Whew!

This was a rather busy week. I spent Wednesday helping my oldest daughter with her application for Parson's. I had to photograph her portfolio plus her three challenge pieces. There was also some driving around for materials, etc. I spent Thursday making mix CD's for my younger daughter to give as host/birthday presents in L.A. I was up until 3:30 a.m. organizing and burning five CD's but I didn't have time to make art work for them. Disappointing, as I like to design elaborate covers. Friday morning, before driving Ivy to the airport, I was in a frenzy printing out CD envelope templates from Mirkwood Designs (see my links) and printing out the playlists. My husband cut out the templates while I glued them together. I copied the playlists onto the envelopes while we killed time* in one of the airport restaurants and the kids drew on them. I hope they are enjoyed. We saw Ivy off safely and she is now having a great time in L.A., I'm sure. We talked yesterday but she hasn't called today. It is only 2:40 pm there. I wonder what she is doing now?

Meg and I spent a lazy day of knitting and frying our brain cells watching a marathon of 101 Favorite Stars Way Back When on E!. Headache-inducing. We also ordered a medium pizza with hot peppers and artichokes from Ronzio's. Now a Beavis and Butthead marathon is on MTV2 but neither of us is paying much attention. Beavis has a nosebleed that won't stop and Butthead is trying to phone 911 but he keeps messing up the number. My headache is persistant and now I have indigestion. Blah...

I have to go grocery shopping. I meant to go yesterday but I had one of those 24 hour things where you feel all achey and tired. I woke up feeling fine this morning. I procrastinated too long today so now I'm waiting for Stu to get home so he can go with me.

Here is one of the photos for Meg's portfolio. She silkscreened the shirt with an original design and Ivy modeled it for her. She made it in time for Ivy to bring to L.A. so she could represent. This was Meg's first attempt at silkscreening. Now that someone has finally broken in the kit Ivy got for her birthday last year, the process looks pretty easy and I'm ready to give it a go. This isn't the photo she used for her portfolio. It's one I spiffed up a bit in Photoshop and I thought it turned out pretty good. The design is great! Everybody wants one now.



I'm proud of how good Meg's portfolio looks. This year, applicants were allowed the option of either uploading photos to the Parson's site or providing a link to a URL. Meg opted to use Flickr as it enabled her to organize her portfolio and include descriptions of the work quite easily.

It was a rather stressful week and I'm glad it's over. I was really nervous about Ivy flying for the first time. She had a layover of nearly two-hours in Philadelphia and she was worried about making the connecting flight. She called me from Philadelphia to say she found the gate no problem and that she loved flying. Whew!

She is going to have such a good time with Jessica.

*While arriving 2 hours early may be a general rule for the bigger cities it was unneccessary for us in Rhode Island. The whole checking in process took about 10 minutes and that was only because we didn't know what we were doing. We don't fly much in the Powers' household.

Danielson Famile

As I write this I'm watching (or listening) to clips from the Danielson Famile's film site. Sufjan Stevens is featured in the film. I was a tad surprised at how effeminate he sounds. I don't know why since his music is certainly on the wispy side.

I'm loading songs into my iTunes library in preparation of some marathon mix making. My husband is out laying down a drum track for a cover of a Jellyfish song that is going to be featured on a tribute album. He is nervous because his friend is laying out 95$/hour for studio time after hearing some of the other tracks that will be on the album. His friend and he had originally recorded in his home studio in his basement but his friend decided it wouldn't stand comparison to the other tracks which were obviously recorded in a pro studio. So, Stu who has done plenty of recording in a studio for various projects is nervous because it is on his friend's dime and he doesn't want to be the cause of the recording going into overtime. He is worrying for nothing since he is a terrific drummer which is why he has been asked to lay tracks for various projects. It is just because Wayne is one of his oldest friends. I say, Wayne can afford it and if he wants to lay out the cash, let him.

Well, back to work.