Chihuly!

This past weekend, C and I went to see the Chihuly exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). It was awesome! We got there a little before 10 so we could get tickets and get in before the crowd. You can take pictures as long as you don't use your flash so I brought along my Nikon and went to town.

A boat...filled with awesomeness!

These swirling shapes are right up my ally...

I'm going to make a boat filled with glass balls, and you're going to love it.

This is part of the ceiling which made me feel like I was scuba diving again.

There's the octopus!

Chihuly was inspired by Native American woven baskets to make this display.

Glass? Or woven basket?

Beautiful.

The largest sculpture he has ever created.

Looked like curling smoke to me.

LOVE.

Crazy goodness.

Simple, pure, beautiful.

Blue reeds made especially for the VMFA.

I really have no idea how anyone can do something so amazing with glass. I learned some pretty cool things while in college...welding metal, jewelrymaking, stained glass...but I would have loved to have learned glass blowing. Never say never!

I love going to the VMFA. We always have a good time and since they remodeled they have gotten some really awesome exhibits in there. The first one was a large Picasso exhibit, which was good but didn't blow me away. Then there was the Tiffany glass exhibit which was really good and an Egyptian exhibit with some mummies which was pretty good. I really enjoy going to that museum. It makes for a fun day and gets me inspired to go home and do some of my own work.

Eating Healthy Again

Who's hungry?

I've been thinking a lot about my eating habits lately. A year ago this past fall I got into a huge vegan baking kick and was making all kinds of vegan recipes. I was loving it. After several months of trying to get pregnant and failing, I fell off the bandwagon of healthy eating and just ate whatever junk I wanted to make myself feel better. I also slowed down on the running. Big mistake.

Since I have gotten pregnant, I am eating much better. I didn't really have morning sickness, but I had all day nausea that I figured out I could keep at bay as long as there was food in my stomach. These foods became my quick go to's:

-red, seedless grapes
-string cheese
-watermelon
-canteloupe
-raisins
-strawberry yogurt
-bananas
-crackers

This was a big change for me because I usually don't eat a lot of fruit, but I am really happy with the changes I have made to my diet and I love that I don't crave chocolate like I did before getting pregnant. I do crave french fries and foods like that but I do my best to try and pick the vegetables off the menu and not the junk. I hope that I can continue these changes after he is born.

Another thing I would like to get back into my diet are the vegan sweet potato muffins that I made for breakfast a lot, and smoothies. I love me some smoothies, but I don't give myself time in the morning to make one. I hope to start getting home a little earlier and taking the dog for a good walk and then making a smoothie for a snack afterwards.

Do you have any healthy go to's? (pregnant or not)