art in my heart

This semester I have finally learned how to oil paint. I had an oil painting class before but it was frustrating and my teacher didn't teach squat. So I have been grateful to have that prayer answered this semester by a wonderful teacher. I'm in an advanced painting class which my teacher realized the first day none of us were very experienced and had only done 3-10 oil paintings, making us very inexperienced! SO he changed the whole curriculum and assigned us to paint 20 paintings of mason jars. Throughout this whole thing he taught us different techniques etc...and now I am best friends with my mason jar. I've had to stare at it for many hours.

We've all improved drastically and on Dec. 3rd we are having a show in a gallery to exhibit all the beautiful jar paintings. Each will sell for ten bucks eat and the money will be donated to different charities and food banks around utah. We have 322 jar paintings so if each one sells that's 3200 bucks made for charity. I think that's awesome. I'll post later my first awful painting compared to my later ones. I'll have to scan them first but this is our flyer:

art busy-ness

hey ya'll, I just posted an art assignment up on my art blog so please go check it out and let me know what your reaction is. It's for a project I'm doing =) thanks! love you!

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happy birthday david chinn!

modeling his new backpack ( i made him)

Yesterday was my dear husband's birthday. He got breakfast in bed, presents, dinner, a visit from jessi, todd and kristi, and the day to be his own master. I got him a new backpack which is flipping awesome if I do say so myself. He's 23 years old now so we'll be the same age for a few more months. I love him SO much, he is so patient and understanding when I do stupid things like get our car towed from parking in a red zone. He's also the smartest, most honest, handsome man I know. I love to see him with our nursery kids that say funny things and have stinky diapers, he knows how to make them happy. I am grateful he agreed to spend eternity with me. Here's to you my special birthday boy.

happy yellowstone day

The weekend of halloween we skipped out of town and drove to yellowstone which is only about 5 1/2 hours from here. Most of the park was closed because of black ice on the roads but we were able to see old faithful, boiling mud pots, lots of steaming gysers, elk and lots of other cool stuff! Halloween night we hung out in our hotel in rexburg and watched the longhorn game on CABLE! in our apartment here we have "cougar cable" we basically means no cable ha. It's local news channels, food network, tbs, and like 25 different language channels including japanese, russian, french, german, whatever you want! We don't time to watch tv anyway but david misses ESPN, Versus, FSN, and those that allow him to watch longhorn games. But we survive =) Anyhow it was nice to get away for the weekend and have some fun.

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