November 4th, 2009
(Image via wildgoosechase)
New hand soap in the powder room that smells like pomegranate.
Changing the page on my calendar to find an Alice in Wonderland illustration for this month.
The first frost of the season.
Digging out my fluffy slippers to keep my toes warm.
Eating cranberry sauce when it’s not Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Diving into my shiny new Chanel book for the first time.
Watching the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament and feeling smart when I know a lot of the answers.
Waking up to silly text messages from friends about the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament.
My dad bringing me home a lollipop from work like he used to do when I was 4-5 years old.
The song ‘Samskeyti’ by Sigur Rós.
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November 4th, 2009
Well. It’s been an eternity and a half since I’ve posted an IAD Adventures update. I suppose I’ve just been so overwhelmed with university these days that the last thing I’ve wanted to post about is … university. My blog has become more my escape than anything else. But I want that to change.
So to make a long story short: My second semester of study as an Interior Architecture and Design (IAD) student started back in early September. I’m taking 3 studio classes. Two are IAD classes, and one is a required foundations (FND) course in drawing. For now, I’m going to delve into one of my IAD classes: Design of the Built Environment A. This class is pretty much my first strictly design class. Conceptual Design, which I took in the summer, was the pre-requisite to this course and it essentially taught you how to work through the design process to give whatever you were designing – be it a light fixture, a piece of furniture, a room, or even an entire building – meaning and significance. DotBE is, in a nut shell, an extension of that class. However now, we’re actually designing structures which is super duper exciting! (It’s my favourite class.)
Our first assignment of the course was to create a fully functional shelter, meaning our structure had to run entirely off of solar/wind/water power and use no electricity.
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