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Category: Soul

Project: Learn more pen spinning tricks

Description: Pen spinning is a form of object manipulation where a writing instrument is spun around fingers in artistic, rhythmic, and intricate patterns.

Reason: To enhance fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and finger dexterity.

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Category: mind

Project Title: photography

Description: I want to learn to take better photos n grow my page

Reason: I have a passion for this

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Copy the following and fill in the details for your proposal:

Put the Subject Title as TERM # PROPOSAL (E.G. TERM 1 PROPOSAL)

CATEGORY: Heart/Body/Mind/Soul

PROJECT TITLE: (Keep it succinct)

DESCRIPTION: (Please describe your project briefly. Include what you plan to do over the 1-hour HBL sessions.)

REASON: (Please explain why you chose this topic.)

**Once your FTs have approved your topic, you can proceed to start work during your HBL days.

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CATEGORY: Soul

PROJECT TITLE: How to make a mask

DESCRIPTION: To sew a mask at the end of the 3 HBL days.

REASON: I would like to try to use my mum's sewing machine and make a customized mask for myself.

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Sec 1 & 2:
Day 1 : T1W4 (26 Jan Wed)
Day 2: T1W6 (9 Feb Wed)
Day 3: T1W9 (2 Mar Wed)

Sec 3 & 4:
Day 1 : T1W4 (28 Jan Fri)
Day 2: T1W6 (9 Feb Wed)
Day 3: T1W9 (28 Feb Mon)

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Today, I went online to research on the sewing patterns that I can use to create a mask. I found the following links with the different type of mask. I printed all of them out to see which one is the easiest and I chose to make the pleated one as it is the simplest one to begin with.

Cup mask:
https://www.craftpassion.com/face-mask-sewing-pattern/

Seamless mask:
https://sewingseedsoflovestudio.com/products/ssol-seamless-mask

Pleated mask:
https://sewingseedsoflovestudio.com/products/ssol-pleated-mask-pattern-free

Box Mask:
https://www.japanesesewingbooks.com/2020/06/20/free-mask-pattern-download-contoured-3d-face-mask/

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SINGAPORE - I received many enquiries from readers after I wrote about making masks at home with my mother Sheila Khoo, 68, a sewing enthusiast who makes cloth masks to give to friends.

She uses mostly 100 per cent cotton fabric and her mask has a pocket and inner flap to hold the filter - a dried wet wipe. The filter should be changed with every use.

Here is her guide to making a 3D cloth mask.

ITEMS YOU WILL NEED

* DIY mask template 1

* Piece of cardboard to create a cardboard template

* 36cm x 20cm piece of fabric for outer layer of mask (A)

* 2 pieces of 20cm x 12cm fabric for inner layer (B)

* 2 pieces of 19cm x 11cm fabric for inner-layer pocket (C)

* 8cm paper fastener

* 2 pieces of 35cm elastic cloth cord

* Lighter or clear nail polish

* Dried wet wipe (folded into 14.4cm x 10cm)

* Scissors

* Pencil

* Plastic yarn needle or hair pin

* Tacking pins

* Thread

* Sewing machine

METHOD

1. Cut out the mask pattern.

2. Trace its outline on a piece of cardboard. Cut out the template.

3. Draw lines on the template to indicate the fold for the ear-loop seam (2.5cm from the straight edge) and the fold for the inner-layer seam (6cm from the straight edge).

4. Fold fabric A for the outer layer in two, with right sides facing each other.

5. Place the two pieces of fabric B with right sides facing each other.

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SINGAPORE - I received many enquiries from readers after I wrote about making masks at home with my mother Sheila Khoo, 68, a sewing enthusiast who makes cloth masks to give to friends. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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On each HBL day, upload ONE post to share what you have done on that day.

(1) Indicate the Subject Title as HBL Day # (e.g. HBL Day 3)

(2) You can post in any form - it could be a photo or a video, or even just a short paragraph describing what you did on that day.

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I went to source for some scrap fabric and elastic of the required size and printed out the template. I tried to work my mum's sewing machine and asked her to show me some simple functions.

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This is the link to the BowenEXPLORE! Microsite. You can refer to it for more resources and information.

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I sew up my mask today and spent more than 1 hour but it was all worth it. The next time, I will try to make another design on my own time to see if it fits better. Hope you like my project.

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For my Term 2 BowenEXPLORE! Project, I want to continue on my Term 1 project and make more masks. I will use different fabric and learn to make masks of different sizes (smaller and bigger masks for my younger sister and parents).

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Term 1 Proposal

Category: Mind

Project: Writing Hiragana, one of the 3 writing systems of the Japanese alphabet .

Description: Hiragana characters represent the 46 primary sounds used in Japanese and are usually used to write words that are originally Japanese.

Reason: Relearn my 3rd language in secondary school

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Wrote 20 characters of Hiragana

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Wrote 26 more characters of Hiragana

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CATEGORY: Mind

PROJECT TITLE: Personal and Budget Savings Tracker

DESCRIPTION: Create a spreadsheet to keep track of my expenses to make sure I don't overspend.

REASON: I would like to use this opportunity to improve my accounting skills so that it would come in useful in the future when I'm doing taxes or budgeting.

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CATEGORY:BODY

PROJECT TITLE:Be FIT And READY

DESCRIPTION: Encouraging others to be fit and strong, thus living longer in the future and having a healthy lifestyle.

REASON:So that i can live longer , have a healthy body and encourage others to do it as its easy.

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Category: Mind

Project Title: Learning Thai

Description: To be able to understand and read basic thai at the end of the HBL days

Reason: I want to expand my knowledge in thai and learn more about different cultures through learning their language.

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Category: mind

Project title: Coding a shoot em up game

Description: Going on scratch and coding a shoot em up type game

Reason: Its fun and helps me figure out how to further improve my code on scratch

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category: soul

project: learn how to make a memory book

description: to get a blank book and fill it with pictures of my life and friends

reason: when i grow older , i want to see what happened lastime and be remindedby those precious moments.

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Catergory:Soul

Project title:read more books in my spare time.

description:Find books that I find interesting and read more books .

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CATEGORY: Body

PROJECT TITLE: Learning new skateboarding skills

DESCRIPTION: Learning new skateboarding skills and improving my basics

REASON:  I want to learn new skateboard skills cause i like skateboarding and want to improve my coordination, strength, and control of body movements on a skateboard. And it is a fun way to stay healthy and learn perseverance cause it takes time to learn skills and it's painful

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Category: Soul

Project: An attempt at hand drawn animation/tweening

Description: I'm going to try out hand drawn animation first on some apps and experiment around to see what I feel most comfortable with.

Reason: It looks cool and I have the time to try it out, plus it's a good learning experience

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category: body

project title: keeping close ball control

description: be good at dribbling cuz its cool

Reason: Make it easier to dribble in games and humiliate my opponent.

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CATEGORY: MIND

PROJECT TITLE: CAMERAWORK

DESCRIPTION: How to use different techniques to take proper and good photos

REASON: Some people don't know how to take proper photos

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Category: Soul

Project title : Digital Art grind

Description : Practice my digital art, especially rendering

Reason : I want to get more practice in digital art caause who doesn't want to get better

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category: soul

project title: the horrifying experience of making a fursuit.

description: sewing/making an "animal costume" or "fursuit" of my original character, throughout the entire year until showcase. As well as doing a video/vlog/content about it.

reason: I've been WANTING to own one of these for so long, but if you buy it online, it will cost you thousands of dollars. (minimally $600-800) Therefore, since I'm broke, I'll make my own instead, using a bunch of sewing materials.

(The photo above is not mine, I found it online/what I want to do)

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Category: Mind

Project: Learning how to play Sudoku

Description: Get better at playing Sudoku

Reason: I want to play Sudoku with my friends and family.

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Category: mind

Project title: learn russian

Description: wanting to learn a new language by using the app duolingo

Reason: Knowing how the russian people speak and if i go russia in the future, i can speak russian

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Project title: learn arabic

: description: learning to recognise characters in Arabic, pair letters and sounds, pronunciation, and at least learn a few starter sentences.

reason: Arabic is such and cool language however i always didnt want to learn it due to it being hard to learn, i figured that this time it would be okay to go slowly and take things one at a time yet also go out my comfort zone

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CATEGORY: Mind

PROJECT TITLE: learning how to play chess so I can play with my friends

DESCRIPTION: watch videos on what chess is about, and slowly work on my skills until I can win a game

REASON: I would like to use this time to work on learning a new skill so I can have more hobbies in life.

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CATEGORY: soul

Project title: how to make a bouquet of flowers using fuzzy wire

description: to make finish the bouquet by the end of the 4 HBL day

Reason: this would allow me to be more hands on and will help me improve in my art skills

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Catagory: Mind

PROJECT TITLE: how to Juggle

DESCRIPTION: learn how to juggle in different ways

REASON: i want to learn how to juggle mainly because i am currently bad at juggling

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Category: mind

Project title: learning Lua language and attempting to make a simple game.

Description: Learning to code using Lua

Reason: Its interesting and I want to learn how to code.

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Category : Mind

Project title : Learn German

Description: Learn gGermanbecause yes

Reason : German is an interesting languag,e sthat'sts wIy i want to learn

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the first step to make whatever the hell im making, is to draw a concept/reference design of a desired character, it can be anything you can imagine. So I thought of combining the things i like the most. Mangoes, the color yellow and dogs.

(I haven't bought the necessary materials to actually start so ill do it after)

i drew the first image on my pld as a draft design on my character before transferring it on my phone and making the final reference sheet (2nd image)

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the items im going to buy. 🥹

Then again, if i commission someone to make this/if i buy an existing one, it will confirm shoot up to atleast $600+(USD) just only for the head.

I will get a premade base so i can easily work on just applying and sewing the fur, ears, tail and paws

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I think there's something wrong with flipaclip cuz i cant seem to import or upload anything I did there without downloading it onto my folder (plus I cant watch it through there) so i might have to do it on another app and send it here i suppose? so my project may be delayed as i sort out technicalities lmao

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Hbl bowen explore day 1 (not day one actually)

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Hbl bowen explore day 1 (not day one actually)

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Since I have learned up to 1 and 2-star tricks, my next challenge is to learn whatever these 3 star tricks are.

I've listed down five 3-star tricks My goal is to at least learn 3-5 tricks as shown in the picture.

You might be asking me: "bro how the hell are you gonna do these tricks with a normal pen"

E X A C T L Y

Y O U C A N T

That's why I use something called a Pen Mod. It is a specially modified pen specifically used for spinning. It has weights on both ends to balance it out. And no it cannot write anything. I've provided a picture of what a Pen Mod looks like.

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I began by familiarising myself with the Thai alphabet and basic pronunciation. I learned a few consonants and vowels and practised how to say simple greetings like “hello” and “thank you.” I realised that pronunciation, especially the tones, can be challenging and the words are quite confusing to remember. However, I am motivated to keep practising and be able to differentiate the words.

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TERM 1 PROPOSAL

CATEGORY: Soul

PROJECT TITLE: fuzzy soft flowers

DESCRIPTION: making flowers with pipe cleaners /fuzzy wires

REASON: I tried it before and its really entertaining. It helps me be more focus and get me off my phone for hours, also there are many different types of flowers that can be made with pipe cleaners and with many different colours too. Im planning to make a bouquet with at least 4 different types of flowers.

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I went onto the Duolingo app and learning some Russian, like "hi", " welcome", and " thank you". The pronunciation was difficult for me to understand, and it will take me a while to get familiar with it. The alphabet of the Russian language was difficult to understand, but the more I learn new words, the more I get familiarise of it

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i had done some research on what and how i want the flower to look like and the materials that i need to make it

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CATEGORY: soul

Project title: Making bracelets and keychains

Description: Its fun to create a bracelet and keychain, as it also looks really pretty to match with outfits.

Reason: I have materials to make those items and want to show how pretty accessories are.

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Before this, I had zero knowledge or skill in how to play Sudoku. But now, though I am not so skilled, I have the basic knowledge of how Sudoku works. Firstly, I downloaded and searched for Sudoku games, I practiced them when I had the time, eventually learning the basic skills.

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project title: football graphics

description: make football graphics

reason: to deeper understanding

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CATEGORY: BODY

PROJECT TITLE: Golf

DESCRIPTION: Hitting 150m with driver

REASON: I want to be able to play with my father

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CATEGORY: mind

PROJECT TITLE: creating a suitable game to play when i am bored

DESCRIPTION: shooting or two player game

REASON: im bored

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i watched a video on how to start to make a video game on scratch

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How to Make a 2 Player Tank Game in Scratch (Part 1) - Movement

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CATEGORY:Body

PROJECT TITLE RUN 5K under 25min

description run

reason for nsg

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decided to look for photos and collab them into an album on my phone for printing

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Learnt basic german :

learnt to say yes and no in german

Ja

Nein

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Category: Mind

Project Title: Bunny Tricks

Description: I want to teach my bunny tricks

Reason: I want to teach my bunny tricks because it provides him with essential mental stimulation, prevents boredom-related destruction, and strengthens my bond with my bunny. It enhances communication, allows for easier care (e.g., nail trimming), and lets you safely guide them without stress

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I have practiced over the weekends and after school. Currently, I am not a master at Sudoku, but I can complete easy Sudoku games, which is great progress considering that last time, I did not even know how to play the simplest of Sudoku. I am currently practicing to beat the normal Sudoku.

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tried to increase resolution of my photos so that they will be better quality before printing, look for stickers and recipet scraps

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I'll try to follow these steps everyday to show results of my fitness journey!

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I trained on some ball mastery to get more connected with the ball to become more controlled with it while dribbling.

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The basics of camerawork for beginners.

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Easily Understand THE RULE OF THIRDS - QUICK TIPS for Beginners - 4k

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CATEGORY: Mind

PROJECT TITLE: make a game with 0 experience

REASON: it looks fun and enjoyable and it could be a good way to use my coding skills to improve my cognitive thinking.

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Category: Mind

Title: Learning how to do caligraphy

Description: I want to learn how to do caligraphy and write a sentence in caligraphy

Reason: I want to improve my hand-writing

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30-Minute Home Workout (NO Gym NO Weights)

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I tried lighting, and I lowkey think I failed, but at least it's something yay

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i did a photoshoot of my friends bike

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I've somewhat grasped the basics of hand drawn animation (I hope) but regrettably I can't show it here. Now the hard part lies in the more recent style of animation - tweening. A concept that was completely alien to me up until a few months ago. I'm not the best at technical issues, so I'll have to actually learn how to get started before I start posting the actual animation progress ^v^

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youtube tutorial

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TUTORIAL | How To Teach Your Bunny Tricks

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CATEGORY: Mind

PROJECT TITLE: Learning Malay word

DESCRIPTION: Learning some basic Malay words to annoy ppl cuz I can't speak Tamil properly

REASON:  Learning some basic Malay words to annoy ppl cuz I can't speak Tamil properly and I am keen on learning malay words cuz everyone else can speak malay but I can't

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CATEGORY:Soul/Heart/Mind/Body

PROJECT TITLE: Will be tallest to silence the hater like an alpha and will be taller than giahuy so he will stop bothering me and if that doesnt work i will jump so high like the actual mario so i can dunk

DESCRIPTION: To be very tall

REASON: everyone says im short and bully me

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I did Duolingo for 2 weeks, and I learn new words, but the new words are more difficult as they have the accent that I could not understand, so I took it slowly and learn some basic words like " he", "she", "actor", and "teacher."

учитель transalte to english is teacher and its pronounce "uchitel"

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I have learnt more word on russian, like apple, banana, coffee, water, pizza, morning, backpack, and sister

"ето моя сестра" translates to english is "This is my sister."

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May 10th, I went out to buy some materials (Mainly Fabric Dye and Cloth)

The reason why I haven't even started yet was because it was hard buying almost $150 worth of materials and other misc for my fursuit. I had to make some tough choices and cut atleast $55 to $60 from my purchase and have my budget (for Taobao/online shopping $100 to $90 only.)

So the shipping will take WAY longer, estimated will be May 22nd. That's when I will start the actual head project. For now, as you can see, I went ahead and bought cloth tape for patterning and a 1.5m lime green cloth for my character's main clothes. I also bought yellow dye to dye my existing spare fur pieces from another costume to match my characters fur color. Along with that, I bought craft foam to make some accessories for my character.)

By the time im making this post, it's already night so I'll probably dye the fauc fur after school, again, sorry for no updates :P

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i dyed the white fur yellow. i think i might've messed up idk

(photos are blurry since my video/file size is too big for padlet, might make a separate post when i compressed my files and upload all of my videos there)

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I managed to learn more words in Russian, and now I'm doing the pronunciation, which is more difficult, and usually some words are harder than others to pronounce, but I still keep trying until I get the word

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okay, I've done ALOT and I mean ALOT of progress since dyeing the fur.

I'll try my best to summarize.

1.) materials finally came,

2.) prior to having the materials arrive, i made/DIY a physical copy of badge that I'll be weaeig to a convention

3.) i went on and began with the process of making the head.

i have archived and documented videos when I made some parts but the file size is too big for padlet again.

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Steps on the process. (+CURRENT TO FUTURE PLANNING)

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Steps on the process. (+CURRENT TO FUTURE PLANNING)

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How did I actually proceed with the head? (From the blurred, low quality photos, I try to explain)

First of all, I added scraps of playmat foam to the back of the head (face) I made sure it perfectly fits my head, ofc. I glued all of it together to form a half dome. I then added another layer of thin foam to cover the rough surface of the playmat foam (+to add extra protection as well.)

I then proceeded to use upholstery foam to "carve" the ears and the cheek. (First, I drew a general pattern or shape onto paper, cut it out and pinned it to the head first to visualize.) I then traced the pattern onto the foam and cut it out/shape it until it had that 3D shape. Unfortunately, this was the messiest part of the process SO FAR (mess gets worse from that point forward.) I then glued those parts in and also made sure I secured it very well so it would NOT fall off. (I did durability tests.)

Then, comes to my current progress and the most time consuming part so far which is to tape the head to make a pattern for the fur to eventually sew and put onto the head itself. (I could go into a simple explanation onto why I need to do this but this paragraph is getting too long and I'm sure most people won't read this.) so currently im taping the entire head fragment by fragment, using marker to draw the markings of my design to cut it out and transfer to paper to make pattern then transfer to the fur.

my other current thing im doing right now is putting the eyes together and glueing the eye blanks and the eye mesh (pupils) which is also quite difficult and a headache to do haha.

my future step would be to cut and draw out seamlines in the tape then transfer pattern to fur.

after that, I transfer pattern to fur, I cut the fur. then I sew those fur patterns together. THEN, I pin it to the head and glue/sew it on. then i can also try to sew the neck fluff on as well.

My deadline is 10 june. My convention that I'll be wearing this to is 13 june.

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CATEGORY: body

PROJECT TITLE: learn how to ice skate

DESCRIPTION: how to stop and skate forward on ice without injuring myself.

REASON: I know how to rollerblade, so I wanted to try skating on ice.

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tips and tutorials for stopping on skates.

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HOW TO STOP ON ICE SKATES - Ice Skating Tips!

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I learned more words like Hello, room, and some names. And the pronunciation is difficult to get in some words, as they have an accent too

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counting in russian

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Learn To Count In Russian In 5 Minutes (It's pretty easy)

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work on

Categories is body

brazillain jiu jitsu

Worjk on my grappling skills cos I usually work on striking but now I wan grappling so im focus on bjj

And I keep getting stuck in closed guard so I want to lewnr ways to escape closed guard

and how to pass guard because I suck at passing guard ….

my coach alr taught me some but I wanna learn more because I hate people who pull guard

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Basic German:

learnt to say Germany in German

Deutschland

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this isnt gay i swear its a real martial art ok

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this isnt gay i swear its a real martial art ok

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just stand up bro but sometimes their legs are so wrapply tight around u so um here

yeah so i tried some of these when rolling and yea they worked, still working on my guard passing though :( ok ill try to upload photos of myself pls dont bully me and call me gay

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i can play now