you weren't a brat, you were a pistol.

i started student teaching in the 1st grade last wednesday. it has only been 3 school days so far but they have been enjoyable. i am frightened to think of what i actually have to accomplish and i have come up with the idea that i won't know what i'm doing until i'm done. last semester i learned what it was like to do what i thought was impossible...i'm sure this semester will follow similar guidelines.

tonight i got to see a wonderful documentary about children's literature from the adult perspective. it was called library of the early mind, i recommend it to anyone that ever enjoyed a book as a child or likes documentaries. we were also really lucky at bridgewater to meet the producers of the film. here is the trailer for those who are interested.


so student teaching has led me to discussing funny things from my childhood. my aunt told me that once when i was learning about compound words i said "toilet, that's a compound word!" which led my mom to say...in modern day... "metronome, metro gnome."

a picture of a metro gnome.

i'm looking forward to continue student teaching and let me know if you think of any other "compound" words.

welcome to the new year

so richie bought me a couple books on diy projects for my birthday...found at the value bookstore.

the first is the homemade home with cute ideas for personalizing items and the second is tutorial on stenciling walls, furniture, etc...and it includes 10 stencils...the patterns are on the far right.

this is for my friend marie, who was looking to decorate some mason jars. the idea is that you cut out fabric and use double sided tape to stick it to the jars. really simple but also really cute. i bet you could use hot glue too. it suggested taking a hole punch and creating your own designs on plain fabric...like the heart on the pink fabric.

back by popular demand...

hi there everyone...or anyone.
what i've been up to lately is doing a lot of school work and doing some sewing.
i'm signed up for a craft fair in november with my aunt...i really need to start cranking out some sewing projects. here's what i got so far:

2 bags, 7 make up bags, 4 wristlets, 3 eyeglass cases, and 1 toolbelt!

the tool belt is something i just made this afternoon..i wanted to try it cuz i thought the "green" fabric i had would look cool in it...

found an old shelf thing on the side of the road the other day..after watching another one get smushed to pieces a few days before.

i stripped the paint off...but after how long it took wished i didn't bother cuz its still not all off...gonna probably repaint it white and add new hardware.

some pictures of things:

a pink dresser i redid..a mirror i repainted..and a cool lamp i pieced together.

richie and i went to "plane" jane's for breakfast on sunday and a few weekends ago went to the beach on a stormy afternoon.

fake smiles.

heard some racket up stairs found lily like this:

this edition of my blog is dedicated to melissa costello for teaching me to stick to my blog dreams.

wishing things were different.
wishing friends were near.
wishing i didn't want to write this.
wishing it didn't hurt so bad.
wishing i never lost a friend.
wishing i never hurt anyone.
wishing they never hurt me.
heartbroken. and i still love you all.

listen up and i'll tell a story

a lot of traversing the ocean farms has happened the past two days! without any further ado..

first with hanna gump.

mad + han

then i woke up at 8 for no reason and finally got up to get lauren and we went off on another outlandish adventure.

ta da

the rest of the day proceeded with a lot of reading and staring at walls...and napping animals.

and now loud music to cover yelling...feels like the good old days.

long time no see.

Phoenix - Long distance call - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

i just really enjoyed this.

life

what's the news lately? things.
friday: it was nice and chilly out. richie and i went for a nature walk near his house. i did several last hours of studying for my mtel, which was saturday morning...and in the meantime i won two tickets to a muse and silversun pickups show so i was really excited about that!

saturday turned out to be a beautiful day so after my morning exam i had time to enjoy the sunshine. i took jesse as my sidekick to muse and we tagged along with richie and his friend mike who had previously bought tickets....suckahs.

on the train!

at the show..3 towers, eyeballoon.

the great streak of weather continued...sunday morning i asked hanna to go for a walk on plymouth beach with me and the dogs.

they loved it!

after the beach hanna and i went to lunch at water street and walked downtown. we gave rosie a bath...she smells like a little baby dog. at night i went to richie's for jesse's birthday dinner and we watched the academy awards...

yesterday richie and i hung outside mostly. got charlie off the bus and drove him to a friend's house. richie told me about a mansion so we went to find it and found a lovely water area as well!

richie!

lifers!

we made our way back to life. and then went to norwood with bruso. the end.