Slow Migration

Blogspot seemed a lot easier to work with so I decided to move our ugliest bird on over, but I was thwarted by someone having taken the name already! I suppose I have been doing more things lately than drawing ugly birds anyway 😦

At any rate, I am slowly moving myself to Turning Into Gold. Posts have been successfully imported, now it’s a matter of slowly transferring everything else! Ugly Bird will stay up until I figure blogger out.

Recent Things

Passing time in Union Station
I went to the opening event for “The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol” at MOCA Grand. The show was really impressive which is great! I wasn’t sure what to expect since I’m not actually a huge fan of Warhol, but some of the pieces in this show are so fantastic!


Josh Smith^^^

Wade Guyton^^^

Julie Mehretu^^^^

DAS INSTITUT ^^^^

While I was there, I took some snapshots of the Rothko paintings in the permanent collection since I had failed to do so in all of my previous visits

Still working on my embroidery

It’s May! It’s May! A good month so far!

Then I just thought the light in my apartment looked nice

Best recent thing of all, my review panel passed my portfolio! This is my happiest, mascara smeary, tears of joy forever and ever face!

Seattle Aquarium

So I totally forgot to post the rest of my pictures from Seattle last month! Whoops! Here’s some snapshots from the Seattle Aquarium!

best fish ever

& so it grows

A little bit here & a little bit there. Filling it in slow slow slow so it grows & grows & grows.

Tonight

If I could wish for anything, it would definitely be more time to work on my personal projects. Until then, I’ll just stay up really late sometimes embroidering until my fingers ache. This is going to take some time!

FOOD! & Flowers I guess too

So now I would like to share some snapshots from Pike Place Market. It was actually kind of depressing because I wanted to buy so much of the yummy produce & the tasty looking fish but it would have been so impractical. & they had all these really wonderful, super bright flowers that again, I wanted to keep, but could not! Augh! But first I will show you this picture of what I ate before going to the market at Citizen Coffee. Fantastic name, fantastic coffee. & isn’t it nice when someone draws a heart in your latte? I think so. Hearts all the time! None of that leafy nonsense!

So I guess that is the first Starbucks. I did not actually go in because I’m not that into Starbucks & it was incredibly crowded. This banjo guy was quite talented though!

So that’s it from there! I hope this isn’t too boring. There will be otters & dinosaurs & a troll in the near future!

Space Needle

I really like the Space Needle in the way that you have to like over the top, touristy, sensationalist things that were created for World’s Fairs of the past. It is exactly what I was expecting it to be, an odd structure that sang to my sci-fi loving heart. The thing that I was not expecting was an angry bird attached to it & I’m still not entirely sure what that’s about, but I’ve never really been into that game (Triple Town & Very Hungry Cat are my iPhone favorites if you wanted to know). Anyway, I paid the ridiculous $19 admission to go to the top of the needle & it was pretty neat! I also bought many a postcard for some of my favorite friends (& my parents, duh!) back home!

I Left My Heart In . . . Wait, That’s Not How The Song Goes!

 

I’ve been in Seattle this past weekend! It’s so exciting to visit somewhere new & it’s been ages since I’ve been able to go anywhere outside of L.A. except for short visits home. You’ll have to excuse the barrage of very touristy pictures that will be taking up this space in the next few days! Seattle was so cute & small & really easy to get around. It seems like it would be really fun to live there for a year or two.

There’s Always Time for an Easy Project

Basically this quarter killed me. Or really it just took up loads of any extra time that I had. But there is always time to slowly slowly slowly work on something and I think if I hadn’t done this I would have lost my mind. An incredibly simple pattern from Lion found here. You need to be a member to sign in and view it which is annoying, but besides the few minutes of your life devoted to registration, the pattern is free! It’s basically just a big rectangle that you fold in half & stitch a short bit of each end so it has sleeves. Did that make sense? I’m guessing not, but once you see the pattern you’ll know what I’m talking about. Anyway this thing is really nice to have around. It’s kind of like a crocheted snuggie. It is not quite as embarrassing as wearing a snuggie around may be in public, but mostly I leave it at home and wear it when I return from school or work because there are few things as pleasant as coming home and wearing a blanket for the rest of the evening.

Recent Things

The quarter has ended! Yay! Spring Break! Party all the time! Not really though because in actual real life I’ll be working on stuff for my degree.

Delicious things.

& then I got totally dramatic & cut all my hair off!

Just kidding, I actually just wanted to cut bangs again.