Crayon Art

So, have we all seen those fun melted crayon pictures on the internet? I have, and I love them! So I got this fantastic idea to try to make some for myself! 

These are some of the pictures of my little craft! I first made some for my Smyth babies. I want to make some for my Stone babies, but I have not yet figured out how they will take them to Turks and Caicos...

 So these are the 3 together. I took pictures off the internet and coloured them on the canvas with a Sharpie marker.

 This one is for my little Tessa

 This one is for Tayla

 And this one is for Tyson

 I then hot glue gunned all the crayons onto the canvas. Tayla's was the first one I did, and I thought it would be cute to have 3 bunches of crayons all mixed together.

Tyson's is supposed to look like the bike is riding in the rain, so I had no rhyme or reason and just glued random blues with some random colours mixed in there.

 But this is the canvas that I copied from online. The colours are organized more into a rainbow.

This was the end results of my crayon art! Again, Tayla's was my first one, so there were a couple things I learned from it. For example, not to use the blow dryer on high. That was a silly mistake... The crayons melted way to fast that way, and I couldn't keep up. But I do still love this one with all those colours.

Doesn't it look like he is riding in the rain? Haha.

 Tessa's. It was the last one I did, and has been nominated as many people's favourite. 

The three of them together. So cute I think.

Now I just need to finish the one that I have ready for my own home. I'm pretty excited about them, and that turned out so well. 

...take that pinterest...

Optometry

So I have decided... Going to further schooling past an undergrad, is totally overrated. Well... I guess I should wait until after doing it to see if I still agree... BUT as for now, it feels like way more stress than needed.
We have first started the process by applying to take the Optometry Admissions Test (OAT). Yes, you have to apply to take the test. Not only that, but it cost us $220US just to take the thing. Not horrible, people pay that to take tests all the time. But then we were looking into taking a prep class for it, and could only find an online thing through KAPLAN. Guess how much that was? $1400. Yes, to take a prep class. Is it worth it? We haven't decided yet...
Not only that, but we have been told that most people don't get accepted their first year of applying to schools, so there is more money that we have to waste just applying to a bunch of schools, twice maybe. And, then we will have to fly to the schools in order to do the interviews with the schools. Bah. All while being starving students.
So much stress...
Is it worth all of this to become an optometrist? Who knows people... who knows...


...some days you just need to complain...