wool in the washer

nash's brother bailey put his $69.50, 100% lamb's wool, j. crew sweater in the washer tonight... it used to be a men's medium. it's now a child's large. or claire sized.

grade

i made a 94 on my senior show... : )

printmaking sunday

"you make me laugh"

5"x7" etching

2 hours- start to finish

"sitting with brunelleschi and di cambio"

18"x24" lithograph

7 hours- still in progress.

est. 2002

of the eight years i have had this blog, 2003 is so far the one with the most posts: 154.
only 102 more to go to beat it this year.

i have definitely grown over these past eight years- not only in my writing style, but by reading my old posts, i can see myself maturing and becoming who i am.

amazing.

my friend daniel bought an international scout this summer- i am completely jealous.
he took me for a ride today, after a kind of long day, it was the perfect way to relax.
i wish i had a picture of us standing beside it to show how high off the ground it is...

claire watches 101 dalmations

she pretty much stood there like this through the entire movie. she got really close to the tv and really excited when all the dogs started barking.

sad.

i've had these shoes since my freshman year of college. and as i round second base of my second senior year, the evidence of their age is beginning to show. the whole in the bottom of the right shoe is about a pinky nail wide and a nickel long. and the gap between the side and the shoe on the left one is big enough to stick my thumb in long ways... i gotta say, that for a $15 pair of bc shoes... they have served me well. and until they fall off my feet... i will continue to wear them.

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what a weekend.

oh my! this weekend was a whopper! thursday, i spent 13 hours in the gallery so i could have a weekend... friday, i drove to the cabin in batesville to spend time with my family... saturday, i spent the day riding around on the four wheeler, fishing with nash, shooting with dad, chatting with mom, and napping with my big, aaron. then went to visit some friends and their son, casey. sunday was my big day. had the fashion show and gallery opening and i could not have asked for it to have gone better. it was fantastic. the last picture is what i found in class tonight in my bible. we were turning to revelation for our scripture reading and this is where my bible flopped over to... had to take a picture and include it in the blog. it made me giggle.

the first two pictures are of the driveway to the cabin. lots of rain this weekend- so the driveway was a bust. the next is of course, aaron napping. then casey. then my girls in my dresses (and me). the last one i should hope is self explanatory.

this makes me want to cuss.

"He has achieved nothing. He's stumbling. He hasn't achieved any of his promises and nothing is working. He promised to close Guantanamo and now that's not going to happen, and the Arab-Israeli conflict looks like it's going to get very nasty."


"While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' -- my kids get them all the time -- I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard," 


cnn.com