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Project 52
Week 41/52
Week 41's theme is "Think BIG"
From: Catcher In My Eye :)
Taking a BIG Leap of Faith!
Moving from the boot heel of Italy to moving to North Texas was a BIG move!
How BIG you ask?
When you are an eight year old girl, that has lived in Italy your whole life and gone to school since you were three years old, had the same circle of friends, gone to the beach with family & friends every Summer, attended family get togethers with your Daddy's family as far back as you can remember, eaten Italian food and practiced Italian customs Because YOU ARE ITALIAN... and, THEN, last Winter, your Dad comes home and says, "Do you want to go live in America? Christmas with American cousins at Gram & Poppy's will be a FIRST! Never seen a real American Santa, just pictures!!!
Your Dad is transferred to America first, and has been AWAY more than at home.
There is a lot of waiting because it is JUST Mom. Mom said she might as well be a single parent.
Life here LOOKS different. Houses are different, food is different and the clothes & shoes that kids wear are different. Now, YOU are THAT "New Girl" and the girl that has not played American sports or even heard of Cheerleading!
(And what's with ZOMBIES???)
Teachers are still Teachers, but spelling words are different, as is the language you speak when you are out and about. Grammar is awkward, reading is kinda difficult but Science and PE and Music and Art are fun! Eating breakfast as well as lunch with your class is fun! (What happened to pasta & bread at home for lunch?) No Saturday school here, Whoopee!!!
Mom made time for Scout meetings! Friends that go to scouts, are crafty & fun!
You are happy to find that Americans swim too, but in pools. Does every house in the U.S. have a pool? (That's where the town's water went! Who would have thought there was water rationing?) As in Italy, the U.S. has swim clubs! That's ONE thing that is the same :)
It's nice to find that other Military kids have come from other far away places and you find that they had to wait months for their toys and furniture to come across on a ship, too!
Some kids are just like our family, and hardly ever get to see their Daddy either.
You took a BIG LEAP moving from Italy to America!
And after the first quarter of school, you realize that you DID it!
Your family found a new home and you speak English now every day at school and go to a new 3rd grade class and you DID make NEW friends! It is just like Mom said it would be!
YOU took a BIG Leap of Faith, Girl!
And YOU did it!
YOU did it!
Yea!
Whew!!!
A BIG shout- out to our G.daughter and her siblings!
Gram & Poppy are proud of you and love you all!
This is Rachel running down a hill at her brother's Cub Scout day camp!
Playing in the woods near a creek was ANOTHER First! And it was so much fun!
Project 52
Week 41/52
Week 41's theme is "Think BIG"
From: Catcher In My Eye :)
This was built as a nuclear power station over twenty years ago, but it was never commissioned and is now a theme park
Owner of the Villa has built an entire miniature Spanish village, like a little theme park. His wife has planted extensive flower gardens. It's an uncommonly wealthy situation.
Since Snitter has themes, I thought I'd make one to match the style of the Leopard OS. Get your own at http://snook.ca/snitter.
Los Angeles, California, USA.
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The Clickish Group had a Roman toga theme last week.
Thanks to Dana and Drake for a couple of pics. I've played with some also.
Disclaimer - The following is in NO Way True or has anything to do with anyone dead or alive! ^0^ I was inspired by the 2nd pic after this. ^_^
Tiffany & Co themed cupcakes I baked for my friend's 25th Birthday.
The cupcake base is a Lindt Milk Chocolate "Grandmother's Chocolate Cake" which tasted devine and not too sweet. I used fondant icing and made the hearts out of cookie cutters and decorated with silver cachous.
A stage at Tivoli Gardens-- a boy band (no, literally, a band of all ~12-15 yr olds) was performing. No, I have no idea why a stage in Copenhagen, Denmark has Chinese themeing!
These were made for our local postman of 34 years, village tea party. He liked the personalised letter the best and said was going to keep the decoration as a keepsake.
Dragon Falls is a ride at the theme park Chessington World of Adventures in Chessington, London, England. It is located in the Mystic East area of the park. It is a water ride and features two drops, one that leads into the mouth of a dragon and another, taller one between two large 'stone' faces designed to resemble Angkor Wat. The ride's station is modelled after a pagoda and is decorated extensively inside. Although regarded as a 'log flume', the boats are not themed as logs (as in Loggers Leap at nearby Thorpe Park), but rather as nondescript wooden boats with inline seating. The ride starts off by traveling out of the loading station and down a peaceful stream, passing bridges and points where the water is rough. Then you travel up a lift hill and down the first drop, which is small, yet has quite a splashdown and into a dragon's mouth. The inside is un-themed, and after traveling along it, you come out into the open, round a lake and then climb up to the top of the lift hill, where you can see over the park. You then splashdown but before you get in to the station an elephant squirts you with water, getting you very wet. Then you travel back into the loading station.
The ride is themed extensively through the land, and features a giant fibreglass Buddha, based on the Great Buddha of Kōtoku-in (according to a plaque placed alongside it in the park), amongst other objects. The ride opened in 1987 and has a height requirement of 1.2m to ride (anyone less than 1.3 metres in height must be accompanied by a person aged 16 or over). This was updated early in the 2011 season from the previous 0.9m restriction with Chessington citing this was as part of a regular review process.
Thursday again omg how quick do the weeks roll around it's so scary!! well this weeks challenge is silhouettes, me being one for Autumn here's the tree that sits on my front drive - nearly bare!!!
Used a couple theme park maps to attempt some light painting techniques. Pics turned out OK but I feel I could get better pics if I re-shot them.
Featured maps
- 2013 Cedar Point
- 2011 Busch Gardens Tampa
- 2015 Dorney Park
- 2005 Busch Gardens Williamsburg
- 2015 Six Flags Magic Mountain
- 2014 Lake Compounce
- 2005 Worlds of Fun
- 2010 Kennywood
- 2013 Hong Kong Disneyland
- 2011 Six Flags Over Texas
- 2014 Kings Island