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In the Homestretch

Apr 28, 2008
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So this is my first attempt at the reductive process in silk screen. Taken from a photo of downtown Tokyo at night, reduced to only the most important colors, I think it turned out really well. Hopefully they will be available for sale at Otakon (in Baltimore) in August. I say "hopefully" because there were some technical difficulties in the registration for tables at the Artist Alley and I don't have a table as of yet. Cross your fingers me!

Hooray! It's finally warm! After suffering from severe, self-diagnosed, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Dick and I were able to get out this weekend and head to Ocean City. My shoulders are telling me I should have worn sunscreen, but it was worth it. BTW, I totally made those earrings. I started going a little crazy with button earrings after getting this issue of Adorn Magazine. They will be making an appearance at the Student Art Sale at Salisbury University ^_^

The semester is winding down, but both Dick and I have summer classes during the whole break. More things to come though. I'm getting a table at the Wizard World Convention in Philly, if they'll have me, at the end of May. More info to come!

School work can be fun

Oct 10, 2007
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Still no new crafting. School work and the Wii have been monopolizing my time. There's nothing I can do about it really. I did bring home the prints that have been graded tho.

This first one came from a quote about the human brain creating more electrical impulses in a day than all the phones in all the world. Cool idea, not sure if its true, but it makes for a cool linocut. Here is my little robot getting his daily electricity from Brain Crunch, part of a complete breakfast.

This next one is my first attempt at woodcut. It's just a tattoo-like swallow. Everything around the black was carved out. Normally, I like to have everything I do face to the right. It makes me think of moving forward. I forgot to flip this image to reflect that, but then thought that this was better. I was looking back on the life I left behind, knowing that things were finally changing. That's why it's called "Looking Back".

When I don't have time to craft, I blog about people who do

Oct 9, 2007
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So Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty full school days. Class from 8am-5pm with a break in between. My boyfriend is class till 8pm which is teh suck. I have work after school tomorrow...double plus suck. So tonight is homework night. Damn you priorities.

Here's some stuff to keep you busy:

The Pink of Perfection is a great how to site that does more that just crafty stuff. I get lost on this site forreal. I think the record into a mail organizer made it on my To-Craft List.

EcoEtsy is a group my cousin-in-law Sarah founded. It helps promote ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle when crafting and shipping. There are some awesome ideas here and as a group is starting pretty strong.

The ever lovely EtsyLabs always has something fun for us to do. The tutorial I linked to is actually really high up on my list. We have accumulated so many plastic bags from grocery shopping and the like...I just hate to throw them away knowing they're just going to sit in a landfill for years to come. This is a perfect way to reuse and repurpose! Do this if you like...if not...send all your plastic bags to meeeeeee ^_^

Also, I'm working on something cool and way hard for school. I'm in a relief printmaking class this semester. We did some woodcut, linocut (my favorite!) and now we're onto wood engraving. It's what they used back in the day to make letters and illustrations for printing presses. It'll make your eyes cross and back hurt, but looks amazing when done right. I'm working on a Singer 201-2. The kind of Singer my Grandmom used. This is the photo being used:

Minus the collectibles type of course >_< Hopefully it'll turn out ok.