Pathways

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped sponsor me for the Pathways Fundraiser! Pathways made it over their goal - what a blessing!

This race is always a test of endurance. No matter how much you train, it is always tough. (Even though I trained more this year than in years past, I felt like I had less endurance.)

Grace was amazing yet again and came in first of all of us girls. Wow - way to go. (I stopped and walked...) I was thrilled though 'cause we all ran faster this time than we have in the past. I was hopping to be 33:33, but I came in under 32:00!

What a blessing  to have an opportunity to support life! Thank you all for doing it with me. :)

Hanbok

This is what I styled mine after

I enjoy making things up - when I was younger, I really wanted to be able to make my own dress patterns. I enjoy finding things out and this time, there wasn't a pattern so it had to be made up.

A Hanbok is the traditional Korean dress. For my friend's birthday, I decided I would make her one.


There were three main aspects to this Hanbok. First, there was the actual dress and top making - there were basic patterns online that I based it off of. The skirt was a rectangle wrapped twice around the waist and down to the appropriate length. For the top, I altered a barbie top pattern.

The Second aspect was the silk ribbon embroidery. I really enjoy it - I've made 2 tablecloths decorating them with silk ribbon embroidery. The top was my favorite. :)






The Third aspect was that of the hair - hair has been one of my favorite things since I can remember. It was difficult to fix on a barbie - but tons of fun. It was also fun to look up all of the different styles and what they meant - child, young, unmarried, married, lady of the court, the queen only, etc. I really enjoyed it. :)

The head band was made from silk ribbon. I embroidered silk ribbon onto silk ribbon and then braided it into the hair.

Finally, she was ready.

Pathways Fundraising!

I have 12 days until the Pathways fundraising race! I've been training - on the golf-course, there's a hill on a loop and, if you run that loop 4x, it's about a mile. I'm gonna start running three miles on it next week - hopefully it will go well. :)

I'm trying to raise money for Pathways right now. Presently, I have $270 out of $900 raised. I would really appreciate if you would support me (and thus Pathways) in this race.

You can support me here.

Thanks!