Where to begin eh? Well quickies first, I've got a fancy journal, I entered the dAMarketplace comp, my birthday's May 6th, ummmm... school's going good.

I find it difficult to motivate myself to getting around to doing the homework. Though, procrastination's not a problem, I just find myself staying busy with other things. In my Intro to Fashion Sketching class I got back a few designs I drew up a couple weeks ago, but I'm deciding on whether or not I actually want to digitize and deviate them. When I get back the homework from last week, I'll definitely post some of those. I finally got my text book last week and that is an immense help for inspiration and learning how to draw clothing on the figure, and make it look like clothing. So there's that comming up. For colour theory I got back a couple assignments, which I can digitize and deviate, and since the teacher wasn't there this week I still have this weeks assignment that I can post. I got my bodice sloper made for patternmaking and we made the skirt sloper today, that went by fast Friday I have a conference with my Argumentation and Research teacher so I'm going to be able to revise my paper on hemp. When I get the final draft made I'll make a text deviation so you all can see why I'm pro hemp, and join me in my conquest! MAUH HAHAHA!

I picked up some fantastic watches today, one mundane japanese movement and 3 Timex's. One is wind up (and so far works great!) and the other two require a battery change. You can expect great watches in the future I'm so excited! I also had an inquiry about some black belt watches which I hope goes through. That will aid me very well in my future projects.

For the Summer I'm planning on ending this term on the 11th of June and moving out of my apartment on the 14th. I'm going to be carrying 4 main things with me throughout the summer, everything else I'm going to harbor in a friends closet or something. If anyone lives in Portland and would like to get to know me better so I can use a bit of space in your home, please do contact me! I'll even let you use my turbine powered blender ooooo! how tempting! hehe Anywho! From Portland I'm going up to Seattle to be with *Lastwear until the 11th-13th of July, which is when the Oregon country fair's happening (which I'm NOT going to miss!) While in Seattle I'll prolly be selling my accessories along with helping out *Lastwear with whatever I can. Moving on! From the Oregon Country Fair I may end up spending a couple days with my brothers in Ashland, it all depends on how my ability to travel is. After that I'll go back to Utah and become a hermit up in the mountains of the Ogden Valley (not really, but just play along ) Then when school starts back up in the fall, I'll be comming back to Portland to stay for 3 1/2 years straight, until I graduate. So this is pretty much my big vacation before naught.

So what I plan on carrying with me for a few months includes: Weerd Bag MKII, my sewing machine and case attached to my Weerd bag some how, my luggage case full of my summer wardrobe, and a bag I'm going to make before I venture off. This will be my tool back that will hold drafting tools, art tools, jewerly tools, leather tools, and whatever sewing supplies I can't fit in my sewing machine case. So I've got some designing ahead of me. I believe I currently have enough mulah to buy the supplies this bag will take + the supplies I'll require to alter my sewing machine case so I can strap it to my Weerd bag and the supplies to upgrade my Weerd bag so it can support my sewing machine case underneath... somehow.

As for my Tobi pants... I may not be able to make them before I leave this apartment. It may be a good idea to wait until I get up to Seattle to even order the fabric, since I plan to get 10 yards of each material. That I don't want to carry around with me. I want to have the material in pant form for traveling.

Hmmm... I think I've typed enough. I hope I was able to entertain those that read the entire journal.

Be Safe and Blessed Be all