grads & pears

A pear for Hillary of is there life on mars. A dear old friend like her needs a crafty pear to help with projects aplenty, to remember hillarious summer memories like falling in the hammock on hard apples, dogs with bad fruit additions and permanent tan lines from the trusty red lifeguarding suits. Thinking about it 1) reminds me about how pale I've been since I've moved to the coast, 2) how badly I could go for a fresh off the tree pear, 3) how much I miss that lady!

This was from that awesome heather baily pattern

Curti P is donezo!! wooooo! so is that skirt I started on eons ago... also, note the brazil jersey. World Cup anyone?? He even included a plug for his favorite team in the "what I've done and will be doing/thank you they read aloud when they called him up.


The rescue charlie brown lei complements of a Monday graduation. He said he still really liked it though.


Successful creep on Kaleo!! Congrats to you too!


The unit


My prize for being the supportive girlfriend for the five years: a beau and a token of gratitude.

Human Phys is not the easiest of majors and pretty competitive with the intensity of pre-med kids. It called for lots of food, beer, friends & family to celebrate. He'll be continuing with prosthetics and orthotics somewhere much warmer come August. Congrats!!

spice cream & kitties

Strawberry-cinnamon frozen yogurt

Step 1.
{Greek style yogurt, sugar, freshly squeezed lemon juice, vanilla, ground cinnamon, lemon zest, salt & fresh strawberries}


Step 2.
mix it alllll up
(yes my parents own an ice cream maker, if you have the space and the funds buy one. now.)


Step 3.
omnomnomnnom nomnom.

I delicately peel through every page, article, picture & word in my current issue of ReadyMade. After I finish it, I wait and wait for the next one while I scour through the old ones for new ideas and such. They have recently been doing these awesome food articles {pancakes of all sorts, tarts of all sorts, potato salads of all sorts, hangover food & very recently ice cream of all sorts}. Needless to say the spice cream recipes had me excited. Next on the list is the Three Spice Chocolate ice cream.

Also, buddy has a mad crush on me... I'm okay with that though.

Kitttaaay!!

3 day weekends, every weekend.

Cape Arago



Bastendorff


Bandon




Seven Devils










Shore Acres

the month of may

was incredibly packed! I think I stayed at my apartment for maybe one weekend the whole month and of course that was a the weekend an incredible opening happened at the Schnitzer for a really cool show... pisser. That's another story for another day, but if you are in Eugene and like polaroids and sparkly shoes you should go...

nom nom tikka masala


an experiment in making workout clothing...



A gift for a certain someone...


Pillowcases! They turned out pretty cool, but required a lot of patience. I found nice, but badly sewn pillowcases at ross, ripped out the stitching, recut and ironed them, found backing to do embroidery on the machine and by hand. The wash away backing and I had a tug o war and I recommend hand rinsing the stuff out before putting in the washing machine. it's pretty gooey, but kept things stable while stitching. After little lessons learned I loved this gift idea and I think he liked them too. And yes those are my attempt at making outlines of ginkgos... they look at little bit like odd hearts, but I like them and curtis always tends to get a kick out of me yelling out "Ginkgo! look!" every time we walk or drive past one.




So of course we made pizza & had beer. His apartment is nice and warm from all of the exposed windows so the dough poofs up really well.


And visited my photobooth

has it really been 5 years already? <3

clouds

A few weeks ago I went up to portland with my mom and curti-p. As much as I love the coast, I have to escape pretty frequently as the seasons typically consist of:
-cold-ish & wet (November to March)
-less cold & wet (April to June)
-warmish & foggy (June to August)
-warmish & sunny (August to October)

Seriously though we rarely see 80˚ around here & consequently I wind up wearing my trusty black fleece year round. With that said it was a huge huge gift to be sleeveless in portland walking around washington park with some cool kids followed by an afternoon happy hour at the kennedy school patio. Apparently Jack Mcbrayer's cousin was our waiter and he let us know that Jack is a huge fake after mentioning his special appearance at the conan show in Eugene. Oddly enough this guy was as much of a creeper as Kenneth the page. In the end I savored the sunny patio sunburn, pint of ruby & good conversation. The sun quickly left and the drive home was filled with good cloud photography.





which brings me to this:

things I love

My home watershed! the trees, the solid understanding of where my drinking water came from while living there, where it goes, hiking there, swimming there, the incredible river valley drive up and down the whole thing from reedsport to the cascades....apparently I enjoy taking pictures while driving too! Don't worry, it's mostly guessing


Spring flowers on campus... ahhhh! including the yellow peonies nearby... the season is almost upon us!


This kid!! who just finished his first marathon without much warning or training... and finishing like a champ in the photo below (grey shirt). At 4 hours and 15 minutes with an average of 9:45 per mile I feel safe saying he is pretty awesome!


salty, sweaty, sore & all smiles (for at least 25 miles of the race)


I must have walked about 15 miles chasing him around that day to cheer on him and other countless runners who were very happy to get a smile and encouragement at mile 1, 8, 25, 16, and at the finish... the guys I saw cruising by at mile 25 looked like they were flying and finished all 26.2 miles in less than 2 and a half hours!! Consequently we both took much needed naps and a very very slow walk to mcmins to celebrate with beer and pizza. nom nom nom!

<3