Almost there.

I just registered for classes for THE LAST TIME EVER!!!!!!

This is it. Next quarter I’m taking Senior Portfolio Prep and that’s it.

I’m nearly finished! This is crazy.

Ya they were all yellow.

Truly amazing.

We did not plan this.

Crockpot, secrets, quilts and favorites.

So my first project for Working Class is basically done, and we are presenting it Friday morning. I don’t know if I can post photos of it. Probably not. It’s probably super top secret, but I don’t really know.

I am feeling like I am slacking in what is the more important class, which is my Advanced 2 class for Fibers. I have been using time in that class where I should be making things for my portfolio to instead be making things for WCS!

So I need to get my time management straightened out.

Last week I had my first ever experience cooking in the crock-pot (which I believe is a new craze [well, not really NEW, it's just coming back from when, the 80s?] that is taking this generation by storm, and SHOULD. It was amazing!)

We made this:

It really was delicious and was seriously the easiest thing I have EVER prepared. It’s true, you really do just throw everything in the pot and then just walk away. I loved it.

To switch the subject of this blog posting again (and not for the last time): This weekend at CSF (http://csfscad.com/ — Erica please teach me how to make this link!) we had a girls sleepover!!!!!!!!

It was so much fun I can’t even tell you. I can’t show you either, because stupidly, I left my camera at home. But it was so party. We had a good turn out too, and I made a lot of new friends (considering I knew zero of the freshman girls that came in during the fall, since I was in France!)

I also learned a new game, so Florida should get excited. It’s called “Signs” and I loved it. We played for 3 hours.

Around 3:30am we put on “Glee” which I had never seen, and I watched the first episode and then decided around 4.30 that even though I wanted to watch the next episode (so sue me, I loved it) I would let myself fall asleep for a little bit. So I did, and woke up 2 hours later to make all of the girls pancakes. (Liz made a video of this on her iPhone, but I don’t know what has happened to it. I was half asleep but kept talking about Bianca and how I was hoping I was making her proud and was trying to make my pancakes awesome, just like she does.)

At 8.30am, after we had cleaned up and eaten, Kara and I headed home and both went to sleep. I had to wake up around 10.45 to be at work by 11.30, and then I worked until 4.30. It was a really fun day at work, and I really didn’t feel that tired. That night I went to Gulf Stream (which is SCAD’s furniture/industrial design building) where I met a friend and she helped me cut some wood into blocks (she did it for me because they wouldn’t let me use the saws because they were afraid I would chop off my fingers and sue scad).

This was for my super secret WCS project. On Sunday I screen printed them.

Screen printing wasn’t as terrible as I remembered. I actually kind of liked it. I think I will screen print some thing for my portfolio.

I have been inspired lately for it, as I have a concept to center everything around, and it is super top secret, so don’t ask me what it is. I could probably be persuaded to tell if I was really pressured (because it’s not that important) but I don’t really want to tell until it’s all done and together, because I am very excited.

I will still be posting photos of the things I’m making along the way. Everything except one item, which will probably be the last thing I make. Maybe not the last thing I make, but will definitely be the last thing I finish.

Here’s what I’m looking at right now:

Gee’s bend quilts! Yeahhh! That’s right, I’m going to make my first official quilt.

I should have started today, but instead, I’m starting tomorrow.

This coming weekend 2 favorites: Aslinn and Kara Savey are coming into town!!!!!!! It’s going to be so fun.

I love games.

Yesterday I woke up at 4.45am and worked from 5.15-10am. Then at 11 I went to Working Class Studio, and stayed there until 1ish, went to the library to do more Working Class stuff (Illustrator and Photoshop things- very technical for me, which is good) and went back to Working Class from 3-5 to put in 2 hours for my internship where I cut transparencies, moved boxes, and glued pieces of cardboard together.

When I got home, Working Class still seemed to be on my mind as I have a lot to do for that before Friday. So I was telling Kara all the things I had to do, and decided I would need to reclaim a silk screen so I could burn a new one for screen printing today. So that required me to take off a bunch of “blue tape” (aka the best tape in the world) from one of the screens off, so I can wash it out.

So by the end of it, I had this big ball of blue tape, and said to Kara, “I wonder if I throw this at the wall if it will stick.” So I threw the ball really hard at the wall, hoping it would stick, but it just bounced back.

We thought this was pretty fun, so we kept doing it for a little while, but then figured we should stop because we didn’t want to disturb our neighbors (or for them to think something bad was happening to us).

So then we started hitting it back and forth to each other in the little back room of our apartment. I was worried we were going to knock something over, so I suggested us going into the living room to play, but I somehow only made it through the doorway.

And then see what happened.

Here is the last part of our game, when we had gotten way better and you can understand more of the rules of “Tape Ball”.

We probably played for an hour. We kept thinking “who are we??!” because that was just a strange thing for us to do for so long. But it was fun.

We felt like Monica, Ross, and Joey in “The one with the ball.”

“Our Apartment is a freak.”

Kara, Janelle and I have started cooking together on Monday nights. This was the first Monday night we were trying this.

See what happens:

Kara’s legit.

Then we had to go to Home Depot to get new fuses, and everything worked, except our oven!!! We thought it was permanently broken, but on Friday when Richard (the handyman) came over to look at it, it was unplugged!!!!

It is a mystery to how that happened, because we didn’t move the oven during the power freak out at all. We moved it after to look, but got freaked out because the area behind and under the oven is pretty creepy.

So that’s a mystery. But now everything works, and we know how to change ancient fuses.

Typeface.

I have recently been downloading tons of fun fonts (for free from places like urbanfonts.com and fontsquirrel.com) and am working on emerging myself into the typeface world, little by little.

I was first inspired by my brother-in-law, Derek Hansen, because he made his mom an awesome typeface calendar for Christmas, but now I am working on a project for Working Class Studio where I need to find some fonts for myself.

Today I had fonts everywhere. It was kind of awesome.

P.S. Can anyone please teach me how to link things in these postings? Like if I wanted you to be able to click on “Working Class Studio” and go to www.workingclassstudio.com, how do I make that happen??! Html doesn’t seem to work and I don’t always understand wordpress.

It’s already madness.

I’ve just finished week 2 (of 10) of my classes in my second to last quarter at SCAD… ever. Only 17 more weeks of classes, and I’ll be a graduate. This is going to go by fast.

On the first day of my Advanced 2 (for Fibers) class, the worlds best professors- Pamela Wiley- said, “Take a deep breath, because the next time you’re going to be able to breathe again will be when you hear your name called and you walk across that stage to get a diploma.” And now I’m starting to believe her.

One of the first things I do when I enter a new year is go and buy a planner. For the last 3 years I have bought Moleskine planners. Moleskine is probably my favorite brand for notebooks, but I always have the hardest time finding the planner that I want from them in stores (because everyone wants it). So this year, I never found the one that I wanted, and ended up just deciding to do something different this year.

I was browsing around on Etsy in the calendar section and saw MANY amazing letter pressed calenders and other beautiful ones, but they were all for the wall. I also saw a few cute-ish planners, but they were “hand bound” but really were papers with holes cut into them and put on a plastic spiral that you could get at kinkos. I wasn’t really too fond of those, even if they had a cute design on the cover.

Then I ran across TheAyBeeCees shop (theaybeecees.etsy.com) and Jean Potter, the girl behind the design, made lovely hand bound (coptic!) planners with cute little hand drawings all the way through.

The other cool feature that made me want it, was that it was already a week into the year, and I was getting bummed at the more days of the planner I was wasting by waiting to buy one. But this planner was set up so you could use it any time. Each page has Sunday-Saturday on it, but you fill in the month and the day yourself.

And she puts in 52 weeks, plus a little extra.

It really is darling and I think I love it already. It arrived last night and I filled in the days, and basically filled up the entire week with things I have to do.

Hopefully now that I have a planner again, I’ll feel more settled into Savannah. Right now, life just feels absolutely insane and crazy.

Oh, and a few days ago, something crazy happened to our kitchen which I documented with iPhone photos as wells as videos.

Expect a story of that soon.

I was thinking…

Last night as I lay in bed I was thinking about something completely useless… the shuffle setting on your iPod.

Now, since I don’t have an iPod anymore, I just have an iPhone, it is VERY easy to set my songs to shuffle or to take it off shuffle. From my iPod days I remember it being a little trickier with the second generation iPod, but i’m pretty sure it’s just as easy to switch now if you have a new version. (At least, the new one I had last year that I destroyed by spilling a cup of water on it was very easy to set to shuffle, repeat, or to play normally.)

But a few weeks ago my brother-in-law was sifting through my music when I was driving and he said, “Oh, so you’re a shuffler.” And I felt like I needed to present an argument to defend myself but also to convince myself that it was OKAY if I put my iPod on shuffle.

My argument is this: if I want to listen to track 10 of 11 first, because it is my favorite and I don’t want to wait to the end, why is it so bad I start it there and put it on shuffle so I don’t have to restart the album again 2 songs later? (And I don’t really like putting the album on repeat because then it’ll just play all day long and that’s bad too. It’s like leaving a DVD on it’s menu. Horrible.)

So my real question is: what is the deal with people either being shufflers or not? Do you put your iPod on shuffle? Why or why not? Do you really, honestly think that putting it on shuffle is ruining the integrity of the album, because if so, I would like to know why.

Haha. That’s all. here’s a photo of my iPod, this morning… on shuffle.

Look at it now!

Since pretty much everywhere in the world seems to be freezing, it was no surprise to see on Eleanor’s facebook that it had snowed like crazy the night before all the students for Winter Quarter got to Lacoste.

Oh my goodness!!! Look how beautiful it is!

It would be crazy to be there this quarter… as pretty as it is…. I think I’m happier in Savannah right now, not freezing 247.

This is the year!

Ever since 2006 when I graduated high school and chose to attend SCAD, I have been saying that 2010 was the year.

It once seemed so far away, but surprisingly, it’s arrived, and it seems like hardly any time has passed at all!

It’s hard to believe that in a matter of months I will be a college graduate! I will have to get a real job!!!

I am so excited about what this year is going to bring. I’ve set goals, and I am very excited about all of them, and about everything I’m seeking to accomplish this year. It’s going to be productive, and amazing.

To end 2009, and to start 2010, we had a masquerade ball at my church, and I ended 2009 and entered 2010 with dancing. It was so fun, and refreshing, because I felt like I hadn’t had a proper dance party since I was in Lacoste! (And I had been very use to having daily dance parities, so it was wonderful to dance again.)

Now I am back in Savannah, and it is strange, but I am settling into everything nicely. It feels strange I haven’t been here in 7 months, but it also feels like I was never even gone. It’s just like when I go home to Orlando after a while, like I wasn’t even gone. I guess places that are considered “home” are just easy to fall back into your normal routine and just go.

I start back at Starbucks on Thursday, I started my internship at Working Class Studio today, I have my first advanced 2 class for Fibers tomorrow, the girls Bible study that meets at my apartment is back up and running on Wednesday (and I am VERY excited about it), and I’ll be back to Canvas and CSF (formerly called “180″) on Sunday.

I am excited for this last 5 months at SCAD and to see what God’s going to do and how he’s going to use me here as things are wrapping up.

It’s going to be a wonderful year.