Chinook

I also posted this on my photo by natalie website, but I'm not sure how many people look at it, so I thought I'd put it here too to get some feed back.
My sister is planning on decorating the new baby's room in Chinooks. So she asked me to do some stuff for it. I was playing around this morning and came up with this. I'm not completely satisfied with it, but I thought I would get your input on it.

Before and After

This morning I woke up early and thought I would go running, but it was raining, so I decided to conduct another photoshop experiment, but this time on myself. I took the first picture with my camera phone, and then the second on is the "after" in photoshop.



Here is what I did: Brightened my eyes, smoothed my skin, erased baggy eyes, whitened teeth and brightened the whole photo. Pretty amazing huh! Well, then I got to thinking, I wonder if there are before and after photoshop pictures of celebrities. And this is what I found: (click to enlarge)

Wonder how Madonna keeps her youthful skin? Well, the answer is PHOTOSHOP!

I was amazed at what photoshop can do. I love photoshop!! But isn't it funny how these "after" images that make these people look like gods are what the world has set as beautiful? It's impossible to look this way naturally, yet so many girls are pressured into looking thin and beautiful like the people they see in magazines, people who don't really exist because a computer made them. Here are a few videos of what they can do with photoshop... double chin, presto no more, eyes need to be bigger, you got it! Thighs a little big? no problem here!




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Halloween Party

We had a Halloween party at my house. Only a few people dressed up, and I only managed to get photos of this one. It was the best one, but I don't know why I didn't get everyone... oh well.


Isaiah the Robot. He came and spit out corn nuts out of his front. It was really funny.



We started off eating, and talking and Jesse read some scary stories to us. Then we bobbed for apples. It was quite enjoyable and the apples were perfect. (I'm a picky apple eater.)



John

Jesse

Jonathan



Isaiah



Emi (She was cloudy with a chance of rain.)





Holly


Me

after we bobbed for apples, we watched Young Frankenstein. It was a fun party.

The Haunted Lagoon

On Saturday I went to the PCC (Polynesian Cultural Center) with some of my friends. They have a Haunted Lagoon there. It's like a haunted house, but you are riding in a canoe down their little canal. We got there at 6:30 and ended up waiting in line for 3 hours. Standing in line wasn't too bad because we were all together, but it was long! Once we got there though it was really good. I was surprised at how well they did. It was the right combination of jumpy and scary. One might say it was Spooktacular! Here are some picts from it:

Jonathan, Tara, Emi, Celeste, Mike,
Chris, John, Nat, Ikaika, Nikki

and here is the video for it:

Update

Well, this past week has been pretty good. I stuck with my 6 am workouts and I even joined the YMCA. My friend Teisha and I are going every night. She is whipping me into shape there. Just so you get an idea of how hard she is working me. The first day we spent 20 minutes doing cardio, 45 minutes doing wieghts, concentrating on our backs and arms, and then finished it off with another 40 minutes of cardio. At this rate, I'll be in shape in no time! :)
This week I am concentrating on drinking more water and cutting back (way back) on the sugar. I love sugar, I don't know why but I do. So I'm going to try hard this week. Oh, and I lost 2 pounds :)

It's a Long Road to Victory Day 1

Well, I have finally decided it is time. I need to kick my butt into shape. I've given it some thought and decided that staying in shape is easy, you work out 3-5 times a week for 45 minutes a day. No problem. The real challenge is getting into shape. It's gonna take a lot more work!! So, I devised a plan with the experteise of my sister.

My goal: lose 20 pounds and tone those muscles.
My goal date: January 31

Here is what I am doing:

Each morning I am waking up and doing a workout DVD from the Firm series. I recently purchased 5 Firm workout DVDs off of amazon.com, that way I have a different one each day. These workouts are great because they combine cardio with weight training.


After I do that I do some windsor Pilates workouts. This morning I did the bun and thighs one and all I have to say is OUCH!! It was a good kind of pain though.



In the evenings I am doing another 30 minute cardio workout such as another DVD, speed walking or running. I am also using the exercise ball to do some more less sweaty exercises.

Oh boy!! that is the plan. I'm trying to tell myself that I CAN do it and that it WILL work and that I will LOVE it. I decided to also make sure I'm drinking plenty of water and cutting back on sugar. I'll keep you updated on how I'm doing once a week. That way I'm motivated because I have to report it. ha ha ha ha. Anywho, That's my plan and yeah for the long road to victory of being in shape!!

I NEED MORE PROJECTS

I was asked by a friend to paint these for Dr. Suess week at the YMCA. I had a lot of fun doing them. I spent a lot of time on Saturday doing them. I really like art, perhaps that is why I went to school for it. Why don't I do it more often?? I'm asking for suggestions to use my artistic abilities. Any ideas? Any at all???