Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Favorite picture from Michigan (not really, but I liked it)

Right? I just haven't felt like blogging. And now that I am really really busy today, I somehow find the time to blog...

I need your prayers this afternoon. Geoffrey and I are going to jump into the river at 5 p.m. today. Yup, that's right. Brazos River, here we come. All sharks, piranhas, snakes, snapping turtles, killer whales, alligator gar and the like should find another home for today. Okay, okay...I know. It's just the Brazos River! Except that every time they drain the Brazos, they find cars and dead people. Triathlon training must go on though! 2 days less than 2 months from now is the big day. We bought some fancy running shoes last weekend at Luke's Locker. So far, my feet haven't fallen asleep in them at all. I'm really happy about this because my sleepy feet have been driving me (and Geoffrey) crazy.

If you want to know what I did in the first part of May, here ya go. And--there's nothing that the road cannot heal. Kimberly is still a bestest friend after all those miles and Adrienne is the coolest person I know. I know that some of you will be disappointed that you don't hold the coolest person place...but you probably don't know Adrienne. She's getting married on June 27 and I'm sure that it will be the coolest wedding I've been to as well. I will say that I plan to take Geoffrey on my next adventure...5 days apart was hard.

In other news, I'm about 90% sure at this point that I'm going to be Professor Davis at Baylor U. in the fall. I'll be teaching a night class on MW to college juniors. We'll cover Photoshop and Illustrator. I'm going to be a hard professor. Muhahaha. Yes, I'll still have my day job. They haven't gotten rid of me yet.

Speaking of teaching: I'd like to see some comments on what some cool design projects would be.

Okay, okay...I'm going to blog more frequently.

Attention 2

Things that have my attention (second verse):

-Earth Day-- I wore green in honor of Earth Day today. And brown business shorts (I guess that's what you call them). Brown and Green...go Earth! In fact the Earth movie comes out today...I want to see it (but not today).

-Downtown Dark coffee blend at the Olive Branch...oh how I love the Olive Branch.

-Driving Kimberly's dad's Jimmy to Michigan! (Thank you, Kirby) Road trip! We plan to make a stop in Nashville...hopefully to see some long lost high school friends. I think the plan is to take a picture at all the state lines...and any other major tourist attractions.

-Green shopping bags. I'm never buying paper bags for gift sacks again. I've noticed recently that stores are starting to be more creative with their graphics on these bags. You can find them anywhere. They have cool ones at Books A Million right now. If only I can remember to take them to the grocery store. Maybe if the store stopped carrying plastic, I'd remember to bring them. It would be terrible to carry my groceries out in armloads!

-DSVC.org--how can AAF-Waco (ad club) be cool like this? The conversation begins...

-Feed sacks. Back in the 20s this is how you got your flour, sugar and feed for livestock. The people selling the feed caught wind that women were making clothing from these sacks. So they started making them with really cool fabrics. All of my favorite quilts (Geoffrey's grandmother has several of these) are made from feed sack materials. In the 50s, the people selling the feed decided to use paper sacks. BOO. Let's go back to bags of fabric...then we could make cool clothes and quilts with them! And not cut down more trees. Examples of feed sack fabric here. You can google image it to see more.

Attention

Several things that have my attention right now:

• Alvin Lustig
As a sort of information/history site about this awesome designer, I really like how his portfolio is weaved into it. Nice colors, too. I think a lot of people design stuff inspired by this guy.

• Talk like Shakespeare Day - April 23, 2009
Or maybe blog like Shakespeare on April 23? That would be cool to see what everyone comes up with for their blog entry...a sonnet? a play? both?

• Places where you can get custom t-shirts printed. So many possibilities...
Zazzle.com (they do stamps, too!)
Skreened.com (ethically custom)
CafePress.com (tried and true...they have made some awesome bags for me)

• Quilting. The quilt top looks awesome! Now I just have to get busy "quilting" the thing. Yikes. It's hard.

• Cheap ways to travel to Michigan. Leaving in T-minus 15 days.

Moving right along

I'm proud to announce that as of 20 minutes ago, I have purchased all of the material that I need for the quilt that I am making. This weekend I am going to Longview to get Geoffrey's grandmother to help me put all of the pieces together. I have all of my "squares" ready, so we'll just be adding the borders, backing and batting. And then, eventually, I will add the binding. Lots of b's. I'm so excited!

In other news, my parents have a new dog! She's a golden retriever. Sunny, the other golden retriever in the Lockhart family, is getting on up there in age. Poor thing. But keep your fingers crossed! We want these two to "hook up" sometime soon. This means that Geoffrey and I may get a puppy!! Yay!

Cinnamon (top)
Sunny & Cinnamon (bottom)

New month, new post

I've been at a loss as to what to say on this blog recently. I guess I could show you what we actually ended up with for the TRC logo. I like it...the others were too busy.

The quilt is coming along, too. I have the urge to put a picture on the blog. But no, not yet. I'm going to be in Longview over Easter to see family and then the next weekend I am going to go back to Longview to get Geoffrey's grandmother to help me put it all together. Then the fun part comes...stitching by hand!

Which one do you like better?

I'm working on a new logo for our TRC Fundraising event...what do you think?
Option 1Option 2

Stumbled upon this...

I made this.
Thanks to stumbleupon.com, I found a site that teaches you how to fold money.