After alot of thinking and looking around I've decided to move my blog! Instead of being under blogger I will now be working under wordpress. You can find the new home of my blog riiiiiiiight here ->https://crims0nscarf.wordpress.com/

While blogger has been good to me, I've come to want different things. The new blog has all of my old posts and I will be updating it hopefully pretty regularly! So come join me in our new home!

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This is an embroidery piece I'm doing with a few succulents. Pictured here are just the very beginning stages. But even that little succulent took quite some time!
These two are hand carved stamps that I put onto muslin so that I can embroider around the quotes. I have to wait for them to dry before I go wild on them, but I assure you it will look AWESOME!

  Well friends, it's 1 AM where I am. Should I be up? Heck NO! But every once in a while I get a creative frenzy. I'm not sure if this is something that happens to every artist or if I'm just bonkers. I was laying up in bed. Quite content. Playing around on my computer (Pinterest and the like) with my lil guy passed out next to me when all of a sudden I got the itch. The itch that can only be cured by staying up all hours and doing SOMETHING. I have been working on embroidering a t-shirt of mine and it's kinda been at a standstill. So I grabbed my computer, headed downstairs, and got to work. I finished a great majority of the t-shirt before I got disastrously tired. I also watched a few ted talks on creativity (man they are good. I pinned a few to my artist videos board on Pinterest if you wanna check um out here).
  Now if I don't go crash I am going to fall asleep with my sketchbook and embroidery needles. I'll give you guys some more info on my crazy frenzy's in the morning. Tata!

  I know, I know, I'm dreadful at this blogging thing. But I actually have been working my tail end off :). If you guys ever check my Instagram or Facebook  you might see some of the stuff I've been up to. But just in case...



  So this is the progression of a piece I made for the Together We Can charity auction in Wamego KS. I had a piece I was going to finish and give, but then the idea for a wreath popped up and I decided to go for it! THANK GOD I finished it in time for the auction. I painted a white canvas in acrylic paint and then went over it with some watercolor drips. Each of those lovely flowers was painted with watercolors and then cut out and glued down onto the canvas. With those little flowers I cut out each one individually, so needless to say it took quite a while. But I really love how it turned out :)
  So yeah that's what I've had going on. I'm thinking of making a few more flower wreaths. Any thoughts?

The finals hell is finally over! Whoopee!!!! I turned in my last paper earlier today and man do I feel free! I am so stinking excited to be done for the semester! Granted, I do have to take some classes this summer, but not near the full load I take during the school year. SO I HAVE FREE TIME!!! WOOHOO!! This means days at the pool with my mini man and days in the studio with my mini man and maybe even a mommy vacation with some friends or something. This is EXCITEMENT! So I will hopefully be talking to you guys even more than usual, which yes I'll admit really isn't much lol.
HOORAY FOR SUMMER!

  Well, today's been a sort of crummy day. In reality it's been fine there's just been this cloud of funkitude hanging over me. Really bums me out. But ANYWAY. Inspiration for today, hmm....
  As cheesy as it is today I'm going with nature. Now I'm not just talking your usual flowers and such {although I do love a good flower}. I have a particular love for succulents. A few reasons why:
A-They are ridiculously hard to kill.
B-They are ridiculously easy to care for.
C-They don't pollinate and therefore my allergies aren't trying to kill me.
D- They're very good houseplants without feeling like houseplants
E-THEYRE PRETTY.

Sadly none of the following photos are mine, I've attached links to their homes in case you wanna do some more research, they're from super cute posts and blogs}

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  Adorable, no? They're perfect for tiny planters, hanging planters, funky planters, really anything. {Yes I realize there are some cacti in there. While I have none yet I do aspire to get some}.

Films
Oh my I love films. There are some films that I have seen that, to be honest, just speak to my soul. Sounds ridiculously cheesy, I'm aware. But there are some things that make me want to be creative and get me all sorts of excited!

For instance, this new The Little Prince trailer. You can find it here. I am SO STINKING EXCITED. I get the fact that it may be a children's movie. This does absolutely nothing to deter my excitement. A lot of people have heard or red the story of The Little Prince. From what I know it's a pretty common occurrence in most high school french rooms. If not, it's the story of a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself, and the pilot who finds him in the desert and sits quietly to learn his story. A very whimsical and wonderful tail. Perfect for crazy minds like mine who simply can't stand normality. The movie's take on this classic story seems to be that there is a little girl leading an exceedingly normal life. She then meets her eccentric old neighbor who tells her the story from when he was a pilot of when he met the little prince. Book lovers all over seem to be going back and forth on wether this will be good or not. Personally, I think it's a wonderful adaptation. Keeping true to the story and themes from the book, but giving the production team a whole other story to get to create for the first time and mix in with such a well known tale.

Another film I'm constantly obsessed with is Amelie.

  So, something that inspires me...hm....other artists probably. I have a real addiction to watching artist videos. Doesn't matter if it's just watching them do their process or if it's an interview, I LOVE IT. Making art is an extremely personal process. So when you can watch someone go about this process and see how they do things and how they cope with things, it's just incredible to me. Very few people have ever seen me at my desk or in my studio fully in tune to creating, and probably not many more will. I get so zoned into my art that it's difficult for me to talk to anyone or even look at them without feeling weird cause I'm so in my process.

One place I love to find artist videos is on Vimeo. {no this isn't a sponsored post or anything, I just love this site}. To me it's a sort of artists youtube. And while you can find plenty of artist videos on youtube, this site is a bit more polished most of the time. You can search any art form and find cool videos to go with it or just browse all the cool videos they have.

I also have a pinterest board full of videos here.

So go! Get into other artist's heads and see what's going on. You might just find something that will help you create even greater things.

  OK! NEW GOAL! Let's keep an inspiration thingy going! I don't know if it'll be every day, every other day, or once a week {At least once a week though} but I'm gonna post something that inspires me! You guys ready?!

  I'm still trying to get comfortable with my lovely little blog here and i decided it was time for a change of scenery. Nothing too drastic I don't think. Any thoughts you guys?

  I was so determined to keep it up every day! And while this is no excuse, I was indeed sick and I think that took a toll on me. Again, no excuse!!!

  For most of my life I had issues with happiness. I've dealt with depression since at least 5th grade {I could blame it on the horrible girls who quite literally hated me and the small class size...but let's not go there today}. I wasn't always deep in the throws of horrible depression. Sometimes I was even greatly happy. But other times...
  When I started high school I moved from a small little class of about 17 into a public school where my freshman class was 500 something {and we were a smaller class}. I knew no one. Eventually I made a friend or two, but all the kids I was with had already banded together in middle school while I'd been in a teeny tiny private school. This led to me spiraling even more into depression.
  The summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school my mother got married. This led to us moving to a tiny town in Kansas, where yet again I knew no one. The high school was much smaller {my class was only about 100 something}. However I still was pretty depressed.
  I started dating a guy that year {who I ended up dating all throughout high school and who is my son's father}. If anything, dating him made me more depressed than I already was. He was a moody, depressed guy who pity partied ALL THE TIME.
  I found out I was pregnant about halfway through my junior year of high school. Needless to say, shocker. But instead of getting into an even worse depression, this sort of buoyed me. Instead of simply living day by day in my own personal made hell, I had someone to live for. Now I'm not advocating teen pregnancy or saying that getting pregnant is a solve all to all depression, I'm just saying God knew what he was doing.
  After I had my son I was tired, I was working my butt off to take care of him, and I still am. This little booger is the craziest most energetic little boy, possibly in the world. But he has truly helped me find my happiness.
  I was always doodling and such when I was younger but I never truly got into art until college. To be honest, I'm not even entirely sure why I majored in art. It sort of just happened {it seems like a lot of good stuffs just been happening lately}. At the end of my freshman year I switched over to Art Ed {again, just sort of happened}. I honestly couldn't be happier with my choice. Besides the face that I will forever get to play with all types of art, I also get to share my excitement of art with another generation.
  Since I've started college I've started doing a lot more art. It has helped me with stress, depression, and just general moods. It is one of the things that has helped me find my happiness. I get a rush when I'm creating something new, especially when I love what I'm making. And one of the greatest things is when I make something and show it to my lil guy and HE loves it.
  This road to finding my happiness has been a long and tiring one, and I'm still not done with my journey. But then again, none of us are.

  Everyone has dreams. Wether it's just dreaming of the delicious pastry you get to eat in the morning, or your perfect dream house, we all dream. I have a few long term dreams that I'm extremely passionate about. Since this is the place I seem to purge out all my thoughts, I'll tell you guys.

1~ My first longterm dream is to survive wholly on my art. I create all sorts of different things. But I'd like to be able to just create everyday. On the summers {or year round} I want to travel around in an airstream with my son and teach classes and visit other artists studios. I want to be able to quit the day job and just do what I love and show my son that you don't have to conform to what everyone tells you, you can create what you want to do and be and succeed.

2~ I want to open up a gallery. The reason behind this is that there are alot of artists too shy to try and network themselves, I am one of them. Sure I have my blog and my etsy, but just writing a blog post I am terrified of what you guys out there might think. I want to find those artists who love to create but are too nervous to do anything about it and help them do something about it. I want to help give them a chance.

3~ I want to open up a studio conglomerate. Let me explain this one, I want to open up a sort of apartment building for studios. Have massive open houses, have a big dining hall where all the residents can come together and discuss what they're doing. Still don't know if I actually want to allow them to live there or have it be just studio spaces. But I love the idea of a bunch of artists in one general location all creating. I love to walk around in my art classes when I'm stuck and look at the other students work. And I think artists should have that chance too. Look at other people's work. Give their opinion, get inspired. And then massive open studios?! SICK!!

4~ I want to start a summer camp for young artists. I want to start like a legit summer camp for 14-17 year old artists. Different buildings for different mediums. Large scale artist games {still thinking through that one}. Cabins that are repainted every summer by the artists inside. And a big art show at the end where people from all over can come see what these kids have made. There's stuff out there for artists, sure. But I never had a really good art teacher. I even had a teacher once tell me to redo a piece cause she didn't like it. I want to have a big open forum for young artists where all they do and are surrounded by is art and beauty. I want to invite artists for talks and shows throughout the summer so these kids can meet them. I want to give them the oportunity to show their work to a larger scale audience. And I want it to be as big as it possibly can be. Knowing me I'll start doing camps over winter and spring break as well lol. I just...I want young artists to have the opportunity to create whatever they want without the fear of a grade hanging over their head. I want them to be able to attack every project with whatever materials they need/want. I want them to be able to go into the studio late at night if inspiration strikes and create. Not a rule-less place. But a free place. Where the rules are common sense.

  My dreams totally center around art. And that's great. That's what helps me to stay afloat in this crazy world. Creating gives me an outlet to put my feelings in. It gives me a way to explain myself when people don't really understand my words. It helps me feel alive. Find what helps you feel alive. Dream big. What's the worst that can happen? Then work hard to make your dreams a reality. The only way they can come true is if you work you butt off! And you can! Surround yourself with people who believe in you and want to help you. Find people who are passionate about the same things you are. Take a class! Find your voice. Then let it scream.

  So since I am an absolute pinterest JUNKY I obviously have aspirations to be a DIY queen. Let me show you some of my favorite DIY dreams. Things I can't wait to try, but have yet to tackle.

  I've found in life that you can never predict what's going to happen. You can hope and pray that what you want will happen. But then silly little life finds a way pop in a surprise. I'm still working on art, but it's gonna be harder for me to get on my lovely little blog. I'll keep posting pics from my sketchbook as much as I can. :)