Star Crafty

About two years ago, while waiting for platinum/palladium prints to dry/develop at my school's photo department, I found rolls and rolls of a thick white paper in the cutting/finishing room. I'm not sure if it's inkjet roll. Alls I knows is I cut that bastard up in smaller square pieces and took it home with me (don't worry, I noticed the paper lying there for days and days, figured nobody had claimed it).

These mini notepads were created with said cardstock, grid paper, news print, fabric, mod-podge and my latest obsession, rub-on transfers. I pick up crafty obsessions like a college girl picks up STDs. For reals. I love it.

I can't wait to make more of these, they are so fun to create!

This one just might be my favoritesttestttestttest!

Made a pretty little garland. One of those things that linger forever throughout the endless reincarnations of your often neglected To-Do List. Well, scratch that one out now, yay!

This is how I hold your heart.

Some of the artists that I fell in love with:
01) minzer by Megan O Wold. I must have stayed a good 20 minutes staring at all the mixed-media collage work and pretty, funky jewelry she had.
02) Megan and Mary Beth share an etsy store called iadornu, I bought a cute "tie tack" with a wee tiny original illustration of an owl with gold-fill chain dangling from the wooden chip. Need to take a picture, it's so dainty and cute. Mary Beth also has her own online portfolio, and I love it. These two ladies were the highlight of my day!
03) Adam Michaels was a really cool, pleasant dude. He had this small watercolor and ink (I think) canvas of a key, a lock, brush strokes and pencil markings that I was enamoured with. Maybe sometime down the line I might purchase it, so loved it (he also said my accent was sexy hehe)
04) Christopher Reitmaier - musician and artist, another cool dude. He creates intriguing mixed-media artwork with salvaged scrap materials that he often finds in the outskirts of the city where casinos and industries dump their crap in. The pendants are awesome, I'll be sure to snatch one for meself next time I see him!
05) Helton Photography - I am terrible, I forgot this nice lady's first name. I admire her talent to capture the beauty of children, something I am not particularly talented in my photography (I like me some inanimate objects lol). She was really sweet and I liked her table decor. She had a huuuge green apple (wooden, perhaps), a little wooden train, a bouquet of ranunculus, and her three impressive photo books.

It all filled me with such great delight. Thursday was one of my days off (remember how I mentioned I had 4 days off this week? Well, I actually ended up working two of those days, oh well) and to tell you the truth I did not want to leave my bed. I just sat there, laptop turned on, stressing about all the the ideas and things I roaming my head. Thankfully, somewhere in between the bed and the shower, I lightened up and guess what...I crafted!! Yes, I did. Pretty little things that I didn't even have sketched out from months ago, they just popped into my head... well, more like my hands.

Some of the artists that I fell in love with:
01) minzer by Megan O Wold. I must have stayed a good 20 minutes staring at all the mixed-media collage work and pretty, funky jewelry she had.
02) Megan and Mary Beth share an etsy store called iadornu, I bought a cute "tie tack" with a wee tiny original illustration of an owl with gold-fill chain dangling from the wooden chip. Need to take a picture, it's so dainty and cute. Mary Beth also has her own online portfolio, and I love it. These two ladies were the highlight of my day!
03) Adam Michaels was a really cool, pleasant dude. He had this small watercolor and ink (I think) canvas of a key, a lock, brush strokes and pencil markings that I was enamoured with. Maybe sometime down the line I might purchase it, so loved it (he also said my accent was sexy hehe)
04) Christopher Reitmaier - musician and artist, another cool dude. He creates intriguing mixed-media artwork with salvaged scrap materials that he often finds in the outskirts of the city where casinos and industries dump their crap in. The pendants are awesome, I'll be sure to snatch one for meself next time I see him!
05) Helton Photography - I am terrible, I forgot this nice lady's first name. I admire her talent to capture the beauty of children, something I am not particularly talented in my photography (I like me some inanimate objects lol). She was really sweet and I liked her table decor. She had a huuuge green apple (wooden, perhaps), a little wooden train, a bouquet of ranunculus, and her three impressive photo books.

It all filled me with such great delight. Thursday was one of my days off (remember how I mentioned I had 4 days off this week? Well, I actually ended up working two of those days, oh well) and to tell you the truth I did not want to leave my bed. I just sat there, laptop turned on, stressing about all the the ideas and things I roaming my head. Thankfully, somewhere in between the bed and the shower, I lightened up and guess what...I crafted!! Yes, I did. Pretty little things that I didn't even have sketched out from months ago, they just popped into my head... well, more like my hands.