What I've been up to

Thursday night was the photo call for Issun Boshi,the show I've been designing. I thought I would post a few pictures that I took so that the family and friends that I've barely spoken to for a month can see what I've been up to. Some of the costumes you see here were rented some of them were things that we built. The pink princess costume and the orange and blue costume on the guy on stillts were hand painted. I'm very pleased with how everything turned out.

Butterfly Lady

So it wasn't Halloween but I decided the day before called for a little bit up dress up.

You know your a costume designer when...

You dig up dirt put it in a bowl mix it with water and...


Paint the mud on boots!

Happy October!

Today is October 1st and that means fall is really here now. We have had unseasonalbly warm weahter and then yesterday it snowed go figure, but I am really excited that it's October because this is the start of my favorite time of year from October to Christmas. I love to dress warm and cook "fall food" like stew and soups, and I like to go for walks and just look at the fall colors. It might be my mothers influence on me over the years but I just love Autum.

Yellowstone

Last week my friends Nate and MerAnda and I went on a quick camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. I have wanted to camp in Yellowstone for a while because it's something I haven't done since I was a kid(pre-teen) and I have great memories of it. Yellowstone is probably one of my favorite places and no matter how many times I see it I still love it and I'm facinated by it. Here are a few pictures.






This is a chipmunk at Firehole river my sisters and I used to feed them sunflower seeds when we were young. As I was standing there a little girl was feeding them, seeing that was very nostagic for me. I tried to get a picture but couldn't.



This trip I bought a wildflower guide so I took a lot of pictures of the wildflowers so I can try to identify them.



I don't know why but I have never been on the walk that goes around the old faithful area where you can see many more gyesers and hot springs Nate was surprised that I had never seen that part of Yellowstone before. This is Castle Geyser from that walk it was pretty cool looking and if we could have waited untill 10 p.m. we might have been able to see it erupt.



The famous old faithfull we sort of caught it coming and going but it's always fun to see even if your not right up close with the crowds.



We went in the Old Faithful Inn and when we walked in Nate said he had never been in it I was pretty surprised by that you can see him here looking up at the woodwork it was cool to show him something he had never seen since he had shown me a trail I had never seen.



This is Nate starting his famous "two match fire" which actually only took him one match to light but he says if you go around claiming a one match fire then you look stupid if it takes two. I have a feeling he could start a fire without matches if he wanted to but I was impressed with his one match and no newspaper fire.



Bison



The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone



We decided to drive home through Grand Teton National Park and boy am I glad we did



Nate thought that this was probably a moose it was far a way and this was the best my camera would do for a zoom shot.



And then the coolest thing I saw and have never seen before was this...Look closly.



A Grissly Bear! he's right next to the wood fence.

A Sense of Acomplishment

Well I'm pleased with myself because I just finished a big goal that I set for myself this week. While I would have liked to do something fun or go somewhere exciting (even my parents house, while normally not "exciting" would have been a heck of a lot more fun then hanging out at my apartment by myself) but instead of going and doing something fun or even being around people I have just finished my first rough draft of my first chapter of my Plan B Report which is kind of like a Thesis for my grad program. Now it's really rough and it will need a lot of work before it's even ready for my committee to review it(and then suggest a bunch of rewrites) but I set out to have the at least a very rough draft and I did it. Now I need to get out of my apartment and have some fun the only person I've had a face to face conversation with this week was a Borders employee and I'm bored out of my mind and a little lonely so this last week before school starts is for having fun. I have a short camping trip with friends planned for Tuesday-Wednesday and a friend's wedding in Salt Lake on Thursday but other than that what should I do? Any Suggestions?

Being Creative

I was a little bored yesterday so I decided to go to Micheal's and look around. For more than a year I have been looking for a late summer wreath for my door and haven't found anything that I like. I thought to myself hey I used to work in a flower shop I can figure out how to do this... so I bought a $4 grapevine wreath and some inexpensive silk flowers and I made one myself.

Here it is while I was working on it.



And this is the finnished product.




What do you think?