How to do the INTERLUDE!!!!

One of the prevalent things this week, was the Interlude. The interlude is a dance that is shaking the globe and I am going to teach it to you. But before I do, imagine 650 to 700 kids doing the same dance at the same time. It is that awesome. This is a dance that brings people together.

Okay listen to the music and follow along.

First part: warm your hands around the fire, back and forth. Do this until about.... :23

Switch to syncopated claps. Right on the beat. Clap. Clap. Clap. 

When you get to :30 Milk the cows. (And don't milk little cows. Get your arms pumpin!)

:56 Time for sparkle hands! Think strobe lights. Wiggle those fingers.

Switch to robot ninja--slice in time to the music 1:10

Time to bring it down now. 1:25 Get low. Pump that fist. Now bring it on up. Slowly. Slowly. Until you're jumping in the air!! Jump up and down! Fistpump!!

1:39 And milk those cows again.

That, my friends, is how to do the interlude. It truly brings people together. Me and my brother could do this all day around the kitchen.

If you are still having trouble grasping the moves, here's another video to help you:

This dance is amazing to watch 700 people do. But just as fun by yourself.

Spring Fever!

Happy first day of spring everyone!

The fever has definitely hit. Today, I was singing songs such as "I don't wanna work, I just wanna bang on my drum all day" and an original composition, "I don't want to studyyyyyy because it's sunshiny outside and it feels like spppprrriiiiingggg!" in my beautiful opera voice.

And mom was talking about going to the nursery and getting some pretty flowers to plant in the backyard!! And I was so excited to go with her, that I made myself do a practice test before we went. (Motivation!)

And it was so much fun! All the pretty flowers... They made me smile. *sigh* We ended up dropping a hundred dollars on plants, soil, and miscellaneous other items while there. But it was so worth it. You know why? Because they make me happy, that's why! ^-^

The picture above is me and one of the cats that live at the nursery--his name was Auggie. Isn't he cute? Cats are the best! Apparently, this particular nursery actually has thirty cats on their twenty-two acre property.

Two things:
1. I don't care how much you like cats, but even for a cat lady, THIRTY cats is downright ridiculous!
2. The property did not look like it was 22 acres. Maybe I misheard her or something. But we drove around the side and it didn't look nearly that big. But what do I know?

Have a lovely spring everyone! And know that I'll be singing and dancing my way through fields of flowers this time next month! (Not really, but I'll be so happy that it'll feel like it anyway.)

The Most Beautiful Dress in the World or Why I Now Love Thrift Stores

Dear folks, the first annual homeschool vintage ball is coming up in February!! And I am sooo excited! You can dress up in any era (including modern) and then you get to dance and have a ton of fun!

Mom and I decided that we were gonna make a dress and I picked out this amazing pattern that I really loved. (It was just a modern bridal gown that we were going to do in blue.) But we nixed that idea due to our inexperience at sewing clothing (and lack of time) and went thrift shopping instead!

Yay thrifting!! (I swear, they had cuter clothes than I would've ever expected!) I tried on about eight dresses. There was a cute little black dress that was probably my second pick. But THEN. Then, I tried on the final dress and it was The One. The dress to top all dresses. Mom picked it out. It's a strapless dress, that was too big. I practically swam in it and had to pinch the back to look decent enough to come out of the dressing room. But it was so beautiful!! And a decent price. (twenty bucks, no biggie.)

We bought it. Tee hee hee. Bonus! It was half off! So we got the dress for only ten dollars! Then we came home and altered it. Yee haw! The dress is a mauve-y pink-y purple-y color. A color I would not have picked for myself, but when I tried it on, it looked so nice! "Dusty Rose." is the word I'm thinking of. It looks beautiful.


So we went to JoAnns to get matching thread and some extra fabric and then with the soft whir whir whirring of the sewing machine and drone of football on t.v. and the guys' excited yells at every touchdown, we went to work.

The bodice was too big, so we moved the zipper in and then we added straps to the dress to make it "homeschool approved." But extra support is always a good thing in my mind. We also made a few repairs in the skirt; that's all. The whole thing was a snap. And for twenty bucks (counting the costs to alter the dress), that's a steal! It was amazing.

So now, I love thrift stores! I had no idea that they would have so much cute stuff! Maybe it's just low expectations, but wow! =D I have not been very impressed with the Twice as Nice close to our house. They're selective about what clothes they take and are on the more pricey side. But thrift stores.... *thumbs up* 

 Post-altered dress. Don't tell my mom I put this unflattering picture of her bedroom up on the internet. It's the only room in the house with a full length mirror. Obviously, a photograph can't capture the true color and depth of the dress. (but the backlighting and messy room don't help either. just look past those things.)

I will be posting more pictures of the dress in all its fullness and glory after the ball. I'm so excited!! I'm such a girl. =)