Just wanted to share this video with the world.

Colbert stole some good old Moody family humor last night. No one will understand but my famlly, but seriously. Kidneys.

Enjoy:

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Instead of doing all of the other things in life that i really need to be doing, like school work, I have spent much of my time this week focusing on my quilt. Whenever I start I just can't seem to stop. The past two nights I've stayed up past 2 to work on it. And, I am pleased to announce, that the first phase of the quilt has been completed. All of the strips are sewn together which means now I have no choice but to do my school work because I left the fabric for the border in Little Rock. Therefore, the quilt is being put away until Thanksgiving. Anyways, enough of this typing stuff. All anyone really cares about is the pictures... so here they are:

This morning the quilt looked like this on my bed:

Then it outgrew the bed:

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So, in my last post I said this: "I'd love to make a quilt or at least a cozy throw blanket."

And this weekend while I was at home with my family I decided that if I want to make a quilt then I ought to just make a quilt. My mom and I looked through some books and found this great early 20th century African American quilt to emulate:


So I set about buying fabric and making a plan:



And tonight I began sewing with some very exciting results. Here is section E (see above diagram):



The whole thing makes me very happy indeed. :)

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Over the past week I have decided I want to do these things:

1. Make a series of greeting cards, possibly to sell on etsy.com
2. Design some more book covers
3. Make a really awesome custom portfolio that is super-stylish and will help land me a job in NYC
4. Start sewing more. I'd love to make a quilt or at least a cozy throw blanket. I also want to make a dog leash (see below photo)
5. Learn more German vocabulary so I can actually say something of worth in my class

And, those are just the things that I want to do just for myself. For my classes I have several other projects, and granted they are assigned. But, I want to go above and beyond the actual assignment. I have so many ideas I want to do for my identity and branding project which includes all of the packaging and maybe some signage for an outdoor clothing store. Also I have a class in which we have to map out our entire life in a sort of timeline, and I really want to be creative with it. I'm thinking I'll probably make a booklet. I want it to be very conceptual, and I really want to do it in a style I haven't really done before... something that would match things like Free People or Urban Outfitters or, better yet, Anthropologie. Yeah, I have a lot to do. I wish everything didn't take so much time.

Look how amazingly cute this dog leash (by Anna Maria Horner) is:

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