My First Art Show!

I entered an art show at the Impact Artists' Gallery in Buffalo for the Young Women's Exhibition. From what I have heard from my friend in the art world "It is a popular gallery in a very cool place." Last Saturday was the Artists' reception and I went. I learned some things that I will apply in my future shows. The first is less green, all four of my painting that I submitted ( a barn, a flower, a little Amish girl, and some trees) are bright green and when they were all lined up it was a little boring to look at. Next is more variation in shape, mine were all the same. And I believe size is very important, the bigger the better, not that small paintings are bad its just that people like big. The art work was judged but I didn't win anything, we think it was rigged. Not that the girl who won didn't deserve to win, her work was incredibly amazing. It was that her charcoal drawing that won was on the front of the announcement for the show, they must have had it weeks in advance. Its a bit fishy.


Anyhow, it was a good start and everybody there was around my skill level, some were better and others were worse. I had fun. My work is there until May 7th if anyone would like to go see it.

Impart Artists' Gallery

Tri-Main Center, Suite 545

2495 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214

The gallery is opened Wed-Fri 11am-4pm and Sat 1-4pm

Good Times

Last Thursday night we went to a concert at State collage PA. We heard Tenth Avenue North, Caleb, and Casting Crowns. Awesome!!! Before the concert we went to the creamery and got ice cream which was also awesome.
(Above: Tenth Avenue North) (Below: all three band did a song together at the end)During the intermission Samantha, my friend Jacki, and I went to get our picture taken with Caleb. Here we are meeting Tenth Avenue North. I meet them before at Winter Jam but sadly they didn't remember me. There all really nice guys. Okay, so a funny thing happen when we were in line, we met a space cadet. Well not really, she was just wearing a NASA t-shirt. But she was kinda crazy, and wouldn't stop talking to me. Jackie tried to politely and inconspicuously get in between us but that didn't work, she kept talking. She was asking me random questions like if my parents were dead and telling me that I could get married and have kids. I found them to be inappropriate. She basically told me her whole life story in twenty minuets. And then at one point she turned to my friend Ben (who is standing behind me in the above picture) and told him " be considerate to people even if they are intoxicated." We are still laughing about that one. But we are all far to nice people to tell her she was crazy and we endured her craziness with polite smiles and head nods. When we were done taking to the guys we made a very very quick exit.

(I stole all the picture from Jackie, they don't let my camera in the building and the ones I got on my cell are blobs of light.)

Haircut!

I have been trying to get my hair cut for weeks now and today I finally got it done.

Before

After

Today I Went Fishing

And I caught six fish. Five bluegills and one pumpkin seed, tiny little things. I even put my own worms on. But it took me to the fifth fish to be able to extract the hook from the fish's mouths. Mom took two off and Spencer did the other two. As he is trying to removing a hook from a particularly wiggly fish Spencer asks "Why do we do this to ourselves? We don't like fish, we don't like the smell of fish, we don't like to eat fish, and we hate putting the worms on the hooks and getting worm guts on us. So why are we fishing?" Maybe we should ask the nutcracker (He'll be doing a bunch of things with us this year.)? We are not serious fisher and we get strange looks from the other fishers, its obviously because we don't drive a truck or ware John Deer hats. We never take the fish home because we don't like fish so we put them back. I would say that nobody fell in but...Mom says its for the memories.

Bunnies of Chocolate

I had a lovely time yesterday with my bunnies. I'm sure that they enjoyed the exercise, it was the first time this year that they were let out to run. And today Mom had to pick me up from work and she and Samantha surprised me with three little chocolate bunnies! Mmmmm....they are sooo good. They got them at Watson's chocolate, its the best chocolate around. They are so good to me. :)

Happy Easter!!

Easter came so fast this year. We didn't eat chocolate (well maybe a little), or color eggs. And I don't have any cute chicks to take pictures of. I wore my Easter dress to church this morning and I'm planing to play with the bunnies in the yard. So Easter will not be totally lost. But Easter isn't about chocolate, eggs, or nice dresses. Its about our precious Jesus raising from the grave after being crucified on the cross to save us form our sins. Praise His name! Christ is risen.