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rachael-maddux:

Disney Surprise Gone Wrong- We’re not going to Chattanooga??? (by rlzeller0522)

I am weirdly a sucker for the videos of parents surprising their kids with trips to Disney World, but I am EVEN MORE OF A SUCKER for this video of parents surprising their kids with a trip to Disney World and the little girl MELTING DOWN because she wants to go on their previously-planned trip to Chattanooga instead. The best part is where it looks like she’s coming around, when she runs to her mom and starts crying on her lap—I was like, OK, she was just really overwhelmed and didn’t want to change the plans! I totally get that! I feel that way often in my life! But then she just keeps crying about Chattanooga. I am going home this weekend (oh, did I mention that I am from Chattanooga?) and I guarantee you this will be all over the local news and probably co-opted by the visitor’s bureau by then and that “I WANNA GO TO CHATTANOOGA” will be a thing that my family and Joe and I say for way way way too long into the future.

hometown for the win!

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After a couple of weeks of scattered Facebook communication, I finally met local portrait artist Mia Bergeron at a workshop she held at Art Warehouse in Brainerd last Saturday. It’s a little bit funny that it took David Kassan, whose Brooklyn studio I visited with a class in January, to connect us, but I am learning more and more that this is how things happen. Mia is tiny and adorable and pretty hilarious on top of being an incredibly accomplished artist and impressive teacher, especially considering she just turned thirty a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, I really love the technique she taught, which is a kind of premier coup/divisionism hybrid, neither of which I really know much about, to be honest. I’m not so sure I followed all the rules, but I definitely was able to break some old bad habits and see and work differently. After her demo we had a little over four hours to paint. Here’s what I came up with.

After a couple of weeks of scattered Facebook communication, I finally met local portrait artist Mia Bergeron at a workshop she held at Art Warehouse in Brainerd last Saturday. It’s a little bit funny that it took David Kassan, whose Brooklyn studio I visited with a class in January, to connect us, but I am learning more and more that this is how things happen. Mia is tiny and adorable and pretty hilarious on top of being an incredibly accomplished artist and impressive teacher, especially considering she just turned thirty a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, I really love the technique she taught, which is a kind of premier coup/divisionism hybrid, neither of which I really know much about, to be honest. I’m not so sure I followed all the rules, but I definitely was able to break some old bad habits and see and work differently. After her demo we had a little over four hours to paint. Here’s what I came up with.

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