the monthly update November 21, 2008

my sis made this cute beanie for me!

I have noticed its been about once a month that I write my blog updates ,so… here it is here for the month of Nov.

little celery i almost gave up on

It’s been a busy month.  This past weekend I helped my professor frame all my prints that I will be submitting to the museum for my sr show.  They look really great all prof and matted and framed.  So strange because I feel as though I’ve always been watching other people do this, and now it is my turn.  I remember my freshmen year as an art major in CA.  I called home crying multiple times, unsure if this was what I was supposed to do.  I couldnt imagine ever being able to do a sr show. It seemed like the most daunting thing in the world.  But in the last three or four years or schooling i came to the realization that this is what I am supposed to do.  It is a gift and a passion that I possess.  If I do not use it, something inside of me dies.  The show is only a couple of weeks away, Dec 6th.  It will be so strange to not come to school every day, not have my own studio space to paint in and all the presses to make prints with.  It will be quite the adjustment, not to mention not having my classmates and professors to constantly get feed back from.  I am somewhat ready for this new chapter in life.  I am not sure what I will be doing… other than going back to school for 2 classes.  I am going to get my certification to teach K-12 art ed, so it will take 2 classes this sem and 2 next sem, then ideally a job teaching which would count as my student teaching.  So, I wont be going anywhere too soon, although after I get my credential, I will not be opposed to moving.  I ultimately want to go to grad school for art therapy, but that will be in a few years because I want to be a little more financially secure.  I will have to go to grad school out of state because there are no programs here.

arugula

not sure what this is! i compost, so its seeds from something...possibly pumpkin

onions anyone?

i love me some fresh herbs!

I recently planted a winter garden, from seeds, my first winter garden ever. Pretty exciting when they all started poking up out of the ground.  I had planted some seeds in containers, and others in the ground.  The container ones came up within a week or so, and I had almost given up hope on the ones in the ground.. but lo and behold, a few weeks later, they are now coming up!  I will hopefully have, onions, carrots, arugula, black seeded simpson lettuce, broccoli, radishes and cauliflower.  The celery I was really worried about, but just this morning finally saw some tiny little leaflets popping up! I love watching things grow, esp from seed.  It’s so neat.