3rd Thursday: JUNE 2012

3rd Thursday last week was so fun! My friend Martha's shop Fluffy Pop made its debut and was very well recieved, with lots of great feedback, I am so proud and happy!!

One of my favorite things about the art walk is seeing friends that I ONLY see at the art walk. It is so fun to wander around bumping into people and catching up on what they are up to for the summer.

The question that I always get asked (by friends, family and other teachers) is: 'What are you doing all summer?" Well, I am not teaching summer school....so I am pretty honest with my answer: "What ever I want."

I've already been to the movies twice this week....and I take naps. I work out whenever I feel like it. I might go to one zumba class, one spin class, and then hit the trails another day....I try to keep the house clean, but some spaces are just always cluttered, because at the moment I do not have enough hangers for all of my clothing so it just piles up outside my closet. My studio is a dizaster. I made up that word. It means dizzying-disaster and I do not want to approach the clean up and rebuilding process.

I hear coworkers bragging about how their house is so clean and dinner is done for the day but I don't really feel like those are worthy accomplishments, I've got a serious to-do list for this summer....and I've started some massive mosaic tile projects (more about that later).

Anyway, here are some shots from downtown last Thursday.

Me and Martha

I decided to try something fun for the summer.....Last Thursday, Heather and I died my hair Ombre.....its fun, but it will go back to normal before school starts!

Art Walk with Lensbaby part 2.

Yesterday I told you a bit about the Third Thursday art walk events.

Last month, I shared a bit about my art exhibit at Art Walk in Joplin.

The same night that I had my own show downtown in July, I also took a group of students around for the first time.....check out our post on the Art Juggler blog!.

Here are a few more of my favorite pictures with my Lensbaby from last week's Third Thursday art walk.

This is one of my favorites ever!

{Vintage Style} Dress...yes, I did wear this to school!

Love these photos of Justin and the pitcher of lemonade at Salon 529!

The Bee Keeper Society of Southwest Missouri had a booth set up at artwalk and one attraction was the glass case with a big honeycomb and live bees swarming inside it (sort of like a glass an farm). I was freaked out at first, because bee hive give me the creeps, I'm always afraid of getting stung. Then I noticed what a cool reflective surface the glass case had...so I had to take a self-portrait with it!

Isn't this a sweet daddy-daughter picture?!

I'm looking for more cool opportunities to take lensbaby photos...any ideas?

Art Walk with the Lensbaby part 1.

I absolutely love going downtown for art walk. Every Third Thursday in Joplin, artists set up downtown and it is free an open for the public to view the artwork.

Most of the art is not displayed in normal galleries, it is set up on folding tables, and in temporary display units in the shops downtown. It is a lot of work to set up a whole show for just one night...and this summer has been super hot, but if you build it, they will come!

I enjoy looking at what local artists do, but I really love taking pictures downtown. Last week I shot with my Lensbaby attachment on my Nikon D5000.

Downtown Joplin is so beautiful. I really love it when they block off the streets!

This was an amazing 'town-hall' event...citizens could give input on what they wanted to see created in the destructed areas of Joplin.

This guy didn't like my dress and jewelery....he whispered 'shame on you' as I walked past him to get photos of the girls doing Zumba in the street. Guess he doesn't like vintage.

I love Zumba! I try to do Zumba three times a week at the YMCA....here are my instructors and classmates doing zumba in the street--it was an awesome event!

I would've been out there with them but I made up excuses for why I couldn't (and wouldn't): I ate dinner downtown before they got started and I was too full to dance, it was too hot, it was the second day of school and my feet were too sore, I love to Zumba but I am not very good and I would've been too embarrassed to do it in front of the whole town, but most importantly I was dressed up {vintage style} and didn't have time to change before art walk.

Don't these balloons look awesome with the lensbaby?!

Thanks for reading, look for more pictures tomorrow and peak at my {vintage style} dress!