So much to tell....

I cannot even believe all that has happened in the last few months. Sorry I have been so absent but Mr Mine and I bought a condo! And Mrs Bokeh had her baby! So it's been a couple months of chaos, flurries of paperwork, inspections, moving trucks, and many many car trips back and forth. I am happy to say that we are finally completely moved in to our new home. Settled in? Not quite, but it is slowly getting done. I'm hoping just a few more weeks and everything will have found a home. I plan on bringing you the full story soon. Just wanted to let you know that I haven't forgotten about you!

all the best,
Jess

Change is in the Air

We've been juicing at least once a day since Monday. It's been nice. Since we have been buying all our veg well in advance its been easy to just pick a recipe and juice. So much quicker than cooking. Don't get me wrong we've still been eating regular meals for the rest of the day. But it's been refreshing to know we've been getting a good size of fresh veggies each day. We have both been sleeping alot better too.

Portrait Painting SMC: Class #6

Ok its official. I appear to currently be incapable of painting in the same style as my instructor and the rest of my class. When we were finished today my instructor cane up and said " you know you paint in a very stylized way right?" "Have you taken a lot of painting classes?". To which i responded yes, and no i havent had any painting classes since high school. She then asked me about college classes and i said no. Yes i went to an "art school" but we did more marker rendering or model painting. In fact the only "painting" class that I had in college was an airbrush painting class. So maybe its the marker rendering techniques I learned that are influencing my painting style.  Who knows? I wasn't very good at rendering. Mostly its my underdrawings that need work. Im not very good at perspective. I'm sad to say that this was my last class. But I am going to try to continue doing one painting per week at the least.

Initial canvas background treatment

Initial sketch of model

Start of underpainting

Final piece at the end of class.

Curvily Yours: Class #4

I just crawled into bed after getting home from class. Wide awake I lay listening to the steady breaths of my husband as he sleeps peacefully. And to the loud propellers of the helicopter that has been circling our area for the past 5 minutes. Which is completely at odds with his peaceful slumber. Not sure what is going on these days but this is the third night in a row that this has been occuring. I envy Mr Mine's ability to fall asleep through just about anything. I have to hand it to him nothing gets between the man and his sleep.

I visited another class tonight and even though there was a last minute teacher swap it was still a great class. There are certain teachers that my body responds really well to. Its a combination of music choice, voice, and energy. Ms Soulful, embodies all three in perfect harmony and is actually one of my favorite teachers. So it was a pleasant surprise that she was subbing tonight for Ms Songbird.

When my dance was over Ms Soulful asked me if being back in class was like riding a bike. I told her kind of, that it was more like riding a bike very cautiously. I had a feeling she didn't know or remember or possibly even realize that I was the student who had fallen and broken her back that fateful day in May. Not feeling like expounding on that I just let it drop. She told me that my dance hadn't looked cautious. And really it didn't feel cautious as much as accepting that I am still learning my bodies limitations. That I am trying exceptionally hard not to push too hard too fast.