Bichon Antics

It poured down rain this morning and carried on with lightening and thunder for about 2 hours.  We really needed the rain. Lacy threw up on the bedspread this morning, probably from eating Skittles, and so I washed it and at lunch time took it out of the washer and hung it to dry. I let the pups out to potty and Nolan decided he needed to "ant" himself in the dirt and then they both came in, posed for a photo and then ran and jumped on the bed sans spread and decided to look as cute as possible to avoid my wrath.  Its like camping around here with all the dirt. Thankfully they are both getting groomed later in the week which, in addition to cleaning them up, will be a relief from the heat.

Senior Show

Elisha is graduating this Sunday.  She is an Art major with an Art History minor. As part of their graduation requirements she had to have a senior exhibit to show her work.  Her show (along with two of her classmates) was on May 4^th in the art gallery. 

Her works were all done with repurposed items. Her 3-D piece (the double doors) contained 36 panels with each side representing a family member in her family tree. One side was her mom’s family and one side was her dad’s family. All of the individual tiles were hand lettered.

Her other works were framed 6 word memoirs.  She asked 16 of her closest friends from throughout her life to participate. Each of the memoirs is also hand lettered and the fabric behind the lettering was submitted by the person for whom she drew the memoir. (We think these could be good sellers if she did custom orders). All of the frames here were repurposed as well.

The event was very well attended and all of the artwork was really well done. We are very proud of all that she has accomplished in the past four years.

 The gallery

Six word memoirs

 3D Genealogy Doors

All of us

Elisha with one of her favorite professors and his wife who also happens to be our University's President.  We were honored to have them in attendance.

And while Elisha was in the lab working on her doors I was next door making a ceramic Nolan which I painted and she glazed for me the following week. Not bad for a first attempt if i do say so myself.

King George

I’ve been a George Strait fan since he came on to the country music scene in 1981 and have seen in him concert a couple times. When the press release came out last fall that George was doing his farewell tour I immediately checked the tour schedule for dates.  I signed up on the arena website and got advance notice and was able to buy tickets a day prior to when they went on sale for the general public in October so we got great seats almost on the floor.  This past Saturday night was the big night and we traveled to Lexington Kentucky to see George and Martina McBride’s The Cowboy Rides Away tour.  I splurged and got a room at the Hyatt which is attached to the arena so that made it extra nice in that we didn’t have to fight traffic before or after the show. Martina sang for an hour and then the stage was reset and George played for just short of three hours including a couple of encores.   It was hands down the best concert I have ever seen. The sound was fantastic and George was, as always spectacular.  Even hubby (the classic rock fan) said George was a great entertainer. The tour runs through June 2013 with more dates to be announced for 2014. If he comes with in a 3 hour radius in 2014 we are going again!!