HAPPY BRITHDAY TOASTER FACE :)

So there's this lady whose been my best friend for some time now. If you don't know her you should because she's more than amazing. Beautiful, caring, ever so talented, and has the biggest dreams. Needless to say I love her more than she knows. I won't go into detail as I have already expressd how much she means to me in a lengthy lenghty card! But TODAY she enters adulthood officially. Non of this teen thing attacthed to your age. I'm so excited for the next chapter of her and all of our lives, (you know who you are, "our").

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY
GABRIELA ADRIANA TARVES

(otherwise known at Toaster Face)

Gone Country

I've always been a country fan, always. In fact for about 4 years in elementary school it was all i listened to. My classmates actually thought i was weird, cause no one else listened to country but me. Shania Twain was my first concert. When I was little i wanted to be a singer. I liked Shania Twain a lot and thought i had a pretty darn good voice, which I don't. Well this lead to me thinking people thought I was Shania Twain when I sang along to her songs. I know realise this is completely impossible because at the time I was 9. I am laughing right now as i write this. But i do remember singing once and I told my dad, "Oh, i better stop singing or the neighbours might think i'm Shania Twain. Yes, true story but i realised I couldn't sing, and I surprisingly was okay with that. Anyways that was off topic. Summer is fast approching and I can't think of a better summer soundtrack than country music. Nothing beats a car ride with the windows down, country music blasting and singing along like no one's listening. Just listening to country lately gets me super pumped for summer!

Pardon My Absense Please

So i've been MIA for awhile it's kinda been crazy. But i've come to the realisation i haven't posted any of my work. So this is what i've been busy with. I will warn you ahead of of time there is some nudity and that these pictures we're taken with my iPhone so quality and lighting may not be the greatest

Drawing:

These were my very first attempts using ink

I had to draw my face over an over again. Each face was timed at 5 minutes

We had to make a collage from one of the faces

This was a baby's face. We had to cut it up and collage it and make something.

I used the baby's bonnet to make a single ribbon in the dark.

This isn't finished. I didn't take a picture finished. What I added was white to the girl and finished the guys hand.

PAINTING



 This is my very first painting. I don't think its the greatest but hey, its my first.

 We had to copy a famous painters work to learn their brush strokes.

I chose a Monet.

Ps. There is tile in the back ground becuase i paint in my bathtub.

 My second still life. My first one was stolen from my cupboard in class :(

Glass is super hard to do because it has no color and reflects everything around it.

A real challenge to just paint what i saw.

Um probably about my 5th painting. My third still life.

My latest painting. We had to take a person cut them out and put them into another environment. I also added the pyramids.

Frolic

I feel like a bird. Okay, let me explain. Today is a wonderful day. This is exactly how I feel:

I woke up to see a beautiful pink and orange canvas sky outside my window. As I walk to get picked up the sun washed the whole neighborhoud, turning everything it touches to gold. I'm wearing sandals for the first time this year and there are sunglasses placed uptop my head nestled in my hair where the belong, (well while i'm inside). Now as i type the sun is still brilliantly flowing throught the library windows and the campus is alive with the sound of the nearing summer. Students have taken to outside versus the hallway benches and alcove tables. Not a picnic table our outside bence is vacant. As I walk across campus I hear Vampire Weekend play in my head.

I am so giddy and filled with exuberence I just wanna dance, do cartwheels, handstands and somersaults, and roam the campus touching everything that the sun has turned golden. I wanna roll down a hill. I feel as though i'm weightless and my heart the floating, the only thing containing it is my ribcage.

I feel inspired and ambitious. Like the world is at my finger tips, because it is. And I know I can do anything I set my mind to and succeed abundantly because GOD IS GOOD!

So I now just wanna go to a field and frolic listening to The Beatles and climb a tree. Then stop at the beach and dig my feet into the ground then drive with the music cranked and my hair in the wind.

SUMMER HERE WE COME.

Never ending night of thoughts

I've come to the conclusion I love when seasons change. The excitement of a new seasons is enchanting. Then I remebered a lesson I taught at lifegroup a few months ago about how your life has seasons and every season is differnt some might suck and some might be fantastic, but God is there, (in this instance God was the sun), even in the winter just like he is the summer. I also just realised another way our life is like the seasons of the year. Obviously everyone has their favorite, I myself have reasons to love every season. When a season is about to change i get super pumped for the next season of the year. I can always find a wonderful part of a crappy season of the year.

I think its important to do this in life too; i've realised i always do. I get super pumped for the next season yet sad. Right now i'm gonna miss winter like mad because its one of my favorite seasons, and yeah the constant rain of spring sucks but you get to go puddle jumping and fall asleep to the sound of rain. When a season of your life is about to pass there's obviously parts of it you want to keep but its important to embrace the next season of life. Every season needs the others to be able to function. And there is ALWAYS something to look forward to in every season.

Anyways that was a random thought. And there's so much more I wanna blog about but it must wait for tomorrow I guess because its definitely bed time!

Seababe

I actually don't know what it is with me and water. I LOVE the oceans/lakes/rivers....to a certain extent. You see when I was younger you couldn't get me out of the water. On holidays my parents used to call me a mermaid. I would literally just sit in the lake at our hotel all day and not come out. I would even have to have my lunch in the water. Nowadays i've adapted this fear of fish, for some reason I think they all bite horribly which is ridiculous. Anyways, theres just something about water that just makes me at peace.

The last year as you've noticed i've had this longing to go sailing well this summer its paralleled with the desire to spend all day canoing. packing a lunch, eating it out on the lake and just splishy splashing around. Anyone wanna join me?

And I wanna learn to surf!

Art-full

HEY NICOLE, i'm talking to you.

NOTE TO SELF:

When feeling low or unispired this summer

READ THIS

and your bible

I wanna live this summer to it's fullest. Seize the moment cause if the last year has taught me anything you have to treasure the time you have on this planet and definitely the time you have with people You're only at this stage of your life for so long.

Me and Gab's were talking the other day about how sometimes she gets frustrated and just wants to be done with all the in between and just wants to be where she wants to be already. And thats exactly how i've been feeling the last year. I just wanna own my design firm and have a family. Maybe I wouldn't go as far as to say frustrated, theres just some days where I just wanna be there, you know. Yes, sometimes the getting there sucks but today I realised I have to much to do in this time right now. Heck i'm not even 20 yet.

I think dreaming does that to you, you get so excited for the future and you start to dream bigger and God shows you what he wants for your future and its so awesome you just want it now. If there wasn't a reason for the road to getting there God would just give it to you.

Today, in particular, was a day full of inspiration and good news. It definitely showed me how much I do love learning and dreaming. I realised that right now to get where I want to be I need to be learning and dreaming. I wanna learn something new everyday and live everyday more inspired than I ever have. Live my summer with a purpose, hence the list. To take time to be my age, and act like a fool with my friends.

SUMMER GOAL:

Live life to the fullest

God died to give you life

Forget Me Not

So theres a few more things i wanna add to my summer to do list

Stargaze several times

Get lost

Kids camp...of course

Room Reno's

Find a Design firm to intern at or just do office work or CADD work for

Climb a tree
visit OK falls
Go canoeing
Downtown several times
Never let a day pass without doing ANYTHING
Go back to that ferry terminal town Gan Chanel and I took pictures at.

Brilliant!

I love this idea. I am going to do it this summer when i refresh my room. And yes, thats another thing i've added to my list - do more work on my room. When i re did it last year I knew it wasn't completely finished. Here's a list of things i'm planning on doing.

Make a head board to fit over mine
Re finish my hair and my dresser
Make some art for my room
Make a fabric scheme for my chair, comforter, curtain, pillows.
Coat Hanger from a vintage store
Find a cool long bench/shelf for the end of my bed

Those are my idea so far. And i'm definiately going to do something like the picture above maybe not exactly the same.

Artzilla

I Love this. I don't know why.

Let the sun on my shoulders shine.

I'm getting so excited for summer. I have lots planned as always, and like usual most of them won't be completed but this year i'm determined. I wanna be a beach junkie.

 My plan is as soon as this semester is over legit try and get my liscence, and my parents are at the point to do anything to get it. Lesson to be booked test in May booked and if i fail i'm going to go on standbye every two weeks until i get it. Cause it's just ridiculous. Get my truck and cruise to the beach when ever i'm not working.

So this is my summer time bucket list:

Get my liscence
Road trip
be a beach junkie
Learn to suft
Turn 20!
Make a fort on the beach and
    literally chill there all day from morn to past sundown
Have a picnic
hold an actual bar b que
Have a giant tea party
Camp out in my yard
Go for a "nature walk" and take pictures
Photo shoot
Ride a bike around the Sea Wall
Camping
Find a beach that allows bonfires and have one
Bon fire in my back yard.
Make a GIANT fort and have a movie marthon in it
Finish 3 books
Read my books in the sun at the beach
Finish my sketch book for my portfolio
Interview some local Designers

Thats all i can think of for right now :)