typing one handed

i'm typing this one handed because the other arm is occupied holding my nef-ew. (ahahaha, get it?)
see?


as this is rather difficult, i will be done for now.

Art Camp is OVER! ...

... until next week, that is. But it is nice to not have to worry about it for the next couple days because it has been quite the project. I knew beforehand that it was going to be a big projcet, but before I knew and now I know, you know?

Its been a bit more of a project than I was planning on because... I'm an aunt now! Mom went off to be Grandma, so I'm here being mom. Being mom AND art teacher both can be a bit crazy... but I'm still alive ;).

Caleb Michael Nef was born June 11, 2008, 5:30 pm. He was 6 pounds 14 ounces (ish? less sure of this one) and... isn't he absolutely darling?



Proud momma


Open eyes


And... lets see if this actually works... a video!

Kids art projects

Today was officially the first day of doing art projects with little kids. Six of them (Little Kids, not art projects).

It was fun. And hectic. I think I got the timing about right, though... if I wanted the kids to sit and paint much longer than they did I think there would have been a mutiny. As it was, however, they were pretty well behaved, and payed attention up until the last little bit. Tomorrow I think I'll want to make the opening activity take a bit longer... that should help.

But now I'd like some food (I had cereal for breakfast and a bagel for lunch and thats about all I ate today... I'm bad at remembering to eat when I'm busy). And then I need to call my art teacher so I can drive her some herbs... then I think I'm going to go down to bed to just sit and read.

Its me.

Its me.
Well, since I already had a blogger account, it seemed just as well to start a real blog to go along with my art blog, which I don't exactly plan to use as a 'blog' anyway... just a place to put art.But what else to say? I could do some little 'about me' type thing, but I'm pretty sure that the only people that will be reading my blog are people that already know me anyway... so I'll just dive into it.

Haven't been reading much new stuff lately, but I did finally get another (very small!) bookshelf in my room so all my books are ON SHELVES, and not double stacked or anything! It gives me much happiness to be able to lay down and bed and see my beautiful books, all in a row. But, I do think that a trip to the library will be necessary in the near future.Been cooking alot lately, desserts and dinners mostly. Mom likes it because it frees her up to do her trip planning, but she's not so happy that I'm less good about cleaning up afterward. But most of the cleaning is part of kitchen jobs, why should I clean what my siblings are supposed to? ;)

Been painting alot these last few days! It was alot of fun. :) We went to Moab this past weekend, and mom took alot of pictures of flowers (with a bit of help from me. But not much. She sure did like those flowers. :) So I chose a couple of the flower pictures I liked and started paintings of them! The first cooperated very nicely, and I had it nearly finished in one night. I'm not quite happy with it though... I think its the background. (Backgrounds: the bane of my artistic existence!) I started a couple more flower pictures, both much bigger, that will take me awhile longer to finish. One of them I don't quite like where the flower decided to put itself on the canvas... I might have to start it again. But such is life, eh?

This is one of the flower pictures I'm doing a painting of. This flower is actually in our garden, not in Moab. Pictures of the actual paintings... later.



Some pictures from the Moab trip:

You'll see some of the cool scenery we saw on our hikes, the awesome music park we went to, and a couple other pictures I liked :) Enjoy!


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