Judging Results + Farewell

Judging: We came third, which is quite an achievement for a team that didn't actually meet once over the whole week. I am actually amazed at how well we did, and also would like to say congrats to the team that won (the guys team), so yeah, this blog appears to be now obsolete...let it now be confined to history.



Until next year!

-AbandoningReality.

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Update #1 - Sunday - Rosetta Stone

Have finished nearly all of item 54, just need to write on the clay, and then I'm done. Judging is in less than 4 hours, so I really hope that we're ready! I finished the stone painting a little while ago, and then found that you can get the excess enamel paint of your hands with nail polish remover.

Random fact: You can fit 11 jellybeans into a paint tin.

-AbandoningReality

Update #3 - Saturday - My Haul

This is my haul from Amy's place, even though I thought she wouldn't be able to do anything, due to the fact that she has been literally drowning in homework since the start of the holidays, but she astounds me yet again!!
















Also, sadly, the Wikipedia article has been taken down, after surviving for a total of 269 minutes. Thankfully, I took a screenshot of it, proving that once, there actually was a Wikipedia article that conclusively stated the difference between cupcakes and muffins.



Tomorrow is Judging! I really hope that we get everything done in time...*fingers crossed*


UPDATE: Now I know that I'm really tired, because I wrote this post on Saturday Night, and called the post "Friday - My Haul". My bad.

Update #2 - Saturday - Plans, Flags, and other things...

We bought more flags today, as well as the makings for giant muffin/cupcake.

And...we have finished the wikipedia article!! I was very happy to finish that, and it's still up, which is even better. If it stays up until Monday, I will be very happy! =]

-AbandoningReality

Update #1 - Saturday - Keine Foto

Yeah, it's just occurred to me that our team has literally, no photographs for any of the sections.

I really need to get onto that.

Just as soon as I make a muffin. (Yup, just one.) I'm gonna go and buy stuff for it today.

Something that I thought of for the 'I can Haz Cheezeburger?' however, because it's not a photo I took, I probably can't use it. Thanks to ICHC for the picture.

Update #3 - Friday - Matchsticks and Chopsticks & Toothpicks, Oh My! (Or: Why Calligraphy & Blogging SHOULD NOT mix)

Yeah, I'm talking about the joys of working with a calligraphy set.

My enthusiasm is overwhelming.

I jumped into it, thinking "It's only about 400 words to write, it's not that difficult." Sadly, I was mistaken.

Firstly, it is nearly impossible to write decently with one of those pens, for more reasons than one, firstly because the reservoir was being dopey; for the first few words, it would give out great globs of ink, before the ink would mysteriously drain out; leaving me wondering if there was any better way of doing this. Also, the nib had a tendency to slide back into the pen/holder.

So I thought, what about a toothpick? That would write a lot smaller, but unfortunately the toothpick had a point that kept scratching the paper, and the ink went weird...

SO, I then thought, a matchstick has a small enough bit to write on, and the ned isn't pointy, but that turned out to be too short to write properly....

SO...I was kind of sick of this comedy of errors, so eventually I found that a wooden chopstick that we had lying around made the perfect writing implement. Well, as perfect as a a wooden that is being used to write a blog that really should be on the net, WHERE IT BELONGS!

I ended up with ink all over my hands, but it was worth it!



I'm a piece of artwork! . . .



















I have modelling clay as well, so will write that tomorrow, but still need to find a big enough piece of wood.

Update #2 - Friday - Fish & Ships v2.0

Yeah, well, I figured out where I parked the ship...here are the photos that I promised to upload.





















We have a poop deck!

















And a gangplank...




















And, in this compartment...


















We have a bottle! W00t! We have three items in one!

















-AbandoningReality