While in Korea

Thanks for visiting my website/blog and while I'm in Korea I'll be updating Candy Corn and Spiders the most frequently. My most recent post is here: http://joannasakievich.blogspot.kr/2012/09/did-i-mention-that-director-at-my.html?showComment=1347145723587#c310579846946607048 For those of you who are more net savvy, I beg your patience! I'm currently working on a children's book when not doing lesson prep for 30 classes a week or checking out the scenery where I live. And I'm so grateful I didn't end up in a bigger city, because I LOVE where I am! This is a photo from along my daily walking trail, which is just minutes from my apartment, surrounded by buildings.

These walks are a favorite part of my day, but new friends are giving me more views which I'll have to bring my camera for. But contrast that mountainous scene (and green mountains and water are everywhere!) with this view from my balcony window, hmmm?

Anyway, I've written 2 poems since getting here because I'm so inspired by surroundings, including the plethora of wild flowers, like pumpkin blossoms--they're everywhere. Come October, Linus would love it here!

Artwork by Joanna on Facebook

In an on going (often futile) attempt to navigate the internet, Artwork by Joanna now has her own Facebook page! There are several photos on it which are not on this site, so please, if you're bored or even if you're not, feel free to check it out!

http://www.facebook.com/media/albums/?id=348883098478751

**this link should take you directly to the albums which are in place so far**

Enjoy the 3 day week end!

Painting Furniture for Children options....

More examples of Painted Furniture for Kids

We can paint furniture to coordinate with your

theme! Either you can paint or stain the pcs.

you want and then I can add details, or Artwork

by Joanna can do the whole project for you.

Welcome to Artwork by Joanna

Welcome to my new, more hands on blog/website! This photo is a view from the front of my Utah studio for Artwork by Joanna. Check out

"Pages" for samples of my work!

Please feel free to "follow" me and/or email:

artworkbyjoanna@gmail.com

That's My Room!

This a mural in what was, That's My Room of Sugarhouse, Utah. Jon and Aimee are the owners of this now completely on-line fabulous store (www.thatsmyroomutah.com) and I'm looking forward to doing more with them in the future! Painting is "what I do," which makes it a sort of therapy as well :-)

Nihongo 102

This is a portion of one homework assignment for my Japanese class. I still need to memorize today’s CC (core conversation), there are 3 a week, and today’s is particularly lengthy, so gotta get going on that. Further, each week includes one oral & one written (kanji) quiz weekly and written assignments every other day. By the time this semester concludes, we are expected to have about 200 kanji memorized, along w/retaining the nearly 100 characters for the 2 phonetic alphabets we're supposed to already know (I skipped 101, so had some cramming to do...). Blogging would not be complete without including the fact of this class in my journal entries for the semester....the hours spent in memorizing and writing take anywhere from 15-40 hours out of every week. I’m hopefully going to retain some of this, but, quite frankly, have found it difficult to really concentrate on anything else. There is an upside, however: the language is coming back! Old vocabulary words pop into my mind regularly and the demands of the curriculum are proving my gray matter isn't total mush--yet.