goodstorysarah

this has been a successful week!

this week i was hired at H&L printing. H&L prints sports apparel for mostly local teams. i will be one of two screen printers for the company. i’m pretty excited to start this job! i’ve been looking for a print job for a long long time and i’m so happy that this has finally come along!

last night eric and i had a celebratory dinner at bamboo garden.

after some food we went to fremont to check out some records. i decided i had to pee and i also wanted chocolate, so off to PCC i go! i came across these little gems!

go max go foods makes vegan candy bars. these are the equivalent to snickers, milky ways, almond joys, and three musketeer bars. oh my goodness! i bought two and they were amazing!! i’m so so happy these now exist!

i came home with these two finds!…silversun pickups “carnavas,” and this sweet indiana jones record!

i used to listen to the silversun pickups album all the time in the print shop at bloom. it’s fun to have it on vinyl now.

i do believe this is my favorite silversun pickups song…oddly enough the video was directed by joaquin phoenix. weird.

fun weekend so far! tomorrow eric and i will be going to a model train show in monroe, wa, and then we will be watching the super bowl with a few friends.

what a great week!

yesterday eric and i went on a little trip to whidbey island. whidbey is just east of seattle.

we saw plenty of fun things and have the photos to prove it!

eric made a little gallery for us so check them out on the link below!!

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this past weekend nikki from san francisco came to seattle for a little visit. we showed her around the city and some of our favorite places outside the city.

eric so kindly made a little photo album of our photos from this weekend. click here to see it!

i think my favorite photo from this weekend is the one below. nikki and i are standing on an observation deck at snoqualmie falls. it’s not foggy…it’s just the mist coming up from the falls. fun!

January 20th, 2010 by sarah | No Comments »

yesterday was arkaedi’s second birthday! the birthday girl had chocolate cake, tons of presents, and a special birthday surprise from us. check out the photos to see the excitement!!

last night i spent the last few hours of 2009 with some of my favorite people, ate some amazing homemade “turkey,” that jaime made for us, and eric and i rang in the new year at gasworks park overlooking seattle and watching fireworks from the space needle!

i posted the photos from last night below, but here’s a video that someone took at the space needle last night. this is apparently what we would have seen if the city hadn’t been covered in fog! there’s some music to go along with the fireworks display too! i’m surprised at the amount of explosives they’re allowed to set off from the needle too. some, i guess lucky, people are in the needle while the fireworks are going off!

oh!! and arkaedi turned two years old today! happy birthday arkaedi! we’re going over to the barkers this afternoon for a birthday celebration. i’m sure there will be more photos!

last night i had quite the little dream.

i was planning on taking an amtrak train to an unknown location at 4pm. i looked at a clock and saw that is was almost 4:30. i rushed off to the train station to find out that it was only 1:30. apparently i went back in time on my way to the station.

it seemed as though i was taking a trip with my friend jessie since she was waiting for me at the station. we went to find our seats but i was having some trouble carrying one of my bags. i had a big bag, it was about the size of a pillow case, but it was filled with pressed pennies. i ended up dropping the bags of pennies and all over the train they went. there was a man there who was helped me them up.

in the middle of cleaning them up they magically turned into tiny plastic animals. this didn’t phase me, and i continued to pick up the animals. i found a cup on the floor that i was using to clean up. i also found out there there was dirt on the floor. things happened in the dream that didn’t make sense, but i never questioned them.

i was picking animals up with the cup along with the dirt and throwing them back in the bag. coach taylor from “friday night lights,” was standing beside me on the train. some of the dirt flew out of the bag and coach taylor said…”be careful! we’re all going to get worms from that dirt! we already live in the basement!”

and that was that. pressed pennies, animals and coach taylor. good story sarah!

over the past month or two i started making some artwork that actually excites me! it has been a while since that has happened. i’m moving from work on a flat piece of paper to wood blocks in sizes like 4″x4″, 5″x5″, 4″x6″ and 10″x10″. these blocks of wood are also 1.5″ deep. they’re wall pieces and are meant to hang flush against the wall.

the first one i made was actually a christmas gift for eric. i didn’t show anyone what i was working on so i didn’t have any feedback on whether these prints were appealing or not. i was kind of nervous to give it to eric in case it was so appealing. i didn’t want to give something to someone that wasn’t ascetically pleasing. lucky for me and lucky for eric he actually really enjoyed the print!

there are still of course things to need to be tweaked with the processes i’m using. i’m working with photos and text again but most of the editing is being done digitally. i used to layer photos and text together separately with different plates, but now i pretty much have to combine everything together to get the look i’m going for. this is pretty different than how i’m used to working, but i’m excited to just be working again!

merry christmas from twisted sister!

the sound quality on this is pretty crappy, but here’s a link to a video that sounds better! for some reason the embedded code is disabled so you have to deal with this video!

last week i bought the twisted sister’s “twisted christmas,” DVD. it has yet to arrive in the mail. i guess it will be a late christmas surprise!!

last night eric and i spent christmas eve driving around to some of our favorite spots in seattle to take some photos. we went to carkeek park first to watch the sunset and then headed down to gasworks park by lake union to see the city at night and to see the christmas tree on the top of the space needle!

we haven’t been to carkeek park since august i think so it was nice to get back there. it was so cold though! it was a chilly day and then you had the wind coming off of the sound so it was brr cold! we didn’t stay there too long, but just long enough to find some seashells and say hi to the seagulls.

it was pretty dark by the time we got to gasworks, but you could see the city pretty well with all of the lights. we went there mainly because i wanted to see the tree on the top of the needle. i seem to forget that we live in a major city until we actually see the downtown. it’s pretty amazing!

merry christmas and happy christmas number two for us in seattle!

yesterday eric and i drove about 3 hours to the little bavarian town of leavenworth, wa to check out their christmas lights! the whole town decorates the store fronts and trees for the holiday season. they even had some snow there for us! it was pretty, but cold…so so cold. eric found out when we came home that it was 14 degrees when we were in leavenworth!

we traveled east on route 2 and checked out the little towns along the way. we went through index which would be a great place to summer in. it’s surrounded by mountains, a river and the railroad goes right through the town. it’s a great town, but it’s so cold in the winter! we were freezing in coats and scarves, but the children just leaving school there were wearing short sleeves shirts without a coat! weird little children.

eric waited patiently for a train to roll through index while we were there, but no such luck! we heard the whistle blowing somewhere, but we must have left right before the train arrived. we finally did meet up with that train near skykomish where i forded the river this past summer. we happily railfanned on our way to leavenworth, seeing the train a few times along the way. we even saw that train enter the 8 mile tunnel in steven’s pass! choo choo!

after saying bye bye to the train we backtracked about a mile to see deception falls. we were there over the summer and it was quite pretty. it was still pretty this time as well! of course there was a ton of ice, but the water was still flying down the mountain.

i think we made it leavenworth around 4pm. it was of course dark outside so the town had all of their christmas lights on! i think my favorite part of the decorations was the christmas tree decorated with soft pretzels. das pretzels!! there’s a nutcracker store there with hundreds of nutcrackers and sadly they closed soon before we were able to have a peek inside. how sad! we did check out a pretty fun bookstore though and we checked out leavenworth’s natural food store. we didn’t buy anything, but it’s nice to know they have such a thing there!

eric so kindly made a photo album of our pictures. clicky here to see it!!