Portrait labels

I made these labels for Christmas gifts. Instead of using tags I just illustrated their faces and tied them on the presents. My mom was ispired and had me illustrate myself so she could use them as place settings...so inventive!

Weekend Project

This weekend I started our family silhouettes. There is a blank wall in my living room that I plan to turn into a ‘gallery wall.’ I have made up a rough schematic to help demonstrate the idea. I love looking back at my parent’s old photographs but I’m not big on hanging family photos (call me heartless but it just doesn’t fit my ‘design aesthetic). I did want to personalize the space a bit so I thought a classy way to do it would be handmade silhouettes done by yours truly. I used embroidery hoops to stretch the canvas to give them a folk art feel. I am very excited about the finished product and I can’t wait to hang them. Yay! for a productive and relaxing weekend. Cheers!

Laminate and Vinyl

Happy Friday! Today I worked in illustrator most of the day and I’m feeling a bit cross eyed. In light of my new resolution I wanted to leave you with a little ditty. My mom and I have done several, rather large (re)upholstery projects but lately I have been so busy that I haven’t had much time to help. I scored some chairs that were being thrown away and decided that I would begin to replace my dining room chairs. There were only 2 but I thought it would be fairly easy to find four (I’m still searching). I found the final on clearance and it goes very well with my laminate top dining table and mom was gracious enough to recover them. I think they turned out AMAZING!


(^courtesy of ebay) This is the color of my table although my table has straight, tapered legs instead of the curved legs. I would like to have four chairs similar to this photo and I would use the other two at the ends of the table. Well, that's all for now. Have a swell weekend!

Quicky

Below is a quick sketch done in AI. I have made a vow to myself to fork out the $200 for a Wacom tablet it's just a matter of getting that next pay check (fingers crossed). At work I spend a lot of time outside of the classrooms and I have random 5-10 minute intravels to sit and think. I decided to draw this sketch from memory since school is on holiday and I haven't had a need to be near the classrooms. As I recall, there are some photographs above the bench but instead of stressing over every detail I decided to leave them blank which seems to symbolize my recent creative itch. I think it's a nice 10 minute sketch...now it's time for a cup of hot chocolate. Toodles!

Return

Happy New Year America! I am officially back with a resolution to post every/every-other day. I have become enthralled with many of the home decorating/design blogs and want to continue to document my arts and crafts along with my home improvement projects. With new enthusiasm and inspiration this blog is hereby, committed to greatness. Another resolution of mine is to take more pictures. I have already started several new projects since the New Year and I will be posting them soon. During my holiday leave I began work on my soon-to-be sewing/crafting studio (see below). I also promised to post the progress of my house, which I plan to photograph in the coming days. Bloggers look out, this page has been revamped!

News

I have been rather casual on posting, how sad that I only have 6 post for all of 2008. It must seem I have nothing worth posting but really I have just been busy. Alot has happened this summer. I have almost completed painting my rooms and getting things arranged. I am trying to say I'm getting close to completeing my decorating exrtravaganza but will refrain because there is still so much to do. I will post pics since it is dettering me from rolling the ball on 'art' project. We will just say that my house is my creative outlet at this point. I also assumed a new job this summer which is somewhat out of my element (IT stuff) but I have been picking things up pretty quickly. It also made me feel good that the office I work in was willing to go on a limb and hire an art major who worked part time as student, kind of an unexpected promotion or maybe they were just desparate. Either way, boosted my ego.

Also I have decided to take the LSAT and try to get into law school. I guess I am just tierd of being poor and I like the idea of continuouly researching and learning involved in law. I am taking a prep course, which I just started Sept. 2. We took a diagnostic test and I didn't do so hot (141 eeeEEk). I am shooting for 156/157 which I now realize may not happen. I am a little discouraged about the whole situation but I suppose it will provide the drive I need to really tackle it. In the meantime, I will photograph my house and keep you posted on any other creative endeavors. Sorry no pics in this post (I pride myself on creating a picturesque blog b/c everyone loves pictures but today I got nothing...I will try to make up for that on my next post).

Decorating

I still haven't finished editing the photos of my work from last semester. You will have to excuse me, I have been working on painting and decorating my house. It is finally starting to look finished. I wanted to post some banners I made for my bedroom. They were just for fun but I am very pleased with the completed product. In case you aren't a fan of classic movie stars (you should start) the portraits are Sophia Loren and Cary Grant.


This was the first attempt but I was not happy with the gold, it seemed to reflective and not solid enough to really make an impact.

This is what will hang after I decide on how to mount and frame them. I was quite surprised with the outcome and the project wasn't all that difficult, although I did get eaten by mosquitoes during the process! (It's all about art!)