Creativly Preparing

Girls night making masks for Angie's Masquerade themed

birthday the next week. It was so fun getting our craft on.

All the masks were custom made from plaster formed on

our faces. Meeting cute new gals, paint, glitter, feathers,

ribbons. Hot glue, as always, amazing. I couldnt stop at one,

I made three.

Greece

Went to Greek Fest with my lovely ladies, Kelly and Angie,

and we had a lovely time. We started the day with homemade

german pancakes at Angie's (thanks girl, they were amazing!)

then we continued to SLC where we were enchanted by the

charm and smells of the cute farmers market we walked

through to get to the festival. Gorgeous produce, stunning

floral bouquets, baskets, puppy pugs, fun music. Wonderful.

We took a tour of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral

downtown, it was beautiful. I loved the blue and the stained

glass.

By the time that we got to the festival it was so hot that we

didnt feel like feasting on all the famous dishes we had heard

so much about, so we settled on tasting the various pastries.

I loved the custard-like cake, the almond tart, and the

Baklava. We also enjoyed the traditional dancing. Good times.

Russia

I made Borscht as a part of my presentation on Russia

that I gave for our Culture Club Eastern European Day.

It took longer to make than expected,

Tasted better with sour cream than expected,

took much longer for Reece and I to finish than expected,

but a fun experience nonetheless.

Bountiful Tri

Reece and I completed our first triathlon together

on Labor Day morning. It was one of those sprints

where the swimming was only 400 meters instead of

the regular 800. But the rest of the distances were the

same: Bike 12 miles, running 5K (about 3 miles).

My sweet dad woke up bright and

early to come support us and take pictures. Thanks

so much Pops!

All went well except.... THE EYES, THE EYES!

Both Reece and I lost our goggles when we jumped

in the pool and didnt have time to find them before

the next swimmer was jumping on top of us.

So we both swam the entire distance goggle-less

and me having contacts, that I didnt want to loose,

finally resulted to swimming the backstroke the last

150 meters. Then I forgot my sunglasses in transitioning

to the bike so my eyes went from too wet to too dry

in a mater of seconds. BUT, I had dicided before the race

to not let frustration enter my mind, not even one little bit,

so I didnt let it. I kept a smile on my face the whole time,

even though some times it was really forced. But surprisingly

I found myself giddy and happy. Endorphins? very likely,

but I truly had a good time.

Reece did the running in bare feet (crazy goose) he said

it was worth all the blisters in that his knees felt GREAT!

My solution to knee pain was a knee brace, which worked

pretty great too....

I cant tell you how proud I am of my little ipod shuffle,

it did a great job at choosing the tunes I needed at each

moment, especially those faster and perkier songs that

helped keep my pace up towards the end of the running.

But Im also very proud of my rockstar husband that

again did wonderfully, and Im so so happy to see my

body perform beautifully what I have been working hard

to train it to do.

So now if we can just keep it up for the

big official tri that we have ourselves signed up for in St.

George.

Realizing

So things have been pretty busy round here and I have

had trouble getting the time and motivation to blog....

but there is a tone of pictures and stories I want to share

so I will try to be better this week and make up for

these last two weeks of not posting.

(Since Im a total to-do list maker)

Things to look forward seeing on blog:

-More boating adventures

-Greek Fest

-Latest explorations in the kitchen

-Latest physical feats

-a view into a few of the clubs Im a part of

-a Masquerade and a themed photo shoot

-Random photo shoots

-Someone's carnival birthday party (with film footage)

-and some student work

stay tuned.

Struggling with

FACULTY SHOW:out-takes

Go see some of my work in the

UVU Visual Arts Faculty show

Sep 11- Oct 16. Springville Museum of Art

126 East. 400 South, Springville UT

(I-15 exit 261)

Tue-Sat 10-5 pm, Sunday 3-6 pm.

Closed mondays.

Opening Reception:

Sat. Sept 26, 1-3pm

(I wont be able to make it that day....Ill be pushing my

way through a triathlon)

Thanks to Eliza for being such a classy stylist.

Dubie, Dubie. Always wants to be in the shoots,

but this time I think he got camera shy

he just looks creepy.

Latest Arrangings....

I recently found the silver revere bowls

that were used at my wedding...

and have been using them

in my latest arrangements.

So classy.

Hope they brightened up certain

someones' days.

4ever

I love my sweet husband.

Got this for our triathlon training

(which is going pretty well)

love how he personalized it.

love it.

(it says "Reece + Beth 4 Ever!")

Photograms

The first lecture and assignment for my

photo 1 classes are centered around the

chemistry of the light sensitive

materials used in photography and how

exactly they react to light.

The assignment is to create a photogram.

A photographic print created with no

camera, just objects opaque and translucent

placed on photo paper and exposed.

Here were the photograms I created

in my demonstrations.

These are pretty simplistic, but Im excited

to see what my students come up with,

a few got really excited about the potential of

this art form.