I’ve decided that I am going to try and complete my own Project 365. I subscribe to the Photojojo Newsletter and the latest newsletter was about this project. In a nutshell, you take a picture everyday. I think that I’m going to take one everyday but only post them on Mondays, or maybe Sundays. I figure that September 1st is as good a day as any to begin so here you go.

#1 Tully playing fetch in the backyard. She’s vicious about it. It’s blurry because she is too fast for the shutter speed that the camera is on. I left it that way because she looks faster when she’s blurry.

I’ve stretched myself a bit thin with projects and work and not wanting to do anything. I’ve been working on this banner type thing to hang from the ceiling outside of my classroom door. It will be two sided with my name and different pictures on each side. So far it has been a pain. I didn’t realize that “no sew”Heat ‘n’ Bond meant not to sew it as opposed to you don’t have to sew it. It most definitely meant you damn well better not sew this stuff or you will end having to un-gum your needle and thread after every inch of zigzag sewing the edge of the applique pieces. OH MY GOD! I have never cussed so much… EVER! It was entirely my fault and I totally deserved the trial but that does not mean that I will ever claim to have enjoyed it. I did, however, finish the stitching on the one side and totally redid the other side with the sewable kind of Heat ‘n’ Bond. Now I just have to sew it. Then stitch the two sides together like a pillowcase.

Here is a picture of the first side before I became a raving lunatic.

I can’t decide if I want to stitch rays coming from the sun. I drew them when I was sketching the idea but now I’m not so sure.

I’ll put up pictures of the other side, and hopefully the finished project, in the next few days.

Here it is. I mailed it just in the nick of time… again. What do you think of my model?

We also needed to make a pot holder/hot pad to go with it. I’ve never made one before and didn’t want to buy a pattern so I just winged it. I used one I already owned as a template.

As a side note: My carrion plant is growing THREE new flowers. Ah! I want to take it to school so that my kids can experience it but I’m afraid to move it before it blooms and definitely don’t want it in my car once it has bloomed. I guess they lucked out.

I am tired and the kids haven’t even returned. That happens tomorrow.

No matter how much I plan to be better prepared, it never seems to happen. Of course, if I had planned out everything something would change and make all of my planning for not.

I think I start classes on Saturday to become a Master Science Teacher but I was supposed to have a phone interview last week and no one called me. I guess I’ll just show up and see what happens. The worst thing is that they’ll just send me away.

Ok, Joanne warned me but I just don’t think that you fully appreciate the nastiness of it until you have smelled it yourself.

That’s right. It’s a flower and IT IS THE MOST DISGUSTING SMELLING THING —EVER!!!

You see, when I was doing the Race for the Cure, we walked by a dead duck that absolutely reeked. I almost lost my breakfast over that. This flower is even nastier than dead duck. NASTY! I sniffed it yesterday when it first opened (that’s when these pictures were taken) and it smelled a bit like fish. BUT TODAY, oh no. No subtle dead fish. No IT REEKED OF NASTY! There were flies on it. It was a good thing that I hadn’t eaten for several hours or it would have ended up in my yard. NASTY. I can’t say it enough.

Update: It is called a Starfish Flower—Stapelia Gigantea—and it’s native to South Africa. Isn’t the internet grand. All you have to do is type “Nasty smelling flower, succulent” into Google and Tah Dah! You now know what it is called.