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Going Gold

Kristian Beverly6 Comments

Today I received my Gold Award for Girl Scouts.

It was held at a Sheraton Hotel. The local recipients had to make a display that talked about and explained her Gold Award. The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. I ran a Tween (middle aged) book club during the summer for my project. For each book we met two times a week, during the summer, before moving on to the next one. During each meeting we talked about the book and did a craft afterwards.

I got numerous things for it, starting with this special pin and mug.

I also got letters of recognition from numerous places, so here are a few.

A letter that was awesome to get came from DC.

I had alot of fun at the event, and enjoyed every moment of it.
The 2015 Gold Award Recipients 

(Madison of Gyrfalcon Studios and Erin of And Now, For Something Completely Different)

 There was a point when the Gold Award seemed unlikely. Losing troop members and a leader caused a scramble that my mom was able to fix with the help of the girl scout council. My troop was #873, and I’m the last member of it.

The group, the perfect mixture of family and friends, minus two. (My mom is on the far right)

 I’m happy I saw it through though.  I was a girl scout from age five until now. Fourteen years.
 There are adult memberships, but I have no idea what I will do about it. I’ll figure that out later.

The Sister and me
Such projects and awards are never done solo. I wouldn’t have ever been a girl scout, nor would have finished it out without my Mom. The project never would have been the success it was without my adviser, Michelle

Dolls Can Train Too

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I saw Jurassic World as soon as it came out. I loved all of  it, especially the Dinosaurs. I totally would have gone to the petting zoo and ridden a triceratops.
But I loved the raptors more. Especially Raptor Squad.

Since the movie came out, Zoo keepers have recreated the picture above which depicted Chris Pratt’s character training the raptors. The recreations are awesome. This is one of my favorites, but you can see more here.

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So today I had an idea. A model horse version. And these pictures happened. The models were easier to train than the dear doll. One gust of wind and she flopped.

“Stop with the attitude.”
“Eyes on me.”

This was a ton of fun to do!

Mini Books

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Last night I started making miniature books. These are the ones I made.
From left to right: The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, Black Beauty, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 
, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and ,Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
After finishing the saddle I wanted to do something fast. So miniature books happened. 
Over the past couple of months I’ve pinned various book jackets to my pinterest board called Miniature Projects. Some  books I found with a google image search. Here’s the links to the ones on pinterest.
The one that got me really excited I found the other day. I decided to give it a try.
I scaled the covers down to be 1:9 scale. Because the Harry Potter book covers were the hardback dust jackets instead of paperback, I decided to make them into miniature hardbacks. I used thin cardboard. 
After I cut the covers out, I glued small packets of white paper inside and modge podged the cover to seal it. Once set, I could open them up like real books, but the pages are blank. 
I really do like how they came out. The Harry Potter book covers were a little blurry, so I only made 3 of the 7 books. I have all of the *real sized* ones and have most in hardback, so I think I’ll try scanning my copies and making new miniature ones. 
 Size comparison. 
Here are some of the miniature books with their larger versions!

These were fun to make, and I can’t wait to make some more. :)

Tack Trunk

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While working on the saddle, I also worked on a tack box for myself.
Last year I made a tack box. It was fun to make.

Those were some of my tack pieces too. A year can make a huge difference!

I bought this box a while ago and let it sit. It got lost in the craft room until this past week. The other box had become way too small for my saddles. I wanted to have a better organizing system for my saddles too, so it seemed perfect for me to find it.

I redid the handle and stained it. 
I bought this cool steam-punk themed scrapbook paper during the summer and decided to use it. 
Finished product. It has plenty of space, and I’m trying to decided if I want to add another row for saddles or not. There’s plenty of space for bridles too.