I've been collecting lately

ohhhh

I love Charles and Ray Eames chairs.

MS Walk Slide Show

Blaag

I have been posting lately but havent had any time to talk about what has been happening around here. Because there is a lot I am going to do this in list format

1. I was sick. I didn't do anything but sleep for a week and when I got up I was so tired I couldn't make myself get anything done. But now I am better and slowly checking things off of my to do list. It is amazing how much easier it is to complete things when you aren't sick.

The view from the urgent care room I spent all day in

2. Mark taped his first wedding! He is working on editing right now.

3. I was nominated to be a part of the Student Show Case in the art building so a bunch of my stuff was hung up in the lobby.Not all of that is mine, just the stuff on the left.

4.Our little garden is growing very nicely. I can almost taste the fresh peppers already!

5. The weather turned wonderful for a couple of day so Mark and I were finally able to get out an run, which always makes me feel so much better. I don't think Mark is to the point where he can enjoy it but he keeps going back out with me.

6. I volunteered to photograph the MS Walk this past Saturday. The weather was perfect and I meet some great people. Photos coming later.

7. We got another person who would like us to tape and photograph his newest product for him soooo tomorrow we are going to film people using "The Shot Bong".

8. I screen printed my first four color process print.

I love school. There is no way I would have learned how to do that anywhere else. It is a huge pain in the butt and so cool when it is done.

9. We've got two weeks left of class and I know I will get everything done that I need to, but right now I dont feel like that day will ever get here.

10. We needed a change, something fun, something little so we brought the mattress out to the living room and have been watching movies, reading, crafting and napping. It has been so nice and relaxing. There is a celing fan in the living room. I love sleeping with a ceiling fan overhead.

Lisa Hannigan

You may know her from her work with Damian Rice, but she released a solo album this year that is wonderful. Her music videos are just as wonderful and inspiring.


Lisa Hannigan - Lille from ATO Records on Vimeo.


This is my favorite song.


I Don't Know from ATO Records on Vimeo.


thanks to design sponge for pointing these videos out!

Let the grilling begin!

YAY! We love grilling. I think we grilled out everyday last summer. It makes cooking so much more fun! I found this recipe today and decided to try it. It was so good. Usually vegetarian recipes are always lacking something, mainly taste. This has plenty of taste and it was all delicious.



While we were cooking the veggies I noticed that a bird had built a nest on our porch so I had to check it out. I found three very pretty little eggs nestled in the middle.

Sun is amazing!

Everything is so much better when the sun is out. My clothes look better, music sounds better and school is great!

Speaking of sun. Lindsey sent me an email today to let me know that her little trip to University of California Riverside was everything she wanted it to be last week and she sent in her acceptance letter today. It's weird. I feel like we should still be in high school talking about where we were going to go to undergrad, and anything after that was the future future that we had no idea about and didn't need to think about. But it is here now and Lindsey is moving to California where it will be sunny ALL THE TIME.

Look how happy it makes everyone

Ohmygosh

Have I told you about my new dream job? It is to be the presidents photographer. Not necessarily Obama's photographer, just the photographer to whatever president is in office at the time I can get that job. Did you know the president has his own photographer? Yup. They follow him around everyday with a really nice camera and all the accessories to snap his picture. That sounds awesome to me.

Ummm Never mind.... they have them in YELLOW!

Well if we ever move to London I've got my rain boots all picked out.

Love at first sight

Hunter

I love my job!

I lab monitor and usually, like tonight, it consists of me sitting in the basement all by myself with nothing to do and no one to help. So I am getting paid to do my home work and video chat with Markie.

Add to my favorite quotes list

via: VIA IV

Cuties are pretty adorable

For most of this week I have not been feeling very well. I have had multiple head aches and my stomach has constantly been upset with me. Plus, no matter what I did I could not stay awake. I fell behind on my grocery shopping and ran out of fruit around Monday. I finally started feeling better today and had the time to fill up my fruit bowl. I also picked up a Kind Bar per Kendra's recommendation! Soon after that though my throat started hurting which is always a major sign that I am about to get sick. I took everything I could, it was no use I am already losing my voice and it is getting much more painful by the minute. I really hope this is only allergies an not something worse.

How I felt yesterday

Multiple Strategies Slideshow

Fashion Takes Flight

A couple friends and I shot the MU Fashion show last Thursday. I took around 600 pictures and only got about four that I really like. This one is my favorite of the night.

And yes for those of you who recognize it, that is the ball room in the Oxford Community Arts Center where Mark and I had our reception. I love that room. It is prefect for everything.

Speaking of Tea

My friend has this amazing tea travel mug thing. We have our first class together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. She always has it but I never took the time to examine it until last week. It is a travel mug with a special tea infusion thingy that makes it so you can put your lose leaf tea in (which I have a BUNCH of) and just go. All it really is, is a mesh wire thing that blocks the tea from getting to the lid. GENIUS!

I looked it up tonight and apparently it is part of some big diet thing where you are supposed to drink this tea in the morning and that tea in the evening and then do three circles after every four sips. Whatever. I don't want their Teavalize tea, I just want the mug... which when I finally found it was pricey. Of course. Maybe I should just McGiver my own.

Sleepy Time Tea might be my favorite tea.

I can't sleep. I have been going non-stop since last week and finally everything is done. Tomorrow all I have to do is go to class where in the first one I plan on taking pictures of pretty trees and the second one is to be held at a bar Uptown. After that it is down to Covington to stand around in a pretty gallery and talk about art for a couple hours. I think my brain is still going, going, going when it can finally stop. Everything is done but I cant seem to stop thinking. So I am sitting here with a cup of sleepy time tea listening to the little noises that the house makes. Me time. Of course it is 2am and I would like to be asleep, but that isn't going to happen.

Guess what!

It looks like Oxford House is going to have at least fresh tomatoes to enjoy this summer and maybe more!

Multiple Strategies

Yesterday I woke up at 8 and was in Covington by 10:30am to hang my pieces in the gallery for the show this weekend. I rode down with Nate and Julia. We had all of our work pilled in the back of Nate's truck covered in blankets and delicately arranged. I climbed in the back of the truck when we got there just in time to see the glass in one of my frames crack. Nate and Julia were right behind me and we all freaked out together. Then we looked around and realized that there was a hardware store right behind us.

Exhibit A

While I regrouped Nate went over and asked if they could cut glass. Thank God they could. I got it fixed in under a hour. So no big deal. Hanging everything was a bit more of a problem. It took way longer than expected and by the time we left all three of us were so hungry we hated everything and everyone around us. After Chipotle we were so much nicer to be around.

The gallery space is really nice. I really like where I got to hang all of my stuff and am super excited for everyone to see it!

I really like him

Harry Underwood

This American Life

I love all the pretty colors.

I've been a bit busy lately.

I want to live here.

I want this kitchen as well

Some updates & amazing things

-Strawberry Short Cake is amazing.

- I have 3/4ths of my prints framed and ready to go up for the show next week!

- I should have all of them done, but someone erased my print profiles for half of them and it took me a couple hours get them back to where I needed it to be today.

- Showers are amazing

- They have replaced the old smelly liquid soap in all of the bathrooms on campus to clean smelling foam soap. I am probably more excited about this than I should be.

- We got our cards for the show next week! And I am on it!! BE THERE!

-Fruit is amazing

- My newest favorite way to waste time is Text Twist. My other friend Sam and I spent forever playing it today. It turns out two Sams is better than one. We got the six letter word first more than half of the time which made us feel very accomplished before we had even had lunch.

- Walked in to the photo studio today to find this on one of the doors. I can now check this off of "You Might Be an Art Student If...." list.

-Fudge Pops are amazing

Performance Night

Stage lighting is a tricky thing so I didn't get as many good pictures as I did during the rehearsal. There are a couple really strong ones that I am very happy with though.

Everyonce in a while I need someone to call me a idiot. It makes me feel better.

Event Photographer in the Hizzy

I have been accepting every opportunity that I have come across recently to build my portfolio. Tonight I photographed Vision Dance Company's rehearsal. I had a lot of fun. Tomorrow night is the show on a real stage with real stage lighting.

Caution: There are A LOT of photos in that set.

I recently realized I don't like flying.

I always feel horrible for at least a day and a half after I fly anywhere. It does give me an excuse to buy magazines though. This one was nothing but adds, Vanity Fair this month was very entertaining though.

I can hear Texas calling my name

Next week is spring break and the Monday after spring break I have a printmaking project due. So I had to spend my day in the printmaking studio to get everything done and not have to worry about it wile lounging about in Texas. I plan on doing nothing, nothing, nothing. I don't want to have to think about school or do homework next week.

When I went in to the studio the sky was overcast and little gloomy. The entier time I was working it looked perfect outside. I knew that it would probably turn back before I got out of there so I took this picture to prove I did at least get to bask in the suns glow for a little bit.

I want this kitchen

Naan

Wednesdays have turned in to boys day out this semester. Tyler, Mike and Dave have made a habit of going to the new Indian restaurant in town every Wednesday for the lunch buffet. I have gone once, but I dont like Indian food so I don't think I will be going again. Mark has gone a couple times but I get the feeling he doesnt really like Indian food either. He has ordered different things in the past but today he ordered the bread basket sampler which has Naan and Garlic Naan in it. Sooooo yummy.

I love Naan and I am probably a little to excited that there is a place right down the road that sells it fresh. Naan pizza here we come!!!

Hedgehogs might be one of my new favorite things

via A Print A Day

This is what I watch when I need a pick me up.

Printmaking done

So this is the second project in the history of all of the projects that I have done that has ever made me cry. That's not fair. This project specifically didn't make me cry the multiple things I was working on at one time started getting a little overwhelming, especially since I am becoming more and more of a perfectionist the more I learn. So I was trying to get everything done and make everything perfect. When I completely screwed up the last poster multiple times everything in me freaked out and I needed to calmly put all of my stuff away, go home and take a nap which quickly turned into me crying all over Mark.





After all of that the weekend happened and I got more things done, a cute hair cut and decided three out of four was pretty good and the last one would have to go on being imperfect. During my critique words like "professional" and "sophisticatedly simple" were thrown around so I think this story has a happy ending. Hopefully I can remember this and graduate with no more crying over projects that in the big scheme of thing aren't that big of a deal.

Finished my Photo Project.

Guess what her name is....

Sam!

As if this picture wasn't enough, turns out they also have video. It brightened my week.

I heart Coldplay, you will too if you watch this interview