Hi everyone, Sooo I have locked myself out of my dorm so I'm waiting in the liberty untill my roommate comes back typing this on a really nice Mac computer.
Lots to talk about in this blog I will cover my quiet thanksgiving, all my final projects in all my classes and of corse my schedule for next semester
Signing up for classes here and every body else in the college world we sign up online and they stager the times and priority levle of everyone. upperclassman down, so I one of the last people to sign up cuz' i'm a freshman and I transfered in no credits. classes fill up fast so i had made two schedules in case some of my classes had filled up. no matter what i have to take the last two core art classes and Into to modern art, plus ethics that leaves one class free as an elective. My first choice for that was intro to Interaction - however when I went to sign up it was full so I signed up for my second choice Glass blowing. so as it stands this is my schedule however things are likely to change.
So I have five classes. Into to Modern art, Into to ethics, color correlations, hand productions, and into to glass and glass blowing (for now)
I had a quiet thanksgiving I stayed here and ate a bunch of pumpkin pie! classes started dwindling as people went home starting on that monday up untill Wednesday when all but my morning class was canceled. I got to Skype with my family which was nice and got frustrated at my computer untill I gave up and read my book. I was planing to get so much done but I blew it all off and read all day for the next two days. I re-read and finished four books plus the last book of the Eragon Inheritance novel which I had started on audio book about a week before the book that stands out is Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi it reminded me of the hunger games but the main character was a bit darker and the book had a faster plot. also I hate the cover, completely the wrong feel for the book. Ugg :(
that brings us to Finals. In this three weeks between thanksgiving are finals week. Our finals are not like lots of outer finals cuz' almost all of them are projects one is a paper and i have one test in Art History. everything else is projects we have started them now i am doing a drawing of an interior shot of a room fully color rendered. I'm starting to learn code I will use Processing hopefully I will make some kind of interactive jewelry for 4D (need to spend a bit more time on this) and a ring which is the major half of the final in jewelry (there's also a small secondary project too but we have not gotten there yet)
this ring is going to be cool. one) its going to be huge, like one of thoughts huge cocktail rings Two) I'm going off the last project I did with the dots - my inspiration for that was a photo of different sized pearls on a wood block so this time I am using real pearls and I am setting a stone (small turquoise) Three) learning way cool stuff to make this possible.
I have not got super far as all the beginning steps are a bit tedious but once i get past them things will sped up. The base ring composes two silver disks that I cut out I'm doming them using a Dappling block to form two half circles In these photos you can it the dome about half way through the shaping process. 
After they were fully domed I had to figure out where all the pearls and stone was going to go after that was all laid out. We filled the top dome with Pitch. This nasty looking stuff that we melt with a head gun its made up of Plaster and tree resin so whall it looks really gross it does not smell bad. We set the now full dome in a big block of that stuff, then cooled. this allows me to put little divots in the dome allowing the pearls to sit better. having it in the pitch when I do this will help keep the round dome shape I've already made. 
This is the dome just set in the pitch you can see all my sharpy marks, this is before any dimpling.
I don't have a shot of just the dimpling but this is a rough idea of what it will look like!