inspiration.

this is the lululemon manifesto. so inspirational...it's now on my fridge.

peace.

this is what i wish for...next week. i'm riding on a roller coaster lately. so many ups and downs with work, school, and life. i know that the ride will end before i know it and i will want to be back on it. :-) but for now, i really wish to enjoy some peace and quiet, some stillness. where and when i will find that, who knows. but i will.

last night, i was finishing up another project for my visual aesthetics class. i thought this class was going to be less stressful and more fun than my seminar class last semester, which was a lot of writing. but i'm finding that is not the case. i think part of that is due to the face that i'm both a procrastinator and a perfectionist. so i spend hours and hours on creating collages, replicas, whatever i'm assigned in class only to be dissatisfied with the end result. ok. maybe i'm really hard on myself and i need to relax a little...

anyhow, below i share with you my latest creation - a photo collage of my friend monica (you may have seen her photo in this post) who is a yoga instructor. she shared with me the saying, "know peace, know yoga. no peace, no yoga." and i love it! so i incorporated it into the collage. the images of her make up the sun salutation, which is a series of poses in yoga that warm the body and work the heart.

kandinsky.

as promised, here is my replica of wassily kandinsky's colour studies painting that i created in adobe cs3 photoshop. i spent way too many hours on it this week and finally had to step away from it last night at midnight. my version is on the left. kandinsky's is on the right. what do you think? leave me your feedback in comment section below.

a very special thanks to my beau andy for his guidance, patience, and his computer (i'm waiting to receive my copy of the adobe cs4 suite for my computer - hopefully getting it in the mail today!)

leg warmers.

a tribute to the 80's...

who says adults can't wear leg warmers? i think they are so underrated. on a chilly day like today, they were the perfect accessory to keep my legs warm and cozy.

i wish i could say that i knit these myself, but i'm afraid i paid $10 for them, which is not bad. i love how there's a slight ruffle on the bottom.

visual aesthetics.

this is certainly not a work of art, but it's the result of what i created in my first visual aesthetics class on saturday. i discovered that adobe photoshop has zillions and zillions of brushes to chose from! it's quite overwhelming actually. but i've learned so much already.

my assignment for the next class is to replicate a wassily kandinsky painting in photoshop. i chose the one below. so far, i'm making good progress. i'll post the my final version later this week.

i actually want to redesign the cafe taber banner up top now that i'm acquiring new photoshop skills. i'd love to hear suggestions from you on images, colors, fonts, etc. leave a comment below!

good morning!

i've been away from here for a little while. enjoying the month long break from graduate school. i must admit, keeping up two blogs was a bit of a challenge. but i'm back from my hiatus and ready to tell you all what i've been up. so sit back, grab a cup of coffee,

(i'm drinking mine right now as i type this post with some delicious fresh vermont-made half & half that i bought when I was visiting my sister last weekend), turn on some tunes, and read away!