I want a cut, but can't decide what would work best with my thin/fine hair and what I want to commit to.
6/24/12
indecisive
My desktop has been littered with photos like these:
I want a cut, but can't decide what would work best with my thin/fine hair and what I want to commit to.
I want a cut, but can't decide what would work best with my thin/fine hair and what I want to commit to.
6/23/12
Creating
I have been really thinking about creating and why I do and don't create.
(Helen Frankenthaler, color field painter)
A quote:
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
An inspiring story (I posted this once on my old blog, but I love it a lot so here goes):
Joanna Goddard, Blogger/Writer, A Cup of Jo
"When I was in my early 20s, I felt unmoored. After college, I moved to New York City by myself. My apartment had mice, I was very single, and I was so broke that I would skip getting tomatoes on my bagel because they cost fifty cents extra. I was trying to have my Mary Tyler Moore moment, but wasn’t sure how. Was this it?
"Then, one day, I magically stumbled upon the best advice I’d ever heard. In a blog interview, photographer Stephanie Congdon Barnes said: 'You can have the life you want.' It was just the encouragement I needed. You can create the life you want. You can figure out what exactly that means to you, and instead of getting caught up in an imagined rat race, you can work hard, grow in your career, spend time with your family, ride your bike by the river, eat too much spaghetti, have friends over for wine and cheese, go on vacation and take funny photos… I suddenly felt like it was possible. I could carve out the life I wanted. Ten years later, I remember those beautiful words almost every day."
Some projects:
Blake and I have been slowly getting our little house decorated and furnished. We got this Ikea couch on craigslist for $35 and I found some cheap fabric and recovered the cushions. I think I liked the fabric better in theory, and may re-cover them with something new later in the year.
Some family portraits I worked on while taking on-line driving school. I made one of myself too, but I need to rework it. The cat is a 100% rip off of an Andy Warhol drawing I love.
Working on a wedding dress for one of Blake's childhood friends- SCARY!
(Helen Frankenthaler, color field painter)
A quote:
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
An inspiring story (I posted this once on my old blog, but I love it a lot so here goes):
Joanna Goddard, Blogger/Writer, A Cup of Jo
"When I was in my early 20s, I felt unmoored. After college, I moved to New York City by myself. My apartment had mice, I was very single, and I was so broke that I would skip getting tomatoes on my bagel because they cost fifty cents extra. I was trying to have my Mary Tyler Moore moment, but wasn’t sure how. Was this it?
"Then, one day, I magically stumbled upon the best advice I’d ever heard. In a blog interview, photographer Stephanie Congdon Barnes said: 'You can have the life you want.' It was just the encouragement I needed. You can create the life you want. You can figure out what exactly that means to you, and instead of getting caught up in an imagined rat race, you can work hard, grow in your career, spend time with your family, ride your bike by the river, eat too much spaghetti, have friends over for wine and cheese, go on vacation and take funny photos… I suddenly felt like it was possible. I could carve out the life I wanted. Ten years later, I remember those beautiful words almost every day."
Some projects:
Blake and I have been slowly getting our little house decorated and furnished. We got this Ikea couch on craigslist for $35 and I found some cheap fabric and recovered the cushions. I think I liked the fabric better in theory, and may re-cover them with something new later in the year.
Some family portraits I worked on while taking on-line driving school. I made one of myself too, but I need to rework it. The cat is a 100% rip off of an Andy Warhol drawing I love.
Working on a wedding dress for one of Blake's childhood friends- SCARY!
6/8/12
30 days of creativity
I found this great challenge called "30 Days of Creativity".
I have been making a lot of art this year- but it's all student based for school. I haven't had a lot of time to create. Scratch that. I haven't made it a priority to create...because I had plenty of time to finish all four seasons of Felicity. The real problem is that I just feel "stuck" I have tons of pictures of things I want to create but I don't. Part of it is fear I guess. Anyway, it's time I stop spending time collecting pictures and ideas of things to create and actually CREATE!
I like it, because it encourages you to create what YOU want to. There are really no guidelines...other than make or create something every day, for 30 days. I am setting a time limit that it has to take at least 30 min.
More details/inspiration found here.
I'm starting yesterday, because I actually created something and I want to start the challenge off on the right foot. I helped my Kristine start sewing a pair of pants. We worked on them for a couple of hours and will finish up next week. Here is the pattern we are using:
I altered the pattern so that the pants fit closer to the body and taper in at the ankle.
I have been making a lot of art this year- but it's all student based for school. I haven't had a lot of time to create. Scratch that. I haven't made it a priority to create...because I had plenty of time to finish all four seasons of Felicity. The real problem is that I just feel "stuck" I have tons of pictures of things I want to create but I don't. Part of it is fear I guess. Anyway, it's time I stop spending time collecting pictures and ideas of things to create and actually CREATE!
I like it, because it encourages you to create what YOU want to. There are really no guidelines...other than make or create something every day, for 30 days. I am setting a time limit that it has to take at least 30 min.
More details/inspiration found here.
I'm starting yesterday, because I actually created something and I want to start the challenge off on the right foot. I helped my Kristine start sewing a pair of pants. We worked on them for a couple of hours and will finish up next week. Here is the pattern we are using:
I altered the pattern so that the pants fit closer to the body and taper in at the ankle.
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