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No. I know everyone loves me. So, this post is about Star Wars! Well, our project on it. It was really cool. We had to pick a driving question, and base out project around that. But it had to be Star Wars related.

So, I love animals. So, of course, my question had to do with those things. “What Animals Were the Aliens In Star Wars Based Off Of?” Yeah, it sounds cool, right? It was! So, I worked really hard on it. I took a few select aliens, did some research on them, and tried to connect them to animals. It took a lot of editing, and I mean a lot! One of my best ones was about Gungans. You know, what Jar Jar Binks was. They’re so funny. Another good one I did was Wookies. Here it is:

Yes. So, I worked so hard on it, but then came the hard part. How was I going to present it? I thought about maybe a power point, but that would really work. The exhibit was more of a ‘walk around and see what you like’. No one had time to watch a power point! So I thought maybe a mobile? No, that would be so hard to bring in on the day, and where would I hang it? So I settled for a good old poster board.

So, it came to a few days before the exhibit. We had to design our little area to look like Tatooine. There were three things we had to have:

a) Decorations

b) Food/Drink

c) Entertainment

It proved difficult, as Tatooine is pretty much a barren landscape. But we managed. We had it seem like the bar, it was fun. We made Shirley Temples, which we called ‘Tatooine Sunsets”, and little tie fighter cookies:

It was cool. Our decorations were a table covered with black paper to look like a bar, with two stools. Then we had the two Suns, and orange paper over the lights. Our entertainment was supposed to be a Jedi Scavenger Hunt, but SOFIA forgot to hand them out! (I still hold a grudge to this day). We also dressed up, and Sofia made my hair into Princess Leia buns. Over all, it looked like this:

Yeah. Making the Tatooine Sunsets were hard! I had to bring in 8 LITERS of frozen orange juice! That’s a lot! James had to bring in eight liters of Sprite, which he only brought four of. Thank goodness Sofia brought in an emergency four liters. Phewf. Halfway through the exhibition, almost everyone had left Tatooine, and Quinn came in. He was dressed as Han Solo, and proceeded to chug anout five Shirley Temples, and acted drunk. I can officially say I got Han Solo drunk. Huh.

So, over all, the project went well! I’m really excited for when we do our larger project. It’s the same idea, but it doesn’t have to be Star Wars related this time. But I’m excited for that.

That’s for this post, so, as always

Read Ya Later, alligators!

Ruby

Yay! You scanned the QR code on my quilt square! Or maybe you’re looking at my blog for other school work….. Or you’re bored on the Interwebs….. This got awkard

Anyways, this post is about my quilt square. If you haven’t read part one of this series, then explore my blog! Go ahead, do it.

My quilt square:

This represents Yureka and Isosceles going underground together to find the phone. I worked really hard on this, and it paid off in the end.

Here’s if you really want to go into detail:

The blue hand and the white hand holding each other represents Isocolese (the blue hand) taking Yureka (the white hand) into the underground of New York. The iPhone represents the iPhone (no duh) The colourful squats represent the upside of New York, and the bland brown represents the underground.

Working on it took about a week for me. That’s an entire week of sewing, which is eight classes, which is 10 hours and fourty minutes. I mean, we didn’t sew for four hours and forty minutes  but it makes it sound dramatic. Actually, during that time, a few things that happened:

– Quinn stabbed me with a needle

– I almost sat on my quilt square and needle

– 36% of our conversations were about Star Wars

Now, Mrs. Willemes told us to take pictures. I slightly forgot, so I took one this morning. After my square was done. Ssssssh, it looks like I’m doing something, so it counts.

Yeah, we had to embroider the details into our quilts. I made sure to outline the hands, and the border. Final product….. *drum roll*:

Yay! It looks so good! But, what about the myth? Yes, I did vaguely explain what this represented, but what about the entire story, the book? Well, the entire story of my quilt goes like this:

There once was a young boy named Isosceles. He lived in a small part of New York. One day, he was walking with his girlfriend, Yureka, when he dropped his phone down the sewers. “Oh no!” Isosceles exclaimed, looking down at the grate which his phone had fallen down. Yureka sighed. “Come, Isosceles. We can go find your phone….” Yureka said, taking his and, and crawling down into the dark underground of New York….

So there you have it! The amazing quilt square unit, that took two blog posts! Yay!

Read ya later, alligators

Ruby