Our First Week

Our first week of school is almost over. Here's a little shot of us on the first day.

I'm In Love.

I have always loved making jewelry and been fascinated by glass work. You know what I mean, the molten glass with colors swirled in to create something beautiful. I made a glass globe at a shop on the Oregon Coast last year and loved it.

Well, for our anniversary next week, Heber gave me a special gift. He found a place in Layton that offered a glass bead making class, torch and all. Isn't that a sweet husband? Now I can make my own beads!

I went down last week and have been loving it ever since. I am still working on the basics of shape and learning how the colors react in the heat but I think it is something I will be doing for a very long time. I love it.

Here are some beads I have made so far. Not bad. Now to recreate a second one to have a set of earrings. I'm still working on that.


If you want to light it up and give it a try, stop on by. I think you might fall in love too.

It's Tomorrow

Well folks, tomorrow is my first day of grad school. Who knew this day would come? The summer is over and stormy weather in Logan is just around the corner.

On Thursday and Friday we had orientation for the program. We did a ropes course, which if you have never done before, you'd better just ask me about it. The rest was meetings, meetings. Luckily I got my undergrad at USU and have some experience with how things work.

They spoke about how it's now time to start thinking what projects I want to do. I have always been on the path to discovering what I want to do when I grow up and now I get to take real action toward that goal.

They showed us several sample portfolios, to get us thinking about our own. What I liked the most was how they wanted us to put ourselves into our work. They want to see who we are, for potential employers to get an idea of not only our work but who we are as people. This is something I definately missed in my undergrad. Very rarely did you put your personality into a piece, it always had to be in a professional or academic voice.

As I enter grad school, I know it's going to be busy and stressful but I think I'll enjoy it. It will be a time of growth and learning but in it all I can be true to myself.

What We've Been Up To....

We have been very busy with work lately but we've still managed to find time to....

Invite our nephews over to shoot rockets



Play in the water at Bear Lake



Go to farmers markets

See a Comedy at the Lyric Theatre

Spend time with friends



...and relax. Just a little.

SDL Community Day

2 plans created
4 skydivers
50 Rockets
1250 hot dogs
5 Mad Scientist
Thousands of free things for all of you
Activities galore
Unlimited snow cones
more than 100 hours of preparation

All leading up to one day...

The Space Dynamics Lab Community Day
In Logan, Saturday, August 8th from 12 to 4.

I don't usually talk about work but I've spent a good part of the summer working and stressing for this day. I'm excited for it to finally come together. Everyone is welcome, please come!