Hi, guys. *ducks head in shame due to the sad, sad lack of updates on this end lately* This is just a friendly update to say hey and bemoan my sad lack of presence on my little piece of the web these last few months. Despite my lack of blogging, things have been going fairly well overall but have been pretty crazy busy on this end (hence the sad lack of updating). Done sort of in the style of my general update posts, here are some of the things I have been working on off and on the last couple of months and have been up to in general. *drumroll please... eh hem*
1. School. School. More School - Well, there it is. I'm still in cosmetology school, and it's going well, but it's totally taking up all of my time. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's true. I've been on the school's salon floor working on real people since November, and it has been going well. Hopefully, I'll be able to start my apprenticeship in June and will go from there. I'm just taking it day by day and trying to enjoy it in the meantime!
2. Drawing When I Can - I've been doing some commissioned mixed media drawings on plywood that I'll try to post when finished, finished some other commissioned paintings and such (which I forgot to photograph before I sent them out. boo), and did some other various commissioned drawings of this and that. Additionally, I'm working on illustrating a children's book that a friend wrote as time permits. Personal art-wise I've worked a bit more on the Woodland Alphabet Drawings that I blogged about here and have been working on a series of family based pen drawings too. I've really been in a drawing mood lately, and I will definitely be drawing more when we get settled into our new place where things aren't so hectic/scattered which leads me to point number 3...
3. Who's Stoked They're Moving into a New Place?
THIS GIRL! -->
Seriously. I am so stoked. We've been staying between my mom's and our house for the last couple of months as the whole back end of our house flooded due to a malfunction with our washing machine, so, even more so than usual, we've not had anywhere to properly do work, cook, just chill or anything. Between staying between the two places and our house having a soggy floor allover half of it with a lot of our stuff moved largely to one end to lessen the strain on the floor, the stability will be appreciated. We keep getting delayed due to a heavy snow falling the day the house was to arrive and snow coming again the day the septic tank was to go in (Seriously, folks? It hasn't snowed heavily in years, but NOW it decides to be all White Christmas on us? I digress. haha), but, slowly yet surely, we will prevail. I am SO thankful. I will post pictures and will be doing dorky happy dances when it's ready to move into!
4. Photography, Writing, and Farming - I've still been writing for the BladenOnline each month, and have done a few photography sessions/weddings in the last few months, but photography has been kind of on my back burner lately with school and the house and everything. When things let up a bit, I'll pursue it more actively again. Writing-wise, I have been playing around and writing some stuff for myself. We'll see if it goes anywhere or not, but it's fun to play with anyway. Farming related, I haven't helped as much since school started other than working farmers' markets, but it's still doing well. We just ordered our first batch of day old chicks of the new year, so that will pick up again in the coming months.
5. Random-ish Music Stuff - I've been waiting until we move into the new place, but a friend is going to show me how to play the banjo, so I'm looking forward to that too. I think it will help me learn fingerstyle on the guitar more, so we'll see.
6. My New Laptop is totally making my day too. A virus got on the desktop where I edited the majority of my photographs, so we purchased a new computer. I'm really liking it though I need to get more of my photography software and such uploaded to it.
6. It's Official... I have too many interests and too little time. I guess it's better than being bored all the time though, right? Right. Well, "peoples," with that, I bring this post to an end with the hope of getting the chance to update soon (hopefully from a new place!), and thank you for sticking with me if you stuck it out and read this far. 'Til soon, my pretties, and I hope everyone is having a better than good 2011!
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