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New Template::: New Website!

So I just updated my template here and SOON I will have a new, legit, website made my the wonderful Gretchen Farwell! So excited! Stay tuned for more news

::: Today :::

So I am blogging on my phone today. Fun!

Plans for today:
Baking Scones
Laundry
Putting away said Laundry
Ordering the Wedding Album I made on Blurb.com
Getting images printed to hang on the wall
Eating delicious leftovers

Hooray!

::: A Preview :::

So….I am back to blogging Planning a wedding, trying to make it through the school year and other craziness took my blogging time down to nil. But now I am back baby!

I am going to do a blog post on my house and how I have decorated and set it up, but I haven’t taken the pictures yet. I do have  few however, and of course they contain succulents, my favorite plants!

{{{{{{{{{{{{ Thankful }}}}}}}}}}}}}

I have a lot of things to be thankful for. Some are profound, some are silly sounding, but all are very sincere…..

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God. Not just the gifts and blessings He gives us although they may be wonderful, no, the person Himself. What an awesome thing that the God who created a universe trillions upon trillions of light years long cares about our hearts and what we do with our lives. That that person loves ME is….incredible. Incredible being the understatement of the millennium. I truly cannot say enough about my Savior, so I will leave it at that

Tim. My soon-to-be-husband. It never ceases to amaze me how deeply I love this man, and that God placed us together at the right place, the right time. He is truly my favorite person on this earth, and I am blessed continuously by the privilege it is to love and be loved by him.

My families. Yes, I have two now Of course I love my family, my sister, mom, dad, and two grandmas. They are a constant support, source of inspiration, love, compassion, generosity, honesty and laughter. I would not be the person I am today without them, and I love them all very much. But through Tim, I also have another family, a family I have grown to love very, very much. I am also profoundly thankful for them for their joy, their love, their support, their generosity, their kindness and yes, their laughter too.

My church families. This also includes friends who attend the same churches I do. I attend Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Anaheim and Bethany Bible Fellowship. These families continuously amaze me with their love and support. Why just last night when I wasn’t feeling well, I had people offering to pray for me and get me anything I needed. People who don’t even know me that well. I see the love and Spirit of Christ in both of these church bodies and my spirit is always lifted with joy when I am there.

My dearest friends. This includes people I know from school, people I have met through various jobs, people I have known almost my entire life. I am overwhelmed many times by their joy, compassion and all the fullness they bring to my life. I love them all.

My studio/house. It is really hard to have a grandmother with Alzheimer’s. I pray for her often, but know that the disease is not something to be reversed But through her illness, she has given me (and Tim) a profound gift ::: a place to live. For the past year, her house has been my studio and it has been a very gracious host to my art practice. However in six months, it will also be my new home, my first place of residence apart from my childhood home, my place of many new beginnings. I am so profoundly thankful for it.

My pain. Wow. Yup, when I really think about it, in so many ways I am thankful for it. Thankful that is pushes me to rely more on God than I would on my own. Thankful that it causes me to let go of some of my pride, and ask for help. Of course I am not thankful or happy about the control it sometimes holds over my life, but I am thankful that through it, I am learning.

There are lots more little things————- possessions, objects, little things. But these are the “biggies” the ones that are weighing on my mind as I reflect in this season of thanks.

—- Hi!! —-

To my Art History Students: HI! I hope you like what you see

To everyone: A picture I drew, scanned in and vecorized::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I just started teaching at a wonderful school: Arborland Montessori School and I am the primary Art teacher at their Valencia Ave. Fullerton, CA location. It was a very exciting first week. Not only because I met all those students for the first time, but because I got to teach the same exact lesson. SIX times. Wow. By the end of the week, I was getting a little tired, even of my own curriculum. What I was not tired of, was talking about what I had drawn for my class example. See, the lesson was to draw a family portrait. And since he (and his family!) will soon become my family, I drew Tim in my family portrait. And let me say, he has never looked better

~~~ In case ~~~

…You don’t stalk me on Facebook, here is what I did (with Tim‘s help) when I went camping at the beach.

Yup. Art Nerd alert.

** GAH **

I haven’t been able to paint for almost two months because of construction at our house which limited my access to power tools as well as lack of funding to buy the supplies I need. I miss painting so very much. I miss the way my fingers and nails were stained with various hues of pigment. I miss accidentally stepping in a paint puddle with fresh socks on. I miss watching the paint swirl on the canvas as it mixes with another color. I miss evicting myself from my studio as I unable to breath because of the spraypaint fumes, I miss spraying paint into a puddle of poured pigment and watching the two fight against one another. I miss the quiet time I have to myself, just to be with and think about color. Once I gain some funding and clear out some space for the power tools I will get to work once again. I greatly look forward to that day

////Oragami!////

So my dear friend Anna has recently gotten me in to Oragami! Through YouTube, I taught myself how to make cranes. Now, according to Tim, there are superior cranes that when made, can flap, but I have yet to find how to make these. For now, these will suffice. Once I find something that I like to do, I really go to town on it, and after learning how to make the cranes, I made, like, 100 of them. Yup.

——– New Paintings!!! ——–

Some new paintings to showcase to you all!