LizzyHouse

wedding tour 2007

Wedding Tour has officially begun. Today was Robby and Amanda's wedding. It was really beautiful I am glad that I went... I am also glad that my friend Megan was there. It would have been a lot more awkward and less fun. But it all worked out. I forgot how easily I cry though, sometimes I forget, but am frequently reminded my constant need for tissue. It was really beautiful. Congrats for sure! I would post more pics, but they didn't turn out and that's a bummer...

a side note: I finished Harry Potter

hmmm....

It keeps feeling like the year is over, even though I know that's hardly true. WE are in the second half, almost the third quarter, but it sure isn't over. I wonder why it seems that way... I kind of wish things would just tie themselves up for me. Let me rest for a while. I don't think I would mind the time lapse, I am sure my time space continuum me would make good choices. After all, I have trained me well. The fall is a bad time for me. I haven't had an encouraging fall ever (to be pessimistic), and in a while (to be realistic and forgetful). For so long I thought I could do everything by myself. I can't, I admit it. That's part of growing up I suppose, oh, and how long do I get to grow up?

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (morning) for me were all spent in San Diego, California! I have never been there before and it sure was beautiful. I was visiting one of my great friends, Tyler. Tyler and I are like twins. I have never met someone that was the same as me, movies, music, Edward Gorey, records, party throwing, just the most incredibly random things, until I met Tyler. We just laughed and laughed and it was so much fun, I really needed that. I really just needed a break. We went to the San Diego Zoo, straight from the airport on Wednesday, and it was AWESOME! I got soooo much photo reference. I am always looking for good photo reference. I also really love animals so everything was great.

this Polar Bear was eating a carrot, and making quite the mess.

Thursday was the beach. WHAT A DREAM! we counted over 10 people reading Harry Potter. It was good to see so many people reading. We hiked about 4miles to and from a pier. I got completely submersed in water, because I am short, and because the tide got a lot higher whilst we were on the other side of the pier. I was wearing my backpack that had my camera cellphone and sketchbook. Thank goodness that I had a waterproof backpack and I didn't even know it. I got a little sun and that's good. Came home took a nap, and then we shot the movie you can see below. Our production company is called Little House Productions. We knew we had to use our incredible last names for something...

Tyler's probably getting married soon. I KNEW IT. Our friend Brett is getting married in September and now Tyler is going to get married. Everyone is getting married. Oh well. That IS how it goes. Hopefully I can get married too, so I can have all of my friends back married version 2.0.

I am happy to be home. I love my Mom. I am going to finish Harry Potter tonight probably. I keep walking away from it. I am showing my commitment issues to this book. At least I am being honest. Well. I have a wedding to go to tomorrow morning. I bought a beautiful new green dress, and great purple shoes. I will probably post a picture later.

I am grateful all of you are there. Have a goodnight.

inspired

I have been seeing quite a few people do stop motion shorts, and I wanted to be one of them, so this weekend with my friend Tyler, in San Diego... we made one. Enjoy!

more later... I have to catch a plane.

sad day!

oh no! My little cat Pinecone, broke her tail in two places yesterday. It now hangs like a cartoon cats tail. It got caught in the cat door.... yeah we have a cat door.

Oh, and I am trying to not finish Harry Potter because once I do It will be over. Here is me with my little nephew. I was right; being with little Alton really made me want a baby. What am I supposed to do about that? Yeah, these maternal feelings really freak me out sometimes. Oh well. I have decided to stay home in Texas until Court and Kurts' wedding, because it would be such an incredible pain to go all the way back up to Idaho and find a job, just to ask for time off and turn around and leave... and have to immediatly come back. After this past week of traveling I am done for a little bit, and by that I mean I am going to San Diego on Wednesday. To go to the beach or something.

Remember when I made those travel plans before? Far too ambitious. Here are the actual plans now.

• San Diego on Wednesday
• Amanda's Wedding on Saturday
• Texas Art Supply with my Mom
• Sacramento for Courtney and Kurts wedding
• Washington DC to see my friend Thelma
• Back to school to get a job and a baby
• not really a baby

and as soon as I get my fabric cut out for my home project I will post pictures. Have a great day everyone.

If I get my wish...

I was thinking about Christmas last night. How fun it would be for everyone to be home, and all of our friends to be at the house. Jessica and Andy, obviously, Megan, Renny, and Matt Diamond would all be there and we would play Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. There would also be dancing, and lots of baking. That's what the holidays consist of at the House's house. It really is the place to be!

Last year over the Thanksgiving break, I stayed all by my lonesome in Rexburg. I make it sound as if it was a bad thing, but I have never been so pleased to have some time to myself! Well, with my five days of solitude I got SOO much work done. I even invented my own Christmas tree. I wanted the apartment to look and feel like Christmas when everyone got back!

I did personalized ornaments for everyone so maybe it could be a little more like home.

My mom and I were making predictions for what this next Christmas will hold. It will be interesting to see how everything goes... I am going to write it all down and see how close I get. I suggest you give it a try too!

happy Christmas in July

what's on the docket?

I have a question?! Is anyone making CityScapes right now, or planning to in the near future?

Us gals in Idaho, my printmaking ladies, we are starting a club and making them together in the fall. I think we are meeting on Wednesdays. It will be really fun to see what everyone does with the pattern. So, I was just wondering if anyone had plans for it yet. We would love to see pictures!

A word.

I want to make it clear to the people who read this blog, and look at my work, how sincerely grateful I am for your support and appreciation. It means so much to me to have your best wishes. It's like an invisible net that has really held me up over the last couple of months, and I am so thankful for it, ie you. So, thanks for believing in me and sticking by me. It just means so much to know that people care.

Look at the Sky!

ok, anyone who can name that musical, I will send one of my books. No googling, you just gotta know it.

Sunday night, the sky was on FIRE! we had no idea what was going on. Funny thing is, I live in a building with a bunch of other art majors, so we were all outside taking pictures, comparing, seeing who was getting the better shot. Photo reference!!!

I thought you might want to see. It was as if there was like a film in the air, we couldn't figure out if it was percipitation or what. It was really close to the ground. I have never seen anything like it.

my shoe matched the sky.

The end of an Era.

the semester is over. I fly home on Thursday to spend a little time at home. I am excited for the rest, and I get to go to my friend Amanda's wedding, AND I get to spend time with my Mom, AND I get to go see one of my best friends Tyler in San Diego for one day. I am really glad it's over. I will be posting artwork and the projects I am working on over the next couple of weeks... that's normally what I do, but it will be a little more concentrated I suppose.
My Courtney leaves TOMORROW, and she gets married on the 17th of August. I have lived with Court and Katie for a year. Court is getting married, and Katie is graduating. Here I am still. Oh, well.

Talk to you in Texas!

almost...

So, I have almost reached the end of the semester, and boy am I grateful. This week has been crazy busy with last minute papers, and tests, visit to the Playmill.... goodbyes to friends... so here is a re-cap of the week for all of you who would like to know. This will be a photomontage of my week. I wish I could add a star swipe....

Monday! Monday was not that big of a deal. It was only the genius birth of "Buddha, where you at?"

Tueday! Tuesday my really good friend Mindy who was Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, last year. I will tell you a quick story about that.

In the fall of 2005 I found out that they were going to be doing You're a Good Man Charlie Brown in the summer, and I of course decided right then that I would be Lucy. Well, I also decided to take voice diction in the falling winter (Jan-April) with the future director of Charlie Brown, Justin Bates. Well, Mindy was in the class with me and we were given a story telling assignment and because of the time restrictions we had to do it with a partner. I said to Mindy, "how bad do you want to play Sally?" and she said it would be so great and that she really wanted to, so I said, "then we have to work together, and show Brother Bates just what we are made of." It might not have been as dramatic as all that, but I knew if he saw us work together, and it was near flawless that it would come back to him when he was casting the show. It worked. I was cast as Lucy and Mindy Sally. Quite the schemer!

In this picture you have John Walker as Linus, Mindy: Sally, Me: Lucy, Katie Brandeburg: Snoopy, Jordan Tait: Charlie Brown, Nik Day: Schroeder, Mattie Ricks: The Bunny. What a great time we had. We all talk about it everyonce in a while what an amazing experience it was....

Anyway Tuesday, the Ricks (Mattie the Bunny) had Mindy and I over for dinner, as Mindy is leaving for her mission on this coming Wednesday. HOLY COW!!! she is going to Korea. She really has come to mean so much to me. We have gone through some really crazy things in the past year and I am grateful that we had eachother. I am really going to miss her. We all had a fun night together. The Ricks have really taken care of us over the past year.

trampolene fun.

Wednesday! on Wednesday Courtney and I drove up to West Yellowstone to visit the Playmill and see Footloose. I will tell you I was a little skeptical to use that time and leave town, but it was a great show and as always it was sooo good to see Mallori, and my other lil' playmill friends. After the show we got dinner at this cute diner, and then we waited in line at the Dairy Queen only to find out that they only except cash. It was funny because the line was like 15minutes long. We weren't upset though it was too nice outside. The ride home as always from West was beautiful, the sky was doing this amazing thing, where it was like someone drew a line down the middle and painted half purple. I was trying to take a picture but I could never get it to focus. At least you can see the color.

Thursday!Thursday was the finishing of the 8 page paper, and by finishing I mean start and finishing. At least I'm honest. Also, it was the first day of the Student Art Sale. The INFAMOUS ART SALE. I will tell you about that on Friday. Also, on Thursday I said goodbye to my new good friend Danielle. It was also the night of the DragonFLY named Ted-Leo. He had been plotting against us for a while, and then he struck at 10:34 PM. This gynormous dragonfly flew into our apartment, and he would not leave. No amount of trickery was going to get this guy out. He really just wanted to visit i think, but Courntey was ordering his death so my friend Evan got him out. He was huge and obstinent.

FRIDAY.The INFAMOUS ART SALE
everyone knows how much I love books, love making books, selling books, giving books, reading books, coloring books... well, I made 20 books for the sale. 3 of which have been sold, and I go in to the MC where the sale is yesterday to see how things are going, and I find 5 of my books DESTROYED. I am talking destroyed. The table that my books were put on, had obviously not been cleaned and they was some kind of oily substance on the table and it stained 5 of my books, and they are book cloth case bound so there is no way to fix them. I was so crushed, because I was really counting on selling these books to buy an outfit for Courtney's wedding and pay my first month of rent and those books were a hundred dollars worth of merchandise... no one is responsible... so it's an expensive lesson to learn that you should always clean a table yourself or put down a table cloth... whatever. I just hope that I sell the rest of them.

today I am cleaning and enjoying my sister Ashlee's company as she is here visiting. I hope that everyone is having a nice Saturday that will help you be ready for a quiet even nicer Sunday.

Love You All Lots, Lizzy