PORTRAITURE FAIL!

... Because picture fails rock my world. Especially if I'm the failer.

"You're too tall! Bend your knees so I can see the sign!"

"Uhhh... ok."

"Oh, now you look like ... cowhands."

Uhh. Yeah. Awesome.

"I can beez mad achoo nowz. i can haz scowlz."

"OOOH! fish! I can haz feeeeeesh!"

Yes. We took Caroline's pictures in

Saudia

Arabia.

hahahahaha

Senior Picture Shoot # 3!

Yesterday I shot my dearie Emily's senior pictures at the Arboretum and Whiterock lake

They were a picture win!

Afterwards? crabcakes and rich dessert at ST Cafe!

And a quick stop by the Janie Christy school of dance, our ballet alma mater! not that we... graduated... or anything. It was so fun to see the tulle skirts and pink hallways again! Brought back those memories, for sure!

when the bee stings

ahhhmazing weekend.

so, i pretty much had the best weekend ever.

i realised a few weeks ago that i hadn't had a free weekend since

AUGUST

and therefore got really excited when i saw this delightful workless rehearsaless planless weekend coming up on the calendar.

i started thinking, what, oh what shall i do with it?

and it was then that i realised. all i really wanted to do was bake.

or more like,

bakeandbakeandbakeandbake

so friday night was my amazing bookgroup, which went on for 6 hours - we always deviate from actual book discussion about an hour or two in, but any conversation with these girls is wonderful. plus they don't judge me when i confess embarrasing things about "sisterhood of the travelling pants". i'm always so uplifted to be around them, its good to be with people who are in the same place in life as you and are going through the same things, facing the same decisions and oh my aren't we all facing some decisions right now!

saturday morning-

BAKING DAY!

catherine and caroline, who are in my bookgroup and also the amazing pride and prejudice cast i'm a part of this season, came over and baked and listened to french music for a while

we made blackberry-apple kuchen, rarebit muffins, chocolate cake, and banana-chocolate muffins

can i make baking my spiritual gift please? =)

as the first step in making baking my spiritual gift, i took a red ridinghood basket over to dan and caitlin

that evening i had the place to myself, so i made a tasty omelette, had some cake and tea, and watched a short movie. it was one of those evenings that makes me feel better about my future. i always worry that i'll turn into a tvdinner girl who scrambles together meals, but the fact that i voluntarily used a dessert fork to eat my cake and took the trouble to put cinnamon on the whipped cream makes me feel a little better about that.

aaaaaand around 9:30 emily and ally decided to do a little spontaneous kidnapping, so they came and stole me away for the night. those girls are awesome.

"lets make crazy faces so they can't see how tired we look!"

i guess i missed the memo... ugh. nice havingaweirdface skills there =/


SO pretty much the best weekend ever. i should feel more rested than i do, but all i've felt like doing all week is hibernate. its awful. i think it's the weather, cold dreary grey weather isn't exactly energizing weather. hope you had a grand weekend too!

spanish moss, indeed. oh ho ho ho how funny you are.

look at these rather delightful trees!



they gave me some great ideas for my next picture book. or should i say the one after next, because whenever i try to sit down and sketch for this one the drawings turn into something completely different. i've finally decided to just go with what they're turning into and hold off on my current plans until later.

monolog asked if that was spanish moss... but sorry, i dropped out of random knowledge of fungii university.

...

i've looked up spanish moss now, and that certainly looks like spanish moss.

Civil War Ball

I've finally got my pictures from the ball last weekend edited and pretty!

I know I danced one of those polkas, but I don't remember the fellers' name and we stepped in late so he hadn't written it in my dance card (above). That is one of the disadvantages of meeting so many people in one night!

"i weel have my glory day een the hot sun"

caroline, sarah and me

all in all a magical evening! the next morning we sat around the warm oven at the Browns and talked over the ball just like they would have done then, it was so fun!

we're nice people, really

A few weeks ago Sister Spud was here doing homework (she had come for dinner but stayed late in hopes of a brownie or two), and she was terribly terribly busy. Some people came over who she didn't have time to talk to (really. no time. she didn't even have time to talk to me)...

...so she hid under the table.



ah, i see we're taking the mature road. ok then.



they never knew she was there. it was awesome. i slid the camera under the table and this is the wonder i got:

deelightful.

i heart snow

even when it freezes my nose

even when it makes me slip and fall

even when it gets in my boots and feels weird

even when it slides off the roof onto my head and down my neck.. yeeeeeekkk!

Snow Day!

Well. Ok. Not really.
For some reason classes weren't cancelled today, despite the
SIX INCHES OF SNOW!!

After class we all went out into the huge snowy field and built snowmen!

Two snowmen, to be precise.


Actually... to be precise, a Snow-Pope and a Snow-Luther.


Yes.


I know.

Somehow we wound up taking teams, and Summer and I took the side of Pope Snowius III (because his name was so awesome)... and Snowius and Luther started an inevitable argument...

Seriously? You thought Snow-Luther and Snow-Pope could be in the same field together? no no no

Here's how it went:


Snow-Luther: Heyyy Snowius, you've got a huge bootie! (he did by the way... we could both stand on it) Oh and by the way I've got a hammer and some nails!
Snow-Pope: You get yosef away from my church doors! VANDALISM!!
Snow-Luther: Whatcha gonna do, hit me in the head with your potpourri holder?
Snow-Pope: Get back here Wormface! I send my legions afta you!

at which point Summer and I, being the Papal legions, tackled Snow-Luther, yelling "Counter-reformation in yo face, Lutha!"


If you have never tackled a snowman, you MUST. At some point in your life. It is one of the most rewarding experiences ever.

Also one of the dampest experiences ever... we were completely soaked afterwards. Brr!


After that the Reformation Minions tackled Pope Snowius III and the church leaders turned into snowforts for the massive 40 person snowball fight that ensued. It was pretty amazing.

Yet another of those amazing moments that would probably only happen with homeschoolers.

Grace PBC Meeting, or, the inaugeral assemblage of the Tartarians.

seriously, could our faces be any more different? haha

So after church on Friday night, the 5 of us for many strange reasons compounded decided to hang out in the car until about midnight... in the freezing cold. We formed a club, based on our mutual love of tartar sauce.

Or something.

Best club quote?

matt: "they should make a movie about us"

logan: "yeah... like... Avatartar!"

me: "or tartarzan"

yourfacesarecreepingmeout fail!

wow. seriously? creepiest faces of the whole weekend, and there were some pretty creepy faces.

Ok, well thats just hilarious. I just noticed the Von Trapp family hands. Nice one.

jackson part 2 - 01/30/10

weird cheesy chip face there...

is it just me, or could matt and elizabeth SO be twins in this picture?

sacred harp time, yo! and yes, i AM wearing granny socks over tights with sneakers, your eyes do not deceive you. it was awesome and my legs were not cold.