A little hope and beautiful

Things I am working on:



Not hogging the covers.(actual photo of me sleeping - I'm in there some where)



My wall of inspiration!
Finally got it "off the ground." I hot glue-gunned some picture hanging wire on to the backs of the large white matted images. I was tired of waiting to take it somewhere to have plastic hangers applied. I am excited. I have no doubt it will become more and more cluttered as time goes on.


This is one of the shadow boxes I put together after Christmas. It includes some of my great-grandmother McKenzie's jewelry and images of her I am a particular fan of. I always loved sitting at her vanity and playing with her costume jewelry. I wear a lot of it from day to day now.


This is one of Lauren's I love. It's a print from a slide we purchased at a second-hand store. She surprised me with it for Christmas this year. It was the big kicker when we were weighing the pros and cons of owning boxes of some strangers' travel images. We needed these yellow chairs.


This is one of my cousin Jordan Reed's that I bought in April. This glass broke during shipping so they are just mats now, but I kind of like their look this way.


Here is my favorite. One of Lauren Lamb's prints from her show this past December. It's a triptych of me sleeping (perfect for the bedroom). It you want to see more of her work (and you should) take a look at The Click Shutter.


Another one of Jordan Reed's. If he has a website I'll add the link in here later. Both of these were taken in Columbus, Ohio. (www.myspace.com/redshebled is all I could find for now... not really an "artist page")


My second shadowbox. It contains a photo of Lauren's that I developed in the darkroom (she was trying to teach me how) and a strange piece of red construction paper that came as a secret bonus when my slide projector came in the mail. It was masking taped to the side of the original box containing the projector. But my favorite part of this is the paper on the left - you can't really tell, but it's this sweet little piece of paper I found in a book in a Buchanan, WV antique store - a sampling of handwriting on a folded piece of paper titled "Penmanship." I adore it. I spend a lot of time in the classroom and this just makes it dreamier - the ideal, you know?


Well, anyway. School starts Monday the 11th, and even though I started this blog on the 4th and it's labeled wrong, it's taken me forever to post because I got incredibly sick and have basically been laying around the apartment watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and taking antibiotics.

Hope you're all doing well, and those of you going back to the classroom enjoy your first few weeks without too heavy a workload (we all know the pressure will mount). :)