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New York was wonderful, such a nice combo of working the show and wandering the city. I stayed with some old + dear friends of my parents, right around the corner from the Javitts Center. here is a shot of our booth at SURTEX.... and there is Karin hanging things up!
It was really interesting to talk to all sorts of industry people and see what is going on in the surface design world. we made a lot of good connections with companies looking to hire young designers and artists, which are sure to come round and provide great opportunities for the sweet folks in the fibers department. here are Pam +Cayewah, shortly after we learned that the SCAD ICFF booth was going to win an award (Best Design School!!! hooray hooray) how wonderful to be recognized for doing truly good work. we are all exceptionally proud. here is a picture of the ICFF booth as well.........
Home in Savannah, the SCAD fashion show was a sweeping success, and was particularly praised for the STUNNING nano-felted backdrop by David Frank, a huge success + beautiful piece of work. check out this link to see some pictures: http://www.scad.edu/events/fashion/2008/
also, there are pictures and videos of the process on the fibers dept. blog which is in the link column on the left. FIBER FIBER FIBER. well, I have to go do some errands and then FINALS. OY VEY. but life is undeniably, very good.

Pre-SURTEX! To NYC I GO!!

Well, I'm sitting in the savannah library, on route to the bank..... which isn't yet open. Everything is just about ready to go, my flight leaves at 1pm and Nikki and I arrive in NY at 3. (I've never had a direct flight before---- thank you SCAD!!) we have the rest of today to hang around and get settled. Tomorrow we will spend the day setting up our booth and learning the ropes of the show. and then my family arrives (weeeeeeeeeeee) I'm thrilled for everyone to meet eachother, it's so odd that my family and all these wonderful, dear scad people have never met!

I will be spending about half of each day working the show, and the other half will be just mine to walk around and relax. This is sort of serving as my vacation I think..... take it when it falls in your lap, i guess.

Jess and I just had the most delicious cranberry orange scones at the bean. I think that I need to find some new scone recipes when I get back. in the mean time, here is a really easy banana bread that I've been making everytime we have mushy bananas:

-pre-heat to 350
MIX:
2 cups four
1/2 cup sugar
tea spoon baking soda
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1/2 cup butter
3 mashed bananas
dash of vanilla extract
some finely ground walnuts, if you have them around.

pour into a pan and bake for 1 hour. it's best if you let it cool and settle a while before eating it..... yum.

much love and here's to many adventures.

Texture Mapping

In CAD class we're working on texture mapping, which is a bit tedious but very cool. Below is an image of one of my patterns texture mapped onto that brown chair up there. Today I'm hoping to make a few more and get my file all finished up for tuesday.

I'm working really hard to get everything in line and ready to go, because next weekend I will be flying up to New York with some other Fibers people for SURTEX, a huge fabric and surface design trade show. We fly in on Friday, set up on saturday and then work the show on sunday, monday and tuesday. I'm getting real excited about it, and the change of scenery---- much as I love it here. ALSO: my mom, dad and sister will be in the city for the stationary show, so I'll get to see them which will be FANTASTIC.
so, in the mean time........... there is much much to be done. we have 3 weeks left of school!!!!! WEEHAW. it is really true that at a certain point life speeds up and passes you by faster than you could ever even fathom as a child. pretty thrilling.

if you need a good book, go + find "Messy Thrilling Life" by Sabrina Ward Harrison.