The Big Picture Post...

Okay. I've finished editing all of the photos and I got the CDs out in the mail this afternoon. Here are some of my favorites. There are quite a few. :)

Truthfully, there are so many more cute ones...it's easy to get a ton of great pictures when you have such adorable subjects!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

I've been busy lately...

And so I've been neglecting the blog. I can't abandon it already! Plus now that I know at least two of my sisters look at it regularly...I have to keep you guys entertained!

Everything has been super hectic lately. Here are some of the highlights from the past week and a half:

-I wrote two papers

-I went home to visit

-Met my new baby nephew Nico

-Waited at the hospital while my sister had a baby

-Met my NEW new nephew Daniel

-Took a couple hundred pictures

-Went to a Fall Festival

-Saw "Saw 5" with Robert

-Ate delicious home cooked food and delicious restaurant food

-Completed 16 squares for Daniel's blanket

-Started a new class, Spanish I

-Completed the first Dino in a four part custom order I received on Etsy

-Received a package from my Fall Secret Sister on Two Peas

Today I hope to:

-Crochet a cute little bat (another custom order)

-Clean up and organize my room. After the packages and two trips right in a row...it needs it.

-Maybe scrapbook a little? I haven't done it in awhile and I'd really love to.

I also have a dinner tonight for CC Scholars. It's luckily just downstairs in the Great Hall. I hope the food is good. In any case, it's FREE!

Here are some pics of the cute little dino. I'd never done freeform crochet before (where you don't have a pattern but just make it up as you go along) but I think it turned out great!Here are some pictures of the fabulous gifts I received from my Secret Sister...there's so much! All kinds of patterned paper, cardstock, an entire pack of Bazzill, tons of stickers, Thickers, stamps, adhesive, ribbon, an album, chipboard and so much more! Really, it is a TON of stuff. Plus, not pictured is the October Glamour Magazine and an adorable little box filled with candy! (They're both on my bedside table and I forgot to stick them in the picture.)I'm working on going through all the pictures I took while I was home and editing them...so far I've got Thursday done! That means only Friday and Saturday left, and I've done some of those, too. Here are a few cute ones...

I'll post more pictures once I've edited them all...and to my sisters and Mom: As soon as I get through all of the pics I will burn CDs for all of you and get them sent out. This will hopefully be around the beginning of next week.

Trip Pictures...

Here are some of the pictures I took on the trip. It was so much fun...I really wish we could've spent the whole block on that field trip, rather than just one week.

These are at Dar al-Islam:

These are at Ghost Ranch. We met the burros on our way out, right by the highway.At White Place:And one at the Baca Campus:

A quick weekend...

Wow...this weekend really flew by! A couple of highlights:

1. I sold the owl! It was only listed for TWO days, and it sold for $15. I'm really excited about that.

2. I've had SO MANY super nice people from 2Peas tell me that they love my work and want to work with me on making them custom amigurumis. I'm exited about this, too, because it's really a challenge to me to have a picture of what someone wants and then try to create a pattern from the picture.

3. I've been packing and getting ready for my trip this week!

About the trip...I'm leaving with my class tomorrow at 8 am for Santa Fe, and won't be back on campus until Friday. This is pretty much the highlight of our class. We're meeting artist Arlene Cisneros Sena at her home studio and art studio, then driving to Abiquiu and settling in to Dar al-Islam, where we're staying in a yurt. We're going to hike Ghost Ranch and then have class afterwards.

On Tuesday, we have class in the morning, then we're meeting with a representative at Dar al-Islam's mosque and getting a tour, then hiking La Plaza Blanca (the White Place). After dinner we're going to a concert and storytelling event with the Zevk Ensemble. While we're in Abiquiu we're supposed to have traditional Middle Eastern food, which kind of worries me since I'm so picky...lol.

On Wednesday we drive back to Colorado, to Crestone and the Baca campus (a retreat campus in the San Luis Valley). We're going to hike Great Sand dunes National Park and Monument, which is a really cool experience. This will be my third time at the Sand Dunes. That night we have a man who identifies as a Crypto-Jew coming to speak to us. I can't wait for that because the history of Crypto-Jews and their current plight is really interesting.

Thursday we have class in the morning, then we're visting the San Isabel hermitages, where my professors live.

Friday we have morning class again and then we head back to campus! All in all it's going to be VERY busy and fun. I plan on taking a ton of pictures and I'll post some when I get back. Actually, the picture at the top of the page was taken from the Baca Campus, so you kind of get an idea of how isolated and beautiful it is out there.

Homecoming and a little owl...

So this weekend is Homecoming/Parent's Weekend on campus. Do you know what that means? Ridiculous amounts of people with name tags running around, forming long lines in places that hardly ever have ANY line. I stood in line for 10 minutes today just to GET INTO the cafeteria. That's not even counting the huge lines at every station in the cafeteria. YIKES! I'm glad I have some food in my room- maybe I'll just not leave Bemis Hall until Monday morning for class! Think of all the crocheting and scrapbooking I could get done...not to mention the laundry and class reading...

I finished an owl today...this is a bigger size than the other animals I've been making, it's the "Mommy" rather than the "Baby" size. It's about 5 inches tall, and super cute.

I plan to sell it, maybe on Etsy, I'm not sure. However, I don't have any idea whatsoever on how to price these things. How much would you pay? (Keeping in mind that making these animals is a time-consuming task) I'd really love some opinions.