I started out the day by rear-ending a car in the turn lane at a stoplight. Then I missed my meeting for tuition assistance for college. And the rest of the day kind of went down hill from there. So I made cookies. Because cookies fix everything, right?
10
Feb
10
chocolate chip cookies 76/365
09
Feb
10
tulip 75/365
John brought home a pot of tulips from the grocery store. He’s sweet.
08
Feb
10
shelter #2 74/365
Today Jack, John and I went up to Kettle Moraine State Park in Wisconsin to do a little winter hiking. We stopped in to check out camping shelter #2 on the Ice Age Trail. Very nice spot. I’ll have to look into reserving it this summer. Nice view.
07
Feb
10
bottle caps 73/365
Just a recap for any new readers out there. I’ve been working on a photo project for the past oh let’s say 73 days. My goal is to take one photo every day for 365 days. I didn’t think of this myself. It’s a photo group project on Flickr. So for the past few months I’ve been taking my camera with me everywhere.
Today’s destination was another bowling alley. This time for a charity benefit for a former co-worker’s husband. I took some nice people photos, but since I am trying to avoid people photos on this project, I posted this one. Some beer bottle caps in a bucket of ice. The flash really washed the whole scene out, but I kind of like that.
My son Jack brings home a backpack load of school work everyday. Not every piece is important. Don’t tell him that though. The S+ papers go on the fridge for a while. The fine art goes on display too, and then to the art work box for posterity. But that still leaves a lot of paper to be thrown away.
I don’t throw it away of course. I try to recycle what I can. But today I found a new use for it all. Shred it and it becomes excellent and colorful packing material. Tah-dah. And guilt be gone.
Photo 71 is on Flickr and the Mixing the Medias fan page on FB because it’s a pic of a painting.
04
Feb
10
etsy store
What’s that you say? You’ve always wanted to own an original piece of Laura Sjoquist art? Well, it’s your lucky day. I just opened an Etsy store. It’s really a tax shelter for my money making husband. So buy a piece of art and save me from the tax man blues next year. Your contribution isn’t tax deductible to you, but it is to me.
www.mixingmedias.etsy.com
04
Feb
10
winter garden 70/365
Today it warmed up and the nasal illness I’ve been nursing let up enough to venture outside. I went to turn the compost. Which despite the cold snap is doing quite nicely. I also fed the birds and took a spin around the gardens. I say that like I have considerable space. I don’t. My spin took all of 5 minutes.
03
Feb
10
piano lesson 69/365
piano lesson 69/365, originally uploaded by laurasjoquist.
I didn’t adjust the color on this photo. My child is actually that white.
Jack had his first piano lesson today. He really seems excited about it. I’ve always wanted too, but never have played an instrument, so I am excited for him also. Maybe I’ll learn me some piano playing on the sly, since I can sit in on his lessons and “read”.
02
Feb
10
oops
I have two day 47. So actually I am on day # 68 today. It’s weird that I didn’t notice that sooner. Well, not really, I know exactly what I did wrong. So I’m not skipping a day when I go to 69 tomorrow. I’m just getting things back to where they are suppose to be. Weird.
02
Feb
10
oil pastels 67/365 and 66/365
I’ve had a cold for the past couple days that has kept me in the house and on the couch. I didn’t post photo # 66 because it’s just a picture of a tissue box.
Jack and I are sharing this cold. He stayed home from school today. He’s not sick enough to sleep all day though, so he had to be entertained. I busted out all of the coloring supplies.
I have never understood the point of oil pastels. Or as we called them in kindergarten Cray-pas. They kind of suck as a medium. Of course that’s just my opinion. Jack seems to like them.
