Birthdays and Teeth

I recently received a piece of mail addressed to "Aunt Lindsay" from my niece, Avery. It was an invitation to her birthday party. This is the picture my sister, Hilary, chose for the invitation:

Say what you will about head flowers, this one is cute!

Here is another shot that shows off her adorable blonde hair:
I PROMISE, my niece has eyes. I just wound up choosing pictures where her eyes are closed.

Speaking of physical oddities, I noticed something about myself recently. I have rather sizable chompers. I noticed it a few days ago during dress rehearsals for "Sweeney Todd" when I was helping people with hair and make-up. It was really weird and it got me thinking about a picture that was posted on Facebook at a friend's wedding:I look like I'm wearing fake teeth, like those hillbilly teeth if they had had proper dental care! Also, it made me realize how out of shape I really am but that's another story. Why do my teeth look so massive? Is it a physical actuality or just a bad photo? If it is just a bad photo, how do you explain the realization in the dressing room mirrors? It's a mystery!

BUT, it could also just be a culmination of the past two weeks worth of work and lack of sleep. You can blame sleep deprivation on a host of maladies...right?

Green and Black

I've come to realize that graduate school in the theatre is a heck of a lot different than graduate school for something like...education or physics. I am enrolled in a puppet making class and as part of the class I have learned how to carve florist foam. As part of my Halloween project I made these!
Yep, giant green skeleton hands. I'll post more pictures when I get more work done. It's due on the Wednesday before Halloween and I think I'll be done. The next project is for Sweeney Todd. I started the dress last Tuesday and I'm almost done. I'm going to leave the final say to the designer, Amanda.

By the way, it's supposed to be tacky, hence the fringe trim. I'm sort of excited by it.

More to come...

I'm not a shopaholic

I'm just sick of walking to school with wet feet.
And they were on sale.
Who knew Logan was such a wet place?

I attended my mission reunion last night. I was so excited to see President and Sister Layton again, it had been a year and a half. I missed last October's reunion because I wanted to visit my sister and her husband in Las Vegas. I missed April's reunion because of car problems. I was NOT going to miss this one! As usual, I brought my camera but took only two pictures. I should have taken a picture with the Laytons. Ah, regret.

I was really excited to see my trainer, Katie George VanValkenburg. She and her husband have an adorable little boy, it's kind of hard to believe. Here is a picture from our mission:

Between us is Janet Williams, whose grandson is married to my sister! I really enjoyed getting to know the Williams during my time in New York.

And here is a shot we took as we talked at a table. We probably should have had someone else take the picture.

Oh well!

Things I Love

As I was walking home from school today I noticed that there was something different about the mountains. I hadn't noticed as I walked to school because I was going to be late for institute and I was fairly devoted to the task at hand. Imagine, if you will, my surprised when I looked up and saw, sprinkled among the green and tan, ORANGE and RED! I love the fall. It is my favorite season.

Another thing that I love, or rather, things, are the windows in the costume shop. They let in light. They let us know what the weather is like in the outside world. You might think this is a funny thing to be glad about but when you've spent several years in a costume shop without windows, you'd be happy with about anything. The windows give us a fantastic view of the canyon AND a view of any car crashes on 400 North and 1000 East.
Like this one! It wasn't too serious but it was rather exciting. Plus, it was nice to be able to fill people in on the reason why the traffic was backed up.

This last one doesn't have anything to do with views or windows or seasons. Well, it does include seasons if you are referring to a series of plays. The first play of the Utah State Theatre season is open! I took this shot during the last night of dress rehearsal for the Glass Menagerie. My camera isn't well suited for the stage lights. I'll figure it out, eventually. I think the show really turned out. I'm proud to say I was involved.

If I notice anything else interesting or noteworthy, I'll try to take a picture and blog about it.

You can only handle so many Top Model entries anyway.

It's ready!

The last dress rehearsal for The Glass Menagerie was tonight and I can honestly say I am pleased with the results. Even though I have designed shows in the past I felt like a designer this evening. It was sort of weird. I designed my first show five years ago so it's not really a new thing. What is a new thing is designing in graduate school. CRAZY.


Anywho. After rehearsal I watched the new episode of ANTM with my roommate, Clarissa (thank you Tivo.) While we were watching we both had the same thought about this girl:



This is Sundai (yep, like the day of the week or a delicious ice cream treat.) We've decided she is a combination of this person :
and this person:
Mix the two together and you get Sundai. Sure, she looks kind of surly in her make-over picture but she's really bubbly and cute. Would you look surly if you had to wear a rope bikini? I think you would. Bikini rope aside, she is so stinkin' cute and bubbly and Kristen Chenoweth-y! Really!

Jumping to another topic...I've been pretty busy recently with school and stuff so I've fallen behind on my blog reading. It took over an hour to read the new entries and to finish this post.
I almost don't want to know what it would have been like if I wasn't a fast reader and a decent typist. Dang.

Coming up later this week: Pictures of my family! In Logan! Visiting me! Wahooo!

I have been very busy this week...

So, why am I blogging?

I am done* with this:

*I'm ready for dress rehearsal on Monday, it's a type of done.

I need a serious break from this:

Renderings for design studies, due on Monday! They'll be ready. I hope. I've been listening to audio books as I work. They are entertaining AND there is nothing visual to distract me! I've made my way through Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and I'm currently listening to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (don't judge.)

I took this picture as I was walking home yesterday. Unfortunately, I'm still figuring out the best settings on my camera so it looked much better in real life. The sky was a brighter combination of yellow, orange and purple. The ground was a fantastic mixture of greens and blues. I guess the silhouette isn't too bad. It reminds me of an art project from third grade.

Just a reminder for anyone who reads this (this means you, Mom) The Glass Menagerie opens this week! The show runs from Thursday the 26th through Saturday, and then next Wednesday through Saturday. The seating in the Lyric theatre is general admission so arrive early to get the seat you would like!