Tuesday 4/26/16

I woke up and began my day with Astronomy class first period at 8:00. After class I went to the book store to buy eleven mats for our photos and then headed down to the matting room in the community center. I was able to get Karey to meet me down there so she could help me mat. She told me how to measure out the area that needed to be cut so I could mark it with a pencil. I measured one mat and drew where Karey should cut. After she sliced it I used the first mat as a template of the others by simply using it as a giant stencil. I would trace and Karey would cut, we kinda got into a rhythm. When we were done cutting she taught me a new way of matting called hinge matting. You take two mat boards, one cut and one uncut, you place the print on the uncut side, tape the two boards together to form a hinge, fold the top mat over, position the print correctly, tape it down, and voilà, you get a mat that looks good and is twice as protective as a regular mat. I was able to do this to most of our images before I had to go to senior chapel. When chapel ended James was able to come back to the matting room and help. I taught him how to mat and we finished the last of the prints. We decided that we should print out two more pictures per person so we got back to work. I started printing while James bought more matting board but when all the pictures were printed it was time for lunch. James went to lunch and checked out for the day and I waited for Karey to help cut again. Some of our images were cropped for the book so I had to remeasure the mats for two images. Karey and I powered through tracing and cutting the rest of the mats and when she was done cutting she left for lunch. Once she was gone I matted the new pictures that we printed out and the two that were cropped. Once everything was matted I talked to Karey who said I should hang them in the upper hallway in the community center beside the brick wall. She instructed me to take down the artwork that was there so I did. After clearing four walls Karey gave me advice on where to place our prints and I began to hang them with thumbtacks. It took six thumbtacks per print which had to be pressed really hard because the mats were so heavy. I finally finished hanging them at around 4:00 so I ws finally able to go home. Also, my thumb was really hurting after inserting about one hundred thumbtacks as hard as possible. As of writing this I still have no feeling whatsoever in the tip of my thumb, which is interesting. Pro tip: when Karey hands you a hammer to use on the thumbtacks instead of your thumb, listen to her.