litchykoko

I've had one long, odd week.

It started out with a 6 hour trip to the ER, followed by a week of hobbling to classes and then waking up to a really horrible Friday morning. My life has been up and down since last Sunday, and I am really glad to be starting a NEW week.

I love this photo, I had some downtown in the living room yesterday and I knew EXACTLY what I wanted it to look like. It's funny, but since the beginning of the summer, my photo creative skills seem to have gone down the drain. I've felt exhausted and uninspired by all of my projects and I haven't really wanted to take photos.

I need to get my groove back, I just can't seem to find it anywhere. School isn't helping either, which is funny- I go to art school, isn't that the whole point? Last semester felt generally useless, like I've done it all before. Maybe a semester away from the "art" in art school will help get my creative juices flowin' again.

When I took this, all I could think about were Zach and Brittany. This polaroid hangs up on the wall by my door so that every morning before I leave my room, I see them (plus a photo of my family, a photo of Randi and a photo from the road trip). Even when I start out feeling like a pile of dung, I get some sort of happiness from knowing that these people make me so joyous.

While I was off my foul, infected foot this week, I spent a lot of time tooling around flickr and trying to find people, photos and groups that inspired me. Apparently something clicked, because my last 6 photos have been some of my favorites in quite a while.

It started out with dancing in the kitchen on Tuesday. I took the day off (thank Jesus I did too, I was still in some serious pain), slept in for the first time in ages, made Red Velvet Cupcakes for Phylicia, perused Flickr for probably two hours, took hilarious photos of me dancing in the kitchen and went to bed early, again, for the first time in ages.

Max gave me his bubble wrap on Friday, which really saved my afternoon. Friday I woke up feeling lost, anger, depressed and ready to crawl into my cave of a room and not come out. Thank God I had a French test or I might have done just that. Everyone left on Friday night, so it was just me, my photos, Fight Club and flickr for about 5 hours.

Strangely enough, to top off the week, today's shoot was amazing. I spent almost an hour planning how the hell I was going to get about 30 Scrabble letters on the wall without glue, and the end result kicks some serious ass.

Enough for now, but I think I'm going to start writing on here more often. Maybe posting some outtakes, telling some redonkulous stories that involve me accidentally swallowing Scrabble letters or slipping in the tub on fake blood or just word vomiting about my days.

<3
liza

Hey Mom and Dad-
I totally forgot about a slew of photos I was gonna show you anyways, so I figured I'd pop them all on here!
The photo project is going to be set up into pairs, and each pair will be a different quilted design. These two aren't part of the same pair, just because I wanted to see how they'd both work. Also, in the pairs, the photos won't be the same, they'll be really different (like Dad is gonna be paired with a window on a brick wall).
(If you click the photos, they get bigger and easier to see!! :D Spiffy!)

Here's the Dad picture- I know it's kind of hard to see how it fits together, but it will be sewn in place, not just taped. I was thinking about sewing his glasses and hat, and then doing the outlines of the bricks.

This is the flower bed (I know it's not well put together, it's not supposed to be). I was thinking sewing the metal cage something bland, and then sewing the actual flower basket and flowers in something brighter, that pops out.

My room! Love my new curtains the best.

1- My bed! Can you see Gatsby's legs sticking up out of the sheets?
2- My 'Nater-poo calender, my Hero name plate and a picture of Dodger
3- My gross desk. It actually has my sewing machine on it, but you can't tell because it's covered in crap. Behind it is my wardrobe.

Sabre, it turns out, loves my bed now. And when he sleeps on it, he takes up ALLLLL of it. It's very annoying (and reminds me of Jasper and Reddie a lot, must be a cat thing), he seems to think he is the King of Liza. He also seems to think walking on everything in my room is acceptable, including my computer, camera, art homework and desks.

His other favorite place to sleep is on my hamper. Apparently its his special, Sabre-only place. That, and he LOVES plastic bags. He sleeps on them, crawls around in them (we have a bag pile in the kitchen), drags them around the house and even hides toys in them. It's crazy.

Love you guys a lot! :)
<3 liza

Hey there fellow peoples!
I have obviously NOT updated in a while, mostly because I'm a lazy little shit, but also due to the fact that I've been busy with school. However, now that I've passed through my first year with ease (kind of), I can start updating litchykoko.com again.
Aren't you EXCITED?!
As of right now, it's just barn photos. I'll be uploading more soon, promise (however, I ALWAYS say that, and look how well that works out).
Barn Summer Pictures
Enjoy! Let me know what you think!
~litchykoko

Polaroids! Huzzah!

Ashely by the newspaper boxes on our way home from Starbucks

Brittany bein' all glamorous (before I left for SMFA, actually)

Cecily, my crazy roommate (whom we all adore)

Phylicia, my other crazy roommate (whom we usually adore)

Isa and Randi, on my futon

All for now.
-Liza

Stephanie (bitch-tastic girl who lives at the end of the hall- we love her!) loaned my room her purple wig and I went a bit crazy. Took a whole bunch of photos with Cecily and Ashely (and some of me)- Enjoy!!

Cecily

Ashely

Cecily (Teasing me!)

Cecily again (More being silly!)

Ashely (Aiee!!)

Cecily's Close Up

Ashely's Profile

And nerdy me :D
Love you alllllll! (CECILY AND ASHELY ROCK MY SOCKS!)
-litchykoko