tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7402544285797969882024-02-19T06:23:09.377-05:00The Pea and MeRachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.comBlogger364125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-12510740072599810302013-07-29T17:02:00.000-04:002013-07-29T17:02:14.538-04:00Pillow Passion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I have a bit of a pillow problem. </div>
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I simply can't stop purchasing them. </div>
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And now that I have an apartment in the back of my mind that I know I will have to decorate for Cam and I I have a whole new reason to enable my tendencies. </div>
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I try to think of myself as a pillow curator. </div>
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My most recent pillow acquisition is my <a href="http://www.paper-source.com/cgi-bin/paper/item/Octopus-Pillow/3303_037/519295.html">octopus pillow</a> from <a href="http://www.paper-source.com/">Paper Source</a>. </div>
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I've been hankering for a little something octopus-inspired with a bit of beading and my favorite navy & red combo.</div>
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Sold. </div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-75229349424234073412013-07-23T17:59:00.000-04:002013-07-23T18:00:23.628-04:00Teacup Invites<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I couldn't wait any longer! </div>
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I just sent out these lovelies last week.</div>
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These are watercolor invitations to an "Avonlea Tea."</div>
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I painted five little teacups to send out to five lucky little misses!</div>
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I don't want to spoil the surprise, so stay tuned!</div>
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-25279106732566508282013-07-01T22:08:00.000-04:002013-07-01T22:12:46.181-04:00Snapshots of Cumberland: A Proposal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sorry for taking the entire month of June off from blogging.</div>
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I'm back!</div>
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This post could be poetic, romantic, humorous, or vague.</div>
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I'm just typing.</div>
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Cam took me on an impromptu day trip to Cumberland Island four weeks ago. </div>
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Or so I thought.</div>
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I'm so glad that I snagged so many shots of the little details of that time and place, because I'm told that most people forget anything that was said or happened of the day they got engaged.</div>
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There were beautiful twisty live oaks like I remembered. </div>
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We'd climbed on them when we were 14, speaking about our hearts for the first time, opening them for the first time, knowing for the first time. </div>
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A fluffy, cloud-filled and sunny sky on a day miraculously sandwiched inside of a week's worth of hurricane rains. </div>
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The ruins of Dungeness and the Park Ranger who made Cam pretend to be a Native American chief.</div>
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A quick picnic lunch as we plot our trajectory across the island. </div>
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I have no idea that had I reached into the other bag, I would of grabbed hold of the socks wrapping the secret.</div>
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A hike that turned into a trek that turned into a nervous trot, that I would not allow to turn into a full-out jog down the beach, consulting our watches as Cam says, "We have to get back to Dungeness!"</div>
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The turn we should have taken that would have trimmed out travel time.</div>
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My confusion and naiveté regarding Cam's sudden passion for a spot half-way across the island.</div>
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The field where Cam told me I was beautiful, and I told him I that I loved him.</div>
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The many things that happened in between that field and this little box: the baby colt, the four hundred year old trees, the bended knee, and my numb, exhausted, joy. </div>
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The ring that is practically perfect in every way, a piece of treasured history, and a genuine surprise.</div>
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The stories he unraveled of how he'd prepared for this day, asked my parents permission, and sneakily carved into my calendar this special day like the jewelry box he'd been carving for months. </div>
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The absolutely overwhelming sensations of calm and rightness.</div>
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The sparkling new word fiancée, glittering like my ring, and the joy of hearing it from my father's mouth for the first time. </div>
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I'm moving into a new season with my work, and I can't wait to share with you what I've been cooking up!</div>
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One of the rites of passage in becoming a true Atlantaian is a trip to the <a href="http://atlantafoodtruckpark.com/">Atlanta Food Truck Park</a>.</div>
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However, this can hardly be a harshly enforced prerequisite, since this Park only just celebrated its first birthday. </div>
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A more strongly enforced rule would definitely be to visit the rainbow umbrella'd King of Pops carts, as they have been a more long-standing tradition.</div>
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Both the Food Truck Park and the many <a href="http://atlanta.kingofpops.net/">King of Pops</a> carts that dot the Atlanta landscape are near to my heart.</div>
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Both bring a wheeling change of flavors from visit to visit. </div>
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My favorite food truck is <a href="http://www.masalafresh.com/">Masala Fresh</a>, and I can hardly pick a favorite pop.</div>
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There are dozens of flavors I have yet to try.</div>
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So, whenever a friend comes down to visit, it is absolutely perfunctory that we stop by the Food Truck Park and sit at the sunlit picnic tables, slurping on some pops. </div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-18794478047914818612013-05-29T10:56:00.001-04:002013-05-29T10:56:44.180-04:00Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining: Saying Goodbye to Mike<br />
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These past few weeks in Atlanta before I begin my internship have been deliciously unbooked.</div>
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This has given me ample time to spend with the people I care about and explore the city I love.</div>
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One of those most important to me is my friend, Mike, who just accepted a job in San Francisco and left this Monday for a road trip from East to West. </div>
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We've had a Goodbye Mike Party, many prayers have been laid upon him, and he has now driven his blueberry car far, far way from me.</div>
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But, I never felt discouraged: like my new hanging sign says, every cloud has a silver lining.</div>
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Last week afforded me the opportunity to galavant across Atlanta with Mike hunting for home goodies.</div>
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I sent him on his merry way with three monotypes I had made my Sophomore year, along with a bevy of ideas and little pieces of Atlanta to place in his new home.</div>
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We sipped on my favorite bubble tea, explored my new favorite antique and oddities warehouse, <a href="http://www.parisonponce.com/">Paris on Ponce</a>, and talked about all the adventures he was going to have and of when Cam and I would fly out to meet him for our first wedding anniversary. </div>
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The Lord blesses so unexpectedly and abundantly, and I am so grateful for this season I have had with Mike, only one year since I really met my dear darling friend and fellow lover of watercolor. </div>
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I will be praying over you Mike, and beginning our own <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Sabine-Correspondence-Nick-Bantock/dp/0877017883">Extraordinary Correspondence</a> promptly. </div>
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My favorite Thai Bubble tea from Atlanta's new <a href="http://honeybubbletea.com/">Honey Bubble</a> which we cleverly snagged with a 50% off <a href="http://scoutmob.com/">Scout Mob </a>coupon!</div>
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So psyched that there is a Scout Mob for San Fran as well: </div>
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now Mike can look like an urban insider and know where all the finest local gems are located. </div>
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Magnets for Mike showcasing some of his favorite parts of Atlanta: </div>
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Tech Tower, The Varsity, The Fox, and Bobby Dodd Stadium. </div>
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Some little Mexican tiles that I convinced Mike to purchase since they were a steal and his favorite color and would make his apartment look awesome.</div>
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Initiate operation Pen Pal. </div>
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-32631117710619201002013-05-21T18:00:00.000-04:002013-05-21T18:00:35.251-04:00Animated Omelette<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/65107797">Omelette</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user11494802">Madeline Sharafian</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</div>
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I absolutely love this short film by Madeline Sharafian. </div>
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It very sweetly and simply captures the love and pride that goes into cooking a meal for someone.</div>
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Being back at Theta Xi this summer, I get to cook again nearly every day--and it is so rewarding to take the time and the meticulous effort to make a delicious moment for someone.</div>
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I hope to see more from this budding animator!</div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-66830547755500670262013-05-15T16:51:00.002-04:002013-05-15T16:51:36.890-04:00Tech Perspectives<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm all moved into my home for the summer in one of my favorite places: Georgia Tech. </div>
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Today I spent two hours hunting for skylines, views, nooks and crannies on campus. </div>
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I returned sunburnt and very happy.</div>
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<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-81900270447891820282013-04-30T13:00:00.001-04:002013-04-30T13:00:57.647-04:00As You Wish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since taking so many portrait shots for my photography class, it has become increasingly more important to me to have some record of my adorable parents.</div>
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Since my youngest brother, Grant, was born ten years ago, my mom hasn't agreed to pose for photos.</div>
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Which is silly, because she is gorgeous.</div>
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My dad approached me and asked if I would do a couple shoot for the two of them, because he really wanted photos to capture their relationship.</div>
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Which was incredibly sweet.</div>
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Thus began the project of convincing Mom.</div>
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However, in the end I put on the famous Rachel "game face" and steam rolled her with having everything set up and arranged in advance. </div>
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I find it best to just be bossy with her sometimes.</div>
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It turned out beautifully.</div>
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She and Dad were their silly, flirty selves, and Mom really seemed to relax when I spoke to her about the poses I had in mind for the two of them.</div>
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The trick was looking back at photos of the pair that Mom liked from when they were first married.</div>
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I loved this project--it was my favorite kind: a challenge to capture people's personalties, digging through road blocks and arriving at a natural, genuine, and successful finish. </div>
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Story: this past Christmas, my dad surprised my mom with different monster finger puppets.</div>
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They were like a silly advent calendar.</div>
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Since Christmas, the puppets have accompanied my Dad into surgery, made their way all around the house with love notes and small conquests on neighboring knick knacks, and have even been stuffed down vases when the love birds got into an argument.</div>
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I really wanted to remember this time with my parents, when all of our relationships with one another are at their very strongest. </div>
<br />Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-15652090370103270932013-04-29T12:35:00.000-04:002013-04-29T12:35:18.908-04:00Tea Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today is my first day of summer vacation, and I have eased into this grey morning.</div>
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I enjoyed a sweet phone call with my almost cousin-in-law about sewing (I'm finally going to learn!), a beautiful quiet time in the breakfast nook, and wrote a host of to-do lists for this next ten days before I move to Atlanta for my internship. </div>
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Oh, and I finally used my new tea ball and loose leaf to make some grown-up tea that my dear friend, Bowen, got me for Christmas. </div>
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Every break I drink copious amounts of tea, and it always drives my mother nuts the amount of little accessories that I have to leave out on the countertop.</div>
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So, I dug through my dowry corner of the basement (totally have one of those now for all of my family's thrifting been doing for Cam and I) and pulled out two antique trays from my grandmother. </div>
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I'm so happy to put them to use: I love when the beautiful can be made practical. </div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-39452819640728202182013-04-25T19:47:00.000-04:002013-04-25T19:47:01.075-04:00Book Lamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This fantastical lamp could not have been created without the engineering prowess of Cam and the electrical knowledge of my brother, Fletcher.</div>
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I made a LAMP!</div>
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It's a big deal for me to have made something pretty AND practical.</div>
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For our final project in Sculpture, we were given a carving assignment. </div>
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Carving is quite the undertaking: you have to wrap your brain around the restriction of using only subtractive measures because once you chisel a chunk away, you cannot put it back.</div>
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For <i>Remember Harpy</i>, I wanted a visual reminder to myself of what I can be at my darkest.</div>
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As a woman, I can choose to be a swan, a songbird, or a harpy.</div>
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Swan: captivating, elegant, and vain.</div>
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Songbird: lovely and adding something beautiful to the world.</div>
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Or harpy.</div>
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There is a long piece of history about the harpy:</div>
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In Greek mythology, the three harpies, or furies, were bird-women who were sent to torture and carry victims to Tartarus. </div>
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Some sources say harpies originated as beautiful women who were warped into beasts. </div>
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Since their appearance in mythology, they have cropped up in artwork in a variety of forms: sometimes beautiful, sometimes disfigured, and always evil.</div>
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They appeared again in Dante's Alighieri's <i><a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/inferno/">Inferno</a></i> in the forest of punishment for self-murderes. </div>
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Suicides were encased in trees and harpies ate their leaves. </div>
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The word "harpy" as an adjective is used by the character Benedick regarding the lady Beatrice in Shakespeare's play, <i><a href="http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/muchado/">Much Ado About Nothing</a></i>.</div>
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He begs the prince to give him any range of unpleasant tasks to complete rather than "hold three word's conference with this harpy."</div>
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Where since I think it has evolved to its current conotation: a cold, shrewish, nagging woman.</div>
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Synonyms for harpy on <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harpy">dictionary.com</a> include:</div>
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battle axe, dragon lady, shrew, gorgon, carper, critic, fault-finder, nitpicker, scold, and belittler. </div>
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This harpy is a vice I have been battling intentionally this year.</div>
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She always resided in my breast, only unfurling her wings in my most extreme moments of selfishness and indignation, as poor Cam recoiled from my talons. </div>
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Women, consider: how often do you nag?</div>
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How often do you consider yourself mistreated, abused, or unloved?</div>
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How often do you expect others to interpret your roiling emotions and fickle intentions?</div>
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How often do you give yourself the benefit of the doubt, but do not extend this simple courtesy to others? </div>
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I am speaking from hindsight, here. </div>
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I have bested harpy many times over the past year.</div>
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You see, when her wings unfurl, I can sense her coming.</div>
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When I feel irrationally angry, misused, or unappreciated, I know she is on the way.</div>
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So I fight her with gratitude, prayers for understanding, and the simple words: </div>
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"My feelings are selfish and illogical right now."</div>
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In my sculpture I wanted to depict a woman skeletal, yet beautiful. </div>
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Her muscles are pulled taut, forcing themselves into wings, leaving her powerless. </div>
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As women, sometimes we hate our voices as we dispel acid on our victims--we feel helpless as we hear out mother's nagging coming from our own lips, and yet we plow on to make ourselves feel justified.</div>
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Harpy is a ship headed for destruction, imprisoned by her own vices, and she looks on in horror with gaping maw. </div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-74494678407388428352013-04-22T17:49:00.002-04:002013-04-22T17:49:22.400-04:00Praying Hands: Be still and know that I am God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am greeting you from the belly of my final's week. </div>
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I have been tinkering with the idea of prayer, worship, journaling, meditation, and art--</div>
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and how I can go about communicating those things using bleeding color and ephemera on brown paper. </div>
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For my final in Life Drawing I knew I wanted to do something with hands; </div>
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I had so enjoyed the hand section of my<i><a href="http://the-pea-and-me.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-engineers-coffee-pot.html"> Engineer with Coffee Pot</a></i> piece. </div>
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My solution was to complete a diptych on hands in prayer. </div>
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I stalked about the Theta Xi house, pouncing on different brothers and asking them how they prayed.</div>
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I settled on my friend Sahil's hands, and bullied Cam into sitting still for my second set of interlaced fingers. </div>
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Since my <i>Engineer</i> piece, I've added metallic oil pastels and two different shades of brown paper. </div>
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I would have preferred to work exclusively on brown kraft paper, but my teacher insisted. </div>
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<i>Praying Hands: Be still and know</i></div>
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<i>Praying Hands: that I am God</i></div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-49377504373242316732013-04-17T14:26:00.002-04:002013-04-17T14:26:37.250-04:00Fox & Bunny Coffee Mug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got my coffee mug back that I decorated at a paint-your-own pottery studio with my Alpha Gams. </div>
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I wanted to see what would happen if I did silhouettes with a black and white speckle paint, and I am very happy with how it turned out. </div>
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The inside is all black and white speckle, as well.</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-19959676908656824742013-04-16T14:23:00.001-04:002013-04-16T14:25:17.011-04:00Engineer with Coffee Pot Takes First<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found out this past Monday that my portrait, <i>Engineer with Coffee Pot,</i> got 1st Prize for Drawing in the Student Juried Show!</div>
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This entire project was filled with so many precious moments, conversations, convictions, and discoveries; </div>
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knowing that someone else loved the culmination of these things makes me that much happier.</div>
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I was expecting a ribbon and maybe a gift card.</div>
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Instead I got an entire gift basket--including a notebook from one of my favorite stationary suppliers, <a href="http://riflepaperco.com/">Rifle Paper Co.</a>, and earrings made by an old friend of mine who has gone full-time with her jewelry business,<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/nicholeriley"> Riley Clay Designs</a>. </div>
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Be sure to check out her shop, she makes beautiful jewelry! </div>
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Now I'm left with the question: </div>
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what am I supposed to do with a six foot tall portrait of Erik?</div>
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Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this piece. </div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-6305059660750617422013-04-10T20:03:00.001-04:002013-04-10T20:03:17.220-04:00Jacob's Dream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I broke into my new pastels for the first time last night.</div>
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Literally broke--you have to unwrap and snap them in two if you really mean business.</div>
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Crack! </div>
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That's that.</div>
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As I patched in the shapes of the model's back,</div>
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I saw Jacob appear before me:</div>
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Awake, and puzzling over his miraculous dream. </div>
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"Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it!"</div>
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Genesis 28:16</div>
Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-34972557852708020142013-04-04T15:21:00.001-04:002013-04-04T15:21:08.869-04:00Everlasting Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I got to sit in the window light and work on another order this afternoon. </div>
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Thank you God, for rainy days filled with conversation, work, and simple pleasure.</div>
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I am always so grateful for an order in which the customer asks for a specific verse that I don't have illustrated in the shop. </div>
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"I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness".</div>
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I like to imagine him with a pen, drawing each line of my being so lovingly.</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-85892397739634409182013-04-03T17:31:00.003-04:002013-04-03T17:32:44.901-04:00An Engineer's Coffee Pot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some photos of my first major experiment in working on a dream I've had for quite some time: to sketch on brown paper with mixed media, ephemera and bleeding color. <br />
This piece was fraught with sweat and joy and eventual heartache.<br />
A life-sized assignment is quite the undertaking. <br />
My friend, Erik, agreed to pose with his coffee pot (a common prop for this coffee connoisseur). <br />
I love how all of my Georgia Tech Theta Xis examine things: with this child-like, and yet calculated and highly intelligent curiosity. <br />
I am most in love with the hand and coffee pot section of the piece.<br />
There are many things I will change next time.<br />
I definitely need to improve my collage technique, use nice pastels (so that they won't darken when spray fixed and cause me to weep in frustration at four weeks work melting away), and develop the background.<br />
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-68496628864253910902013-04-02T21:08:00.001-04:002013-04-02T21:08:36.948-04:00Breathe On Me Now<div style="text-align: center;">
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Tonight I could not shake the heaviness in my limbs, my utter inability to sketch.</div>
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I prayed at my easel, asking God to bless my work or not, whatever His will. </div>
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That's the thing with creativity--you must call it, ask it to stake its claim--and like the Spirit, you have to wait and let it overtake you.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Like the violins quickening their pace in my heart as I am forced, frozen, to feel it filling, flooding, like the words to this song, like the spirit pouring over my taut shoulders, like the ink spilling down the neck of my final sketch...I ask Him to breathe. </span></div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-11189562434562991892013-03-27T19:13:00.000-04:002013-03-27T19:13:38.348-04:00Delights and Caprices<div style="text-align: center;">
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I just found this Parisian cooking blog called <a href="http://delicesetcaprices.blogspot.com/">Délices et Caprices: </a></div>
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<span><a href="http://delicesetcaprices.blogspot.com/">Gourmandisement vôtre</a>, </span></div>
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<span>which means Delights and Caprices.</span> </div>
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All I could tell was that the blogger seemed to draw fashionable, shy little bunnies with squished faces to accompany each recipe she tried. </div>
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I had no idea what she was saying, but I knew I liked her methods.</div>
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Then I found a giant google translate button for the entire page and everything made more sense.</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-782374323979794272013-03-25T18:50:00.001-04:002013-03-25T18:50:16.288-04:00Christ Appelhan's Bad Unicorn <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chris Appelhans has done a lot of concept artwork for Disney, Laika Studio and now for Dreamworks.</div>
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I first found his artwork for Coraline and loved his vivid, emotive, and painterly watercolors.</div>
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Then I stumbled across his unicorns!</div>
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They are anti-elegant, cuddly bricks of gigantic proportions. </div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-62731844277357093972013-03-24T18:05:00.001-04:002013-03-24T18:05:49.923-04:00Cheers to La Mongerie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For Alpha Gamma Delta's Gamma Retreat, I planned a day in Atlanta that began with brunch at <a href="http://www.lamongerie.com/">La Mongerie</a>.</div>
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I selected this particular bakery and bistro because its website and photos looked extravagant enough for Marie Antoinette and yet had prices fitting the rest of us commoners who just want a cheap slice of cake. </div>
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I am so happy to report that the entire experience was divine.</div>
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Their motto is "southern comfort with french influence," and they hit the nail on the head.</div>
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We felt like queens, sitting in white baroque chairs and gazing up at the crystal chandeliers as we sipped on our berry water and munched on chicken and waffles. </div>
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The food was too delicious, and the wait staff were friendly, chatty and helpful. </div>
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La Mongerie has two locations (we hit the one on Ponce) and they are working on a third. </div>
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I highly recommend swinging by for brunch.</div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-76058052552707270152013-03-19T11:58:00.000-04:002013-03-19T11:59:19.061-04:00Matte Stephens<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/87526291/lillian-playing-with-an-abstract-thought?ref=usr_faveitems">Lillian playing with an abstract thought</a></div>
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I just discovered the illustrator <a href="http://www.matteart.net/matte_stephens.html">Matte Stephens</a>.</div>
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I love, love, love his work. </div>
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It feels like the (now vintage) modern art style with a childish twist. </div>
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His titles are like puffs of colored thought, and his compositions are flat, quirky, and endearing. </div>
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I love his work so much that I'd like to someday purchase a few prints.</div>
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Without a doubt I need <i>Lillian playing with an abstract thought; </i></div>
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she evokes that childlike curiosity in which the artists like myself and engineers like my love tinker and toy with ideas and abstract concepts. </div>
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<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/98197858/his-royal-highness-enjoyed-a-swim-every?ref=usr_faveitems">His Royal Highness enjoyed a swim every morning</a></div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-92045322408556357462013-03-18T15:15:00.001-04:002013-03-18T15:17:10.539-04:00Shattered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some shots I took of some shattered glass I found in an open barn. </div>
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Believe me, lying on one's tummy on a cold concrete floor is no small feat.</div>
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My unusual angle truly put into perspective what we mean when we say </div>
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So many tiny pieces reduced to powder. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8rGxSn9hwW9qjE_HkiX6vQrbUCV_8YwqjxOs4SUNZEcvIRjiPgSmn_De9AWuiBr_nSya2mTyTXkb8xisOLvZdjSSh3CVkeqzgkAr_v13EMXvWkJiko_w6IYigBTJymppvX_-KRV6Oi4/s1600/shattered1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf8rGxSn9hwW9qjE_HkiX6vQrbUCV_8YwqjxOs4SUNZEcvIRjiPgSmn_De9AWuiBr_nSya2mTyTXkb8xisOLvZdjSSh3CVkeqzgkAr_v13EMXvWkJiko_w6IYigBTJymppvX_-KRV6Oi4/s400/shattered1.jpg" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKJ_hEnggzyT7XTDinHvRCePElpKv2hDXK52x_dax7ILv4xKrZkpDTCY7GsiLJSizj99C5m8c91XhWhVWajRb5EX2QCmzU7P0KOzQOaYonIf-_C54Wuf-wEAFCXKXnL2ttZl-CSoWjLs/s1600/shattered2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKJ_hEnggzyT7XTDinHvRCePElpKv2hDXK52x_dax7ILv4xKrZkpDTCY7GsiLJSizj99C5m8c91XhWhVWajRb5EX2QCmzU7P0KOzQOaYonIf-_C54Wuf-wEAFCXKXnL2ttZl-CSoWjLs/s400/shattered2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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Rachelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658905463763728147noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740254428579796988.post-20896382467064420992013-03-13T20:27:00.000-04:002013-03-13T22:11:59.845-04:00Photo Experiments<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the second time that I have shot pictures through tiny holes that I find in industrial materials. </div>
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It creates this lovely, painterly effect on the background, and a natural vignette around the foreground.</div>
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I took these today with my photography class in Murrayville at a patch of farmland next to a Dollar General. </div>
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