One of my new year resolutions was to blog more... So far I've failed at that, but now I've finally mustered up the motivation to just go for it! So here we go!
Wow… it's crazy. Looking back over the past year so much has changed in my life it's pretty neat. I can't believe all the things I've experienced or the places that I've been and all the crazy rad things God is doing!
I had an awesome time at home for Christmas, visiting my friends and family. I was able to relax a bit too, which was really nice! Yea! But now it's back to work and there's SO much to get done before the tour. It's exciting but pretty stressful and I don't have nearly as much to do as some of my friends but I have enough!
I've been cooking three times a week and then sewing up in the cold art room whenever I'm not in the kitchen or in a meeting! Which is fun but sometimes I just want to throw the sewing machine out the window!
Really exciting news though this week my friend David finished the writing for the book and he is going to submit it for editing soon! My friend Stephanie, who is an AMAZING graphic designer, is designing the book and so that's almost done too! Now it's time to start fund raising to print it. We are going to start fundraising on Monday the 25th! Get excited!!! We're going to be using a website called kickstarter.com that will make it easy and fun to fund raise! So as soon as we set the website up (Monday) I will post the link and you can check out the video, read more about what the book is and even get awesome prizes if you donate! w00t!
Also Check out Stephanie's website and blog to see some spreads from the book and other art that she has done at http://www.whereisstephnow.com/.
Yea! So on another note within the next few weeks I'm hoping to go back to Ethiopia for 2-3 weeks. My friend Ulla and I hope to go down south to work with the Rahab Cafe, Right now there are no girls working at the cafe because Elli is going to college in another town now, Which is so cool! Then the other girl that was working there got married so she doesn't have to work anymore. The problem is that we still have the license for the cafe and it's only valid if it's actually running! So hopefully we can find more girls to work there or prepare the way for a team to go down in the future! I also want to spend some time in Addis(the capital) working with the garbage city. The last team was down there were able to make awesome progress! They were able to teach some of the girls that were working there how to make t-shirts and so they don't have to work in the trash any more! So I plan on bringing some new designs and more products for them to make and just helping out however I can! So that's really exciting I'm just praying now that it will work out and that I can get the money for the flight soon!
-random alert- So the other day my flat mate Tiana and I decided it would be fun to have a nice dinner together and then we decided to make a video of it for our friends and family back home! Hope you enjoy it!
