Man... it's been so long since I posted here that the home page looks different.

Hi!! 

I've been pretty busy-ish for it being summer. I got on to share a song that me & my band wrote last night :) Unfortunately I have somewhere to be in an hour or I could ramble on about it... I'll save that for later.

This is me on vocals, our guitarist, and my husband on the accordian... Our violinist will come in when we record the more polished version, since his instrument is hard and doesn't have frets (read: takes way more practice, but it sounds awesome!)

 Okay! Short personal update time :) I'm done with classes. I had the last of my final projects due today, though I still need to send my independent study stuff to my English teacher (I'll do that tonight or tomorrow, I'm running on empty after getting maybe 4 hours of sleep in the last two days).

This was a hard semester. I wish I had a lot to show for it but, honestly, I don't. I did some pretty cool paintings and printmaking was fun as an experience but all in all I didn't get that much work out of this semester. Next semester I have glassblowing and ceramics as my studios, though, so I'm super excited to get that sort of work out of those classes for my home <3 Yesss.

I'm not sure what's up with me this summer. I'm trying to get an internship, but I'm also just trying to calm the hell down after running myself ragged these last couple of months. I need a BREAK. I only have a year left of school so I feel like I should just BREATHE when I can, you know?

Wow, I'm exhausted. I have to be at work in an hour and I have no idea how I'm going to stay standing for that long. I had more I was going to talk about but I guess I'll have to save it for later.

 I have NO idea if anyone on my friends list wants to read this, but I'll post it here anyway just in case :) It's actually a little frustrating when I try to get people in my life to read my work and they look at it and say "Honestly, I'm not gonna read that." It's 20 pages, not like a novel or anything :'( Tiny violin alligator tears I cry.

Anyway, I'm going to post a personal update after this, but SERIOUSLY, if you like short stories, pleasssseeeee read this so I know someone other than my english professor has read it! 

Sinew

      ( Sinew )

Just a little one, but this is really weird for me because I was such a huge goth from ages 12-17 that, even though I'll be 21 in a couple of months I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of being darker than pale.

Who knew this would break the journal silence? Hehe. I've been having a rough time with this semester (which is, mercifully, over after next week) and decided that, instead of whining and annoying myself, I'd just see how it went and try to be more positive in general. It's worked for the most part :) But I'm sure no one cares about that when I have breaking news pictures:

  vs. 

I know that the lighting is slightly different (indoors vs. outdoors) BUT I really am that much darker (I took the pale one into photoshop and toned down the light a bit).

This is not even me at my full tan potential; I have an olive skin tone (Probably a #16-17 on the Von Luschan's chromatic scale naturally... see also: Wiki  article on tanning behaviors), I do not burn and tan very quickly. The color I have right now is from me laying out around 3PM in the full sun without sunscreen for 15 minutes on each side. I do realize that tanning is bad for your skin, and I'm not planning on doing that a ton but I wanted to try something new :) I remember being "brown as a berry" (as my mom used to say) through my whole childhood, to the point where, when I moved to a new school system, my classmates thought I was hispanic. My dark tan will last until around January or so before it starts to fade. It's insane.

Yep, I've done a lot of random, obsessive thinking about this over the past few days. 

 Hubby & I took a roadtrip and visited our breeder yesterday to get to know the 4 week old puppies now that they're starting to show their personalities... There is NOTHING like a stampede of puppies crawling all over the place! We took Ein to visit, too, and she ran rampant in their garage with a little boy pup about 3 months younger than her (she's about a year now and he's not so little, that dog is a horse of a corgi!), and even played very gently with the pups which came as a big surprise to DH and I. She wasn't sure about them at first, until they started barking at her I don't think she knew what they were!

We picked out our new pup and can't wait to take her home in late March-early April:


xposted to corgilove :3

 

 I'm SO sleepy today! I know I need to update more often, so here's an oil painting I'm working on for my painting class:


Blurry cell phone pic, but you get the gist :) I'm really having fun with oil paints, they're kind of like watercolors but more forgiving.

 

I had to do a little stream of consciousness writing for my ENG 498 class about an influential event in my life, so I wrote about my hunting experience this winter that I mentioned briefly in a previous entry. I'm going to put it under a cut so as not to offend, but if you're interested in my creative writing work take a peek!

( Hunter's Kiss, expanded. )

First of all, here's a test print for the woodblock carving I showed you guys earlier this week :)


Sorry for the quality, the paper is an extremely thin Japanese rice paper (which isn't actually made from rice, isn't that interesting? it's mulberry pulp) which means that whatever I put behind it shows through :/ Rest assured that the bottom corner isn't all mucky gray as the photo would like you to believe, it's all nice and clear white :)

Being that it's a test print, I have a few more changes to make in the design before I do the next run of prints. I LOVE the process! I need another few upper level studio classes to take before I graduate so I might just pick printmaking for those <3

( Read for snow activities + pictures! <3 )
I might end up posting again before the day is out :) I took a really long nap earlier so I'm full of energy! <3