Arby McDarby Behind the Lens

The Pillow....

2008-08-07T15:19:00.003-05:00

Today, I finished my very first pillow. It has a little embroidered
bird surrounded by two plants. I didn't pay for the cloth, (my mom
did), but I did sew the bird and plants. I'm happy to finish, and I
hope I can start another one soon.

This is what the parrots say......

2008-05-26T20:37:00.003-05:00

HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The next door neighbors

2008-05-24T10:39:00.002-05:00

Meet Taillow and Swellow. They are my next door neighbors. Well, actually, they live under my A.C.. I'm no expert, but I think that they are sparrows. In the morning, they drive me nuts, but I still like them. Taillow is the female and Swellow is the male.

The Schwa was Here

2008-05-24T09:44:00.007-05:00

This is the first of many books that I will be writing about. It is titled "The Schwa was Here" and was written by Neal Shusterman. Calvin Schwa a.k.a. "The Schwa" is a lonely boy in the Bronx. His mother disappeared and his father is disabled after a fall off a ladder. He has strange powers that let him blend in to anything. Soon, he meets Antsy Bonano ( actually his first name is really Anthony, but in the story he is called "Antsy.") Together, they conduct some pretty strange experiments, and the result of them is that only 1 out of 5 people notice The Schwa.
I think it was a really good book.

Huge Towers of Blocks!

2008-02-19T20:20:00.003-06:00

One of my sister's favorite pass-times is building towers with building blocks. When she does, the towers reach over three feet! Anyway, I just thought this was really cool.

Too much of ANYTHING can be bad

2007-12-07T15:26:00.001-06:00

Today, my mother said NO COMPUTER to my sister. Instead of saying okay, my sister threw a small tantrum. Later, she took a nap. Right when she came down, she asked if she could watch Pokemon episodes. THE ANSWER WAS YES!!!!!!!!!! And now, I'm writing this post just to pass the time. Normally I'd be happy that we would be watching Pokemon. But just yesterday, my sister watched A TON of it and I'm, personally, tired of it. [For now, that is.]

Great Pictures

2007-11-24T10:13:00.001-06:00

Over the past three days my sister has drawn great pictures. For "some reason" all of them were Pokemon. She's drawn all sorts of guys, and, even though it's her favorite, she only drew Pikachu once.

Making Prints

2007-11-23T17:56:00.000-06:00

Earlier today, my mom helped my sister and I make block prints. My first one [which was on a linolium block] didn't turn out all that well. But then I used rubber blocks, and my next 3 were fine. I usually like to carve Pokemon, today all four carvings I made were Pokemon.

My sister: part 2

2007-03-25T19:10:00.001-05:00

Top : Picture 1. Bottom: Picture 2

My sister, Astrid, is wacky, as you learned in the orginal My sister. She takes real dance class and, errrrr, not so real dance class as demonstrated in picture 1. How she waltzes so gracefully while solo I don't know, but what I don't want to know is how she makes the face in picture 2.

My sister

2007-03-21T19:43:00.000-05:00

My sister's name is Astrid. She wants a blog like this. She says " Piano by Astrid." Your right, I have no clue what she is talking about.

Likes and dislikes

2007-03-20T19:05:00.000-05:00

My personally favorite things are pokemon cards and computer games. Sometimes when I play on my favorite website named MINICLIP, I get into the top ten daily players!!!!!! (This is usually on weekday evenings, when less people are playing. He he he!) What I don't like is pizza day on only one Wednesday each month.