Recently, my my mind has been very focused on visual representation of emotion through collage. I have been trying to keep a visual journal, but I find I do not want to use my words. Instead I want to creat beautiful pictures using the images of others. Sometimes I find it very frustrating because I have flashes in my mind of a creation I want to see come to fruition…but the flashes are only of pieces, and when I try to put the image together I find it sorely lacking from its original inspiration.

Other times (like those pictured) I find it only takes a few images to create something that I find truly captivating and inspiring. I have always kept pictures that I like from magazines and now I am looking forward to giving each of them a purpose within my art!

Posted: June 9th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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I am pleased to say that I have completed 21 paper superheroes, and will soon dive into the world of paper super villains . Three months is quite a long time, but I cut only when the fancy truly stuck thus making each hero is a labor of love. Of the 21 there are three that I am not all together happy with, but am unsure how to make them look any better. The rest I am very excited about. I think htey look great all together and feel like their possibilities are endless. Perhaps I will make notecards, or prints , or even finger puppets…I don’t know! At this point I am still unsure if I want to give them faces and so I am leaving them blank as I move into stage two - the villains. Once the villains are underway I will think a little harder about what to do with so many paper people =)

Posted: April 12th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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  This winter I enrolled in a Chinese brush painting class through my local parks and rec. I have long admired the beauty of both Chinese brush painting and the Japanese Sumi-E styles. Determined that I will one day paint a beautiful bird perched with blossoms I have discovered that this so-called ’simple’ art is very complex and challenging. each stroke must be made with meaning, each image is full of symbolic meaning and once a stroke is made it cannot be corrected. The picture above is my first successful attempt at a pine tree.

This is my first attempt of a bird with blossoms. I actually have not been taught how to paint a bird yet, but decided I would try one from a book that I have.   I am very excited about my progress and plan on continuing to learn this beautiful art. I have registered in the next set of lessons and cannot wait to see where my continuied practice takes me.

Posted: March 14th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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It started out that I was just going to make the original line-up of the Justice League from the Cartoon Network’s original show from a few years ago, but once I had finished these seven I kept going! I have now doubled the line-up! I’m not done yet either. I have been feeling quite inspired to keep cutting and make an “unreasonable” amount of heroes!. I know people are waiting for my Etsy shop to reopen with new headband styles, and it will just not quite yet! Must follow my passion where it takes me!  

Posted: January 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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This is not my picture, it’s just the picture that made my Christmas Cheer meter explode. What a darling image - sent to me by my darling from  www.pixdaus.com. Perhaps because I was raised with Disney films I anthropomorphize animals and their relationships all the time. I can only imagine what is running through their minds right now. I want to blow up fromthe cutenesss possibilities. Likely, the cat is wondering how it could possibly eat both of those giant tasty treats =)

Posted: December 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Well the holiday shopping seasons has been a great success thus far. Today was the cut off shipping date for packages from Canada to make it to their US destinations by Christmas and i have been busy filling orders and sending them off to their new homes. I am hoping that they warm the hearts of all those who receive them.

I have put a new offer in my shop that if you send me an appreciation photo of you in your Lotus Lulu headgear that I will provide a discount on your next order. I do hope this will inspire some pictures to come in as I would love to see the headbands in action! In the future,I would love to have someone else or several others model my headbands, as I am beginning to feel a wee bit vain posting all these photos of myself! I feel a little like a single gal on her Myspace or something! Ha.

I will be closing up my shop for Christmas holidays soon so that I can dedicate myself to my Christmas and allow my creative juices to flow to create new looks for 2009!

I wish you all a beautiful holiday

Posted: December 12th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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As we roll into December the sound of sleigh bells start jingling in the hearts and ears of many. Santa, presents, loved ones, trees, decorations, snacks, and, of course, the gifts. Last year I worked hard to keep my gift giving from benefiting large big box retailers. This year, I hope to do the same and have begun the hunt through my pal www.etsy.com.

I hope that my own handicrafts will also new homes this holiday and brighten the heads and hearts of Christmas parties and New Year’s galas. I keep creating, but lag in getting my new creations listed and pictured. I am hoping to have some new headbands up in the next day or so. Wherever you are in your Christmas shopping, I encourage you to think “outside the box”, or at least outside the big box =) Bring Christmas back to its roots and help out your local cottage economies and boutiques.

24 more sleeps!

Posted: December 1st, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Etsy customers are in full feather fashion this season! Headbands and hair accessories have been flying (hahaha) out of my store and around the globe this fall. It’s been so exciting and rewarding to see my creations head to their new homes and to have people asking for more. Already, I have had some repeat clientele online and I can just feel how we are building a lasting relationship because I love accessories and making unique beautiful items.

Thank-you to Etsy for the opportunity and to my customers for making my feathered dreams come true. I could not be more pleased with my progress at the moment. I am hoping to make 50 sales by the end of November - I think I can do it! Here are some of my most recent additions to my Lotus Lulu shop

Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Free advertising you ask? Well yes, I will happily take some! I was contacted on Etsy by the editor of a local paper who had included my picture at Oceanfest in her article about the event. I must say, I do look happy and crafty at my table selling my wares! I haven’t been in the paper since I was in high school musicals more than a decade ago. It’s about time I got some press =) I cannot wait to send my parents a copy (and paste this pic into my visual journal!)

Posted: October 2nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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They are starting to fly into an Etsy shop near you!!!

Posted: September 24th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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