Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Homemade Kindle Covers!


   My Mom bought me a kindle for Christmas! I am very excited about this! I read so much that this will be such an easy way to be able to take all my books with me easily. Also there are a lot of books that are available for free on the kindle! All books published before 1936 are free! The also choose 40 different current books a month that are released for free! It's so exciting! I am going to be reading all the time when I get it.
   I looked online how much the Kindle covers were and they were all around $59.99! Sixty dollars! That is way too much for a cover. It's like half the price of the kindle! That's insane! So I decided to make my own. I made two covers they were very simple to make. First I traced the kindle on a piece of cardboard then I doubled the length so that it would fit it like a book case. I also allowed half an inch for the 'binding' part of the book case. Then I covered with fabric and sewed it together. I also sewed different colored fabric on the inside to hold the kindle still and keep it secure in the cover. 
   The first one I made I sewed the scraps of the fabric onto the middle of each side of the cover so I can tie it and make a bow when it's closed. The second one I made I used a button to keep it closed and then added ribbon for decoration.
I really like how they both turned out! It was very simple and in all the whole price for the two covers would be under $5.00 because all I used was fabric and cardboard. Very simple, very cost efficient! 







  

Monday, December 13, 2010

Girl power: Nat and Kat won the Amazing Race, both buying a hat & a cat with million dollars!

It was the season finale of the Amazing Race! Unfortunatly the end of the race was in Los Angeles. I live in Los Angeles, it isn't that amazing. Nat and Kat won the million dollars. The only reason I like this is that their names rhyme. Did anyone else notice how much they touch each other through the race? I was really hoping that when they won they would just start kissing already! Lets be honest, they were staring into each others eyes!! C'mon! They should have done it, it would have been the best ending for the Amazing Race. Now that would have been freaking Amazing! They were the first all girl team to ever win the Amazing Race.
Brooke and Claire(Flare) the home shopping hosts came in second. If you are sad you won't be seeing them anymore, then it's your lucky did because they will be returning next season.
Jill and her boyfriend(forgot his name already!) came in third. I really liked her, but he was annoying. He thought he was better than her and clearly he was mistaken.
If you are sad about the Amazing Race being over then don't you worry! The show will be back the end of February. Next season will be called "Unfinished Business" and it will be taking past teams from previous seasons that did not win and want a second chance at the money. I'll be watching, will you?

Bridal Plasty "Unveiled" maybe instead of plastic surgery, just a larger veil?

Tonight on Low Self Esteem Brides...no wait I have that wrong. Tonight on BRIDALPLASTY, the show started with Chyenne very much in pain from her nose job which she got last week. She compared it to feeling like she got hit in the face with a hammer...which turned out to be entirely accurate! She had ice packs on her face whenever they showed her and she has huge bruises under her eyes. So it doesn't look good quite yet!
After a wedding dress competition that was judged by some celebrity stylist that I have never heard of, Dominique, Alexandra(from the Biggest Loser) and Jamie were in the bottom three. Alexandra was the most shocked which was really funny. She thought she would get a 10/10 rating on her dress, and she got a 4/10. When the stylist was trying to say she had J.Lo's skin tone she didn't understand and said "Longoria?" Which was so laugh out loud funny that she thinks she looks like Eva Longoria! So funny!
Kristen won the wedding dress challenge with the highest score 9/10. She decided to have breast augmentation. She is a very classy girl and when she came out of surgery her first words were "Do I have tits?" Such sophistication! Dr.Dubrow is doing all plastic surgery on the show.
Jaime was eliminated tonight and no one RSVP's to her wedding. I thought she was pretty boring on the show before but tonight I liked her more because I did a beer count with her. Every scene she was in she had a beer in her hand it was hilarious! Anyways 1, 2, 3! Three beers, three different occasions!

The wedding dress store they were at was in Beverly Hills and it was called "Winnie Coutour".
Tips that they gave for wedding dresses, which types are flattering to which body types"
Mermaid Dress- For a bombshell bride, great for camoflaging curves.
-Princess Dress- Very showy and extravagent.
-Drop waist/fit&flare- Great for dancing and moving around comfortably.
-Ball Gown dress- Flattering to shorter girls, not good for taller girls.

So now there has been a nose job, and a bood job...Next I think they should find them real jobs! Let's turn it into Apprentice Plasty and they will all be able to afford their own dream wedding!