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Post-graduation Dreams

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I know I have been very absent in my postings, and I keep having excuses. But this is legitimate – because I graduate in just TWO STINKIN’ WEEKS.

I cannot wait. I’m nervous, but I’m also SO excited. I’m excited for graduation and excited for what comes after graduation. So I have compiled a photo list of things I plan to do once I am done with school.

1. Re-read all the Harry Potter books.

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  2. Watch all of the DVD’s/TV series/Netflix I want.

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3. Play my piano, who hardly even knows who I am anymore.

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4. Devote hours to building characters/houses on Sims 3 without guilt.

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5. And finally – read soooooooooo many books!!

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Of course, I will also be working on applying for jobs and finally completing some of those personal projects I had to put on hold in order to devote time to assignments instead. But it’s this list of compiled of the leisurely things that I had to almost completely give up while I’ve been school. So these are my guilty pleasures I will be indulging in once I no longer have the responsibility of homework!

Status: Silk Lamination

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I am a mere four weeks away from graduation.

It has been so hectic this quarter that I have hardly had time to sit and think about what exactly that means to me. I’ve been more focused on what that means for my To Do list. Until I signed onto Primo Cards to check the status of my business cards order and saw the words, “Status: Silk Lamination”.

Then it all felt real. My business cards were being laminated, ready to send. By this point, they have been mailed and are set to arrive on Wednesday. My portfolio book is ordered and should be on my doorstep, and in my eagerly awaiting hands, on Monday. Up until this point I have been second guessing everything I’m doing, thinking that I am not doing it “right” or that there is some “better” way to do it.

Until I realized I could spend my whole life chasing that elusive “right” way.

Design is art, it is not math. There is no all essential answer.

There is no right, there is only what feels right. And so I decided to start trusting myself to know me, to know how to present my own brand, and to just go with it. Since I made that decision, I feel I have moved beyond the in progress status and into the silk lamination stage. There is still a lot to do but as long as I can stay focused (which is very hard to do in this beautiful 68 degree weather), I am in great shape.

Graduation is just around the corner. I have been in and out of college since I was 17-years-old. Two weeks after graduation, I will turn 27. It’s been nearly a decade since I started college (granted, I took a number of years off in the middle there) and there’s not a person who can say that I haven’t worked hard for it.

Now I just have to try not to cry at graduation.

And try not to sleep away the entire week and a half of vacation I have already pre-booked for after graduation.

Today is the first day…

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… of the rest of my school life.

Also known as: the first day of my last semester.

It’s like Christmas. Except a pro-longed, 9 week wait until Christmas. But still.

It’s been a long time coming, this whole graduation thing. I’ll write a post about that in more length at another point. When I think about it, I’m extremely excited, but oh so nervous as well.

However, right now – after coming out of a summer “break” in which I worked 50+ hours each week… I am most excited to be done so that I can have free time to actually do things I enjoy: like read, do personal art and play video games.

I’ll be more concerned about the whole “finding a career” thing once I actually graduated, but what will get me through the next 9 weeks is that dream of the ever elusive Free Time.

 

Greetings from the North!

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And by “north”, I mean Canada.

The Spring semester came to a hectic close last week and I hightailed it (after a lovely Thursday spent celebrating five years with my boy) to Canada to see my best friend!

This was the first I had made the drive, I’ve always flown to visit her, and I was excited to be on the road. Nothing beats a good road trip, with the windows down and musicals blasting. Although I had a bit of driving ADD and insisted on stopping at every single rest stop, I made it over the border with no hitches and into Ottawa!

It has been an enjoyable week. We’ve traveled around a bit, read a lot, watched some movies. I’m just super happy to be on vacation and not thinking about work or – more importantly – homework!

I get back on the road tomorrow to return to Pittsburgh, to see my boy. Although I won’t be in the city for long, but at least I’ll have a partner for the next road trip. We are going to some good friends’ wedding this weekend in Ohio and I am excited for that as well!

I have many grand plans for the remainder of my break from school, before I go back into my final quarter (eep!), but I have an inkling that I may spend the remainder of my break reading every chance I get, when I’m not working… (this inkling may have been tipped-off by the 6 or 7 books I just requested from the library).

I am going to make this summer count!

I know I owe many updates on new projects, but for now .. enjoy some images from my trip so far!

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Van Gogh’s Paintings in Motion

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I know that I have been terrible about updating – that’s what finals and all sorts of crazy busy stuff that I will write about later does – but I wanted to share this beautiful video I stumbled across.

If you like Van Gogh, or art, or pretty things, or modern technology or even just beautiful music – you will love this movie.

I will return soon to write a real post!

Exciting news!

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In my Portfolio Prep class, we were assigned a special project to work with the Student Success committee of my school, who used to host workshops for students to learn a variety of topics (i.e., life drawing, wordpress, cartooning, etc.)

The workshops had dropped off in popularity, however, so they wanted a fresh approach. They took a survey of our class, to get the students’ input on what WE would want to attend as a workshop, and then we were asked to design new posters for a hypothetical workshop. We were also given the option to completely rename the workshops and give them a new logo.

I went with that direction.

I felt the title of the workshops – Persistence Workshops – was not very inviting at all. Who wants to leave 4 hours of class and go be persistent? So I came up with this.

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They loved the new name for the workshops, as well as the logo (which I featured in a variety of colors, alternating with the different types of workshops offered) and this is now the official logo of the Student Success workshops!

Another student’s layout was chosen, so now she and I just have to work together to create a template so that art work and type can be easily swapped out for the variety of workshops.

I’m pretty excited. Not only was I really happy with the logo, but helloooo new client!

Working hard to build up my resume before graduation!

Busy, busy!

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I had this post building up in my head over the past week or so; anxious to write about the beautiful Spring weather and how it inspires me to create, to read and to lay out in the grass and let the wind toss my hair.

And then it dropped back down to 40 degrees.

I have been busy working at school. I graduate next quarter and my life consists of lists right now; lists of everything I need to have done for my classes this quarter, lists of what I need to have prepared to graduate and basically anything that can help this ship sail as smoothly as possible. I want to enjoy my summer as well as my last quarter of school.

Oh, did I mention I work a full time job, a part time job and I just acquired an internship which I will be starting this Friday?

It may take me weeks to finish a simple book and I may not sleep much, but I have to say I’m loving it right now. I’m so near the finish line that it’s exciting (not to mention the three week summer break I’ll have BEFORE my last quarter.. that’s pretty exciting, too) and also very scary. But mostly exciting.

I hope to be posting more work and updates in the weeks to come. I have just begun to build my personal website in Dreamweaver this evening, so keep an eye out for that link as it will be going live in a few weeks time.

And, tonight, one of my Graphic Design professors told me that I’m allowed to call myself an illustrator as well as a designer. He never lets anyone do that!

Life may be busy but it’s good.

Now if only that weather would warm up before I have to walk to class at 7 tomorrow morning.

A new day, a new blog.

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Hello!

My name is Sarah, but I often go by Fae.

I am an art student in Pittsburgh, PA pursuing my Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design. I am expecting to graduate in September of 2013 and I have been thinking a lot lately about vamping up my internet presence! I am an extremely creative person; I draw inspiration from so much in the world (and the web) around me – and I love to share that inspiration.

If I’m not drawing or designing, my nose is buried in a book or my eyes glued to some new, exciting video game. If I’m not at my desk typing stories on my keyboard, chances are I’m on a piano bench playing music on my other keyboard. If I’m not going all out and dancing to 80’s music in some smokey, crowded room I’m probably at home singing a variety of musicals with myself cast as all the roles. But it all leads back to something that inspired me or at least made me smile. (Or cry. I do love a good cry.)

So I figured instead of just posting links on Facebook to things I find beautiful or inspiring or just plain adorable (helloooo, cat videos), knowing very well that I’m just one of many scroll-bys on the daily Facebooking of my friends, I thought a blog would be a great place to not only compile what inspires me but to share my own art and some personal thoughts and stories as well!

I’ve kept blogs in the past, but never with any real purpose or goal, so here’s hoping I keep to this one! Encouragement and companionship welcome.

Fae