<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325</id><updated>2012-01-10T21:16:20.149-07:00</updated><category term='sock'/><category term='curtains'/><category term='sad'/><category term='women&apos;s boxing'/><category term='Fogglifter Cafe'/><category term='suck'/><category term='tractor'/><category term='juxtaposition'/><category term='kiosk'/><category term='woman'/><category term='art'/><category term='captive'/><category term='winter'/><category term='ready made'/><category term='Mrs. Edwards and Frl. Kussin'/><category term='charcoal'/><category term='hatched'/><category term='job'/><category term='chippendale'/><category term='trees'/><category term='Platte City'/><category term='sports'/><category term='video'/><category term='boxing'/><category term='work'/><category term='photograph'/><category term='February'/><category term='kids'/><category term='bulb'/><category term='man'/><category term='interior design'/><category term='drawing'/><category term='tin type'/><category term='art and fear'/><category term='camera'/><category term='lens eye'/><category term='coffee shop'/><category term='neon sign'/><category term='velvet'/><category term='bistro'/><category term='dog'/><category term='salary'/><category term='storage unit'/><category term='face'/><category term='MO'/><category term='1912'/><category term='donnelly idaho'/><category term='cold'/><category term='sculptures'/><category term='baby'/><category term='art happening'/><category term='nude'/><category term='halloween baby bowtie'/><category term='ink'/><category term='Jack'/><category term='human'/><title type='text'>LOOK {see}</title><subtitle type='html'>images by Adri Shurtleff-Meckel</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>58</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6673649526348135468</id><published>2011-06-13T10:22:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-13T10:22:49.330-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Veins &amp; Limbs Tattoo</title><content type='html'>Copyright Adri Meckel 2011&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QSB9mHUe1jI/TfY5WHYuEfI/AAAAAAAAATU/VgWmSDfCG14/s1600/DillsTattoo...VeinsLimbs.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QSB9mHUe1jI/TfY5WHYuEfI/AAAAAAAAATU/VgWmSDfCG14/s400/DillsTattoo...VeinsLimbs.JPG' border='0' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The newest tattoo design request, intended as an inner forearm drawing where veins become tree limbs.&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6673649526348135468?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6673649526348135468/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6673649526348135468' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6673649526348135468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6673649526348135468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/06/veins-limbs-tattoo.html' title='Veins &amp; Limbs Tattoo'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QSB9mHUe1jI/TfY5WHYuEfI/AAAAAAAAATU/VgWmSDfCG14/s72-c/DillsTattoo...VeinsLimbs.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-3574664242170806089</id><published>2011-06-02T08:24:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T08:24:11.838-06:00</updated><title type='text'>What a cutie!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'&gt;&lt;a href='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--z-8Eufvvmw/Teec41tbz5I/AAAAAAAAATI/ahSxJAd5wSw/s1600/2011-390.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--z-8Eufvvmw/Teec41tbz5I/AAAAAAAAATI/ahSxJAd5wSw/s400/2011-390.JPG' border='0' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I challenge you to look at that adorable face and not smile!  Everyday is such an adventure with Jack and we do our best to keep up with him.&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-3574664242170806089?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/3574664242170806089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=3574664242170806089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3574664242170806089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3574664242170806089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-cutie.html' title='What a cutie!'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--z-8Eufvvmw/Teec41tbz5I/AAAAAAAAATI/ahSxJAd5wSw/s72-c/2011-390.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8453949922154884143</id><published>2011-04-09T17:40:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T17:40:17.057-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Nest that Hatched the Egg</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/iSvG_gk2mZU?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;div&gt;This looks like a cool movie...focusing on Mary Surratt, the first woman in the US to be victim to the death penalty.  She was called "The Nest that Hatched the Egg" in reference to the plot to assassinate Lincoln.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g56tevqaHE0/TaDt8KMEv1I/AAAAAAAAAS0/S6UPjTlMv4Q/s1600/Mary%2BSurratt_1865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" width="144" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-g56tevqaHE0/TaDt8KMEv1I/AAAAAAAAAS0/S6UPjTlMv4Q/s400/Mary%2BSurratt_1865.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8453949922154884143?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8453949922154884143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8453949922154884143' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8453949922154884143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8453949922154884143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/04/nest-that-hatched-egg.html' title='The Nest that Hatched the Egg'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/iSvG_gk2mZU/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6395003948835472784</id><published>2011-03-16T22:47:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T09:15:43.188-06:00</updated><title type='text'>And He Works Without a Net!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WUWkr2oST3Q/TYGSAJTe5XI/AAAAAAAAASw/cgpp0Xt3VrY/s1600/2011-146.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WUWkr2oST3Q/TYGSAJTe5XI/AAAAAAAAASw/cgpp0Xt3VrY/s320/2011-146.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Here is Jack, our 1.5 year-old dare devil.  In a matter of moments, he can turn the average toy into a death defying contraption.  All this fearless curiosity makes me wonder what he'll do with all his courageous energy when he grows up.  I love this guy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6395003948835472784?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6395003948835472784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6395003948835472784' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6395003948835472784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6395003948835472784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/03/and-he-works-without-net.html' title='And He Works Without a Net!'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WUWkr2oST3Q/TYGSAJTe5XI/AAAAAAAAASw/cgpp0Xt3VrY/s72-c/2011-146.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5780185097357737476</id><published>2011-02-22T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T14:32:12.975-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Embezzelment  - new drawing</title><content type='html'>Thanks to my sister for the amazing book I received for Christmas titled Prisoners by Arne Svenson.  This drawing is inspired by one of the many convicts photographed in the book.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mcDVYvxpX-A/TWQrWxXz1_I/AAAAAAAAASk/rQ-H7OursRA/s1600/Embezzeling.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mcDVYvxpX-A/TWQrWxXz1_I/AAAAAAAAASk/rQ-H7OursRA/s320/Embezzeling.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:CENTER'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5780185097357737476?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5780185097357737476/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5780185097357737476' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5780185097357737476'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5780185097357737476'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/02/embezzelment-new-drawing.html' title='Embezzelment  - new drawing'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mcDVYvxpX-A/TWQrWxXz1_I/AAAAAAAAASk/rQ-H7OursRA/s72-c/Embezzeling.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5789576293203690084</id><published>2011-02-22T14:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-22T14:14:44.873-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kids'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='February'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tractor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jack'/><title type='text'>February Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YXi1Z052beg/TWQjJFAYujI/AAAAAAAAAR4/KB1e73Ac924/s1600/2011-109.JPG" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WiNteU-Yy0M/TWQj5rjOv4I/AAAAAAAAASg/vPwdQQiKRE4/s1600/2011-111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WiNteU-Yy0M/TWQj5rjOv4I/AAAAAAAAASg/vPwdQQiKRE4/s320/2011-111.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some pictures taken in the last few days of our February happenings. &amp;nbsp;Nate is doing well and Jack is loving to stomp around in our snowy driveway He also got to test drive one of Papa Ron's tractors.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5789576293203690084?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5789576293203690084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5789576293203690084' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5789576293203690084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5789576293203690084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-fun.html' title='February Fun'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YXi1Z052beg/TWQjJFAYujI/AAAAAAAAAR4/KB1e73Ac924/s72-c/2011-109.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-1028692210853657269</id><published>2011-02-17T09:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-17T09:41:24.464-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bistro'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='neon sign'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='donnelly idaho'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coffee shop'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bulb'/><title type='text'>LARGE NEON BISTRO SIGN ON CRAIGSLIST</title><content type='html'>I have a large neon bistro sign for sale on craigslist. &amp;nbsp;Just taking a chance that somebody out there might need one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://boise.craigslist.org/bfs/2218183161.html"&gt;http://boise.craigslist.org/bfs/2218183161.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-1028692210853657269?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/1028692210853657269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=1028692210853657269' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1028692210853657269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1028692210853657269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/02/large-neon-bistro-sign-on-craigslist.html' title='LARGE NEON BISTRO SIGN ON CRAIGSLIST'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-7423047173131594604</id><published>2011-02-03T09:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-02-03T09:45:06.191-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dining In</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TUrbgGIVaqI/AAAAAAAAAR0/IYbjHxRsfDg/s1600/fast-food-logos.gif.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TUrbgGIVaqI/AAAAAAAAAR0/IYbjHxRsfDg/s320/fast-food-logos.gif.gif" width="248" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;This post is a HUGE pat on the back for Brant and I. &amp;nbsp;When we lived outside of Kansas City attending graduate school, we found it hard to cook and eat at home. &amp;nbsp;Time, schedules, projects, our suburban location, etc kept luring us into the fast food joints and restaurants that surrounded us. &amp;nbsp;We were literally spending hundreds of dollars a month on top of grocery money I was spending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well...........&lt;br /&gt;I have to report that in the last 2 weeks, we have used our bank card only twice to dine out!!! Thats 40 bucks rather than 150!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yay for us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-7423047173131594604?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/7423047173131594604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=7423047173131594604' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7423047173131594604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7423047173131594604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/02/dining-in.html' title='Dining In'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TUrbgGIVaqI/AAAAAAAAAR0/IYbjHxRsfDg/s72-c/fast-food-logos.gif.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2958764810496936773</id><published>2011-01-24T15:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-24T15:31:49.750-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Platte City'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photograph'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='captive'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tin type'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='MO'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby'/><title type='text'>Captive Baby Wearing Stockings</title><content type='html'>New work. Hatched and stippled ink drawn from a tin type photo I collected in Platte City, MO.  About 3X4" in size.  The beginning of something...I hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TT38u38wGjI/AAAAAAAAARg/KSBeAwEraic/s1600/draw.captivestockingbaby.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" height="326" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TT38u38wGjI/AAAAAAAAARg/KSBeAwEraic/s400/draw.captivestockingbaby.jpg" style="clear: both; float: right; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: RIGHT;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img align="middle" alt="Posted by Picasa" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2958764810496936773?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2958764810496936773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2958764810496936773' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2958764810496936773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2958764810496936773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/photo-captive-baby-wearing-stockings.html' title='Captive Baby Wearing Stockings'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TT38u38wGjI/AAAAAAAAARg/KSBeAwEraic/s72-c/draw.captivestockingbaby.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2454433624630359074</id><published>2011-01-20T16:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-20T16:35:19.095-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1912'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='boxing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='women&apos;s boxing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mrs. Edwards and Frl. Kussin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='interior design'/><title type='text'>Mrs. Edwards &amp; Frl. Kussin (boxing) 1912</title><content type='html'>I was asked to make some drawings for an interior design project (thanks Meg!) and thought I'd share one of the final drawings.  I really enjoy researching a topic when I make drawings...if possible.  This project dealt with women and sports, so I went to the internet and looked up historic women's sports.  This lead me to this famous image of two women boxing.  I learned a little about these two particular women and their boxing match on March 7, 1912.  I also learned a bit about women's boxing and the fact that it's taken over 200 years for it to be taken seriously.  I'm not sure if I'm correct, but the London Olympics of 2012 might finally include it as a sport rather than an exhibition.  Please make comments if I'm completely wrong about any of those facts...I can take a hit!  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTjGjJxwxJI/AAAAAAAAARY/QVOQorKZreI/s1600/Mrs.Edwards%2526Frl.Kussin.jpg.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTjGjJxwxJI/AAAAAAAAARY/QVOQorKZreI/s400/Mrs.Edwards%2526Frl.Kussin.jpg.jpeg" width="313" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2454433624630359074?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2454433624630359074/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2454433624630359074' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2454433624630359074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2454433624630359074'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/mrs-edwards-frl-kussin-boxing-1912.html' title='Mrs. Edwards &amp; Frl. Kussin (boxing) 1912'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTjGjJxwxJI/AAAAAAAAARY/QVOQorKZreI/s72-c/Mrs.Edwards%2526Frl.Kussin.jpg.jpeg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-7628341592593768087</id><published>2011-01-15T18:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T18:20:25.130-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack's toy placements</title><content type='html'>More of Jack's strategic toy placements...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH1hmU5PI/AAAAAAAAARA/GHKl6_toTBI/s1600/IMG_7089.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH1hmU5PI/AAAAAAAAARA/GHKl6_toTBI/s320/IMG_7089.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH15rV8xI/AAAAAAAAARI/ezTwwy4EDp0/s1600/IMG_7091.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH15rV8xI/AAAAAAAAARI/ezTwwy4EDp0/s320/IMG_7091.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH2C3drFI/AAAAAAAAARQ/V4kVEqCsuU4/s1600/IMG_7093.JPG'&gt;&lt;img src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH2C3drFI/AAAAAAAAARQ/V4kVEqCsuU4/s320/IMG_7093.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-7628341592593768087?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/7628341592593768087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=7628341592593768087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7628341592593768087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7628341592593768087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/jacks-toy-placements_15.html' title='Jack&apos;s toy placements'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJH1hmU5PI/AAAAAAAAARA/GHKl6_toTBI/s72-c/IMG_7089.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-1061611281766050648</id><published>2011-01-15T18:03:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-15T18:07:52.037-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ankle Crosser</title><content type='html'>Jack is consistently crossing his ankles whenever he's sitting at the table, watching tv on the couch, or sitting on the floor.  It is so amazingly adorable!&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJE5kjczEI/AAAAAAAAAQw/Clx7ndJ1MKs/s1600/IMG_7082.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJE5kjczEI/AAAAAAAAAQw/Clx7ndJ1MKs/s320/IMG_7082.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJE567IQVI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/Q0wG_SkmqGs/s1600/IMG_7096.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; FLOAT: left; CLEAR: both" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJE567IQVI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/Q0wG_SkmqGs/s320/IMG_7096.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-1061611281766050648?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/1061611281766050648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=1061611281766050648' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1061611281766050648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1061611281766050648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/ankle-crosser_4995.html' title='Ankle Crosser'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TTJE5kjczEI/AAAAAAAAAQw/Clx7ndJ1MKs/s72-c/IMG_7082.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-4811918344904981338</id><published>2011-01-10T22:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T22:24:42.477-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art happening'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='juxtaposition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ready made'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sculptures'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photograph'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jack'/><title type='text'>Ready Made Toy Sculptures and Juxtapositions</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSvoE5xaihI/AAAAAAAAAQc/1zss089W8sA/s1600/IMG_7076.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSvoE5xaihI/AAAAAAAAAQc/1zss089W8sA/s320/IMG_7076.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As Jack zooms around the house, his toys often land in the strangest places, and in very clever juxtapositions. &amp;nbsp;As I notice his little surprise sculptures, I'm photographing them to share his budding creativity. &amp;nbsp;Please remember, I merely document these ephemeral creations, the genius belongs to Jack.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-4811918344904981338?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/4811918344904981338/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=4811918344904981338' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4811918344904981338'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4811918344904981338'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/ready-made-toy-sculptures-and.html' title='Ready Made Toy Sculptures and Juxtapositions'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSvoE5xaihI/AAAAAAAAAQc/1zss089W8sA/s72-c/IMG_7076.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2264771150757305893</id><published>2011-01-04T15:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-01-04T15:57:23.403-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Camera Envy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSOl0nsn_AI/AAAAAAAAAQU/qW9AEvPTpzQ/s1600/2010-1690.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSOl0nsn_AI/AAAAAAAAAQU/qW9AEvPTpzQ/s320/2010-1690.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; My mom and dad's first 'couple camera.'  Maybe someday it will find itself in my studio.  Not that I would probably shoot with it, I think the film is a pretty obsolete size, but it sure is a cutie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Took a photo of it as inspiration...since I've been drawing all those camera people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Drawing in progress ... may have found some momentum in the work...more to come.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'&gt;&lt;a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'&gt;&lt;img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2264771150757305893?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2264771150757305893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2264771150757305893' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2264771150757305893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2264771150757305893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2011/01/camera-envy.html' title='Camera Envy'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TSOl0nsn_AI/AAAAAAAAAQU/qW9AEvPTpzQ/s72-c/2010-1690.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-1856800110333529212</id><published>2010-12-01T21:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T21:46:44.973-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lens eye'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drawing'/><title type='text'>Lens Eye Woman in Winter Trees</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPch_Ju8hrI/AAAAAAAAAP8/m8ANtlcyHEw/s1600/Lenseyewithhand1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPch_Ju8hrI/AAAAAAAAAP8/m8ANtlcyHEw/s320/Lenseyewithhand1.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;drawing in progress&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A new drawing finished this evening. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPckcH41s3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/MLV22YIRTCc/s1600/Lenseyewithhand2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPckcH41s3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/MLV22YIRTCc/s320/Lenseyewithhand2.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-1856800110333529212?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/1856800110333529212/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=1856800110333529212' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1856800110333529212'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1856800110333529212'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/12/lens-eye-woman-in-winter-trees.html' title='Lens Eye Woman in Winter Trees'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPch_Ju8hrI/AAAAAAAAAP8/m8ANtlcyHEw/s72-c/Lenseyewithhand1.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-3269940083349061993</id><published>2010-12-01T13:48:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-01T20:47:05.350-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Holidays from Us and the Pony</title><content type='html'>No, we didn't trade Nate in for a little pony, he was just not available for the photo so we grabbed the closest thing...thought nobody would notice. &amp;nbsp;:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's been a wonderful year full of new experiences. &amp;nbsp;In July we moved into our first home in Donnelly and it has been so amazing to live in such nice, big house and a beautiful location. &amp;nbsp;Nate is mending very well from his accident last spring and Jack is growing like a weed, running, climbing and speaking in his own language.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We wish everyone a beautiful holiday season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPa0p7ZGSgI/AAAAAAAAAP0/EdOO0ZJtxk8/s1600/2010-1675.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPa0p7ZGSgI/AAAAAAAAAP0/EdOO0ZJtxk8/s320/2010-1675.JPG" width="214" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;November 2010-Brant, Adri &amp;amp; Jack with "Mini Joy" pony.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPcU9qdtkJI/AAAAAAAAAP4/Zfa7HXDl4u8/s1600/2010-1471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPcU9qdtkJI/AAAAAAAAAP4/Zfa7HXDl4u8/s320/2010-1471.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Nate enjoying the water and sunshine at Secesh this summer.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-3269940083349061993?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/3269940083349061993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=3269940083349061993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3269940083349061993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3269940083349061993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-us-and-pony.html' title='Happy Holidays from Us and the Pony'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TPa0p7ZGSgI/AAAAAAAAAP0/EdOO0ZJtxk8/s72-c/2010-1675.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8830911807669329558</id><published>2010-11-21T11:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T11:17:37.715-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sad'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='halloween baby bowtie'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chippendale'/><title type='text'>The Saddest Chippendale</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TOlSNQZC0XI/AAAAAAAAAPw/CRaeU3k-SKk/s1600/2010-1667.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TOlSNQZC0XI/AAAAAAAAAPw/CRaeU3k-SKk/s320/2010-1667.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Jack buddy had a couple Halloween costumes this year... He was a cowboy sheriff by day and a male dancer by night. &amp;nbsp;But a sad one, as you can see. &amp;nbsp;It just pays the bills.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8830911807669329558?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8830911807669329558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8830911807669329558' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8830911807669329558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8830911807669329558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/saddest-chippendale.html' title='The Saddest Chippendale'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TOlSNQZC0XI/AAAAAAAAAPw/CRaeU3k-SKk/s72-c/2010-1667.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-7521397855617229140</id><published>2010-11-19T20:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-19T20:33:05.923-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn Makes Me Sick...</title><content type='html'>homesick that is. &amp;nbsp;When I lived in Kansas for grad school I would miss Idaho, specifically the family farm, immensely. &amp;nbsp;And now, living in Idaho, during the fall I miss Kansas like crazy. &amp;nbsp;Something about the season turns me to mush and I get really sentimental and teary. &amp;nbsp;I remember making my commute to Lawrence when we were in Kansas, crying part of the way. &amp;nbsp;It was during one fall that I worked on a photo postcard project in a little town called Desoto Kansas. &amp;nbsp;I spotted the most beautiful old home and asked the owner if I could shoot images with his home in the background. &amp;nbsp;He said yes and also gave us a tour of the restored home, which was amazingly generous of him. &amp;nbsp;This produced a collection I call "Writing Home: A Postcard Project." &amp;nbsp;I remember that time in my life so fondly and maybe that's part of what makes fall feel just right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TOdA066-IeI/AAAAAAAAAPo/3GrZu6sJqRk/s320/web+bush+corner.jpg" width="210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-7521397855617229140?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/7521397855617229140/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=7521397855617229140' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7521397855617229140'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7521397855617229140'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/autumn-makes-me-sick.html' title='Autumn Makes Me Sick...'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TOdAa6MV9hI/AAAAAAAAAPg/lJBu5-y-qvQ/s72-c/me+with+camera.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-4383477496173429228</id><published>2010-11-12T08:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-12T08:19:48.500-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kiosk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='salary'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fogglifter Cafe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='baby'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='storage unit'/><title type='text'>Change is Good</title><content type='html'>Today is my last day at my current job. &amp;nbsp;(I say current because I seem to be changing employment quite regularly) &amp;nbsp;I've been working as a manager of a storage unit in our small town for almost 5 months and when a new owner bought the business, he decided to use a 24 hour kiosk rather than a human. &amp;nbsp;I actually don't blame him, &amp;nbsp;I think as a customer it makes sense. &amp;nbsp;(And I love gadgets) &amp;nbsp;It has just been a good, sensible job because it's full time AND I can take my 14 month old son along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TN1aUZNHP8I/AAAAAAAAAPc/UwrKL_AqjGk/s1600/2010-772.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TN1aUZNHP8I/AAAAAAAAAPc/UwrKL_AqjGk/s320/2010-772.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TN1ZqFV685I/AAAAAAAAAPY/E_MkGa5KiA4/s1600/2010-768.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TN1ZqFV685I/AAAAAAAAAPY/E_MkGa5KiA4/s320/2010-768.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;So....goodbye day job. &amp;nbsp;I'm actually excited for this change. &amp;nbsp;Winter is here and I hope to work in the studio, apply to some shows, visit family, ski a lot, and take some part time hours with my friends at The Fogglifter Cafe in McCall. &amp;nbsp;(I love that place!)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-4383477496173429228?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/4383477496173429228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=4383477496173429228' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4383477496173429228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4383477496173429228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/change-is-good.html' title='Change is Good'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TN1aUZNHP8I/AAAAAAAAAPc/UwrKL_AqjGk/s72-c/2010-772.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-1024287650714149417</id><published>2010-11-11T15:59:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-11T20:36:51.410-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='man'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='camera'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hatched'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trees'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ink'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charcoal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='face'/><title type='text'>Camera Faced Man with Winter Trees, 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNx4BiLtHeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/GUZbU6cGuQQ/s1600/Camerafacemanintrees2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNx4BiLtHeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/GUZbU6cGuQQ/s320/Camerafacemanintrees2.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNxy8dkgsrI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/J6b8rl7-nrI/s1600/Camerafacemanintrees1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNxy8dkgsrI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/J6b8rl7-nrI/s320/Camerafacemanintrees1.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;detail, Camera Faced Man with Trees, 2010&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;Hatched ink and charcoal.  Inspired by a photograph I bought a while back.  The tree limbs were fantastic and I had to spend some time with them.  I'm now working on the next drawing along this line.  Somehow these camera mechanisms sneak in as I draw, merging themselves into faces, etc.  I keep coming back to the idea of the head being a camera...just a dark box imaging the world as it goes by.  Being a photographer, I instinctively look at the composition of things and my drawings reflect this automatic 'camera eye.'  I also see that with the convenience of digital cameras, phones, etc., people are facially connected to a lens almost constantly...recording the world in mind and machine.  But what if the earliest cameras, the large and cumbersome ones had been so common in daily life?  That's where I'm headed...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-1024287650714149417?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/1024287650714149417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=1024287650714149417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1024287650714149417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1024287650714149417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/camera-face-man-with-winter-trees-2010.html' title='Camera Faced Man with Winter Trees, 2010'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNx4BiLtHeI/AAAAAAAAAPU/GUZbU6cGuQQ/s72-c/Camerafacemanintrees2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5708000124026922723</id><published>2010-11-10T16:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-10T16:04:10.621-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art and fear'/><title type='text'>Art &amp; Fear</title><content type='html'>Just finished reading Art &amp; Fear again...last time I read it was over 10 years ago and I have to say, after 10+ years of being an art maker, the book made MUCH more sense this time.  Thanks guys!  I feel cheered on and inspired!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5708000124026922723?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5708000124026922723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5708000124026922723' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5708000124026922723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5708000124026922723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/art-fear.html' title='Art &amp; Fear'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5135649689387998379</id><published>2010-11-09T15:23:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-09T15:30:11.064-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suck'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cold'/><title type='text'>Go Suck on a Wet Sock</title><content type='html'>Today it arrived...that shitty part of winter that nobody likes. It's sneaky. The sun is out, and the sky is clear, but there is the most horrible icey wind. The renegade long parts of my bangs are dangling in my face because that stupid wind loosened them from the shorter ones. Jack doesn't like being indoors all day and when I let him loose outside, he dashed to the nearest puddle and came back shreiking in pain from the cold socks and shoes. I have him back in the office now and just noticed that he was sucking the water out of his wet sock like we all used to do with the wash cloth in the tub.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah winter with a toddler. What a change.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5135649689387998379?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5135649689387998379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5135649689387998379' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5135649689387998379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5135649689387998379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/go-suck-on-wet-sock.html' title='Go Suck on a Wet Sock'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2632468123504868378</id><published>2010-11-08T15:04:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-09T11:45:41.730-07:00</updated><title type='text'>web site</title><content type='html'>www.wix.com/adrimeckel/images&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2632468123504868378?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2632468123504868378/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>Stippled ink drawings 2007-present</title><content type='html'>Some small stippled ink drawings I committed myself to after finishing my MFA.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu7f6JfcI/AAAAAAAAAOg/jLUXr0rojYA/s1600/John+List.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu7f6JfcI/AAAAAAAAAOg/jLUXr0rojYA/s400/John+List.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537016235332042178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu7BXxlBI/AAAAAAAAAOY/9DzpaNGotYg/s1600/draw+14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu7BXxlBI/AAAAAAAAAOY/9DzpaNGotYg/s400/draw+14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537016227134805010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu65vbm-I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/zem51TpD7k4/s1600/draw+15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu65vbm-I/AAAAAAAAAOQ/zem51TpD7k4/s400/draw+15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537016225086544866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu68W_fzI/AAAAAAAAAOI/6zffPwHahsI/s1600/draw+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 394px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu68W_fzI/AAAAAAAAAOI/6zffPwHahsI/s400/draw+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537016225789345586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu6kA5O7I/AAAAAAAAAOA/SwwiD2lYKlU/s1600/draw+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 394px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu6kA5O7I/AAAAAAAAAOA/SwwiD2lYKlU/s400/draw+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537016219254209458" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8711734642070656219?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8711734642070656219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8711734642070656219' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8711734642070656219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8711734642070656219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/stippled-ink-drawings-2007-present.html' title='Stippled ink drawings 2007-present'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdu7f6JfcI/AAAAAAAAAOg/jLUXr0rojYA/s72-c/John+List.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-612246526441072027</id><published>2010-11-07T20:04:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T20:08:31.995-07:00</updated><title type='text'>New Website for Adri Meckel images</title><content type='html'>Please note that my website has changed to www.wix.com/adrimeckel/images&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best to you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdpZRB-9AI/AAAAAAAAANo/2-fFu4q40uY/s1600/plain+or+peanut+w%EF%80%A2+hand.JPEG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdpZRB-9AI/AAAAAAAAANo/2-fFu4q40uY/s400/plain+or+peanut+w%EF%80%A2+hand.JPEG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537010149664683010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Image from "Plain or Peanut" 2005 video by Adri Meckel&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-612246526441072027?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/612246526441072027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=612246526441072027' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/612246526441072027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/612246526441072027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-website-for-adri-meckel-images.html' title='New Website for Adri Meckel images'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/TNdpZRB-9AI/AAAAAAAAANo/2-fFu4q40uY/s72-c/plain+or+peanut+w%EF%80%A2+hand.JPEG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6891001989624825513</id><published>2010-03-09T23:49:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T11:33:43.668-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Winter Trees</title><content type='html'>New drawing for local business.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/S5dBnIn_NvI/AAAAAAAAANI/Eqpk4J4P3MY/s1600-h/b%26w20x30trees.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/S5dBnIn_NvI/AAAAAAAAANI/Eqpk4J4P3MY/s320/b%26w20x30trees.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446894414913812210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6891001989624825513?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6891001989624825513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6891001989624825513' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6891001989624825513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6891001989624825513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/03/winter-trees.html' title='Winter Trees'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/S5dBnIn_NvI/AAAAAAAAANI/Eqpk4J4P3MY/s72-c/b%26w20x30trees.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2232009225669482181</id><published>2010-03-09T23:48:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-10T00:00:55.326-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Antique Pocket Watches!</title><content type='html'>My blog was featured on http://antique-pocket-watches.co.uk/blog_awards/index.php?id=15926 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://antique-pocket-watches.co.uk/"&gt;http://antique-pocket-watches.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for mentioning me!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2232009225669482181?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2232009225669482181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2232009225669482181' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2232009225669482181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2232009225669482181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/03/thanks-antique-pocket-watches.html' title='Thanks Antique Pocket Watches!'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-3429441757914699800</id><published>2010-02-17T10:59:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T11:00:56.959-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IMG_0023.JPG</title><content type='html'>New (ish) images of Jack...sorry I've been so long in posting some.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://longdistancejack.shutterfly.com/1247?eid=115"&gt;&lt;img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procgtaserv/47a0df22b3127cce985482eaeb8d00000038101Bcs2rRqxZA" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://longdistancejack.shutterfly.com/1247?eid=115"&gt;Click here to view these pictures larger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" border="0" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&amp;c1=pictures&amp;c2=blogger" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-3429441757914699800?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/3429441757914699800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=3429441757914699800' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3429441757914699800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/3429441757914699800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/02/img0023jpg.html' title='IMG_0023.JPG'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8198564615250168732</id><published>2010-02-17T10:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-02-17T10:59:04.688-07:00</updated><title type='text'>IMG_5545.JPG</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://longdistancejack.shutterfly.com/1267?eid=115"&gt;&lt;img src="http://im1.shutterfly.com/procgtaserv/47a0df33b3127cce985482dbfb1b00000038111Bcs2rRqxZA" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://longdistancejack.shutterfly.com/1267?eid=115"&gt;Click here to view these pictures larger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" border="0" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&amp;c1=pictures&amp;c2=blogger" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-1643759931803061917?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/1643759931803061917/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=1643759931803061917' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1643759931803061917'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/1643759931803061917'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2010/02/img5593jpg.html' title='IMG_5593.JPG'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-4178959768978662127</id><published>2009-10-30T21:15:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T21:15:02.970-06:00</updated><title type='text'>2009 Jack Portraits 3 (8 weeks old)</title><content type='html'>&lt;object name="Slideshow" id="Slideshow" width="425" height="425" align="middle" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.shutterfly.com/flashapps/flashslideshow/Slideshow.swf" /&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="configurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcmd.shutterfly.com%2Fcommands%2Fpictures%2Fgetshareoutslideshowconfig%3Fsite%3Dlongdistancejack%26page%3Dlongdistancejack%26node%3D951" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" 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old)'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6157046253780543935</id><published>2009-09-02T20:09:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-09-02T20:25:49.128-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Jack Louis Meckel</title><content type='html'>Our son, Jack Louis Meckel was born August 25 at 7:28am.  He weighed 6lbs 10oz and was 19 ½ inches long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started having contractions at about 11pm on the 24th and woke Brant at 1:30am.  We timed them for about an hour and they averaged about 3 minutes between contractions.  After calling the hospital to see what they thought of the short contraction durations, they told me to drink a lot of water, lie down, and see if they would go away in an hour because they weren’t sure if they were true labor contractions.  Well, they didn’t go away.  So we packed the car up and went in at 3:30am.  When we got to the hospital the nurses had a hard time finding my cervix so they called Dr. Harris.  Both the nurses thought I had a long way to go but Dr. Harris decided to come in and see us.   After about 20 minutes of walking the halls and using the yoga ball, Dr. Harris arrived and did a short examination only to discover that I was dilated about 8cm.  I laid down on the bed, he broke my water and I started pushing after about 3 more contractions (9 minutes).  Without the aid of any drugs, I pushed for about 1 ½ hours and finally gave birth to Jack at 7:28am.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And here he is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8oUb0j2rI/AAAAAAAAAM8/AlOJK1dnnUE/s1600-h/IMG_5461.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8oUb0j2rI/AAAAAAAAAM8/AlOJK1dnnUE/s320/IMG_5461.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377060811634367154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8oTytDyuI/AAAAAAAAAM0/W5s0zIkwcp4/s1600-h/IMG_5406.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8oTytDyuI/AAAAAAAAAM0/W5s0zIkwcp4/s320/IMG_5406.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377060800597052130" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8mP_9xWvI/AAAAAAAAAMc/4qxxjuvJuJE/s1600-h/IMG_1863.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8mP_9xWvI/AAAAAAAAAMc/4qxxjuvJuJE/s320/IMG_1863.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377058536414075634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6157046253780543935?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6157046253780543935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6157046253780543935' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6157046253780543935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6157046253780543935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/09/jack-louis-meckel.html' title='Jack Louis Meckel'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sp8oUb0j2rI/AAAAAAAAAM8/AlOJK1dnnUE/s72-c/IMG_5461.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8075072885302681454</id><published>2009-08-06T15:35:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-06T15:46:45.600-06:00</updated><title type='text'>36 weeks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SntOWvr4vbI/AAAAAAAAAL8/ArygD3Z-M58/s1600-h/adri+preg+b%26w27.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SntOWvr4vbI/AAAAAAAAAL8/ArygD3Z-M58/s320/adri+preg+b%26w27.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366969533606706610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jack is 36 weeks along now and doing great.  We can't believe we've only got about 4 weeks until we can meet him!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8075072885302681454?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8075072885302681454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8075072885302681454' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8075072885302681454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8075072885302681454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/08/36-weeks.html' title='36 weeks'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SntOWvr4vbI/AAAAAAAAAL8/ArygD3Z-M58/s72-c/adri+preg+b%26w27.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6341829470457782969</id><published>2009-08-05T19:21:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-05T19:33:11.758-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Taxidermy and Tacos...my favorite combination</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Snow4FspZSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/ThqjCz8nefc/s1600-h/IMG_5175.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Snow4FspZSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/ThqjCz8nefc/s320/IMG_5175.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366655646125614370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This juxtaposition of businesses resides in Weiser, Idaho.  Finally I passed through with my camera handy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6341829470457782969?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6341829470457782969/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6341829470457782969' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6341829470457782969'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6341829470457782969'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/08/my-favorite-combination.html' title='Taxidermy and Tacos...my favorite combination'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Snow4FspZSI/AAAAAAAAAL0/ThqjCz8nefc/s72-c/IMG_5175.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-406157862682158885</id><published>2009-06-18T07:49:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2009-06-18T08:01:30.339-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Somebody's Definitely in There</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpHJQBVi3I/AAAAAAAAALU/KXySYOkL6gU/s1600-h/adri+preg+b%26w1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 241px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpHJQBVi3I/AAAAAAAAALU/KXySYOkL6gU/s320/adri+preg+b%26w1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348665731700853618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpHJ_41bMI/AAAAAAAAALc/9kgwR4lfQJ8/s1600-h/adri+preg+b%26w14.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpHJ_41bMI/AAAAAAAAALc/9kgwR4lfQJ8/s320/adri+preg+b%26w14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348665744550096066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpIgXBbNMI/AAAAAAAAALs/J0NpKgC3jhg/s1600-h/adri+preg+b%26w16.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpIgXBbNMI/AAAAAAAAALs/J0NpKgC3jhg/s320/adri+preg+b%26w16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348667228228891842" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-406157862682158885?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/406157862682158885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=406157862682158885' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/406157862682158885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/406157862682158885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/06/somebodys-definitely-in-there.html' title='Somebody&apos;s Definitely in There'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SjpHJQBVi3I/AAAAAAAAALU/KXySYOkL6gU/s72-c/adri+preg+b%26w1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8667909275414848780</id><published>2009-06-07T18:51:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-08-07T12:34:19.348-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Making His Mark</title><content type='html'>Tonight Jack, Nate and I worked on some new images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sixhw2X0VKI/AAAAAAAAALM/OnRPRyHYFkY/s1600-h/IMG_4427.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sixhw2X0VKI/AAAAAAAAALM/OnRPRyHYFkY/s320/IMG_4427.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344754349638964386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SixhwlKgtAI/AAAAAAAAALE/0f0Npi_q0EA/s1600-h/IMG_4402.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SixhwlKgtAI/AAAAAAAAALE/0f0Npi_q0EA/s320/IMG_4402.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344754345019749378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sixg8gPCTVI/AAAAAAAAAK8/ORDstm9IGiU/s1600-h/IMG_4433.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sixg8gPCTVI/AAAAAAAAAK8/ORDstm9IGiU/s320/IMG_4433.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344753450343353682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8667909275414848780?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8667909275414848780/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8667909275414848780' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8667909275414848780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8667909275414848780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/06/making-his-mark.html' title='Making His Mark'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sixhw2X0VKI/AAAAAAAAALM/OnRPRyHYFkY/s72-c/IMG_4427.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8008952451013030269</id><published>2009-05-28T17:37:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-28T17:46:37.039-06:00</updated><title type='text'>RECOLLECTION</title><content type='html'>See more of my short videos at &lt;a href="http://www.twinheartbrand.com"&gt;www.twinheartbrand.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-72b7671d0e9217b9" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" 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href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8008952451013030269/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8008952451013030269' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8008952451013030269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8008952451013030269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/05/recollection.html' title='RECOLLECTION'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-434667590882225370</id><published>2009-05-26T22:10:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T09:41:21.241-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='video'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='velvet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='woman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nude'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='curtains'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='human'/><title type='text'>Curtain Photographs (self portrait)</title><content type='html'>These still images originate from a video performed in 2006 during graduate school. &amp;nbsp;Slow motion clips of curtains gently dancing when the figure behind motions to peek out ever so slightly.&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kp8QQaI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1nzhYC0fBs0/s1600-h/curtain+and+feet.JPEG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kp8QQaI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1nzhYC0fBs0/s1600-h/curtain+and+feet.JPEG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340351695586083234" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kp8QQaI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1nzhYC0fBs0/s320/curtain+and+feet.JPEG" style="display: block; height: 234px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9ksiB2II/AAAAAAAAAKs/iQ9a0fVCRqg/s1600-h/fingers+and+curtain.JPEG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340351696281393282" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9ksiB2II/AAAAAAAAAKs/iQ9a0fVCRqg/s320/fingers+and+curtain.JPEG" style="display: block; height: 234px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kfsD_EI/AAAAAAAAAKk/dtpIfa59tuM/s1600-h/sliver+curtain.JPEG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340351692833815618" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kfsD_EI/AAAAAAAAAKk/dtpIfa59tuM/s320/sliver+curtain.JPEG" style="display: block; height: 234px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-434667590882225370?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/434667590882225370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=434667590882225370' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/434667590882225370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/434667590882225370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html' title='Curtain Photographs (self portrait)'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Shy9kp8QQaI/AAAAAAAAAK0/1nzhYC0fBs0/s72-c/curtain+and+feet.JPEG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2041256476281903942</id><published>2009-05-09T20:06:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-09T20:08:51.393-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Renderings and Tokens</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3Kj6w0NI/AAAAAAAAAKc/zdatRaqN-XE/s1600-h/draw+Bisby1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 103px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3Kj6w0NI/AAAAAAAAAKc/zdatRaqN-XE/s320/draw+Bisby1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334011463246860498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3Ki_6ttI/AAAAAAAAAKU/9fpYOnD_sgY/s1600-h/draw+Bisby2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 121px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3Ki_6ttI/AAAAAAAAAKU/9fpYOnD_sgY/s320/draw+Bisby2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334011463000045266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3CBEMxcI/AAAAAAAAAKM/FcnKJ9NZGYc/s1600-h/draw+Piper.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 133px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3CBEMxcI/AAAAAAAAAKM/FcnKJ9NZGYc/s320/draw+Piper.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334011316452246978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've started to create some commissioned drawings.  Here are the first three.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2041256476281903942?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2041256476281903942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2041256476281903942' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2041256476281903942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2041256476281903942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/05/renderings-and-tokens_09.html' title='Renderings and Tokens'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SgY3Kj6w0NI/AAAAAAAAAKc/zdatRaqN-XE/s72-c/draw+Bisby1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2891025147073106273</id><published>2009-05-04T22:39:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T22:43:39.918-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Take Flight</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf_D6CQXlRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/6jtZgSj7PeI/s1600-h/tag-birds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 316px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf_D6CQXlRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/6jtZgSj7PeI/s320/tag-birds.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332195885635310866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am alone for a while.  Brant left tonight to help his mom and dad in Arizona during her illness.  This is a tense and sad time for our family and I find myself compelled to make work in Brant's absence.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being alone always reminds me of the amazing man I am married to and how incredibly funny he is.  The immediate lack of laughter in our little apartment startles me but the silence gives me some space to think and work.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2891025147073106273?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2891025147073106273/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2891025147073106273' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2891025147073106273'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2891025147073106273'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/05/take-flight_04.html' title='Take Flight'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf_D6CQXlRI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/6jtZgSj7PeI/s72-c/tag-birds.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5052879325573409900</id><published>2009-05-03T18:05:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2009-05-03T19:21:47.463-06:00</updated><title type='text'>In a Creative Space</title><content type='html'>I've always respected artists that work in the studio daily, even if they produce very little.  Many times I've heard these artists say that forcing themselves to just 'be in a creative space' created results they didn't expect and led to new work.   I'd call these happy accidents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My studio is my house, so my work challenge to myself is a drawing a day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here we go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf5Cy7izm6I/AAAAAAAAAJs/iVoEyIBeP7A/s1600-h/tag-bandit+mask.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf5Cy7izm6I/AAAAAAAAAJs/iVoEyIBeP7A/s320/tag-bandit+mask.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331772451597818786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf5CuoW0D6I/AAAAAAAAAJk/UpiC3_7IJ3Y/s1600-h/tag-arm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf5CuoW0D6I/AAAAAAAAAJk/UpiC3_7IJ3Y/s320/tag-arm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5331772377727766434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5052879325573409900?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5052879325573409900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5052879325573409900' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5052879325573409900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5052879325573409900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/05/mini-drawings-one-day.html' title='In a Creative Space'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sf5Cy7izm6I/AAAAAAAAAJs/iVoEyIBeP7A/s72-c/tag-bandit+mask.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5885089837793900723</id><published>2009-04-09T14:19:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T14:27:14.532-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Go Green by Going Black</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd5aGdn_s9I/AAAAAAAAAIo/3GkbDEqfWm4/s1600-h/is.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 128px; height: 96px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd5aGdn_s9I/AAAAAAAAAIo/3GkbDEqfWm4/s320/is.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322790876676600786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is fantastic:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ecoandy.com/index.htm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://ecoandy.com/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/about.htm"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/about.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecosmartsearch is owned by Andrew Davey age 14. My search engine is powered by Google.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in February I read a blog post by a leading expert in "green" computing called Mark Ontkush he calculated the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few colour codes."&lt;br /&gt;Mark inspired me to start ecosmartsearch.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This can be found ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point of Ecosmartsearch is not just to save energy, but to make us more aware. We also hope that by displaying ecosmartsearch when your computer comes on, you will think of other ways of saving energy. We also would really like it if you set us as your homepage as a reminder of saving energy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To use this energy saving version of google bookmark:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/"&gt;http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5885089837793900723?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5885089837793900723/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5885089837793900723' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5885089837793900723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5885089837793900723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/04/save-energy-go-black.html' title='Go Green by Going Black'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd5aGdn_s9I/AAAAAAAAAIo/3GkbDEqfWm4/s72-c/is.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8682358265230478915</id><published>2009-04-08T20:19:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-09T13:29:15.073-06:00</updated><title type='text'>To Janet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd1d7tWH0JI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/YThmgZg3k_E/s1600-h/Janet_IMG_1577.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd1d7tWH0JI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/YThmgZg3k_E/s320/Janet_IMG_1577.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322513614987841682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mother in-law was recently diagnosed with Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia.  While Leukemia is a commonly known type of cancer, hearing the news that Janet was ill came as a complete shock to all of our family.  For weeks now she has been far from home in a hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While on vacation in Arizona, Janet felt a pain in her chest that was found to be &lt;br /&gt;pneumonia, which was caused by a low white blood cell count, which was caused by the Leukemia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She is an amazing woman.  Test after test and throughout the chemotherapy she has remained strong yet tender. And Tony, my father in-law, is an equally amazing man.  It has been so touching to watch those two together throughout this trying time.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last evening Brant, Jamie and I were there, Janet's hair had began to loosen and fall onto her shoulders.  We all sat around her and cried with her while Tony tenderly brushed it and kept whispering how beautiful she looked.  It was an incredibly emotional moment that I'll never forget.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8682358265230478915?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8682358265230478915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8682358265230478915' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8682358265230478915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8682358265230478915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-janet.html' title='To Janet'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/Sd1d7tWH0JI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/YThmgZg3k_E/s72-c/Janet_IMG_1577.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-4822782511064038105</id><published>2009-04-02T14:45:00.007-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-02T15:36:55.718-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Amber Hills Motel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUv8wpZrKI/AAAAAAAAAHA/g7uVElaaqbs/s1600-h/IMG_3730.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUv8wpZrKI/AAAAAAAAAHA/g7uVElaaqbs/s320/IMG_3730.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320211255705316514" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUv1f7vQdI/AAAAAAAAAG4/CCq5h1ZI1gg/s1600-h/IMG_3706.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUv1f7vQdI/AAAAAAAAAG4/CCq5h1ZI1gg/s320/IMG_3706.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320211130959741394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUvx2b8nII/AAAAAAAAAGw/zJKDOkZSicw/s1600-h/IMG_3722.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUvx2b8nII/AAAAAAAAAGw/zJKDOkZSicw/s320/IMG_3722.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320211068280937602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUk_lHHH6I/AAAAAAAAAGo/S3DvDsiOuYI/s1600-h/IMG_3724.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUk_lHHH6I/AAAAAAAAAGo/S3DvDsiOuYI/s320/IMG_3724.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320199209520406434" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUk4JK99tI/AAAAAAAAAGg/40PSUGQrEsc/s1600-h/IMG_3707.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUk4JK99tI/AAAAAAAAAGg/40PSUGQrEsc/s320/IMG_3707.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320199081761306322" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkkT0w5WI/AAAAAAAAAGY/k02c3gg8UJw/s1600-h/IMG_3729.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkkT0w5WI/AAAAAAAAAGY/k02c3gg8UJw/s320/IMG_3729.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320198741023581538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkecjpK4I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/9WO-tpvwN1c/s1600-h/IMG_3725.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkecjpK4I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/9WO-tpvwN1c/s320/IMG_3725.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320198640288476034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkXahpMOI/AAAAAAAAAGI/lBH-hL-FTvM/s1600-h/IMG_3718.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUkXahpMOI/AAAAAAAAAGI/lBH-hL-FTvM/s320/IMG_3718.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320198519484133602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A charming deserted motel on Arizona hwy 60 caught my attention.  The wonderful art deco coves and windows created viewfinders.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-4822782511064038105?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/4822782511064038105/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=4822782511064038105' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4822782511064038105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4822782511064038105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/04/amber-hills-motel.html' title='Amber Hills Motel'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SdUv8wpZrKI/AAAAAAAAAHA/g7uVElaaqbs/s72-c/IMG_3730.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-4108855808130888993</id><published>2009-03-06T09:59:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T23:06:04.890-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The News Is Out</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFYcJop7XI/AAAAAAAAAFg/oziXct6VXgg/s1600-h/big-bowser.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFYcJop7XI/AAAAAAAAAFg/oziXct6VXgg/s320/big-bowser.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310122676292545906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFX9x6SiRI/AAAAAAAAAFI/oUB5p3o_Noo/s1600-h/IMG_3614.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFX9x6SiRI/AAAAAAAAAFI/oUB5p3o_Noo/s320/IMG_3614.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310122154527983890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFXpYpxbNI/AAAAAAAAAFA/qMWzDUZpzKs/s1600-h/IMG_3613.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFXpYpxbNI/AAAAAAAAAFA/qMWzDUZpzKs/s320/IMG_3613.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310121804150435026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bowser is now 14 weeks in the making.  These photos are of the mock article Brant made to send to his folks in Arizona.  They were pretty surprised.  We were able to tell everybody else in person.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We call the fetus Bowser because until now, it has closely resembled the dragon creature from Super Mario Brothers.  I just know it's in there with it's inadequate arms, jumping up and down while breathing fire at regular intervals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see...Brant is pretty excited.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article intended for Janet and Tony read:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CADMINI%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="date"&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="metricconverter"&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0in; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:8.5in 11.0in; 	margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; 	mso-header-margin:.5in; 	mso-footer-margin:.5in; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0in; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;ROUTINE DOCTOR VISIT DELIVERS SURPRISING NEWS&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Dr. Scott S. Harris, M.D. says Brant and Adrianne Meckel will be the proud parents of a new baby on &lt;st1:date month="9" day="5" year="2009"&gt;September  5, 2009&lt;/st1:date&gt;.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;They were surprised to receive the news from Dr. Harris during Adrianne’s routine thyroid check-up on New Years Eve, 2008 and later discovered that they were already one month pregnant.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;While smiling Adri says, “We waited until the first trimester was over to spread the news because it’s such a precarious time.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Concealing the pregnancy for thirteen weeks was tricky but it passed quickly because, thankfully, my symptoms and food aversions were minimal.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;It’s also helpful that I haven’t begun to show”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;She’s excited for family and friends to be a part of the next 6 months especially after hearing the baby’s heart beat for the first time on February 25.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Brant, also thrilled, says, “It’s finally time to tell Tony, Janet, Ron and Jo that they’re going to be grandparents and Jamie and Sidni that they’re going to be aunts.”&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;He’s sure they’ll be ecstatic at the news.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Just past thirteen weeks gestation, Baby Meckel is almost &lt;st1:metricconverter productid="3 inches"&gt;3 inches&lt;/st1:metricconverter&gt; long and weighs nearly an ounce.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;As it continues to grow rapidly, Brant and Adri look forward to their twentieth week ultrasound to discover if it’s a boy or a girl.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Either way they’re overjoyed and between the two of them many baby names abound.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;Names favored for boys are Louis (Lou), Charles, Holt, Jack, and Jim and names they like for girls are Soren, Kate, Claire, and Kay.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Brant and Adri look forward to your call and can’t wait to see you in person to share the excitement.&lt;span style=""&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-4108855808130888993?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/4108855808130888993/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=4108855808130888993' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4108855808130888993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/4108855808130888993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/03/news-is-out.html' title='The News Is Out'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SbFYcJop7XI/AAAAAAAAAFg/oziXct6VXgg/s72-c/big-bowser.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-760168615807484920</id><published>2009-01-06T14:07:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T14:12:12.566-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mother gets a makeover</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWPIYK9NINI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3GqNg3zcYVc/s1600-h/IMG_3314.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5288290705046577362" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWPIYK9NINI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3GqNg3zcYVc/s320/IMG_3314.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I've just added a new Mother Magnet design to my etsy shop. It repeats an earlier phrase but the design is new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I'm so tired I can't keep the eyes in the back of my head open."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-the mother&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-760168615807484920?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/760168615807484920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=760168615807484920' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/760168615807484920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/760168615807484920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/01/brand-new-mother.html' title='Mother gets a makeover'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWPIYK9NINI/AAAAAAAAAEY/3GqNg3zcYVc/s72-c/IMG_3314.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-7609668435659078256</id><published>2009-01-05T18:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T17:20:20.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Drawing Conclusions</title><content type='html'>&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWK5YsOx--I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/QsGZ0H-xXwk/s1600-h/IMG_3311.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287992746327538658" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWK5YsOx--I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/QsGZ0H-xXwk/s320/IMG_3311.JPG" style="float: left; height: 230px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 0pt; width: 320px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;stippled ink drawing in progress&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;This has been an interesting few months.  After officially losing my employment, I've been substitute teaching in the local school district, and while Christmas break interrupted my short sub employment, I found myself back in the classroom today.  The stress of repeatedly asking a group of high school boys to quit talking and do their work really wears on me and I find myself thinking about my real dreams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I come home and draw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drawing isn't my fondest medium, it's just whats possible right now.  The darkroom is my natural habitat but I don't have one available to me right now.  I didn't realize how fortunate I've been the last 10 years of college and grad school.  I've considered these post masters years as a drawing assignment, challenging myself to create in new ways.  I'm not sure if its going anywhere, but I have lots of new effigies to keep me company along the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The holidays have left me very drained and I hope in the next few weeks I can use the chaos of Christmas as fuel for work...weird work...needed work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to bust out the video camera and start licking some glass (see Diagnosis video on my website if you really care what I'm referencing.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-7609668435659078256?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/7609668435659078256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=7609668435659078256' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7609668435659078256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7609668435659078256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2009/01/drawing-conclusions.html' title='Drawing Conclusions'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SWK5YsOx--I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/QsGZ0H-xXwk/s72-c/IMG_3311.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-7900769291246648615</id><published>2008-12-17T12:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T13:56:47.439-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Down the Crapper</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SUlmrMD3xUI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZddVSnoKbeQ/s1600-h/IMG_1438.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SUlmrMD3xUI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZddVSnoKbeQ/s320/IMG_1438.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280864930226488642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other day at 3am I awoke to a pukey dog.  I spent the rest of the day being followed by Nate, my Brittany Spaniel.  For some reason when he's sick he has to be right next to me and would gladly accept a piggy-back if I offered it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One miracle I am especially proud of is that Nate pukes in the toilet.  He knows to rush into the bathroom and situate himself in front of the toilet.  I hold back his ears and hold him tight just as my mom did for me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, I am aware this is ridiculous.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-7900769291246648615?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/7900769291246648615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=7900769291246648615' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7900769291246648615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/7900769291246648615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/12/down-crapper.html' title='Down the Crapper'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SUlmrMD3xUI/AAAAAAAAADU/ZddVSnoKbeQ/s72-c/IMG_1438.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2457704316101450011</id><published>2008-11-24T17:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-24T18:01:55.078-07:00</updated><title type='text'>GAZE ------- black wood cube magnet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SStOVkGkvcI/AAAAAAAAADM/EDjEYlObzlM/s1600-h/cube+eyes_IMG_3137.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SStOVkGkvcI/AAAAAAAAADM/EDjEYlObzlM/s320/cube+eyes_IMG_3137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272393921142767042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I posted a new item to my Etsy shop.  Another addition to the Art Cubed set.  One change in detail now though, I have added magnets to the cubes so they can be used in a few different ways.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SStNsrSCc1I/AAAAAAAAADE/g2dGs572Hp8/s1600-h/IMG_3205.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SStNsrSCc1I/AAAAAAAAADE/g2dGs572Hp8/s320/IMG_3205.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272393218695263058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2457704316101450011?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2457704316101450011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2457704316101450011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2457704316101450011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2457704316101450011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/gaze-black-wood-cube-magnet.html' title='GAZE ------- black wood cube magnet'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SStOVkGkvcI/AAAAAAAAADM/EDjEYlObzlM/s72-c/cube+eyes_IMG_3137.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5748491964516962948</id><published>2008-11-20T15:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T15:54:34.875-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, you have beautiful teeth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXqpDYGj0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/K0N6-zSsST8/s1600-h/washington+teeth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 98px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXqpDYGj0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/K0N6-zSsST8/s320/washington+teeth.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270876929908969282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the back of my mind I knew that the story about Washington's wood teeth was only a legend.  But I believe the truth about George's chompers is much more interesting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;George evidently (according to a documentary I just watched) owned several sets of false teeth in his lifetime, but none of them were made of wood.  Nope.  They were only ever made of ivory, animal teeth, or get this....other people's teeth.  Now that doesn't sound so strange to us, a culture full of organ transplantees and transplanters, but usually we get that organ after the donor is through with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not our first president...he wants your teeth...NOW.  He's seen them in action and he's decided that you can do with out them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now George didn't ask just anybody, and he didn't expect you to donate them for the good of the cause.   He purchased them from his slaves.  (and I'm guessing by the number of slaves he apparently had he had a pretty great selection to choose from...at least for a while)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love how truth is much more miserable and horrific than fiction.  Thanks George.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5748491964516962948?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5748491964516962948/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5748491964516962948' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5748491964516962948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5748491964516962948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/wow-you-have-beautiful-teeth.html' title='Wow, you have beautiful teeth'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXqpDYGj0I/AAAAAAAAAC0/K0N6-zSsST8/s72-c/washington+teeth.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6245153408656684118</id><published>2008-11-20T15:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-20T15:45:32.719-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Steampunk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXn69nO-AI/AAAAAAAAACs/1iF6Y9M6yZ8/s1600-h/web+me+with+camera.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXn69nO-AI/AAAAAAAAACs/1iF6Y9M6yZ8/s320/web+me+with+camera.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270873939064584194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Through an Etsy forum yesterday I was introduced to the term steampunk, and for me, it was love at first sight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love learning new terms or going new places that seem to finish a sentence I've not been able to.  Steampunk and dystopia really sum up a fascination I've had for as long as I can remember.  And while I'm not a big comic book reader or a science fiction junkie, I tend to gravitate to nonfictional horror between seemingly normal human beings.  I feel like this sort of horror was especially omnipresent in the industrial period, (whether it was or not) during the time of the steam engine and the beginnings of photography.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are some clarifications that helped me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Steampunk&lt;/b&gt; is a subgenre of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_fiction" title="Fantasy fiction" class="mw-redirect"&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fiction" title="Speculative fiction"&gt;speculative fiction&lt;/a&gt; that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_power" title="Steam power" class="mw-redirect"&gt;steam power&lt;/a&gt; is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era"&gt;Victorian era&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt;—but with prominent elements of either &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction"&gt;science fiction&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy"&gt;fantasy&lt;/a&gt;, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells"&gt;H. G. Wells&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne" title="Jules Verne"&gt;Jules Verne&lt;/a&gt;, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history"&gt;alternate history&lt;/a&gt;-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirigible" title="Dirigible" class="mw-redirect"&gt;dirigibles&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computers" title="Analog computers" class="mw-redirect"&gt;analog computers&lt;/a&gt;; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality. &lt;p&gt;Steampunk is often associated with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk"&gt;cyberpunk&lt;/a&gt; and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia"&gt;dystopian&lt;/a&gt; than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Various modern utilitarian objects have been &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modding" title="Modding"&gt;modded&lt;/a&gt; by individual craftpersons into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A &lt;b&gt;dystopia&lt;/b&gt; (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, &lt;b&gt;cacotopia&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;sup id="cite_ref-Bentham_0-0" class="reference"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia#cite_note-Bentham-0" title=""&gt;&lt;span&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;b&gt;kakotopia&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;cackotopia&lt;/b&gt;, or &lt;b&gt;anti-utopia&lt;/b&gt;) is the vision of a society that is the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite" title="Opposite"&gt;opposite&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia" title="Utopia"&gt;utopia&lt;/a&gt;. A dystopian society is one in which the conditions of life are &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffering" title="Suffering"&gt;miserable&lt;/a&gt;, characterized by human misery, poverty, oppression, violence, disease, and/or pollution.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Some academic circles distinguish between anti-utopia and dystopia. As in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell"&gt;George Orwell's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four"&gt;Nineteen Eighty-Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a dystopia does not pretend to be utopian, while an anti-utopia appears to be utopian or was intended to be so, but a fatal flaw or other factor has destroyed or twisted the intended utopian world or concept.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now that's the ticket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6245153408656684118?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6245153408656684118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6245153408656684118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6245153408656684118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6245153408656684118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/steampunk.html' title='Steampunk'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSXn69nO-AI/AAAAAAAAACs/1iF6Y9M6yZ8/s72-c/web+me+with+camera.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8507333253799766973</id><published>2008-11-18T16:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T16:50:57.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Not so Hot</title><content type='html'>Okay, as of 5pm of experiment day...I'm feeling pretty low down.  No sales and only a total of 13 views on all my items.  I think tomorrow might need a little more promoting.  But when?  I think I'll try evening promoting when others are home at work.  Does anybody who sells in Etsy have a day job?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8507333253799766973?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8507333253799766973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8507333253799766973' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8507333253799766973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8507333253799766973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/not-so-hot.html' title='Not so Hot'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-8493759869871565595</id><published>2008-11-18T12:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T12:18:30.077-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Experiment in Etsy</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSMUQ_XXvZI/AAAAAAAAACE/kzhmHbow1vk/s1600-h/web+pink+dress3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSMUQ_XXvZI/AAAAAAAAACE/kzhmHbow1vk/s320/web+pink+dress3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270078271073533330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the past week I've spent at least 10 hours a day glued to my laptop, promoting, listing and chatting with other Etsy sellers, trying to get my work out there.  And I've made lots of sales that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mother magnets have been around for a couple years, and in that time I probably sold maybe 12.  But in the past 2 weeks on Etsy I've sold 35.  I am very happy with this turn of events, but I'm exhausting myself and all my other duties and projects (like making art) get pushed aside when I focus entirely on promoting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So today I'm challenging myself to avoid the forums of Etsy.  I love them, and they have worked well for me.  But I just want to see what happens on a day when I'm missing from them.  If I get no views or sales today, I figure I'll start inching my way back in.  That way, I'll spend the least amount of time necessary promoting to make the sales I feel are appropriate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if I have zero activity today, tomorrow I'll inch my way back in with one hour in the forums promoting.  If that generates nothing, the next day will be 2.  So on and so forth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hope I can stick to this plan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My husband sure will be happy if I do.  I think he misses me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-8493759869871565595?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/8493759869871565595/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=8493759869871565595' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8493759869871565595'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/8493759869871565595'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/experiementing.html' title='Experiment in Etsy'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSMUQ_XXvZI/AAAAAAAAACE/kzhmHbow1vk/s72-c/web+pink+dress3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-19964945936888596</id><published>2008-11-17T15:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-17T15:29:48.371-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. Fix-it Plans to Operate on His Own Hernia</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSHwNKKddAI/AAAAAAAAAB8/47sKXe_8TqA/s1600-h/IMG_3121.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSHwNKKddAI/AAAAAAAAAB8/47sKXe_8TqA/s320/IMG_3121.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269757147857384450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSHv3iAKK5I/AAAAAAAAAB0/H77YLVSXbaM/s1600-h/IMG_3122.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSHv3iAKK5I/AAAAAAAAAB0/H77YLVSXbaM/s320/IMG_3122.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269756776299506578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So my dad is going to have surgery...long overdue surgery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is a super inventive guy and after I heard the news I imagined him shirking his appointment, locking the door to his mechanic shop, and operating on himself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-19964945936888596?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/19964945936888596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=19964945936888596' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/19964945936888596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/19964945936888596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/mr-fix-it-plans-to-operate-on-his-own.html' title='Mr. Fix-it Plans to Operate on His Own Hernia'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSHwNKKddAI/AAAAAAAAAB8/47sKXe_8TqA/s72-c/IMG_3121.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6551622086009374550</id><published>2008-11-17T11:48:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T12:08:03.059-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hidden Mother</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSG-DAR9ksI/AAAAAAAAABs/7GP2JuQsh14/s1600-h/blok_drawings_IMG_3036.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSG-DAR9ksI/AAAAAAAAABs/7GP2JuQsh14/s320/blok_drawings_IMG_3036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269701997824414402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My sister and I became Hidden Mother fanatics (&lt;a href="http://www.twinheartbrand.com/Sidni_Shurtleff.html"&gt;well, mostly her&lt;/a&gt;) after a professor of mine introduced me to them.  A simple trip to the &lt;a href="http://www.wdpickers.com/"&gt;antique shop in Platte City, MO&lt;/a&gt; revealed that there of plenty of antique Hidden Mothers out there, waiting to be purchased.  And to add to the intrigue of these images, it is not a dead phenomena!  When moms and dads take their newborns to get a portrait, photographers still use the trick of hiding mom behind a drape, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HIDDEN MOTHERS ARE A COMMON PHENOMENA YOU WILL FIND IN VINTAGE AND PRESENT DAY PHOTOS.  LOOK FOR A SMALL CHILD THAT CANNOT KEEP STILL OR IS TOO YOUNG TO HOLD ITS OWN HEAD UP.  MOTHERS ARE DISGUISED BUT NOT ACTUALLY HIDDEN FROM THE CAMERA. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And so, in honor of this awesome phenomena, I created a drawing from a tin type I purchased and have just listed it on Etsy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6551622086009374550?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6551622086009374550/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6551622086009374550' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6551622086009374550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6551622086009374550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/hidden-mother.html' title='Hidden Mother'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSG-DAR9ksI/AAAAAAAAABs/7GP2JuQsh14/s72-c/blok_drawings_IMG_3036.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-2858247448456086555</id><published>2008-11-16T16:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T17:21:57.152-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Art Cubes Must Be Square</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCzycJxVUI/AAAAAAAAABk/wbVk9X3MnVQ/s1600-h/IMG_3107.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCzycJxVUI/AAAAAAAAABk/wbVk9X3MnVQ/s320/IMG_3107.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269409243155486018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ho hum....&lt;br /&gt;when I first joined Etsy I thought "Hey, you've got the magnets, but not much else that is small and purchasable."  So I went to my vault of drawings and started making lots of objects that use drawings I created a while back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm just not being patient with these art objects.  I want them to be as important to somebody else as they are to me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-2858247448456086555?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/2858247448456086555/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=2858247448456086555' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2858247448456086555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/2858247448456086555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/art-cubed-must-be-square.html' title='Art Cubes Must Be Square'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCzycJxVUI/AAAAAAAAABk/wbVk9X3MnVQ/s72-c/IMG_3107.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-6844561017915196060</id><published>2008-11-16T15:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-16T15:34:59.128-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mother Magnets</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCf0wbJ5WI/AAAAAAAAABY/vNDMV9WcaEQ/s1600-h/I%27m+so+tired+mother_mag_bad.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 185px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCf0wbJ5WI/AAAAAAAAABY/vNDMV9WcaEQ/s320/I%27m+so+tired+mother_mag_bad.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269387292724290914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCfhuBA8qI/AAAAAAAAABQ/vq5XojgXcd4/s1600-h/IMG_3074.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCfhuBA8qI/AAAAAAAAABQ/vq5XojgXcd4/s320/IMG_3074.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269386965660267170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mother, a character created by my sister and I shortly after her daughter was born, speaks in a snarky, honest and witty way, giving voice to the dichotomies of Motherhood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have these two phrases for sale in &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5804091"&gt;my shop&lt;/a&gt; on Etsy &lt;br /&gt;"I don't do arts and crafts.  I figure after knitting a human the rest is pretty amateur."&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;"I'm so tired I can't keep the eyes in the back of my head open."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-6844561017915196060?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/6844561017915196060/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=6844561017915196060' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6844561017915196060'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/6844561017915196060'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/mother-magnets.html' title='The Mother Magnets'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SSCf0wbJ5WI/AAAAAAAAABY/vNDMV9WcaEQ/s72-c/I%27m+so+tired+mother_mag_bad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6866354828600913325.post-5041935267216036072</id><published>2008-11-13T17:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-13T19:05:35.514-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><title type='text'>Art Cubed</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SRzbyyfQwEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/x8mVJ_MpgMI/s1600-h/blok_drawings_IMG_3015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SRzbyyfQwEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/x8mVJ_MpgMI/s320/blok_drawings_IMG_3015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268327329709473858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SRzQRaHhqXI/AAAAAAAAAAk/jJytuj_r_ok/s1600-h/blok_drawings_IMG_3012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SRzQRaHhqXI/AAAAAAAAAAk/jJytuj_r_ok/s320/blok_drawings_IMG_3012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268314661603879282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;New to my Etsy shop is a series called Art Cubed.  1.25" wood  blocks with a print are great little additions to your art collection.  See &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5804091"&gt;my Etsy shop&lt;/a&gt; to purchase and see more images.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6866354828600913325-5041935267216036072?l=ameckel.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/feeds/5041935267216036072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6866354828600913325&amp;postID=5041935267216036072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5041935267216036072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6866354828600913325/posts/default/5041935267216036072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ameckel.blogspot.com/2008/11/here-i-am.html' title='Art Cubed'/><author><name>Adri</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02025042824959328157</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qA3NO2YdJcY/SRzbyyfQwEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/x8mVJ_MpgMI/s72-c/blok_drawings_IMG_3015.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
