oh to letterpress

So, we recently learned how to use the letterpress printer in my typography class. It was quite confusing to start out, but it's actually a pretty simple machine once you get the hang of it :) The cool thing about this was that I wasn't sitting in front of my computer! I was hand setting wooden text, inking them, and then getting these awesome embossed pages! Our project was to create a book (out of one, 7 word sentence) that defines typography. Of course this was a class project, which kind of sucked because I am a control freak and wanted to do all the pages myself. Every group got 1 page to print, however my group was assigned the cover page, back page, and the last word in the sentence. Go figure... But anyways, not complaining because it was a great experience and I'm brainstorming other projects that I can go letterpress sometime!

loving a perfect God

Last night at bible study, my wonderful friend Megan gave us all copies of Kelly Needham's blog: (http://www.jimmyneedham.com/kellyspage.php). I highly recommend reading it because it is EXCELLENT!!!

Kelly speaks about wanting to find the perfect man to become her husband. Like most girls she spent too much of her time thinking about boys and not enough time thinking and talking to God. She said to throw out the checklist (that we have all mentally prepared) of things that we want in our husband. However, the most important part of her blog deals with turning our focus on finding a perfect man, to loving a perfect God. As soon as we turn our focus around to loving and adorning Jesus and making time for him in our everyday lives, our outlook on life will become so much clearer! When we stop worrying if we will ever find the right guy or if we have already chosen the right guy, and start praying to God to reveal his plan for us, everything will fall into place.

I loved everything she said in her blog and found it to be very eye opening. I pray that I have already found the right man in Justin and that I can be reassured that this is God's plan. :)

"Ask and you shall receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened to you." Matthew 7:7

Numero Uno

So, yes, I am following the trend (set by many of my good friends) and getting a blog. My goal in this blog is to inform the world of my wonderful life findings :) and also to maybe vent about life's trials and tribulations. As a Christian, I know that God has blessed me in every aspect of my life. One of my other goals is to always try and see the positive things that God is working on in my life and to learn to appreciate any struggles that come my way. I am majoring in Graphic Design at North Carolina State University (Go Pack!) and I love it here!! Hopefully I can update this thing with some of the cool projects I'm doing. I love NC State football, the color pink, chocolate, and I've recently fallen in love with SLR cameras. I do not own one (yet...maybe sometime in the future) but they are simply amazing.