Last one

Once I get started I obviously can't stop. Here's one from my final project. The story behind this is the colors of spring.

if I die young...

It's been pretty much non-stop Europe and moving planning in our house for the past few weeks. In between we've managed to sleep, watch season two of Call the Midwife (well worth the watch), and take a very few pictures including these of a good friend and great photographer, Monika Ottehenning. So to take a break I decided to do some editing and blogging.

Also, if any of you have been to or are currently in Europe do you have any tips for us for our upcoming trip?

You can see a few more on my facebook page.

Eurotrip 2013

So . . .  we graduated. mostly

And we're going to Europe in two weeks! We've spent the better part of the last month working on those two events and I can hardly believe that one is over and the other is around the corner. I'm going to post more about how we are managing to do this and our itinerary and the general glee I feel at this but I'm emailing this person and sorting through that stack at the moment and so I'll share a picture instead. We got these two lovelies last summer and Nick used his to go to Belize but mine has just been waiting for Europe.

Why don't I just marry them?

 

Have I mentioned how much I love polaroid film? (If not, and if you have a few hours to spare ask me how much I love them.) Tomorrow I get to do an entire shoot about polaroids too! This is the life.

These two are a few from a couple of weeks ago. I love how the colors turned out, but please forgive the dust in the second--I think it happened during scanning.

unfinished paintings

Recently, it seems like my infrequent pop-ins have coincided with a later hour. I feel like I'm a little 'un sneaking cookies, except now that I'm all grown up I make and eat entire batches of cookies all by myself and so I've had to replace my deviousness with late night blogging. It's still somewhat delicious to be up late (later than I intended or should be awake), listening to the hum of the refrigerator with only a few lights on and my projects sprawled across the living room floor while I'm stretched on the couch.

Have I mentioned that I'm in an oil painting class this semester? Well, I am. These are two of the paintings that I've been working on. I had a brilliant idea to photograph my progress since I feel like from the first to the last brush stroke there is a big evolution and sometimes I love things about my paintings before they're anywhere near completed. (Side note: The paintings are still not finished but look very different from these pictures and I have yet to take any more pictures of them.) It's fun to celebrate success; even when that success is still in progress.

My profound advice for the day: Go do something naughty. It's tasty.