Paper Cutting

Hi!

About a month ago I took a paper cutting workshop from Bmore Papercuts.  It was so much fun and ever since then I've been wanting to try more!  For my birthday I got a set of x-acto knives and a cutting mat, so that was perfect!

The other day I cut up some kraft card stock into 4x6 cards and decided to just start cutting.  I had found some cute (short!) quotes on Pinterest so I tried using what I had learned at the workshop to cut some cute stuff!  And I did!

I can't post pictures of most of them yet, but here's one I did with some lyrics from a Sondre Lerche song that I love called Modern Nature :)

I practiced doing negative and positive space with the lettering.  Writing backwards is a little hard but I got pretty good at it since I did so many that day :)

Here's one that I made for Alex for Christmas!  Don't worry, I already gave it to him!

I need to get a frame for it and put some colored paper behind it, and we'll be good to go!

I had so much fun and I'm getting lots of ideas of things I want to try.  When I went to the Last Stop Hops-n-Shop show the other night, I looked closely at Annie's papercuts (from Bmore Papercuts) that were for sale to get some ideas, too!  She does such small details and all of her cuts look so smooth!  I need to practice a ton!

Thanks for reading!

Sondre Lerche in DC!

Hi!

We went to a concert in DC last night and got home late so I was just too tired to write anything!!

We got to see Sondre Lerche, an amazingly talented singer-songwriter from Norway, at U Street Music Hall in DC.  It was an amazing show, of course!  This is the third time we've seen him in concert.  The first time was in 2011 at the Old Rock House in St. Louis with Carl, and then we saw him again at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix in 2012.

This time, Teen opened for him.  They're an all-girl band from New York and they were good!
I first heard about Sondre Lerche when I saw the movie Dan in Real Life, which came out in 2007.  I loved the soundtrack and my parents got it for me for Christmas.  I realized that he did the whole soundtrack and started finding all of his other CDs on Amazon, at Bookmans, etc.  His first CD came out in 2001.  

We had a lot of fun!  The venue was all standing and there wasn't much of an incline, plus there were about five guys right in front of us that were all at least 6' 5", so we (mostly I) couldn't see that well, but it was still great!  The place was pretty small and we were semi close to the stage so we were close enough that it didn't really matter.

This weekend is the Baltimore Book Festival so we're getting ready to go to that!  My parents are driving here from Illinois tomorrow and we're so excited to see them!!

Thanks for reading!