Elisa Rose

We had to put my goat, Elisa, down yesterday. We knew she had cancer for a few months, but it wasn’t affecting her quality of life, so we just kept an eye on her and tried our best to make her as happy as possible. She was her normal, hyper, happy self on Sunday, but Monday morning she started acting uncomfortable, and by 5 o’clock, we knew it was time.

She was buried by 8:00, and I’m still in a bit of shock.

She was a great goat. She was my 4-H project for a few years before we were both too old to do it. The first day I brought her home, she was scared from being taken away from her mother, so I sang to her and that calmed her down. I took my schoolwork (I was homeschooled) out to the barn everyday for a few weeks. I always did my math with her in my lap.

I held her as the vet put her down, and sang a little song.

Yeah, yeah. She was just an animal. But I don’t care who you are, it’s so sad when a pet dies.

I loved that goat. She was such a sweetheart.

Booklist 2011

Novels:

Count of Monte Cristo
Man in the Iron Mask
Frankenstein
2,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Man Who Laughs
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Alice in Wonderland
North and South (British)
The Bride Collector
Michal (Wives of King David)
Hollow Kingdom book II
Hollow Kingdom Book III
Unfinished Tales (Tolkien)
Treasure Island
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Grapes of Wrath
Brave New World
The Call of the Wild
Swiss Family Robinson
Lord of the Flies
Bluebeard
White Noise
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Huckleberry Finn
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dracula
Ulysses
War and Peace
The Old Man and the Sea
Gone with the Wind
Till We Have Faces
Kidnapped
Watership Down
Moby Dick
Island of Dr. Moreau
Through the Looking Glass
The Mysterious Island
Robinson Crusoe


Series:

Tarzan
The Inheritance Series
Redwall
Book of Lost tales (two volumes - Tolkien)
Drawn to Life (two volumes)
The Rescues series (9 books) (Margery Sharp)

Comics:

Maus
Calvin and Hobbes

Re-Read:

Don Quixote
Les Miserables
Lord of the Rings
the Phantom of the Opera
the Narnia Series (7 books?)
Wuthering Heights
Hunchback of Notre Dame

Bjorn and Anja

Sketch and color testing of my characters Bjorn and Anja. He’s a Scandinavian troll-type with some giant in his genes, hence how HUGE he is. (she’s 5’10”, so he’s quite the imposing figure.)

I made him as a stop-motion puppet two years ago for a school assignment: here’s some pics from a past post: http://livies-mind-has-been-compromised.blogspot.com/2009/11/stop-mo-puppet.html



They’re from a Swedish fairy-tale re-telling I’ve been working on “on-off” since my senior year in high school. (first pics of them are on lined paper) Tale’s called “The Princess Who Danced with a Troll Every Night”—long winded title! But it is so rich, even in the simple fairy-tale style it’s written in, and it ends so abruptly! I have a bit written on it already, but part of me is wondering if I should switch to making it into something sequential… That might be fun.

Final Projects Illustration 222 - Heads and Hands

Had to do a self portrait over aperiod of four weeks (the first week was just taking reference photos) and this is what I got! I used black and white charcoal on grey toned paper.

And along with that, on the final week our assignmnet was to choose a reference photo with at least the full head and shoulders and use whichever medium we wanted to make it. I just got back into the Lord of the Rings, and I re-discovered that I really liked the character of Grima Wormtongue, so I popped in my DVD and took a "screen cap" of him and painted it using Acrylics. It was a load of fun!

The Best Books Never Get Old

Fan art I drew for Jeff Smith's Bone. This was created using brush and ink on recycled brown paper, and then colored in Photoshop.

It was for Me.. Happy Easter, 2011

I don’t understand why the Creator of the universe would suffer and die the most painful death imaginable, and then raise from the dead three days later, all so He could pay the price for my sins. Why? Because He wants me to spend eternity with Him.

Eternity.

Me.

I just don’t understand how someone could love me that much, but he does…

I hope you had a Happy Easter, everyone! I hope you’ve experienced the love I’ve found in Christ. It is beautiful, and there is nothing like it.

Suzi

Summer Colors! :D