Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Baby James
This is my friends baby... I took these almost a year ago, but I decided to add them to my "online gallery".
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Art
Some of you know that I graduated from BYU in art. But most people are surprised when they find out that I love art, can do art, etc... because I'm not crafty or the artist type that dresses in cheap but fun clothes... My favorites are stonework, bronze casting and painting. I honestly don't have very many pictures of my work... I should go around and take some now that I have a good digital camera to take them with. But here are some samples of what I've done. Other things that I don't have pictures of but that I've done are lithography, watercolor, oil painting, clay, broze, plaster, digital art, photography, etc...
"Jake" 2004 digital watercolor
"Flowers" 2005 watercolor (bad picture but I didn't want to take it out of the frame to take the picture.)
"Zanzibar" 2005 watercolor
Me defending my final projects 2006
Me oil painting while Jer read to me 2005
This one isn't mine... a classmate did it and I thought it was hilarious! The tv still worked too so it would show static if he plugged it in.
Shameful hair facts
In a world that you can't step out the door without your hair done and your makeup on... here are some shameful facts about my own hair/makeup habits.
1. I have never owned nor had the desire to own a hair dryer, flat iron, or curling iron.
2. I have only ever had highlights done in my hair once... and that was because the lady owed me money.
3. I have never owned makeup other than mascara, eyeshadow and lipstick.
4. I only wear makeup about once every couple of months.
5. I've had the same lipstick for 5 years now and I've had to through away my last two things of mascara while they were mostly full because I had each of them so long that they started growing things in them that made my eyes start itching.
6. Most of my eyeshadow was inherited from my older sister as she gets tired of them.
7. I had a perm once and one side didn't take and so the one side of my hair was flat while the other was rather fluffy.
8. The only times that I have used base and rouge were during plays that they had someone doing my makeup and for my wedding for which I also had someone else do my makeup.
9. I've never plucked my eyebrows to shape them... only to get the stray hairs in between on the bridge of my nose.
10. The only reason that my toe nails ever get painted is because my sister paints them sometimes when she comes down to visit and my 11 year old neighbor started a "nails and massage" business and I can never turn away child businessmen/women.
Now that you have more information about my personal hygiene than you ever would want... please don't think too badly of me.
1. I have never owned nor had the desire to own a hair dryer, flat iron, or curling iron.
2. I have only ever had highlights done in my hair once... and that was because the lady owed me money.
3. I have never owned makeup other than mascara, eyeshadow and lipstick.
4. I only wear makeup about once every couple of months.
5. I've had the same lipstick for 5 years now and I've had to through away my last two things of mascara while they were mostly full because I had each of them so long that they started growing things in them that made my eyes start itching.
6. Most of my eyeshadow was inherited from my older sister as she gets tired of them.
7. I had a perm once and one side didn't take and so the one side of my hair was flat while the other was rather fluffy.
8. The only times that I have used base and rouge were during plays that they had someone doing my makeup and for my wedding for which I also had someone else do my makeup.
9. I've never plucked my eyebrows to shape them... only to get the stray hairs in between on the bridge of my nose.
10. The only reason that my toe nails ever get painted is because my sister paints them sometimes when she comes down to visit and my 11 year old neighbor started a "nails and massage" business and I can never turn away child businessmen/women.
Now that you have more information about my personal hygiene than you ever would want... please don't think too badly of me.
Music and Ada
I teach piano lessons all Tuesday afternoon... so it puts me in the music mindframe... as well as Ada. Not to mention that her favorite and almost exclusive tv watching is Little Einsteins which is based around music. But here are a few of the things that this 2 1/2 year old does. She can keep a rythm. She can show you the A and the C keys on the piano. She'll clap out timings (not always correctly, but it's cute to watch... she picks up my flash cards, finds the ones for timing and starts clapping.) She sings and will follow along in a book as long as it has music. She tells me which songs go "quickly". She plays the piano, pauses to stand up, turns the page, sits down and keeps playing. She's started taking sticks and conducting. She makes me sing loud and soft by making her hands higher and lower. But my favorite is... we were eating at a Chinese restaurant and she found some chopsticks. She put one up to her chin like and violin and the other she used as a bow and started bowing back and forth saying, "Look mom! I'm playing the violin!" Cute! (I think she got this from playing the violin with my mom the other day. My mom was brave and even let Ada hold the bow pretty much by herself til she got a little wild with the bowing... ) I think I need to start thinking about what kind of music lessons she might like and whether or not I'm brave enough to teach her piano or beginning cello/violin. I think she's really young for all that, but she sure enjoys it enough to start considering it.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Just a post cause I want too...
Well, since I use this as more of my journal and less of a "for everyone"... (I doubt that more than 10 people ever really read this)... I've decided to try to post more often. I'm sorry to those that get this by email, and if you want me to take you off my email list, please let me know and I will. I just figure... I enjoy blogging so much and it's fun to read back through everything in the last two years and I'm so glad that I wrote down things from my kids, etc...
Today we played Candyland. I know... the box says 3+ on it, but when do I read boxes and Ada is my "game girl" anyways... we play Uno, Memory, Candyland, Mancala (though she doesn't quite get the rules on this one... but she asks for it all the time because of the marbles), and anything that I don't care if she gets distracted from or that Sammy might lose pieces from. She also likes to decorate Darby's room on the Disney Playhouse website and play one of those freebie games that they used to give out in cereal boxes... this one stars Nemo and was given to us by my parents. When we bought Candyland I had given her the option of that one or another one that said it was for 2+... Ada choose Candyland because of the Queen Frostine lady on the box... it's really funny because she was the reason that I liked that one growing up... hmmm. Is she a girl? Yesterday we went walking with our Haitian neighbor. I love her to death, but she makes me feel guilty sometimes that I'm not as open and giving as her. You have to be careful with compliments because she'll just give you whatever you just complimented... We helped them move in while Ada was only a couple months old and she considers herself a second mom to her. The only real "giving" we've done for them outside of church is giving them a loaf of Jer's homemade yummy bread. But she's given Ada toys, clothes and us fruit and me a skirt and shirt from her daughter's desiging line called Mikarose. She also made us a Haitian dinner (we did bring dessert to that one though). I think I'll have to do something special for her... but I don't know what. I tried to cut Sammy's hair. Nothing too drastic, but just enough so that he doesn't have a rats tail and you can see his ears. I'm starting to get okay with simple haircuts, but I'm definitely not a hairsylist...I'm thinking I'll have Mesh cut both my kids hair when she cuts mine. That'll be different for all of us, but I trust Mesh. It seems like everything she touches turns out cute. The big question will be my hair! AHH! Right now it's past my waist and I've had long hair for about 15 years... with a brief short hair cut while Janelle and I lived in Kenya... I'm fatter now and I'm not sure that short hair will look good on me... but it takes me almost 10 minutes to comb my hair out and all day for it to dry... not to mention the fact that Ada likes to comb it (ouch!) and that Sammy likes to yank on it. Oh well... we'll see what Mesh comes up with.
Today we played Candyland. I know... the box says 3+ on it, but when do I read boxes and Ada is my "game girl" anyways... we play Uno, Memory, Candyland, Mancala (though she doesn't quite get the rules on this one... but she asks for it all the time because of the marbles), and anything that I don't care if she gets distracted from or that Sammy might lose pieces from. She also likes to decorate Darby's room on the Disney Playhouse website and play one of those freebie games that they used to give out in cereal boxes... this one stars Nemo and was given to us by my parents. When we bought Candyland I had given her the option of that one or another one that said it was for 2+... Ada choose Candyland because of the Queen Frostine lady on the box... it's really funny because she was the reason that I liked that one growing up... hmmm. Is she a girl? Yesterday we went walking with our Haitian neighbor. I love her to death, but she makes me feel guilty sometimes that I'm not as open and giving as her. You have to be careful with compliments because she'll just give you whatever you just complimented... We helped them move in while Ada was only a couple months old and she considers herself a second mom to her. The only real "giving" we've done for them outside of church is giving them a loaf of Jer's homemade yummy bread. But she's given Ada toys, clothes and us fruit and me a skirt and shirt from her daughter's desiging line called Mikarose. She also made us a Haitian dinner (we did bring dessert to that one though). I think I'll have to do something special for her... but I don't know what. I tried to cut Sammy's hair. Nothing too drastic, but just enough so that he doesn't have a rats tail and you can see his ears. I'm starting to get okay with simple haircuts, but I'm definitely not a hairsylist...I'm thinking I'll have Mesh cut both my kids hair when she cuts mine. That'll be different for all of us, but I trust Mesh. It seems like everything she touches turns out cute. The big question will be my hair! AHH! Right now it's past my waist and I've had long hair for about 15 years... with a brief short hair cut while Janelle and I lived in Kenya... I'm fatter now and I'm not sure that short hair will look good on me... but it takes me almost 10 minutes to comb my hair out and all day for it to dry... not to mention the fact that Ada likes to comb it (ouch!) and that Sammy likes to yank on it. Oh well... we'll see what Mesh comes up with.
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