and more stuff

so yesterday i started classes for the summer. i'm also working on my thesis stuff so i went to meet some friends at the library and we started talking about our topics and hopefully, we helped each other some. sign ups for the thesis are this friday, and i'm hoping i get a time slot somewhere in the middle to the end.

in other news i have finally started using the gocco marco bought for my birthday last NOVEMBER!!! at first, i was kind of put off by having to learn how to use it, 'cause frankly, i didn't want to learn, i just wanted to use it. but it being father's day last weekend, and me being without a gift for my grandfather, i put the gocco to good use and i made some notecards he had been asking me for for ages now. he had forgotten all about them but i think he likes them! i'm not big on god-based crafts, but he wanted a serenity prayer on the front, so there it was! this small taste of the gocco has made me hunger for more, so today i ordered some speedball inks for fabric and some additional gocco screens in order to start the maddness!

and what's more, we now have squash and cucumbers in our summer garden! well, ok, marco's summer garden. just in case you don't know, marco is an avid vegetable gardener and he grows all kinds of stuff out on our balcony. this year we're doing tomatoes, squash, cucumber, strawberries (finally!!!), our ever growing pear tree, lemons, basil, oregano, mint, rosemary, and a bunch of other stuff. he's even got this whole setup where he can test the levels of water in each pot through a tube. oh he's so inventive!