This week..

..has been busy and there's only more to come!

My art history class focuses on the American Home and I have to write a 10 page paper about Hearst Castle and Citizen Kane.  As fun as that sounds..

Oh, but I have fun projects too.  Now that we've turned in our first project for animation, we are starting on our final projects which is anything we make it.  I'm thinking I need to go supply shopping for Play-Doh so I can make some claymation creatures (:

Our professor introduced us to an animator named Caroline Leaf, and the techniques she uses to make her characters move are just incredible:
Caroline Leaf- "The Street"
For this one she paints each frame with gouache mixed with glycerine so the paint never dries.  I'd love to try something like this, but it just looks way too time consuming for the month I have to finish my project.

On a musical note, I've been pretty stuck on funky love songs lately.  I think it has to do with the Pandora station I made.  It started off with John Legend and I added Marvin Gaye and Barry White.  It's has evolved into something pretty amazing.

Carl Carlton- "She's a Bad MamaJama"
Michael Jackson- "PYT"
Zapp & Roger- I Want to be Your Man

So, I've decided that I want to study abroad again.  This time it's a month-long summer art program in the French Riviera.  I entered one of my paintings in an awards show here because they are giving away a $1000 scholarship for this program.  It was my first time entering anything in a show, so I'm pretty nervous and I hope I win something!

For those of you who have been to my apartment, you know that our front door used to be a sliding-glass door.  But they recently installed brand new French doors and a screen!  The only problem is now that we have a real door, we have to rearrange our furniture to let it freely swing open.  It's like Tetris, but with real-life objects and space.

As you guys probably know by now: I love food, I love cooking, I love eating, I love feeding.  And I'm still craving my New Orleans-style food, so I took it upon myself to make red beans n' rice.  The thing I love most about this meal is that you just leave it in your crockpot all day while you run errands or go to work/school and by dinnertime you've got a taaaasty meal!
I started mine off by cutting up an onion, some ham steak and a pack of andouille sausages and browning all of it in a pan with some butter.  I put the beans in my crockpot and stirred in the stuff from the pan.

Andouille sausage is delicious and spicy. It's used a lot in cajun cuisine.

That'll be sitting in my kitchen all day and making my house smell nice (till it's time to eat it yum yum).  I like to eat my red beans with some cut up little peppers, tabasco and ketchup.  I can't wait till dinnertime.

I was kind of hungry when I was cooking, so I set aside some of the browned ham and onion and slapped on a slice of provolone to melt on top of it.  I toasted some bread, put some dressing and fixings on it and put the melty-cheesy-oniony ham in the middle.

Who needs hamburgers, when you got ham sandwiches like this.

I definitely enjoyed this sandwich while typing this post and now it's time to eat some ganache-covered cheesecake with raspberries on top for dessert.  I bought it at The Nugget's bakery and I don't regret a thing.

I hope y'all are having a snackin' Saturday like me (: