Wordless Wednesday: Holiday Hyperness

LOST Countdown: 9 DAYS!

I am SOO excited!! I have been looking forward to Feb (not only because its my birthday) but because LOST starts off again. For the past 4 months, my fellow LOST friends and I have been debating, observing, and discussed our own theories of LOST: On Feb 7th, 2007 Season three will continue and start back off with Jack in the middle of spinal surgery on Ben, while Kate and Sawyer attempt to escape the cages and island where they are being help captive by the "Others". For all you LOST Fans and theorists- What do you think will happen next? Many questions are still unanswered- the Polar bears, the "black smoke", Micheal and Walt, Magnetic Field, Dharma...etc :What are you thoughts on LOST?


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art for ME

I have been creating a collection of art for awhile and decided I really like this style. Kinda screen print, pop art, funky'ness! All of these are by Andrea Heimer. I really like the color combinations she uses. (hmm good idea for room colors-maybe taking the scheme of one painting to a room)

Wordless Wednessday: Hola

Fun Font

I was surfing for inspiration on a project and came across this fun font. I really like the way they display it. :o)

Long hair is overated!

This last week my roomie and bosom friend, Jeannie Foster, decided to take the plunge. For a while she has been tossing the idea around about cutting her Long brown hair and donating it to Locks of Love. This time it was the real thing- By the time I put in the layers and all, she lost about 10 inches. She Loves her cute hair and can't stop smiling. Her new dew fits her personality perfectly! As she admires her hair in the mirror.. " I'm so cute!" Jeannie flutters. It puts a smile on my face every time I see her darling dew. Love ya Jeans

Wordless Wednesday- Proud of my Papa (and my favorite hunting buddy)

Beware: Do not leave camera laying around.

A lil off the topic of this weeks china blogs, but still cute...and funny! Click here and here for more. :o)

Faces of China II

Faces of China

I think it's about time I blog about China. I didnt want to blog about it right when I got back mostly because I was in culture shock-It was overwhelming being there. I also suffered from jetlag for about a week after returning. (Their 13 hours ahead) I though that I was start with some of my favorite pictures. Since Im not really good at explaining/writing through words... hopefully my photos can do the talking for me. I'm a people-photographer- I really like to take pictures of people, especially when they dont know it. So while in china I really tried to capture the culture through the people. I got to travel to 3 different areas of china- Beijing, Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Haleigh and Jenna's Game of House

My cousin, Jenna and I are tag teamin and babysitting two kids this week while their parents are in New York on a trip. It has been a big game of house for us. The kids are in bed with blankie, frog and all, the kitchen is clean and I am soo ready for my pillow. I dont think I have been on my feet this long for awhile. I'm really starting to appreciate my mother even more!......and Heth!
Megan is 5 years old with thick curly hair and is the ultimate tomboy. she loves spiderman, batman, and any other superhero and is e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y independent. She loves to read books and act out Alfred in "Larryboy and the Golden gum balls"...umm like 5 times a day. She is a great big sister and also likes to tackle her little brother John. John is the smilest, happiest, giggily baby. He is 15 months old with wild blonde curly hair and a mouth full of drool. He's the easiest baby and helps balance out his sisters busy world.

Althogh Megan tries to act tuff, tonight we had a break through. She was missing her mother. We called mommy to have a nice talk. The call started as a hyper excited little girl telling mom all the fun stuff we have done and get to do and then... reality sunk in. She wanted her mommy. So after telling mom she wanted her home TODAY she screamed with tears down her cheaks as I carried her up for #7 of reading "Larryboy and the Golden gum balls". She calmed down after awhile....as she read Alfred's part- and we were soon to normal Megan again.
Just as we were finishing, we started to chat about the funny picture of Larryboy with gum stuck on his head. The picture brought back a memory of my middle school music teacher. Trying to lighten the mood, I told her about my music teachers way of dealing with gum chewers in class and how he would have them wear their gum on their nose for the whole class time. Well Obviously Megan was still not totally recovered from the phone call earlier and she broke out in tears of worry for her mother.... She was worried about her mother getting made fun of for having gum on her nose as a child?? yes this is true.. I came to the conclusion that it was time for bed and no matter what I say or do she will always miss her mommy. I tucked her in and laid beside her rubbing her back untill the eye lids dropped and all was well.
Although I am exhausted and at times...going insaine...I think this is a good experience. The relationship of Mommy and baby is pricless and precious...all ages.


I love you mom...... and I MISS YOU! (ahh)

Its official!

College of Design Application Acceptance

Congratulations Haleigh, we have recorded your selection as Interior Design.
You have indicated that you wish to accept an invitation into Interior Design. Your name has been removed from consideration in future rounds. We look forward to seeing you in the fall!
Your department will contact you in July with information about advising, registration and the laptop program. Please remember that we can not give any additional information about the status of your application until after July 1st.

I DID IT!

Congratulations Haleigh, you have been accepted into the College of Design.

Dear Haleigh;
Thank you very much for your interest in the College of Design. We werevery fortunate to have attracted a large number of exceptional applicants.We appreciate the time and effort that you put into preparing youradmission materials.
The admission process will be conducted through several rounds ofinvitations until the spots within all six programs have been filled. In each round all programs will invite a specific number of students to jointheir program. If a student receives multiple invitations in any round, thestudent will be allowed to select only one of the offers during that round. Any invitation that is not accepted will not be available again insubsequent rounds.
After each round, the programs will evaluate their number of acceptances. During the next round additional students could be invited to fill the newspots that may have become available. In these subsequent rounds a studentmay have the opportunity to accept a new invitation from a differentprogram and reject a program that had been accepted in a previous round.Please note that an offer from a previous round cannot be reconsidered once that round has passed.

Sincerely,Igor Marjanovic, Director, Core Design Program

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Info: Only 36 - 40 students are admitted each year ( with the number of applicants ranging from roughly 70-90.
Admission to the Interior Design program occurs at the end of the first year of study. It is based on several factors: faculty review of portfolio work submitted at the end of Spring semester (30%), an essay (15%), a sketch book (25%) and College of Design core courses cumulative grade point average (30%).

So I made it in! Yay! Im so excited. I made two programs that I applied for Interior Design (which is the hardest-aside architecture) and Integrated Studio Arts. I really like both, but now I have to choose! oh boy I dont know what to do. I know that it is easier later If I wanted to switch my major from Interior to Studio rather Studio to Interior so that will prolly be the route I go. Interior Design..... i think! :o/? Well Since I made it and all!!!... I thought I would share my portfolio and essay with you all. It consisted of project I conducted this last year in the prerequisit classes i had to take. The last four pages are my own "out of class" work. Ps: sorry some of the pictures are not totally straight.

1. Dsn 131: cylinder sketches
2. Dsn 131: Charcoal sketches-portraits
3. Dsn 131: Sketch
4. Dsn 131: Line drawing
5. Dsn 131: Line drawing
6. Dsn 131: perspective drawing
7. Dsn 131: Color cante
8. Dsn 131: Charcoal drawing
9. Dsn 131: Charcoal drawing
10. Dsn 102: Postcard Project process board
11. Dsn 102: Postcard abstract
12. Dsn 102: Final Postcard
13. Dsn 102: Pattern Project process board
14. Dsn 102: Sicssor pictures
15. Dsn 102: Sicssor pattern drawing
16. Dsn 102: Space container pictures
17. Dsn 102: Space container drawing
18. Dsn 102: Pattern Project pictures
19. Dsn 102: Doorway Project process board
20. Dsn 102: Doorway Modralog drawing
21. Personal work: color study- paint
22. Personal work: charcaol figuritive drawing
23. Personal work: color cante figure drawing (Mr. Peterka)
24. Personal work: Color painting of bottles
    
    
    

color cante: still life

update

I decided to update my blog- I would like to dedicate this blog to my artwork photography from now on. I would love to hear your feedback on my work and process.





This is a charcoal drawing from my drawing class- it is a portrait of Rembrant.

brokenhearted

O God, listen to my cry! Hear my prayer! From the ends of the earth, I will cry to you for help, for my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the towering rock of saftey. Psalm 61:1-2

From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Psalm 130:1

Come quickly, Lord, and answer me, for my depression deepens. Don't turn away from me, or I will die. Let me hear your unfailing Love to me in the morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk, for I have came to you in prayer. Psalm 143:7-8

He told them, " My soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and watch with me." He went on a little farther and fell face down on the ground. He prayed that, if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting him might pass him by. "Abba Father," he said "everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will- NOT mine. Mark 14:34-36

These verses are my prayers. For my heart is overwhelmed and my mind doesnt understand many things. I know he will not put me through anything I can not handle, yet it is still hard to see that through all the hurting, the memories and the questions. Last night I started to write a letter, at first it started as sentences of anger, hurting and questions of why. As I remembered memories I wrote them down in detail and began to grief, not wanting to forget anything.

"... I opened my heart up to you and told you all my deepest thoughts, secrets, insecurities and became totally vulnerable to you- I laid it all out to you, and you showed me nothing but Love. You didn't care about my past- my sins, failures, insecurities- you justed loved me unconditionally and saw deeper than all of those things. You loved me for me. Not the things I did, but for who I was and my heart..."

"...Now all of that is over. You show no compassion to me and reject me as though it is so easy for you. I feel so vulnerable and hurt. I dont understand how someone can just decide to stop loving another in two days- as though it comes easy and means nothing. Because of you I am like this..."


As I continued and came to a stopping point, 10 pages later, I reread all of my letter. Through the words I wrote I felt like God was speaking to me. For our broken hearts can lead us to God- Humility is a good starting place on the road to God. The words in the passage I wrote at first were not words to the Lord but memories of the past.

The second time reading it- The Lord showed me that is how he is. He wants to love me unconditionally and wants to be my everything. He wants hold me in his heart untill he can hold me in his arms. No man on earth is able to give me what Jesus can give me. And even though it hurt so much, I know he will help me. For the Lord comforts the broken hearted by his presence, his compassion, his listening, his love, his healing, his encouragement and his blessings.

Mathew 5:4
"God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

Psalm 51:17
...The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.

New Dew!

New Cut! New Color! New Look!

I needed a pick me up from last week.

Although I dont think i lost weight like Heth.

By the way tonight the babysitting was smooth sailing. Joshua didn't cry at all, although holding him the whole time might have had something to do with that.:o)

Help me! I cant take the crying!

This monday night was my 2nd time at my new job. I babysit for two little boys Evan (2) and Joshua (3 months). They are too cute. Evan is the best behaved 2 year old I have even babysat! He really is and thank goodness because as for Joshua, he is a real cutie BUT he likes to cry a lot. So most of the time I am babysitting them i have to hold Josh constantly- and try to make him stop or wait until he is tired enough to put him to sleep. His parents (especially daddy) have been having trouble with him too so it is not just me. I'm not sure if it is because he is over - stimulated but he has crying attacks and just constantly crys- untill he gets too tired or eats or sleeps. Sometimes you can get him to smile and laugh but if you look away he starts this fussy'ness and then if you dont catch it and make him happy then there is no way stopin him. I guess I know of some baby experts that read my blogs pretty regularly so please any suggestions? I have tried everything: bottle of water, pasy, tv, rocking, toys, swing, leaving him along. I am going to be babysitting them tomorrow night as well (tuesday) so help?!?! Please?!?

Busy Busy Busy....and BUSY!

So I know I haven’t been the greatest blogger these last few weeks, BUT I do have a good excuse(s). It has been none stop busy around here- this college life is starting to kick me in the pants.

After my special delivery day the fun just kept coming. My family is so wonderful, I am so blessed! That week I went on a regional tour with the Iowa State Singers, and my family decided to surprise the crap out of my pants and ambush me at the mall. It was so fun- I love them! It was so fun to spend time with them. In the future- My mom is diffidently going to have to teach my husband a few things or two :o) He’ll have to top off my wonderful family! One important thing though- My Mother failed to tell the conversation correctly though! You can read about her story here: check it out!

Her side of the story: My side

Me: “What are you doing?”H: “I’m on the bus. It’s boring. I’m so tired”
Me: “Where are you going again?”
H: (obviously annoyed with me for not remembering “I told you!” Because she always forgets everything I tell her, she has this thing when she acts like she is in a conversation with you until you ask a question and she replies with “uh hu”(even ask Tommyboy)
Me: “Oh yeah, I just forgot...sorry, I’m just busy”…Busy waiting for you to hurry up and get here!
H: (sadly) (tiredly) “We’re going to the mall. I’m going to buy myself a birthday present” (To warm her up to me spending $)
Me: “Oh yeah what are you going to buy?”
H: “I don’t know… just something for myself” She’s layin the guilt trip on thick. I want her to know that I will be spending $ on myself!
Me: “How far are you?”I’m trying to find out when they’ll be here!
H: “I don’t know”Me: “Where were you this morning?”
H:(getting madder)“MOM! I told you all this … I have to go”
Me: “Oh, I’m sorry honey” She never said “honey”

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NEED SLEEPY!

This last week has been so busy with school work- particularly in my DSN 102 class. This class is a prerequisite for Design majors. In order to apply for my specialized major (Interior Design...for now anyway) I have to take this class alone with two others. DSN 102, I hear is said to be the class in which most people drop out of design majors. IT sucks that much. In fact right now we are working on what's called the Pattern Project. It is a 5 phase project in which analysis of an existing object is used as the starting point for the design of space. "It provides a learning experience that is based on oscillations between two-dimensional and three-dimensional design. Value is based on the beauty of craft, deditcation to detail-oriented representation through precision in drawing and three-diminsional constructions." So Phase I: not too hard. I had to write a 500 word essay about my object assigned to me: Siccsors. But its was Phase II that really kicked my butt. Monday night I got 2 hours of sleep trying to finish this stupid thing. I had to make a paper pattern drawing of my siccsors and then assemble it into a 3d model. BUt here's the catch- NO TAPE- NO GLUE! The connections only tabs and slots.
Here is what I managed to come up with. It is really hard!

Ps: The smaller handle took me 5 1/2 Hours to finish!! (Talk about an ALL-nighter)

:1st draft model

:pattern drawing










:Final 3d Model