And happy holidays. See you in a few days.

I saw a few pieces from the artist Emil Lucas at the Hosfelt Gallery today and they made me go pitter patter. Emil uses thread, remedy bug wings, wax, glass and found objects. I like.

Scott Greene’s enormous paintings of body parts are dutifully rendered and shined to a full gloss. There are plenty of nods to Phillip Guston’s famous boots but the cartoonish, flat look of Guston has been replaced with a triumphant attempt at achieving renaissance style rendering and varnish. Judging from the sprawled legs and arms, it…

Made my own wrapping paper Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence Made some abominable snowman wrapping paper. Its the bomb.

I seem to be getting over the initial shock of having no school schedule. The end of the semester seemed to have hurtled me into a state of confusion and depression. I’ve been staying home all week, doing homey stuff, wedding stuff, and Christmas stuff. We fly to Portland tomorrow for a few days with…

It seems that being on weight watchers an being tempted by alcohol is a bad thing. I revert back into a bad charles bukowski imitation. Sloppiness and tears are not good at holiday parties.

It’s sad when you go into a book store with your fiance and point out a book that you would like, only to find out he already gave it to you for your birthday and you’ve been so busy reading stuff for school you completely forgot about it. So to remedy the situation, I am…

ok, I am officially partied out. I can’t take any more fun. I feel very loved but now it’s time to get some rest. Too bad I have another party and a wedding this week. Still no rest for the wicked.

Seems every day there’s somewhere else to be. Lots of fun and holiday parties, but where’s my nappy time? Gotta do santa duties today then off to another dinner party.

The semester starts out with unending enthusiasm and optimism despite how worn out I feel from the “break”. Around mid semester the rose colored glasses come off and I feel less impressed with my total art school experience and have trouble taking things seriously. two-thirds of the way through, I get a little more of…

well, just as soon as I figured out I was done with school for the semester, I also figured out that the one month I have off is going to go fast. Here’s my winter break list: make and send the “Save the date” cards make wedding list sewing project for the wedding painting ideas…

Dreamlike Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence One minute I was in ckass and the next minute I’m at primo patio with a jerk chicken salad in front of me. I’m in some sort of delicious time warp. Is school really done for the semester?

Well, we must have pissed the gods off because they are not being favorable. Tom has a terrible stomach flu and not much sleeping has been going on around our house. I missed my final today! I swore it was at 1:30 but it was at 10:30. Since I expected to be there working anyway,…

Why’d you have to hit me over the head with that big hammer? It’s been two days of drunken revelry and I’m very ready for a quite night in. Just one more project to finish up today and one final week of classes. Then nap time.

a set of subject lines from Tomâ??s emails collected over the last 3 or so months: 1. Coyote 2. henry fool 3. Aaarrrr 4. Morning sunshine 5. Here is the cake 6. Messages in toast 7. Honey better than drugs 8. Long live plastic duck armada 9. Russian retro future space art 10. Super massive…