Teddy Bears!

Since we are finished our Junk Kouture project we are now making teddy bears in Home Ec class!Over the Christmas holidays we had to go and get fabric and some other equipment.When we came back to school  we had to trace patterns and cut them out;and now we are pinning them onto our fabric and cutting them out!My teddy bear is going to be purple!

Junk Kouture Finished at Last :)

In art class today we found out who came first and second in each class for the junk kouture fashion show!And guess what!? My team came second!!I wasn't really expecting to come first and second because the outfits in our class were really good and I was so sure another team was going to come second.I guessed who would come first before we found out and I was right.The girls who made their outfit out of crisp packets came first and since the project is over we had a small party in Art.We watched the movie 'Wild Child' and ate sweets.After Christmas in Art we are going to start a new project which I am looking forward to because art is my favourite subject!

Now that we are done making our Junk Kouture we are all entering the Junk Kouture Competition for all of Ireland!I have already entered my teams outfit and now all we have to do is wait until February 15th to find out if we have gotten through!

Cookery!

Today we had our very fist cookery class.We made Swiss roll and I must say it didn't go as bad as I thought it would.Since some people in the class had done junior cert home ec and others hadn't we had to team up with someone who hadn't.Since I did home ec I had to team up with someone who hadn't.
We had a few mishaps but in the end our Swiss roll wasn't too bad.Firstly we had to collect our equipment;even tough I did home ec for 3 years it had been so long since I cooked in the school kitchens I couldn't remember where anything was.Our first mistake was using the wrong amount of sugar;then we didn't have a mixer so we had to go into the other kitchen to barrow one and finally we used way too much coco powder.When we were rolling the Swiss roll i thought it wasn't going to work;but it did!
I cant wait to start baking harder things because I made Swiss roll in first year so it was a bit easy for me!

Forte Fashion?

In home economics our Junk Kouture projects are coming along really well.My group is almost done;we only have a few finishing touches to do on thee dress and accessories!We also need to think of a name and music to play when our model is walking down the runway!Its really hard coming up with a name to match our outfit since ours is to do with music,but some of the girls in our class have been really helpful with giving us ideas!my favourite name that was suggested is 'Forte Fashion',because forte is a musical term which means loud! I'm really excited for the fashion show,I cant wait to see what the girls in the other classes have come up with!

Junk Koture

In home economic class all the TYs have been working hard on their Junk Koture projects.For our project we have to make an outfit out of recycled materials;my group decided to use old CDs,wires,music sheets and tapes.
We decided to make a dress and accessories.The base of our dress is made of chicken wire then we covered the top with newspaper and sheets of music;to make it tie in with our chosen theme which is music.This week we were focusing on the skirt of our dress.We found that it's really hard to make CDs stick together and onto cardboard;we ended up using double sided tape,which in my opinion is the coolest thing ever invented!Eventually we got the CDs stuck onto the dress in vertical stripes and we are going to use the insides of old tapes to fill in the gaps between the strips of CDs.
To make the top of our dress match the bottom we broke up CDs and stuck the on in a stripe and cut a Cd in half to make it look like a bow!Our dress is really coming together now.We only have six weeks left before our first fashion show so we have to work really hard to get everything done in time.
Next week we are going to try get the shoes done.We have on shoe painted black but we still have to decide on a design.