Another weekend.

Again, I've tried to make my weekend as productive as possible. I spend the week being busy and I often can't wait until its the weekend. I guess is not the sleeping in and laziness I look forward to, but having time to re organize my life and get geared up for the next week.

I spent the entirety of today cleaning up my room. I gave up when I wasn't quite finished, as I felt the need to be social. I'll probably finish up tomorrow morning. I may yet make some blondies, but I don't have all the ingredients right now, but am perusing the substitution options.

Tomorrow the plan is to cook some pancakes (freezing lots for breakfasts this week), some more cleaning and babysitting in the afternoon. I suppose I should do homework somewhere in there too. :P

Anyways,

I hope you've been enjoying your weekend,

~Mer

Hello Stickpad.

Today is a day of productivity. I just need to find a way to counter waking up at 11:30. I don't particularly like sleeping in on weekends, feels like I've wasted the day.

Today's main events will be:

Babysitting

Giving a friend a hair cut.

Homework

Cleaning the apt.

Also planing out some awesome looks to go along with my new boots!

Anyways, more to come,

~Mer.

I feel silly adding to this blog, when I could just start a new one and not have to admit that I have those sporadic posts from the past. But oh well. I never did finish that key wristband. I started it. Never finished. It also doesn't help that I seem to find myself without a camera right now. I'm hoping to fix that soon.

I heard an interesting description about myself the other day. I was described as "Frighteningly talented." It wasn't to my face, but told to my roommate who repeated it to me.

In most things concerning design/art/theater I do try to over achieve and impress, so I guess its working! I worked especially hard last term in my "Elements of Design" class, as it was the required introduction to design class, and I wanted to stand out of the crowed as someone actually majoring in design. Once again, it worked! I was asked to design one of the sets for the following school year (this coming spring term, yikes!) and more or less fast tracked through the design sequence.

So, I'd say "Frighteningly talented" fits me well enough.

:)

~Mer.

Lack of Keys

One problem I've been encountering a fair amount this month is forgetting my keys. Since hooking my keys to my belt loop with a carabiner isn't quite cutting it, I've decided i need to make myself a wrist cuff to tuck my room key inside of. I stumbled upon this tutorial for one (literally, stumbleupon.com) and think I'll take the basic idea from it, though its a pretty simple idea. I'll probably replace the velcro with buttons. And maybe just a flap instead of a zipper.

I'll post pictures of the process and final product when I'm done. :)

Back again.

Over a year later. I'm going to try this blogging again. As far as the last post goes, I'm currently in my Freshmen year at Southern Oregon University studying theater with a minor in visual art.

With once again starting this blog I'm hoping to focus on my crafty, sewing, artsy adventures, which I've been doing a fair amount of during my first month of college. So enjoy. ^.^

Fancy Meeting You Here.

So it has been a while.
A bit under a year in fact.
But I'm back.


It is the summer again, and being as I am not working, I am supposed to be focused on finding myself and preparing for the future. Though I've not gotten that far on that. perhaps with a little though focusing, I can accomplish that.

My latest art inspiration has been the though of cardboard boxes, painted white with some sort of house paint. Then I shall place a weight inside, and sharpie on top *attached to a string, for safety* and place it in various places about town. Most likely will be some of the local coffee shops where frequent the artistic types.


As goes my life, I am getting ready to enter my senior year of high school, and I am daunted with the decision of choosing a college. Let me give you my thoughts on some of my prospective choices..


Cornish: Located in Seattle, Washington. I would enjoy this college because it has both a good art community and a thriving theater. I would be very happy to major in visual arts with a minor in technical theatre. I do enjoy the city of Seattle, however I shall be visiting next weekend and shall give you my better opinion. I have not visited Seattle in a few years.

Pasific North West College of Art: Located in Portland, Oregon. This college is a bit closer to home. Around a two hour drive. Not that I drive. :p But oh well. Clearly they fit the art description, However other then that, I do not know much about it. I shall visit soon, and tell you more.

Oregon College of Art and Craft: Location, Portland, 0regon. Again, closer location. I visited a few months past and enjoyed the atmosphere immensely. It is much smaller, around 200 students. The campus is quite foresty and had a wonderful collection of buildings. Two down sides would be that there is no theatre program, however they do have connections to other colleges that I could take classes at. Secondly, they do not have many 'out of high school' students, meaning I would not have a great amount of people my own age with which to bond. However in the past, I've learned thats not always necessary. =] I was very taken with their curriculum. Their focus is entirly on art. In your four years there, you take four classes not directly related to art. These are classes such as history *art history*, math *artistic geometry* and english *describing art in writing*. I would find this structure an amazing relief to my coming four years.

Southern Oregon University: Located in Ashland, Oregon. This college is known for their theatre, which poses good and bad bits for me. I would still be focused on art, and a minor degree in theatre, however I wonder if it would be difficult to get a good theatre experience where everyone is so competitive there. Financialy, this is the most logical choice. I quite like the town of Ashland, and have a good amount of friends who are currently attending SOU.


University Of Oregon: Location, Eugene, Oregon. I have always known of this college, being as it is the closest other then the college town I live in currently. The city is know for their thriving art community and I do believe I could recieve a good art education here. They are also the financially logical choice, being a state college and costing around 5,000 as apposed to 40,000 that non state colleges cost. I hope to tour this college in the near future.


Well, thoes thoughts were nice to get out onto... blog.

~Mer.

Becoming Re Inspired

With work ending, school starting, and vacation being taken, I've really not been up to enough art. Today I jumped right in when I got home from class. My first project was one I began a week ago but never got any further on.

My first step in this project was to talk a large *maybe 5x2 foot* canvas and to pour/dump/splater paint onto. My goal was for it to look like some bizarre spill. For this I used some old house paint because I really wanted to be able to dump as much as I wanted onto this canvas. So thats the part i got done a week ago, but it took a few days to dry being as the paint was pooled on so thick.

Today I brought it inside and began painting over the house paint. I began at the bottem of the canvas with red paint. My goal is to work my way up moving through red, orange, yellow and finaly ending in white. I am only painting the color onto the house paint area, so it will give an apperance of spilled ranibow of colors *almost*. The background I'm leaving the white of the canvas, but I might need to go back and touch up some edges. I'll post pictures when I'm a bit more compleat, and a bit less lazy.


Next project I started was a plushie, because I really hadn't done any in a couple months. I chose four fabrics. Light blue, a mossy green and a burgundy felt, and then a white fabric with a small flowers colored mossy green and burgundy. The front and back of the plushie will be the blue and flowerd fabric, while the inside of the ears and the nose will be the green and burgundy. Today all I go to was cutting out the body and got maybe 1/4 of the way around sewing the edges. If I've got time I hope to finnish the body tomorrow, and maybe begin the face. It is really a genaric plushie, though it does have cat ears. Tomorrow is my friend Gillian's birthday party and if I finish I may give it to her as a gift. But of course I'll take a picture first to put here.


My last artistic venture of the day included photography. I've always been intrigued by moving some sort of light in a dark background with a long exposure time so that you get a neon sort of drawing/shape/writing. I read a few HOW TOs online and thought I had it all figured out. However when I was testing it out, I could only manage a few squiggles. Mind you they were wonderful squiggles, but not really my goal. I was really just experimenting and didn't have my exposure all figured out yet, but later I'll figure it out. I did however get some good photos of a blurred lamp. If I feel so inclined later I'll put a few up.


So happy noting.
<# Merr.