New Painting

This is the painting I am currently working on. It has 3 parts but they are kind of hard to see in this photo. I have to present my thesis a week from today and I am very nervous. Yikes!

Flora

My painting is finally finished. This is bad lighting but you get the picture. My prof. asked me to enter it in this show which opens on Friday called "Seeing the Land." I am excited because it is a juried show and this looks good on resumes. I named the painting Flora because it is about plants but also sounds like a pretty girl's name.

old blog

I have been reading through my old blog on my old xanga. Turns out I used to be really funny in another life called 3 years ago when I was 25. I think I am just going to repost stuff from there on to here in hope of getting my funny back.

In that spirit here is an old poem of mine....


parties and pants and puppies

haystacks and hair of make

slides that go swoop!

eyes have blue

names that belong on tattoos

Christmas

For some reason Christmas has really been on my mind this year. I just keep thinking about it. We just painted our dining room red and that reminds me of it. The weather is a little cooler and that reminds me of it. and it just keeps coming up again and again. I guess I just really enjoyed Jon and me having our first Christmas in our new house and I am looking forward to the next one.

This is the lates pic of my painting. I am a little lost right now with it. On my way to class in a bit to try and figure it out. I spent most of my weekend in the backyard making 3 more of these shaped panels to paint on. Pictures of those coming soon!

exhausted by relief

So tired today for several reasons. Work, house, school, husband, life, etc. Just when I am at the end of my energy along comes a really big weekend. I drove up to my parents' on Friday just in time to get into the car rider line at my old elementary school to pick up my nephews. Then off to the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale.
This is a yearly tradition for us and this year I really did it up right. On Friday night I helped serve Haystacks. Here is a brief explanation of Haystacks minus the peanuts. I was in charge of serving the onions and tomatoes and may be solely responsible for the shortage in tomatoes for the last half of the dinner because I apparently lack rationing skills. Saturday morning it was up at 6:30 to Run for Relief. Megan and I did the 5k. Megan left me after the first 1/2 mile but I still thought I was awesome because I ran the whole thing, kicked at the end, and finished in 33 minutes which is fast for me because I am slow. High/low lights of running for relief are when you lose the course and are just running randomly around a fair grounds. After that was the big pancake breakfast. Yum. Then a little bit of relief sale shopping during which I purchased some non-sugar free apple butter.

I also tail gated the Notre Dame game but that is another story for another day. Now I am back in Indy and exhausted. Oh and Buckley went with me to all of those things so he is exhuasted too.

collage gone awry

To set up the next two situations here is a little background. I asked 1st graders to draw a self portrait of themselves. Then I gave them magazines and asked them to cut out pictures to collage in the background. To give the collage a little more focus I put out two guidelines. 1) It has to be something you like- self portrait should be about you 2) Make it a category i.e. I like puppies so I cut out all pictures of puppies.


Story #1- I see a group of boys huddles around a magazine sniffing one of those enclosed scent flaps. Everyone is agreeing that it smells "so good." Upon closer investigation I realize they are all smelling the new tampax scent. Awesome.

Story #2- Someone chose for their category- soldiers. But not just your friendly neighborhood army reserves. These were soldiers with huge automatic weapons, black face masks, and a will to do evil. Horrified.

Examples of other categories chosen by random 1st graders. round things, raw meat, flowers, playground equipment, ipods, sofas