Tuesday, April 28, 2009
So This is College...
Saturday, April 25, 2009
So This is College...
I know this isn't attractive, but it's a good example of how unfamiliar I am with Waffle House culture. I ordered a water with lemon. My friends make fun of me a good bit because my inflection is pretty distinct compared to their little southern twangs, so they were all over this. Oh well. The waitress got a good laugh out of it and they explained to her that I was "visiting from Colorado." Four year visit, huh? I've kind of overstayed my welcome.
Sweet little Joya in her adorable top. Need one of those. Thanks for treating, Joya! By the way, you can see we chose the best seat in the house...right by the bathroom. Pretty classy place.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Charleston
I love modillions more than anyone else you know, I promise. So glad that people had such a dedication to the craft that they could do this without machinery! Usually in this style, you see white woodwork with red brick. I appreciated the fresh interpretation in Charleston of bold colors with stark white. Beautiful.
This picture doesn't do a great job, but this door was a bright, red-orange. I love the classicism of the architecture juxtaposed with such a vibrant colored door.
The iron work in Charleston was exquisite. I love it all. And, I loved the putty color of this gate.Questions, Answered
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Gallery Opening!
Ms. Martin and I in front of my wall.
Earlier today we had our senior reviews, where we give a 20 minute presentation to the art and interior design faculty and are critiqued for 10 minutes. It went really well and I think everybody did great. It was hilarious when Erin lost her train of thought and said "I'm sorry, I'm just having a brain, uh, a brain toot." It's like she cleaned it up for the jury. Hilarious. We gave her quite a bit of grief for that for the rest of the day. :) Scratch that. Rest of her life. I might post more pictures of this later.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Elise
Look at her sweet face! I can't wait to meet her.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Three Nails
And He passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfullness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin." Exodus 34:5-6b
Above all, fear the LORD and worship Him faithfully with all your heart, considering the great things He has done for you. 1 Samuel 12:24 (emphasis mine)
Monday, April 6, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
She's Here!
Betsy looked quite a bit like this herself as a baby...lucky girl, good genes!
The new family!
Please Pray!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Small Victory
If you hate it, sorry. It looks kind of circus-ey to me, but it's one of those things where you just spec paint colors and you choose walls arbitrarily and then you draw it out and you think...I wish I would have ordered more neutral paint samples. :) Anywho, I like to think it would look good in real life. I designed the bed/bedside tables myself.
This thing represents a small victory because this is the only perspective that I have not cried over! This is not the area of interior design that I excel in. My sophomore year, I had to be enrolled in what was effectively 25 hours of design courses (design courses meet for double the number of hours you register for). It was awful. I literally slept less than 5 hours a night for the entire semester and I would lay in bed and mentally draw a set of construction drawings in my head because I could not sleep. So one weekend, I was going into crunch time on a project. I still needed to draw and render (color with depth and shadow) a perspective. For the life of me I could not get it to look right. I figured out I was maybe drawing it too small, so, after 7 hours of struggling with it, I went to the library to blow up my plan so I could draw it bigger. While I was in the library, it hit me...this project was not going to get done. There was no way. So, I wept my eyes out, right there in public. The librarian came up to me and hugged me. I still cannot look at her. :) Needless to say, that project did get done and now, I'm maybe even a little sad that the projects are over. Sigh.