business cards

i made business cards to have at the art auction next to the book i made. seeing as i'm wanting to sell books - i made the cards into miniature books. i thought it was cute. there's a bunch of different ones. i changed up colors on the inside text, as well as the outside spine (seen here in green, there are also melon, orange & teal spines). i also have "covers" that say dream, image, explore, express, and create.

and all of that required too much thought for a sunday night. i'm spent.

yay for...

waking up before the alarm goes off
sleeping in
cool ranch doritos
jelly beans
amazing mothers
birds at the feeder
sunshine!
chocolate syrup swiss cake rolls
honeydew melon soy candles
blue man group tickets!

a book that ties closed

i originally bought the fabric for a new bag, but i think i like this better.

photo lunch - erfert park

april and i tried to use this week's photo lunch to shoot a recently burned down business. however, there were construction/insurance/official looking folks about the area, so we decided not to stick around. refusing to return to the office without having accomplished a photo lunch, we ended up at erfert park to enjoy the sunshine and playground equipment. perhaps we'll revisit the burned out building once all the official burning down business has been completed and no one's around to care we're taking photos.

change doesn't have to be bad

starting today my workplace is taking applications for new artist positions within the advertising department. this is the beginning of a major restructuring of the artist workforce in an attempt to better allocate our creative resources. honest. they told us so at a meeting.

a new book

tonight i made a journal/sketchbook for an art auction. there's a photo on the projects page. it took me about 4 hours... and i'm sure that if i did it again i could easily get it down to 3, maybe even 2. i used some new techniques, so i practiced before using them on the book. and then i had it almost done and kind of had to take it apart again. but it ended up looking great, i think. hopefully it will be a big hit at the auction.

i'd like to go to the auction, but it's the same night I'M GOING TO SEE BLUE MAN GROUP! i'm pretty excited about that, in case you couldn't tell. :)

and speaking of being excited, i found out that the town of griffith is doing an outdoor art exhibit this summer. similar to the ducks highland did last year (again, photos on the projects page), but griffith is doing 4 foot tall locomotives. april and i are already brainstorming good ideas. plus, my grandpa works for a company in griffith... maybe i can get them to sponsor a locomotive for me to paint as well.

good day with good friends

so i missed my saturday night deadline. i've still got a few tweaks to work out... so check back for finished pages and frequent updates. and welcome to bluehighlights.com :)

spent yesterday shopping with april & sandi. i know the going to college was good because it got me a degree, which got me a job, which gets me a paycheck every couple of weeks. but i'm truly more thankful for the friends i made while i was there.

saw the new adam sandler/drew berrymore flick "50 first dates". it had some classic adam sandler unnecessary humor to it, but the movie was good. when we left we were saying the ending was kind of sad. that it should have ended another way. but really... more often than not, life doesn't give the perfect happy endings. and instead of just accepting that, the folks in the flick made their own happy ending. and i think it's better the way it worked out. i like the choices they made. and where they ended up because of them.

24 hours

not much time left to saturday night. i think i can make it, AND do a little shoe shopping tomorrow.

this week went very quickly. i'm not sure i accomplished much. somedays, just getting through the day feels like an accomplishment. at the end of other days, i feel like i didn't use the time as wisely as i could have. i want to make the most of every moment. take hold of every opportunity. take advantage of every situation. that's why i don't like the idea of living for the weekend. i mean, only 2 days out of every 7 are the weekend. and if i live for the weekend... well, i'm losing five sevenths of my life. can i spend five sevenths of my life merely surviving until the two measly days of the weekend? ugh. that's awful. i mean, i enjoy my weekends. i do love having a couple of days to not spend 8 hours at work. but, i can't let those 8 hours at work not be living. i refuse. so there.

productive evening...

saturday? maybe tomorrow evening...

brick wall

i'm having issues with the last few pages of the site, which are actually the first few pages of the site. i just can't decide what to put there. i am determined, however, to have it figured out and the site live by saturday night. that's right folks, this saturday. folks? sheesh... no one even knows this is here yet...

accomplished

- almost finished with "projects" section
- definitely jammed to old dc talk cds
- thought about my st. patrick's day card
- made it to church sunday
- SLEPT

weekend goals

- find fabric for my st. patrick's bag
- purchase out of eden's new cd
- finish "projects" section of this site
- jam to old dc talk cds and chuckle at memories of being 14
- sketch ideas for a st. patrick's card
- drag my butt to church on sunday
- SLEEP

words that start with the letter "b"

becca boy bless busy bossy bus bored board boar bore boring boredom bike bicycle bent bendy bendable bend bed bedroom best better bone bony blue begonia bachelor button betsy billy bob bill biff buff bath beth bull ball bell bowl bowling bowler be being bet ben benjamin benny banter barder buy bye by bar brrr bin ban bane bart burt birt bert bottle bat battle butt but bow bow beautiful blissful blessed blessing bliss black blick blunt blend bland blender blunder business bust bastion billiard back burn burning burner burnt brown browner brownie brow brought bought bough bash bass belt bolt big bigger biggest ballet belfry bottom bomb blitz blizzard borneo border birth birthday bunny buns bunt bunk bunkbed billboard bill boot beat bout bale bail boil burr besides beside bag bagpipes backfire backbone bold