with a new year comes new life

well world, i have shamefully neglected my blog for quite some time now, however i do not feel the least bit of remorse knowing that no one really reads these anyway right? :) after a very quiet thanks giving my husband and i prepared to be away from our sandiego home for the entire month of dec. he had to go out to see for three weeks, during which time i went home to my parents in beautiful hume lake nestled in the sierra nevada mountains, in the middle of the giant sequoia nationl monument. we had a wonderful time and enjoyed many days of sitting around doing nothing much but visiting, eating and playing. we went sledding and did at least five puzzles. Gabriel had a wonderful time other than a cold which wasn't too bad. his favorite person is papa (my dad) who played with him almost every spare moment he had. :) he is now very spoiled and is having a hard time going back to "normal" life, meaning it's just mommy and daddy again and he has to play by himself some of the time. i also enjoyed some time alone with sisters and friends, all of whom i've been missing for so long. at the end of three weeks however i was very ready to see my husband again and to go home, however home was not to be our destination yet. the day my husband arived we spent with my family and celebrated my neices 2nd birthday. the next day we spent with my mother in law and her christmas guests. and the following day we made our way to santa maria to spend christmas and a few days with my father in law and that side of the family. again we had a good time but i was very ready to go home. saddly on the day of our departure we had not been on the road but maybe two hours when we had a casualty that delayed our getting back on the road until about 8 hours later!!! and so we arived home exhausted and have spent the last few days resting and of course doing laundry and cleaning and putting away all the stuff we got for christmas. most of which was for Gabriel. :) so we are home, and life is slowly getting back to normal, i miss my art and am anxious to find some time to get back into it. my husband is working tonight and i think i'll dig in after gabe gets to bed. but add to all this the fact that i have my bible study starting up again next week and i have 3 lessons to catch up on! ( bad naughty me i have been really lazy and enjoyed not having home work during my daily devotions) and we are excitedly preparing for a new addition to our small but growing family. the new member i speak of is at the moment growing within my belly. and at 11 weeks i am occasionally sick and very tired whenever much energy is exherted. but we are, as i said before, very excited! well i supose i've rattled off long enough. but i must admitt that i enjoy talking to nobody. :)

final day of october

today is the last day of october, it has gone by so quickly. but november is one of my favorite months just like october so it's not so bad. :) there are so many nice things in november, my husband was born in november, we were married in november, thanksgiving is in november, and i like the poetic sound of "november" :)! anyway i have been so busy and not at all in the mood to create things. which is a shame because that means no fun halloween costumes. you might think that extremely odd since i profess to be such a costume nut. but busy and tired mixed with no money makes nothing at all. so instead i am showing you my book i made for my dad. it has various quotes about dreams and inspirations on one side and his favorite poem on the other.

mood movie

i recently got to go and see Marie Antoinette. my loving husband stayed home with the baby on a sat. morning so i could go which was very sweet. :) and since i love to see movies alone and like to get away by myself once and awhile it was really nice! i wasn't dissapointed with the movie really. though i do have to admit that i wasn't really expecting it to be all that great. (other than the amazing costuming of corse!)
i also must confess that i have been known to see and judge a movie entirely for it's costume. this was no exception. anyway, you are wondering where i'm going with this. it was a sad film, such a boring life they lead, with nothing to look forward to, no real reason to live other than to have children. now by all means i think having children is wonderful i just think that there is also more to life. and then even though they stop well before the end of MA's life you know that she is going to die...again, very sad. but i thouht it was beautifully done and kirsten was amazing! she has always been a favorite and didn't let me down. :) but all in all my favorite part was of course the costumes, a feast for the eyes it was indeed! i have been drooling over pictures for some months now so it was fun to see them and more on screen! here are my favorites so far....

journaling

these are my two more recent aditions to my art journal. the flower one is actually so not me but for some reason i was feeling colorful and wanted to create something with paper. the verse is Isaih 40:8 "the grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever." wow i love that! the other page was kind of a venting page. my husband was frustrating me by just being a guy about something. (not that he can help it right? ) so i went down stairs and did this page, if you read what i wrote there is a bit of hostility though. lol, anyway, i was also feeling lonely and ignored so when i saw the sheet music with the title, "how long wilt thou forget me?" i was like..."Perfect!" :) so, there you have it, a glimps of two moods. one feeling happy and like the world is bright and lovely, the other lamenting at the folly of husbands and being completely selfish and moody.

sinister femininity

this piece has been sitting on my easel for a couple weeks now as i decide whether or not it's finished. today i decided it is. a friend was over today, she was telling me how it spoke differently every time she came over and saw it. she mentioned that the first time it came off as feminine and the second time much more sinister like a murder mystery or something like. I'm not really sure what i was trying to say through it but i now it was on the darker side. i was originally going to do the peeling paint in a cream or lighter shade but then on a whim decided it needed to be dark which i almost came to regret later. anyway, take what you will from it, it is sinister femininity.