A PURPLE mermaid. :) (the So, this is my lovely tail. :) :) It's made with purple swimming suit fabric, and I use mom's scuba diving fins so they're extra long and more aquatic looking.
It actually works. I swim in it for real. There's only one problem...it's REALLY STRETCHY! The material is SO STRETCHY that it actually pulls all of the fluke part down so far that the flippers are in the narrow part where my ankles should be! (grr) You have no idea how much this drags (and therefore SLOWS ME DOWN) unless you try it yourself. ;) (which I don't recommend) I think I have figured out a way to fix it though, and I'll try to post a picture when I do (if it works). I hope it will though, because I LOVE swimming in a tail! It's so cool! I can do lots of flips and tricks. When I don't wear the tail over the flippers (cause it just inherently drags a bit) and I kick (the dolphin kick, with my legs tied together) really fast as I come up from underwater I can actually stay out of the water (straight up, nothing under me but more water) for about 10 seconds, and from waist down is in the water. (kinda like when I dolphin 'walks' across the water, only I don't go anywhere!) :) I hope that made sense...lol ;P
I just LOVE SWIMMING in general, but being a mermaid is FANTASGREAT!
Psa 77:19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
God rules the world. "The sea, and all that in them is." (KJV) Isn't He magnificent? :)
(and no, I don't think He really created mermaids. Poor women-lonely sailors thought dolphins singing, and seals on the rocks were half woman, half fish...they obviously didn't get out much...)
Natalya
(in case you didn't notice, I'm really happy right now!) lol
P.S. I'm actually on time today! :) :) Yay! (and the film festival was great...but that's for another post!)
What a fun picture!! You look like a fish out of water!! We miss you and your family! Thank you so much for visiting our family! The Ward family
ReplyDeleteLOL! I actually really am in the thing. I actually got into it in my room (which is upstairs) and managed to get all the way down to the living room and onto the couch with it on! (it took me like 10min and was not the easiest thing I've ever done!) ;) In the water it's really fast until it starts stretching, but on land...no go... ;)
ReplyDeleteI miss you guys too! It was so much fun seeing you again!
Love XOX,
Natalya
That is so great!... and sweet! :)
ReplyDelete~Rebekah Joy