182.5/365 - Patriotic Kid Wear

July 1, 2011

We did shirt decorating today for the kids to wear over the weekend. :) They had a blast decorating them! 

Also, as of today I am officially halfway through with my 365 project!

155/365 - Zombie Becky

June 4, 2011

 So, Zombie Prom was a blast. Todd and I were the "official" photographers of the evening, and it was amazing! Here you can see most of my backdrop. It was an awesome night! (Except for when I got overheated because my dress didn't breath, plus my tank top and shorts underneath and I almost passed out. Yeahhh, that's just me.)

I had teased my hair up real big and crazy, but it fell out. :( 

154/365 - this was fun.

june 3, 2011

had our book club meeting tonight to discuss "water for elephants". we had cotton candy, funnel cakes, sausages, and spiked lemonade! :) it was yummy. then i had to come home and finish my painting/backdrop for zombie prom!

151/365 - the biggest painting i've done to date.

may 31, 2011

 getting started on the backdrop for the zombie prom photos tonight. this is quite literally the biggest thing i've ever undertaken. :) i'm excited.

143/365 - warhol earrings!

may 23, 2011

 Um, just how cute are these?

Get your own super cool jewelry from my derby sister Sarah "LuckyScarrs" Thrasher, here at Suspended.

141/365 - no regrets!

May 21, 2011

Aw, aren't we cute? ;)

129/365 - art wheel.

May 9, 2011

There was no practice last Monday because there was a party booked at the skating rink. Sadface.

(Way behind again. Sorry! I get all caught up and then fall soo behind. Not cool.)

118/365 - easter is still going on over here!

We FINALLY got around to decorating our Easter Eggs on Thursday night. What can I say, it's been a busy week!

April 28, 2011

Jerry wasn't too interested in helping... he was too busy playing Indiana Jones. (He calls him G.I. Jones)

This was a cool "camo" egg coloring kit which called for adding oil to the colors. It was pretty amazing.

They came out looking similar to this.

59/365 - nothing ever goes where it's supposed to.

February 28, 2011

This is why I'll never be a good house keeper. The drawer where my colored pencils actually go is like.... 5 steps away from where I put them. Why do I do this? What possesses me? Really?

46/365 - just a little section of my life.

February 15, 2011

Working on  making the wall in my studio look interesting and inspiring. :) I haven't made a great deal of progress.

42/365 - i totally made this.

February 11, 2011

whew. There was this 'heart decorating' contest, so I helped make (or completely made) this amazing light up heart for one of the students. It was fun and the kids enjoyed it. Sorry this picture is so horrible, but there's really no making it look any better, so here you go. My photo of the day. 

31/365 - Books can be deceiving.

January 31, 2011

I look professional... don't I? ;)

This is an area of my art room/shelf. An area that is so junky right now, I couldn't sit down and paint in less than a few hours if my life depended on it. Every weekend I say I am going to "clean the office" or "organize the office" or whatever, but we all know how that ends up. That's right. I go in there, move a few things around and get distracted. 

I want my art room to be in such a state that if I decided as soon as I got home that I wanted to paint a picture, I would be able to sit down and do it, no questions asked... or, no junk in my way.

21/365 - primary/secondary

January 21, 2011

Decided to take some "real" paint colors to school today. We don't just have... plain red/blue/yellow/white/black, so I took in some bottles I hadn't opened yet. I'm keeping them in my teacher bag of course, because otherwise I'd go in Monday and somehow the entire bottles would be empty. On a plate. Or on one picture. Next to an empty bottle of glue. That I just filled up yesterday.
I'm all about encouraging creativity and letting them do all kinds of arts and crafts... but some of the kids are like, "Miss Becky, I need to glue this" and I look and they literally have one piece of paper infront of them. They just want to... glue the piece of paper to itself. Over and over again.
Or, "Miss Becky, I need to cut this" and it's a piece of string. Being cut into a million pieces.

This sounds trivial, but I swear it drives me up a wall. And I hate paper airplanes being made out of expensive construction paper. Am I this anal?
Yeah, I am.