ok soo ....

OK so ... I was a total slacker and didn't post again.  Truth be told we went to a friends house for beer, pizza and good times.  It was a lot of fun, Lance played and sang.  I will have to be extra good today because pizza and wings is NOT good for the hips.

So my new photo project will be the progression of Spring.  I am going to take the same scene everyday at around or about the same time.  I think that it will come out great, it's going to be my portfolio for my Photo class.  This is what I have so far.

             This is pic one.                                             This is pic two.

I think that this project is going to turn out great!  Oh yea I also want to show my fortune.  : )

I didn't post yesterday!!!

So I will post two today.  This is my first ... this is what I did last night (why I didn't post).  It was worth it because this came out super cute!!

LOVE IT!!!!

Post again tonight with the ideas for my new photo project.  I think it's going to come out great!!

Inspiration.

Inspiration is something that every artist struggles with, if your trying to meet a deadline or just plain out of ideas, I'm sure all artists can share my pain.  There are many things that I do to get inspired, walk, read books and blogs, talk with friends, etc.  I really like to go outside and take pictures, many, many pictures.  Something about nature really calms me and opens the creative flood gates.  So today, being 80 degrees in Chicago (thank you global warming) while I was on my walk I came across two Mallard ducks, one male, one female.  The female is the brown one with the purple in her feathers and the male is the one with the green head.  I only knows those facts about the ducks because my mom would always say "Typical of nature making the male prettier."  I always wondered why would that be typical of nature?  But that was just one of my mother's infinite ramblings.  So back to the ducks, they were probably just spending some "quality time" together before the kids are born, talking about the world or maybe just enjoying each others company.  Well I think Mrs. Mallard got upset with my being there because she got up and waddled over to her man and sat right next to him. 

 That's her waddling over, I think she was swinging her neck a little bit but I can't be sure.

When she plopped down and I think I heard a little quacky sigh come out of her and a mumbling under her breath.  I'm sure she was saying something like "How dare SHE intrude on OUR time together, and did you see how close she was getting? Uh! The nerve of some people" and he probably replied "Uh Huh, yes dear."


Well I can tell when I'm not wanted, being ignored and getting the cold shoulder all at once.  I put the camera away and continued my walk.  I think I heard the up tight Mrs. Mallard yell "TOURIST!"  I turned around shocked, but just kept walking because she wasn't worth the fight. 


: )  Have a great day. 


P.S.  Isn't this beautiful!  This is the real reason why I get inspired.  Sooo beautiful!!!!

Trying to blog more.

I know I say this all the time that I am going to blog more but I am really going to do it this time, seriously, I hope.  Blogger finally updated their templates, so my blog won't look like it's from the 60's!  I must have been in the bathroom every time someone talked about their update.  I think that this will encourage me to blog more.  It's like when you get a really pretty journal and you want to write in it more because it's so pretty or it could be the fact that I watched Juile and Julia last night.  What a great movie!!  It was really inspiring.  It restated to me yet again to follow your heart and do what you love.

On to creative stuff.

I have been working my butt of with creating lately, it feels good!  To look back at your work and go ahh, I made that!  Here is one of my favorite creations.  You may ask yourself .. Sara why are you making hats with summer right around the corner? ... well my dear reader there is no rest for the wicked (knitter).  Today I am working on 4th of July beanies.  I found some super cute ribbon on the clearance for $.25 (woo hoo!) it inspired the hats.  I will post some pics as soon as their done.

Well I don't want to go over board so I have more to talk about tomorrow because (remember) I said I am going to blog more (see!  you forgot already!)

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.