It's calender time!

Oops, I am a bit late today, but work ran long. So, today, is the beginning of my annual calender. It started in 2005 when I was extra tight on money. I wanted to give everyone something, but what? I decided to make my own calendar. The end cost was whatever Kinko's charged per copy. I could give everyone a gift that was hand made.

Now I do this every year, well, except 2009 when I didn't have any ideas. No big deal, I made other gifts right! Well, my family was all disappointed that they didn't get them that year. I didn't know they liked them that much, but they did. So, now I HAVE to make them.

It starts with the basics, I draw out an outline for the days and dates and then photocopy them. It gets too tedious to draw out 12 calendar blocks. Next I fill in the months, dates and holidays. Step one done! This is my 2011 start. As I finish the illustrations for the months, I will post them. This years theme is food related songs. The first years designs basically coincided with the month, February = hearts, March = shamrocks etc. Some of the other years were household hints, recipes and inspirational quotes. It is a fun project and something that everyone can use.

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Heartthrob Cafe Memories

The best job ever and the coolest friends that I ever had were when I worked at a restaurant called the Heartthrob Cafe. It was in downtown St Paul, Minnesota and was so fun! Today we had a get together to catch up and reminisce. This is one of the many good things about facebook, finding people that you wished you never lost contact with. So, today my post is the buttons that I made for this event. We had 'flair' that was a lot more fun and cool than a restaurant chain that I will not name here. We danced and sang birthday songs. The girls wore poodle skirts and we did all of this while wearing in line skates. We were a crazy family and honestly this was one of the best times in my life. Ahhh...memories. In the time spent there somehow the button machine came into my possession. In honor of our gathering, of course I had to make pins. Here are also two murals that I painted at the restaurant. Let me...

Too many ideas!

When is comes to this time of year, my mind goes into creative overdrive. I realize my posting is much less now that my original goal has been met, but believe me, I am still making stuff. There are about ten Christmas gifts in the works as well as my calender drawings. Current projects involve sewing, crafting, drawing and crocheting. I am proud to say that a good chunk of gifts are already done or close to being done, yeah! Working in a fabric store has definitely boosted my creativity and some days too many ideas are crowding my mind. Because funds are still low for us, I have been buying things bit by bit every payday. It helps to not have to blow an entire paycheck all at once. This also is good because with my discount on top of sale price, I have gotten some incredible deals. Add caption Today, my post will be the first of my calender pages. There are two finished so only ten to go!

Black and Blue Snowflakes

Ah winter in Minnesota! We have had a lot of snow this year and this design is snowflake based. There is a contest that I am entering this week for snowflake design. You can use any medium that you would like the only requirement is that it be no larger than 12 x 12 for display purposes. I doodled until I came up with this 'snowflake.' At this time I don't know if I want to submit the black design or the one that I did in the blue outline. Both are very unique. I have to admit after making the first design, I traced it for the second one, but as an artist sometimes you need to do that to get things just right. If anyone is reading this a comment or two would be helpful in my decision. The deadline is on Wednesday of this week. It would be nice to get some kind of recognition for my art other than friends and family telling me how talented I am. It keeps me going, but sometimes it would be nice to hear it from s...

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