Another semester gone by

This semester I was given alot more choicei n what work I decided to do- These are my final three projects for one of my classes. Yes I know there are 4 pieces that is because I changed my mind and did two for Movement- one of the elements of design. Another semester ends, I think I did pretty well in these two classes- I would put the work from the other class but is in a different format that this site doesnt seem to like...

My Art

Well I have done 3 design classes now so I thought it would be a good idea to show off some of the things I have done. Click on them if they seem to be cut off and you will see the whole picture.

This is Kevin Whately, he has been in a few things but is most noted for being Inspector Morse's right hand man which then led him to have his own series, Lewis which is the the name of his character. I did this in my Illustrator class as my final project.

This is Wedge and he is my creation and has
been for many years. Years ago, my father had
a hernia and had to sleep on a wedge. I was
about 14 and had never heard of anyone sleeping
on a wedge, and thought it was funny and so I
began drawing wedge as if he were a person often
drawing my Dad in too. My parents love my
Wedge cartoons.











This is my very latest project I didnt take the photos, but I arranged them and the text.
This was done in my Photoshop class.





This is another one of my designs done in Photoshop class I drew the kitty and made it into a brush.

You guessed it..another semester gone by

This semester was not as easy as the last few have been, not so much the assignments but the teacher I had. I had done the first of 2 assignments and posted it on the student network as I have done for everything else, when my teacher came back and said he could see them. OK maybe something was wrong. I changed my browser to Firefox ( on my Mac) and after that I was able to see my work fine. However he could not. back and forth went emails- he always saying it must be my fault, I must be doing something wrong and he wasnt that nice about it. I had to go to the school and have my school counselors intervene I tell you in all my school years I have never had this problem before. Well miraculously he suddenly could see my work and graded it- what I was mainly concerned about. But an apology? I-am-sorry-it-was-my-fault? No, no sign of that. He played it off as if I finally got it right even though I knew I had all along. Next semester we are going back to school, nights. No more with dealing with online teachers. We tried it when we had to fit in with Simon's schedule but we dont have to do that anymore. In other news we have been getting sooooooo much rain. Our crops love it and we are so proud of our little garden.
Simon and I celebrate our birthdays this month. We went to the Oqiuirrh Mountain Temple.which was very nice despite the rain.

New Semester another one gone by

Well another semester has come and gone. I tell you I have never done school so fast. I had Logic and Illustrator this time and I think the grades will be a B + and and A-, the A being in Logic. Pretty happy with that. I learned alot about Illustrator and feel more comfortable with it now, considering I never used it before. Simon did well too I think he scored a couple of A's this semseter in his classes so things are going well in that direction. Our garden is starting to show promise. I am starting to see the things I planted and the tomatoes seem to be doing well also.
Simons plants are just starting to breach the surface. I hope they will do well also. Overall things are going ok. Money is rather tight but I know if we budget and budget well we will be ok.
Simon is going to start his business up again soon and hopefully he can get some added income from that, which would be nice.

Spring!

Its finally spring here! At least all signs seem to point to it. Lovely sunny days we have been having the past few days. Another module at school is coming to end and boy am I glad. OK I am not great at math- really not great. Its never been one of my strong subjects. I just dont "get" it.
But to ad insult to injury we have had a rather unhelpful teacher. Its all online, so I cant really get help - if there has been any I haven't known where to get it. I will be happy if I get a C- good news is next time I dont have to take any math. No more math for me. Yeay! I am getting an A in Marketing though which I am very happy about. The flowers are coming up so nicely in the yard, they are so pretty to see.

Here is a simple recipe for a drink I have come to love. Raspberry Lemonade

Combine 10 lemons
2 cups raspberries
1/1/2 cups of sugar in a large pot
Pound mixture firmly with the end of a rolling pin,extracting as much juice as possible for 10 mins,
stir in 6 cups of water. Pour through a sieve into a large bowl. Press lemons and raspberries till all juice is extracted. Discard all solid material. Serve over ice. Makes 9 cups.

Sweet Pear and Apple Salad wirh Endive

From Martha Stewart Living- Jamie Oliver's Recipe

4 heads of endive a mixture of red and white washed and dried
2 apples cored and julienned
2 pears cored each cut into 8 wedges
A handful of soft herbs like chervil. tarragon, parsely- roughly chopped plus more for serving
2 ounces of blue cheese
1/4 cup od creme fraiche
5 tablespoons of extra virgin oil plus more for drizzling
4 tablespoons of cider vinegar
6 tablespoons of water

Method:

Place endive in a large bowl. Add apples, pears, herbs and set aside.
In a blender or jar combine blue cheese, creme fraiche, olive oil, vinegar, and water blend until smooth- about 16 seconds
Pour about 3 quarters of the blue cheese mixture over the salad, toss to coat. Divide evenly amoug 4 plates and drizzle a little more deessing and olive oil over the salads. Sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Enjoy.

Updates.. Changes

My how time flies! Already nearly out of March. Well since I last posted Simon and I have just about finished our first course at college and we both are getting A's. Yep doing really well considering I knew nothing about Management but I do now! I have enjoyed my teacher Papaloa who is Samoan but he grew up mainly in New Zealand. We are really enjoying college. We get to have the same classes together next term, I guess the next term after that we will finally branch off and have classes separately in our degrees. In other news, Simon got a new job. His old job was not treating him right and so he quit before they had a chance to fire him which is what they were trying to find ways to do anyways. So far he likes his new job. Simon also got his GED, being from the UK they do not give you a diploma until University level so he didn't have proof he had high school level education, but now he does and he did quite well considering he had no preparation.
I am quite proud of him and all the faculty at our college is too. I have heard from Chad, sometimes it takes awhile but so far he is doing well and is fine. I cant wait till he is able to be home again. My brother Joe is having a birthday in the next few days. Happy Birthday Joe!