Finally! Time to breath and post!

(photo of the Carriage House & on the blog)

I have been swamped with school work and HALLELUJAH this semester is over! I got 2-A's and 2-B's...somewhat disappointed I didn't get all A's, but I suppose you can't have it all.

Anyway, I am at a loss of inspiration at the moment and don't have anything too exciting to post about.

However, I would like to tell you about a new blog you should check out. It's for The Carriage House where I work in Statesboro. The Carriage House has interiors, furniture, gifts, and decor that is so beautiful! You can see pictures of the new items on the blog, and even become a fan on facebook! There you will find updates on the gorgeous new orders we get in, as well as special promotional information or anything else going on at the Carriage House.

I'll be back with something creative to blog about...at the moment my mind is just in relax mode, and that so far, does not include much writing.

Dear Sweet Friend, Amanda

Amanda and her wonderful family (including her fur son, Calvin who is so cute and just like a little boy)

from the first trip to Haiti, caring for children at the clinic site.

Being such a great RN to the kids in Haiti

Me and Amanda at semi formal when we were both in Atlanta.

Recently, my dear friend Amanda left for Haiti to live for several months as a missionary/nurse. She knew that the Lord was calling her there and her heart was truly drawn to serve the Haitians. The original plan was for her to be there until Christmas time which if I remember correctly would be about 3 full months in southern Haiti. She was living with a family and was pretty much the only person who spoke English (except for a few others here and there). She sent out updates while she was there about all the the Lord was doing and what she was learning and even how difficult it was. I think every time I read one I cried.

It's so beautiful to see the Lord's work in some one's heart whether they know Jesus or not, and seeing my sister in Christ and very dear friend trust Him in circumstances that I have never faced and can't really imagine truly brings tears to my eyes. This work in her life and her work in Haiti has made me think, "How am I trusting the Lord and letting Him control my life? How am I leaning not on my own understanding but rather leaning on Christ and His sovereignty?" Does this ever burden your heart? I think it's a very important thing to think and pray through, especially living in middle class America where our greatest material needs are a new cashmere sweater and we can't see our need for Christ as desperately since we don't want for too much.

In case you didn't know, Haiti is a really volatile place right now. As much as I am thankful for the Lord calling Amanda to Haiti and for being able to share in that through prayer, it terrified me that she was leaving and going somewhere so dangerous. I cried the day she left. It's silly really, I obviously wasn't trusting the Lord in that. She is such a dear friend and even though I don't get to see her nearly as much as I'd like now that we live in different cities, she is truly one of the people I cherish most. There's something about the becoming friends in a hard time in life that brings people closer, and Amanda was a friend that I was so drawn to when I didn't have any friends when I first moved to Atlanta. I am so thankful for her and I praise the Lord for bringing her into my life and allowing me to get to know not only such a genuine and treasured friend, but her wonderful loving and godly family as well.

Amanda went to Haiti once before on a shorter trip (over spring break I think), and when she came to visit right before her departure in October, she told me all about what she saw. The poverty is so great there that starving families give their children dirt cakes made of actual dirt and sugar mixed together just to give them something to fill their stomachs. As you can imagine, this is terribly unhealthy and many children get parasites among other problems due to eating actual dirt cakes. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and although the American government has given money to help with the national hunger and poverty problems, it seems that the leaders of Haiti art not wisely spending that money to help the Haitian citizens. Amanda said that when she first got off the plane there were swarms of people fighting to help them with their bags and open doors, anything to make a little bit of money since there are no jobs and so many families are starving and barely scrapping by.

In her updates she shared with friends and family, Amanda shared some of the things she encountered (I'm sure there is MUCH more to share and I can't wait to fill you in on that once I talk to her) which included the very low health standards and the poor state that most Haitian children grown up in. It's heartbreaking to hear about the standard of life that people not so far away from where we live deal with every day.

If you feel led to give in any way to the cause of Christ in Haiti, please let me know and I can get you in touch with Amanda. There are needs in Haiti that she now has a better idea of how to fulfill and here are some specific things you can do to help: 1. PRAY! Pray for the hearts of Haitian people to turn to Christ and trust in Him for life and fulfillment even in the desperate state in which they live. Pray for Christian leaders who will be selfless and will be wise in making decision about caring for their people and spending the money they are given from other countries. That the Lord will be merciful and provide for the starving families and poor children who eat dirt cakes. 2. Give toys. Some Haitian children have never had a toy in their entire lives and many of the little girls make dolls out of coconuts. You can send toys to donate to Amanda and she will send them to the host family she stayed with in Haiti and they will hand them out in the villages. 3. Give money to purchase a laptop. Dr. Don, the doctor at El Shaddai orphanage would like a laptop so that he can organize their pharmacy, make a database of patients, and just better take care of the children who are in his care (there are 2000 of them!). Dr. Don needs about $900 to purchase this computer.

So, as I mentioned before, the original plan was for Amanda to be in Haiti for about three months, but she became very ill and had to return home after much less time than planned. She could not keep food down and was becoming very weak and just could not get better. She was so sad to have to return home, but it was necessary for her health that she come back and recover. I must admit, I'm very thankful that she came back. It's a terrible feeling to know that a dear friend is ill in a third world country and not be able to do anything (other than pray) to help. Not to make this about me, but this is teaching me so much about how little I trust the Lord. I want to be able to control everything and I cry or get so weighed down when I can't take care of someone with my own two hands. Anyway, Amanda is back in the states and has been for a week now. She was admitted to the hospital and seen by an infectious diseases doctor. Turns out, she has typhoid fever (which I think is actually a little bit cool to be able to say that later, it's like a battle scar) and is now on antibiotics and hopefully, prayerfully, on the mend. She is very sad and I can imagine disappointed that she had to return so early, so please pray that she will have peace in her heart with the Lord bringing her home before she had planned. Pray that even if she doesn't see His purpose now in bringing her back, that she will rest in His sovereignty and trust that His way is best. Also, please pray for healing for her body. Even though she is back in the states, and saying you had typhoid fever sounds cool, having it is clearly not cool so please pray that she will recover quickly and that the medications will continue to work and provide relief.

The Results Are In...

If you read my post here about the redesign of the Lakeside cafe on campus, you will know that our group placed in the top four and were to represent to a different panel of judges.

We represented on Friday of this past week, and on Saturday they announced the winners. OUR TEAM WON!!!! We are very excited and I can't wait to see the transformation. Please take a look at the earlier post to see the quick rendering the interior designers did and you can take a look at the branding and signage that Matt and I did.

The outside of Lakeside will mostly remain the same aside from extending a wall and balcony out for additional seating, but the inside will make a total transformation. Can't wait to see things begin and be a part of the change to the campus! Construction will start this May.

A little bit of my work

Some of these are recent, others are not as recent. I'll update more soon. Just switched to my new MacBook Pro and am still trying to figure out where all of my files are without adding them two or three times to the new computer. I LOVE this computer. Her name is Fiona Apple. Get it?! Much more to come... I realize I haven't posted in a while. I've been in hiding designing and studying and such non-stop. People warned me that senior year would be a challenge, but true to form I didn't listen and now it's gotten tough and I haven't slept enough. I will be posting proof of that (some of this included) so you'll believe me that I've been busy and am not just blowing smoke. More to come..stay tuned!

She's pretty good with a pen and paper for not having thumbs

My roommates and I received a wonderful letter and gift this week. Someone sneaked it into my car as I was packing it up to leave Augusta and head back to school. Inside of a gift bag was a beautifully wrapped box containing a tin of lemon straws. There was a card included with the gift inside a gold lined envelope on embossed border stationary written in beautiful cursive penmanship. At first I thought it was from Mama, but after reading I discovered the "true" author of the letter. It reads:

"My dear young ladies,

I would like to humbly apologize for my "indiscretions" during my recent stay in your lovely home. You were so gracious to allow me to visit, yet I repaid your kindness with repugnant manner and inexcusable actions. I was not raised to behave so.

I first sought to blame the aforementioned behavior on a touch of the swine flu. But now having had time to reflect upon my comportment during that week, I realize that I must accept full responsibility. Away at University for the first time, far from the watchful eyes of my parents, I fear that succumbed to youthful recklessness and rebellion. However, rather than gaining the "freshman fifteen" from excesses of beer and wine, I left my freshman fifteen on your parlor floor.

I now beg your forgiveness and hope that you will accept this small repayment for the anguish and disgust that I surely caused each of you. My sincere hope is that any lingering memories or me not be of the odoriferous kind.

Most sincerely yours,

S. Potato Roupe"

In case you don't remember, Tater (Sweet Potato aka S. Potato Roupe) came to visit for about a month ago for a week and poo pooed on the den floor in front of the TV 6 or 7 times throughout the week. It was ridiculous.

Someone was mighty clever to write this note and send a gift. We all got a kick out of it.

A Wedding, A Weekend, and the Almost Bar B Que Thieves

This weekend Sara Jane and I helped decorate (and of course attended) Emily Bailey's wedding to Will Dalzell (pictured above in the foreground). It was a nice ceremony in New Ellenton, SC in a small church on a hilltop. The church was beautiful with an antique feel complete with stained glass windows even though it's a newer construction. They opted for a morning wedding at 11AM and a brunch reception that followed in the fellowship hall. The theme of the reception was English garden meets music/literary wonderland which was fitting since Emily is an avid reader, scholar, and musician, and Will is a landscape architect. Rather than serving cake at such an early hour, the couple had a cinnamon roll tower and "cut the cake" by scooping out one of rolls with a serving piece and rather than a champagne toast, they toasted with coffee mugs with "Mrs. D" and "Mr. D" written on them. Tre cute!

After setting up the reception hall the night before the wedding, Sara Jane and I decided to head to the local Bar B Que restaurant down the street. We are suckers for some good bar b que especially when accompanied with an assortment of home cooked sides and rice/hash! So, we park in the tiny parking lot of the restaurant called "Carolina Bar B Que" (clever name) and observe the situation. We were looking for a place called "Duke's" and when we arrived at the wrong restaurant we wondered if we should have continued looking for dukes or if we should stay and eat at the place. While mulling over our decision, we see an interesting family enter the small establishment wearing button down denim tops, high wasted jeans, Reebok tennis shoes, and what appeared to be an entire can of AquaNet hairspray between them. It was then that we knew...it was meant to be. Following them was a man going in alone wearing black tennis shoes, white tube socks, jean shorts, a tshirt tucked in, and a baseball hat. He held the door for us and as we walked in just ahead of him we were greeted with the heavenly scent of pulled pork bar b que, vinegar based sauces, fried everything, and sweet tea. There was a buffet line we filed into, and not wanting to seem like out-of-towners we opted to just go with the buffet rather than order a sandwich which required asking an employee to make.

Along the way down the line as we pile our plates with fried okra, squash, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, green beans, rice, hash, and bar b que, we read handwritten signs detailing the rules of the restaurant. I can't remember exactly what they said, but I do know that they went something like this: "No sharing. Only take what you can eat. Do not eat off of anyone else's plate. Only take what you can eat. No taking buffet food to go. Only take what you can eat." I'm regret that I didn't have a camera to document all of this for you visually. We got the picture by the end of the buffet line, although neither of us seemed to heed the "take only what you can eat" rule which was repeated numerous times.

Heading for the tea we cruise on down the line bypassing an employee wiping the seeming empty counter space between the food and the tea. Armed with our trays and a will to eat we become confused. We hadn't payed. We didn't pay before we gathered our food, nor did we pay after, and we certainly didn't notice a cash register between the macaroni and green beans! We toss around the idea that maybe you pay when you finish eating and that way there's a record of how many times you went back to get more...but that's against the very nature of a buffet! Just then, we notice the man who walked in just behind us pulling out his wallet and nearly being charged for three buffet dinners! Once we noticed our mistake we hurried back to pay for our dinners rather than sticking a perfect stranger with the bill....although it would have been nice if it had been free somehow.

After nearly stealing our food, we sat down to enjoy our loot. It was d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s.!!! I don't think I'd ever had fried squash before, but I know I can't wait to eat it again. So, if you're ever in New Ellenton, SC stop by Carolina Bar B Que and have some bar b que...just be sure to pay for it :)

Inspiring Inspirations

So, I have recently felt like I hit a proverbial design brick wall when it comes to designing the hardcore/screamo band CD packaging I was assigned. It's been a little discouraging trying to come up with something that is cohesive and attractive while at the same time being of the "hardcore" persuasion. I LOVE Pandora, especially my Bat For Lashes station and have recently become increasingly fond of the band School of Seven Bells and more specifically their song "Half Asleep" which you will find in this video. It has nothing to do with screamo or hardcore music at all (which is fine by me) but I did find some inspiration to get my tail in gear and get some major work done on this packaging system.

I've been in a very "art" mood lately and have revisited my desire to be a poor man's Leslie Feist or some such artist in the musical world as well as a fine artist (which I'm sad to say I neglect due to graphic design projects even though fine art is my first love as far as art goes). So, please listen to this music and while you're at it...you should also watch this video, which inspires me to do performance art which I also have a not so secret (anymore) desire to do. If I did ever do performance art, this is what I would want to do. This video makes my heart flutter.

Also...speaking of fine art, I figure now is as good a time as any to post some pictures of some of my "fine art" which may or may not post in the desired places, so pardon my blogger novice nature. Apologies for the poor quality of some of these photos, I just used cell phone pictures that were already stored on my computer.

The above and below are both distorted self portraits on an anamorphic grid...who would've ever thought I could look so pretty?! PS. This was an assignment, the rest of the pieces are things that I had free reign to create, not quite as demented as these two.

Unconventional self portrait. The pink triangles stand for pink point heels representing my feminine side, silver lines connecting everything represent how I desire close relationships and to be connected to people all the time, and the circles are representative of a full life in Christ (never ending as a circle has no beginning and no end) and also art (it is shaped like an aperture in a camera) and my love for art.

Book about Sweet Potato (aka Betty) and her rug. Sara Jane wrote the content in a rhyme for me and I put it with photos I manipulated on each page to tell the story of why she is scared to leave the rug in the den.

This is a mixture of a bunch of stuff, doesn't really have a "deep" explanation, but as an art student, I could certainly come up with one for you to support my work if need be :)

My favorite piece I've ever done. Taught me a lot about what I believe is really true and how to combat lies about what women should look like, who we should be, and what we should seek. The right side is "the world's view" of women...excerpts taken from "pro Ana" web pages for anorexics. It's like a secret underground network of men and women who are so sick and blind to the truth about their bodies, health, and the truth about beauty that they support each other NOT in recovery, but in continuing to practice and pursue the eating disorder. Each excerpt is from "top 50 reasons to be anorexic" which is heartbreaking to read what they truly believe, and what I can believe also if I don't continually trust Jesus and see the truth that beauty is in Him, and that taking care of my body and not neglecting it and harming it. I do not have an eating disorder, but researching for this piece was so eye opening and challenging. It's difficult to be confronted with truth and lies and see where my heart can fool me and where I can be so easily tempted to believe those lies even if just a little.

The left side of this piece is pattern pieces cut and layered with inlaid scriptures about beauty and the creation of a woman. The more I think about it the more I think it may be like the two sides of most Christian women I know. We have the truth in us and truly love and believe it, but we often are tempted to believe and function on many lies and have to fight what is innate in us: sin.

Childhood memory: my first earrings, I was 11 and Daddy took me to Meryl Norman to get my ears pierced, then to Belk's to buy some tiny 18k gold hoops (on clearance, of course) and then to Longhorn for supper and Dunkin Donuts to pick up a dozen donuts for breakfast. One of my all time favorite memories with Daddy.

Iconic lines drawing. This is of Grandmama and all of the lines are made up of tiny icons each with a meaning and purpose of why it is where it is. For example, her neck/throat is made up of musical notes because she hums and sings all of the time; her hair made of hair dryers since she gets her hair done every single Friday, and so on.

Ceramic green tea pitcher.

Lonely Chair, first firing in the wood kiln...I LOVE the effect the wood kiln gives different glazes!

So, here's a tiny taste of my fine art stuff, hope you like it!

Bookmaking and Printmaking

Printmaking stuff:

This summer I took a printmaking class and at the end of the semester we made a book to contain all of our prints. So, I thought I'd take a picture of each print phase and share them with you.

This one is a linoleum block print of Tater called "baked potato" which is what we call her which she lays like this and tucks her paws underneath her. It was the first one I did and I'm not really very proud of it because it's messed up in several areas and is pretty clunky.

This is a chine colle aquatint print from a copper plate. It's titled "Susie Homemaker- Blue Chine Colle". This process is both fun and frustrating! You cut out colored paper to fit a certain shape within the plate, ink the plate, and then press it with glue into dampened paper and roll it through the printing press. It's so upsetting when you go through the trouble and then it comes out with the colored paper in the wrong places...but so exciting when you pull the paper off of the plate on the press and it's all in the right place! :)

Chine colle dry point print of Mama and her dog, Bailey when Mama was my age, titled "Mama and Bailey". Dry point is when you scratch into a plexiglass plate and then rub ink into the grooves, clean it off, and roll it through dampened paper in the printing press. This one is a chine colle because the image space is filled with a little bit of a tan tissue paper.

Another chine colle of "Susie Homemaker"

The original "Susie Homemaker" before the plate was etched to create the aquatint. Etching is a process that takes a long time and seems like it's going to be way more trouble than it's worth along the way but once that first print comes off the press, it's clear that it's all worth it. By the way, the process involves bevelling the edges of a copper plate, painting on a oil based ground all over the plate, scratching through where you want lines, then dipping it in an acid bath, neutralizing the acid, cleaning off the ground, and then inking the plate, cleaning it off, dampening paper, then rolling it through the printing press. Very involved process, but with lovely and controllable results.

Bookmaking stuff:

This is the book I made for the prints. This was a fun thing to learn how to do because now I can make sketchbooks, cookbooks, guestbooks....for example:

This is the guestbook I just finished making for Emily Bailey's (soon to be Dalzell) wedding. It's lined with green and the pages have deckled edges and i drew green lines on the pages so that people could sign in an organized fashion. The leaves are 3d and the veins in the leaves I pressed into a groove on the coffee table so that they would pop out. What do you think?

Still Alive, Still a Design Student

I just realized that I need to update about being a pi chi this past fall recruitment. I have a couple pictures, not many but a precious few and some great stories to share about the experience. Somehow other worries and such seem to take over when coming back to "reality" and I don't quite get to process what all I've just experienced. The above picture is of my AOII "family". I am so excited to have two of these new girls added to our growing family. The girl in the bottom left was in my pi chi group and I LOVED her..had no idea she was going to be in my family until the night of big/lil reveal, but could not be more thrilled!

In other news: I just spent my entire weekend working on a design chaurette with four interior designers and another graphic designer, Matt. We were working to redesign the Lakeside cafe on campus. We were given no budget but just the objective to collaborate and create a new and exciting place, increase seating, make it more appealing and just all around better. Matt and I were in charge of the branding and the signage for the whole building and I could not have picked a better partner to work with...not sure if he would say the same or not. He is a great designer with awesome ideas and the talent to make those ideas come to life. We came up with a concept while talking with our interior designers and then we split off into design groups and ran with it. I also should mention that we had such talented and capable interior designers who were so easy to work with even though we didn't work with them as closely at first. They did an incredible job and I was so so so impressed with what they put together in only a few short days! Here are some pictures of the work we collaborated on and presented to a panel of judges from the school:

Bottom floor when you enter Lakeside and turn left.

I didn't get the picture that Matt worked on to get the logos placed on the chairs so all I have of this floor is the "before" rendering. Don't they look so good?! I mean, we only had a weekend and these women pulled together an impressive floor plan, design scheme, and rendering...not without consequence however. The designer who rendered these drawings was in the studio for 24 hours straight. She's quite the dedicated, talented woman!

You see above the signs that would be suspended in a frosted glass/cut out shiny glass sign hanging from the ceiling above each restaurant. We renamed and re branded all of them with their own iconic logo.
This is a rough image of the counter faces made of brushed aluminum and vinyl cut outs of the separated logo to continue the branding in an interesting, not too repetitive way throughout the building.
More signage curved to go into areas with scalloped edges and they all pop off of the wall from steel pegs.
Again, more signage on brushed aluminum backing with a frosted glass or resin material popped off with steel pegs.

This sign is a 12'x6' wall made of brushed aluminum and the logo in white is cut through to reveal a white, back lit Lucite to highlight the negative spaces within the logo. In print, the logo would be in the colors you see on the green signs.

And....I am very very very pleased to announce that after the presentations on Sunday afternoon, the scores were tallied, and I got a text message from a girl in our group letting me know that our group got the highest score out of 10 groups!!!! So the top four groups will be refining all of this and then presenting again to a different panel (auxillary services of GSU) who will make the final decision and then construction will begin in May 2010. I hope we will be chosen! How incredible it would be to see a logo and signage and everything that I had a heavy hand in creating on the campus being used and enjoyed by students for who knows how many years!?

Bamboozled

I absolutely hate this vase, counter top, etc....so I want to be sure everybody knows this is a picture from the Internet, it is not my stuff.

However, the above photo is the source of inspiration for this post title, which I must admit was something I thought up while laying in bed and I had to chuckle to myself and then find a way to work it in. I love the term bamboozled and my bamboo plant has been slowly sort of dying for the past 6-8 months, so I thought it fitting.

I bought a lucky bamboo plant two years ago and at first, it shot up like a weed and was so beautiful and green and wonderful...but then, the poor bamboo plant's fate became not so lucky. As I threw my belongings into my car and got ready to go home for Christmas break, I let my house plants sit outside to soak in some still rather warm air, breeze, and sunshine. Sadly, I absentmindedly forgot about the poor dears and when a frost set in, they were done-zo! At least the other plant was. The lucky bamboo has been soldiering on in a crispy on top curly-q for at least half of the year and I still don't know whether to get a new one and scrap this one, or just let it keep on going.

The bamboo and the other house plant are still on the back patio, at least until it gets cold because I don't think house plants have the warming, welcoming effect when they are crispy and brown. None of these pictures are my actual bamboo plant, but this is similar to what it looks like since I don't have a picture and don't want to take one right now.

I miss the days that my poor bamboo plant was this lush and lovely.

Similar to what it looked like in its former glory. This is the same vase and rocks that I have mine in.

I'm sure anybody who stumbles across my little blog here has been waiting on the edge of their seats to hear about the outcome of the tomato plant I talked about way back when. Well, I am happy to inform you that my humble little tomato plant has now yielded a total of 10 tomatoes to date! Some large, some not so large, but all very tasty. Daddy told me to pick them right before they are totally ripe so that the birds don't get them before I do. So, I put them in the window sill to ripen the rest of the way like you see above.

There is just something about a homegrown tomato that you can't beat! They taste SO much better than grocery store tomatoes. Even if mine are not the size of my head like the ones in the store, they taste 20 times better.

Speaking of tomatoes, I made a tomato pie a couple of weeks ago and brought it home to share with the fam last time I was home. It's a recipe from "My Mama Made That" the cookbook that I got for Sara Jane for her birthday last year. She made the same recipe here, you should read this post and try it even if you aren't crazy about tomatoes. Sara Jane said one girl who ate it doesn't like tomatoes but LOVED the pie!

Also, this recipe calls for basil, how handy since I also have fresh basil growing in the back yard. Gardens are so lovely to have and the growth of a plant is really pretty amazing. That reminds me of how if God loves even plants who don't have souls enough to keep them going (even my sad little bamboo) and he provides the fruit on the plants to feed the birds who will try to steal my tomatoes, and food for me, how much more will He provide for my needs emotionally, spiritually, etc. Even if I feel like I'm getting crispy and brown and not making a lot of beautiful tomatoes, he hasn't forgotten or forsaken me...he'll just prune and garden until I'm lush and fruitful. Wearing out a metaphor? Well, Jesus used the plant metaphor so I figured I'd just follow suit. Funny how when something hits you what Jesus was saying just suddenly sinks in in a new and fresh way. I love that about the Bible and Jesus. As Sammy quotes all of the time "the bible is deep enough for an elephant to wade in, yet shallow enough for a child to play in", there's always more to know and little by little it is being revealed more to me and I hope to you as well.

Sweet Couch Potato

Well, as you may know my baby, Sweet Potato came to visit for the week. Here she is in the car on the way here. I should probably mention she is TERRIFIED of cars...particularly getting in or out of them and just about killed Sara Jane trying to get out of it on Saturday night.


Here she is sniffing around on one of our daily walks. She LOVES walks and especially stopping to sniff the drainage pipes. She thought they were so interesting and just couldn't quite figure them out....I on the other hand was worried that she would get bitten by something hiding in one of the pipes so I didn't like her sniffing around them.


Here she is playing with her little stuffed (well, formerly stuffed) pig and wagging her tail so fast that it's only a flash! Whenever I would walk in the door she would start wagging a million miles an hour and pick up her pig and starts tossing it around...it's outrageously cute.


She is so very snuggly if I sit on the sofa she crawls over and puts her head and a paw or two in my lap. I'm going to miss her now that she went home! Pardon my navy/black/terrible outfit...I was cleaning.



She sits so hilariously! Just look at that turkey leg! Kills me...



Pretty sure this doesn't need a caption.


We went to get doggie ice cream from Bruster's and also used a buy one get one free coupon for ice cream for me and Sara Jane. Cost for the evening: Sara Jane's bruise while Tater exited the car, and only $2.89 for the ice cream!


Here she is eating her ice cream off of the milk bone garnish they put in the cup. Presh!


I was so sad when she left today! Sara Jane came to get her today and it broke my heart. Now, it's back to the real world...back to life, back to reality. Hope you enjoyed these adorable pictures of our precious baby!