Posts Tagged → Family
My Biggest Project Yet: A House :: Tour
Street View
My wife and I bought a house. It is a fixer-upper. Who would have thought. I have big plans for the house… and I can already tell that most of them aren’t going to see the light of day. Being able to talk to a house and have it audibly respond is maybe a bit over-board anyway. Let’s take a walk-through:
First up is the porch:
Wide-Open Porch
Porch Ceiling: Ready for a Swing
Porch Floor: someone barfed stripes
The porch is enclosed and awesome. Notice the puke-toned carpet.
The door leads into the living room:
View from the living room
Living Room
From Living Room into Dining
The Dining Room is right off the main living area:
Ugly Dining Chandelier
Dining Room
Awesome/Ugly Dining Room Wallpaper
Dining Room to Kitchen
The Kitchen:
Kitchen
Check out that kitchen paneling
Let’s go upstairs to the hallway:
Beautiful Modern Rug
The Hallway
First stop on our right is the bathroom:
Blue Porcelain
Even the shower is blue
Now to the three bedrooms:
The Master bedroom
The Guest Room
Other Guest Room Complete with Creepy Water Bed
We (and when I say “we”, I really mean Abby) have started to do work on the kitchen. Check out this paint:
Blueish-Gray with White Pop
Rip those Cabinets off!
Duck Hunt :: Shirt
Wild Wild NES
For Christmas 2008, I was going to make my whole family shirt designs. The problem is that I only got around to making one shirt. I really only got inspired by one shirt. I found this button up at a St. Vincent de Paul. It had an embrodiered duck on the left breast. As soon as I saw it I knew there was a Duck Hunt theme behind it. I wasn’t real sure what I was going to add to make it more appropriate. Then for some reason the idea of NES zappers struck me. I would cross them like a wild west type design. Then tye the cords in a rope design. That is how this shirt was born.
I’m not entirely happy with the way the design turned out, because it isn’t instantly apparent what is on the shirt. I suppose this adds to the shirts mystique though.
I used acrylic and fabric medium.
If you like any of the art or designs you see on the site and would like an original for yourself, please contact me and I’ll help make your dreams come true.
My Family
So I had to write a motivational statement for an Americorps application. The question was: Describe a moment that shaped your life. (or something like that)
Well, I find it hard to pinpoint just one experience in shaping me as the person I am today. Everyday things affect who I am and why I do what I do.
If I was to be completely honest I have to say my biggest influence is my family. Growing up, my family helped shape what kinds of people I wanted as friends, what activities I enjoy doing, and what is important to me. The biggest thing that I can say was instilled in me from my family is being myself. My mother always encourage us (3 boy and 2 girls) to be ourselves. She reminded us all that if we are true to ourselves than ultimately we aren’t living. This is the single biggest “life shaper” that I’ve had.
Through out the years I’ve determined that I am a person who loves to perform… anything. I love to shape people’s emotions. I like to surprise people, calm people, make people laugh, cry or just smile. I love to perform. It is just who I am. I realized that this love for performance stems from a deeper desire to better people’s lives.
This led me to start focusing on the state of our environment. I realized that people could live better if they treated each other better. One way of doing that is through our surroundings; having a healthy planet.
I know that being “green” is a cliche buzz word right now, but I realized during my first year of college, in 2003, that our culture has become too complacent with being a throw away society. I started to figure out ways that I could counter act the waste. Then I realized that I was so passionate about this because I had been taught as a child to be mindful of waste and consumption. My parents weren’t hippies or activists. We just didn’t have a lot of money, so throwing everything away wasn’t an option. Trying to reuse it was a necessity.
I was able to take my upbringing a step further. Now I look for ways to reuse everything. Not just for me, but for everyone around me. If I feel like I absolutely can’t use something and it has to be trashed, I donate it to a thrift store or place of need.
So, anyway, my family has been a huge influence on me… and it really wasn’t until a little while ago that I realized how huge.