LizzyHouse

It's been a long day.

I don't know why, but the last couple of days have been really hard for me. Ashlee left, my cellphone absolutely died, and I was under the impression I could get a loan from school so I could finally buy my own computer, and all they said they would give me was $190. What a joke. Needless to say I was upset. I've just been upset... so after my costume design class today I came home and I started on a painting I had been thinking about. I can get so caught up in all my computer tricks that I can forget that I really do know how to paint, and I should be practicing. So, whenever I paint I set goals for myself and the painting, and since there are usually people in my paintings I set goals for them too.

I decided that I was going to use a palette that I don't normally use (I wanted it to be more masculine).
I wanted to paint a boy who loved Bob Dylan (I never paint or draw boys).
I wanted to work on unifying my painting by using thin washes of acrylic paint.
I wanted to use a combination of acyrilic and oil as I never have and always say I will
I wanted to create a light source within the painting.

I followed all my own rules and I met all my goals for the painting, and it made me feel better about my life. It is nice to go back to basics and remember that things are allowed to be simple.

hooray!

so it's almost finished!

I just wanted to show you some of the things that are available through my Bee Freeing.

Here are the rules though:
you may print these for your personal use.
you may give them to your mom.
you may take them to a birthday party.
you may use them at a party!
you may NOT by any means sell them.
you may however, contact me for licensing

so enjoy, have fun, and play fair.

more true love

so Ashlee my sister had a show tonight, and I sang with her. I played my jaw harp as well. I recommend taking up the jaw harp to anyone searching for a way to express themselves in tones, and as close to Snoopy as possible. I know that's where I want to be.

back to the box my Mom sent me. It had the cut squares and they seriously looked like candy. I wish someone had been around to be jelous. I know I would have been had I been a viewer of that glorious unveiling. I can't even imagine how many squares there are....

she also sent me pez and these really great tumblers. Dream Mom.

Last night I made a new book. I didn't realize just how busted I could really get in my book arts class. She showed us the paper that we could use for our books. A lot of it was really beautiful hand painted paper, and they were big HUGE sheets. I can honestly say I haven't spent so much without even moving in a long time. So I think that I will start selling books, because I love making them and hopefully sales can keep the cost down.

It's easy to get obsessed with.

Like I said, Ashlee played a show tonight. It was a lot of fun.

well cool. Freeda starts freeing bees tomorrow. Have a great weekend!

true love

I got a box in the mail yesterday from my mom and what a dream come true. I am hand piecing a quilt this summer, and the squares finished will be 1in. so they are each 1 1/2 in. and my lovely mother cut all the fabric for me SO COOL. She hates cutting fabric even more than me, she's just better at it.

more later I have to go right now.

free-a-bee

I will be posting some stuff shortly that is just for the taking. A quilt pattern, a mix cd battle score card, a stuffed bird, how to make a book... and other cute wonderful gotta get your hands on kind of stuff. Well I was trying to think of what to call this new little section of my blog. So, it's free stuff.. so I could call it free stuff... or there's "freebe's," that's true, there is that... but I wanted something different.

I started to expand upon the idea of a "freebe." Be Free. Choose me! I'm free... born free. Take it, it's free...

Free A Bee. I have this thing with bees. I love them. My family has called me Bee for as long as I can remember, and because I love them somehow I am not afraid of them. Maybe if you love something you can have more control of your fear... I don't know, but what I do know is that I digress.

SO, I would like to introduce you to Freeda, the free-a-bee girl. She will just be on the side bar freeing a bee at all times as that is where you can locate the free stuff.

death by mixtape.

being a child/product of the 90's, I grew up making mix tapes. During the summers we would sit next to a stereo with a tape in the deck, our fingers on the record button, and our favorite radio station on, 104.1 KRBE. We would sit and wait, and wait, and wait until a song that we wanted came on, usually something like "The Sign," by Ace of the Base, or "Buddy Holly," by Weezer. We were avid. I was especially.

Now cassettes are out and cd's are almost out due to the mp3 player, but I stand firmly by my love of mixes, and I stand by the fact that I can make a mean mix cd. I am so confident in this that I challanged my friend Tyler to a mix cd battle. We tried to come up with a clever name but it never really came to. But the battle is most deffinetly on.

The theme for this battle is "Getting Pumped," Music that will get you pumped up. We made all kinds of rules, and we actually asked our friends Jessica and Brett to judge our CDs, because we can't judge each other. So tomorrow is the first deadline and we have to send off our little projects to be judged.

So not only is the CD itself being judged, but so is the art work.

I can send you the rules if you are interested in having your very own mix cd battle, or you can have some fun and make up your own. I can also send you the template for the score card!

look at the sky!

so today was an awful then wonderful Monday. I was in printmaking and I looked out the window and it was raining and snowing at the same time. BOO. They call this a summer semester and it's more like an underwater semester.

But some how it all cleared up and looked really nice and it just wasn't so cold anymore.

we had great clouds. It was like 24,000 different things happening at one time.

Also, my sister Ashlee played at an open mic night tonight. She was flawless which is awesome. If there is one thing House girls can do, it's perform. She just sold it! There wasn't a single sound in the entire recital hall. It was really great, and I am so proud of her. I just can't believe how awesome she was. She has a show on Friday.

sillyness in all seriousness

Here are some different color options for the Cherry House Quilts Logo

I think I am so funny and it shows.

So let me know what you think. I did most of them in all seriousness.

oh and I changed the font. It's all the same now. Good and reliable Futura!

a thank you note

First of all this has been such a great weekend! One of my best friends Mallori, came down to visit from West Yellowstone Montana. She normally is my room mate but during the summers she works as the head technician at the PlayMill Theatre. It is one of the North West's most beloved summer stock theatres. It was really good to see here. AND THEN, I set my alarm clock this morning to make a thank you card for the Burns family. While I was enroute home I stayed with some friends at the Burns' home. I was so impressed by them; as a family, as Church members, just as people. I really thought they were so fun, and so generous to let me, a stranger stay with them. Like I said, I set my alarm clock because I wanted to start early as I knew that I would get carried away, and I did, but I love starting days early. It's like free hours, or better yet, free money! I just could not have been happier. I have my own room now, and a desk devoted completely to artwork, and I just sat there and worked and worked just listening to my new Elis Regina cd over and over again. I was just so happy, and what a great tone that has set for the rest of today and tomorrow. I was really happy with how the card turned out. The package will include: One family thank you card, one pack of "Value Girls," for the Burns' girls. What are "Value Girls," you say? Not coupon cutters, but girls that stand for truth and righteousness. I designed them last year for a friend of mine who was in charge of a Young Women in Excellence program, and then a New Beginnings Program for my little sister Melissa. I will post more on them later. I love saying thank you, and I am so excited to send them their little parcel on monday.

here to stay

My mother and I are going into business. She just went ahead and started a business and she called me while I was in printmaking soo excited. I am really proud of her. PLUS, she owes this to herself to finally show what she's made of, because she really is that talented and she truly has a wonderful perspective to share with quilters. AND she already sold two quilts on Wednesday. Yay Mom!!!

So I am proud to be a part of Cherry House Quilts. We will have our first pattern up soon, and she will have a weblog. I have been working on a logo, and I just wanted to post it. It isn't quite finished yet, as I have some kinks to work out, and I am adding color, but I was too excited not to show it.