Chrissy's Photo A Day

Last day of January. Working on a cable knitted scarf some lucky chap will get for Christmas next year.

  These are the mittens I knitted for Aza.  Today I had a meeting with my doc students and we worked on a paper.

It snowed yesterday. Not much, but it snowed. This caused Auburn to cancel classes yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Don't make fun o...

It is It is snowing and I know that there won't be class tonight. I'd planned to take these eggs with me but now they are mine ...

I don't know why there was a gigantic blown up baby on the field next to the stadium today.

This is me, my friend from high school Doug, and his sweetheart. Doug is a stained glass artist, and was just diagnosed with stage 4 throa...

I started an eggsperiment. Soaking eggs in vinegar causes the shells to react and dissolve. In a few days the eggs will be "naked....

Dan and I took a walk this afternoon around 4:00 around the art museum. See the long shadows of winter? This a very interesting sculpture...

Woke up with headache. I bet I ate something in Blacksburg that contained a forbidden substance. I went to mom's for lunch but couldn...

  After breakfast at Panera we left B'burg. When we went through SC, we decided to check out Clemson. It's a nice campus, reminis...

  I don't want to talk about my workshop. Things just didn't work as planned. I forgot the squishy dough and had to convince some...

This morning we left Auburn for Blacksburg. I knew that Jes was getting her whole body scan at 9am Denver time ...

Yesterday I got my 3D printer! Squirt printed out some cool stuff and was still printing out cool stuff this morning.    The new kit...

My student  The Chicken Whisperer came by my office today. I hadn't seen her in several months and thought she had dropped out of the...

I  took photographs of ferrets and created silhouettes of them on my Silhouette Studio software, printed them out, and got my grad studen...

Sunday evening after a long day, I noticed my reflection in the window of my office and took a self portrait. You can see the stones outsi...

I was determined to make the houses on my demo town pretty so I colored them and decorated them. This is a photo for the curriculum. The h...

My workshop is getting closer. Today I wrote and played around with some house designs I printed out at school. I had a faculty meeting to...

These are capacitors. I've  been struggling to create a capacitor lesson with homemade caps. Squirt wanted to show me a dissected capa...

  This was my first day going to work. I had to do some paperwork, print some houses on my die cutter, and drop off my coffee creamer and...

Our town was in a state of suspended animation until today. Everyone was waiting for the big game. I went shopping this afternoon at Kroge...

See this? I made a battery from nickels and pennies and lit up an LED with it. It's part of my new curriculum. Today I messed with ...

 This evening was really exciting. I got to spend time with two good friends from high school. Blondie, in the middle, lives in Texas, an...

Worked all day on curriculum again. Took photos of these two little paper houses. We mailed out our newsletters today! Not bad...

Today I worked on my new curriculum all day. I had to make squishy conductive dough for a photo shoot. This is the dough before...

New Years Day. We worked on our annual newsletter today and then went to Mom's for black eyed peas etc. for good luck for 2014.

  New Years Eve. We spent the day waiting for Aza to safely arrive in Virginia, which she did. We spent the evening with my mom...

Jes got her boots repaired at the shoe repair shop in Opelika. We all three have boots. Today we went to Overall Company for coffee and a ...

Squirt made beignets this morning. Which isn't helping my expanding waistline. But they sure were good. Our living room with the t...

It rained all day. Seriously. Two inches of rain! I taught Aza how to crochet. She started making a baby blanket for a friend's newbor...