Exciting news in the land of Hawaii

1. My tail comes in 5 days. Whose ridiculously stoked? This girl. Best part is, instead of being made out of latex, it's going to be made out of silicone, which is WAY better, and will last much longer in the long run, and be much more durable. I am one happy fish. Oh, I can't wait!

 2. I finished my signs!
A. I first had a huge pallet, then I had to take apart the pallet (really hard) to get the pieces I wanted

B. I had to figure out my design for my arrows and then cut it out with a circular saw (yay college scenery class!)

Camp Half-Blood traced out!

C. Painted all of the different boards

D. Draw the words on, I was going to use paint and use the newspaper transfer method, lies, didn't work, so I free handed the titles of places off of pictures I found on the internet, it actually turned out much better than expected, I expect it's that Arts and Crafts Head job that gave me the mad art skills I needed for this.

E. Figure out the order I wanted and put it up! We ended up screwing the back board into the wall, which was a 3"x1.5'x8 ft that I cut down to be 6.5 ft. Then we nailed the boards into that one. Took a bit, but now it's all done! I'm super excited, it's all different locations from our favorite books!

Before

3.  I wrote my article for Tail Flip magazine! I made a sunken treasure chest and wrote a DIY article about it called, "Just for the Halibut", it turned out pretty cool, I'll post a link once it comes out!  I'm excited to come up with new crafts to do, I don't have work this week or next, so I've been getting random stuff done, and working on mermaiding (I can now hold my breath for two minutes!) Well, that was once, my avg is 1 minute and 30 seconds...still, better than 30 seconds right!? I feel very blessed to be surrounded by people who are excited about my activities, and don't shun me for going after dreams that sound kind of crazy. :-)

After

Also dove in a ship wreck yesterday, saw a 5 ft sea turtle, and I guess some sharks came out under us while we were getting up on the boat and we missed it by 2 minutes. I guess one snuck up behind the girl while she was rising in the water. I would have died, but it would have made for a good story.  Maybe next time...
This weekend we're having a quiet time, my friend has a Twilight marathon, and some friends are coming over for breakfast dinner 'Ferry style', and Quelf. It's gonna be epic. Just saying.
Love you all,
Aj the ever venturing adventurer :-)