Problem!

I found out that Fabriano makes more than classic artist journals.....

Oxford in the Fall

When the weather is like this it is so hard to believe that at some point it will be 20 degrees and covered in snow.

My Paris Mood

I have a couple moods I can count on having every couple months. These moods have to do with were I would like to live. Most of the time it is someplace warm like Savannah, Austin, or San Fransisco for example.

And about once a year I really want to live abroad. Right now I am in the mood to live in Paris. Specifically the 2nd arrondissement area. I saw a couple of blog posts about people who have visited recently, or who are planing on living in the area. I looked through the photos once and decided thats where I want to be.

Who knows if we will ever live in any of these places. But I at least hope I get to visit all of them once.


This is the Paris I wanted to see. The one with funky shops and covered streets.

Keep on the sunny side

The other day I stopped by to talk to one of my favorite professors and when I walked in he complemented my yellow shirt and said it was a great color for me. And then I said, "Yeah. Yellow is kinda my new thing". I had no idea where that came from, but then I realized that yellow really is my new thing. I am loving everything yellow right now. Maybe its fall and the changing of the leaves. I don't know.


Super 8 Camera Print - John W Golden


Sunny Yellow Ring -By SweetLifeSpiral

True Love

Almost all of my classes require me to turn in a sketch book at the end of the semester. I have been trying to find the perfect sketchbook for me. Last semester I bought a Moleskin and I liked it. But it wasn't great. I really liked the size but the hard cover is a little too restricting and the type of paper that was in it wasn't the best.






This semester I bought a large Strathmore sketch pad. And I like the large paper for brain storming, plus it is very heavy paper so nothing bleeds through to the other side. However, it is really inconvenient to carry around with me all the time, so when I have a great idea I don't have anywhere to write it down.

I think next I am going to try out this Fabriano Classic Artist's Journal. These have way more pages in them, plus I like the idea of the altering cream and white color pages.



I think everyone had their perfect match when it comes to sketchbooks. Mine is still out there somewhere waiting for me to find it.

October 2008

We went to the Apple Butter Festival yesterday. It was fun. We watched a blacksmithing demonstration, a rug weaving demonstration, and some guy with no shirt and peices of leather hung over his jeans pretend to live in a wigwam. Very interesting. We also got some just made kettle corn, we had to leave the apple butter behind though because we only had two dollars and that went to the kettle corn. Totally worth it.

I took this picture on the way home.

Don't look Uncle Duck

I forgot to post this before.

In case you were wondering this is how we would spend our nights during the week of no power.

It's only ten?

Today was one of two mandatory excursions I have to take for my African Art History class. I spent most of the day in a Miami Van going to and coming back from Indianapolis. We went to see the Art museum's collection of African Art. Which was lovely and much more interesting now that I know something about what I was looking at. We rolled out around 8:45am and got back around 4:30pm, and for some reason all art students get extremely busy at the exact same time so we were all pretty grumpy by the time we got back. After the hour tour was over all of our minds clicked over to all of the other stuff we had to get done today and we wanted to be home NOW. Next week is the Cincinnati art Museum which wont be nearly as bad.

When I got home Mark made me dinner and then we went on a lovely fall walk. Which was a nice break. I have been doing homework since then and expected it to be at least midnight when I looked up at the clock. Nope ten pm. I think I might have to go to bed, at ten on a Saturday night.

My Handy Man

It all started last year when Mark told me he would like to make t-shirts and I responded with a "well, why don't you"?

I think he has taken that to heart we started Teal Town selling those t-shirts, he has made his scooter go from not running, to running with a bunch of stuff wrong, to fixing everything. Including the broken speedometer.

He also fixed broken light fixtures, and sockets at his parents house this summer and installed a new light fixture in the basement for his Daddy-o.

Plus all the other stuff I am forgetting right now.

Pretty impressive.

Well. This morning when we got in the car to drive to the bus stop, yes, thats what we do. It didn't turn on. After I called Dad and explained what it was doing he said it needed a new battery. So what did Mark do he installed a new battery. He said it was easy, but I would have no idea where to start. The car is now running again, because of Mark. What would I do with out him.

Maybe I should start thinking "well, why don't you" more often.

One of the greats

He had some pretty amazing pictures taken of him.

Punkin!

I think I know what my Pumpkin is going too look like this year.




Via Poppytalk

I love my computer

Have you downloaded the new iTunes? The genius feature is pretty sweet. It allows you to pick one song, you click the genius button and then it creates a play list based on the song you picked. It works really well.

I chose the song Silver Lining by Rilo Kiley, the following is the play list it made for me.

Boy with a Coin by Iron & Wine
Two by Ryan Adams
Your Ex-Lover is Dead by Stars
The Sound of Settling by Death Cab for Cutie
If She Wants Me by Belle & Sabastian
Shadowplay by The Killers
Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
Girl by Beck
The Little Things by Colbie Caillat
Samson by Regina Spektor

Good Timing

Last week we drove by Promont House and noticed the sign that said Art Affaire today! Then I remembered that Ellen Ruth had been invited to display her purses there. So we stopped by to have a look. I have to admit her booth was by far the most professional looking one. Very inviting and comfy.




Ok. I should probably start working on my homework. I couldn't help being distracted for a little bit with these images. I am so happy we got to see her booth. And I am very happy I got to snap a couple pictures.

More Martha

Fall always makes me want a warm cup of soup. I have been searching for soup recipes lately and found some pretty good ones. I love everything about cooking soup. The chopping and seasoning. I especially love how it makes the house smell as it simmers on the stove top. I can't help but think my soup would taste so much more yummy in this Martha blue cast iron pot.




And of course if I had that I would need a matching mixer to go with it.

A story about good people.

The Cab Ride I will Never Forget By Ken Nerburn

"For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing."

Are you ready for this?

My photo class meets once a week from 2-7:45....yeah, in Liberty. A little town that should be about 15 minutes from the University, but a road closure makes it more like 25ish... or at least it feels that way. I am doing two projects for this class, one I am teamed up with a student from the local high school and we need to make a narrative together. She wanted to do something surreal and dark and creepy, I said we could do that. The only big obstacle was figuring out where to take the pictures. If the environment isn't perfect it would ruin everything. She fixed that problem.

This is the old opera house. An old man has owned it for several years and has done nothing with it. He usually refuses to let anyone inside, he is allowing us to use it because it is for an art project. We can go in whenever we want, all we have to do is let him know. We have the use of the buildings on the corner all the way to three doors down.






LOOK AT THIS!!!!!!! PERFECT!!!!!

They are better then the normal ones.

We had our first Reese's pumpkin today. It is officially fall.

Yes Mr. Thill, if only

Stephen Colbert has made an amazing move in his campaign for presidency is the Marvel Comic Universe. He has now teamed up with Spidey to save the Earth.

Ned+Chuck= True Love

Pushing Daisies comes back on in exactly one week! I can't wait.

Spending the rest of my life in college

We have been messing around with my argoflex and d80, I am not sure I have the right lens to get these to look right. Although, there is something I like about these fuzzy bright scenes.

This is my bag filled with portfolios that need to be graded.

Today concluded my first five week beginning photo class that I have been teaching this semester. I was asked if I would like to teach it right before the school year started I said yes and didn't have much time to let it sink in.

The teacher roll is not my most comfortable one. I am just settling in to being an art student, the fact that I now know enough that Miami University would trust me to teach their students is ... I don't know. Part of me feels like I am tricking them, they think I am qualified and I am playing along.

Before my students left today I asked them to write down somethings they liked about the course and somethings that they thought I could improve on. I don't know what I was expecting to get back. The consensus seemed to be that I had explained everything clearly and they really liked the one on one instruction I gave if they didn't understand something right away. Which immediately made me feel better. My biggest fear the whole time was that they had been politely nodding while I was showing them how do develop and print, but when I turned my back they were looking at each other mouthing "WTF"?!

Before the class started I had never thought about teaching photography, when I was asked to teach I thought maybe this was the beginning of a new career path. During these past five weeks I had so many doubts about my ability to explain things clearly and lead the class in a organized and fluid direction I decided I was never going to teach again after this semester. Now that I have a stack of papers telling me otherwise who knows?

I Spy

Can you spot the little guy who got himself trapped in my car today?

I can't believe she has the time.

How stylish are blogs? So stylish that Martha has one.

TvF

While Donna and Jim were over for the weekend we stopped in an Amish Furniture Store just to have a look and ended up finding one of the best antique shops I have ever been in. In the store we found a Argoflex camera. Surprisingly I had enough will power to put it back in the case and let the women lock it up, even though I was thinking of all of the amazing TvF photos I could take.

Apparently while I was off looking at old post cards sneaky Donna bought it for me. When we walked about of the store she asked if I wanted to see her purchases and unwrapped it from a handful of paper towels. My first ever TLR. Now not only can I shoot medium format film, but I can also take real TvF photos instead of faking them.

The only thing I wasnt looking forward to was building the contraption that connects my digital camera to the Argoflex. However, tonight while I was still working on my outline for African Art History Mark sat down in the middle of the living room and started building one for me.





I love him.

This is a first

Thanks to huricane Ike most of Ohio has been with out power since Sunday and they are saying that some could have to wait until the weened for the power to come back. I really hope that this is the closest we ever come to being in a huricane.

It's weird but I never wondered what it looked like behind those millions of meat packages in the grocery store but when I noticed all of the meat was gone today I was incredibly interested. I don't even want to think about all of the food that has to be thrown out because of all this.

Oxford, Oxford, Oxford

At the end of the third week of class I came home and passed out for five hours last night. While this has to my best semester yet, it is full of classes that are a lot of work. Much more conceptual than classes in the past, so when Friday gets here my brain is done. To give it a break I decided we need to watch a movie. We watched The Darjeeling Limited for the first time. Not my favorite Wes Anderson movie, but very Wes Anderson.

We watched a extra about the making of the movie, and when they were walking through the real train they bought to make the movie in I realized I like his movies so much because of the sets he creates. They are like another character, a very surreal, very beautiful character.

Something I like.

1. Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
2. Dada
3. Bull Dog Clips

Update

Not really. We ran out of transparencies to print out our designs on and can't make anything new until we get some of those. Sooooo, I don't know when that will be.

We went home today to pick up my car. Dad apparently worked on it a bunch because it is driving way better than it has in a couple of years. We also had a lovely meal with Donna and Jim at PENN STATION.


Oh. Also. When Mark and I went to Kroger yesterday to pick up some apples and caramel a bat was flying around in the store. I noticed it when it almost ran in to my head. We watched it fly up and down the frozen isles and then around in the pharmacy section. When it flew past the registers employees noticed and sent a guy with a plastic bag and a broom after it. That is the last we saw of it.

Favorites

Look how pretty my flickr favorites look lately.

PERFECT!

I needed chatter teeth for a project I am doing. I went to the Dollar General, Meijer, and WalMart in search for some. I would have gone to a party store but there aren't any around here for enough miles that I didnt want to drive there.

So last night I settled for using an image off the internet, and of course it didnt look at all how I wanted it to. But I still had a week to work on it so I knew I would figure something out.

Today when I walked in to class my professor told me that people in his other drawing class had bought chattering teeth over at Shriver. I would have never, ever thought to look at the place that I am around all day, everyday of the week.

Getting home conversation

"Yay! The harder part of me week is over!"

"It's Thursday"

"I know."

Where its Greener

We visited GreenField Village while we were in Michigan. Apperntly Henry Ford decided that he wanted all the buildings of his childhood in one place, and then kept on with it and bought other things like Thomas Edison's Menlo Park. This Mark demonstrating what he would have been like as a teacher in the 1700s. This is me standing in front of Robert Frost's house.

A night in Defiance

I watched this storm come in in forever the night we visited Grandma's for a little bit.

If we win the lottery I am buying this.

Kelgwo's Thick Wool Knitten Coat

Newest TealTown Desgin. Now we just need to get it printed on something.

Yeah. Thanks Time Warner Cable

One of the two rainbows we saw on the way to Michigan today.

UPDATE: One of three rainbows

Grandma's Cooking

We took Grandma to the bank, and the farmers market this morning she bought tomatoes of every color. For dinner she made me some fried green tomatoes, they tasted like summer at her house.

The Summer of Constant Traveling

Headed up to visit my Grandpa who is sick, but getting a little better everyday.

Then we're off to Michigan to house sit my aunt and uncle's lake house, it's going to be horrible.

And we thought they couldn't get out of Cleveland soon enough.

Adam and Kendea drove off into the sunset today, not really it was more like the early morning sun. I know when they get there and get settled in this will all seem normal. Until then it's a little weird.

A Day in the Life

Last Thursday at 11am Kendra had to turn in her apartment keys and we had no place to be until 11:45pm when we had to pick Adam up from the Cleveland air port. So we were determined to entertain ourselves for those 12 hours and 45 minutes. Kendra had the idea that we should document our day for Adam. Our pictures start at 11am with us leaving the apartment for the last time and end at 8am the next morning. We ended up getting a hotel room, Adam's flight was canceled, and he couldn't get back until 9am and he would be arriving in Columbus. Sooo we had a lot of pictures to take, if you want to see them I uploaded all of them on to my flickr account: Sick of Cleveland's Ass.

Purty

We tried on Kendra's earrings last night while we were waiting to hear from Adam.

I love Mark!

Today exactly one year ago Mark and I finally got married! After all the years and all the planning the wedding was there and now it has passed us by. In the end it was totaly worth it and I wouldn't change anything. It doesn't seem like it was a year ago but it was and we had a great year.

We are celebrating by helping Kendra move out of the apartment while we all wait to hear from Adam in Arizona who has spent all day taking the bar exam. We couldnt think of a better way to spend it. Plus, they got us CAKE! Can't get much better than that.

A fresh new look, for some fresh tees

TealTown's newest model, Annie, was kind enough to let me take a bunch of pictures of her today even though it was way to hot outside to take pictures and we were all feeling nasty before we even started. And then to top it off none of us had any cash for after photoshoot Coop's Snow Cones. I think the pictures turned out pretty sweet. And the shop is well on it way to being close to looking how I want it to.