Merry Christmas Followers!

So I've been a failure of a blogger this break. Sorry friends! It's been a busy break full of family, friends, and wedding planning so my blog has been a low priority. On my to do list I've checked off a few things, but still have a lot to go such as designing my wedding invitation and choosing my art pieces for my Senior Art Show at ACU. Big stuff. Next week I will be in New Orleans visiting family and I will have limited internet access so I won't tease you with empty promises, I'm pretty sure I just won't be blogging. Ok, enough of the update, I thought I would leave you with an impromptu Christmas card I made after some silliness at our first faux-Christmas! Merry Christmas! Love Bonni and Marc!

PS - We got our engagement pictures done today (I think they will be much better than these) so be looking for those! So excited to see them.

My Thanksgiving

I thought I would post a few shots from Thanksgiving. I promise I will try really hard to keep up with blogging over my Christmas break! I apologize in advance for lack of blog posts.

Some of my favorites. I hope your holiday season is going well! Christmas is right around the corner!

Understanding Myself as a Designer

"Most to-do list creatives cannot drop everything to spend days 

lost in monk-like focus."

"Creative work is not a task to be checked off a 

next actions list. If you decide that you need to complete a particular project by the end of a block, for example, you're likely to either be frustrated 

by your lack of progress or rush out something mediocre."

"When you face a block of time dedicated to finishing a milestone, your mind avoids detours 

as they might delay your progress. When you instead focus on process, your mind is free to follow the path most important to eventually producing high-quality output."

I just read an article by Cal Newport that really makes me feel better about the way my brain works. I think one of the biggest challenges of being a graphic design student is being surrounded by so many people who work differently from you. It makes you feel really inferior when a classmate can crank out a genius piece of work in class and it takes you hours just to find the right direction. Reading this article I think will definitely help me not become frustrated as easily at my mental process of developing creative work. I suggest that you glance it over, especially if you are a "to-do list creative." Above are a few of my favorite pieces from the article.

Where Have I Been?

So like I said earlier, it's been a busy few weeks! I've been finishing up big projects, papers and studying up for final tests along with wedding planning fun like getting my dress fitted! Whew. I had another partner project in my Persuasive Graphics class and last night we were finishing up our redesign of LaLa's Lemonade. My teammate Jessica Floe (yep, same gal from Free People) was taking pictures of our misadventures last night and then she created a photo montage of awesome. It pretty much sums up the business, insanity, hard work and just exhausted apathy we've all been experiencing the last few weeks. Enjoy!

My friends are talented

Wow, busy week! Sorry for the lack of consistency lately. I want to share a way cool video recently created by one of my friends! Sandra Amstutz created this dreamy, magical video called "All The People Here." I highly suggest watching it!


All The People Here from Sandra Amstutz on Vimeo.

ACU Craft Fair

Hi friends! Yesterday was such a busy day! A lot of the time I usually spend in the evenings to blog I spent yesterday making these fun decorative poof balls to sell at the ACU Craft Fair tomorrow! I will post a picture of them a little later. For now, here is the flier I made for the fair with all of the info about the fair! If you are in Abilene, you should come! There are always a lot of really great things available for purchase!

Pictures of Christ

A couple weekends ago, the church my mom attends and the one I attend when I'm in Keller had a "Church has left the building" weekend. Life Giving weekend is what they called it. The basic idea is to have every member of the congregation sign up for a volunteer project for the weekend. They provide an extensive list of opportunities that people can sign up for. My mom had the opportunity to be a project this year! They do an excellent job of taking care of their own congregation as well, so when they went searching for families in the church to help, my mom's name popped up due to some bad erosion issues we were having along the side of our house. So bright and early Sunday morning a group of families showed up ready to serve and boy did they! They completely fixed our erosion stuff and they helped us clean up around the house as well. My mom and I talked about what a humbling experience it is to have someone come into your home and clean with you. It was a tough pill to swallow at first, but the blessings that came from that humility were outstanding. Below is a picture that embodies what we determined was the greatest blessing and the entire purpose of Life Giving Weekend. The guys from the church were working away outside when our precious neighbors popped their little heads over the fence (they do that a lot) and the men working were readily explaining what they were doing to them. Later that evening a lot of our neighbors came and talked to my mom about what went on earlier and she was able to explain to them the love of Christ that was shown to her in the form of service. That's the whole goal of this ambitious weekend and I would say that Christ definitely worked through the service provided at my mom's house to touch the lives of many others.