Diane’s World

Brace yourself, this post is going to be long. Very long. Lots of pictures… and long. So long, that I am going to have two songs of the week.

The first (I hope it’s working at least…) is my favorite Damien Rice song, “Lonelily”… it’s one of those rare songs where I was immediately in love with the first listening, so I hope it’s the same for all of you.

The second is “Save Tonight” by Eagle Eye Cherry. I’m posting it for a friend. This friend and I listened to it over seven times today. You know who you are

Both of them have to do with someone leaving or loneliness at least…Which.. I guess, is the exact opposite of the theme of this post this week.I actually had a brilliantly wonderful non-lonely kind of week. Kind of. I’m still having mixed emotions, but this is the best week I could’ve thought of to have.

First of all, I know you all want to see my cow (moo!) sculpture that was mentioned in the previous post. Here you go (these two pictures were taken by Professor Sheesley):

and here is my cow with the rest of the bunch:

Obviously, the cow is superior. (Too bad it’s impossible to type with a sarcastic sneer…)

I’ve been up to a lot of mischief the past few days. Let’s just say, when it comes to awkward moments I am THE QUEEN of creating them

I live for awkwardness. My life is one big awkward moment. Oh dear.

Anyways, Thursday night was fun with Amanda and Jason night - as well as my sister. Here are some pictures of that great night:

Isn’t my sister attractive? (good thing she doesn’t read this blog that often, or else I may get a yelling at!!! )

And here is the most absolutely cheesy picture of the night:

It was a funny crazy night… and no, I don’t care to elaborate.

Friday I got some quality Jeremiah time.

We somehow acquired some free acorn squash, so we made them together.

We watched a couple episodes of one of the best TV shows out there - THE OFFICE

and then we made some yummy brownies. Food, The Office AND Jerry? That is definitely worth an embarrasing picture:

hee hee.

Saturday was almost entirely spent finishing off a lot of art stuff.

I updated my portfolio website (Which my genius brother-in-law ANDREW needs to fix the link to at the top of this page? It mysteriously stopped working? Can you handle that, Andrew?)

HOWEVER you can SEE IT HERE!

It has a lot of new stuff - I’ll point out some of the highlights:

Naomi and I were assigned to do a collaborative drawing together. Here is out finished products:

It’s awesome because we both have extremely different drawing styles, yet we somehow managed to marry them together in these drawings. Hooray!

And Naomi is fun to work with.

If you couldn’t tell the right picture is celery.

It looked ok the first time we worked with it - but by the second week of drawing it, it was less than pleasing. We once decided to freeze it… but it only made it worse. By the end the celery looked (and smelled) like this:

We decided to bury it:

and I got to do the honors of kicking snow on it:

and Naomi got to wash the nasty pot we kept it in

After this, Naomi and did an ART TRADE!

(yay!)

I had made a heart teapot (I call it “pour your heart out”)

Naomi had an awesome vase. We were both jealous of what the other had, so we did a little trade:

I’m getting really good at this whole trading thing

And us with our new art! (Squeal!)

We totally took these photos by ourself

If you look at my art website, I have a few more of my ceramics art that I have created. I need to retake some pictures, so there will be more later!

Ok I’m finally running out of stuff to talk about.

Except there is a painting that I just realized I haven’t publicly posted until now. My cousins Dave and Trina (and not counting Dordt students or professos) - have been the only people I allowed a sneak peek. They should feel special

Here it is:

(By the way - it’s name changes between “Shame”, “Remorse”, “Isolated” and “Regret” every five minutes. Grr… I hate naming art… and I also hate when people write “Untitled”.)

Keep in mind that this painting is 4.5 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide. I really actually love how it turned out. Let me know what all of you think!

Ok I have lots to get back to doing… like going to sleep

I hope you are all having a good week.

Mom - I’m sorry if I haven’t called you for… a long time. I will soon.

Family in general: I CAN’T wait to see you next week!!! I’ll be home soon!

Dordt friends: This is your last chance to hang with me! Don’t blow it

Chow!

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