SPEED POST

OMG SO MANY THINGS!

1. the children's center at my school was throwing away a bunch of stuff today so I acquired SO MANY COOL NEW THINGS. including: a bunch of rubber marine animals, a xylephone-looking set of bells, a child's sleeping bag, a rug (which Elizabeth and I both independently titled our "yoga rug"), a wooden horse head on a stick, baskets, hardware, pullies, a beautiful felt tapestry with llamas on it. We started a band with the bells and squeeky rubber marine animals.
   
2. the art barn mail art project is off it's feet! I hope! 27 mailboxes up!
3. I drew a hopscotch in the art barn hallway the other night, late late late. The next day I go in and everyone is hopping back and forth to get to wherever they're going, or having competitions to hop it the best! And they're even following the ridiculous directions I added, like, "spin 180 degrees!" and "touch your toes!" and "do an awesome dance" at the end. Micah wants to extend it to the entire art barn -- so you can hopscotch everywhere! It's really so great to hear people hopping down the hall.
4. I made breakfast for dinner and it was great.
5. today for class one of my classmates presented her work which was a journey into the woods with candles and into this little structure she built which had her music playing. And it was so fun and lovely and inspired me to make maps of the woods, looking for places to do art pieces or installations and it was also just so fun. I need to go into the woods more often!
6. I took down the listening booth. It was depressing to take it apart after working so hard for so long. but it made so much new space for new work! So, I'm on to new things. new new new.
7. Haley and I are doing an art - i - fact show. with found objects and viewers adding stories to them. More on that later.
   
8. I'm back to work! Off to the barn again! AHHH!!