August 7, 2015

Jamie

I'm continuing to have a wonderful time at art school! Yesterday we spent some time on critiques in the morning, which was absolutely helpful and inspiring, and then spent the rest of the day creating papers that today we're going to work on collaging. I feel like I could spend weeks and weeks and weeks exploring what I've been learning - and I hope to!

Shannon
If I had been a moment earlier I would have gotten all three cats in this pic! And if I was a moment later it would just be Shibumi. It was a fun day to hang out with the cats and catch up on a few things, then watch the political debate. Fun times.

Suzie

Another totally psycho-busy day! This time with doing 3 unboxing videos. No time for wardrobe change either because then I was out of the house and going to D&D which was a blast but I'm looking forward to having zero plans on Friday. By the way, this sour lemon gum was even more sour than the package suggests. I've never had to spit anything out on camera before!!! Not sure that will make the cut.

August 6, 2015

Jamie 

Another great day at Art School! I can't believe it's half over already. It was a lot of fun to start creating our own papers for collaging with. Tomorrow we'll use them. I could spend weeks on each thing we've learned. I truly do love collage.

 

Suzie

Shannon was a total internet and tech rockstar on Wednesday! It was so awesome just catching and hanging out online with you Shannon and to help me get on Instagram too?! I just can't believe it. Thank you so much. I hope I remember how to use it now. :)

August 5, 2015

Jamie

All packed up and somewhere to go - art school! It was a great day though pretty exhausting. Still, I gotta take those orbs as a good sign!

Shannon
I am really enjoying being a part of Sparkles! And although I don't have a favourite poem, I do fave a favourite quote and it was fun to look back on it after all these years and realize I still feel 100% that it's the truth of pretty much everything.

Suzie

Today was a hard and busy day and hot and uncomfortable with zero photos taken. In honour of Jamie's first day of art collage, I share this sculpture I saw at VanDusen Gardens on the weekend.

August 4, 2015

Shannon
It's been having so much fun with Sparkles! And I was so happy to have crayons to scribble like mad today, I had to go for a few pages and had a lot of fun both not thinking about what I was doing and then later going back and trying to replicate some of the effects I got. So much fun.

Suzie

Reg and I intended to go to Deep Cove on Monday and got there but couldn't find parking anywhere! Then we were going to go to the top of Mount Seymore and missed the turn. As a result, we ended up just driving down all the way to Porteau Cove (where we saw the sea otter Jamie!) and it was gorgeous. We have been here almost a year and have not left the city once! Until Monday. And no, I don't know that woman but I totally loved that she was having a Titanic moment.

August 3, 2015

Shannon
I finally got to sit down and try out Alien: Isolation. First off.... it's so scary! It's so cool to hear all the sounds and score that I'm so familiar with from the Alien films, and you get to play Ripley! I'm still adapting to how you play and what you do, it's pretty intense and you have to follow the storyline and I totally miss stuff all the time! But, on first try I successfully got dressed (woohoo!), and on the second try I was able to like... follow the story much more. This is going to be a lot of fun. Thank you so much to Suzie for the birthday present!!

Suzie

I learned a lot playing a human paladin. I really like healing people. Being "good" with people who are elitist is almost impossible for me. My character had a deity that believed in her but she didn't believe in herself or that the deity was necessarily right about her. Twice Reg and I have had characters that died and both times, we perished fighting together. That if the future world of D&D (and this has to do with future campaigns at our store) only allows for you to be human and not a magic-user, then I do not want to play. I will play in Reg's world where I can talk to animals and turn into a bush.

Aug 2, 2015: Random

Shannon
It's so nice to be able to share Random Cat Pics again (thank you Jamie, the kitten rescuer!). Here is Escher hanging out in the chair. I often wake up and find him there, although I don't always hear him come in. Sneaky kitty!

Aug 1, 2015

Shannon
I had some fun making a few bookmarks for a few anticipated reads this month, and I made this one for a fantasy book that I am going to read called Uprooted that's a book club pick. I want to make so many more bookmarks! I need to find a good way to store pics to make this and doing collage easy at-my-fingertips kind of activity.