finals are over ( Read more... )

so last thursday night i spent most of the time freaking out about my installation in the bathroom of the gallery for the group show. the 2 colors of white on the walls weren't matching, the drill bit i needed was nowhere to be found, and i was way past sanely functioning and into lylee stress mode. friday night the show was from 7-11, we were ( Read more... )

yo! thanks for all of the birthday calls and e-mails everyone, they made me quite happy. The weekend in bemidji was absolutly fabulous,slightly bittersweet because here are these amzing friends i was a freshman with having senior shows and i can only come visit instead of still living there, but still really wonderful. I feel so whole when i am ( Read more... )

i've been really focused on making purses these days. small hand-bag sorts of things with funky fabric, photos buttons lace you name it..and lots of pockets. My friend's parents have an outdoors store/boutique in Iowa, and I am selling them there! quite exciting. I hope it doesn't turn in to a chore they are each pretty labor intensive but fun ( Read more... )

the sky is falling.

I feel sick, and a deep deep sorrow

Barcelona is beautiful. Beaches, mountains in the distance, amazing architecture. I have been here 3 days and it is so relaxed and easy going. many hours spent walking by the beach, but the reality of returing to stl is hitting me, it¨s a good thing i think, because i can¨t travel forever, but it¨s made me sort of sad, and i have started thinking ( Read more... )

so i didn¨t want to go to paris.sure when i was young after watching Sabrina (the old one, but the new one is good because of harrison ford..side note, girl i met in paris has an equal obsession with harrison, never met someone else my age who doe,...it was a bonding moment) but that fadded...suprisingly, i loved paris..stayed in an amazing hostel ( Read more... )

hey! It's been a while. After a few papers and intense periods of sitting on the u-bahn drawing people i finished my classes and set off for poland with my parents. We got to Krakow and where my dad's cousins picked us up, and drove us 2.5 hours to their small farm town. my dad hasn't seen these relatives in about 30 years, and his polish is about ( Read more... )

i try to keep up with the news and current events, and it's so upsetting ( Read more... )

as i write this the school 4th of july bbq got rained out so from down the hall horrible renditions of "house of the rising sun" and "blowing in the wind" are waifting in to the computer lab, like a bad mix of terry meredith and a wiedman music party...ah the joys. Two weeks ago we went to Ireland, and it was amazing- I don't have a drop of irish ( Read more... )