My Education...Hard at Work.

Back in 2001, I graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in graphic design and illustration. I look back on my four and half years in college and remember learning a plethora of art based knowledge. A good chunk of that knowledge is useless now, due to the ever increasing numbers of computer programs and the outdated material that now plagues the back burners of my mind. Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm glad to have went to school (though at times I feel like it was a waste), and I am grateful that I got a good 4+ years of first hand experience utilizing my knowledge as a T-shirt designer after my graduation. Actually, I believe I learned more at my past job than I did in college itself.

But those days of using my vast knowledge of grahpic design and illustration is naught but a memory. I can still design and draw with the best of them, but I chose to give the work force up in exchange for becoming a stay-at-home mom. I'm happy to have the chance to do one of the most important jobs anyone can be responsible for. But then I realize that I have all of this bottled up artistic energy that I can't seem to find an outlet for. So where does my energy go? Hmmm...what to do...what to do...

Ah ha! Yes. It's perfect! I've found a way...

Construction paper spiders!

Yes...you read that right. I had the kids make spiders out of construction paper. I did the cutting (and the gluing for Abby). But Alex did his own gluing and they both decorated them with markers and crayons.

We hung them in their bedroom. But the creativity doesn't stop with spiders. Oh no...it gets better. The spiders are now joined by Frankensteins, Jack-o-lanterns, and soon to be ghosts and witches.

Eh...so it's not a top-notch t-shirt design or a fancy new logo. But the kids like it and they are proud to see them dangling from the ceiling in all their glory. I figure that I will change it up per season. Turkeys for Thanksgiving and Santa's and angels for Christmas. Yes folks. That's my education. Hard at work.