Halloween 2013

 

To many books to read!

Duct tape pouch

 

Info-graphic

Hello!I'm trying to make a info-graphic about Hayao Miyazaki Movies. If you want to help you can fill out the form here:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YW44lb4GcZtzOEHCLL9S97R_I0fo1ysirO8ZIoQ3vgI/viewform

Pages from my sketch book (Sorry there so small, I may scan them at some point)

Book reveiw: Larklight

Title: Larklght or Revenge of the white spiders!, or to Saturn's rings and back!

Author: Philip Reeve

Stars 9/10

The  story is basically the main character and his sister get cast of into space after there giant Victorian, floating, space mansion is attacked by  evil, bowler hat wearing, giant spiders.Also there's space pirates. What more do I have to say? page us bound to be good. Also it's absolutely bursting with beautiful illustration. Just read it.

-Tovah

Quick update.

Hello! Sorry I haven't been on in a while. I'm just about to finish a book and I'll do a review for it. In the mean time why don't you check out The Idea Box a little project me and my friend are doing.

Summer Reading

I've been looking around on Goodreads recently and I've found quite a few good looking books. I'm not sure if I'll be able to read all of these by the end of summer, but I every time I do finish one I'll do a review for it. I currently reading  Larklight and its amazing!



-Tovah

Arts I did on the computer

 

.....She's really creepy.

This is horribly out of scale but I still like how it turned out.

Piano Recital 2013

Here is a clip of my piano recital for you enjoyment. Sorry for the bad video quality it was recoded on a phone.



-Tovah

Book reveiw: The cats of tanglwood forest

-Goodreads

Title: The Cats of Tangelwood

Author:Charles Delint

Illustrator: Charles Vess

Stars: 9/10

So with me there's two kind of books. The ones that are recommended by my friends and I've been reading about online and I'm super exited about. And there's the kind that I randomly picked of the library shelf because they  have a cool cover or have good reviews from an author I like. I usually read two pages into these books and then send them back. But occasionally I find a jewel. This was one of those. The story is about a twelve year old girl named Lillin. Every day she dose her farm chores then runs of to explore Tanglewood forest. One day she gets bitten by a snake. Suddenly she finds herself in a circle of cats, but not any cats the forest cats. They take pity on her and tern her into a kitten, saving her life. On the way to getting back to being a Human she meets a fox, a badger witch and many other interesting characters. This book really pulled me in and its one of the few books thees days where it fees like its okay if it doesn't have a sequel. I really liked the way they had a lot of native American stories woven into the book and how they have beautiful illustrations on almost every page. Defiantly a good read.

Tovah 

Seattle Part 1

Hi! Five months ago, mom gave me her old android phone after she got a new one. It's really awesome especially because of the  camera and photo editing apps on the phone. I have taken a lot of photos but only recently have I lerned how to get them on to the computer. I while ago I went to Seattle, I meant to write about it sooner but.... I didn't have the photos.

And here is the view from  top

I've been to Seattle each Spring but I've never actually been to the space needle.....until recently. Here is the bottom of the space needle..

To be continued....

Updates

Hello!,

I haven't updated lately but that's because......I'm sick. I have been for a week. I am planing to do a book review soon, but it may take a bit. 


Bye,
Tovah     

Some stuff I wrote about the Government

Why the electoral collage should be abolished

America’s political system is a democracy. That means that everyone’s vote should be equal. You probably knew that. But the votes aren’t equal. Why? Because of a terrible, terrible system called    the Electoral College.

Most Americans cast their ballot on Election Day thinking that that vote is going to go to the candidate of their choice. The truth is they go to the states electors. Each state has a certain amount of electoral votes determined by population (574,000 people a vote).  When you vote you’re actually asking the electors to vote for the candidate that you chose. Most of the time they do but there they can actually use the votes for whoever they want.  This means there is a chance that your vote doesn’t even count. That’s not democracy.

But it’s not just the Electors which are the problem.  There are 538 Electoral votes (the number of representatives and senators in the House of Representatives and the Senate). I said before that the electoral votes ­­­­­ are divided evenly among the states. However there’s a law which says that all states must have three votes regardless of population. This seems fair but the problem is that there is a limited amount of votes. This means that states don’t have all the votes they should. Ohio is missing 2 electoral votes, Texas 6 and California 10. I said earlier that each vote represents 574,000 people. That means 5,740,000 people who live California actually live in smaller other states according to the Electoral College.  Plus the Electoral College doesn’t protect the smaller states from the bigger ones by taking so many votes away from them. People running for President don’t visit the smaller states and they don’t visit the larger states where most of the people live, they visit the swing states. Swing states are basically states that have a good amount of electoral votes but don’t have a fixed political party (as opposed to states like Texas who always vote republican or states like California who always vote democrat).

And of course there are the territories, that aren’t states but 4.4 million people live in. And these people aren’t allowed to vote even though they are citizens of the U.S.  This is even less fair when you consider citizens that are abroad can vote over the mail.  Even U.S. citizens in space can vote. Do 4.4 million people just not exist?

The Electoral College pretends people don’t live where they do, makes our votes worthless and makes U.S. citizen not be able to vote. This is wrong. This is not democracy. This should be abolished.

 

Works sited:

How the Electoral College works CGPgrey youtube.com YouTube Nov. 7  2011

The trouble with the Electoral College   CGPgrey youtube.com YouTube Nov. 7  201E

Electoral College (United States) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_%28United_States%29



I did this a bit ago. Like it?

Tovah

Phylo

Hello!

Introducing.....PHYLO!!  So Phylo is a game kind of like Magic or Pokemon but instead of having made up creatures they use real animals. The goal of the game is to get the most diverse food web. The best part is you can print out all the cards FREE!!! Here is the link to the website and here is where you can print the deck.

Bye,
Tovah

Book reiew

This is April's guest review:

book title: uncollected

author: Paul Jennings

illustrator: Keith McEwan

my rating out of ten: 9.5/10

ages 9 to 12

this edition first published in 2002

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This book has many stories in it and it is one of my favourite books I have ever read.

That is something to say, because I have read hundreds of books!

Anyway, uncollected has so many great endings and fantastic stories that I can't tell you anything!

It's all too extraordinary to reveal.

But what I must say is:

Paul Jennings is the best writer in Australia in my opinion and this book is certainly one to read!

 

Some stuff I wrote about tigers

English: Distribution of tigers over the world. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Panthera tigris sumatran subspecies. Français : Un tigre de Sumatra (Panthera tigris sumatrae). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tiger (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

Tigers

(Panthhera Tigres)

 Tigers are one of the most distinctive wild cats for their large size and identifiable stripes. There also very solitary. They weigh as much as 670 pounds and can be up to 9 feet long.Its large jaw and huge teeth allow it to bite down incredibly hard which helps it hunt. They are the third biggest carnivore on land.   Tiger are mostly nocturnal creatures and eat Birds, Deer and Elk, and even sometimes water buffalo . Tigers are an endangered spices do to hunting and habitat loss.Tigers are quite good swimmers and and do it often. Though there are very few white tigers naturally they are often bred in zoos.

GBBC Birds

Hello!,

Now since you're reading this I assume You A.Like science B. Like me C. Like the stuff I post or D. Stumbled upon this blog via Google search. If any of these true keep reading! The purpose of this post is to introduce you to one of the biggest citizen science projects for birding run by are trusty friends at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology   and the audubon society. Today is the 4th day of Great backyard bird count! All you have to do to participate is go outside and record all the birds you see for fifteen minutes. Then send in you're list and well that's it! So what what are you waiting for? Get out and bird!

P.S. This isn't just for Americans either now you can submit you're findings from anywhere in the world!

Some photos

Sewing machine!!!! And 50 posts!!

So many awesome things happening!! First I GOT A SEWING MACHINE!! My goal is to make to make My First Skirt from Sewing school. Also this post is The Fifty th  post!!! And so let us commemorate this event with rainbows! If you're interested here is the first post on my blog.

My sewing machine!

P.S. More stuff with wax
 

I love modeling wax

I got some modeling wax for Chanukah. Here's what I made!

Books!!!

I am reading so many books right now!! They are: The Cadfish Home for Boys and Girls,Summer and Bird, The Girls Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revel their, Artemas Fowl, The Seven Towers,Alana the First Adventure,A Tale Dark and Grim, The Land of Story's: The Wishing Spell and The Fire Chronicle. Wow.

Links!!!

Chain Link (Photo credit: small world)

Hey guys!,

Since I am lazy I'm going to give you.....More links!!

Three awesome blogs from one awesome sewing girl:  Books, sewing and  photos

The Scale of the universe

More SPACE!!

More sewing

HEXEFLEXIGONS!!!!!

Everything for a Mighty girl

Awesome comic website

Yes. Awwww yes 

Cool authors websites Here, Here, and Here. 


Tovah  

Portland aquarium

Hello!

For a while I have been talking about the Portland aquarium. I went there today!

A nautilus

 

Happy new year!

Fire works (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Fire Work (Photo credit: Mydaas!)

Fire works 120801 #04 (Photo credit: osanpo)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hey everyone!,

I started this blog when I was about seven blogged for a few months and then stopped for two years then started again in 2011. Though I do not have many followers it has been really fun posting since. Now that its 2013 I have been doing this for three years(sort of) and I feal like should make this more of a once a week thing and less of a once a month thing. Hopefully I will be posting more this year. In the mean time why don't you head over to the new Portland aquarium over here!

Happy new year!,

Tovah.