September 30th 2010

I'm feeling so much better that I actually got some writing done tonight. It feels good to be creative again.

September 28th 2010

Still sick, sleep has replaced creativity.

September 27th 2010

I'm to sick to do anything creative tonight.

September 26th 2010

I took yesterday off from being creative but I did have a fun day with my little sister. Today I tried to make a flip book cartoon about a cat and a butterfly but of course I made it at the back of my note book so I can't get it to flip right and my real cat Wally wouldn't leave me alone while I tried to take pictures of the pages, I'll try to use a real camer to take pictures of it tomorrow instead of my flashless iPhone.

September 24th 2010

It seems like I am on a doodle kick and that I am wanting to learn more about drawing again, so I googled how to draw curls, which I tried some what successfully but when I tried to draw them on a person I got scared and just stuck with straight hair. I know its not very good but everyone has to start somewhere right.

September 23rd 2010

today I practiced driving the stick shift some more and it took much longer than we thought. I decided that I actually wanted to work on my sketching some more so I took a picture I already drew and tried to recreate the basic shape of the original and then practiced drawing a different kind of hair and tried to work on shading. It no where near complete but I think it was and interesting attempt.

September 22nd 2010

Today was epic cleaning day or I would have worked on sewing or made a necklace or something cool like that but I guess those kind of creative things will just have to wait for another day. I have done some writing, tryig to figure out there this story arc is going to go.

September 21st 2010

So tonight was Glee night...which means I didn't do a whole lot of anything, so instead of drawing yet another bad picture I cooked yummy food, and I think cooking can be just as creative as sewing or writing, at least I feel just as accomplished, expecially if all the food is edible and I didn't actually use any recipies.



on the menu tonight:
chicken grilled on a george forman
fresh green beans and red potatoes that I actually cut up and cooked
fried red potatoes
garlic dinner rolls

it was all soooo good.

September 20th 2010

Today I learned how to drive a stick shift so I didn't have a whole lot of time to be creative but I did look up a couple of tutorials and pictures of cartoon cats and practice drawing.

September 19th 2010

Today was the tall cake class in greenwood. The instructor was really nice and we learned some cool things about how to keep you cake from squishing itself or falling apart. I made a fall stacked cake that I will be taking to work tomorrow. The class was out in the store at Joann fabrics where customers can walk by and see what we are doing and I guess these two ladies really liked my cake because they went back to the cake decorating section and were trying to find the tree on top of my cake. When one of the ladies came back asking about it i told her that I had actually made the tree, pumpkins, and leaves.

Cake icing -butter cream
leaves and grass -royal icing
tree and pumpkins -fondant

September 18th 2010

Today mom and iced our cakes for class the fun part will be tomorrow when we learn how they go together.

Also we celebrated my little sisters birthday today and she looked so cute in her dress

September 17th 2010

Today was fun with fondant and royal icing. I made more leaves And 6 cute tiny pumpkins for my cake class on Sunday.

September 16th 2010

Today was more cake decorating. I made the leaves for my fall cake that I am going to make in class this weekend and my mom and I made my Little Sister's birthday cake. There were some problems but it just looks like the castle might be under attack, no big deal. I think the grass and flower pots out front really added a lot to the cake.

September 15th 2010

Today I drew a bunch of fun doodles for my friends at work, unfortunately I gave them all away before I remembered to take pictures of them.

I also wrote another chapter of In Witch, it is interesting exploring Marlot's personality when she doesn't have Jack around to soften her up. If you want to know what I am talking about you will just have to wait for the update. I will try to actually update In Witch sometime before next Wednesday, I want to read over all of the older chapters to make sure I am still on the right track.

September 14th 2010

It was Glee night so not a whole lot got done but a new modified chapter has been writen for In Witch. I'm really happy with how my new chapters are turning out and I'm excited about where the story is going. I love Marlot when she is being sassy and I love it more when I get to play around with her magic, my leading lady is a witch after all.

September 13th 2010

I spent a good amount of my time today cleaning, which I think needs some creativity but I know that isn't enough. I think part of the reason I have slowed down so much when it comes to writing new chapters for In Witch is because I have lost track of the characters, so I am going back and reading my story from the beginning and making some edits along the way. So that is the creative thing I did today. I will actually try to start making things again soon but for some reason in the fall I want to write.

September 12th 2010

More cake decorating with my mom. What can I say, we signed up for a tiered cake class for next Sunday and we have to bring in two double layer cakes apiece. I decided to do a fall themed cake, complete with fallen leaves, scary looking trees, and pumpkins. I made the tree today out of dow rodes, black twist ties, and fondant, and the royal icing for the leaves.

September 11th 2010

Today my mom and I spent all day at a car show with our new 1974 VW Beetle while my dad was off buying a 1974 Dodge Challenger. Our bug was compleatly redone by the previous owner but my dad's Challenger is more of a project car. His plan is to document all the changes and improvements he makes to his new toy. I got to talking with my parents and we found a lot of information about the history of the challenger and when my dad is finished I am going to make a kind of poster he can have on display with his car with some of the history of it and pictures of his car as he was working on it. So my creative thing for the day was to make a couple of layouts for the poster. Layouts are kind of my thing after studying advertising in college and working as a book designer. I'm really excited to get started on it and to see my dads new car all put together.

September 10th 2010

I haven't actually updated my story In Witch... But I have just written a new chapter and Marlot is getting mean. I love it when my characters can express emotions that I am just not good at showing. I will try to update my blog with the new chapter sometime next week.

September 9th 2010

Today I wore the Alice in Wonderland necklace that I made a couple of months ago and a friend of mine really liked it and wanted one. So I thought I would see what I could come up with tonight, sadly I didn't have enough charms to really pull it off but I was in jewelry making mode so I tried to copy something out of a book that I have, but with just a bunch of random charms that I have. That was going to be way to tedious and I thought it was going to look weird, but I did get a few charms on and then I left it the way it was. The necklace is totally random but I really like it that way. I started on another one, but like the first it wasn't going my way. I will probably tear it all apart and start over next time.

September 8th 2010

Today was very busy and by time I got home I didn't have time to actually make anything. Sadly I also have writer's block when it comes to In Witch... So I made a kind of chart as to what I could do and some possible outcomes. I think I finally know which way I want to go with the story. I will try to actually get a chapter posted tomorrow.

September 7th 2010

First off I finished my Little Sister's dress, all that needed to be done was to add the zipper




But I didn't think that was creative enough, so I made a neclace for my friend

September 6th 2010

Today was the last of the cake decorating tricks that my mom was teaching me. We made lilies, primroses, apple blossoms, violets, and daffodils. Apple blossoms are my favorite, easy and cute.

September 5th 2010

Today my mom taught me some more cake decorating secrets and now I can make the ribbon rose out of butter cream icing



I also helped my mom decorate a cake that she wanted to make for work. Really she just wanted to practice doing the basket weave on a cake instead of just on paper and she had promised she would bring in a cake to work. My mom had already made the flowers while she was in the cake decorating class out of royal icing




Finally mom taught me how to make Wilton roses and rose buds out of royal icing. In November I am going to make a Rapunzal cake for the new Disney movie Tangled. The cake is going to be a tower with a fondant princess on top and roses going up the side. So I made small versions of the rose buds and full roses.

September 4th 2010

Today was busy but I still managed to fit in some creative time. Mom taught me how to do the basket weave and reverse shell boarder for cake decorating. Sadly I forgot to take pictures but the basket weave is actually really fun.

September 3rd 2010

I didn't do much at all in the creative field at all today and I have no idea which way I want my story In Witch... To go next. So with a serious case of writers block and the fact that I can't locate my writing help guide I decided to work on a different story I had stared a really long time ago, kind of a retelling of Beauty and the Best, and see what I could come up with. Having the entire story in a single characters head as a series of journal entries is way harder than I thought, but I love a challenge.

September 2nd 2010

I finished my Little Sister's dress...well all but the zipper which I will get this weekend because I forgot to get it when I got the material for the dress. It is so cute, will totally match her doll's dress, and was super easy to make, even if the Project runway pattern was hard to understand.







Simplicity
2989
top size 5 skirt size 6

September 1st 2010

So I have a whole shelf full of things to make and things that need fixed, I finally sat down and fixed something, a quilt my mom had made for my kitten Panda because she loved to sit in my arm chair and would get it covered in black and white fur. Bad thing was that once the blanket was covered in hair I tried to wash it and some of the seams came apart because it was made out of flannal and didn't hold up well.
Well now my baby kitten has her blanket back even though her brother is now using it.






I then went back to my Little Sister's dress and started putting it together, I now have the top and sleaves all put together. It is going to be so cute.