Flashback: Dada-ish Poetry, Revisited

A true Dadaist poem is completely random: you cut out words from books, magazines, newspapers, place them in a pile, and draw them out randomly. The words stay in the order they're drawn and you add line breaks, punctuation, ect.

This is not a true Dada poem: I cheated. I drew out about 10-15 words for each line and selected the ones that I liked, thus my Dada-ish poem:(click picture for better view)

I made this a couple years ago, when my brother left on his mission. He's coming home in a month (yay!) and I was looking through my journal from when he left and found this poem. I liked how it turned out, so I thought I'd share.
xoxo, M

Flashback: Disneyland 1997

Flashback is a feature in which I dig through my memory box and re-discover my make-and-do past.  The flux capacitator is fluxing and we're going back to 1997...

In seventh grade, a pop-top necklace was a badge of honor: one saved the tops off their soda cans, strung them on a string, and proudly displayed the amount of Mountain Dew one had consumed.  This trend extended to both sexes, although it was slightly more popular among the boys.  

I think it started when the school removed the Surge vending machine after installing it the day before (please remember, I've lived in Utah my whole life).  After losing the status-symbol Surge can, the cool kids needed a way to showcase their rebellious consumption of caffeinated beverages and the pop-top necklace found its way to Cedar Ridge Middle School.

As ever, I wanted to participate in the trend, but in my own way.  Uninterested in bragging about my soda-drinking ways, I wanted to put a creative, feminine spin on the popular pop-top necklace.  So I got out my sparkly nail polish and got a-painting.  I added a few white beads and I had the necklace I wore nearly every day in seventh grade:

If you're wondering why Mickey found his way into these pictures, seventh grade was the year I finally got to go to Disneyland.  Being twelve, I knew that it was important to look my best while I wandered the streets of Tomorrowland, so I made sure to bring my necklace with me.  

Flashback: Christmas 1988

Flashback is a feature wherein I dig through my memory box and re-discover my make-and-do past.  The flux capacitator is fluxing and we're going back to 1988!

Many people remember salt dough from third-grade geography lessons: slap a big blob down through the Western states, paint it with green and brown watercolors, and you just created the Rocky Mountains.  It was also useful when forming the Hawaiian islands.  

What most people don't know is that salt dough is an excellent material for three-year-olds making a nativity scene.  Specifically, salt dough, toothpicks, and googly eyes.  My Nursery class made these little nativity sets - our teacher made Mary and Joseph and we got to create the manger and any animals we saw fit.  I believe mine is a cow.