(heheh i love this lady's cartoony doodles.)
so i was thinking....are there any truly happy happy artists that make amazing art? Amazing clothes?? amazing jewelry???
i really wonder if great art ever comes from a place of laughter. I've seen the art of happy hippies and it's swirls and doodles and randomness that doesn't really communicate more. It's like it's an emotional inability to be able to represent your thoughts properly, but when you're dealing with whatever dark mind thoughts or issues or life experiences that aren't as peachy, the art becomes this untangled web of colour and narration that pleases the eye. It's like those bees that make beautiful amazing cocoons with their poop. Or something......
ANYWAY...............here's the giveaway...from now until the end of the month i'll take down names/nicknames on this blog on a custom hoodie. The way it works with my hoodies is that i recycles old clothing and turn it into something more awesome.
The winner will contact me and tell me what main colour they want...and the SIZE. And maybe for a girl thermal hoodie/shirt they can say: i want a small PINK long sleeve shirt with a HOOD and LACE modified arm cuffs. For a boy he can say: i want an extra large BROWN hoodie with a POUCH. The rest i will modify as my creativity takes me :) cool?
leave comment on this post and watch back at the end of the month to see if your name was selected :) ...or leave email and i will contact you
in other news...some advancement with my metalsmithing...
i decided that maybe as a beginner i was attempting to bite off more than i can chew when it came to fancy ring designs so i went back to the regular easy peasy ring designs.
this one is a plain brass with raw uncut gemstone
my attempt at some sort of fancy design. This one is sterling silver with a variety of gemstones and glass cabs.size 6.25
more rings today...and a tutorial on photographing small objects for etsy with simple cheap supplies :)
ps....ENTER MY GIVEAWAY CONTEST!! :D
20 comments:
Here I am, the first one!
I just saw your comment in my log and decided visit you..and saw this..wow!
For me, the true inspiration many times comes from the ashes,it is a leap from the grief, a tentative of spiritual survival, a tiredness of the mediocre and finally the glimpse of the beauty.. so many things to talk about this.. thanks for bringing this reflection.
As well as when we are seeing butterflies..
I want to win! :))
Hugs to you, thanks for the give away.
thank you Tribalis :) i'm happy you entered my contest. YAY :D
I just found your blog and really like your items. They are lovely and unique...just my style!
omg look at all this glorious stuff! why didn't you tell me you had a blog w/gorgeous things? or did you tell me and i forgot?
I added you to my blog list sidebar and imna go lookit yr etsy now.
yeah i just fave'd everything in your shop.
(EEEE!!!! Fanciful favorited my blog)heheh hi. i thought you knew...?? umm since i kinda stalk your blog/etsy shop lol
Hopped over here from Fanciful Devices and wow, so glad I did. I adore your handmade repurposed sweatshirts- so fun. and love your jewelry. Going to check out your Etsy next. Have a great evening!
fanci sent me here and I want to enter your giveaway.... and check out your shops.
Happy new year!
well, thanks to fanci you have yet another fan! i just wiped out your head pins and totally dig your bottle cap earrings. love in the new year! darlicious
Oh gosh. Happiness and art? The crusty old misunderstanding is that an artist has to suffer to make good art. The truth is, I think, that all of us suffer, and sometimes the artist manages to "say" something that brings comfort or understanding to another person. So, happy, sad, whatever, we communicate with each other and that helps us make sense of life. And would I ever love to have one of those marvelous garments -- that would make alot of sense of my life!
OMG, just found you on Fanci's blog! Girl, where have you been hiding??? Visited your shop and fell in love with your designs. Fav'd you on Etsy and now will be one of your latest blog stalkers ;). I am so excited about your giveaway....you're recycled designs are gorgeous! Keeping my toes and fingers crossed XXX. back to reading your blog now...
thanks all for the wonderful comments :D i loves you <3
Very lovely stuff! I'm speechless.
OMG, I just found your store the other day and then I just found your blog. Your goods are wonderful! I all like, "ooooooo" and "whoaaaaa" as I favorited like a gazillion items. Girllll..you're good!
your hoodies are super cute! I don't think 100% happy people exist, really. But I think the unhappy or mentally ill tend to be better artists (though im a huge blue october fan so perhaps this is part of where my bias comes from, haha), though I'm sure there are totally normal people who are good artists.
my email is littleheathen9109@yahoo.com
Came from where else but our fearless leaders blog Fanci d...
Saw a movie yesterday called Happy... Whoze the happiest people... Natives in the middle of nowhere that live in grass huts, skinny as rails, hotter than hell Africa... Why? Communal living... Sharing ,no one has more than another eat together hunt together raise kids together,,,so it seems that what the movie showed is lonliness and a feeling of not belonging to a group, family makes us sad... Japan the worst cause they work too much and not enough family time. I think "decorating" ourselves makes us happy,,, I mean every tribe has beads and bones and feathers and body painting and hut building etc,
Your lovely ..happy for me would be winning yer contest..
All the best cynthia
Thanks to Fanci, I'm glad to discover your blog!! Awesome rings and earrings! And your talented recycled hoodies are so cool! So I submit to your giveaway (crossing fingers), and nice to meet Miss Peanut too! What a superb couch she has, my cat is green with envy!
Count me in! I loooove your hoodies! :D
well betweenreader, who said that the artist HAS to suffer to make good art? I think that you are misunderstanding what was said.
But read more about the history of life of the great artists of all times, painters, musicians,.. and so read about Psicoanalisis and Art..
I can assure that you will have good discoveries!
I love it! this is such a great idea! Not only do you get custom, unique clothing, but you are recycling at the same time! Fantastic!
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