5 posts tagged “art”

I'm having a great week so far, starting with the farmer's market I already wrote about.

The day before yesterday my friend Jesse came over and we had a "pony day". We started customizing a few My Little Ponies and had a lot of fun just hanging out. She's working on a green man/nature spirit pony with lots of sculpted bits and I started on a Spiderman pony. Hehe, the new ponies have a magnet in one of their front hooves so you can stick them to things like lamps, the refridgerator, wall studs, etc. so I thought it'd be a lot of fun to paint on up like Spiderman and stick it to things. I also have a hippogryph still in the works. We're planning on getting together again this weekendto work on them some more.

The kid keepers program that I work with at the zoo is going great too. I'm having alot of fun. Yesterday was fantastic. Some of them are really into it and are doing a great job. Some of them are just really high energy and get distracted easily but I haven't really had any problems yet.

My inlaws are coming up on Sunday for a visit too. I love Mike's parents...they are really great people so I'm looking forward to them coming to visit (and to not driving 7 hours each way to go visit them!)

Ohhhhhhhh, dinner was sooooooooo goooooood! I went to the farmer's market today on accident. I'd gone to old town to hit up the knittery and check out the new fibers they've started getting (oh my god *drooooool* They've started carrying fibers for spinning and whatnot...things like bamboo and merino and silk and pretty blended colors! I'm so excited! They'll also be starting classes on spinning and stuff and even have wheels for people to use in the store!) and I saw that the farmer's market was going on! So I stopped over and picked up some golden beets I'm going to play with, a couple of organic peaches, lemon cukes, green beans, summer squash, and zucchini. I also got a little bunch of wonderful lavendar that just smells terrific!
So, for dinner we had green beans sauteed with garlic and olive oil, summer squash and zucchini with stewed tomatoes and onion, and leftover pulled pork we made 2 nights ago with a local BBQ sauce (sweet and SPICY!) and it was all fantastic! I love local stuff.

And now...off to art with some friends!

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Sassafras, a local baby/toddler store, is letting me hang my art for October's and November's Arts Alive. I spazzed a few times and contemplated pulling out, but I managed to get everything together... of course, in true Jenni fashion this included finishing up the last few pieces and framing everything the night before. Mike went and hung everything the morning of while I was at work (Saturday). Arts Alive was fun. There was a lot of great music going on outside and the sunset was really pretty. I was expecting some of the Humfurs to stop by but they never made it. :( Turns out that they went out to dinner beforehand and it took forever to get their bill (like, 45 minutes of waiting) so they missed it. Oh well, I did get alot of compliments on my stuff though.

Afterwards, I went over to Dreamy's (et al) house. Mike went home and went to bed; he was pooped out. At Dreamous's I was fed yummy spring rolls and cream cheese fried wanton thingies that Woofy and Alf made and chocolate expresso cake courtesy of the wonderful Dreamous. (Mike took me out to lunch at Los Bagels earlier too and I got a Grampa Goren, sooo good...it was a really good food day all around!). That cake wired me though...I didn't get to sleep until almost 3am, and I had work the next morning.

Rather than posting a whole flood of photos I'll just direct people to HERE.

Yay!

Squeee! I finished my first Copic piece last night (and got a good way into another)! It came out so frickin' cute I can't believe it. I think I'm getting the hang of the markers...it's bleeding a whole lot less. I think the bleeding was because I was saturating the paper too much when I was trying to blend. I love how quick the markers are...that one I finished last night would have taken me 10 times as long in pencil.

I've been renting Star Trek:TNG from the library to watch while I'm arting...oh how I love it ^_^ It's my favorite Star Trek series. I'm very tempted to buy the boxed seasons that are at Costco right now. There's the original series as well as TNG there *grabby hands*

alright, well I should be getting back to work now...I'm home on my lunch hour.