This week I am writing to you from the wonderful state of Florida!!! It is very beautiful and warm here and I have already been super sunburned! Getting away and relaxing is s=definitely something I would recommend for everyone! :) Having homework over my spring break is a little bit of a drag, but i guess it has to get done one way or another.

I so far have only come up with a few ideas for my vessel/box. I'm not exactly sure what I want to do or how to design it. I've never made a vessel/box before so I'm not exactly sure what I am able to do with wood. I hope to, in the next few days, brainstorm more ideas on designs though, so hopefully I will.

While reading the excerpts from The Nature and Aesthetics of Design by David Pye, I realized that we are able to create anything that I can image. There is several ways to achieve any design possible. As long as there is a way to obtain the materials needed, anything is possible, so long as we have to techniques and tools to produce it. By knowing this, I hope that it will help me brainstorm a few more designs so that I can explore all options possible. And because this will be my first time working with wood and tools, it would be fair to say that learning how to do the more difficult things would make the less difficult things easier in the long run. 
In the reading I really enjoyed the quote of "Our sense of the beautiful in nature and art is our sense of close rapport with our environment, our sense of intimacy with it. [...] Beauty and friendship enable us to get outside ourselves and to live as we ought to live" (p. 102). For my vessel/box I want to be able to produce something that I will actually use, or something that I can give as a gift to a family member. In order to do that I need to design something that I makes me happy, and that I am proud of. It also needs to be able to function the way it was meant to function.