butterfly kisses

sorry this isn't even the end of the fair pics ...im a fair junkie...
they had a butterfly "rescue" center where you dip your "feeder" in "nectar"...
and if you ask if you could take home the garbage can of dead butterflies that were "rescued" at the end they will look at you like you're a "freak" so that you get too embarassed to take them but then regret it for ever after...i've "heard"

therefore i am

i call my brainwaves away  i text my fingers off
i email the world
i gchat the life out of my friends
i skype every once in a while
i blog in my head more than i actually post
i facebook my face off
i nook my novels
i spotify to my ears delight
i photoshop the pretty  into my photos
i linkedin my networking self
i pin my soul away
i am caving and getting an iphone
i work at a technology company

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

-Mitchell Kapor

and i kinda feel like my face is getting blasted off

dont get me wrong i am so grateful to technology and the connectedness i maintain as well as visual inspiration that the internet has opened to me...but lately when i want to do something creative i go "find an idea" to craft or draw..and something in my hearts satisfaction goes missing...not that it's a bad thing i really want to emphasize it is so great to be able to draw from so much instead of that blank 'now what' feeling so many projects create when you sit down to do them ....but i am just itching to take a hands on art or jewelry or ceramics or film photo class ..and it is an itch this world wide web just can't scratch


signed electronically,
shauna

cow pie

i don't know why but he top picture is one of my favories ive taken in a long time

i also havent blogged in a long time

in my defense i havent done much in a long time

i took this at the portland fair when i was there months ago

...don't you worry more pics coming soon

bug girl

i was a total bug girl when i was young-er...im still a total bug girl...my biggest obsession was probably rolly poleys and snails...but maybe they are just the easiest to find...i spent hours upon hours finding and saving (killing) them in homemade hospitals i collected cool dead ones (some things dont ever change) and when i was pinning my heart away i saw this...its everything i never knew i always wanted...and i wanna make some of my own...it is kind of like having that childhood box of treasure around your neck...sold...now if someone could tell me where to find it!

also i know its kinda sad they are dead but i just like to think they found them dead of natural causes first

the things you will think

“be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter,
and those who matter don't mind.”
dr.seuss

darci and i made "vintage glass" by mixing modpodge and food coloring and painting the inside of jars(while singing across the universe and annie)...it was a fun night

the suite life

not quite ready for summer to end ...i feel i need to sneak in a few more weekends like these...and amuch sronger base tan

i have had one girl talk of a summer...
i am thankful for good friends and beach days, and friends that let me tag along on fun trips, summer night girl talks...bikerides, summer recipes, swimming, laying out, roadtripping beaching, angels games ...its been a good summer...im not ready for it to be over and niether is my base tan
i didnt really have alot of girlfriends (by not alot i mean kirby) once i moved to southern california in jr. high until college so i love having this time to enjoy all the girl experiences..just fyi...

francis

while visiting portland we made homemade blackberry jam straight from the backyard...i love portland

date night

this boy knows how to turn on the charm when its bedtime...and im a sucker so some snuggle thomas the train bedtime? who could resist...sorry lots of baby blogs comin up

chicken friend

frederick runs around catching his "chicken friends"...it's hilarious to see him at it because he is scared to catch them but wants to so bad ...luckily when he runs at them at a certain angle they think he's going to mate with them and just lay down and let themselves be caught

good morning portland

enter scene six a.m. sleeping attractive 26 year old on a hide-a bed w a cat sleeping on her neck  ...three year old walks in and plaes face two inches from sleeping girls and proceeds to poke her.

frederick: what are you?
shauna: hi baby it's me shauna
frederick: hauna (never says the s) is it monday night?
shauna: no love i think its tuesday morning
frederick: is that douglas the cat?
shauna: yes thats douglas
frederick: is that the sun? (pointing to window)
shauna: yup its almost morning
frederick: am i awake?
shauna: i think so but maybe ou should ask your mom ...everyone else is sleeping
frederick: and hauna  that's douglas the cat?
shauna: yup
frederick: and i'm frederick...?
shauna: yup

everyone needs a little clarification some mornings