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Back school...

I've started back to school, both online and in the classroom, and while I do well in the classroom, those online classes seem to fall on the back burner.

So this is my declaration to keep up with all my classes, online and at school. To continue to Enlighten my life and use my WORD for 2012 to learn more about myself.

My classes online are Ali Edwards, One little word and Cathy Zielske's, move more eat well.  Both of which I started on beginning assignments. As for Tri-C, I'm heading back to finish College Comp 1020 - poetry and a drawing 101. And while I wasn't going for the drawing part, its another pre req in order to take some other art classes I'm interested in.

My online classes are posted in the beginning of the month and I will give myself opportunities to complete projects on the 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th of the months.  The classroom will obviously be as deligated by the teachers.

Here's to another year of Enlightenment!

 

Photography Class

I've been taking photography this semester, I really wanted to learn more about my camera. So far I can say I've learned a lot and have been taking most of my pictures on manual, although all that I learned with aperture priority can confuse me. Trying to retrain my brain...

As we take our photos and edit we are also learning editing through photoshop, which now makes me want to take a photoshop class and learn even more!

here is one of my photos after a rainstorm in Medina

and after a few changes in photoshop

This week we had to print some of our best shots and there will be a critique by our teacher and fellow students. Although I printed my photos, I won't be there for the critique.  So hopefully I will learn from it when I return from Chicago.

Next assignment... Intimate portrait

 

 

The next step

I told my husband about my going back to school desires and he supports anything I want to do! I told him about taking the placement test, but when I came home with this he said

"well now it's official"

Back to school...

Did someone say Challenge? this year it is my word for one little word. Most of the year that word has been about running and challenging my body. Now I'm ready to challenge my mind...

 

 

I'm so excited, I finally did it, I went back to school to take my English placement test. So many things inspired me; my love for writing, my love for photography (two of the classes I want to pursue). But also with the kids getting bigger its time for me to find myself.  And I can't deny the posts about back to school from Slacker mom also aided in my decision.

It was sparked with a seminar we recently went to, a motivational seminar about... motivating yourself to change. How to make change happen and stocks and happiness and lots of other things.  I left inspired to make some changes and one way to make change is to write down your goals and then do something everyday to work towards those goals.

Going back to school has been one of my goals and I think between the kids and money I have held back. And I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I went to take the placement test and saw I would enter a room filled with computers and not be handed a sheet of paper and pencil like I had remembered, after all it has been 10 years since I took a test!

And so with the upcoming busy summer we have planned, with trips from Pennsylvania to California, Wisconsin and of course Hilton head Island I added summer classes to the schedule and I can't wait!

Craft day

Once a week my mom, sister and I have been getting together to have a craft day.  A day where we pick some type of scrapbooking project to build or work on together.

Our first week we made this album.  We got together not knowing what we were going to do and began going around my basement picking up pieces or cutting out pieces that we thought we go good in the album.

This is my almost finished album:

 

 


 

 
 

Last week we made a book from an old book by cutting out the guts of the book and adding a binder like here . I need to post photos of it as well as photos from my Shimelle "learn something new everyday" class

If you learn something new everyday

that would make you wise, right?

Then why not use some wise old owls to number your pages!  Ah yes, last night I got 30 owls made with my new Stampin up punch and just in time as today is the first day of class!

 And I will finally be picking up my camera from the repair shop later today!  Woot woot!