New Nebula Ties!

I have just uploaded some new ties to my Etsy account, please check them out!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/EmmalinesUniverse?ref=si_shop

https://www.etsy.com/listing/180428984/starry-nebula-necktie-in-blue-and-silver?ref=shop_home_active_3
Nebula tie in blue and silver

https://www.etsy.com/listing/154806594/starry-nebula-necktie-in-blush?ref=shop_home_active_11
Nebula tie in blush

https://www.etsy.com/listing/180441107/starry-nebula-necktie-in-cream?ref=listing-shop-header-0
Nebula tie in cream

https://www.etsy.com/listing/180440233/starry-nebula-necktie-in-gold-and-bronze?ref=related-0
Nebula tie in gold and bronze

https://www.etsy.com/listing/180428340/starry-nebula-necktie-in-steel?ref=listing-shop-header-3
Nebula necktie in steel

Dorm Cooking: Maple Syrup Lollipops

Last night, some of my friends decided to have a little cooking adventure. They decided to make lollipops with maple syrup that they had in their fridge and use some process that involves snow that I had never heard of. It was so much fun, despite the fact that we kind of made a mess (we cleaned it all up though, I promise!)

How the process works is that you boil the maple syrup and cook it down a little bit so it thickens up more, and then pour it in a line onto a bowl full of packed fresh snow. The snow cools the syrup and then you take a spoon and roll the gooey cooling syrup onto it, and voila! Maple syrup lollipops!


This is my favorite picture that we took last night, even though our faces are a little weird and distorted.

Winter Winter

It's been cold, cold, cold!

Ice Skating

Last night, I went ice skating with Ally, Beret, Jen, and Torri and it was a lot of fun. All of us, except Torri who plays hockey, hadn't been skating in a long time and were a little shaky. I brought my camera along and put together a little video. I didn't get that much footage because the cold drained my camera battery extremely quickly.

Enjoy!

Succulent Terrariums

While I was home for Winter Break, I became very enchanted with plant terrariums and decided to make some, despite it being difficult to find plants in January. I found two glass containers at Savers and already had the little teapot and decided to use them to make terrariums.

I brought the little teapot terrarium with me back to college, and it's alive and doing well. It is so nice to have a little living plant up in my room!

*Update: my mom just sent me a picture of one of my plants that I left at home. So pretty!

This Ithaca Weather...

All I can say is that I am very thankful for my parka, boots, wool socks, and themasilk long underwear.

Back in the Swing of Things

I have been back at school for a little while and am getting settled into my new classes as well as trying to survive in the extremely cold weather.

This semester, I am taking the following classes:

• Introduction to Field Production (in this class we get to work with the nice video cameras, which I am very excited about)
• Introduction to Journalism
• World Archaeology 
• Academic Writing

Although this is only four classes, my two introduction classes are 4 credit hour classes with a lot of out of class time commitments, and with my FLEFF fellowship, my courses add up to 15 credit hours. Initially I had planned on taking an art history course as well, but after getting a sense of all of my courses, I decided I would take it next year when I could really enjoy it and not be too worried about being overwhelmed and taking 18 credit hours. 

I got a new planner for the year of 2014 and I am absolutely in love with it, so I thought I would share it with you all. It's themed from the book The Little Prince, which I read in my 11th grade french class and wrote an 5 paragraph essay about in French. It is probably one of my favorite assignments that I did while in high school. I love the story of The Little Prince, as well as all of the great discussions that I've had about the meaning of the story. When I saw this Little Prince planner, I absolutely fell in love with it.

Also, in case you all haven't noticed, I have been posting on my blog a bit more frequently, and hope to keep doing so throughout my semester. Stay tuned for (hopefully) regular updates!

Happy 2014, everyone!