Easter time!

It is a wonderful thing to have a pet bunny around during Easter....

They take the cutest pictures!



Happy Easter everyone!

Sewing crafts

So I'm VERY delayed in posting these, but I'm still very proud of the way they all turned out so I'm going to post them anyways. Last Christmas (yes, Christmas) I got very crafty with my presents for everyone (primarily out of a need to save money this year). First, I found this adorable stuffed bird pattern on Spool, downloaded that and converted my apartment into a bird factory over Thanksgiving weekend. Here are a few of the results:



I ended up making about 20 of these little guys. I added the little wire legs so that they would be able to stand-up on their own. A part of me still wants to make more, especially after I saw this BEAUTIFUL bird mobile idea on Design*Sponge, using the same bird pattern. However, while my crafty heart says "yes," my tired fingers say "no." At least for now.

I had already made birds for my coworkers for another occasion, so I had to come up with something new to give them for the holidays. For them I drew out a simple star pattern and then designed a monogram for each of their initials. Using my light table, I painted each of the monograms onto a nice muslin fabric and sewed them into ornaments. For a very impromptu project, I was very pleased with the results!



The good thing about them is they don't have to be just for Christmas. Several of my coworkers came back saying they were using them as door hangers so they could leave them out all year long.

Snow!

So Atlanta was buried under a whopping 6 inches if snow yesterday. A friend of mine who is living in the UK commented that it was even colder here than it is where she is in Bradford England. It snows so infrequently here that a snow day still feels like a gift to me. In a sense, it's God telling me I need to calm down for a day, go run around outside and build a snowman. I got absolutely nothing accomplished, but who could when you have views like this outside your apartment:





My thoughts exactly.

The Four Seasons

Ta da! The four seasons... all at one time!!

Bathtime!!

Remember when you were small, and the bathtub was really just a small swimming pool?

I miss those days.

Unfinished Business

So I had a goal for myself that I was going to illustrate a calendar for every month this year as an incentive to get me to focus on building my portfolio and updating this blog more often. Well, it's almost the end of February now and while I have done some illustrations for said calendar, I'm far behind and have not been keeping up with posting them every month.

So instead, I'm just going to post the two illustrations I DO have done and hope everyone enjoys them. :)

Here's January!



And February!



I'd like to still keep up with this and then maybe by 2010, I'll have a full year completely done.

Perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on myself. I have had a lot of freelance and other events in my life that have kept me very busy. In January I produced 6 illustrations for this adorable little company called Idbids and they were just now posted to their website. It was rather thrilling to have my work posted on the internet by someone other than myself. :)

Well, if it was not a long time in between posts before, it definitely has been now. I've been a busy girl. Since my last post, I've moved into my lovely apartment in midtown Atlanta and have been spent a good bit of my energy decorating it to my liking. I hired my friends to help me paint it a bright green and blue color and am so pleased with the results. This is my first apartment that is only mine and I went all out on personalizing it. The place is only 550 sq feet so I had to get creative with how I set up my work space.



I also painted my kitchen/ living room bright green which gave it a bit of an art deco flair






As an additional side project, I found this great dresser at a thrift store for $35 and had a great time designing and a painting it to my liking. In my haste to get started I neglected to take a before photo, but I'm quite pleased with the after.




It sat in my bedroom untouched for several months before I was able to get to it. Needless to say, I'm thrilled to finally be able to use it for its intended purpose.

Another recent addition to my life is my pet rabbit Bruno. He is the new love of my life and I see him being a great source of material for future illustrations.



Oh wait, he already has! :)



Life has been treating me well. I've picked up some new clients that have been keeping me very busy (in a good way). I'm hoping now that I've finally gotten my life more situated, I can update more often.