Creative in my Mind

Happy New Year! 2012!

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Images from This weekend

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*Images taken by the Grandma Party Staff - From their Facebook page*

I was a Vendor at the Grandma party Bazaar this weekend. It was my first time attempting to sell my jewelry and art. I learned a lot of lessons, in not only displaying but in the creation of my items - what people buy, and pricing them. I didn't do as well as I had hoped, but my cousin did great. But like I said it was a great experience and I had a lot of lessons learned.

Jewelry Inventory

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Bottle Cap Jewelry

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The Inspiration:

How it Turned out:

I've been busy preparing for the Grandma party craft bazaar, which is this weekend, I've been collecting bottle caps for a while, and have probably over 100000 of them. So I wanted to create some jewelry that utilized them. I came up with this concept after seeing some ideas via pinterest and etsy.

My Christmas card for this year

2011-12-08T12:53:00.000-08:00

It was a big year for me this year I bought a house and a new car, since I am independent from Daniel I figured it would be a perfect year for me to make a christmas card for me.

Sonic and Crew

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Drooooid!

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Zelda

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I've been trying for a while to make a Zelda poster that fits my style. I finally was able to come up with something I like.

Nursing Necklaces

2011-11-21T08:27:00.000-08:00

These are "Nursing Necklaces" I am making them for Natural Baby I've finally gotten into a good rhythm for making them, but I'm not going to lie, these are probably the biggest pain in the butt necklaces I've made, just because of the requirements associated with making them, and the difficulty in trying to find the right materials that are non toxic for babies.

These necklaces are not intended to be worn by babies, they are to be worn by moms during nursing to keep babies attention.

Tangled

2011-11-17T08:00:00.001-08:00

I finally, recently saw the movie "Tangled" of course I instantly fell in love with the Disney movie. So when sketching during a meeting I doodled an image of Rapunzel, and then digitized it to look as follows:

Inspired Poster

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original image: http://sportsandconcertupdates.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/ts1.jpg

Sometimes I get inspired after a concert and really just need to photoshop someone's image to give it the flare of what I saw.

Out Takes

2011-10-20T20:58:00.000-07:00

An out take for the logo I'm working on, so I have to Re-do Natural Baby's logo again.. I'm really not nailing this at all, which is really buggin my ego. She specifically chose this font, which, I really like as well. Instead of focusing on Nature I need to start focusing on the baby "slings". She likes my original idea where the sling is actually a leaf... so I'm going to have to do some drawing and scanning.

Fight like a girl, Fight for a Cure.

2011-10-19T08:22:00.000-07:00

Last night I received the horrible news that my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer. Being breast cancer awareness month I felt that this graphic was only appropriate to make.

About 1 in 8 women in the United States (12%) will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime.

Besides skin cancer, breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among U.S. women. More than 1 in 4 cancers in women (about 28%) are breast cancer.

A woman’s risk of breast cancer approximately doubles if she has a first-degree relative (mother, sister, daughter) who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. About 20-30% of women diagnosed with breast cancer have a family history of breast cancer.

http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/understand_bc/statistics.jsp

Natural Baby

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My friend Tej is one of those people who make things happen. She started a Baby wearing group, since there has been nothing like this in Orlando, the group has grown to over 75 members! She took the opportunity to start a business and has begun consulting and selling All Natural baby wearing and Natural baby products. I offered to help with some of her marketing, and to make Nursing Necklaces. I'm really excited about this. This is the logo ideas and colors I came up with for her.

The Leaf is supposed to represent not only natural but the shape of it represents the look of a baby being held with the supportive baby wearing material.

If you are interested to learn more about baby wearing check out her website at:

http://www.tlcnaturalbaby.com/

Andrew McMahon

2011-10-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

I took this picture at a concert and photoshopped it way back in 2003? maybe 2004 when Andrew McMahon serenaded me with Something Corporate (Yes he was serenading me.. I didn't see anyone else at those concerts...) Being that I've never posted this picture on this blog, I felt it was only relevant because, Here I am almost 10 years later and I am still lusting over this mans voice. Although Jack's Mannequin is a completely different style of music than Something Corporate, I still get swept away at their concerts.

I was born today

2011-10-11T07:47:00.000-07:00

It's my birthday today, I'm 27, In 3 years I will be 30. I need to start working on my things to do before I'm 30 list again. Had a pretty good Birthday Weekend, you can read about it Here.

More Characters

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Creating a character

2011-09-22T10:58:00.001-07:00

After drawing the character below, I noticed that the shape of him looked similar to Daniel's face, so I added a beard, and different facial expressions, and came up with the final image above

How to make Flag Garland

2011-09-19T12:22:00.000-07:00

I've been seeing everywhere on Pinterest these cute Garland Flags. I knew this would be a simple DIY project and perfect for halloween so I decided to create some this weekend.

The Materials needed are Stiff Felt (usually you can find this in the same section as regular felt, but it only comes in a limited amount of colors), Patterned material (I went with a halloween themed colors since I was making them for halloween, you can shop in the remnants if you wanted to), a Spool of thin ribbon (so you can string them all together) and of course Glue, you could also Sew the material together....But I'm really lazy and like my craft projects done quick, so I chose not to sew.

First I cut out a template of a triangle I drew by using a ruler from a poster board material that I received in junk mail, I then used that template to cut out the Triangles from the Stiff Felt. After I cut them all out I made one slightly smaller to use as a template for the patterned material.

I then took my patterned material laid it out and cut along the template into several small triangles.

After I had a good amount of the triangles cut out I then glued the cut patterned material on top of the stiff felt.

After laying them out all next to each other I then measured out my ribbon, and Hot glued it on top of the Triangles.

I cleaned up any extra strands and made sure that the garland looked clean. and Viola! it is done!

Here is the Finished Product!

I Also Made the Wreath.

To see How I decorated the rest of my house check it out How I decorated everything here.

UKnight in Pink - Marshall shirts

2011-09-13T07:56:00.001-07:00

I made this design for the October 8, Marshall game. I'm planning to go to print this week, so let me know if anyone is interested.

Each are only $15, so Reserve yours today!

Beach Themed Wedding invitations

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St Patricks Day themed Wedding invitations

2011-09-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

Craig and Stacey's wedding invitations came in!

They turned out great I was really excited.

ReeeeVAMP!

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Logo Design

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More wedding Invitations!

2011-08-17T05:37:00.001-07:00

Stacey & Craig's friend Jenn was interested in me doing their wedding invitations after they saw theirs so I was happy to come up with something for them. They wanted to stay traditional, yet had a beach theme with Royal Blue as their primary colors.

I think they came out pretty good.