I seriously do not post here very often, if you want to keep up with me, my main blog can be found here - http://dejablu503.livejournal.com
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Some of my more recent art...
I seriously do not post here very often, if you want to keep up with me, my main blog can be found here - http://dejablu503.livejournal.com
Friday, January 12, 2007
Everything new and sunny
Besides making baby clothes I have also made some other new things, including the following fiberart cards...
Nothing fancy really, just playing with clay and making my own embellishments, plus toying with photo printing on fabric as a side result of being home too long and utter boredom.
I go back to work tonight, this is a huge financial relief.
Nothing fancy really, just playing with clay and making my own embellishments, plus toying with photo printing on fabric as a side result of being home too long and utter boredom.
I go back to work tonight, this is a huge financial relief.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
I guess I had better update this thing ;)
I've been semi-BUSY, (and sick) since Christmas... just now feeling well enough to return to work. It was this horrible bronchial infection that left me weak and unable to move without coughing a lung up.3 antibiotics and almost 3 weeks later, I am finally on the mend. It took steroids and an herbal cough medicine called Herbal Expec by Naturade to turn the tide for me. It has earned a forever spot in my medicine c abinet for sure, it was like a miracle in killing the cough and loosening things up.
I do not remember ever being so ill....on the upside I lost 12 pounds while laid up.
Anyway, on January 5th my son and his wife had a new baby, my second grandchild, my first granddaughter....Madelyn Lee, Maddie for short. She is, IMHO a beautiful baby. She is also a happy baby. My favorite pics so far are these:
As you can tell by the picture, Maddie already has daddy wrapped around her little fingers. He needed a little wrapping , heh.
While laid up, I have been busy making baby clothes, under strict orders from my son that none of them should be pink or frilly. So they are rather untraditional in color and style. I am quite pleased with how they are coming out while I wait for enough wellness to be safe to go see the little princess up close and personal. Odd thing is, a neighbor came to check on me, (who knew my coughing carried so well outside the house) and she asked to take a couple outfits to her boss at her new job in a trendy upscale baby boutique, because she thought she would want to carry some outfits on consignment. In the end she sold the two I sent off the counter as she looked at them (I should mention here that I did not mean to part with the 2 I sent, I thought they were samples only, but I have remade them). This is starting to look like a potential full time job from home, the shop owner told me to design a tag and put it in them and she ordered 12 more outfits, to buy outright at a decent price... I sent 6 to start and 5 of those sold within 2 days, so now I have an order for 18 more. The brand name I am using is Maddie's ToddleTogz. I'll post some pics of what I am turning out in a few days after I get more things made up for the order. The tag I made looks like this:
This could not have come at a better time, my home health client is being moved to a rest home and there are not enough hours to go around right now....so this working from home option is a very good thing. I am adding a couple baby quilts and diaper bags to the order to see how they go. If I can get this going well, and if I can get ahead of the game, I might be able to travel some this summer and not only fill orders while on the road....but also test baby shops along the way for more outlets for the clothes I am designing. I am also thinking about producing a line of patterns for the clothes to market. 2007 may just be the year I define a new direction for myself employment-wise.....
I do not remember ever being so ill....on the upside I lost 12 pounds while laid up.
Anyway, on January 5th my son and his wife had a new baby, my second grandchild, my first granddaughter....Madelyn Lee, Maddie for short. She is, IMHO a beautiful baby. She is also a happy baby. My favorite pics so far are these:
As you can tell by the picture, Maddie already has daddy wrapped around her little fingers. He needed a little wrapping , heh.
While laid up, I have been busy making baby clothes, under strict orders from my son that none of them should be pink or frilly. So they are rather untraditional in color and style. I am quite pleased with how they are coming out while I wait for enough wellness to be safe to go see the little princess up close and personal. Odd thing is, a neighbor came to check on me, (who knew my coughing carried so well outside the house) and she asked to take a couple outfits to her boss at her new job in a trendy upscale baby boutique, because she thought she would want to carry some outfits on consignment. In the end she sold the two I sent off the counter as she looked at them (I should mention here that I did not mean to part with the 2 I sent, I thought they were samples only, but I have remade them). This is starting to look like a potential full time job from home, the shop owner told me to design a tag and put it in them and she ordered 12 more outfits, to buy outright at a decent price... I sent 6 to start and 5 of those sold within 2 days, so now I have an order for 18 more. The brand name I am using is Maddie's ToddleTogz. I'll post some pics of what I am turning out in a few days after I get more things made up for the order. The tag I made looks like this:
This could not have come at a better time, my home health client is being moved to a rest home and there are not enough hours to go around right now....so this working from home option is a very good thing. I am adding a couple baby quilts and diaper bags to the order to see how they go. If I can get this going well, and if I can get ahead of the game, I might be able to travel some this summer and not only fill orders while on the road....but also test baby shops along the way for more outlets for the clothes I am designing. I am also thinking about producing a line of patterns for the clothes to market. 2007 may just be the year I define a new direction for myself employment-wise.....
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Playing with shareware....
Okay so I played with a program called ArtRage2 last night... how fun.!!! But let me tell you, drawing with a mouse instead of a tablet is a chunk of work. Keeping in mind that I did these with a mouse, and that is challenging at best, my rough results are posted below..... (the oil paint brush strokes sorta show up in the sun/moon combo in the reduced size image). I could kick some serious butt and really have some fun with this program if I had a tablet.......... guess who's poking around on ebay in a another window?!? I want everyone to note: I DO love color, but I do NOT always create art in shockingly bright colors ;p
And I need to note here one important fact about ArtRage...you don't need great talent to use it, it offers a trace pad option, so you can load a picture and it makes it a tinted background for you to paint over, then you delete the lower image. This makes the program a great learning tool for those trying to learn to draw or paint!
Yup, this program is one I am going to invest in buying the full version of! I cannot believe I have had it down loaded and not installed since Nov. My bad! The pastel sun above is going to become an embellished art quilt one day..... I really like how it turned out!
I've also been playing with another program called Basic Photo Filter, it's shareware... and it's free to use for an unlimited time
http://www.photofiltre.com/
They also have an upgraded version that's closer to Photoshop or Illustrator in what they call the Photo Filter Studio version found here: http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/frames-en.htm
The studio version is free to try for 30 days and then you need to register it to keep using it. Cost:$25 EUR or about $33 USD
Tips and tricks for both versions can found here: http://frontpagesolutions.com/photofiltre/tutorials.htm
And here is my business card, modified slightly using the basic version:
Note: The wildbohemian web site isn't up right now, it hasn't been up for over 2 years, but it IS going back up by January...
And I need to note here one important fact about ArtRage...you don't need great talent to use it, it offers a trace pad option, so you can load a picture and it makes it a tinted background for you to paint over, then you delete the lower image. This makes the program a great learning tool for those trying to learn to draw or paint!
Yup, this program is one I am going to invest in buying the full version of! I cannot believe I have had it down loaded and not installed since Nov. My bad! The pastel sun above is going to become an embellished art quilt one day..... I really like how it turned out!
I've also been playing with another program called Basic Photo Filter, it's shareware... and it's free to use for an unlimited time
http://www.photofiltre.com/
They also have an upgraded version that's closer to Photoshop or Illustrator in what they call the Photo Filter Studio version found here: http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/frames-en.htm
The studio version is free to try for 30 days and then you need to register it to keep using it. Cost:$25 EUR or about $33 USD
Tips and tricks for both versions can found here: http://frontpagesolutions.com/photofiltre/tutorials.htm
And here is my business card, modified slightly using the basic version:
Note: The wildbohemian web site isn't up right now, it hasn't been up for over 2 years, but it IS going back up by January...
Thursday, December 14, 2006
You know...one truly cannot have too many sunfaces....
Especially when one lives in Oregon...
And there really is no such thing as "too much color"...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Oh, look what I found!
A very cool photo editing site, http://photofiddle.com. Through this site you can try out several artsy photo styles and have the ones you like printed to paper or canvas for fair enough prices... nice side benefit of finding this page is that it may just save me from going mad since my computer crashed and took my photo shop with it. The results from doing a photo edit on this site are amazing for an online deal. I am actually gonna get a print of the one I did today of my dog Sheba (RIP). In fact I think it turned quite nice....
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Doodles......
A funny thing happened in route to the sunface art quilt I am designing, with a minor modification to the ribbon on the upper left hand corner doodle, this design became my business card..... The business card company emailed me wanting to buy the design. I am now pondering this offer....
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