Not So Rainy in Seattle

     Last week I was able to go to Seattle, Washington to go to my Mom's cousin's wedding! It was a blast! The weather was supposed to be 50% chance of rain, but sadly it only sprinkled a few times and it rained hard(ish) when we were driving around. I was disappointed. But, besides that it was great!
We were there for four days and one quick morning. We drove the thirteen hour drive and was able to see beautiful sights! We had a great time being together and we got lots of rest!

Some trees that we saw on our drive up to seattle!
 They were all grown in strait lines because they
were apart of a tree farm.

     My mom's uncle and aunt live out on the Puget Sound so that it where we got to stay! They are amazing people that I have gotten to know and love! We had such a fun time helping out and learning more about my (mom's) cousin's husband. They are great people and I wish them the best!

Backside view of their house

     While I was there I got to help put some of the flower bouquets together! I have always wondered what it was like to be a floralist and I got a little bit of a preview last weekend! When we started I was very overwhelmed. We had roses, purple flowers, green button like flowers(please forgive me for my lack of knowledge as of what the flowers names are!), some more white flowers and lot's of other stuff! In the end they all looked very beautiful!

Some of our bouquets!

     While we were up there we went to Pikes Place! For those of you who don't know Pike's Place is a super fun market where people set up booths and sell all different kinds of nick-nacks. We saw belt buckles, giant gummy bears made out of little gummy bears, dead smelly fish with their eyes still on the fish(EW!), lot's of other cool stuff, and we even saw a bronze lady. She was human but she acted like a robot! It was one of the coolest things I've ever seen! She moved in the coolest way!

The Bronze Lady at Pike's Place

     I had a great time up in Washington with lot's of family! Remember that sometimes, it doesn't rain hard in Seattle. See ya next time!

A Blogger's Start

Hello! I'm Allie Thorn and this is my blog, Paint, Pencils, and Paper! I will be posting about all things that have to do with the arts and crafts(so that might be things like photography, scrapbooking, music, painting, sculpting and anything else that is artsy!) that I see and actually do! I am looking forward to this blog because now I can do all of the fun crafty things that I see because it will be 'homework'! To get started I looked around a little bit at other craft blogs and I found three fun blogs with great ideas!


The first one is called Sugar Bee Crafts. It is a fun little website that has lot's of different ideas of how to show you different crafts. On Mondays she normally does give always, Tuesdays are Take-A-Look Tuesday(where she posts lot's of links to other sites), Wednesday is What I Wore Wednesday(fashion days), and Fridays and Saturdays are Contributor Posts. I think that it's a fun idea and I might do something like that but I will only be posting about once a week so I'll have to change it a little bit...
    
The next blog is All Stamped Up! This is my mom's blog and I really like it! It has lot's of fun crafts and ideas. I love the colors(red, white, and black) that she used on her blog because they were very simple but they are bold too. I like this blog because all the things that are posted on the front page are actually made by my mom! She has lot's of great projects on her blog and she will probably be helping me with what I will be doing! 

The last blog I found was Dragonfly Designs. I really liked this blog because when I first open the website the first thing I saw was food. That grabbed my attention. I also like how she had those pull down menus and the website overall was pleasing to look at. I'm not sure if I can have pull down menus but as I mess around with this blog I might figure it out! 

Well I think that is all! Sorry, no crafts on this blog yet! But remember to go check out the blogs I mentioned above. See ya soon!