"You are loved"

“You are loved.

You are dear to your heavenly parents.

The infinite and eternal Creator of light and life knows you! He is mindful of you.

Yes, God loves you this very day and always.

He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed—even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.

And God knows of your successes; though they may seem small to you, He acknowledges and cherishes each one of them. He loves you for extending yourself to others. He loves you for reaching out and helping others bear their heavy burdens—even when you are struggling with your own.

He knows everything about you. He sees you clearly—He knows you as you really are. And He loves you—today and always!”

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Dried Rose Art

I'd collected a lot of roses and dried them through hanging them upside down on a hanger. A lot of roses I twisted the top off and microwaved the petals to dry them (you just spread them out on a plate that has a paper towel on it, then put another paper towel on top (and another plate for some of the microwaving time to press them flat--but not the whole time) and microwave them until dry.

So I hot glued burlap around the edges of a rectangular piece of Styrofoam, stuck the roses in, and then hot glued the petals in the gaps. To hang it I just pushed it onto some pincushions on the wall.

Fall 2014/Winter 2015 College from the camera

BYUI campus at sunset

On our way to a waterfall

Fall Creek Falls with Hina

My view during the weekdays-- library

Masquarade with roommates. SeQuoyah, Hannah, Schae, Mary, and Laura

What I do when I'm not in the library. :) Flowers. 

The thankful door

Home for the holidays

Udon party with my Japanese friends- Hina, Yuzu, and Emi

Mom is obsessed with her chickens. "Blue one!"

Curry party on New Years Eve

Cross Country Skiing trip with outdoor activities. 

A trip to Pocatello

Bever Dick Park with Mary-- we saw a porcupine.

Only in Rexburg

Antelope Island! They should probably call it buffalo island instead.

This was on our field trip to California (I'll put more pictures up from it later)-- this is at the LA flower market

Introducing everyone to Japanese ramen at Little Tokyo

The group

Working in the flower center

Got to learn Ikebana 

The wedding show (more pictures later probably)

Interpretive Design

I realize that I haven't written in a while- I didn't have a lot of time while I was in school...but now that it's summer I can maybe get caught up. For a while I thought I didn't want to do blog stuff anymore, but then I realized that this is like a type of journal that is fun for me to keep and I do want to keep doing it.

This was one of the things we did at school for a class called interpretive design. I'll be honest- throughout the semester we did a lot of "class discussions" and I was starting to wonder what the class was all about. But for the final project we got to interpret a painting in one of the school buildings. I'll show mine and some of my classmates work. It was pretty fun. :)

Construction details: 

1- wired a shadow box (with the glass taken out) to an easle

2- crumpled up and stuck newspapers around the frame. 

3- lined the inside of the shadow box and around the newspapers with a foil (to keep it from getting wet)

4- glued (glue dots) little pizza tables onto the foil on the back (where the picture normally goes) and stuck wet floral foam pieces on them.

4- insert flowers

Other classmates work: 

PS- check out updates on the flower arrangements page