snow day!

all great snowdays include: minimal homework, many pajamas, much sherlock, and more comfort food.

winter break-ing

here are some photos of the long lost days of winter break.
we started our northern trek in omaha, for new years with some of the greatest people ever. obviously.





after the celebration and the first snow delay, we headed to indiana to eat much breakfast food and watch copious amounts of chuck.
















after multiple more snow delays, the last of which involved a full day of delays in the chicago amtrak station, we flew home. flying is the best. trust me.

two thousand and thirteen.

hello citizens of 2014. hope the year has started well, and you haven't spent unreasonable amounts of time in a train station or anything.
here is a visual recap of the 2013.



in case you're curious, or just bored, here are the past years: 2011 and 2012.

creative endeavors.

let me just start this by saying SWEET FREEDOM! I enjoyed this semester, but I am so glad to have some time away.




these are some of the paintings I finished the semester with.





and here are the last few things I worked on in printmaking. the earth may look familiar because it's a reprint of an image from earlier in the semester. I reworked it a bit and I like it better now.
more importantly though, is my final print of the semester. I had a lot of fun with this one. I mean how can you go wrong with the moon, the best color of blue AND a silver star chart? it just makes me excited to get back to printing in january.

back of the tree material.

I can't seem to get enough of Christmas music, or lights, or trees, or movies right now. maybe it's because the season seems so short this year, but I'm currently psyched 99% of the time. it's a little out of control.
anyways, my family put up the tree last week, and we had this joke about some ornaments being back of the tree material - the ones with nice personalities you know. we just like to keep it real haha. seriously though, Christmas trees are the best.

creative endeavors.

my first go at photolitho. I'm lovin it. on a related note, I switched my BFA emphasis from painting to printmaking. in other words, I left the painters to join the mystical order of printmakers. I am pretty crazy excited.





my paintings as of late. I'm obsessed with these colors. honestly, they're the greatest!



a little souvenir from one of the best concerts ever.

creative endeavors.

just a little peek at some of the things I've been working on. this semester I seem to be exploring a lot of space and geography imagery.

season of the tradition checklist.

time to break the blog silence I suppose.
in the past week we've made commendable progress on our extensive list of fall traditions, and we visited the Nelson again! (the grounds that is. we only had a tuesday to offer and the museum scoffs at tuesday goers and locks the doors. rude)




we spent some quality time at the pumpkin patch eating hot dogs and roasted marshmallows, giant pickles, and whatnot. tasty cider slushies also happened. when sufficiently stuffed for the moment, we picked out our perfect pumpkins with our favorite little pumpkin, then grabbed many apples and headed home for massive amounts of homemade spaghetti and meatballs and cheesecake. naturally.







today, after massive amounts of barbecue etc. and more celebrating, we carved our perfect pumpkins. though some may say we got carried away with the space references on our moon pumpkin, I think it's total perfection. =) we even shared the joy of making stars in the pumpkin with a screwdriver. too much fun.