Spring is in the air.

This time of year always reminds me of my Grandma.  It's a bittersweet time of year.  I miss her more than ever in Spring.  My Grandma.  She signed all her cards Grandm<3m.  She was a wonderful children's story author.  She was an amazing Great-Grandma (GGM).  She had a contagious laugh.  She loved to read and sew.  She was awesome!  Most of all she loved tulips.  She grew the most colorful, monster tulips!  The Fall before she died, she was so determined to plant her tulip bulbs in my yard, little did I know that it was going to be her last time planting.  By the time Spring rolled around, she was gone and her tulips come up strong and bright all over my yard.  It made me happy to think of her and how important it was to her to plant the bulbs but it made me sad because I missed her so.  As I smell the sunshine and new growing plants in the air I can't help but whisper to the sky, "I miss you even more".

the latest happenings ..

*FIRST*

I am so EXCITED!!  I got a new camera a few weeks ago and I just got the negatives back yesterday.  So here are some pics of Lance's adorable cats.

 

 That's Jimi on the left and Janis on the right.  Cute, right?

*SECOND*
We went to see Alice in Wonderland last night!  It was really good, kinda dark but that's to be expected of Mr. Burton, right? 

This was the Alice that I remembered.

The new Alice, not bad but as my mom would say "different".

*THIRD*

I jumped into the holiday spirit and made some hats for St. Patrick's day.  Below is the first one, it sold in one day on Etsy (YAY! for me).

Today's Events ....

So we started out the day on a wonderful sunny yet cold morning in the city of wind.  I had a field trip for my printmaking class down to the Art Institute of Chicago.  Morello lead us down the unusually empty Lake Shore Drive.

This was the most bad ass field trip I have EVER been on EVER!!  OK so here is the run down ..

1. The traffic was amazing ... see above pic. 
2. The weather was awesome .. I think it was 30 which is actually a treat for February in the Midwest.
3. My wonderful professor Ms. Alex Chitty got us behind the scenes at the Museum, we got to look at REAL prints from artist like Durer, Litchenstein, PICASSO (my favorite) and many others!
4. I got to spend the day with my amazing boyfriend : )
5. I bought a kick ass camera from Blick that I hope to share with you very soon.
6. I also got to sport my newly knitted Calorimetry ... see pic below.

Well that pretty much sums up my amazing day.  I am still shell shocked that I was almost nose to print with a real life Picasso, I was really that close.  The man was a bit of a prick but I gotta love him.

 

Told ya I'm a goof. 

I found a super cute hat ....

I found a super cute hat that must be made!!  I am so in love with it and I will post pics when it is up and knitting (get it?) I know I'm super corny. I will have to knit it up and pass it along to a Hello Kitty fan. Here's the link if you'd like to knit one up yourself.

Hello Kitty Hat

With the recent Hallmark Holiday that just passed I must admit that I had a wonderful time!  We went for a horse and carriage ride along Lake Michigan.  I felt like a total princess.  I am glad to have a wonderful man like him in my life. 

 

Happy Late Valentine's Everyone!!

not your grandma's craft.

Today I had a new student, we went over the beginnings of crochet it was lots of fun and made me think about my grandmother and how crochet and knit are considered an "old lady" craft (see pic below)

Or this often pops in to people's (generally men) when you tell them you crochet (see pic below)

Well ladies and gentlemen welcome to 2010 (see pic below)

An ultra sexy CROCHET bikini!!  Take that GRANDMA!!!  With all that being said, I had a lot of fun and I was glad to share the craft of our ancestors. 

Women of 2010 I implore you to change!

Women of 2010 I implore you to become better women!  We are the future!!  Our daughters look up to us and our sons look to us for ideologies of what women are!!  Drop your sponges, brooms and curling irons!!  Become great do what you love and love what you do!  Please for the sake of humanity!

Well OK that's enough preaching, I will gracefully get off my soap box.  For real though have a great NEW year!  I am one step closer to making my dreams become a reality and I want you to join me!  Let's share success! 

What every little woman wants for the hoilday's!

I am so glad that I am a woman today because I don't think that I could handle being alive as a woman in the 40's and 50's.  I would have to go postal!!