We are so Artsy right now.....

Today when jeff got home from work he informed me that he wanted to do a pastel of aurora borealis with a mountainous landscape for his sister Mindy, and that he wanted to run by Michaels to get the materials. And i had been wanting to play around with his wood burner, so we decided i'd do that while he drew and colored........so we picked up some wood, and his supplies, ordered a pizza, and came back and got to work.......


First I decided if i was going to screw up i might as well screw up trying to burn MY face into a slab of wood, it's not perfect, but then again not tooo bad for my first time using a 950 degree piece of metal to draw something.

And it didn't take long at all for me to catch the woodburning bug. As soon as i finished my first masterpiece i wanted to make something for someone else, considering most people wouldn't want a piece of wood with my face on it, plus that'd be pretty tacky for me to give to someone. So a brilliant idea came into my head, i could do a woodburner of my attractive little brother who graduates this year, and it could be the ultimate graduation gift, what 17 year old boy doesn't want a wood burning of himself.......by the way he doesn't look at blogs so i figured it was safe to post pictures of it on here, plus i'm horrible at suprising people.

Here he is the man of the hour. I felt this one was much better than my first attempt at wood burning, i think he'll like it.

Alright enough about me the amateur.....lets talk about jeff the professional artist......here is the genius at work.... And this is the finished product right before he hairsprayed it, and put it in it's lovely frame, to be shipped to his sister. Sorry i didn't get a picture of it framed and all, i'm an impatient woman!

I hope you greatly enjoyed our art show, donations to the ingrid & jeff art fund, can be made payable by cash or check, or gooey choc chip cookies! Love, The Harris Clan

Our First Home Together !

So we've been married for 20 days now......and so i figured i should prob. write a blog. I moved into jeff's apartment which i will show pictures now. the past 2 weeks or so i have given the crib a little TLC as to make it less bachelor paddy. I'm going to give you a tour of our apartment, but not only am i going to give you a tour, i'm going to make you feel as though you are actually here seeing it for yourself......alright so i don't have a job yet, and have alot of time on my hands.......so here we go.

This is our front door, and as you can see right by the front door is a white board/ cork board so that jeff and i can ourselves or one another messages or reminders, and we can keep important papers pinned up where we won't loose or forget them....handy huh?!

Now lets say you just walked through the front door and turned to your left, you would then be entering our kitchen....

Yeah sorry nothing special in here.....

Alright now lets go back into the entry way and continue straight into the living room.....

This is where jeff makes me fires all the time....and where i make s'mores-yum!

Here's a cool lamp that jeff and i got with a few of our target gift cards-thanks guys! oh and the really awesome christ painting my parents got us for christmas...thanks mom and dad!

oh and you're probably wondering what that white thing on the wall is, well dont' worry i'll tell you.

What we have here is a 126" screen for our projector, which is used for watching CSI, and other awesome television entertainment, watching an action packed movie, playing a game of rockband, or checking my facebook, or gmail.....cool huh? i'll never need to wear my glasses ever again (if i were to spend the rest of my life infront of this screen) but who's bragging?

Alright now we have the rest of the apartment still so we can't stay here looking at that awesome screen, on the opposit wall we have our dining room. complete with projector chandelier. oh and our cute christmas tree courtesy of my parents, THEY ARE SO NICE!!!!

alright now there is a cool window that connects the dining room, living room, and kitchen all together. Talk about classy!

Here's the same coolio window from another perspective......take it in baby!

Now i skipped the first room in the hallway, cuz it's boring it's the laundry room, plus i realized that my bra's were hanging up in the picture and that's embarrassing-and guess who's too lazy to go and retake it. So here is the second room down the hallway the bathroom. Which i decorated! I love these colors together, the towels that you see were the inspiration for this room.

rest of the bathroom.

This is the third room of the hallway but the first room on the left side. This is our spare bedroom as you can see there is a pile of bedding, which is because we haven't gotten a bed in this room yet. which is also why not much decorating has been done, i have to wait and see what kind of space etc. i have to work with but the colors are black, red, and white.

other corner of the spare bedroom.

Now at the very end of the hall is our bedroom..... and this is all i have, due to the fact that blogspot is being dumb, and won't let me upload any more pictures.....but we also have a big walk in closet, and a bathroom off of our room, and then there is a shower room that connects that bathroom with the first one that i did have pictures of

.....so i guess it wasn't EXACTLY like you were here seeing it for yourself, but ah well i give up. Hope everyone had a wonderful new year!