Pear cranberry pie that I made for Thanksgiving this year while wearing an apron that my Mom made me.

I also made pilgrim and indian hats (I love doing that) for our feast with the Pensacola Military branch.

and Garth made Mr Danger laugh and laugh and laugh.

With the Thanksgivingness over, the Christmas holiday is in full swing here at the Danger-Hawker-Plouzek household. We’ve got some trees and some lights up, we’ve been watching Christmas movies, and our advent calendar is stocked with Dove, Lindor, and Ghirardelli chocolates. Hope all ya’ll are warm & cozy and just plain happy.

all good things,
elle

I miss school. Both as a student and as a teacher.

I was thinking about this last night and how it would be possible to do everything that I wanted to do (own a bakery/making studio) and still teach high school. What is it about teaching high school art that I love so much? Teaching requires me to be contantly learning. Making sugar skulls, batik, and grafitti for a living. Chaperoning prom. Sweet, sweet students. Pep rallies, school lunch, and of course, summer vacation.

On Monday I will be returning to school as a student. I am taking Drawing I at the local community college. It seems silly that someone who has a degree in art education and has taught high school art would need to go back to school to take drawing I to get her BFA. It is silly. One of those hoops that higher education has asked me to jump- again. I will, because I want that piece of paper with the gold seal that states that I accomplished something during those seven years of college. Two something rather. I left Eastern Washington University 17 credits shy of my BFA (but with BAE in hand) and now I intend to finish off those final elective credits here in good ol’ Pensacola.

Drawing I, here I come.

xo elle

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