Sarah's 22nd birthday party, May
2002
The cake,
her favorite, angel food cake with whipped cream and strawberries
Also with
mint leaves posing as strawberry leaves and edible garden flowers
Jeremy hooks up the decks and mixes a while to sound check
Ted takes a break after a lovely set
Mom and sarah share a birthday hug
Zoe and Trish loving the lasagna
bringing in the cake, singing happy birthday
blowing out the candles and making a wish
Lauren's
photo of beth and sarah
Mother's day 2002
out for mother's day lunch, sarah, mom and beth
Sarah had a lovely lily in her hair
sarah shows off her new bracelet, birthday gift from granny
the family- alex, steve, diana, beth, Mom and sarah
the family
again - same line-up
Jay Lee's head - black light painting
- 5/25/02
I use uv sensitive ink to do tribal tattooing
on his head for the evening
Jades fashion show at Rich's 5/23/02
pulling it together at the house123
backstage at rich's 1 2 345 6 7
all photographs below were taken by Jeff Fleischmann
The models and the clothes
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Jade takes the stage onetwothree
my performance at rich's 6/13/02
on the second opening night of "SQUEEZE", the new
weekly event at rich's
I am organizing and performing, along with grace
and sarah a short dance and costume piece
following is a picture journal of getting the costumes
built and putting it all together
drawings help me sort out what I'm designing onetwo
beginning to shape the wire frames
the worst thing, having to repeat things for the next two costumes
the mannequin
helps illustrate how they will be worn, however, when we wear them our
heads
will be higher
up inside the form and our arms extend out right at the waiast under the
sculptured arms
I use my faithful
50s mannequin francine to make a mold for the face, i use plaster treated
strips of
gauze to mold
francine's face. Then I use industrial papier mache to basically
remold the face since
I don't want
the face to look like a 50s mannequin!
it dries very quickly and I pry it up and pop it off to finish drying inside
after it is thoroughly dried, I will use a rotary sander with dental sized heads to fine carve the facial details
okay! *sigh* In every project
like this there are moments of truth where you have to stop, realize that
something
is not working and make a better
decision. First of all, the plastered gauze is a MESS on a project
this big, and...it's heavy when it dries. Not only that you must
wait a day or so to paint or sand. So, my next idea is to use a thick
cloth tape to wrap the forms instead.
I am off to the hardware store to investigate.
The cloth
tape looks a bit funky, having that "curse of the mummy" sort of look but
it works okay under
the black
light once it's painted
testing the paint to make sure it's uv sensitive
fine carving and sanding the face
painting the body in the fluorscent light onetwo
She now has black hair and a long
black braid, flowers on her breasts and around her head
pictures tomorrow
Phew, 4:35
the day of the show, I'm just finished. Time to sleep for a few hours,
here are the shoulder pieces
full pictures
tomorrow
Alex plays dj
for the dress rehearsal
The night of the show
all painted up
and trying to not to touch anything while drying
there was a spray
sealer that went on when dry to prevent smudging
Grace camps it up to pass the time
20 minutes before showtime, I'm almost asleep
sarah shows off her leg painting
alex provides back stage therapy for all of us
Heidi's visit
durian - a nasty looking fruit if ever there was
one
eating it, spiky side out of course
Schlitterbahn trip with Beth and claudia
- august 2002
standing in line for our favorite ride, the dragon blaster - 1 2 3 4
up the hatch, this picture gives you no idea of how fast we are going and that we are going up
Sarah was our driver, she's a driver she's a winner etc etc
Bethy S. outside the motel room
Sarah, Claudia making a cute face, alex with no face and beth s
Sarah and alex getting ready for our relaxing tube down the comal river
across the little bridge with our tubes
We walk down to the furthest point we can access from the park
Beth S, Beth w, claudia and alex chilling in the tubes 1 2 3 4
Alex going down the tube chute by the dam
getting back into our tubes after
the dam - 1
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Jeremy's birthday
mike is not asleep and I don't know WHAT lee is doing here
here they are again and I still don't know what lee is doing
dinner at van loc's, now I don't know what mike is doing
happy birthday
to jeremy, what a silly guy
Two pictures from our summer trip to england and spain
Mike beth and william out at a club
Beth holds
the "snakeman's" snake - see more on the snakeman at: www.thesnakeman.com
off to see
Cher - not a bad show at all!
National merit scholarship semi-finalist
breakfast at the briar club
Lamar high school's group of semi-finalists - Alex back and center
Alex accepts his certificate and medal while Dr. McSwain looks on
Sarah's halloween
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eighteen
Renaissance festival 2002
group picture - me, Debbie, Mike, Alex, Margaret and sarah
same picture but minus me and add david
Alex the bold - close up of his tattooed head
Christmas 2002
the warm holiday glow of candles
sarah and granny clowning for the camera
sarah is in tears over her beautiful afghan made by her grandmother
the house starts out very neat!
Happy new year 2003! Mike beth and William
ultra colorful lucky food picture
Mirror mosaic forehead for rich's 2/6/03
sundown at the social 2/9/03
Charles and beth clowning around
costume for Valentines crush dance at rich's 2/13/03
this one was taken by houston social butterfly.com
