lol. it was really cool! there was a map and list of things found on his body and EVERYTHING! it really rocked. :D well that's all I'm going to say for now, because I've now spent an hour posting this :P and i didn't get home last night till 3:30 bye !

**BTW! click on the pictures to see them bigger :)**

randomness, because that's all i have time for

you may want to blame cheer for this, but for once it's not cheer that is making me busy! it's my AP classes. they expect so much it's crazy! and on top of that i have my own piano practicing to do every day, plus teaching two lessons, and going to young women's. when you put several hours of homework on top of that, it isn't pleasant. plus I've been super worried about masquerade ugh. for many many reasons that i won't go into. I've been actually having nightmares about it O.o... but yeah some of it is my fault. like asking someone that i have never spoken to (well NOW i have, once, lol he is a really nice guy) so i hope it doesn't turn awkward. lol it probably will, but whatever. right now, I'm listening to music (dashboard by modest mouse) and thinking about various art projects I'm working on in school
i just finished one, a series of pictures, using various mediums, of a pepper, in various positions :P here they are, lol you are allowed to laugh

this one is done with tissue paper.... (and yes i took these pictures with my phone and am too lazy to make straight, so tough beans)

this is my first attempt at water color ever, lol so bear with me, (but tom says it's the best of all of them lol)


here's oil pastel

and here's colored pencil

this beauty is chalk pastel

NOTE: this pepper started smelling REALLY bad after the first week;

k seriously i am so busy

homecoming! crazy week! there were cheer practices every day and i had to get up at 5:45 for them :( so i had no sleep, plus 4 ap classes, and two honors, i have been swamped. i was pretty bummed that i wasn't going to homecoming, all my friends were, but now i get a chance at masquerade, because it's girl's choice. i asked this kid named ubeeng ( you say it ooo bee ong.... i think.... hm i should probably make sure of that first...) but idk if i should've asked him after all. cause i don't know him really, just from a far; a hello in passing, a good job after the assembly. but my friend said he wanted to go to homecoming, but was too busy, so i thought maybe he wanted to be asked to masquerade? well whatever, what's done is done, and lol he sorta already replied (but he lost some of my respect for his way of replying. well a lot actually. i mean come on!) he told my friend to tell me yes, but that's stupid! i slaved over how to ask him, and trying to! i went to his house to ask him, but couldn't find it, and me and my friends spent FOREVER looking. but i eventually worked it out, asking him at school. i got one of my friends to give him a stick of butter with no note, just telling him he needed it, then in the next class another of my friends gave him a bag of popcorn, with a note saying "i just wanted to butter you up before i popped the question, will you go to masquerade with me?" (yeah cheesy but whatever *shrug*) i don't really like this kid though, not in any way to pursue further dates, i don't actually know him, but i hope all goes well! My group is going as movie themes, and i want to do phantom of the opera, i hope he'll agree with that :P he's an awesome pianist, and makes me feel like nothing compared to him, but i try not to think about that, it makes me so jealous.