21st Birthday Festivities

This post is a little late coming, but here are a few photos of my 21st birthday from July 15!  We hit up about five bars total in downtown Spokane.  Luckily, all of my drinks were bought for me!  I started off with an all-male party, but then my lady friend, Aleigha, came and joined us!

Stunt Fest in Chelan

I had an awesome time at StuntPacNW in Chelan the other weekend!  I got a new Nike Pro set just for the day of stunting.  I was so excited and so confident wearing them!  Looking at the photos now though, I wish I had kept up on working out and on a healthier diet before Stunt Fest, but oh well!  I'll be on a crazy workout schedule once the cheer season starts at the end of July, and I'll be clean-eating the best I can for the first two weeks since my college cafeteria will be closed.  Once it opens back up though, I will be doing my best to maintain a healthy diet!

Multi-base heel-stretch

Co-ed lib (single-base lib)

Single-arm lib!

Stunt Fest also had competitions - I got a Stunt Queen medal in the All-Girl Stunt Competition!  We did a braced single-base lib.

Single-arm lib shot by Jerry Hughes!

Stunt fest photo with co-ed single-arm cupies!  I'm in the front row in pink shorts over the guy in red short!  #TeamWatermelon
Photo by Jerry Hughes.

This was another competition: Extension Press-Ups!  We did not win, but we were in the final four!
Photo by Jerry Hughes.

Co-ed arabesque!

Co-ed heel stretch!

Watercolor Wednesday #3

This week's Watercolor Wednesday is a little sparse due to 4th of July festivities and keeping up with studying for my summer class!  I hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

July 1 - Coffee Steam

July 2 - Pink Betta

July 3 - Rose

July 4 - American Flag

Watercolor Wednesday #2

Here is my second series of watercolor pieces!  I've been exploring more with different subjects.
I hope you like them!

June 24 - Fairy

June 25 - Ballerina

June 26 - Bird

June 27 - Swan

June 29 - Kittie

June 30 - Jellyfish Friendship

Garden Flower Bouquet + Tips

I made a flower bouquet from my Aunt Anna's gardens!  Just thought I'd share the turnout with you.  It's quite a crowded bouquet, but I just loved all the flowers and I was simply too excited that my aunt was encouraging me to pick them.
Some tips she gave me:

• Change the water daily to help extend the freshness of the flowers (ice cubes are nice too)
• Put the vase in a sink filled with water overnight so that any bugs in the flowers (like earwigs) will crawl out and (unfortunately) drown - rather than seeing them roam your home
• Pick some leaves/foliage to help fill up the bouquet - very nice for bouquets consisting of only one or two types of flowers

Watercolor Wednesday

For this summer, I've been trying to use watercolor pencils daily!  I've just been doing perky, optimistic, and minimalist subjects.  I'm not a super-skilled artist, but I think I have a pretty steady hand!  I already see improvement in my watercolor pencil technique.  So while I haven't been completing each page daily, I am trying my best to stick to it!  So I think I will make weekly posts of my watercolor starting today.  I hope you enjoy!

June 6 - Cup of Coffee

June 7 - Ginger Kittie

June 8 - Sea Turtle

June 9 - Rainbow Hot Air Balloon

June 10 - Seahorse

June 11 - Red Icing Cupcake

June 21 - Summer Solstice

June 22 - Wishing on Dandelions

June 23 - Seattle Skyline

I've been doing my best to use all of my colored pencils from day to day.  You will also see how I have been including masking fluid in there too!

(Belated) Junior Year Wrap-Up

Here is a quick photo dump of my junior year wrap-up at Whitworth University!  It's more like new harem pants and a few photos of the trip back to western Washington.