Happy New Year!

May your new year be filled with new discoveries, delight, good food, good company, adventures, goodwill, peace, love, and the grace of God.

Ciao!

Feliz Navidad!

Merry Christmas to you! I hope that all is well with you this time of year!

Really briefly I wanted to share a very happy story with you from the 25th of this month.

For as far back as I can remember my family has always gotten toothbrushes in our stockings on Christmas morning. One year we didn't receive toothbrushes, and it really felt like something was missing, I was so sad that year! No toothbrush! I had to go and buy my own from the store that season, which was far less enjoyable than being the recipient of one as a gift.

Apparently I had told my beau that story a few months ago...

Apparently I forgot that I told my beau that story a few months ago...

So, instead of waiting for Christmas morning to exchange presents, his tradition is to open/exchange gifts at midnight RIGHT as Christmas begins! We waited a little bit to extend the delight brought on by the discovery of what lies behind such splendid wrapping paper by saving one for the next morning. 

The first present I opened that night was...

A TOOTHBRUSH!!!

But not only was it a toothbrush! It was a Colgate Whitening-thingy, super-bristled, tongue cleaner, amazingly shiny model of a toothbrush!

He turned to me and said, "Because I remembered that story you had told me about not getting a toothbrush in your stocking that one year, I wanted to get you a stocking too, but I hope this will do." (or something like that) I probably told him that story somewhere between 3-5 months ago. I'm so so thankful that he remembered it.

Best. Present. EVER!

Because of the thought behind it.

That's my story.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

SOPA!!

So, Tis the season for holidays and soups!
I have been playing in the kitchen, like I usually do, and I've realized that I really do enjoy cooking! I bake breads and cookies, and make delicious meals, and recently I've been excited to try my hand at making soup!
here's the recipie I made:

Squash: what's left over from your pumpkin pie-ing
squash: Baked butternut
curry: sauce from Trader Joe's
salt: a dash or three
basil: fresh, torn by hand
garlic: from Costco
oil: for simmering garlic and  basil in, with salt
water: for cooking down the squash in

Here's how I do things: I get a big pot, put some oil in the bottom and heat it up. Putting a healthy dollop of garlic, basil curry sauce and salt in the oil I fry the herbs before I put in a whole bunch of water and Squash in. Cook down the squash until it's smithereens, then you can blenderize it however you see fit.
the problem with my cooking is that I just have fun with it, and I often forget that there are technical terms for things a.k.a. real measurements.
cook for a few hours, serve with more curry sauce and enjoy!

My friend makes soup, and on occasion he will share some with me, and this week it was potato leek!

The best part of cooking is the fact that there are no limits, and people should not see themselves as being stopped by what you have or dont have. Whatever you have, probably has another way to be combined, one in which your mind goes "huh! That's brilliantly delicious!" It's quite nice really.

Potato Leek soup with dill-oil and almonds, delicious!

1000Words

Hi there! I write for a magazine called 1000Words that the f-stop Photography Club (at SCC) publishes quarterly.

1000Words is a unique publication that tries to use as few words as possible to accompany the photographs in the magazine, presenting pure photography. Our purpose for doing this is actually exemplified with our title, and if a picture is worth one-thousand words, then why would we need to add anything else?

 the F-stop Photography Club at Shoreline Community College has a mission that includes providing photography students with a venue to publish their work, the ability to create projects and publications that will earn back production costs, plus some capital to allow for future projects. The club’s mission also includes an option for providing assistance to other campus organizations that further the arts and well-being of the community.

In the process of creating an issue we select a theme for it then students in the club submit works that go through a selection process. The photos that are chosen are then published and the artists gain exposure-both on campus and in the community.

The theme for our next issue is "The Polaroid" and the club is partnering with Cory Verellen of the new Polaroid Store/Art Gallery: Rare Medium.
The issue will focus on the uniqueness of the Polaroid as a means to capturing an image, as well as the novelty of an instant picture!

Copies of the magazine are for sale in the student bookstore at Shoreline Community College, and our first three issues are quite stunning. For $5 they are a steal and are great for gifts and coffee-tables.
So pick up a copy today and enjoy!

Witty Titles for Posts Escape Me

I just went to one of my sister's blogs...
I felt woefully inadequate simply skimming through her eloquent  descriptions of what she has been up to in the past four months.

How is it even possible for her to use words like she does? It's incredible.
You should check it out. Here is the link to her site. (insert annoying emoticon here)

All I can think about now is how I know so much nerdy semi-useless information that only applies to cohesive thought when you are engaging in a trivia contest of epic proportions, and how it means so little when relating to people, unless they're über nerds like I am.

wow.

12/12/2011

(Pretty Picture of Seattle streets that I took!)

Well there, I’ve been a bit absent from posting for a wee bit haven’t I? I’ve been rather busy with working, and working, and running to-and-fro while attempting to get things done, and baking an awful lot. (speaking of which I must remember to go to the store to buy some flour, and brown sugar…)

I do so enjoy cleaning, and moving things about in an orderly manner.

Actually I had a bit of a shock the other day when I received an e-mail from the Art Club Supervisor at SCC. It wasn’t a shock that she e-mailed me, but that she sent both me and the fellow in charge of a gallery space in the school’s library, a notification indicating the fact that I was the next in line to use it for display of my artwork for this upcoming quarter!

I had forgotten that I had asked her for a show! So there I sat reading the e-mail, then re-reading it, and finally figuring out that yes, I was to have a solo show! A few days later I received yet another e-mail indicating the fact that it was to be a wall space that was available to me.

This should come as little surprise, because of course, I am mostly a sculptor.

So… after a little anxiety attack, and explanations to the people around me who I may have shocked with my outbursts of incredulity, I am now going through my 2D work and finding my paintings, which have never been on display anywhere, and might come as a shock to my associates, who all know me as a sculptor, dancer, designer, drawer, etc.

Although I do have a considerable number of intricate drawings that might be of interest, but no means by which to mount them. Drat.

Only a handful of people outside of my family have ever really seen my work in painting, as I mostly keep it hidden.

I usually work in abstract designs with a human or cartoonish figure in the foreground. It takes me ages to figure out what I really want to do with a painting, so I do a little, forget about it for awhile, then come back to it when I have the time or desire to do so.

I recently decided to work abstractly along a theme of shapes that I  discovered, but painting angles and lines is the most most most tedious thing ever, drawing them is fine though!

I think I’m really a drawer who uses paint to help illustrate a drawing. If that makes any sense at all!

I’ve been trying out a different concept though recently with giant butcher-paper paintings, only one of which I’ve managed to paint in my apartment. I’ll be seeing what may come of it soon.

This will be mightily interesting! 

Gah!

I'm currently working on writing a blog post, sorry it's been so long!

There is a lot going on right now, for example, research, and writing, and some-such stuffs, if you're bored, check out my other blog!
I'll try to update more by the end of this week!  Thanks for your patience!

Warehouse Project Review

We got a review! Sixth Day Dance Company got a review of their show: Warehouse Project!

  The link is HERE!

That's so cool!
It was probably the most challenging show that I have ever danced in and it really wasn't possible for us to dance it without the grace of God covering over all that we did. We essentially started out on Saturday evening with a show runthroug: full dress, full hair, full makeup and lighting. Dancing as we would in the show. Then there was the actual show of the evening. So we danced that, and the next day there were two more shows! A total of FOUR shows. They were about 50minutes long each, with improvisation danced for about 1/2 an hour before the show even began. I danced for about 10-ish minutes before the show (staggered because the dancers from the first piece danced in rotation for that time) then for about 40-ish minutes in the show. WIN!
Unfortunately on Friday I had over-extended my pectorals practicing for a friend's choreography and I was only able to dance those shows by God's provision. I quite seriously couldn't use my arms after Saturday's final show. and There was JUST enough ibuprofen in the bottle that my sweety gave me to last through the final show on Sunday. It was a very emotional time for all.

Wow. I'm still praising God that We made it!