werg

found.

2007-10-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

i love finding inspiration:

workin woman

2007-10-02T17:39:00.000-07:00

well, i have too much to catch up on. but i will try to sum it up quickly.

leaving springfield was sad, driving away from the familiar streets, the usual hangout places and of course all the friends that came with it. after leaving my haven, i packed my belongings, including my air matress and half my wardrobe, into my sisters tidy dining room for three months. and it is here where i started feeling my awkwardness in my new city, stl. no one told me the transition was this hard. everything comfortable and safe was now big and unknown and i was to take all this on by myself. i have never found myself questioning so many things in so little time. slowly things are getting better. finally i am breaking in this new city and life. i recently moved into a new condo with my sister, including a door and an elevated matress! i also got hired at Atomicdust after my 3 month internship. what a great place, a great beginning to such an open future.

with all these changes i will make sure to keep up.

busy bees

2007-03-19T22:13:00.000-07:00

my roommate, kristin, and i decided to letterpress our graduation announcements since we are finally graduating. (i cant believe it) it ended up working out pretty well considering it was our first try, putting our heads together definately helped. above are pictures of the back of her announcements, more pics will come because we are planning on finishing tomorrow morning. later tomorrow i am heading home for a little spring "break." no fancy trips, just washmo for a few days. though i would enjoy laying on the beach basking in the sun, i enjoy getting things done and feeling sort of on task. more to come.

too long.

2007-03-11T21:40:00.000-07:00

wow its been awhile since i have written. Since then:: the weather has been slowly developing into amazing outside weather, my comma and "w" key now stick, we have a porch swing, my sister keeps telling me how much she loves chicago and trying to convince me which may not take much, i wonder why i dont go to the antique store every week, have taken out my flip flops for the summer and refuse to put them away no matter how cold missouri chooses to get, sucessfully only drinking diet soda but am still craving mountain dew daily, enjoying my roomate's dog's company and wanting a puppy when i move out, wondering if really i cant get everything done that i am set on over the break.

so fitting

2007-02-14T13:45:00.000-08:00

so i have this daily illustration pull off calendar thing and this morning i was very hesitant to pull off yesterday's to reveal today's cheesy, lovey dovey illustration. but when i tore it off, i thought "how fitting."

happy valentine's day.

aspiring baker

2007-02-12T15:22:00.000-08:00

so, one would think that after all the cooking shows i watch and the martha stewart addiction, i would have somewhat of a grasp for baking in the kitchen. today i proved that theory wrong. i was so excited about making pretty sugar cookies for my office for valentine's day, though i am opposed to the holiday it was a good excuse to bake. so this weekend i went through all the trouble trying to find the best recipes for the dough and the icing. i had visions of the smooth, pastel cookies that martha makes effortlessly and look so beautiful. then last night i went through the ingrediants and realized i have nothing but butter and water and that this grocery list was far longer than i had wanted to spend. so, long story a little shorter, i decided to buy the log of cookie dough and make the icing so i can still make them pretty, feeling at least half satisfied. today i got home all ready to begin. well, lets just say they came out paper thin, and were not the heavenly dessert that is featured on martha's living magazine covers. the whole stack of 20 cookies stacked only around three inches high. they all can now be found in the trash. i am so discourged i am not going to try again.

i think i will just bring valentines candy and not mention my failed cookies.

cutesy pootsy.

2007-01-30T14:17:00.000-08:00

iced in

2007-01-22T17:32:00.000-08:00

i havent written in forever and so much has happened since i hit the highway before christmas break. i have so much to catch up on and i will try my best to do any of my break justice. the break as a whole has been long and has presented new things to me. if you hadnt heard from all the news reports, springfield missouri got hit really hard by the worst ice storm ever! i have never seen anything like it, it shread ancient trees to nothing but a stick, pulled power lines to be hazardous traps for drivers, whole trees became road blocks, even street light were taken down. the first couple nights i barely slept and just listened to the destruction happen, knowing i could not do anything to stop it. the sound of the limbs breaking and falling through all the iced tree was almost mezmorizing, a rare sound i never want to hear again and likely will never. thankfully our bare house has no trees in the yard so we had no mess to clean up. as i drove around it was depressing to see everything down. its immense impact was/is so indescribable. pictures do little justice to the overwhelming destruction of everything in view, not just the frame of the photograph. we were out of power for eight nights put we were lucky in that some people were out for over two weeks. it definately was a reality check for those days with out internet, cable, and the luxury of your own home. people got really crabby. without all the distractions in our lives it was almost too much for some to handle. anyways... life is trying to return to normal down here, slowly though for sure. once covered lawns of ice and broken limbs are now replaced with high piles of chopped wood along the road.

i have alot more to catch up on: all the books i have read, the new crafts my roommate and i are starting, my chicago trip.... this all may take days.

and i'm off

2006-12-16T08:38:00.000-08:00

today i am going to head back home for winter break. i am looking forward to my family and friends and not having alot hanging over my head for classes. i just signed up to go on a trip to chicago with some design friends, i think it will be a blast. i cant wait! we are leaving the 2nd and returning the 6th then i have to be back down here for intersession class, Fitness & Fun for 7 hours a day! really how much fitness and fun can you have in one week?! anywyas i got to go and pack.

forty eight hours and counting

2006-12-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

for the past three days i have been living on the top floor of Ellis printing the very ambitious calendar project. it was said it could not be done and maybe thats why i was so determined to do it. i found the process very addictive and rewarding. even in the wee hours of the night i solitarily enjoyed the steady task and repitious steps. i am just so excited it is finished and i have so many other ambitous ideas that will follow.

two little words

2006-12-04T18:17:00.000-08:00

this weekend has been quite the adventure. a few of us decided to feat the weather thrown down on us and haul down to Arkansas to watch the Bears play in the ncaa tournament. they lost their second game but it was a great step for missouri state to make it to the second round. i enjoyed driving away from all my work and worries for awhile and have a carefree weekend with my friends. i enjoyed catching up with my girls, just hanging out and playing pool with the fans and staying in a hotel like the old days. it brought back warm memories of my team and i realized how greatful i am of all of them. its kind of funny though how i spent four years with some of these girls, yet i feel like i am finding out more about them now. i guess we were all robotic players then and now we set our own schedule and priorities. this weekend also made me a little sad, everyone talking about were they will land up after graduation. we say we will visit and call all the time, but i know deeply how difficult it will be. no longer can we just pick up and go mindlessly across the state, or call and say you desperately need an icecream break and that you'll be there in five minutes to pick them up. things will be fine i know but they will be different.

right now i cant get over that the semester is almost over, i am still working away on getting it all finished. as far as i know my marketing class is over. one down three more to finish up. i just have to repeat to myself that these two weeks will be hard but after that, christmas break! i might go to chicago at the begginning of january to check out some design studios and also some museums. i think it will be a good time all i need to do now is somehow scrape up the money.

anyways, i best be going to get my work finished. i think this post is long to push away the work i need to be doing.

iced in

2006-11-30T12:54:00.000-08:00

Classes were canceled today due to excessive ice and the forecast of it only getting worse. So, today is a catch-up-on-stuff day for me. I have a big project to start, I know its really late in the semester to start, but i am really exited about it and I hope it turns out like I want. The project: screenprinting calendars. I cant believe only a couple weeks of class left, that means only a semester left after that until graduation, eeekkk!

These sort of days always make me want to be home. Being stuck in the house with nothing to do was always a comforting feeling. Watching the snow pile up on the limbs of the woods behind our house. Getting as close as I could to the fireplace before it got too hot. The smell of the wintery outside air when dad came in with more wood. Keeping the back porch spotlight on to see how big the snowflakes were getting. Our old fashioned lit fir tree underneath a blanket of snow.

Working and watching out the window.

needing to say thanks

2006-11-24T19:57:00.000-08:00

healthy family & friends :: friends that i can sit in silence with and know it's ok :: going to the movies secretly just for the soda and popcorn :: cozy couches :: constant christmas music the day after thanksgiving :: sweatpants :: sushi :: warm fires on a chilly night :: the christmas spirit :: big boxes of junior mints :: finding great hidden design websites and wishing you found them sooner :: being at home :: my doodling black pens :: my professors who held my hand or gave me a shove when i needed it :: white hot chocolate :: the overpowering love my family gives me :: sleeping :: warm pizza because of sentimental value :: vintage photos, patterns & tees :: the ability to play competitive volleyball :: being eager to go to class and never being dissappointed with its level of fun :: flat shoes which make me feel somewhat more normal :: the random stuff that has collected on my desk :: playing in the rain :: andy's icecream :: igneous rocks for all of this, i am thankful

the cold is at the door

2006-11-16T20:44:00.000-08:00

Boy it is getting cold, luckily our new central heat is working well. Today I again realized how much I am going to miss classes and especially my professors. How many times do you hear " Seriously, how many have you been in a gang?" in the working world, I believe this only takes place in Erics class, and that I will miss.

another sunday.

2006-11-12T19:48:00.000-08:00

this weekend was calm. i am happy.

nothing can replace old friends, hold them close.

hello.

2006-11-08T20:11:00.000-08:00

Hey I am Katie, but people call me Werg, hence the title above. Right now I am in a point in my life that is extremely confusing. I consider myself a very fortunate person, lots of fun, amazing family, great friends, but right now I am questioning things and mainly myself and the direction my life is going. With playing volleyball for the past ten years of my life it has become not only a hobby but a part of me. Now, with my vb career over, I feel a little disoriented. In the real world people dont care if I was a volleyball player, where in the years past people were interested and could relate somehow. It just doesnt matter anymore and it really is a slap in the face. No one prepared me for this. Without my passion filling the hours of the day, thoughts have arisen and more doubt in my life has surfaced. Maybe volleyball was just camofloguing all these feelings before and I never realized it. Maybe thats why I want to continue to play, hide all the problems and go back to the security of normality in my life. But I do truly have the passion for it. Without it I feel, well I gues, not me. I cant even start a list of things I miss, there is way too much. I am not ready, I guess I just need a big shove. Why would I quit now? Something I have built such a passion for, such a obediance for, something I have made endless sacrafices for? I have always been taught not to quit and now they are all asking me to. Maybe I am just scared of the unknown future and volleyball is the one thing comfortable to grab on to as I dangle. But why not grasp something else, why am I choosing to hold on to it? Goodness, too many things and so much I cannot explain. I really do love my life but things great never go unquestioned.

All my blogs wont be like this, hopefully. My goal for this is to be also a creative blog, filled with inspirations to me and work by me and of course whats on my mind. I hope you enjoy. Dream big & wear flip-flops.