say yes to the dress

i remember i was watching say yes to the dress, and there was a GORGEOUS dress i fell in love with....it is designed by Claire Pettibone, and no, i do not have any desire to get married at the moment hahaha...i have always admired the beauty of wedding gowns, and Claire Pettibone is a magnificent designer. her dresses are very symbolic of my personal style (if i ever had to choose a wedding gown!) so i was bored and found it on her website! here it is, the Princess style:

another beautiful dress is the Akoya style:

here is one more picture of the princess dress, being worn, so you can see how it falls:

here is the akoya on someone (don't think i really like this AS much now that i see it on someone...:

i hate sunday brunch.

especially knowing they will have pancakes today, since they had french toast yesterday. funny cause i never really liked french toast until college. probably cause the pancakes at commons could use a little improvement. right now i am eating animal crackers for breakfast...the heck with commons food. maybe i will go later once the absurd crowd dies down. that is one thing i hate about commons, it is always packed. especially during spring fling when people bring guests. spring fling this year is the 23rd til the 24th/25th of this month. i am looking forward to it since i missed out on a lot last year. well, i got front row at the pharrell concert cause i pretty much waited there all day, so i guess that was the best part. on the 24th (which is a saturday) they usually have inflatables and fun stuff on the lawn, plus this year there will be a battle of the bands concert, which should be fun. but overall spring fling is all about people getting drunk and crazy, which really isn't my thing. it makes me kinda queasy thinking about it. ugh. on friday the 23rd, the DJ Girl Talk is going to be in the gym. i am looking forward to that, but i know with it being inside the gym things could potentially get out of hand.

i woke up at around 8 or 9 this morning...i have been going to bed more when i feel tired, rather than just staying up til 1 or 2 in the morning. i think getting proper sleep helps my mood improve, and it keeps my body regulated in a sense. i took a shower and have been just dilly-dallying around, trying to get some homework done. worked on my newest illustration a little bit, and started a response paper on an article about the artist Edward Hopper, which is due tomorrow.

there is a movie on tonight about anne frank on pbs i believe. i don't know why i am so intrigued by her story...i am not even jewish. but maybe the fact that i am polish hits home a little bit? i know that the Holocaust caused a stir in poland as well as other western european countries, so i guess it's a part of my history. i don't know. sophomore year of high school i played Mrs. Frank in our school's production of The Diary of Anne Frank . it opened my eyes to the Holocaust and i have been paying closer attention to it ever since. it makes me so sad to talk about it, though. i should stop now.

well, i am finishing up these animal crackers. i wish the weather this week would be a little more than in the 60's. oh well.

14 MORE DAYS OF CLASS.

room selection was yesterday...we got two doubles in park river :o) marissa is my roomate, and i am really glad because we are pretty much the same person. she is an illustration major as well, so our schedules will be almost the same. it worries me to have a double after having a single this whole year, though. i do like my privacy. it's nothing against marissa, though. who knows...we respect each other enough so i don't think we will have any problems. i feel like the girls i am living with are going to be my friends for life. i really, really enjoy their company. we all have a lot in common. i feel so fortunate that they took me under their wing for next year.

the nice thing about park river is that we have an actual kitchen, with a full-size fridge, a oven/stove, and a DISHWASHER, which we will probably never use haha. park river also has central air, so it won't be too hot in the warmer months (or so i hope). i just finished my animal crackers. next year will be SO expensive. all my illustration classes require new oil paints, watercolor paints in tubes, and new brushes. yikes. saving my receipt will hopefully help me out on my tax return next year haha...

yesterday we celebrated my sister and her boyfriend's 23rd birthdays. their birthdays are only a few days apart, it's cute. we went to a good mexican restaurant, puerto vallarta on the berlin turnpike. andrea and i shared fajitas and it was delicious but super filling. we then went to pick up an ice cream cake at friendly's and had it back at their house. then we watched tv, the new show on TLC called Hoarding: Buried Alive. it's unbelievable how these people have such a connect to such worthless objects. i learned that it's somewhat of a psychological issue, and there's more to it. interesting.

well, i don't know what i'll do the rest of the day. maybe take the shuttle and get subway? who knows :oP

bland weather makes everyone go "ick"

it was super cold today...well, colder than yesterday...flip flops were a big no-no...i was freezing!

i went to bed relatively early last night...i think around 11pm maybe? i had set my alarm to 10:15 but woke up around 8:30 feeling totally refreshed this morning. i worked on my illustration today, which is a peacock native american-type woman....she's beautiful. i had casey, jacqueline, and marissa model for me last night for reference. thank goodness, cause my proportions in my concept sketch were way off.

i worked on that, ate some flipz (chocolate covered pretzels) and peanut butter, saltines, and banana as well for breakfast. then i met my teacher in the art school lot to go to the field trip. good thing she talked my ear off in the car haha, but still a little awkward. it's me.

we got to the wadsworth and more than ten kids from our class showed up. i took a lot of pictures of the american art that intrigued me the most....our final assignment is to write a 6-7 page paper on an american artist's piece from a museum between 1900-1945. i have a lot to choose from.

after coming back from the wadsworth, i proceeded to the ceramics studio and threw another stubby little dr. seuss pitcher. i swear, i will never take another ceramics class again. i forgot how nice it is to feel CLEAN after doing artwork. haha nooo, i love most kinds of art. it's just that ceramics is not my weapon of choice. i am focusing on just getting my pitchers and vases done, the heck with making more bowls and mugs. i made one really good mug...eh, maybe i will make a few more mugs. we shall see. my ceramics locker is the biggest pain in the butt ever. the key ALWAYS got stuck and today it decided to break inside the keyhole. oh great. i had to have allen from the front desk get some pliers and pull it out...thank goodness some of it was sticking out so he could do so, otherwise we would have been toast. i decided to just clean out the darn thing today and get back my $20 deposit for using it. today was just a "bad clay day."

after getting severely frustrated with ceramics, i decided to go to the mall because i have a $25 certificate to spend at forever 21, plus i wanted to get my mind off how annoying art was today. i ate a quick dinner and headed on the shuttle myself to westfarms mall. of COURSE, i didn't buy anything. there were some cool sandals i saw at H&M at home and really hoped westfarms had them, but sadly they did not. shopping and i are not the best of friends lately. i feel like my tastes are really changing and i can't control it. i don't really feel the urge to dress "flashy" anymore, but to dress more sophisticated and clean-cut instead. almost none of the jewelry in forever 21 appeals to me anymore. shopping is just so hard because i don't need much...the things i really need are bigger investments, like a nice sturdy pair of flare jeans from american eagle or gap. gap jeans are the best...they last forever, but are wicked expensive. i would prefer a nice pair of levi's, actually...

after the mall i came back, still a little frsutrated, but decided to work on my illustration. i just finished most of the face...it's coming out just like i want it so far. the shadows on my reference are helping tremendously.

now i am about to take a shower and relax for the rest of the night, and maybe head to konover for a snack? who knows...

room selection tomorrow ahhh i hope it isn't stressful...i met with my future suitemates last night and we get along SO well...i can't wait for all the times we will have next year!

i love to hear the robins singing in the trees

trying to sleep last night was the most uncomfortable thing ever. it was SO hot. i recall waking up at 1:30 in the morning to put my tower fan back on. the overnight LOW was 56 degrees. holy moley. to make me even more uncomfortable, my allergies were bugging me a little bit. i went to bed really early cause my eyes were itchy and felt heavy. i don't know if having my window open was such a great idea? but i did sleep pretty well....i woke up a lot though.

this morning i mixed some black glaze for my strawberry mugs i made (more like teacups because they are fairly small). i will include some pictures once they are fired! our teacher mixed up a batch of "vegas red" glaze...a very fitting color for my strawberry mugs! our current project is vases and pitcher....thank goodness we only have to make eight. ahh it's really hard. i call all my lop-sided pieces "dr. seuss mugs/vases/pitchers." i made only one dr. seuss pitcher today.

tomorrow i have to go on a field trip to the wadsworth in hartford (it's an art museum). since i do not have a car on campus, my teacher offered a ride to people like me. i'm pretty sure i'll be the only one riding with my teacher ahaha oh boyyyy. she is a very nice lady, but i always feel a little uncomfortable driving with people i don't know very well. not because of the fact that i could get into an accident (my teacher is a lot older, she is a good driver i am sure), but because i feel really awkward when i do not know what to say. who knows, sometimes people surprise you and talk your ear off.

my friend jaimie told me she wants to photograph me tomorrow for her photo class. yay i love to model for my friends...my friend sarah took distorted photos of my face and they came out really creepy..i brought them home, though. i think it would be funny to post them here hahahah

well i am about to head out and talk to my future suitemates about our plans for housing next year. room selection is on saturday woooo. i am keeping my fingers crossed that i will be able to get a single again...but park river is a really difficult dorm to get into i have heard (well, to get all singles at least). but all four of us are juniors and are going into room selection about three hours into it. so we shall seeeeeee!

baby, it's HOT outside

woah.....90 degrees today. just my luck, i had an interview too, which meant a litle extra discomfort when it came to dressing up. my allergies are making my eyes all tired and whatnot too.

the interview went fairly well, they seemed fairly interested....but you can never be too sure. they were like "woah, we have some strong canidates this year..." ughh....oh well, if i don't get it, then it is meant to be. but i did express vivid interest in the fact that i may want to get a master's degree in art therapy or art education...the experience with children and their parents at the Eric Carle Museum would be really crucial to help my future and help me get used to working with different kinds of people, moreso than i would experience just by working as a cashier.

i told them "i am not here to beef up my resume like other people may want to do...this is for my FUTURE."

and if i ever got to meet Eric Carle himself....woahhhhh nelly. that would be unreal.

my dad just brought me back to school. we had dinner at mountain view and had burgers and fries and strawberry milkshakes. yum yum.

well, they told me i would hear back from them about the internship sometime mid-week next week. all i can do is wait til then. i also tried calling someone from American Greetings to confirm when accepted applicants would be notified for their summer internship. it's a major corporation, though...i'm not surprised if they wouldn't/couldn't get back to me. oh well.

well, it's off to draw for illustration. yip yip!

happy easter to all

so we had easter at my house today...it is easter tradition in my family to do a sort of rotation of homes for the holidays....like one aunt will have christmas, another will have thanksgiving, and we happened to have easter this year.

i awoke at 9:30 this morning to the sound of the fire alarm going off in my room. my mom used too much olive oil on the lamb (we are greek) that she was cooking in the oven, and it made the house too smokey. i didn't mind though...the house was fairly smelly for a good amount of the day, though. i absolutely cannot STAND fire alarms. the one at school is RIGHT outside my room. i swear, if that thing goes off at 3am on a weekend again, i will have permanent heart problems. the fire alarm scares the heck out of me! i am a naturally jumpy person with fairly quick reflexes, so i can get scared pretty easily. whenever the fire alarm goes off at school, i literally jump a foot in the air. my heart starts POUNDING and i feel like im getting the worst anxiety possible. i don't calm down afterwards for a good ten minutes. ugh. i hope there aren't anymore fire alarms this semester, but that's wishful thinking.

i am missing my history exam tomorrow, because the Vietnam War is absurdly confusing..plus i missed two classes full of vital information, so cramming all the studying into tonight is a little much...plus i have a psych exam tuesday night i would rather focus on studying for.

i realized how long my last post was...eek! i should write a book.

my sister and i arranged an easter egg hunt for all the cousins. inside the eggs were questions to ask the rest of the family. it was quite enjoyable. it was funny to see the cousins so competitive. what a beautiful easter it was, though! it was a good 75 degrees out today. i got to wear my new outfit, too...it got lots of compliments!

my sister and i made chocolate strawberries last night to today...mmm.

jon stopped by today on his way back to school. we went for a little walk down the street and got to talk about our days. it's so wonderful to feel like we are getting so much closer with each little time we spend together, even if it's only for a little while. ahh i can't put it into words. just wonderful. speaking of, i haven't felt this good in a long time. not just because of my boyfriend, but because life is just going pretty smoothly in general. i rarely worry as much as i used to and can look forward to the days going by that lead up to getting out of school in about 5 weeks!

a lovely day for an illustration field trip

here are two prints i bought today at the Norman Rockwell Museum:

"Mermaid (A Fair Catch)"

"Marriage License"

right now i am home in wilbraham and in bed....i am super exhausted.

today we went to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA....i got up around 7am, and met up with marissa (one of my future suitemates for next year) for breakfast at commons. i tried french toast casserole for the first time...it was covered with pecans and it was quite delicious...i was very pleased. we had really good conversation...

then we headed over, got on the bus, and went to Norman Rockwell. we got to see his studio, which i was insanely envious of...i really really wish i had room at home to do my artwork..i usually have to sprawl out on the dining room table, but even so, i can't make much of a mess because it IS a dining room first and foremost. anyway, the exhibits were cool, we got to see some of the archival objects, like an original cereal box from the 1950's with one of Rockwell's illustrations on it. also on display were the black and white photos used by Rockwell as photographic reference. the thing i really love about his illustrations is that they really make me laugh....he wasn't cheesy with his humor, nor too sappy. his pieces are so awesome. i am really proud that he is from around where i live.

after the museum we sat outside in the beautiful weather....being up in the berkshires, it was so peaceful and quiet at the museum, and the air was fresh. it was soooo nice. nothing like a spring day in the sun.

then we went back into the center of stockbridge and got lunch at this cute little cafe. we walked around some of the shops later too. this one pawn-type shop had a TON of beatles/wizard of oz and comic nostalgia. i pretty much died. the coolest thing i saw were original LIFE magazines and the sort from the 1950's and 1960's. one that blew my mind was a March 1964 issue of LIFE with the beatles on the cover. i almost died. that thing could be worth so much some day....too bad it was $50 though, but it is probably really worth it. oh well.

marissa and i browsed a couple more shops, which were cute and reminded her of vermont. when i told her i knew about the equinox inn in vermont, she was so surprised and excited that i knew about it! we have a lot more in common than i thought, which is wicked cool because we will be living together next year. it will be nice to be able to relate on so many levels.

after shops, we got some gelato at a posh little place. i had hazelnut and chocolate mmmm...then we continued out stroll back to the bus. by the time everyone had gotten back onto the bus, they were pooped. half the people on the bus (myself included) fell asleep on the way to the clark art institute.

in all honestly, the clark was not my absolute cup of tea. i am more of a fan of artwork from the early 20th century and beyond....not really a huge fan of the 19th and 18th century work, but i absolutely appreciate its craft. it's like if i had to choose between the metropolitan museum of art and the MOMA in new york city, i would pick the MOMA. modern art just inspires me, and it makes me think a lot more.

there was an interesting display of giovanni boldini's work, however.

the ride home was so long, it seemed like it would never end. jon called me during the ride, and i was really happy to hear from him :o) he sounded like he was in a good mood, which always makes me smile. he asked me again if i could go snowboarding this weekend, but sadly i cannot because we are having easter at my house this year. oh well. hopefully i can still see him, even if it's for a little.

when i got back to school, i immediately went to pick up my illustration portfolio, and then my dad had just arrived to pick me up as i walked up the hill. he came up with me to my room to help me pick up some of my stuff....i brought a lot of room decor home this weekend, cause there is pretty much a month left of school (so exciting). especially with all my art things, it's good for me to bring stuff home gradually that i don't need. i remember last year i had my car at school for the last week, and most of my stuff had already been brought home. after checkout, all i really did was take my bedding and a bag of stuff home and i was off for the summer. simple enough for me!

OH!! so i have scheduled an interview with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art!!!! Wednesday April 7th at 2:00pm. i am very excited....i hope i hear from American Greetings by then? maybe likely? we will have to see!