Gardening
03 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Random Tags: cucumbers, garden, gardening, pickles, plants
My mom and sister planted some cucumbers and they are planning on making pickles. We just made a little bed for them and planted them in the ground. We used sticks we had laying around for the border and a gate we made a while back for the vines to climb.
SXSW
18 Mar 2012 1 Comment
in Random Tags: austin, music, photography, sxsw
From Jessie Vittoria Photography.
I understand how people would think I am one of those people who is always where the action is, but that’s not true. Most of the big events I go to are out of luck. SXSW for example, I was asked if I wanted to go to Austin to listen to live music all day and I said yes not know that it was SXSW or even what SXSW was. I am not very in the loop about that kind of stuff. I get all my news from hearsay.
That is not to say I don’t like big events. I actually love big local events where a bunch of cool people walk around the city, eat food and listen to live music. I was never the type of person to sneak out to a concert in the middle of the night, so when I do go to some event, it’s a big deal. Anyway, I went to SXSW on a whim and had a great time taking lots of pictures and listening to awesome bands.
This was at St. Vincent De Paul on South Congress. Playing is the one-man-band, Lincoln Durham. Really good music. Earlier he was using a suitcase as a drum!
Now setting up is a folksy band called Buxton.
Dan Dyer was across the street at Guero’s Taco Bar.
This guy was dancing with his dog earlier in front of The Continental Club.
Written on the side of Jo’s Coffee.
Then we headed over to South by San Jose and listened to Jonathan Wilson.
When we got to the Auditorium Shores Stage, Shiny Toy Guns was playing, and they were amazing!
Then The Cult came on after some Austin band and Matthew McConaughey got to play the congas. I was kind of far away to actually see the stage, but I had a lot of stuff (food) by that point so I couldn’t really squeeze through the crowd. I could see on the screen and hear everything fine anyway.
Photography Blog
15 Mar 2012 3 Comments
in News Tags: blog, commissioned photography, photography, portraits
If you didn’t already know, I really like photography and am going to school to be a photojournalist. I actually have a little photography business now. I have just made some business cards and I have had a website for a while now, but it only allows so many files since it is free and powered by DeviantArt. So I have made a blog for my photography that I am just going to use as my primary photography website. Don’t worry, I’m not moving this blog. This is still going to be my everyday, post random things blog.
But THIS is my official photography blog where I have my pricing, client forms, policies and so on. It also has a gallery of my photos and shoots I have done. So if you live in the greater Houston area and you are looking for a photographer, look here to make an appointment. Also, I will put a link to it on here, so look for that.
So exciting!
This Valentine’s Day
14 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Random Tags: chocolate, flowers, valentine's day
I haven’t really had any luck with Valentine’s day in the past, if you don’t count the one time in Pre-K when my “boyfriend”/good friend gave me, and only me, a hand made (by his mother) Valentine’s card. Or the time in 4th grade when I got a Valentine from a secret admirer. Other than those two times I have never liked Valentines Day. But THIS year, I was really excited about it. Not only because I have a boyfriend who is wonderful and awesome and perfect, but also because I was more excited about giving love than receiving love. I have come to find out that I get way more pleasure in making others happy than everyone else trying to make me happy. So here is a post in honor of Valentine’s Day (even though it’s kind of late and everyone is probably tired of it by now).
I know, I didn’t do a doodle and it’s just a boring picture; maybe next holiday.
I would say I had a pretty awesome Valentine’s Day. I got to spend it with someone amazing, I was really happy that he liked what I got him, we made cookies, and I got my first bouquet of flowers ever! (by someone not my mom or dad)
Aren’t they great!?
I hope everyone had a wonderful day and I hope that everyone who doesn’t have a special someone takes advantage of the big chocolate sale tomorrow!
The life of a dog
13 Feb 2012 1 Comment
in Doodles Tags: comic, dogs, doodle, wiredhaired fox terrier
Here’s a little comic I did of my dog, Rusty. He is always doing this so I thought I would put a caption to it.
Click to read!! Press Ctrl++ until you can see it properly (’cause if you just click on the picture it will get too big).
Disclaimer: I can’t draw comics to save my life…
I’ve come a long way… art wise
28 Jan 2012 2 Comments
in Art, Random Tags: art, art class, drawing, self portraits, through the years
I was looking through my art for some reason and I decided I wanted to do something to show how my art skills have improved through the years. The only thing was, I don’t usually draw the same thing more than once, except for self portraits. In every art class I’ve been in, they have asked me to draw a self portrait. It was probably my least favorite thing to do, ever. So here are some that I could find. I hope you can notice the change. :p
2000-2001
Okay, don’t laugh, I was 6 or 7 when I did this. When the teacher tells you to “fill the whole page” but “only draw your head and shoulders” what are you supposed to do?
2002-2003
This was at my school. You can tell what my teacher taught us about nose shapes and how the nose is connected to the eyes. I was probably 9 and in 3rd grade.
2006
I did this at home. I went through a phase where I didn’t think I needed a neck and shoulders and all my heads where to the side. I was about 12.
2009
Also at home. This is when I learned how to draw lips… but still hadn’t gotten the nose down yet. I was 15, okay?
2010
And finally, we have my most recent self portrait. This is when I figured out I could put something in front of my face so I wouldn’t actually have to draw my face. Took me 16 years to figure that out.
Well I hope you enjoyed. Maybe I will have a redraw post where I have redrawn something I drew when I was younger. But I don’t know since I don’t really like drawing the same thing twice. We’ll see.
Paper Art
26 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Crafty Me Tags: art, crafts, paper, wall decor
What do you do with leftovers from an art piece? You make more art with it. My mother and I had some cut outs from a bible left over from another piece of art my mother did:
Art by Stephanie Vaughan. See her work HERE. (click for full views)
I saved all the sheets that were cut out of the middle and we finally found something to do with them. We cut them in half long ways and taped the two ends together, then pinched the circles to make a petal shape and stapled them together to create a design.
Hanging it on the wall took a little work. Placing the nails and trying not to make the whole thing fall was a pain. But I think it turned out nice.
A Little Piece Of The Past
15 Jan 2012 1 Comment
in Random Tags: life, love poems, old poems, poems, the past
I have these old books of poems that used to belong to my grandfather (but he probably got them from his sister). I have made some of them into art and other are just sitting around. I rarely read them, but today I was just looking through one I had sitting on my dresser. I flipped through some pages, not really reading, and it popped open, as books do, to a spot that had been bookmarked with a newspaper clipping. It wasn’t the page that was bookmarked that interested me, but the clipping, which was browned with age and had stained the two pages it was sandwiched between. The clipping was a love poem.
The poem read:
No One Else Can Take Your Place
I MISS you, darling, but I must
Be patient every day
And keep my courage up as long
As you must be away
It is not easy for me while
I walk in loneliness
Because I love you, and you are
My every happiness
I see you in the sun and moon
And all the stars that shine
And in my heart that loves you so
I know that you are mine
But there is never any thought
Or dream to take the place
Of your endearing self in my
Affectionate embrace
Nothing and no one else on earth
Could mean so much to me
As you are all I want in life
And you will always be
It may not come as a surprise to some of you that I cried at this… This leaves so many questions for me. Why did she pick this poem? Why did she put it in the book? Did she write it? Was it just one of her favorites? So many things I will never know! But it is particularly neat when I find little artifacts such as these that I can wonder about.
Say NO to naps and say YES to yoga
14 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Random Tags: 2012, exercise, fitness, health, new year, yoga
Everyone always talks about losing a couple pounds in the new year. Why does everyone want to be “healthier” this year? Shouldn’t they be healthy from last year’s new year’s resolution? Or the one before that, or the one before that? That’s all people really say they are going to do in the new year. “I’m gonna lose 20 pounds!” “I want to eat healthier!” Well I just want to have a good year. I want a year full of happy moments and learning experiences. I want to be able to look back at 2012 and say, “That was a really great year.” But of course, I want a little health thrown in there too.
I already eat pretty healthy. A lot of my 
friends make fun of me cause I like vegetables… but it really is a good thing to be healthy. It makes you feel good and you actually want to get out of that amazingly comfortable bed in the morning. If I eat a bunch of crap then I feel really gross and muddy inside. I usually end up eating a salad or something to wash my insides out. So I’m learning to not give in whenever I get a craving for a greasy burger, some fries, and a chocolate shake.
So my healthy habits I want to start this year are simple. I want to be able to get out of my bed in the morning, eat a hardy breakfast, go to school and actually learn things, come home and do some yoga (even if it is only on the 
wii fit), eat a healthy lunch, do some productive things until dinner (which will also be healthy, and then go to sleep somewhat early at night so I can wake up refreshed in the morning. No naps!! That always screws me up and then I can’t sleep at night.
If I create a schedule like this for myself, I am almost certain it will improve my time management skills and I will get more things done during the week. Not to mention I will feel really great every day. This all sounds awesome, now let’s see if I actually do it.
A New Year’s Resolution
06 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
in Random Tags: advice, life, new years resolution, perfect
Small update: I deleted my short story blog. I never used it and nothing every happened with it so I thought it was time to let it go. It was taking up room in my mind and on my dashboard. I know that no one cares and most of you don’t even know what it was, but I thought I would let you know.
Now onto the post.
You know when they tell you not to fix something that isn’t broken, well I can adhere to this. Don’t fix something that isn’t broken! I don’t know how many times I have tried altering this banana nut bread recipe, but every time something goes wrong. The first time I made it, it turned out perfect. Then the second time I thought I would change the amount of flour, but it was so moist that it fell apart when I tried to take it out. Then I thought I would be all healthy and try soy flour, but that gave it a really weird taste on top of the middle just not cooking. When I turned it over to get it out of the pan the middle fell out like a tissue box… SO next time, I swear, I’m going to do everything exactly like my recipe (that I made myself. You would think I would follow my own recipe).
I think this goes for everything else in life too. Cars, school, essays, people. I don’t know how many times I’ve tried to fix an essay that was fine to begin with, which just made more work for myself. And with people, if there is nothing wrong with you then you really shouldn’t change yourself. That goes for other people too. If think someone is perfect the way they are, don’t ask them to change to be “better.” I know that the word “perfect” is kind of taboo, but it really shouldn’t be. We as humans only have a limited vocabulary, so we came up with this word to describe something that is so good, so much to our liking that it can not get any better. So of course there is such thing as perfect, that’s why we came up with that word, so we could use it. I think people just put too much emphases on it, like the word “love.” But that’s a whole other article.
So that’s my little advice of the year. If you like it, don’t change it.
