Its not who you are that holds you back, its who you think you are not. -anon.

My makeup website/blog

2011-12-13T14:25:00.002-06:00

I probably won't post much here any longer.

So, visit the following:

www.semakeup.com

www.facebook.com/SarahElizabethMakeup.

Thanks!

-se

Stand with Planned Parenthood!! We need 1 million!

2011-03-02T19:39:00.001-06:00

I STAND WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD!! <--Sign the petition!

Did you hear? The House voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk. It's time for you and me to stand with Planned Parenthood. Sign the open letter to the reps who voted for this bill — and to the senators who still have a chance to stop it.

2011 - Post VFS grad.

2011-02-17T16:24:00.004-06:00

Vancouver. What has happened since November. Well, graduation for one. Which went great! I had a good friend Brook (who happens to be an amazing photographer!! Look here.) and the guy I am dating come to grad for me. So, since I couldn't have family and friends from home it was nice to have some special people from here come and cheer me on. I did not get the award I wanted at the end of the year and I still think I only missed it by tenths of a point on my grades. But I was one of the top 4 people in our class and that was very exciting! I graduated with honors and an overall grade of 95.85. Pretty good! Still not the 98-100 that I wanted but I'm not complaining, not really. ;)

After grad I had about 2 weeks completely off. It was amazing! I stayed at home (my roommate, Malin had went home to Sweden for a month) watched all of Fringe up to the season break in season 3, ate some good food and hung out with some good friends, slept a lot, stayed in my jammies all day - a lot, and just really relaxed and had a good time.

As I was not able to go home for Ch'mas this year I had friends over and we had our own little orphan ch'mas for those that were still in Van. It was a lot of fun, we made some good food, watched the Star Wars Marathon on Christmas Day and enjoyed sleeping in and a pancake breakfast.

New Years Eve I spent with a few friends and Andres (the bf). We went out to Granville street (a big night scene) and rang in the new year with a few thousand people. It as awesome, not nearly as cold as Chicago and then slept in the next day!

This new year has started off insane! Which is good but it is also very tiring. I am finding makeup work after school and have done a few awesome projects and have a few awesome ones coming up. Check out my makeup site to see pics. sarahelizabethmakeup.blogspot.com

I worked with the Entertainment Business Management (EBM) program in their cross discipline project called Compendium. Here is a glimps at the script and group I worked on/with. I will be working with another EBM student in March on a PSA (Public Service Announcement) Commercial for Big Brothers Canada. I'm quite excited for this as well!

My most exciting news right now is that I plan to take a 1-2 week trip home in July to see family and friends in Chicago and IN. I. Cannot. Wait. It has been over a year since I've see some of them and other just since Aug but by the time I get there it will be so long overdue. It's already long overdue!

Plus I will get to see my friend Mariko's new baby girl, watch two really good friends get married and go see another show by the RBP (www.therbp.org). I plan to eat a LOT of Mexican food while I'm home and try to spend all my time with people. I'm so excited!

I'm waiting on the work permit to come through and hoping to get it soon so I can start moving forward with planning and working up here. Gah! High time to be able to work!

Life is busy, has it's ups and downs but is good right now. I know I am where I am supposed to be and doing what I am supposed to do. My decision to completely turn my life upside down and go back to school for Make-up was the right thing to do. It has not always been easy and I know there will still be a LOT of ups and downs, well, forever, but I love it. Being on set is amazing, working with a film crew, actors, director etc, just brings so much energy to me. I love it.

End of year.

2010-11-26T00:06:00.003-06:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I have a little time tonight since I'm mostly done with my portfolio and thought I would finally get an update on here.

Biggest update is that my portfolio, what I have been working towards all year here at VFS, is due tomorrow at noon. I can't believe that my year is really coming to an end. I am excited for what will happen next (still not sure) and terrified about that as well. I'll be putting my portfolio up on my website/blog after it is all completed and sent to the printers next week.

I'll try to do a quick up date of the last while. I got an internship for a week at MASTERS FX it was amazing and quite fun! I got to know a lot of new people and am hoping to go back. I worked on a lot of organizing; their foam latex back stock (prosthetic pieces/monsters, age etc) as well as their storage room. Which means I saw a lot of stuff that has been used in FRINGE episodes and dummies that have been used in movies and such too.

We also were able to work on a couple silicon pieces for upcoming episodes of FRINGE which was fun. I learned how to hair punch in silicon and did a little seaming. This all means you take a forked needle, punch one hair at a time into the skin of the fake body/head/hand/whatever and push the hair in a bit. The seaming is what happens when you have a 2 piece mold and it comes out with a 3d seam. You have to cut it off, fix it and make it look seamless. Not the easiest thing and can be quite repetitive (as can punching hair) but it is still good.

They also let me sculpt a little. I made some blenders. These are super thin pieces that you sculpt on a flat or rounded surface that you later use with prosthetics (usually foam latex) that have bad edges to try and hide the bad edge.

As I did this internship I didn't have a final project but as I really wanted to still get in one last thing I slipped in a mini cylon mask that I sculpted on my own time. I'm really happy with the sculpt. Now I just have to finish the mold and pour the latex to make it a mask and paint the whole thing.

I am still going to try and sculpt another age makeup on my friend Susan's husband and make it out of gelatin since I can do that at home (after making the mold that is.)

As I said portfolio's are due tomorrow and I am basically done. I am just going to have my teacher and a friend or two look at it tomorrow and critique it and then turn it in. I am quite happy with it and putting everything together sure gives me a huge sense of accomplishment for this year. I know I am in the right place and doing the right thing, even if there are hurdles and it is at times incredibly hard!

I love this stuff!

So, what's coming up for me. Well, Grad is in a few weeks and then Ch'mas. This will be the first Ch'mas I will be spending the whole Ch'mas season without any family. So far I'm holding it together, but we'll see how I do later next month. I do have some good friends that will be staying up here in Van over the holidays too so I intend to spend it with them and both my landlords and my friend Christine (who hooked me up with my landlords) have invited me to spend some time with them over Ch'mas so I am not alone. I appreciate this so much!

This week as it is Thanksgiving and as I am not going home my friends Tannis and Jackie (fellow US kids) will be cooking a huge meal for friends. There are 23 of us plus my landlords perhaps who will be eating so Saturday will be filled with a frenzy of cooking. I'm quite excited about it actually.

At this time I am planning and trying to make staying up here in Van work out. VFS literally just got on a list of private schools that are eligible for the Post Graduation Work Permit option that public schools have. So, I am hoping to apply for that. However I was told in Oct that the school would have more information on that by the end of the month and now in Nov I am being told they will know more by the end of this month and that they see it starting/in effect by Jan. Here's hoping I am able to apply for it otherwise I will be making a quick move in the month of Jan somewhere. I think I would be able to work as a TA if I get this work permit, not to mention random gigs and maybe even at the shop (Masters FX) or a local huge makeup/film supplier.

So that is pretty much all of everything at this point. Things are still in flux as to what will be happening in the next month. Who knows, maybe I'll move to Seattle or LA or even back to Chicago. I don't know. I don't know even when I will be back in the Midwest to see friends and family so one day at a time.

Graduation is December 16 so if anyone is in the area, let me know and you are welcome to come! There will be free food and good company. :)

more soon (hopefully sooner than later!)

Mimespeak

2010-11-08T01:05:00.001-06:00

And another film I worked on this year. This is just the trailer but it was a HI-larious little film to work on and the final product is amazing.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=453417793194

Movies/video's I have done makeup for....

2010-10-14T18:33:00.002-05:00

Monster Date:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emvgrbKFNjw&feature=player_embedded

Vitals Music Video:
http://www.vimeo.com/14910361

More to come...

Ten rules for being human...

2010-10-13T23:48:00.001-05:00

Found this online today. Its a good thing to remember. ;)

Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

Admiral Ackbar!

2010-09-23T22:39:00.002-05:00

Check it out.... http://sarahemakeup.blogspot.com/

My makeup blog is updated. Admiral Ackbar is done and now we start foam latex for our final exam for term 5. I can't believe that I only have 3 months left of school! I have to figure out what I am going to do after. I REALLY want to stay in Vancouver but short of marrying someone or taking a full time job for a work permit with something I don't like I don't think I can. So...I will quite possibly be moving. I am starting to think of Seattle as a viable option. I still need to do a lot of research about it all but we will see what happens. Anyone want to hire me up here in Vancouver so I can stay!?

Music Video - VITALS

2010-09-12T20:12:00.001-05:00

The music video I worked on a few months ago. VITALS

http://www.vimeo.com/14910361

Term 3 & 4 (and start of 5) updates...

2010-09-07T10:03:00.008-05:00

Mostly pictures in this update. SO much has happened in the last 4 months. I know I am not doing this justice by only posting these pics, bear with me. I have only 4 months left in my year at VFS. At this point I am planning on staying up here in Vancouver for at least a year, I am currently trying to figure out how to do this. Or I may move to Seattle if I can't stay, or if things go well, I may have an amazing film opportunity (more on this late if it happens).

Since April, here is a diluted run through of things that have happened...

I finished term 3 with a wax application makeup, got a pretty damn good grade on it. A blue goat man.
Went to LA for about 3 days for my birthday to visit a good friend, amazing trip! Included Disneyland, A baseball game, the beach, a hike and good time spent with friends.
I headed a huge makeup project with 24 artists, 12 models and crew. Body painting for a calendar (that I don't think will be produced now, boo!). I did a snake with my friend Jackie.
I finished term 4 with a great gelatine prosthetic makeup, still waiting on grades for that, a pink sea creature.
Started term 5 in a new building (shop set up, for prosthetics, sculpting, full body painting etc.) with sculpting an over the head mask. I am making Admiral Ackbar. Pics coming.
I have had a roommate move out, a new one move in, that one move out and another new one move in.
Worked on a music video that turned out amazing, VITALS.
My cousin Megan visited for a few days from TN.
Have started planning a Halloween event.
My brother got married so I made a super quick trip back to Chicago and Goshen for 3 days.
I worked on a short movie called MIMESPEAK, it was awesome! (and it has been entered into a few film festivals already!!)

As always, for a full make up update, go here: http://sarahemakeup.blogspot.com/

Nick got married!

Trip to Goshen, I saw Mariko and Ethan!

Beard night with the game design boys (lovingly called the gameboys).

Disneyland with my friend Dan! =)

LA Trip.

Start of Term 5. Sculpt of over the head mask, will be made into a rubber mask soon.

Term 4 Final, Gelatin Sea Creature.

Body Painting Calendar. Makeup with Jackie Adamson.

My cousin Megan came to visit and we did her up.

Goatman before.

Term 3 final exam, wax application.

Term 2: OOK (Out Of Kit Effects)

2010-04-14T00:21:00.007-05:00

Finally an update!

Term two will be ending in about 2 weeks. I can't believe that I have been up here in Vancouver for almost 4 months already! Crazy. For Term 3 we will be moving to a new classroom and starting a lot of our more awesome effects work: gelatin, prosthetics, hair, bald caps, and so much more. So far I have really enjoyed Term 2, as I am sure you will be able to tell.

Below are some pictures from Term 2 so far. We are just starting Fashion work this week and I will post the old age picture from photoshop when it is done too.

Just a note, some of the images below are somewhat graphic. They are all fake, makeup and fake blood. But, they can look fairly real.

Sick/crazy makeup on Mehrnoush.
She did mine and I did hers.

Practicing track marks on my arm

Wax gunshot wounds on Tasha

This was the first application of a wax cut, on Malin

Cuts in class this is the 5 min cut out of wax that I did on Malin
I had extra time and wanted to see how fast I could do it

Cut up nose on Viri - practice outside of class
You can see the wax some, so it is not super great.

First day of gelatin cuts, in class application on Dana

Close up of the cut on Cale's cheek - gelatin

Gelatin injuries on Cale

Practice with gelatin
(yeah, like the jello stuff, sort of)

Teeth day on Susan, her expression helps. ;)

Third degree burn on Lyssie

2nd degree burn on Tannis

First Degree burn, aka sunburn, on Tannis

Frostbite on Devon

A scar from a bad burn

Distressed Beauty on Miranda

Out of Kit Assignment (think test) on Malin.
She was in a fight at a bar, cut her wrist on broken glass and
went flying from a airport cart when she hit the breaks too hard & hit her head.

Term 2: Period Makeup

2010-03-09T01:08:00.004-06:00

Period makeup is done for Term 2 and now we start moving on to OOK or Out Of Kit Effects! Very excited about this. Today we did a basic sick/cold look. Tomorrow is Dirt and Friday is Blood! I will keep uploading pictures as I am able.

Period Makeup Assignment (test)
1920's
Model: Devon

1980's Makeup
Model: Jackie

1950's Makeup
Model: Devon

1940's Makeup
Model: Devon

1930's Makeup
Model: Sammi

1920's Makeup
Model: Lyssie

**All pictures on this blog are copyrighted by Sarah Elizabeth Miller 2010.
If you feel the need to use them for anything, please contact me first.**

End of Term 1.

2010-03-01T11:37:00.007-06:00

Term one is done. The first 2 months of my year in Vancouver and at VFS is over. I feel like I just got here and we about to start term 2 in 4 days.

I had some friends from LA come up and visit too. My friend Alburn from college and his wife Kelsy came up and we went around town and visited some of the Olympic happenings. We were downtown when the Canadian Hockey team beat Slovakia - I think it was - and it was crazy!

This last weekend I worked on a music video with SS Productions for the song RAAT YUN DIL MAIN. I hope to get a video of it soon and will post it when I can.

Here are some shots of the location & the crew/actors. It was kind of cold but it was a good 2 day shoot! I had a lot of fun and while, I didn't have a lot of sleep for the second day of shooting, it was pretty great. A good crew and cast to work with.

End of February/End of Term one, 5 more to go!

2010-02-18T23:31:00.004-06:00

We had goth/alternative makeup day. This is the look I ended up creating. I had fun with it but do want to try it again with a different design. I am quite happy with how my overall look came out.

One of my good friends from highschool came up and visited the openeing weekend of the Olympics. Besides going to the Ski Jump event we played with some Makeup on Sunday. Here is her Smokey Eye look and the Natural/Unmade up look.

We had our second assignment (aka test) for the term. Smokey Eyes. This is my lovely model and my makeup on her. I ended up with a pretty good score but next time I need to make the eyes darker. Still, quite happy with how it turned out too.

A post about the Olympics and end of term stuff will come after exams.

1st attempts at glamor, smokey eye and lashes.

2010-02-08T22:47:00.003-06:00

Stanley Park - bike trip around the park.

2010-01-25T00:59:00.005-06:00

A few of my friends that I biked around with.

A big sculptural installation at the park by a local artist.

Siwash Rock

I have been to this place 2 times now and each time it still takes my breath away.

The Olympic Rings
They light up at night but we didn't stay long enough, it was cold.

My new city

Totem Poles in the park

Stanley Park Statue

The wetlands

Work update. Jan 5-Jan 18

2010-01-19T01:35:00.010-06:00

We have been painting faces for a few days now. Here is what we have done. A few stripes. A skull on the face and a skeleton hand as well as some actual paintings on paper. See...

The rest of this week we focus on Corrective Makeup. Just in time for my first little film gig too! So, hopefully I can apply the new knowledge to the shoot on Sunday. :D

More soon.

MY KIT!

2010-01-12T22:47:00.000-06:00

Got my Kit today. Here is the first picture. :)

Week 1 of school at VFS.

2010-01-10T12:19:00.005-06:00

Well, week 1 has happened. We have had our orientation stuff, we have had a lot of first classes and we have met a lot of people.

Lets start at the beginning. Monday of last week we had orientation. The morning was some stuff for every student for the 2010 Jan program start dates. We sat through some information stuff, a video of highlights from each department, meeting our classmates and program directors (ours didn't show up, ergh.) and then a vendor fair. The vendor fair was kind of useless for me in hindsight and I could have just skipped most of the rest of the day, but, I went. I signed up to get info for the BC health insurance and chatted with a few people from our class for a while.

In the afternoon we had another orientation, mostly for people not from Vancouver. I would say about 50 people showed up (out of 300). This also was a lot of repetition for me, talking about buses, common sense safety, city living etiquette, etc. Though there was a small section - at the end of course - that was important to hear, so for that I am glad I stayed. It was information on Immigration/crossing the border. Apparently just because I have a student visa, if I go out of Canada and come back they don't have to let me in.

At the orientation stuff I met a girl in my class named Malin from Sweden and one of her roommates, John from Indianapolis/Bloomington area! I found that coincidental. :) We hung out through most of the orientation stuff and I ended up going to dinner with them and one of their other roommates as well. We found a cute little spaghetti place and enjoyed some dinner for our very hungry tummies.

Tuesday brought about the first day of classes. Though this was more of an orientation day for our classes in actuality. We started at 2pm so I had the morning to get some business taken care of and some grocery shopping. Class was basically an introduction of Stan Edmonds, Dept. head and professor, Elissa, senior teacher and Laura our dept. manager. They all talked a little, the class introduced itself and then we listened to Elissa talk for a while about the program and such. We got our binders - full of handouts for upcoming classes and info and went home.

Wednesday was a lot of the same again, we had a few more tours of things, the building itself, the buildings next door that houses the resource library where we got our IDs, our computer lab, student lounge etc. We started our first lecture on this day too. History of Cosmetics starting in Egyptian times to present. One of my favorite things about Wednesday was that we found out about the resource library. We have a bunch of books, misc things for the year and movies that we can check out. We can also check out most anything in the library which means things such as games for PS2, xbox, Wii and board games! I am very excited about the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games! Just need a console... So, Wednesday after class I promptly went and checked out 2 movies. I got Nanny McPhea and An American Werewolf in London. Neither of which I have seen. I enjoyed both, mostly. Werewolf was a very dated movie and somewhat bad. I think the makeup was quite amazing, the transformation scene was very elaborate and spectacular, the story was just not amazing.

Thursday was supposed to originally be a 1/2 day but we had our schedule changed. So, we had History of Stage in the morning and then more career prep stuff in the afternoon. One thing I am not thrilled about is how our history classes are being taught. We have been given handouts so we have all the information from the lecture but then our teacher reads the entire lesson straight from the lecture. It is a little frustrating. I am hoping it is just b/c we have a lot to get through and then after some of these basic classes we won't do it this way. I just wish there was a bit more to the lecture than reading the handout. She did include some video clips in the second lesson so that helped.

After class on Thursday I went and got the movie Topsy Turvey about Gilbert and Sullivan about The Mikado that they wrote. I ended up going to a Malin's house and watched it with her and a few other people. It was SO long and none of us were quite into it so, it was not the best movie I have borrowed yet.

Friday we had our first figure drawing class and worked on contour drawing with our nude model. It is fun to be in a drawing class again! I very much enjoyed it and look forward to our other classes. We have a weekly assignment of a self portrait based on an emotion. This week is hopeful. We were supposed to have an IT class on Friday afternoon but that was changed so we had free time. A bunch of us went out to lunch at a place called Parrots where we helped one of our classmates celebrate her birthday early. Jackie is from Ohio and her 21st birthday is on Monday. So we treated her to a bunch of shots at 12pm. Nothing like starting early! :)

After that I went and got some more movies again to watch over the weekend. I had planned to just go home and hang out for the night but instead Jackie and Malin and I ended up making some pizza together and watching Nightmare on Elm Street. That was the first time I have ever seen that movie too. I really enjoyed it. Now, don't get me wrong, the movie was kind of silly and not super amazing but we had fun! I think it scared Malin quite a bit at times. The makeup was awesome!

Saturday was a relaxing morning of lounging and then I went grocery shopping with John and Malin to Safeway. I got a lot of stuff and finally found some Mac's-n-Cheese. Apparently it is called Kraft Dinner up here - amusing to me. :) I then went to their house and we made dinner. We were going to watch a movie but ended up not. So, I came home and watched The Fly from 1958.

Today I am going to go see The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnasuss with John and Mailn and maybe a few others too. On Friday I borrowed a few other movies from the school and have to turn them in on Monday so I am trying to watch them. Right now I am watching 13 Ghosts from 1960. I kinda love it! I also still have to watch Monster with Charlize Theron before tomorrow. I guess I could just return it and borrow it another time. I think 3 movies in one day are a little much. But, maybe I will still watch it after the movie theater.

I have also made a huge pot of veggie soup (turned out pretty good!) and am working on some laundry. So far a productive day!

I don't know exactly what this week will hold in regards to classes but i know i get my makeup kit, Tuesday I think, and we start with some actual application of makeup on Thursday. I am VERY looking forward to finally starting some of the makeup stuff. I am interested in all the history and am enjoying that too but there is nothing like playing with makeup!

There are 17 people in my class, most are from Canada but there are 3 of us from the States (IL, OH and CA) one girl from Mexico, one girl from Iran and one girl from Sweden. We have one guy in our class too. The male to female ratio is definitely not high on the male end!

I guess that is about the majority of update stuff for now. I probably won't do the daily list of things but I thought for the first week people would have interest.

More soon.

Travel and my apartment in Vancouver.

2010-01-01T21:45:00.004-06:00

MOUNTAINS!!
The view on the way to Vancouver from Seattle.

Bonjour Vancouver!

Above: kitchen is almost done.
You can see the stove and the finished (minus paint and handles) kitchen below.
We made homemade pizza and had some wine for NYE. Low key but ok.

My Room. I still need a bookshelf and am waiting on my books and few dvd's from my friend Adrienne. I shipped them to her in Seattle and she is coming to visit soon and bringing them with her. It was cheaper and I get to see her! :)

This is the wall of photos Nathan gave me for Ch'mas.
He had friends write on the backs of pictures. I love it!

Apartment pics

2009-12-26T17:15:00.003-06:00

Forgot I haven't put these up yet. And, since I am here....

Kitchen Pre remodeling

Bedroom with South Facing window

Living room with some items being stored from the previous renter.

Front of the house.

T - minus 2 days!

2009-12-22T15:28:00.005-06:00

In two days I will be in Vancouver at this time. Kind of unbelievable.

I am ridiculously looking forward to this adventure. I cannot believe that it is finally here. But it is going to be a crazy one. I don't know what to expect. I think I have plans - tentative plans for New Years Eve with the roommate and a few other guys.

I still have to set up a bank account, find some sort of bed to sleep on, purchase basic needs for the apartment (silverware, dishes, food basics, soap, toilet paper, etc) and try to get acclimated and the city figured out by the 3rd/4th. Crazy!

I think all my details save for 2 have been taken care of here in Chicago. I just need to call and change some gas/electric stuff and then double check a few things with the insurance company and should be golden.

So, the few things I have figured out that I want to do in Vancouver before classes start include:

shopping for the apartment/my room/groceries
try to get a tour of the campus/meet the women who have been helping with loan/application paperwork
obtain transit pass
set up a bank account with a local bank
sign my lease and pay my rent

I know, some of those are cop out answers to stuff I am going to do but I like lists where I can cross stuff off.

I still need to figure out details for NYE and I still need to pick a few places to hang out or go to. I am very open to suggestions. I need to just do more research and that is proving to not happen....When I spend too much time chatting with friends online it inhibits the research part quite a bit. Haha.

I will be posting Ch'mas pictures soon. I had 4 of them again. Starting in November and ending yesterday.

Tonight I head to the lovely Duke of Perth for one last hurrah there before I head out. Yummy Buffalo Chicken salad, friend macs-n-cheese and my favorite drinks. Also with some lovely people. What more can I ask for on a cold, snowy day after Ch'mas?

xoxo
se

My new neighborhood!

2009-12-02T23:58:00.003-06:00

I just received pictures today from my new landlady. These are three views in our 'hood of the area that she took today. Uhm, can I just say MOUNTAINS! =) Unbelievable!

I have a roommate too. His name is Jeremy and he hails from France! Another exciting thing. Maybe my French will improve this next year! He seems really cool and I think we will get along well. I hope.

December 29th, here I come. Still very VERY bittersweet and I really don't want to leave Nathan and friends but, it is what I need to be doing.

Lots of excitement and sadness all rolled into one.

Hard.

2009-11-24T23:33:00.003-06:00

So, as I get closer and closer to December things become more and more bittersweet. I am very afraid of what the next year holds. However this is mixed with a lot of excitement too. I am realizing day by day that leaving Nathan, Chicago and all my friends here is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever done.

How do you tell the person you love the most, see ya in a year! Hope life is good. I will miss you like crazy but I have to do this. Especially when you have lived with this person for over 2 years, been with them for 5 and they are your best friend. I just know it is hard. Very hard.

I know this is the right thing to do and I am very excited for the possibilities that this will open up for me. It will give me a job that I love and a future in that job market - hopefully!

Day by day, that is how I am going to take the next 2-3 months. Day by day.

Vancouver

2009-11-14T09:56:00.004-06:00

I have purchased my plane ticket. I leave Chicago on the am of December 29th to move to my new city in British Columbia in Canada.

Wow.

I have a lead on an apartment right now and am hoping it pans out! A good location, a good price on rent and is through family/Goshen connections. The apartment is a 2 bedroom, has a back yard, looks to be in a nice neighborhood and looks like it would work out VERY well for 2 people.

I have had a few bites on the roommate thing and am hoping I can find someone that will work out on this font too.

I am making preparations to move though the last two nights I have been suzy homemaker. I cut out a few patterns for a dress and some purses that I have been wanting to make and tonight I made 6 loaves of bread. YUM! Though I would caution against putting 4 loaves in a 9x14 pan. They don't cook the whole way through. However, I mostly fixed those. I have really yummy cinnamon bread for breakfast and 'everyday oatmeal' for other stuff.

Our show closes this weekend and I am very ready for it to do so. The last couple days have been really nice in completely focusing on what I wanted to do with nothing else interfering. Doesn't happen very much usually.

Tomorrow perhaps I will work at making some more soup, cookies and the banana bread I wanted to make tonight and couldn't b/c of no baking soda.

Sometimes being barefoot in the kitchen is fun!

xoxo
se

Modern Prometheus makeup and costumes

2009-11-08T13:05:00.005-06:00

Here are some costume images too. Final costumes. The hem on the little girls dress is a bit off but has never been fixed b/c of time issues. Oh well.

Selma's hair

Open wound on the monsters right arm.

Monsters Right hand.

Final incarnation. The coloring is different each night but you get the idea.

First incarnation of the face for the Monster.

Cord issues.

2009-10-09T00:42:00.001-05:00

As soon as I can find my camera cord I will update! I have pictures of camping and more costume updates. TMP open on Friday of next week. I have so much to do. Then again, what is new right?

www.therbp.org

Costumes for THE MODERN PROMETHEUS

2009-09-23T22:59:00.005-05:00

My newest project:

Katie's costume. Our 8 year old awesome girl! She is playing Selma. Her skirt will be a lot shorter but I forgot the petticoat at home, so she was wearing Erin's (the adult female).

Back, but not super awesome. Just some basic pinning to get the idea of it. Actually, her stuff may be less of a swoosh on the front and a back and more of just a straight layer. It will depend a bit.

And the front. It is also missing the other shade of purple that I got. While most people won't know it plum, puce and scarlet were all VERY popular colors for kids at this time period. I was going to do a full plum costume for her but it was just turning out too dark. So I decided to go with a more lavender base. Plus, people today wouldn't understand why I was picking the plum and scarlet dress whereas this lavender will be more understood and accepted.

The Side and front views of Miss Erin's dress and her large ass. Love the bustle look. Again, the fabric and the lace deco are just pinned on so a finished look is not there yet. I am working with out a dress form so this is proving to be a challenge. Plus I made the skirt too short. I am going to add a ruffle or something around the bottom to make it all work. Also, disregard the purple t-shirt. She will have some small caplet sleeves or something of that sort but will have her shoulders and chest/neck area mostly bare.

For not having patterns (save for the corset and the top of Katie's dress) I am pretty pleased with myself. I still have a long way to go but this is a great start.

Costumes can be so fun! I just wish I had time to make my Halloween costume this year.
Le sigh. Working on this instead.

New Makeup

2009-09-17T08:39:00.000-05:00

These are all pics of the 2nd makeup test for our show The Modern Prometheus opening October 16.

I am pretty excited about how it is turning out! I probably won't share too many more photos until after the show is open b/c I don't want to ruin the effect. But, these are the first really good draft of the Monsters hands.

I am so excited, I have a gallon of latex, a bunch of wax, lots of colors and glue to play with and I can't wait! I even think our actor is going to shave his head for the part so I can put stuff on it. Nice. :) More pics soon.

In other news, I am slowly planning my move to Vancouver. It is not happening very fast mostly b/c we are getting into Halloween season this year which is my HUGE season. I will be managing 10-12 people, creating their schedules, managing my and 2 other rentals stores (mostly just mine) and also trying to open a show at a similar time. I am not thrilled about when my show will open but after this month the other two stores should be pretty open and I will, hopefully, not have a lot more to worry about. I have to capable girls asst. managing them and I think it will work out well.

I still have to meet three more people (1 today) and train them, then figure out which store they will be in. I have also been given the task of holding my own interviews and hiring people that I think will work. So far I believe that I have a good group of people. Most of them seem to be a bit over qualified. I think that most if not all of them have Costume Design/Technology degrees and that is more than I can say! One of the guys I hired even toured with CATS for a year....so, slightly intimidating. But the store is different and a new scene and so they are on our turf no matter what they know. I am also doing the - look for someone to replace me in Dec - thing which is interesting. I have a person or 2 with my sights set on them and we will just have to see how it turns out.

I still can't believe that I will be moving, it seems like a different life. I have to find an apartment and get SO many things in order. Anyone have suggestions? It is a scary thought to be moving out there all alone but a huge adventure. I have been lately doing the second guessing thing but after dinner with a friend he kinda helped me to look at this a little differently and go head on. As soon as some work things die down I will be able to start making calls and getting stuff arranged.

So much to do.

HOOOLLLEEEE SHIT!

2009-08-25T16:39:00.002-05:00

So I know with applying and trying to get into school that means I may actually get it. Well I got accepted that was awesome and then the last 4 months I have been working to get my loans approved. One cosigner after another. And I just found out I was approved for my loans. Holy shit.

I mean I have to say I kinda didn't really think this was going to happen. It just seemed like something that was so SO far off and now it is less than 4, FOUR, months away. Wow.

I am excited and freaking out too.

How am I going to find housing in Vancouver that I can afford and that will be open (in a good location) during the middle of the Winter Olympics?! Eeep.

So, cross your fingers, say your prayers, sacrafice a pig, shake your fist at the universe, do whatever it is you do and wish me good luck!

I am afraid I won't find a place. I am sure I will but how will it be living with a roommate that is not my boyfriend? I haven't had one for the last 3 years, it will be an adjustment for sure!

Gots to run. More soon.

Nathan's birthday.

2009-08-20T20:19:00.002-05:00

I cooked a lot for Nathan's Birthday. I made Stuffed Mushrooms (above)

2 batches of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (below) and...

Pork Chops with garlic butter and veggies for dinner! It was quite yummy too.

We went to Marche, a very fancy French restaurant for dinner as well. But that Friday we went to Konak (our regular hang out) with lots of friends after our show and on Saturday after the show we had a few people over to our house for a few hours. It was a really nice weekend to. For his birthday present I got him a camera lens with some accessories and some original paintings/prints that just came today.

If I can speak for him I think it was a nice birthday weekend. We were able to relax and catch up on some TV shows we like (Mad Men & True Blood) and just be couch potatos all day on Sunday. A very nice time.

We are now starting to work on our Halloween show THE MODERN PROMETHEUS. I will be making some of the costumes and have enlisted one of my co-workers to help with them. As they have to be time period, 1870ish, we have some work ahead of us. More updates on that show as we go.

Here is a little peek of what I am going to costume one of our actors in, well something similar...

Ethan James

2009-08-02T11:36:00.003-05:00

I met Ethan! :) He is adorable and those cheeks! Oy Vey!

2009-07-13T19:59:00.000-05:00

My parents and I at the top!

All the group except for us getting the pictures set up.

Mine went too early.

I MADE IT! :)

2009-07-13T19:58:00.001-05:00

The Crags!

Me and The Crags.

Hiking down.

More rocks.

2009-07-13T19:02:00.000-05:00

The Crags hike on Saturday with my Burkholder family.

A 1.5 mile hike.

Rocks on the path up to the top.

Still the easy part of the hike.

The first half/path.

More of the scenery.

This hike was the first one and a much more simple one than what we did today (the 13th).

I will get some posts of the top view up soon.

More soon.

Last group of the set pictures

2009-07-08T00:56:00.001-05:00

close up of the pink yarn sewing detail

Snail wall with the opening andall sewing done

Snail wall with the curtains pulled back

Shail chair - back view

More set pictures.

2009-07-08T00:54:00.001-05:00

close up of the snail/club wall

Boxman's box

the very beginnings of his box deco, pictures I found on the side walk a few years ago

Newest project.

2009-07-08T00:49:00.001-05:00

Here are some images of my newest project. The Right Brain Project's PUT MY FINGER IN YOUR MOUTH. We are set to open on July 31 and I am frantically trying to get everything ready as I am doing costumes, all set design, props and general space ready-ness. Plus trying to keep everyone else sane and work. Of course I am a genious and will be taking almost 2 weeks off here in the middle of the rehearsal/prep process for family vaction/reunion stuff in CO. Excited for it but nervous b/c of how much I still have to do. Any way, below are some images of our stuff and a good start. After about 4 hours work tonight I feel A LOT better!

The Snail chair

Turtle's space, closed

Turtle's space opened

Snail wall before sewing and removal of plastic

More images to come soon. My computer won't read them as being available. Hmm...
Also, Thailand will be up shortly!

Updates

2009-05-30T08:30:00.002-05:00

5 days and I go to Thailand.

I am so excited! We are thinking trying to ride elephants, go to a floating market where you ride on a boat down the river to get stuff, the night market, maybe some Thai boxing, TONS of Thai food, lots of walking around an picture taking and some time by the pool! This is going to be an amazing experience and I can't even begin to really fathom what it will be like. I have a 4 hour layover in Tokyo so since I can't actually go into the city and spend any time there I have decided that I will be getting some sushi in the airport so I can say I ate sushi in Japan. I really wish I had a little more time there or that the layover was a couple days so I could go out and see a bit of Japan. But alas, that is not how it works. I will just deal with being in the airport this time.

Last night my cousin Lisle had her prom so I made her jewelery and went to her house to do her hair and make up I left my camera battery at work so I will hopefully get pics soon from them so I can post the jewelry. It turned out really pretty and the entire jewelry, hair, makeup ensemble turned out really nice too. I had a lot of fun getting her and her friend Erin ready. Though I am realizing we forgot to get a good pic of her hair. Oh well.

I have also been working on some purses for people's birthdays lately and once again forgot to get pictures so hopefully those will happen soon too. I will get a picture of the one I made for myself - which I have come to not really like all that much any more - and try to post that. Now I just have to try and keep with my making three dresses in the last6 months of the year and my goal will be met!

Our next show will open in August and the third will open in October sometime. The are both promising to be a lot of fun and will definitely present some good challenges. This next one is tentatively called PUT MY FINGER IN YOUR MOUTH, but we are working with the writer to put either an addendum on the title or change it. The play is being written for us by Bob Fisher of the Mammals here in Chicago and so far is going to be a very fun, interesting show experience for both us as we design and the viewer when they come see it.

We are probably going to have an environment again like we did with AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS by Fernando Arrabal that was performed in February. I am very excited to be working on costumes, props and set this time but also nervous b/c we open in two months (almost exactly) and I will be out of town for about 3 weeks of those 2 months. Ah, we will get it done somehow.

I am still working on getting my loan stuff figured out for VFS (Vancouver Film School) and it is proving more difficult than I thought it would. Stupid frackin' economy! ERGH. But, I am just plugging away to try and get it figured out. So, keep me in your thoughts, prayers, rituals - whatever it is you do. Please. The plan right now is to move up to Vancouver last week of December so if anyone wants a little trip up there, let me know! I am currently moving up there alone. I need plans for New Years Eve too...

That is about all right now, I should go get ready for work. Yes, I have to work on Saturday this week, it kinda stinks but it also let me have two half days during the week. Ah well.

xoxo
More soon.

The times they are a changin'!

2009-04-22T23:21:00.003-05:00

So, a lot has happened (as always) since my last blog and it wasn't even that long ago either! First and foremost, I got a cosigner so now I just need to get working on the paperwork for the loan approval. I am SUPER happy that I have one, it has very much been a weight on my mind for a while now. I really had started to think that school wouldn't happen because of it. Well, I shouldn't count my chickens before they hatch. I still have to apply and could still be denied....so, cross your fingers, pray, sacrifice a chicken, do whatever it is you do and hopefully I get approved!!

In another bit of huge news...I am going to Bangkok, Thailand for a week in June. Basically it comes down to someone in the universe liking me and the pieces falling into place. So, I get to go with a really good friend and spend a week there sightseeing and seeing amazing-ness! I am super excited! 5 days ago I would not have had this on my radar and then all of a sudden it happened. A once in a lifetime trip to an amazing foreign country and there is no way I can or should pass it up. Even if I can't really afford some of it. I just can't pass it up. So, hopefully mid June I will have an amazing update with pictures to share with all of you.

I am super excited for this adventure. It will be like nothing I have done before and I fully expect it to be beyond amazing. I will take video, I will take pictures and I will share it. I feel incredibly lucky to be able to do this - thank you anonymous benefactor!! xoxoxo!

Still trying to find housing in Vancouver, but that is not something I need to really jump on before September/October/November-ish. I also need to figure out how I am going to live on pennies next year, anyone want to contribute to the Sarah-needs-to-save/obtain-more-dough-so-she-doesn't-only-eat-ramen-for-a-year-Fund? Ha ha.

While the weather here in Chi-town is starting to turn to the better (though boughts of rain still fight the consistent niceness) it is looking to be a good spring. I am very looking forward to riding my bike to work again with hopes to start as early as next week and have started running in the mornings around my neighborhood. I am finding so many secrets around that I didn't know! Apparently one of our neighbors loves the bulls. They have a 2-car garage door sized bull painted on their - well of course it is - 2-car garage door. Apparently the alleys in the area have some lovely treats too, I am not talking about the stinky trash kind but the awesome-brand-new-clothes(no, they were not moving)-in-a-box kind of treasure. And the all around pretty streets/houses/landscaping is nice to go by too.

On another note; my goal through the end of the year, as corny as it may sound, is to work on building up my friendships. I really want to get my already good ones even stronger, my not as strong ones much better and just all around make connections. I don't know where school will lead me after completion but I want to keep my friends here! I am also trying to do Chicago related things that I have not done in the almost 4 years I have lived here. Such as: ride the Ferris Wheel on Navy Pier, go to the Art Institute (I know, scandalous!), maybe even take a bus tour. If anyone has suggestions, feel free to throw them my way. Movies in the park are always something we love doing and I intend to see a lot of them, anyone want to join up with us?! I think they start in July.

Well, I should head off, this is a pretty good update for now.

More soon.

trying.

2009-04-16T22:42:00.002-05:00

So I am really feeling crunch time with getting a cosigner....so far everyone has seemed either leery or down right NO on it. So...I am still trying. Still trying to find at least one person, at least someone who can cosign at least someone who can do it. I am trying to keep hope. Trying...It is slowly fading....trying. I am trying.

2009-04-03T09:26:00.002-05:00

Things are going ok right now. Slowly starting to work on the logistics of getting to and paying for school. Biggest issue...get a cosigner. Anyone have any leads?! I need at least one person to sign and if possible two. Blurg.

Other than that life is just going. I am working on my last props (non RBP) show for the next two years and immediately after we open will be doing costumes for my last (non RBP ) show as well. So, those are keeping me busy. I am desperatley wishing this weather would go away; it is too grey, too cold and frustrating. There are probably other things accounting for the overall greyness of shit but lets just pin it on the weather right now.

Anyway.
more soon.

Vancouver Film School

2009-03-07T13:34:00.002-06:00

Well, even though I just applied and sent everything in on Tuesday…I WAS ACCEPTED! I am going to Vancouver Film School in January 2010. Oh my!

** super excited dance **

I have so much to take care of! I have so much to do and where the hell am I going to live!?!? AKKK!

So, anyone know any people who need a roommate/housemate in Vancouver?!

more soon.

Update

2009-02-24T19:19:00.003-06:00

For those of you that bother to look at my blog and that I haven't talked to about this new thing here is an update.

I am/have officially applied to Vancouver Film School for their Makeup for Television and Film program. If accepted and loans work I will be moving to British Columbia, Canada at the end of the year and starting school on the 4th of January.

Oh my.

This has been a long time coming. I remember at the end of high school thinking about going to a school in South Carolina that had makeup stuff (and ceramics) Then during my first two years of college thinking about it but not looking into it. And my last year of college thinking about it again and getting some information from different schools but not ever really going for it. Well, almost 5 years after college, I am going for it.

Eeeep!

This is a huge step for me and incredibly scary and if I make it in even more scary b/c it is an actual reality then. At this point it is still an if. However, I have been told by the admissions counselor and Janet at the VFS meet/greet/info session that I would get in. Now I just have to figure out how to pay for it. At least the Canadian to US dollar is a nice conversion right now - that helps!

I am super excited for this possibility but like I said, scared. I love Chicago, I love living with my boyfriend, I love my friends here and I don't know what this career changing step will bring.

Perhaps I get a job with a studio upon completion of the program, perhaps I get some movie gigs or a TV gig. Maybe I get a good gig with a large theater. I don't know. I do know that this could mean a lot of travel around the world. A very transitory life. I love travel and I love that this could take me all over the world but how are other things going to change for me. I will only know when I get there I suppose but in the mean time worrying about it is scary.

What is this going to change for me? How is my life going to be different?

Another thing that is scary about this - but also incredibly exciting - is that this would be the first thing that I truly do that takes me 100% out of my comfort zone. Even when going to Bluffton College I knew about three people there and knew I had some family in the area and my parents were only a few hours away. Then when I transferred to Goshen I was completely moving back to familiarity. Even moving to Chicago was safe - my aunt and uncle live on the south side and I was moving up near my boyfriend.

I would be moving to Vancouver (at least at this point) completely alone. I don't know a soul there, it is another country (albeit Canada), and it is incredibly far away. I do have family in Portland, OR and may have one of my best friends in Seattle, WA but it would still be a completely new thing.

Anyway, that is the update. I will keep posting more as I know more; at this point I am just finishing up sending everything in.

Cross your fingers.

more soon.

HANDCUFFS

2009-02-03T01:14:00.005-06:00

AND SO THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS BY FERNANDO ARRABAL

Top photo by Tom McGrath
Poster by Nathan Robbel with pictures by Tom McGrath

2008 Holidays

2009-01-27T22:56:00.004-06:00

I got to meet little Owen for the first time on Jan 2. He is adorable and despite being sick was an amazing baby. See, he likes me! :)
The only picture of Nathan and I on New Years Eve that we are both in. We had dinner with some friends and then went to Duke of Perth to ring in the new year. It was so nice and quite!

Christmas with my parents. We were all so awake and ready to go. It was late Sunday night and Nathan and I had to still drive back home for work the next day. Then we got stuck in traffic on the Toll Road and that totally sucked. Otherwise it was a good weekend. The last ch'mas at my grandparents b/c they moved.

AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS

2009-01-26T19:59:00.004-06:00

AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS
Photo by Nathan Robbel

by Fernando Arrabal

February 5th - March 7th

Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 7:00pm

Industry Nights on Monday, February 23 and Wednesday, February 25. No performance on February 27 & 28.

Presented at the RBP Rorschach, located at 4001 N. Ravenswood at the intersection of Irving Park & Ravenswood on the Northeast side of the Metra tracks.

Admission is FREE, though reservations are required. Please call the RBP box office at 773.750.2033 or e-mail us your ticket requests at tickets@therbp.org. We also kindly ask that you consider a donation upon seeing the show.

Please note that AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS is intended for mature audiences. It is a ceremonial play in which audience members may be asked to sit on the floor and remove their coat and shoes upon entering the playing space.

About The Production

The Right Brain Project is proud to present Fernando Arrabal's rarely produced examination of violence, cruelty, and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. Influenced by the true stories of prisoners in Franco's Spain, AND THEY PUT HANDCUFFS ON THE FLOWERS invites the audience to partake in a ceremonial communion with the actors, as they relive the physical and psychological pain of four political prisoners, as well as celebrate their inextinguishable hopes and dreams.

The audience is literally touched by the actors as they are led into the space in which they will participate in a communal ceremony celebrating hope while acknowledging man's primal nature. The prisoners' political beliefs, hopes for their children, anger at the state, and their incredible urge to recall the feeling of sexual intimacy are all vividly brought to light in their struggle to hold on to their humanity. The thin line between actor and character, dream and reality, and victim and aggressor are all blurred as a cacophony of images, sounds, and Arrabal's poetry engulf the audience and actors alike in this experimental work.

Right Brain Project artistic director Nathan Robbel helms the production. "Arrabal's beautiful play exemplifies the RBP's mission to employ the intimate relationship between actor and audience to explore issues that affect us all," Robbel says. "The immediate violence and sexuality of Arrabal's play serve to remind us of our capacity for both cruelty and tenderness, and force us to question our primal nature and what happens when an artificial structure is enforced upon human nature. Though written in 1969, the cruelty observed in the play is still being practiced in countless regions of the world, carried out by governments systematically. This production strives to vividly bring to life the psychological strife that so many individuals in our day and age are still haunted by, and offer hope by reminding us of the resilient nature of the human spirit."

CAST & CREW

Chad Fess, Rosy Gonzales, Stacy Hauenstein, Tracy Kraatz, Dennis Newport, Erin Elizabeth Orr, Joseph Sterns, Bries Vannon

Directed By Nathan Robbel
Stage Managed by Anya Clingman
Sound, Light & Set building/design by Tony Ingram
Costumes, Props & Scenic Painting by Sarah Elizabeth Miller

The Right Brain Project and Christmas 2008

2008-12-15T08:21:00.003-06:00

Check out our updated website!

www.therbp.org

N has been working very hard to get it up and going the last few weeks and though it is not complete it definitely looks great!

We are in the first stage of rehearsals for our show and after the Ch'mas break will hit things head on in January. We expect to open the first weekend of February and hope that things go well with it. This will be our first show in our new space. Reservations are required if you are thinking of seeing the show.

I am costuming, finding props and readying the space for everything too. We still need a bunch of stuff to get the space going (especially lighting instruments and board!!) but it is taking shape and looking really good. We are always looking for renters and would like to invite anyone to talk to us about it. We have good rates, a private bathroom, use of a 1100 sqft space and easy access to the train, just a block away.

In the mean time we are getting ready for Christmases this year. I have two next weekend - the last at my grandparents house before the move into the retirement village - and N has his the weekend after Ch'mas. This is the first time in my life I have ever be at my own home on Ch'mas eve and doing my own thing Ch'mas day. I am very excited about it and looking forward to a day of nothing (I hope!!).

I am also super excited to see my friends Mariko and Gretchen this Ch'mas! I will get to meet Gretchen's baby, Owen, for the first time since I met him in her tummy a month before he was born. So! Very much looking forward to seeing both of them and having time with them. I just wish that 80 was around too. I miss her and haven't seen her for a year or so. I am so glad that Japan is treating her well though! :)

That is the quick update. I hope to be more regular on this again soon!

More to come.

Long over due!

2008-09-11T22:43:00.003-05:00

My, my, a new post is long over due. It has been a very crazy the last while. I am now working at Chicago Costume as one of the main rental chicks. I love the people I work with and I LOVE the atmosphere so much. I am not used to such a laid back place but it is sure comforting to know that I am not a useless overpaid blob who doesn't do any work. At least that is what I was told - basically - at my last job. I get to play with costumes all day, organize and help people dress up. What fun!!

I am also currently working on a show called Rossum's Universal Robots with Strawdog. I am doing props and while I am looking forward to being done with them soon know it is a good thing to be doing. It is keeping me busy! We move into tech week well, sort of are already in it but for sure this weekend and open next Thursday. However, I won't be in town...

Nathan and I are going to NEW YORK CITY!!! I am so excited that he finally knows and that we are finally going! I can't believe it will be in less than a week. We plan to see AVE.Q, the Guggenheim, a Wooster Group show, a friends show, Central Park and I am sure many other things. I am looking forward to a nice few days away and in our own little worlds. It has been 3 years since we took a vacation and I think it is long overdue!

I will definitely update with pictures and stories after we get back.

I have also picked up a small costume job for a lady in Texas. I am going to make her children's Halloween costumes and am very excited about it! I will be making a cute little black kitty and a Corpse Bride for the little girls and TDK Joker for the little boy. This is going to be a great challenge and I am very looking forward to it!

And now I am going to bed.

more soon.

Published!!

2008-07-29T11:11:00.004-05:00

So, yesterday I found out that my joker costume somehow got its way to Entertainment Weekly magazine (August 1, 2008 edition) and is very nicely pictured! :) I am excited that it is beeing seeing so many more places than just what I show my friends. It is the same picture on the post before.

In other news...still jobless but hoping to get some more freelance stuff soon. I have had a few gigs, the first was a curtain making job for a visiting group from LA (Tony Cliffton and the Kiss My Ass Orchestra), then I did some model building for the Lyric opera. I made some Chandaliers and a figure (which was not used).

The first image is the first draft of the chandelier. The second is the one I made with chains. It was much better and the one that they went with.

Also, last week I worked on an industrial (an orientation/welcome video) for a trucking company in Indiana. I did the make-up and really enjoyed it! It was the first full shoot I have worked on from start of shoot to finish and I liked it a lot. I am hoping to get some more stuff along those lines too.

At this time a potential temp job is in the works so hopefully I will know more soon and that will work out too!

More to come soon.

2008-07-21T09:57:00.006-05:00

So the joker costume at the opening of DARK KNIGHT in Chicago (at the IMAX on Navy Pier) was a huge HIT! :) Nathan was quoted in the Chicago Trib and my costume was given a shout out. !
It is @ http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/arts/chi-batman-0720jul20,0,5073916.story

Plus he is on a gossip website too! http://thesebootsaremadeforstalking.com/index.php?paged=2

Here is the picture that was posted on the above website. He was interviewed by REELZ tv and as it says in the Trib, was asked to take so many pictures with that it was hard for him to do anything otherwise. We also won the best costume and got a T-shirt at the showing. Wahoo!!

here is another website we were posted on - verbally. And in Spanish! ;)

http://www.hoyinternet.com/vidahoy/hoy-04paratodos_primeranotabatmanenchicagojul21,0,4121206.story

*Photo from Entertainment Weekly, freelance photographer name unknown

The Joker.

2008-07-03T10:32:00.004-05:00

Here are some pictures of our costume. I am pretty proud of it! I will get more up when I can.

I Quit!!

2008-07-03T10:29:00.002-05:00

It is official. Today is my last day. My bosses don't know it yet but as of the end of the day I will be out of here. To all of you with my cell phone number; that number will be obsolete today so please do not call it again. I wll get an email out with my new number as soon as I have it (hopefully Saturday.). I have an interview on Tuesday with someone at the Chicago Lyric Opera to be an assistant for a few months - Props/Models! I am VERY excited about this! I will also find out next week about the Nanny position. I am hoping it is positive but if not, some other door will open for me. Who knows, very soon I may become one of the next Starbucks baristas! :) A job which I think I would actually enjoy for a while. Everyone should look at Jon and Gretchen's blog, they have updated pictures of Owen and he looks cute. :)

Love to all. More soon.
Sarahe

2008-06-26T13:33:00.003-05:00

This is the costume we are trying to make! :) I will post pictures when we have finished.

Photo found on google search.

Overdue Update

2008-06-26T13:26:00.003-05:00

(this is pulled out of an email I just sent.)

Hello everyone! I hope this finds you happy and healthy and absolutely wonderful!

I am sharing a very long overdue update on my life. I apologize ahead of time for the long email and if you already know most of what is in here.

One of the most exciting things that has happened for me/us recently, is with our theatre company. Nathan and I have officially been handed the reigns of the company and are moving forward with our next steps. We found that we had to refile to be incorporated so we have done so and should have information on that soon.

But the best news we have gotten is that we are officially Not For Profit! We are 502(c)3! So, if anyone has money they don't know what to do with they can donate it to our company and then they can write it off! Wahoo! (just kidding - mostly.)

We are going to be doing a few fundraisers this year and picking up with shows again next Spring with hopefully 3 shows in 2009.

I am just finishing up a silkscreen class at the art center and have now found a new art form that I LOVE! Nathan helped me the other night and we made about 20 RBP t-shirts so we can now sell company shirts at fundraisers and shows. Currently they are black with our white logo or a navy blue (dependant on the size).

I am making a bunch of shirts and also different fabric designs and hopefully will have some nice fabric to sew projects out of after the class is done.I really want to take more of this, they are so much fun - they are just expensive!

Perhaps the biggest news for me is that I am going to be quitting my job. Again. I have been at this real estate place for just under 4 months and when I don't cry, that is a good day. I have never, NEVER, worked at a place where people are treated so harshly and inconsiderately. Where the bosses don't take into consideration the fact that I have only been part of the entire industry for 4 months and therefore need guidance. Or where there is absolutely no policy on anything other than what the big bosses decide in their emotional state (usually angry!). You

One of my bosses sent me an incredibly childish, unprofessional and mean email that almost made me want to quit on the spot. Instead I wrote 5 pages of response to him.

Now the girl I am supposed to be supervising keeps asking me questions about what I do and bucks anythign I say to her. What is the point of me "supervising" if she won't work with me and my bosses think she does more than I do!? ERGH!!

Needless to say I am getting OUT of here as soon as I can! I will very much miss the paycheck as they pay me well. However, the emotional abuse and stress that I have from them is not worth this amount!

Nathan told me the other day that he read an article that says people with the most money tend to be unhappy and work more than those without. If that is the case, I would like to be on a lower income bracket for the rest of my life! I feel sad for my bosses. They both have 2+ children and are married and I can't imagine what life is like for them when they work from 6am to 11pm. It is ridiculous. I am so glad I did not grow up in an atmosphere like that. The money is not worth it!

Anyway, after that tirade...

The good news about job stuff. I have found a Nanny position that I will hopefully be taking - if they do in fact want me to. It is a pay cut and I will have to figure out some things on my own about insurance, taxes etc. But at this point I want to do it. It will offer me freedom to work on my art with the little boy (he is 4). As well as go on adventures and play all day. I know this job will be tiring and I am sure it will be stressful but I honestly feel it will be a very, very good thing for me right now. I will potentially be picking up a second job of which I hope will be in either a theatre or an art related position.

The Nanny position will start first week of September and hopefully between now and then I can get some temp work so I can quit my job and not have to deal with my bosses and co-workers (some of which are not any better!). If not, well the next two months will be very interesting!

Also in September I will be doing Nathan's big birthday thing!! I have been asking friends and family if they wanted to be part of his birthday present so if you have interest let me know, I can give you more info.

Other things that have been going on...well, these are mostly it. Nathan and I are making a costume for a contest at a convention this weekend (Saturday) that we are going to. We are hoping to have a shot at first prize. I will try to put pictures out sometime soon. We are dressing him up as the Heath Ledger Joker from the new BATMAN movie. I think we are going to dress him up for the movie when we see it opening night too. :D I guess that pretty much covers the big things.

Nathan and I are doing well and happy that it is starting to be warm! The last few days have been beautiful weather and it looks like the summer heat may be setting in soon. I don't really have much more to say so I guess I will leave it at that right now.

I hope everyone is doing well and I hope to see you all soon!
Much love.
Sarahe

BABY!!

2008-06-26T12:37:00.003-05:00

Jon and Gretchen had their baby, he is cute! :)

Owen Reid Paulovich. I can't wait to meet him!

He is now almost 3 weeks old too.

*photo by the proud parents.

Excited!!

2008-05-12T15:46:00.002-05:00

I can't be to descriptive on this in case N would find it. But, I am SO excited! I just arranged for the big part of his birthday present to be official and now it is. I can't wait! If you want more info on what I am doing and if you want to perhaps participate in it, send me an email or something.

In other news, our stupid adjuster won't get back to me about updates on our burglary and I am getting annoyed! I want to know if I will be able to get a new computer anytime soon. ergh.

more to come.

Stolen and babies.

2008-04-24T11:12:00.003-05:00

Wahoo!

I am finally feeling like we will get everything covered that was stolen last week from our apartment. So to update here is what happened: Nathan came home on Friday to find the front door ajar. Upon entering our apartment fully he realized that someone had broken in through our window - upsetting all the plants on the window sill onto the shoes and bookshelf below and creating a huge mess - and stolen a bunch of our stuff.

Initially he thought they only stole his camera (and all accessories) and my computer. But when I came home on Saturday - I was spending the night with family - we realized his backpack with gym clothes, iPod, my b-day present and a few other misc. things were missing too.

We have filed a claim and after 4 days of trying to get everything figured out I think we will finally be able to get reimbursed for everything/most things.

The only more positive part about my computer being stolen is that all my information was lost two weeks ago when my hard drive fried itself and therefore I went through the loss of everything then. I think it has made me much more calm with dealing with the actual theft of the items b/c my information was lost before. It still sucks but at least we can get everything replaced since it is physical and not sentimental. Well, N's notebook can't be and it has a lot of show notes sothat is frustrating but at least the majority of things are physical.

So, on another note about the computer, b/c I lost all of everything from it, if anyone has pictures from college or times we have spent together (electronic images) please let me know and if it would be possible can you pass them along?

They say always back up your information, but it will always happen to the that other guy/girl so take it from me as the other person....back up your information!!!

In other news, I am taking a trip this weekend to Phoenix to visit a really good friend, her husband and her big pregnant belly! It is a very weird thing when one of your best friends from high school is going to have a baby and something I am still getting used to! I am very excited to give them a few things I put together for the baby and them. I will get pictures up after I give them.

More soon.

Curtains!

2008-03-17T22:06:00.006-05:00

My friend just moved into a great 1 bd apartment and has asked me to make some curtains for her front windows. Her apartment has a lot of dark wood accents (floor, cupboards, floor runner etc..) so, we decided on a darker brown with a second layer of cream backing to help reflect the morning sun that comes in. The green thread and accents will match the green tile in her open kitchen almost exactly and blend the apartment together well.

As she lives on the first floor above some stores she only wanted half curtains so she could have the blinds open but half of the window covered.

So, tonight I just finished the big curtain to go in the middle of her bay windows. I am very excited about proud! They are the first curtains I have made and I did them without a pattern. :)

The full pictures is not the greatest as I don't have the best place set up to take images, but I will try to post new ones after they are all installed in her apartment. The other is a close up of the detail around the bottom edge.

The fabric is a sheer satiny sort of thing. They are light and airy and though they are somewhat translucent are opaque enough that shadows would be seen, not actual faces/body parts.

(P.S. if you know anyone who would like curtains, I have cheap rates/bartering and am willing to work out a deal, just have them contact me!)

My last day!

2008-02-27T10:01:00.002-06:00

Today is officially my last day at ASDA. I am very excited for 5pm! I am begging for 5pm because I actually finished all my projects yesterday so I don't really have anything to work on today. I am also very much looking forward to my next two days off. I don't know what I will be doing but a 4 day weekend is going to be lovely! I do know I am going to go to the gym during the day, that will be nice as it will be so much more quiet and empty!

So far our workout stuff has been going well. We have been members for 1.5 weeks and go pretty much every other day. I am actually looking forward to going tonight. I can't believe that I ever would have said it but it is proving to be very satisfying. No results yet, but it feels good! I guess that in itself is a result of some kind.

Monday is the first day at the new gig and hopefully it will go smoothly. I am excited to start the new job but still unsure about it all.

Last night I had a bunch of girlfriends over for food, drinks and chatting. It was a great evening and they never happen enough!

As a side note I found this link through digg.com and think it is great! http://www.wackyarchives.com/offbeat/easy-do-it-yourself-ghost-static.html

So, more to come.

Jesus Christ Superstar, Farewell Tour.

2008-02-19T22:46:00.004-06:00

The boy and I just saw this show tonight. As it is one of his absolute favorites I thought I would treat him to opening night and the farewell tour and Ted Neeley and all the wonderfulness that it entails.

Well as the first time I have ever seen JCSS, it was more along the lines of "Ted Neeley Super Suck" to quote the boy. The design concepts were unclear, it looked like there was no blocking let alone any direction.

Now, I don't know a lot about this show, this was the first time I have ever seen it or even heard the music the whole though, but isn't this supposed to be about Jesus and his struggle with his humanity vs his divinity? The first thing we see with this version was Ted Neeley all dressed in white, striking pose after pose of "godliness" and immediately bring a dead man back from, well death. I mean come on! There was no humanity in this Jesus. They were not trying to show that Jesus had a human side. All they were presenting was the divine. At the end of the show Jesus was raised off the cross and literally floated to the rafters and then - horribly - a gigantic copy of the Shroud of Turin was dropped from the rafters to cloak the lowering of Neeley for the curtain call.

Jesus' "death" on the cross was a 5 minute long charade of how he could look dead for two seconds, then gasp, then make us think he was dead, then gasp etc. When he finally lifted off the cross I was still not sure he was dead.

The costumes were horrendous. I get that it is supposed to be this funky sort of mixture of things and that it has a lot of room to be creative but what the hell were they thinking? There was no continuity throughout. Mary Magdalene looked like she was going to a prom and then later came out in a tailored suit coat. Herod was wearing a bathrobe and croc clogs (pink too!) and later came out in a suit and bright green polo shirt. The ensemble was dressed in clothes that basically yelled to you what parts they were playing and what was with the cabaret girls?

Judas was pretty much the best part of this show as he was the only real character and therefore did not fit. He had the most amazing voice and put the others to shame.

I remember when I was in High school and my friend's (80) church did some of this show for Easter or Lent or something. She played Judas and I have to say freshmen and sophomore highschoolers put on a better production than I saw tonight.

I almost wished that the second act had the chatting teenage girls like the first act. At least I would have had something entertaining to listen to.

Needless to say I was very disappointed and sad to see this production for my first JCSS experience and I hope to someday see something better.

If you were thinking of seeing this. Don't. Rent the movie - from what I hear - it will be a million times better.

More to come.

Little Giant Girl

2008-02-19T10:22:00.001-06:00

This video is amazing! Something about it touches my heart. I don't know what it is but it is impressive that people can make beautiful thinks like this. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBXr15K2uSc

It is settled.

2008-02-18T09:54:00.004-06:00

As of March 3 I will be employed by Sierra Realty Advisers as their Executive Assistant! :) Thanks to my good friend Bethany I got this position! I think this will be a good fit for me, it will require a huge learning curve, but I know it will be better than ASDA.

I am excited about some of the extras they have...I get summer hours and Friday's we get off at noon! I will have things such as perks and bonus'! Who knew those existed!

I don't really know what this is all going to entail yet, and I know I will have a LOT to learn but the office seems really laid back and as long as people are doing their work very chill. I hope it goes well from Day 1!

I will update more as the job progresses. The website is http://www.sierraadvisors.com/
Wahoo!
More to come.

I officially resigned!

2008-02-13T16:17:00.003-06:00

As of 4:45 today (in 15 min!) I have officially given my two week notice at ASDA! I AM SO EXCITED! I don't know exactly what I have lined up and I don't know exactly what I will be doing in two weeks but I know I will have my life back. I will not wake up pissed at the world or mad at everyone on the trains in the morning. I will be able to do something that is less life sucking!

I am just happy! I do feel like that proverbial weight on ones shoulders has been lifted and oh man it feels good!

Wahoo!

More to come.

Obnoxious Survey...I know, I know. I can't believe I am doing this either!

2008-02-06T11:17:00.001-06:00

99

1. First thing you wash in the shower? Hair
2. What color is your favorite hoodie? Navy Blue and Says Bluffton College International Club!
3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Uhm, hopefully in two hours even!
4.Do you plan outfits? Yep. Especially when I am going to be doing something other than just work that day.
5. How are you feeling RIGHT now? Wishing I was at home and had more things figured out already.
7. Do you say aim or a-i-m? I aim to hit you in the face. but I used to use A-I-M. So both I guess.
8. Tell me about the last dream you remember having? Something about Japan, and work and messing stuff up and being stubborn..I don't remember much.
10. What are you craving right now? My bed and the yummy dinner I know is coming later today!
11. Do you floss? I try to.
19. What do you think of crickets? In the house they are annoying, but outside on a summer/fall evening they are lovely.
20. Have you ever met a celebrity? Steve Buschemi, Casey Affleck, Mary Kay Place, Eddie Murphy and wife, Mark Boone Jr (the fat buy that always plays corrupt cops, ie: in the most recent Batman. And he took me out for dinner at Applebee's and made me let him drive back to the office where they were filming.), Richard Hatch and Tricia Helfer (6 from BSG!)
21. Do you like cottage cheese? Yes. Especially in the summer with garden tomatoes and chives. :)
22. What are you listening to right now? My supervisor talking with our accountant.
24. Are your parents strict? Depends on what. TV, Movies yes they were when we were growing up, but with friends and going out time they were really flexible!
25. Would you go sky diving? Uhm, pretty sure that would literally scare the shit out of me.
26. Would you go out to eat with George W. Bush? I think I would say yes and then proceed to ask him all kinds of questions as to why his ass is so dumb.
27. Would you throw potatoes at him? Yes, but mostly the mashed kind.
30. Do you rent movies often? Oh every so often. We use Netflix.
31. Who sits behind you in your math class? Uhm, not so much in school anymore.
32. can you count backwards from 74? Wait does 75 or 73 come next? Yes of course.
35. Who are you going to be with tonight? N at dinner and a show.
36. Brown or white eggs? Whichever are free range.
38. Ever been on a train? This morning and will again in about an hour.
40. Do you have a cell-phone? My only phone.
41. Whats your best friend doing tomorrow? One is in Japan and therefore either sleeping or working, one is in Goshen and probably swamped as ever -tax season you know- and the other is in Phoenix and probably working or maybe at a dr's appointment for her nugget.
45. Ever have cream puffs? Yes. Vanilla is the best kind.
45. Ever had Breaded Shrimp? Can anyone say Chicagos at 2 am?!
46. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect? No. Don't so much as care to either.
47. What was the last question you asked?Something about a letter I had to write to my boss.
48. What was the last CD you bought? Soundtrack to Chocolat and Juno and my new favorite band Cocorosie!
50. What is your bus number for school? I think it was 28 or soemthing like that.
51. Is your hair curly? Sometimes wavy.
52. Last time you cried? 3 weeks ago.
53. Ever walked into a wall? Yes.
54. Ever walked UP a wall? More like pushed up and pulled over.
55. Have you ever bought anything from PacSun? No, never liked it or shopped there.
57. Favorite time of the year? Fall. without a doubt.
60. Do you have any tattoos? One. In arabic. On my foot. It says peace.
61.Who was the last person you held hands with? N.
62. Do you sleep with the TV on? I don't even have a TV.
63. Where was your default picture taken at? The one of me was in my apartment, the one of the apple was by my cousin in Chicago.
64. Why was your default picture taken? Because I wanted one and I really liked her picture.
65. Do you like your life right now? Yes, but there are a few things I wish to change.
67. What is your favorite animal? Dogs.
68. #68 is off playing with themselves. Uhm?
69. Do you have good vision? I wish it was better.
70. Can you hula hoop? Meh.
71. Could you ever forgive a cheater? Most likely not, but I would be willing to listen-well, I say that now, I would like to hope I would listen.
72. Do you have a job? Boo, yes.
73. Last movie you watched? No Country For Old Men.
74. What are you wearing? A jumper/dress, a turtleneck, tights and shoes.
75. What does your hair look like? In a thick headband.
76. Ever climbed out a window? Ha! yes.
77. Can you handle the truth? Yes.
78. What was the most recent thing you bought? 24-10 packs of gum for my show.
80. What's the longest you talked to someone on the phone? Oh, who knows. around 3 hours?
81. Do you hate/dislike more than 3 people? Sure.
83. Are you sarcastic? :P
84. Have you ever punched someone? My brother counts right?
85. Do looks matter? They help but the person is more important and can totaly change how the looks come across.
86. Do you use chap stick? Sometimes.
87. Are you too forgiving? Very.
88. Do you own something from Hot Topic?A ctually, I think I do!
89. Do you own a gun? Well actually "we" own 4. They are all blanks and for Theatre. One is really awesome and sounds great for shows!
90. Have you ever made a prank phone call? Oh those were the days.
91. Have you ever been in a castle? Yes, two in England.
92. Do you like your hair? Yes, though I need to re-dye it soon.
93. Do you like yourself? Most of the time.
94. Are you emotional? At times.
95. Are you more angry, upset, or happy most of the time?Generally Happy.
96. When was the last time you talked on aim? I don't know, over two years ago?
97. Did you meet anybody new today? Not yet.
98. Whats the closest thing to you thats red? A marker.
99. Who likes you? Some of these questions are idiotic, and yet, I still answer them. Oh how pathetic. ;) I would like to say that everyone likes me but as I have not met everyone I would say the people that know me like me. I am sure they like me less sometimes and more sometimes. That is just the way it goes.

And that my friends, if you just read it, was a waste of time for all involved! Now you know 99 things about me that you otherwise will forget as soon as you leave the blog. That is ok. I will forget my answers as well.

That is all for now.

From my myspace page.

2008-02-05T15:49:00.000-06:00

(By the way, this post is pretty much a random assortment as I think of things to write about.)

So I suppose I should add something here. Plus I don't want to do anything at work. Ergh. I'm thinking of quitting but that is kinda scary with nothing lined up to move on to and the way the economy is right now. I just hate the office thing anymore. Perhaps it is the atmosphere in our office, perhaps it is the people I work with (yes for most of them) but most likely it is that I have been here 2.5 years and still only do address changes every fucking day. I mean that could perhaps have something to do with it.

I have decided that this is a year of figuring things out, I guess they always are to soem extent. But this year is planned, a little. I am contemplating the resignation of my job, signing up for some more schooling (cosmetology no less!) and trying to figure out what I would want to be doing in the next 5, hell the next 2 or even 1 years.
We'll see what happens. I think I will try to update you all more on this too. Ha! That in itself is a task! At least it takes up time at work.

So for the whole new years resolution things I came up with one that I really want to follow all year long. So far I have been able to which I think is kinda impressive. My goal is to write at least one real letter to someone each week of the year. This could be a note, a post card, a long letter etc. But So far I have been able to achieve this and it makes me really happy. I know how much I love getting any mail that is not junk or bill related and so I thought I would share the love - so to speak. Real letters are so rare anymore and for me they are always a lovely bright spot and can totaly change my day.

Oh, in other news, the short movie I worked on with a friend (I did all the FX make-up) just won second place out of 76 entries nationwide! And it got best make-up too! The movie is called "Hope Hath No Halflife" and here is the link: http://www.filmracing.com/Films/competitions/grandprix2007.htm
It is pretty amusing and despite the icy cold weather and rain while we worked outside it was fun to do, a great way to spend my Sunday afternoon!

Our company, The Right Brain Project (www.therbp.org) is currently rearranging. So at this point I don't know if we will have too many shows this year. We are trying to reevaluate and restructure some stuff and just figure out our next steps. So, I will keep you updated on that.
In regards to art stuff, I am still TA-ing at the art center and currently enrolled in a great class! Printing on clay. I love it so far. I think this is something that I will play with for a long time to come! It is really amazing if you think of it. You can do silk screen, block prints, monoprints and such on a piece of clay and have the image or words show up just as you see them on paper or a computer! I still have a long way to go with it and a lot more expirimenting to do but it has prooven to be a great thing to play with. If anyone has any suggestions on some cool images send them my way. I hope to get some pictures eventually.

I also costumed a show in October that I am really proud of. I want to get pictures on that up sometime soon too. It was called CHALK and written by a friend of ours for our company. The show was a crime noir and we attempted to use a grayscale pallet. It was slightly difficult to do and some colors were used but overall it came out well! I am so excited about what I came up with because I made a lot of the costumes! I made two full cop uniforms (including badges), 3 1921 womens style dresses (including an elegant night dress for a jazz singer without a pattern) and some other odds-n-ends. I was needless to say very proud of it all. Plus with the other designers and the actors we had a great show!

So, I think for right now that is about all. I should probably get back to work related things as I have been on this for a bout 45 min. I need to pretend to look busy. Ugh.

More coming.

Abortions

2008-02-05T13:12:00.001-06:00

I just found this article via digg.com. I think it is amazing.

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=283931&p=3

one.

2008-02-05T09:56:00.000-06:00

I have decided as of right now that I am going to create a blog. At this point I don't know what will be on it. Hopefully my art, my designing and other random things. Eventually I will post images of my work and maybe even talk about it. Perhaps I can use this as a portfolio of sorts. We'll see what happens. Welcome to my blog expiriment.

-se