http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib recent pleonast.com entries by user kellymckibkib en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=609820 we got snow, 8 inches and the temp dropped so all of it is still here. they got about 2 feet of powder on the mountians. CO rocks. although i'm freezing my butt off working in the kiln room today, nothing like 15 degree weather! i am half way moved into the new house. so far so good. arg I hate moving! soo soo soo soo busy, i hate christmas right now: will this kiln be fired? when will you do a bisque? can this frame finsihed in time? and what about my presents- no time to make them! eeek. peace. 2008-12-16 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=558645 I am now in the great search for health insurance. I am self- employed, so i buy it myself. How does one go about finding a good company, not to mention I have a limited budget. Any suggestions, advice? I don't want to send up with a sketchy company. thanks, the now uninsured kelly (who always wears her bike helmet!) 2008-08-04 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=514469 Here is all the info for my show. If you would like be on my mailing list, please email me (you can send me an email through my website- if you don't have it already) and i will gladly mail you a card. I am trying to build a mailing list, for future shows and studio sales. If you are close in the area and want to come to the show I would love it! Anyone is free to crash at my house (my family is staying at a hotel that evening incase friends decide to come). I am only located approximately 3 hours from both Nashville and Bowling Green. There will be food and a homemade cake on a cakestand. I have also been feature on a cool blog. http://www.decor8.blogspot.com/ 2008-04-08 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=513366 two weeks until i set up my show. how am i, you ask? calm, confident, and yet terrified I feel only about 4 days behind, but I think i can make it up. 2nd committee meeting, done, it went great, they loved the work- this gave me much more confidence. its has really come together here a the end. the end, very scary and i have no idea what's next. had a fun evening of flirting, felt like a pretty girl, that was very nice. back to the studio. I am in love with books on tape. I have listened so far to: A wrinkle in time, redwall, and the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. up next: matilda 2008-04-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=510604 work, work, work my favorite part of the day is a 15 min frisbee break with my dog. and my bed, I havent seen much of either lately. I am nervous, anxious, terrified, and praying alot. I think I have an addiction to the local CD shop. Latest and greatest: Black Mountain, Robert Plant and Alison Kraus, and Hot Chip Saw the ex walking in town with the new girl, he was also smoking, carrying a large amount of beer and he hasnt come back to church but that one time. it made me very sad and hurt a bit. I have decided that breakups are like bad heartburn. Say a prayer for my show please, its hanging by a string and I really want to graduate. sigh. back to work, work, work so i took a very indulgent afternoon and watched Enchanted. I loved the dance scene in central park, does anyone else imagine random dance scenes in their life, I do.... to bad I cant dance. 2008-03-30 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=503951 I love spring break, it is the best feeling to sleep through class and means more now that i am teaching that class. The local radio station here is pretty interesting but these is a sponsor who reads their add for "treebark tree care" only they have a speech problem so it sounds like "tweebark twee care" and they repeat it a bizillion times in the add. its makes me giggle and say twee. THe highlights in my hair are currently bright blue, its pretty awesome, mom totally doesn't get it, I have received compliments by people I consider fashionable, the table of teenagers at church cheered for me when i came in tonight (i have to admit it does feel great to have high school kids tell you they think you are cool) and a little girl said "why is your hair blue?" B/c I like blue. It is very hard to work in the studio when the weather is sooo beautiful and I want to frolic among the twees. thank you for all the great comments about my website. 2008-03-13 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=498208 Recently in the past few weeks, the Lord has blessed me greatly. I have had an incredible breakthrough conceptually with my work. For me to create art I need to know where I am going and why I am making. All through graduate school i have struggled with this, never finding something that I felt connected with the essence of who I am and my world-view. It is very easy in art, especially admits postmodernism to make work that is negative and I wanted to make work that was positive in nature, reaffirming and comforting. SO finally the Lord blessed me with clarity in my work, allowing me to realize why and how I had been gathering images, theme repeating and how to make them stronger. The following is an artist statement. In the art work it functions as the why, how, and what for. It is attempt in words to explain visually your intent in creating. I now feel qualified to write one. And here is it. “A house is a dead give-away.” – Elsie De Wolfe Home is not just the wall... 2008-02-28 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=497291 This is the new apron design, on a red apron. I'm pretty darn proud, I busted out photoshop skillz i never new I had. I impressed myself. Read this the other day: "The oak sleeps in the acorn" comments..... 2008-02-26 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=493963 thank you for all the encouraging words, I am much better. Dave came to church this week and is planning to study with the preacher on monday nights. This gives me much peace of mind. Its funny how this side of a break up, you realize how so not perfect that person was for you. I think i learned the most from this relationship about what I really need and I also learned alot about being patient (not one of my better character traits). school is kicking my butt and I have fallen behind on applying to jobs. I've decided I think i will look for residencies after i graduate. A residency is an opportunity to just live and make your artwork and make gallery connections to sell it. I feel i would like to have a break from academia before teaching. I just designed a really awesome apron for our school to sell at the clay conference. I will post a picture of it after i get them ordered. It was a pure victory over starring at the proverbial blank page and overcoming fear of lameness and lac... 2008-02-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/kellymckibkib?l=5&entryID=491406 break ups hurt. I had no idea it could hurt this bad, I feel like I've lost an arm and I really want it back but know I cant have it back. My mind is fully aware of the many really really good reasons we wouldnt not have worked out and how it was not meant to be, but the heart has its own agenda to deal with. All i feel is separation, I know time heals and time is something I dont have alot of these days. I absolutely hate the running into eachother in town or see him while driving, its like being ambushed with separation in an acute chest tightening way. So how did you cope with bad break ups? 2008-02-12