For those of you who know me I'm very creative, but for about 6 years now I haven't done too much with it. I used to focus all my creativity into painting and illustration, but I had a lot of setbacks right after I graduated and that on top of having two kids it just kinda fell by the wayside.
Right after SCAD, I had four book deals for illustration, three of which fell through because the small publishing company lost funding for the project I was working on. That right, three of them. I also spent about $1500 dollars on mailer to companies looking for illustration work and when I heard back at all it was to tell me they weren't looking to hire anyone because they didn't have the funding, but I was more than welcome to submit my art for free for "experience". Which any art school will tell you is wrong. And if you do this, you just make it harder for other artists to make a living.
Needless to say, I was discouraged....
But, now that I have a smidgen of free time and thanks to the wonderful world of blogging I have discovered by love for crafting!
It actually started as a solution to my front door dilemma. I wanted a beautiful wreath for the front door for Christmas, but when I started shopping around for one they were either super tacky or over $40 dollars! After some online browsing I found a tutorial for making yarn wreaths and out Christmas one turned out beautifully. So when Valentines day came around the corner I tried again and this was the result:
So this weekend I moved onto a new project that I have wanted to do for a long time...wooden nursery letters! Ever since I knew Eden existed I wanted them, but most online sites to order these charge $80 dollars!. I thought I would just get some large wooden letter and paint them, but its never quite gotten there. But, with the power of ModgePodge and some really pretty scrapbooking paper I give you Eden's letters:
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