hope and union coffee

 

located at 199 st. philip street

dan and i went a few days ago and had a great time sitting on the deck.

the coffee is great and the setting is refreshing.

clusters

fall in charleston

this sums up the past few weeks in charleston.

rainy and damp

cool

leaves that are sort of trying to change colors, but end up failing 

drinks at kudu are always great

and add to the damp cool weather

thanks trevor for treating me.

tasty treats for camping

morgan and i went camping this weekend for our one year!!! very exciting, but we made an awesome dessert: banana and chocolate chips

cut the banana in half (leave in peal)
fill with chocolate chips
wrap it in tin foil
and. . .
put in the camp fire for awhile.

i want to put peanut butter in it next time.
other options are small marshmallows.

andrew bird and st.vincent

andrew bird made a special visit to charleston on monday night, and the lovely St. Vincent opened for him.  the music is beautiful as well as the singer.  they ended the show with an amazing collaboration of the two bands and played scythian empires.

socks.

by the way. i am knitting my first pair of socks.
and they are almost done.
the deadline is february 17.

art class

right now i have charcoal all over my body. face, fingernails, arms, back, legs.
i am a really messy person when it comes to most things.
my perspective drawing was do today which i was really discouraged by (while i worked on it at home). i started it late last night, while morgan was sprawled across the floor recovering from a few low blood sugars. it was a drawing of a few bottles, thread, sewing projects, and other odds and ends. after many redoes the perspective started to look right, and i was able to finish up the project in the morning.
in class today after we critiqued the drawings, and started on value drawings (which i really enjoy), i was thinking about art in general. it is something that i can relax while doing it and also can do for awhile without getting bored. so naturally my thoughts drift to the far future. . . could i teach or do art for awhile? . . . it has been something that i have thought about for awhile, and have been wanting to ask my teacher if she thinks i could be a major. but for various reasons, i keep telling myself to wait. but today i started to pray about it, and asking the Lord to help me know what to do. after a while i try to avoid thinking about it any further, and keep my mind to my work (and to the news that my teacher shared with us today--she is pregnant! i always thought she was just kinda chubby. . . only in the stomach.)
after class as i was cleaning up, and noticing all of the charcoal coating my body (referenced before), and julie, my teacher, asked me if she could borrow my drawing for the next class, and continued to tell me that i should really think about being an art major. i told her how i wanted to ask her about it and that i have been thinking about it. as i left all i could think about was how amazing it was that she said that, and how amazing it was for her to make the comment right after i had been praying about it. who knows if i will be an art major, but i still am going to seriously consider it & see if any more doors open and suck me in.

much more to come

at the moment i just have a blog, so i can read about liz's trip to europe and egypt.
time isn't currently permitting for much more, and also the fact that my brother has my camera and i don't have internet at my house. two kinda big issues for a blog.
but i've been planning and brainstorming about much much more.
possibly crafty ideas and projects, photographs, life downtown, stories, music, random knowledge and tips, and what ever else i find is worth someone's reading time.
stay in touch.

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