the past 4 weeks

Gwennie's memorial

guys watching football

brothers punching each other at church

pip's new pad

skeletons in a museum

thanksgiving

gummi worms

pies and fries

maranatha kids making animals with various sweet things

home-made biscotti

borders with amaris

decorating the christmas tree

morrissey in concert

and life keeps going...

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and the seasons, they go round and round

i think it's safe to say that things are overwhelming right now. just not enough hours in the day...but things keep right on going.

Thursday night was the opening of the Fairhaven Show that i am in. it is the most beautiful collection i have ever been honored to be a part of...

there's my painting, down at the end...

gwen. she's pretty great.

here's a video of Wren and Anna singing to her...

oh yeah, and California is on fire again. i have a sore throat and headache from the smoke and ash clogging the air. fun!

i drove to Santa Ana this evening to pick up my painting from the show, and while passing through the area of Yorba Linda, even with the inside air on, i had to cover my face with a sweatshirt. The smoke was so thick.
aaand it's 90 degrees. in november. sigh. oh what i wouldn't give for some real fall...! a mere few days in a row is all i ask!

oh, and i've been painting, too. which is just smashing.

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validation!

i was just accepted into an fantastic exhibition for LCAD MFA and alumni. the flyer is below...dates and all. i'm very excited!!




my painting of edan will be on display.

thank You Lord~!

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firstly,

a-hem. updates...

yaaay for fires on the 57 freeway...and lots and lots of traffic...

Chad taking a pool break after working on the house ALL day saturday...

Arec

pot-luck on Sunday was the biggest we have ever had...tell our church to "make extra for some visitors", and it will surely happen...

sunday afternoon naptime...

the illustrious Dandelion Council had a show sunday night...Pip and Andrew were at their hippest...

afterwards. that's when things got interesting...

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Man, civic duty or not, the whole deal of reporting to a jury summons is lame. Sarah got a summons this week, and after having previously postponed twice, she has to stick to it. She just found out she needs to go to the courthouse tomorrow...so she will miss at least the first day of Westmont. jerks.

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la premiere framboise de l'ete

randomness from the last week or so...


my friend Tonya's good-bye party at the Yard House...she went back to Russia on Friday...


saturday..."practicing" for Pip's show...

i haven't taken cloud pictures in a while...

aaand Pip's show. at the El Cid last night...





it's starting to be warm and lovely
the first raspberry of summer...





feet. and my favorite shoes.


Alec and Sarah got home from Texas today...


we ate and shopped at this crazy place in Glendale where they have a trolley, and a big fancy fountain, and just about every kind of shop and venue you can imagine. i didn't even know it existed before today...

at 16:00 there was a water show that was choreographed to Louis Armstrong's "it's a wonderful world".

a few feet away from me a little girl was standing with her dad, was enthralled by the spurting, swirling jets of water. she remained in rapt attention through the whole song, a smile on her glowing little face, the afternoon breeze picking up strands of her hair in a halo around her head...


it made me really happy.

weird thing:
i can't find my ipod, so yesterday i was rifling through the cds in my car and found a blank disk in an unlabeled case. i remembered that one of my friends gave me a mix cd a few weeks ago! so i popped it in...and it is beyond fantastic. problem is, i can't remember who gave it to me. so i'm very frustrated.
"wow colleen!" you're saying..."if that was the pique of my frustrations, i would be so happy!"
and to that, i reply, "well, you're right. unfortunately, it is not the foremost frustration in my life. i have just decided to focus in it instead of, for example...my anxiety about getting a job...and the fact that my knees don't work anymore..."

ok. all jesting aside, the Lord has been really good this week, in the midst of frustration. so i just want to thank Him for that.

oh if only i could just draw people for the rest of my life. sigh.

we'll see...


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