life update

Hello!
Here is a life update for those of you (family members) who read my blog to find out what i'm really doing with my life.

*I really am turning in letters, resumes, and applications left and right!
On the left for a summer field research opportunity on the Minnesota plaines working with Echinacea populations, pollination, and ecology. And on the right, for my dream job at Fungi Perfecti growing mushrooms! You might say I really am taking charge of my future.

*I really am eating my veg.
*I really am going to graduate this June.
*I really am checking out VW vans. Home sweet home!
*I really am cleaning out the clutter and trash in my life/home.

I hope I stay on track...

amanita design

A friend showed me this great site by amanita design. First, great name. Second, great animations. Here is my favorite video, "plantage"

http://samorost2.net/plantage/

(they also have funny interactive games, so give those a look at http://www.amanitadesign.com/)

women

I have been in bed most of the day reading a beautiful, true book. My sister gave it to her closest female friends and relatives for Christmas. And I know why; Terry Tempest Williams' book "refuge" is about women. The Great Salt Lake, our Earth, the environment, wildlife, birds, government, $$, authority, Mormonism, spirituality, family, Utah, nuclear testing, lies, cancer, and death are all told through the experience of a woman and thus of all women. I recognized her life and felt love, grief, isolation, and rage along with her. My connection to everyone, to everything, and to myself has benefitted from this life affirming, true story. I highly recommend this book.

sewing

Happy New Year! It is 2008. I graduate this year, and it is a presidential election year. I have been sewing the last few days to get some sellable wares stocked up before my new school semester starts. My cousin gave me some old fabric/curtains/quilts to take apart. Some of them are pretty crazy, i think you will agree. Take, for instance, this psychadelic hawaiian quilt with a panda bear (?) at the center. Very intense. Unfortunately i didn't remember to take a picture of it before i had started to cut it up. However, I did have forethought enough to make sure to cut out the bag I am keeping for myself in such a way as to keep the naked ladies patch in a good spot.

everyone knows it

I like mushrooms and everyone knows it. I just received a christmas gift that reminded me of this.
Two different, very nice, cool, sweet men in my life have given me smurf houses for christmas (bless their hearts). It's sort of funny and weird to get multiple smurf houses - but I do really love mushrooms, which i realize is rare.
I am happy to be everybody's "friend that likes mushrooms." Thank you friends, you are so thoughtful and sweet! Merry Christmas!

painting

I wish i had made this beautiful painting, it is by Brian Kershisnik.

Instead i have been making veg stew, christmas decorations :) and celebrating 87% on CALCULUS final. yes, wahoo, yay, yay!

doing IT...

I wish I could post that I have been up to the ultimate "making and doing," which would be doing IT and making a baby...but that is not the case.
The case is that it is finals week. A good excuse to make nothing and do nothing!

Actually, I have been up to making a doing a lot, just not school things. Things like making gingerbread 3X, cardamom bread 2X, handknit mittens, christmas presents; and doing things like watching Michael Jackson's DVD of music Videos and taking saunas at my friend's house.

In addition, here is a really funny thing from the internet: http://blog.icelandexpress.com/iceland?gclid=CJ2z7fCXwo8CFQg1WAod21bsXg

making and doing a blog

Hello, this is my first blog. On October 29th I realized I wanted a blog. This morning in the bath I decided this: now that November 29th is over but it is not yet December 29th, it is time to make a blog.
And here we are. A blog about making and doing, my two favorite things. I figured it was a broad enough topic I would have something good to post about every day if not multiple times a day.
I like to do things and I love to make things. I also like to grow things.
things i like to do:
baths
bikerides
forage for food in my town
read about plants
saunas
things i like to make:
food!
handbound books
knit mittens
sewn headbands
sewn bags
things i like to grow:
vegetables
mushrooms