Working on the Weekend?

Sometimes my job takes me to strange places.  I had to make my way out to a small acreage to photograph a potential sculpture donation for Mount Royal.  While there, I couldn't help but to play in the snow with my pup.

Oh look at that sweet face.  The snow (as you can see) was up past my knees.  Abby had an amazing time tearing around and hopping through the snow (picture 1.)  I hate that its still snowing and its supposed to be spring, but I have to admit...that was really fun.
Loves and Kisses,
Jen

New and Old

 Well, was it not a lovely day outside?  Boy it was gorgeous here. 
 I have been honoring my inner old-lady and going to paint pottery with my dear friend Sheila.  My first piece was a doggy dish for my delightful Abigail.  This is my second piece ever.  I am not super thrilled with all of it - but it definitely has the dreamy look I was going for.  I am particularly in love with the acorns!

What am I using it for now?  A sugar bowl of course.  Otherwise Kouki sticks his stinky litter-paws into all my sugar.  Not so nice.

This is the piece from another angle.  I think that I am really taken with unbalanced compositions on round pieces.  The thought of doing the same thing over and over throughout makes me cringe a bit inside.  I do want to keep working with washes, but its really my line work that needs some improving.  I also tried out the new satin glaze at Fire Escape and I really like how it turned out.  Has more of an earthy, old world feel.

Finally, I know that you have all seen this pretty little angels face before - but I was never quite happy with how light he was.  So I grabbed my graphite stick one day and just went to town.  I feel much better about it overall now.  It still has the feel of a white buffalo - without just being kinda washed out. 

Thats all she wrote

Love and Kisses, 

Jen

Okay, I know. It has been a long long while

But I swear that it is not all for naught!  I have been a busy little worker bee. 
What have I been doing you ask?  Well!

I designed a comic book program for my teaching, applied to get a BEd (holy moly!) and I have been silk screening wedding invites for a wonderful friend.

I learned a lot through this process, and I am really happy that I had such a wonderful girl to work for.  I can think of few people who deserve as much happiness in their lives as she does - and I hope that she loves the invites. 

Walking into doing a wedding was really scary for me. There is SO much pressure for everything to be perfect, and boy howdy - was my friend ever incredible.  I had a coworker once tell me that weddings make people inhuman.  I guess with all the "Bridezilla" talk, I was quite nervous.  But luckily for me, my first foray into wedding invitation work was remarkably smooth!

 Congratulations Shari!