that's all for this year!

Hope you all have wonderful summers. I would love to hear about any exciting summer plans:D
If you have any ideas for next year, please email me at lifeinfullcolour@yahoo.com or just leave a comment here. Cheers!

Starry Starry Night Has Never Looked So Delicious!

As a tribute to dear Vincent-only the best artist ever-I reproduced one of his most famous works of art on . . . CUPCAKES! I know, right? What could be better than chocolate cupcakes, ridiculous amounts of frosting, and a magnificent piece of art all in one package! And it was fun to make:D
Here's more or less my semi-blank canvas (although I forgot to take a picture right at the beginning-oops!) After over an hour of wrestling with paste food colouring and spooning sticky frosting into ziplocks, I had my palette . . .
Add a few more hours of piping frosting, a copious amount of plastic cups and frosting containers, and some inspiration (not to mention directions!) from an adorable little cookbook (Hello Cupcake! check it out-www.amazon.com/Hello-Cupcake-Irresistibly-Playful-Creations/dp/0618829253/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271043037&sr=8-1 ) . . .
And a masterpiece emerges!

(Well, a pretty yummy forgery at least.)

The art department is definitely one of the best places on campus and artists are pretty much awesome, so I am glad I had the opportunity to add to the magic that gets created there every day by the talented students and staff:D Leave me a comment (you don't have to have an account) or send me an email at lifeinfullcolour@yahoo.com to let me know what you think, how you're doing, or any ideas you have to bring some beauty to the campus. Happy Monday all!

A Letter a Day. . .

Happy Easter a bit late (that's not the only thing that's late. . .) My creativity has pretty much been in a ditch lately, although that's not excuse for not doing something to make my world a better place. Sooo, this week I went small again, to hopefully get myself geared up for the end of the semester! For the four days of classes we've had, I made a card for someone (that was recommended to me-let me know if you have any friends who might appreciate some encouragement:D) to hopefully give their week a boost. Graduation is coming up and that is ridiculously daunting. The "real world" *shudder*. C, I hope you enjoyed the cards!
Tuesday . . .. . . Wednesday. . .

. . . Thursday . . .

. . . Friday!

Thanks to everyone for the lovely comments and emails:) I love to hear from all of you. Please feel free to leave a comment (you don't have to have an account) or email me at lifeinfullcolour@yahoo.com. Also, it's been fun to look at some of your blogs. Email me the link to your blog and I would love to check it out! Happy week after Easter!

St. Patrick's Day Comes to the Thespians!

Ta da! AT LAST I am getting a few pictures up from my St. Patrick's Day project. . . I've been pretty busy with school stuff this last week. Which is no excuse, true. And I totally failed at doing ANYTHYING last week. But, I'm hoping to pick up the slack this week with Easter coming up. Is everyone else's semester getting pretty crazy right now? What are some ways you give yourselves "a breath of fresh air?" Well, hopefully I'll Easter some of you very soon:D
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Pictures to come (I am currently in the middle of Spring Break and have no idea where my camera is!)

Sure it's a bit early, but I wanted to leave a St. Patrick's Day surprise in Byrum for the theatre students. (More to come. . .)

"Everything You Can Imagine Is Real"

This week, feeling a bit overwhelmed by everything going on, I went with something a bit less involved, but hopefully magic-worthy nonetheless. (After all, what could be more magical than contemplating the fanciful wisdom of Vincent Van Gogh or Pablo Picasso on the toilet?) Artists see the world in such a wonderful and unique way, and I wanted to share some of what I've learned from them around Decker. (With the girls anyway. I opted to stay away from the urinals this time around :)!) What are some quotes or people that inspire you?

I wanted to say thank you for all the lovely comments and emails. It's been great to hear from people and to know what some of you are doing to make your corner of Anderson a more hopeful place. Please, if you have any comments, ideas, questions, thoughts, dreams, or terrible knock knock jokes, I would love to hear them. Either leave a comment right here (you don't have to have an account to comment) or send an email to lifeinfullcolour@yahoo.com. Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the beautiul sunshine!

[Insert Lame Monkey Pun]

Happy Thursday! For this week I again decided to make cupcakes (honestly, cupcakes are kind of the most wonderful thing in the world!), but this time they were. . .monkeys!

I'm sure the amazing ladies who clean the lobby in my dorm think I'm crazy-most people don't make cupcakes at five a.m.-but there's something nice about being up before everyone else. And surprises are the most wonderful thing since cupcakes! I sent a bunch to health services as well as counseling services/campus ministries as a way to say thanks for all they do for us. Decorating the cupcakes was way fun. I went a little bananas

(ha ha-no? okay.) trying to squeeze the frosting dots for pupils and noses out of a ziplock bag, and some of the faces got a little crazy:) Then I carefully arranged them in foil pans and paper plates and sent them off through campus mail!

I would love to hear from everyone. Leave a comment to let me know what you think, share any ideas you have, or just to say hi (you don't have to have an account to comment). For a way you can get involved, check out the last entry!

p.s. How do monkeys get down the stairs?

They slide down the banana-ster!

Get Involved!

For an upcoming project, I need help from all of you! If you would like to receive something special from Make Anderson Magical OR if you have a friend, or two, or ten, in need of some encouragement, send me an email in the next couple of weeks with your name and/or the name of your friends. You can email me at lifeinfullcolour@yahoo.com. Or, you could just comment on this post with the names. Thanks for your help and I hope you are having a spectacular weekend!