Jenniblog

JAM 21: Trapeze

Jennifer — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:16:47 +0000

Today’s animation started out as a doodle of something else, but I thought it looked like the balancing poles at the circus from above, so I decided to try an animation about a trapeze artist.

This was made in MS Paint and Animation Shop 3.11. This will be my standard drawing combo from now on, I think. You can view the animation in a higher resolution at my deviantART page.

I just realized I posted this on the wrong blog. Well, I guess that’s the perfect time to mention my new art blog, which can be found here.

Hello Again!

Jennifer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:23:49 +0000

I haven’t updated this blog for a while, since I moved to wikidot. I have decided to continue using this blog for my travel log, so I’ll still be updating here.

I have been to quite a few more places since I last updated, so I’ll be updating it today. I also finally got to go one place I always wanted to go: A Renaissance Fair (Sterling Renaissance Festival). That was a lot of fun, and I hope to go next year, and bring my license with me so I can have a giant turkey leg and some mead!

Happy Easter!

Jennifer — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 07:59:00 +0000

Happy Easter! Here’s another Easter drawing I made. Max is probably the hardest character I’ve ever come across to draw. I’ve tried many times over the years, both on paper and in MS Paint, and I’ve never gotten it right. He’s still a little off dimension-wise, but I’m proud of how he came out.

Melissa and Matt’s birthdays fell right before Easter on Friday and Saturday, so we’ve had a celebration weekend. I made a birthday present cake and a fruit arrangement for Melissa. I’ve wanted to do both for a while, so I finally got a chance to do it. I made marshmellow fondant for the cake, like the professional cake decorators use, so I could make the ribbon and bow. It came out really nice, and the fondant tasted like candy, so that was good too, although a little chewy.

Updates! Yay!

Jennifer — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:56:20 +0000

Well, two years in a row I didn’t get too far with the holidays! I do like the idea of celebrating a holiday every day though! I’ll try again next year!

I’m getting back into taking photographs again now that the weather is getting warmer. I added two pictures to the Elmira page, and added a Big Flats page to my Travel Log.

National Cut Your Energy Costs Day

Jennifer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:29:08 +0000

Today is National Cut Your Energy Costs Day. We just had a huge Gas & Electric bill for December, so it’s definitely a good time to try to reduce our energy costs. Out of the ways to cut home energy costs, we’re currently doing two of them. We just got a new refrigerator and my desktop PC has the “energy star” sticker. My mom always buys the more energy efficient light bulbs.

We could definitely do a few more of those pretty easily though.

Balloon Ascension Day

Jennifer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:11:00 +0000

Today is Balloon Ascension Day. The first American hot air balloon launch happened on January 9, 1793. As you can see from my mom’s blog, she loves balloons. She has never been in a hot air balloon, but it is one of her life’s goals to one day ride in one.

Elvis Presley’s Birthday

Jennifer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:31:22 +0000

Today is Elvis Presley’s birthday. On January 8, 1935, Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. The King of Rock n Roll is definitely the most imitated performer of all time. I was watching a special on the Travel Channel during Christmas about the most extreme Christmas celebrations in the United States. One of them had thousands of people dressed up as Santa Claus in Las Vegas. There was an Elvis impersonator there who said “this is the only time where there are more Santa impersonators than Elvis impersonators in Las Vegas.” Heck, Elvis is so popular still that there is even an Elvis impersonator who makes it all the way out to my neck of the woods, thousands of miles away from Vegas.

So, today I’m going to celebrate Elvis Presley’s birthday by watching a movie starring my favorite Elvis impersonator, Stitch.

Jinjitsu

Jennifer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:29:00 +0000

Jinjitsu, which is Japanese for “Human Day”, is the first of five seasonal festivals, known as gosekku.

According to the wikipedia article on the festival:

“The name comes from an ancient Chinese custom Renri, whereby each of the opening days of the first lunar month was assigned to a particular creature, which it was forbidden to kill on that day: thus the first seven days of the month were Chicken Day, Dog Day, Boar Day, Sheep Day, Cow Day, Horse Day, and Human Day”

Today, Japanese people eat a rice porridge consisting of the seven wild herbs of spring known as nanakusa-gayu. Traditionally, the seven herbs are water dropwor, shepherd’s purse, cudweed, chickweed, nipplewort, turnup, and daikon. Today, the ingredient list varies widely, as common local herbs are often substituted.

There is a recipe for nanakusa-gayu on the blog Blue Lotus.

Women’s Christmas

Jennifer — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:45:38 +0000

Today is the day that Christmas was celebrated before the Catholic church switched from the Roman calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

In Ireland, today is known as Women’s Christmas. Traditionally, it was the day that men did the housework and women were able to relax. Today, women have parties or have dinners with their mothers, daughters or sisters.

Today it was quite cold, so the whole family was around in the late night together. My mom and I ate chicken noodle casserole, and Melissa, my Mom, me and Matt (can’t leave the only guy in the house out! ) all had cupcakes.

George Washington Carver Recognition Day

Jennifer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:37:11 +0000

Today is George Washington Carver Recognition Day. George Washington Carver was an educator, an artist, a writer, and an inventor. He was well respected and well known in America during his lifetime. He discovered over three hundred uses of peanuts, and wrote a syndicated newspaper column called “Professor Carver’s Advice.”.

Time Magazine called him the “black Leonardo”, referring to the person who led to the coining of the term renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci. He was the first African American and the first non-president to have a United States National Monument established in his honor.