Prodigy Hip Hop Team

Here's Marina with full "hip hop style & attitude"... their Prodigy team choreographer, Matt, asked them to show up to rehearsal this past Saturday looking 'like him', vs. the sometimes lacey cami tops and tiny boy shorts they usually wear for dance rehearsing. They don't have costumes yet for this year's team competition routine, but that should be coming soon, as the first competition will be in early January.

left to right: Chelsey, Tess, Lindsey, Allie, Matthew Kim (choreographer), Brooke, Natalie, Marina & Bethany. NOTE: the white headband thingys that Natalie and Marina have on are the cut off sleeve from "dad's t-shirt" - Matt's not sporting that in this photo, but it's a common accessory for him!

Inglewood Spirit Day!

Today is the finale of "spirit week" at the Jr. High (7th - 9th grades) - Ryker likes to remind us he is actually a high school "freshman"... they just take their classes at the Jr. High campus!



Since the week began, we have had "pink day", "wacky-tacky day", "retro day", "costume day", and now finally "Inglewood Knights day" with the school colors being blue and silver if you couldn't tell.
This photo is from a year ago... they were 8th and 7th graders then. Still spirited! Marina has been lucky that the soccer jersey from the team she played with thru 6th grade had the blue/white stripes before they went black! We've gotten some mileage out of that one!

Happy Birthday David!!!

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David's birthday was celebrated tonight by the 5 of us, who enjoyed a delicious meal at DC's Grill, here in Sammamish (convenient that Thursdays are "half-price bottled wine" nights!) where 3 of us each had different steaks - mine was the best by far!, Marina had a grilled chicken & brie sandwich, and Jordan had pasta. Nice treat!

Once home, we got into our comfy clothes, had David open a few gifts, and then did the Birthday Cake ritual... candles, singing, etc. His request was chocolate cake with white/vanilla frosting. Not bad if I say so myself! Really, anything looks good on a glass pedistal!

I need an easel!

So, I've tried to be resourceful since I don't have an easel in my art room, and I either paint flat on the table, (there's hardly ever room!) or on my lap, or yesterday, I propped the painting up against the backside of one of the chairs using a heavy bin of paints to keep it in place.

One of these days....

Stage 4...

This is Stage-4 of this painting/collage.

1 - yellow wash on canvas

2 - white glaze and paint added

3 - crimson transparent wash added in sections, spashes and pours, allowed to drip

4 - Pthalo blue with gel medium scrubbed into canvas from bottom up, applied over tape-masked areas, now revealed. (Also, 3 pieces of corrugated cardboard were collaged last night)

More Creations

I've been busy working on some new art pieces, and some samples for projects to use with my classes. I've decided it's helpful to take photos of "the process" for some pieces.



















The top one is a small canvas board (8"x10") which is a collage piece and will feature many layers of glazed acrylics, crumpled paper (for texture), some pieces of 'definition paper' featuring the word "kiss", etc., and the numerals represent the 2 of us, the 3 children and our family of 5... it's still in the very early stages!

The bottom one is an altered photo, taken of David and Marina when she was just a couple weeks shy of 1 year old. I soaked the photo, sanded it, painted and stamped it. It will be incorporated into some art piece. I think I'll be doing more of these for sure!

Monster Mission

Last Thursday, I excitedly called David at work from my cell phone while in one of our local grocery stores to tell him they had a big display promoting a special event at that store for his favorite beverage "Monster Energy" drinks. The sign said, "Sunday 4-6pm, the "Monster Energy" people would be out front and give you a FREE can for every can you purchased - 3 case maximum."

Around 4:30, right after the Seahawk gamed ended, I hopped in the car and went on my "monster mission". The funny thing was the guy out front said since I bought 'by the case' I would get on the website, and next thing I knew, he was snapping my photo with my full shopping cart, standing in front the giant "Monster" truck. David teased me that the guy just wanted my picture (ha ha) because we don't see anywhere on their website, photos of people from these little promotional deals they run!

These photos show just how obsessed David is with "the monster".... yes - we got 3 Free cases, since I bought the maximum of 3 cases... yikes, where do you store 6 cases of energy drinks???

This is a cabinet above the garage fridge where we usually keep the 8 or so cans at a time that I buy for David.

Now, they even get the back areas of the shoe cabinet section!

(it was a REALLY good deal $$)