events 9-7 to 9-26

Life has been busy and awesome, I can't even remember all of it.
Work is busy right now with AIDS walk today, Crestwood crawl in 2 weeks and a bunch of events for fall and winter coming up.

Tues 9-21-10 Chris and I both went to tye die class at Daniel Day Gallery and made awesome shirts:

Thursday I put up a page on first giving and managed to raise $300 toward AIDS walk in less than 24 hours.

Friday, I baked all day for the cakewalk fundraiser at AIDS walk.

Yesterday was our friend Joe's birthday and we played a ton of rock bank and a board game called homesteaders. He had an EXCELLENT Mocha Caramel Sea Salt cake from Dream Cakes.

Today was AIDS walk and I walked in the drippy, humid weather with my friend, Kat and her two babies and we talked about roller derby and how babies change your life. More importantly, We honored the millions of people who live with, have been affected by or have died from this disease, many of whom I have known personally because of my work at Birmingham AIDS Outreach by being one of the many pairs of feet in the walk.

AIDS Walk is Sunday!

AIDs walk is Sunday and we can use all the help we can get!
here is my fund raising page

Painting from 9-7-10

The inspiration for this was... don't know. Originally, I wanted to cover up something colorful with shades of grey and black, which I did. I made some veiny/nervy looking jaggedy lines all over the blank canvas in bright colors, dried them with the hairdryer and then started putting white, grey, black and a very light grey/blue all over the page so and then scraped it with the ruler like I normally would for the background of the picture. Then, I kapt adding blue and pink and yellow accents by walking my fingers all over the one edge. Then, I tried to create a splotch or a puddle of dark/muddy colors in the middle and it didn't quite look the way I intended--I wanted a void in the middle of the page but it. SO then, I scraped a heart into the cloud and it just evolved from there.
The words on the picture are from this song:



This is probably one of my favorite paintings and it really really wandered waaay away from the original idea, but somehow still has the same essence.

9-1 to 9-8

Um...
Labor Day weekend we played a lot of video games and
Art class was this past Tuesday and.... that's about it.