I spent the bulk of my day yesterday working out cabinet and shelf layouts for my craft room. I got probably one of the hardest spaces worked out, the one that ties all the sides together. It was kind of like trying to figure out an extremely difficult puzzle and the most obnoxious brain teaser… Continue reading Only The Beginning
Category: Being Creative
Orderly And Logical… Yeah Right!
I think it is completely typical of me that I can't do things in any kind of "normal way" and my craft room project looks to be right in line with MY normal. A project like this should really have a nice linear kind of a process. Come up with a design plan. Research your… Continue reading Orderly And Logical… Yeah Right!
Redbubble Halloween Masks
I have been toying with this idea almost since I set up my Redbubble store and I saw they did masks. I mean, come on! If you have to wear a face mask, especially around Halloween, you've GOT to have fun with it! TJ Fox's Halloween Masks on Redbubble The skull mask came from the… Continue reading Redbubble Halloween Masks
Twilight Lighthouse on Redbubble
I had so much fun with the Night Sky Silhouette piece I did a while back, I wanted to play some more. Sadly, it took me way too long to carve out the time to sit down and work at my computer, but I finally managed it! I'm SO thrilled by this one! Even more… Continue reading Twilight Lighthouse on Redbubble
Mask Up and Dance On: Redbubble Collection
My latest Redbubble addition is sort of a whole collection dedicated to dance called Mask Up and Dance On. The main goal was mask design, but there are a lot of other product options for each design. I'm planning on adding other colors and maybe even another font or two, but this gave me a… Continue reading Mask Up and Dance On: Redbubble Collection
Water, Sky & Flowers On Redbubble
I've managed to get a small handful of additional photos uploaded to my Redbubble shop today. This is a LONG work in progress as some take more adjustments than others to get them to look good on all the different products I'd like to see them on. I'm also working on trying to get these… Continue reading Water, Sky & Flowers On Redbubble
Night Sky Silhouette & Reflection
Adobe recently, and finally, released a new version of Fresco that I can now use on my laptop. Until now, it had only been available on iPad, which was hugely disappointing because it looked like an amazing hybrid tool that allows both pixel and vector based drawing. Since I've gotten it, I've been playing around… Continue reading Night Sky Silhouette & Reflection
TJ Fox On Redbubble: Photo/Art Prints And Fun Products
One of my most recent and ongoing projects has been setting up a Redbubble store. The goal was to have a place to offer prints of many of the photos I post here, but there are so many other cool things you can get from them as well. This is ongoing because I still have… Continue reading TJ Fox On Redbubble: Photo/Art Prints And Fun Products
Elongation
I spent the majority of my day yesterday going through the 150+ photos I took of MC and making necessary edits. I'm still not quite ready to send them off for prints as I still have to go through them and decide which ones I'm getting for his final "package" of senior photos. I'm hoping… Continue reading Elongation
Dance Masks
And... they are frickin' DONE! I absolutely love them, but they were a bear and a half. I broke/bent 5 of the 6 needles I had originally thought I'd had. Right before I started sewing yesterday I wanted to have the others on hand but couldn't remember where I put them and ran across a… Continue reading Dance Masks
June: Month Of The DNF
Lately, I've been doing more of a month end followup with a listing of books I'd recommend from the month rather than packing the month with reviews. Not for June. June kind of crystallized why I've been changing all of my book blogging and reviewing habits lately, including stepping down from the staff position at… Continue reading June: Month Of The DNF
Yesterday’s Project: Laptop Bag
Apparently working on all those masks inspired me to keep sewing. Also apparently, making 35+ masks wasn't ambitious or challenging enough, I had to find a project even more difficult and time consuming. I had been thinking about getting a bag for the new laptop (which finally came!!) when I ordered it. My old computer… Continue reading Yesterday’s Project: Laptop Bag
Mask Making
A couple of caveats: This post is only for those that find wearing masks to be useful and isn't intended to debate the merits or efficacy of masks. These instructions are based on my personal trial and error and the design modifications are intended to work for me and my Hubby. They are based on… Continue reading Mask Making
Stretching The Creativity
This is MC's last official week of high school. Most of his classes are already done and he has very little work left. He will have an AP final later in the month, but that was always set for that date. It will just be an online version instead. That's because he is finishing out… Continue reading Stretching The Creativity
Happy Easter!
Hope that bunny was wearing his mask while he snuck in an extra roll or two of toilet paper into your baskets!
Mother Of All Invention
Since everything is so far from normal right now, my usual plan for Easter for my kids isn't happening. For one, it really snuck up on me and I didn't have time to get some of our traditional things. When Hubby did go for our grocery run, the candy section was absolutely wiped out. He… Continue reading Mother Of All Invention
Makeshift Dance Floor Project
Absolutely amazed at how impressive this turned out. Seriously didn't quite expect it to look this good. And.. it was relatively cheap to do! I used the most inexpensive wood laminate flooring I could find for the surface. Normally, if you were actually installing this as a permanent floor, you would use an underlay material.… Continue reading Makeshift Dance Floor Project
Wet And Rainy
Our wonderful streak of warm, sunny days has ended and today is wet, rainy and dreary. Not the least little bit conducive to getting my camera out past the overhang on my porch. It is a good day to go hole up in my studio and see if I can actually manage to get that… Continue reading Wet And Rainy
Playing In The Studio
I'm playing with sterling PMC for the first time in years. I had forgotten how much I loved it. It is amazing that a small lump of clay can be fired into a finished sterling silver piece. It doesn't look like much yet, but it is going to end up being a book charm for… Continue reading Playing In The Studio
Decent To Better
So, I'm still playing and trying to learn more of the ins and outs of the new software, though I don't have nearly enough time each day to play as much as I'd like. The above image is the altered version of the photo below. I wanted to see how much better I could make… Continue reading Decent To Better
Last Year’s Rose
I'd say that I'm planning on playing more with the new software today, but I'm starting to accumulate projects that I need to be working on. While my calendar for March isn't nearly as full or as colorful as April and May, March is when the crazy starts to really seep in and I need… Continue reading Last Year’s Rose
TJ Fox: Sharing the Experience 