Getting to Know Emma Lloyd

1. Role in Tapestry: Apprentice

2. Favorite Breakfast Food: Belgian Waffles

3. Favorite Artists: Fleet Foxes, Dr Dog, Grateful Dead

4. Color of My Room: Right now it's sort of an ocean blue, but I'll be painting it a cream color soon.

5. Favorite Season:  Fall or Winter. Sweater weather.

6. Disney Movie: Pocahontas or The Lion King

7. Favorite Literature: Harry Potter and most of the John Green books.

8. Preferred Way of Creative Expression: Writing and Filmmaking

9. Most Creative Thing I Did This Summer: I took a really cool pottery class at the Carnegie Museum, and got to use the pottery wheel - which is harder than it looks...

10. Coffee or Tea: I don't really drink either, but tea.

11. Spirit Animal: Seal

12. Secret Talent: I play the piano.

13. Superpower: Flying

Getting to Know McKenna!

Hey all!  Sorry this post is so late!  The college application season is evidently upon us.

1. Role in Tapestry: Editor in Chief

2. Favorite breakfast food: peanut butter poptarts (they taste like thumbprint cookies!)

3. Favorite artist: Florence and the Machine

4. Color of room: 'Easter Egg Purple' (I picked out this color when I was six becuase I thought the name was 'cool')

5. Favorite season: winter

6. Favorite Disney movie: Brave (largely because I spent the entire movie secretly envying her hair)

7. Favorite Piece of Literature: 'The House on Mango Street' by Sandra Cisneros

8. Preferred Method of Creative Expression: writing!

9. Most creative thing I did this summer: I wrote for two solid weeks at a writing workshop at Kenyon College

10. Coffee or tea?  French vanilla tea

11. Spirit animal: fish

12. Secret talent: I can wiggle my ears (admittedly, it's kind of a slow wiggle)

13. Superpower: Photographic memory

Getting to Know Che Esch

Hello Everyone! Here's my "Getting to Know You" segment:

Role in Tapestry: Apprentice

Favorite Breakfast Food: Orange Rolls (like Cinnamon Rolls, but Orange)

Favorite Artists: U2, Coldplay

Color of My Room: Light Blue

Favorite Season: Spring

Disney Movie: Toss-up between Atlantis, Aladdin and Mulan

Favorite Piece of Literature: Life of Pi, Siddhartha

Preferred Form of Creative Expression: Poetry

Most Creative Thing I Did This Summer: Built a house of cards using all (450+) of my flash cards from last year

Coffee or Tea: I don't drink either one. . . does coffee ice cream count?

Spirit Animal: Owl

Superpower: Flying!

Manuscript Tutor Schedule

Hey All! This is for Manuscript Tutors:
I am thinking we should do a similar setup to last year's Manuscript - rotating days.
Each of you will be assigned a day to be the "main" tutor. If it is not your day, you are still expected to help if more students come in to get work reviewed.

Here's an example of our first schedule, starting the week of September 1: (Written with your initals)
Monday: NO SCHOOL
Tuesday: M.A.
Wednesday: H.S.
Thursday: NO SCHOOL
Friday: M.T.

Week of September 8:
Monday: D.B.
Tuesday: A.N.
Wednesday: E.K.
Thursday: M.A.
Friday: H.S.

Week of September 15:
Monday: M.T.
Tuesday: D.B.
Wednesday: A.N.
Thursday: E.K.
Friday: M.A.

Week of September 22:
Monday: H.S.
Tuesday: M.T.
Wednesday: D.B.
Thursday: A.N.
Friday: E.K.


Let me know if you have any other ideas/suggestions. I'll post a new schedule every month, and put one up in QRT.

Peace,
Adlai

Tapestry Icebreakers: Rachel Stein

1. Role in Tapestry: Head of Communications 

2. Favorite desert: Anything covered in chocolate! But chocolate covered strawberries are the best.

3. Summer playlist/Favorite Artists: I had the awesome opportunity to meet an amazing artist and songwriter this summer named Eric Hunker! He just released a new song on YouTube last week called "If There Was No You". Check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdmlpJmEvF4 

4. Color of my room: Sky blue 

5. Favorite season: Summer

6. Disney movie: Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

7. Favorite piece of literature: Perks of Being a Wallflower! I've read it 4 times!

8. Preferred way of creative expression: Slam Poetry! 
(You should check out this awesome slam I found! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QsWQtDHhBg) 

9. Coolest thing you did this summer: I spent 5.5 weeks at an international leadership camp in the Poconos! I now have friends from Slovakia, Bulgaria, France, and Argentina! 

10. Favorite Hot Drink: Carmel Apple Spice from Starbucks

11. Spirit animal: Koala Bear

12. Secret talent: Waterskiing  

13. Superpower: I wouldn't need to practice driving if I could teleport! 

Getting to know Juliet

Juliet

Role in Tapestry: Head of Submissions

Favorite Breakfast Food: Homemade cinnamon toast!

Favorite Artist/Band/Composer: IMAGINE DRAGONS and Phillip Phillips <3

Color of my Room: Lavender

Favorite Season: FALL, FALL, FALL! Can't wait for Fall this year!!

Disney Movie: I don't even know what counts as Disney anymore but hopefully A Cinderella Story. Or High School Musical. Not ashamed... i have so much love for both

Favorite Piece of Literature: hard one... i love me some YA romance but... Hunger Games and Harry Potter for LIFE!

Preferred way of creative expression: Hands down... singing!

Most creative thing you did this Summer: Wrote some pretty kick butt college essays

Coffee or Tea: I always hate this question because my answer is sadly...neither. Even though I'm English and should love tea.... Sad day.

Spirit Animal: Zebra!

Secret Talent: I can wiggle my ears. lol

Superpower: Not original but- Read Minds

Bailey's Q&A

1. Role in Tapestry:  apprentice
2. Favorite (breakfast) food:  CHEERIOS and crescent rolls
3. Favorite Artists/Composers:  Bob Dylan and Jack Johnson
4. Color of your room:  a really really light green, like the inside of a cucumber (YUM)
5. Favorite season:  summer (but fall deserves an honorary mention)
6. Favorite Disney Movie:  Finding Nemo! "Shark Bait Ooh HaHa" (gets me every time)
7. Favorite piece of literature:  Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None, John Steinback's East of Eden, and The Book of General Ignorance 
8. Preferred way of creative expression:  emotion (I'm not sure if that is the right type of answer but I love observing emotion and experimenting with it)
9. Most creative thing you did this summer:  I made a pillow!
10. Coffee or tea:  Coffee, but tea has a way of making me feel good about myself
11. Spirit animal:  Well, since Maria took otter, I will go with a lemming… Lemmings are so blindly energetic about everything and they are one of the only rodents that aren't scared of their predators.  They seem to simply love life, just because. 
12. Secret talent:  I'm good at identifying what mood someone is in.
13. Superpower:  to fly

A Bad Case of Stripes

I was cleaning out my room the other day when I stumbled upon perhaps the best piece of children literature: A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon. If you've never read it, I recommend you go to the library right now and get the first copy you can (and if there aren't any to take out, put your name on the waiting list. It's that good.)

Seeing and rereading this book got me thinking. This was my childhood. I remember listening to my mom use her huskiest voice for Dr. Bumbles. And now, skimming through the faded pages, I still recall begging her to read it "just one more time." I loved this book and all the memories that came with it.

It gave me the biggest sense of nostalgia, and I began to wonder what in ten years will give teenagers this same feeling. For me, seeing VCRs and Kid Pix and Carmen Sandiego and Tamagotchi bring back everything I loved about elementary school. Will it be 3D glasses and the iPad and WALL-E and eBooks for the next generation?

I hope A Bad Case of Stripes makes it. Because if it doesn't, then no one else will feel the same joy of finding it again tucked away in a bookshelf. No one else will laugh at her mother's husky voice. And no one else will beg to have it read just one more time. I don't want my story to be forgotten because it's almost like a piece of me being forgotten too.

Not everything lasts; reading the word "Tamagotchi" probably made you go, "Oh my gosh! I forgot about those!!" But things like A Bad Case of Stripes and Book-fair handouts and Mr. Sketch Smelly Markers need to last because they are what make you remember your childhood.

Peace,
Adlai

Getting to know Habiba Shalaby

1. ROLE IN TAPESTRY: Manuscript Tutor

2. FAVORITE FOOD: Such a hard question since I have a lot of favorites...but I guess if I had to go with one, I would pick sushi.

3. SUMMER PLAYLISTS/ FAVORITE ARTISTS: I love love love music. Some of my favorite artists though would be Lana Del Rey, Rudimental (check them out if you haven't already), Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, Kid Cudi, Maroon 5 (songs about jane/ it wont be soon before long), and honestly I could go on forever but I'll just stop here.

4. COLOR OF MY ROOM: Well, since I've moved so many times, I've had a lot of different colored rooms. First beige, then yellow, then pink, then green, and now I'm back to beige. But if and when I get to choose my own color, I will go with blue. 

5. FAVORITE SEASON: Summer/ Warm Fall.

6. DISNEY MOVIE: Up. The Little Mermaid. Pocahontas. Aladdin (I'm the real princess, and yes adlai, having a pet tiger is as awesome as it seems).

7. FAVORITE PIECE OF LITERATURE: So many books, so hard to choose. 

8. PREFERRED WAY OF CREATIVE EXPRESSION: Words.

9. MOST FUN THING YOU DID THIS SUMMER: Well I went to Egypt and that was a blast.

10. COFFEE OR TEA: Tea all the way; I have a cup every morning.

11. SPIRIT ANIMAL: A cat I guess because I sleep a lot. 

12. SECRET TALENT: I'm pretty good at jet skiing.

13. SUPERPOWER: To be able to stop time and unstop time.

Getting to know: Sarah Ssemakula

1. Role in Tapestry: Apprentice, but I would really like to be involved with running the Tapestry blog.

2. Favorite (breakfast) food: Cinnamon rolls, chocolate chip pancakes, or a french toast bagel with cream cheese

3. Favorite Artists / Composers: Marina & the Diamonds, Ed Sheeran, Lana del Rey, Pierce the Veil, & Sleeping with Sirens

4. Color of your room: Pink/purple but I really want to paint my room turquoise or teal because those are my new favorite colors.

5. Favorite season: Sweater weather is better weather, so I'm going to have to go with fall and winter.  I absolutely adore fall/winter fashion; pea coats, scarves, and boots.  

6. Favorite Disney movie: Mary Poppins or Sleeping Beauty

7. Favorite piece of literature: Looking for Alaska by John Green is one of my all time favorite books.

8. Preferred way of creative expression: Music or fashion.  

9. Most creative thing you did this summer: I made a triple chocolate chip cupcake with a gluten free chocolate cookie. 

10. Coffee or tea: Peach mango ice tea is the best.

11. Spirit animal: Cat

12. Secret talent: Wasting time or zoning out my parents

13. Superpower: I want Harry Potter's invisibility cloak.

Getting To Know Sophie

1. Role in Tapestry: To be determined! For now, apprentice

2. Favorite Breakfast Food: Crepes with nutella and fruit or my mom's pumpkin bread fresh out of the oven :)

3. Favorite Artists: Adele, Fun., Coldplay

4. Color of My Room: Three hot pink walls and one wall with big green and pink flowered wall paper

5. Favorite Season: I could never choose! I love all of them... maybe late fall/winter?!

6. Disney Movie: Monster's Inc., Cadet Kelly, High School Musical

7. Favorite Literature: The Fault In Our Stars, the Hunger Games, The Gallagher Girls books, The Heist Society Books

8. Preferred Way of Creative Expression: Creative writing! :)

9. Most Creative Thing I Did This Summer: I made a bowl out of a Caribbean fruit!

10. Coffee or Tea: Chai tea latte or a hot chocolate- mmmm

11. Spirit Animal: Dolphin

12. Secret Talent: I can wiggle my ears!

13. Superpower: Be able to zap myself anywhere I want instantly!

Getting to Know Maria

1. Role in Tapestry: Not sure / apprentice (hopefully of design!)

2. Favorite (breakfast) food: I'm a big fan of eggs... 

3. Favorite Artists / Composers: OneRepublic, Ingrid Michaelson, Ludovico Einaudi, John Powell 

4. Color of your room: green (But I wouldn't mind a grey one later in life.)

5. Favorite season: autumn :)

6. Favorite Disney movie: Atlantis!

7. Favorite piece of literature: Jane Eyre (also the Mary Russell series)

8. Preferred way of creative expression: music / dance

9. Most creative thing you did this summer: a ballet workshop, I guess

10. Coffee or tea: TEA (especially if it's earl grey, chai, or chocolate)

11. Spirit animal: Hmmm.... an otter?

12. Secret talent: I design houses / apartments for fun. Is that a talent?

13. Superpower: Either... a) point at something on Pinterest and have it appear, no strings attached or b) suck everyone else's superpowers out of them (*evil grin*)

All About MEGAN

Getting to know your Tapestry Staff: The Megan Edition!

1. Role(s) in Tapestry: Secretary and Treasurer

2. Favorite Food: Pesto. I would put it on ANYTHING!

3. Favorite Artists: CAKE, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sara Bareilles, The Backstreet Boys

4. Color of Your Room: Light blue, and one small section of a wall is covered in chalkboard paint :)

5. Favorite season: Spring

6. Disney Movie: TOY STORY. 1, 2 AND 3!!!

7. Favorite Piece of Literature: The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Nighttime, TFIOS

8. Preferred Way of Creative Expression: Organizing everybody else's creative expression in my Tappy roles

9. Most Creative Thing You Did This Summer: Everything at my job required creativity: playing games made up by toddlers, making up games to play with them, doing art with them, and having to figure out ways to make kids stop crying if they missed their mom or if they got hurt. I loved every minute of it.

10. Coffee or Tea: Tea all the way!

11. Spirit Animal: umm....giraffe?

12. Secret Talent: I literally remember EVERYTHING.
Also, I eat like a truckdriver.

13. Superpower: I'm a history nut, so time travel.

GeTTinG tO KnOw AdLaI.

HEY EVERYBODY. Adlai here.

1. Role in Tapestry: Head of Manuscript

2. Favorite food: SUSHIIIII.

3. Favorite Artist: Elton John (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is my jam.)

4. Color of your room or what you wish it was: greeeeen

5. Favorite season: SuMmEr

6. Disney movie: Aladdin (who can beat having a pet tiger?)

7. Favorite piece of literature: Life as We Knew it

8. Most creative thing you did this summer: sleep. JOKING. but not really.

9. Coffee or tea: CHAI TEA 4EVER.

10. Secret talent: I CAN('t) LICK MY ELBOW.

11. Superpower: talk to cats. (cat obsession...)

PEACE :)

Getting to Know the Tappy Staff: Emily Fab.

Hey Tappy staff! I've decided that simple is good, so here are 13 questions for you to answer and change as you wish (as long as the way you wish is appropriate, but I think we all know that here:) Have fun! Can't wait to learn some little random things about you all!

- Emily

1. Role in Tapestry: Social Media Director

2. Favorite breakfast (or as Tapestry prefers, desert) food: Pamela's French Toast or just about anything from Oakmont Bakery because why not?

3. Summer playlist/Favorite Artists: John Mayer's 'Paradise Valley,' ZZ Ward, T. Swift, Jayme Dee, & Ben Rector

4. Color of your room or what you wish it was: Light pink & gold (:

5. Favorite season: Absolutely falling for autumn!

6. Disney movie: High School Musical & Camp Rock all day, every day.

7. Favorite piece of literature: The Great Gatsby, anything John Green

8. Preferred way of creative expression: song writing/music

9. Most creative thing you did this summer: I helped destroy and rebuild my house

10. Coffee or tea: Passion fruit tea!

11. Spirit animal: birdie

12. Secret talent: I can make those cool looking friendship bracelets! That's what happens with a lot of summer free time...

13. Superpower: to fly or run really fast like Dash from the Incredibles!

FIRST TAPESTRY MEETING!

Hey Tappy staff! Hope you are all having a lovely summer! We are very quickly approaching the first day of school which means we are going to have our first Tapestry meeting! Here's the info: When? August 20th What time? 12pm - 1-1:30pm Where? Room 176 at the high school AKA Mrs. Green's room! *We are going to order out, so each of you should bring $5 - $10 to cover the cost.  If you've already sent me your email, THANK YOU! If you haven't, be sure to email it to me at emilyjomusic@gmail.com or dm me on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Whatever works best for you so I can pass it on to McKenna, who will give you updates on the meeting.  I can't wait to see everyone there! Emily