Home-Made Spa Day!

What is worse than being sick? getting sick when you are home on your break! Seriously! I have things to do and people to see! But then that gives me an excuse to sleep a lot and come up with fun ways to pamper myself! 

The nice thing about begin home is there is lots of stuff! and not just random stuff, but stuff I need to do projects with that I don't have conveniently available to me at college, only so much can be stuffed into a dorm room. 

And so since I am home I had the ingredients needed to make this face mask I found on YouTube a couple months ago, it sounded super easy and fun! Its supposed to help with acne and with dark spots. So I gave it a shot! 

So you just paint the stuff on your face, I felt like I was icing a cake..... but it was my face.... anyway it was all fine and dandy till I realized that you are supposed to leave it on for 30 minutes.

30 minutes.

How was I supposed to be able to do that!!!! And then my nose itched! Of course it just had to itch when my nose was covered in this sticky honey concoction! But of course this was only the beginning to my problems...

I'm melting!!!! Literally. The goo was sliding off my face slowly dripping into the sink, this was going to be the longest 30 minuets of my life!!!!! If the stuff stayed on my face for that long anyway!

Then my mom walked past the bathroom. Her eyes widened in fright probably since she had just cleaned the bathroom... She just stared at me in shock I could literally hear her screaming in her head, then she gasped, "what is on your face."I just laughed, and quickly explained to her. Later on she ushered my dad over, "What did you do?!" Ode to joy for parents. One of the blogs I read described the mixture as chocolate,  my parents imagined it as something totally different. 

That's when my hair started sticking to my face.

When would 30 minuets be over?

Then my nose itched again. This time it was an itch I couldn't ignore! It intensified as the seconds ticked away as I tried in vain to ignore it!

And so I wasted 30 minuets of my life in the hope of better skin! But I believe it was totally worth it! Yay for girl reasoning! My skin was super soft as I washed the mix off my face with warm water. Hooray for good skin!

Merry Christmas, Lets Eat!

Merry Christmas!
And so once again I find time to blog! And it is a very good thing too since I come bearing a wonderful  gift! I have the most amazing recipe yummmmmmmmmmmmmm!

MayI present La Bete Noire! So by the name you could probably tell its french! So now its automatically gonna be super good, but when I was trying to figure out what the translation was it wasn't sounding so good.... so Noire means black but I didn't have a clue what Bete meant! And so I called upon my awesome  cousin who lives in France! Through the wonderful world of Facebook I learned that Bete meant stupid or idiot..... well now we were both confused! Why would a chocolate torte be stupid????  So she called upon a french friend to help explain. The explanation is,  "La Bete Noire is also like the person that is always guilty so in the case of a dessert, it's a guilty thing" Which is a perfect description of this torte!

Be prepared for a wonderful chocolaty sensation from this flour-less torte!

La Bete Noire

Cake
1 cup of water
3/4 cup of sugar
9 tablespoons of butter, unsalted
18 ounces of bittersweet or semisweet chocolate
6 eggs




Ganache
1 cup heavy whipping cream
8 ounces of bittersweet or semisweet chocolate

Set the oven to 375

Prepare a spring form pan, I like to use parchment paper

start with the sugar and water

bring it to a boil and then remove from heat

now melt the butter

and then add all that yummy chocolate!

after the chocolate is melted add the sugar water mixture

after that add the eggs!

and pour into the prepared pan

next put the pan in a water bath and bake for about 50 minuets until the middle doesn't shake

cooling time! 

making ganche is super easy bring the cream to a gentle boil and then add the chocolate! 

Ta-da! I even added a bit of mint flavoring for Christmas! 

Merry Christmas Eve

WOW ok so I have been super busy and I have not gotten around to blogging in FOREVER! But its finally Christmas Eve so now I have some time!

I finally made it home on Saturday after my forever long car drive! But it was awesome cause I listened to the same play list over and over and over and over and over again! It was pretty epic! Good jams + loud stereo+ me, myself and I= AWESOME car ride!

So I get home with the expectation of my family joyously greeting me! cause seriously they haven't seen their favorite daughter/sister in like forever, but alas I must of hit my head or something! I was lucky enough to get a "hey" from my youngest sibling! sheesh talk about feeling the love! Good thing I plan on living in France someday!

But there are some things to be thankful for for Christmas....

1. JOSH GROBAN!!! (and not only his Christmas music, literally just him!)
2. Christmas trees!
3. My awesome friends! 
4. food LOTS of food
5. sleep
6. some more sleep
7. baking
8. snow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9. some family tehe ;)
10. free time to snuggle with a good book!
11. sweaters!

So what r some things I don't like about Christmas?

1. Brett (my little brother asked to be on my other list so that automatically boots him to this one)
2. putting up the Christmas tree
3. not being aloud to sleep in past 8..... arg
4. not having the time to read :(
5. eating too much food
6. the cold brrrr
7. some family 
8. not being in France!!!!!
9. Dr. Oz (he is just super annoying) 

But it is nice to be for a little bit I guess we all have to deal with the crazy family during the holidays! 

So to update the past couple of weeks.....

For the De-stress fest I had designed the poster, which my boss loved! It ended up on the main college website, which was a big deal my boss informed me! For the event I also designed the T-shirts we gave away! 500 T-shirts were printed to give away!

A co-worker and I at the De-Stress Fest with Champ our mascot. 

I snuck a T-shirt for my brother! 

And so I was done with School the first day of finals but I stayed for another week to work but that allowed me time to hang out with my friends in Bozeman! I kept busy with two jobs so I didn't have anytime to get in trouble!  haha :) I barely had anytime to do Christmas shopping! 

And So Happy Holidays from the middle of nowhere up in Montana!

Advice From an Art School

It is finally all done!!!! well almost....
This morning at the wonderful hour of eight O'clock poor little me had to walk across the perils of icy campus to a exciting Art History exam, but the hope and light at the end of the tunnel that guided me through this horrible experience was ITS  OUR LAST ONE! -except part two of the art history course is next semester.... oh well!
After the excitement of being tested on Romanesque and Gothic architecture, which included my favorite cathedral, the Reims Cathedral! (I got to see it in France while I was there, creepy angel....!!!!) Next was our 2D recitation. Mr. Dean of course had a great lecture we learned all kinds of really great facts about life.

"Wear different shoes every day, they are the most important, so invest money in good shoes!"

Oh yessir my art professor told us this, of course he meant so you don't have back problems and what not, but I kind of interpreted it a little different... :) He then taught us how we should wash our hair, manage our time, fall in love, take risks, have confidence, and then the best lesson of all, don't get herpes.

"You can get herpes anywhere, from hand rails, doorknobs, shouldn't have this been on national television like everyday!"

When Dean was a grad student some med student mis-diagnosed him with herpes cause he had a corneal scratch and they figured it was from herpes, but it wasn't so he was just fine. But Dean made sure we all understood that we shouldn't touch our eyes so we don't get herpes! Gotta love Art School!

But alas I am glad this week is starting to wind down! It has been crazy studying for a final and working on my capstone. My dorm room totally looks like an artsy fartsy tornado ripped through here! But I still have a math final next week (which is the real finals week...). So ready for this semester to be done and move on to a new one!

And so I am finally posting about my capstone project! So what we had to do was listen to a sound on ubu.com. But these songs are not normal songs they are super messed up theres screaming and scratching and banging on pots, just really odd stuff. But I found one called tri-cello which is kind normal. So anyway I mapped out the entire 9 minute song in 30 second increments  whew that took forever! Next I painted on watercolor paper with gouache, I used salt to add dimension and interest, and then covered the entire thing in a veil of sheer black fabric! The whole thing turned out to be about 12 feet long! But it was very worth it! 

In the process of making the 12 foot monster

up on the wall in the studio

We experimented with the lighting :)

And Then There Was Two

Well its been awhile, but things are busy! Especially since I got another job. Yuppers I now have two part time jobs!!! Lets see how long this takes my parents to realize.... tehe this could get interesting!
 And maybe this will motivate me to finally find the bank in town so I cash all this dough I'm making! haha right......

A friend of mine works at this really cool carmel factory, and she has been bragging about how awesome her job is, and then she mentioned that they were hiring extra people for the holidays.

Light bulb moment!
I like caramels, and I like money! And so I tried it out the other day, and the boss lady was impressed she said I was a natural at wrapping caramels! haha oie ain't I just proud :)

But my friend was right it is a really fun job the people are really nice and it is surprisingly fun to wrap caramels for hours upon end!

Then meanwhile at my other job, I discovered I hate the word Wednesday with a passion. Thats right I do not just dislike it, I plain old hate it!!!! I hate it because I can't spell it. I can promise you If this thing didn't have spell check you could only read it if you understood old english from the times they spelled things phonetically!

Anyway the art project over the week(s) has been my capstone project, which is kinda a big deal. What we have to do is take a sound and put it on paper! So I've been hard at work, I'll post some pictures later!

Best Monday Ever! (up until now at least)

No school!!! yay! So that means I have one of the best Mondays ever! It also means I get time to blog! (and work on homework of course...)
So I finally got around to taking pictures of a DIY project I did to add some personality to my dorm room. Its a super easy and quick project! In my room there is a protruding part of the ceiling that was just begging to be the home of something creative. I wanted to display some of my pictures on a line with clothes-pins all cute-like.

So I gathered my supplies and craftily began my DIY mission!

 You will need: 

     ribbon or string
      clothes pins
      sticky-hooks or nails
      and pictures!

Some ribbon or fishing line works good, I like ribbon better cause well its just cuter!

 Clothes-pins, you can get plain ones, or I  found these really cute shabby chic ones at Michaels!

 And of course you need pictures! I got mine printed at Costco, they are 4 by 6 and I picked the option of the white boarder.

I didn't have to use the sticky hooks because somebody at one time put some nails in the wall! So just tie the ribbon around the nail or hook.

You attach the picture with a clothes pin, and ta-da!  Super easy!













 Its a great fast, and simple way to add some personality to your dorm room or any room!

Also today I found the coolest site that lets you put together awesome outfits as a collage! It also tells you were the clothes are from and how much they are. It kinda reminds me of paper dolls, except its digital and theres no doll... Its super fun though! They have all kinds of clothes! Even jean skirts, I was very impressed! The website is polyvore.com

Everyday Casual Chic by meganh2012 featuring long denim skirts

Scotch Soda pattern shirt
$46 - scotch-soda.com

Jacket
$38 - ginatricot.com

Long denim skirt
maurices.com

Swell crochet scarve
swell.com

Original watercolor and pen fashion illustration by Jessica Durrant...
etsy.com

One More Art Assignment Down

Wow it has been so busy! The weeks are flying by I can't believe this semester is almost over! Jumping from class to work to dance I have hardly found time to blog... whoopsy. So finally after sculpting class was cancelled because of this.

SNOW!!!

I am now finding the time to write this!
This week our assignment for 2D was to take pictures that showed contrast between natural organic elements and human or man-made structures. We could do part of the assignment in Photoshop which totally made my day, week, and almost year! My teacher probably thinks I'm super weird cause I was so excited when he said I could use it!

The three pictures I choose from the left, a power line at sunrise in Beijing China,  the gardens at Versailles France, and  the last one is an old chair in one of our wheat fields. 

To begin the project I manipulated the pictures in photoshop into  simple black and white sketches that showed the positive and negative space. Then I had to transfer them onto bristol board. Ode to joy. I am sick of bristol board and markers gah!!!!! But thankfully this was our last project that involved the stuff! I traced the images very carefully which made my eyes hurt from staring at these things for so long,  but the result was fantastic!

My tools :)

during the process of tracing 

This project gave me a headache! ah so many lines!

But they look pretty in the end!

....Coming soon Capstone! The final project of 2D is on its way!