Long time no post!/312in366 Challenge

Oi, I haven't been on here in a while! Please accept my apologies for that. =)

During my absence, I have worked, gone through a corn maze, been to a play (friend's high school production of "Anything Goes." The. Best. Play. I have ever been to!), taken several more square dancing lessons, done some sketching of random objects, and skillfully avoided even thinking about the Christmas Card.
I've also acquired two new dresses (for a grand total of about $7, and 2 of those $ were for fabric to lengthen one), a new favourite sweater, and half a masquerade mask. (Half? um, yeah, I need to go finish it..)

What else am I up to these days?

Oh, let's see. Altering said dresses, for one thing, creating the masquerade mask for another. (I found a really cool tutorial on Youtube somewhere, where you take 5-10 pieces of tin foil, crumple, uncrumple, and stack them, then you mold it to your face, draw where you want the mask shape to be, and cut it out. Then tape the edges together with masking or painters' tape, Papier-mâché over it--I used Modpodge--and then glue on what you want. I just modpodged on some old newsprint we had, to give it structure. I've put a layer of plain white fabric on the back already, so it's a bit softer. Next I'll be putting white fabric on the front, and some gold mesh over that. It's taking me a while, but it's not hard at all. Just sticky!)
This weekend, my parents, sister, and I are going to the ICHE Young Adult Conference--a day-long...seminar, I guess you'd call it? I don't know much about this year's program, but last year was really good, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow! (Except for the 'get up by 5 and leave by 7' part of it ... )

Another thing I'm working on is the 312in366 Art Challenge!
The goal of this Challenge is to draw/paint for 10 minutes a day, 6 days a week, from January to December 2012. It's called "312in366" because you'll make 312 drawings in the 366 days of this coming leap year, and spend a total of two days and four hours drawing.
I figured 10 minutes was a safe thing to ask for, because it doesn't sound like as much as 15 does, but it's still enough time to get something done! You should go check out the blog, or the Facebook Page, or the Twitter account. My synopsis here is oodles shorter and simplified from the official description, but please go check it out, and join the Challenge!

So yes, that's what I've been up to lately. Just busy enough to not have much spare time at all! What are you doing?

~Busy Kiwifruit~

Someone's going to go see Newsboys, Newsong, Kutless, Red, KJ-52, David Crowder*Band, Sidewalk Prophets, Francesca Battistelli, Chris August, Chris Sligh. For free./Post With The Longest Title

Last Monday I was listening to the radio, and the dude said "If you hear "GO" by the Newsboys in the next 1/2 hour, be the third caller and you'll win Winter Jam tickets!"
So I listened, phone in hand.
And listened.
And heard "GO"
The dude answered the phone and said "Thanks for calling, you're caller number 1, try again."
I tried again.
"Thanks for calling 111.1 KIWI, you are Caller Number Three!"

So my brother & I freaked out and did little happy-dances all day (People in Jo-Ann's look at you weirdly when you do happy-dances behind the register...).

Yesterday, I opened up the email I put in the Winter Jam video description.

"Hello,

If you have received this email you are a Winter Jam Ultimate Fan Contest Runner Up! Congratulations! You will receive 2 VIP passes to the Winter Jam city of your choice! Please reply to this email with your mailing address and the Winter Jam city of your choice ASAP in order to receive your VIP passes. Thank you for you[r] Youtube Video uploads! All of the videos were uploaded correctly and were very creative! It was a great success overall. We were able to spread the word to thousands of people because of your participation! Thanks again and Congratulations!"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now I've got FOUR tickets (About $120 worth, plus I saw something about the VIP Platinum Passes including tee shirts, which would bring the $ up to $140?), and all I have to worry about is how to get down there. Sis has a seminar at church that day that she might be going to, and it doesn't end until 3:30, but it takes 1 1/2 hours to get down there and the doors open at 5:00.
We've got some clever figgering to do there, but I'm going to ignore it for just a few minutes, exit the library, and do a little jig. (Jigs are frowned upon in my library. =/ )

Toodleoo!! =D
~KiwiDFruit