rocky.

was bored today. the lettering got a ton of underspray so i tried to redo it. and well i should have just left it the way it was. cause i liked it but then didn't too. oh well. he turned out good.

pretty awesome.

i did postcards/posters a while back for lift detroit's winter munny show, and well they decided to use my design. which is pretty awesome in the first place, and today i received a package which included some of those postcards, AND the miss november 1978 toy. sweet.

i'm getting tired.

bleh i'm getting tired, so i'm gonna post this quick. but i'm sure as soon as i get in bed i'll be wide awake. ugh. the past two days have been spent on and off working on this. since it's six colors, so that's like five stencils. and it's my first ever multiple layered one. i'm happy with it. here's just a few quick pictures.

off from work.

wow, it seems incredibly odd to be off from work. we were closed yesterday, and then today she said i didn't need to come in. i don't think i ever had a full saturday off since july. it's weird, but nice. i just wish i had something to do. i really wanna go to nyc before i go back to school, but some people don't like to respond to me anymore.

i need to get spray paint, hm maybe tomorrow hopefully. as well as stop by a gallery in south philly. blah so bored. oh! i did update my deviantART.

boomboxes.

so during my fall semester i took a book production class, since i figured it'd be good for me because of my major and i'd get prepress experience. i had made a book focused on boomboxes with graffiti. and i'm happy with how it turned out.

and i had cut stencils and such out last night, started putting them on canvas today, and ugh. not completely happy with it so far at all. i need to do a lot of touch ups, and one thing is slightly slanted. and obviously this is why when i start getting back into it, i need to keep it up, and not completely stop each time. bleh.

whew.

my first semester of senior year finished last week. and of course it was a stressful week. my computer decided to start acting up the end of the week before, so i went without a computer till today besides at work and such. my hard drive was the problem. oh computers. but all in all despite breakdowns, i'm happy with my grades.

uh in the end of october? beginning on november? ugh i have no idea, sometime i took a whole bunch of new stuff to bohema. so hopefully that is going well. ali is so nice. :)

i'm gonna try to update this more often since i'm on break, and no longer have to update my makeup blog anymore. especially since i'll try to post some of my school work from this semester, which includes a boombox book that i made that i love! i have like a billion copies of it. geez i have 30 or so? put together, and then in crit my teacher gave me an amazing idea to make it so you can rip the pages apart to send, or just hang up. love it. i bought the blade hoping i could just do that but alas apparently i need the other part. hmp i'll have to get it this weekend or something.

and i bought some canvases to paint. trying to get back into my stenciling since i haven't in like forever. okay, well the last time was october or so for a bag, and a t-shirt, but before that it's been god i have no idea how long. plus i wanna try to get into a show.

oh! and i know before i posted about jobs and internships. i am still at my job, and my internship lasted a month if that. it was more nerve wrecking, and me just sitting there bored out of my mind alone more than anything.

wow.

i haven't updated this thing in forever. i've been busy with school work, and well working. and lately watching phillies games seems like nonstop. which in reality in it since we're in the world series. as well as updating my blog that i must for class. http://crystalshephard.com/makeupblog
and i am still selling things at bohema and mew.

i love halloween.

i love halloween, and skeletons. so of course i love making these. i'm currently looking for a store/site to consign/wholesale them too. so if you know of any place that might be interested please let me know! :)

bohema.

go get yourself down to bohema, and buy stuff! haha. i dropped off a bunch of bottlecap pendants, pins, hairclips, earrings, and bracelets. so go check them out, and the rest of the store. it's pretty amazing, and they're quite nice people too! :) it's located at 6152 ridge ave. and the outside is painted in wonderful colors that make me think of cotton candy. mmm.

jobs, internships, etc.

i've been a bit all around the place lately. atlantic city, concerts, getting a job, and then today starting an internship. whew. both of which were unexpected but exciting. i really like my job. everyone is so nice, and i work three days a week. and now with the internship, oh god. i was incredibly nervous, and sure i still will be next week and such. but everyone i've met is nice, and keep saying i'll love it there. i'm sure i will. it's a huge opportunity. and im sure if i would have went looking for it, i probably wouldn't have found it. so basically from now on my week will be split up between being at FUEL and thread. it's exciting. i don't even remember what i last updated about, did i mention some of my necklaces are at mew gallery? if not, they are. and bohema wants me to bring more jewelry, i have a bunch to take down. uh, i feel like i'm forgetting something? well anyway, hopefully i start updating this again soon. shane jessup show tomorrow at jinxed after work which i'm totally excited to see. and i desperately need to redo my website completely.

still looking.

i've been having a lot of fun with marbles, and clay. as is shown above. i've made i don't know how many, and just wanna keep making them. ahhhh. still looking for a job, and just emailed two more galleries. so we'll have to see how that goes. i also want to attempt trying to do resin plugs soon as well. :)

consignment.

i went to mew gallery (http://mewgallery.org) today, to sign the papers for the consignment and drop my jewelry off. it's such a cute place. and from what i saw they have pretty awesome stuff. i'll have to go again to just look around and maybe go to sabrina's since leanne said they have good food. hm. so she picked out twenty for now, which is pretty awesome. yesterday i was doing the cord and such for them since i had gotten more on sunday. and oh my god. my hands were cramping, my fingers hurt a ton and sheesh. haha. but i got them done of course. :)

resin, jobs, consigment.

so my interview got canceled. why? i have no idea. i've been applying for jobs, i don't know if any of the places are hiring. but i figured i'd try at least. and the one place i wanted to apply to was hiring, and then when i went to get an application, no longer was. gah. so i got some more resin, and have been making a lot. the anchor one is definitely my favorite ever. and thanks to my friend leanne telling me about this one gallery, because i may have another consignment at a gallery! whoa. exciting news.

resin and photos.

yesterday i did some more resin pendants. i'm running out and need more. hm and more pigment colors definitely. also printed out three photos of mine for an online art show/book thing that i decided to be a part of. now i just need to get frames and ship them out. they're 6x6 and printed on primed canvas. as well as reprinting my aids/hiv campaign book, since i will be having an interview for an internship on tuesday.

paper toys.

those things are pretty neat aren't they? i just wanna print them all out and make 'em. haha. you can go make some too! just go to cubeecraft.com. hm i also need to find my xacto blades cause the one that's currently in it, is reallyyyyyyy dull, which means unsafe. and i plan on redoing? updating my website? as well as making postcards and such. since i got some advice from a wonderful friend on how to try and get my work out there. :) oh! and i need to print out some other things, and get frames and find out where to ship it. hm. cause someone is doing an online gallery type thing, the work will be up for sale, and they will be making a book. so that'll be neat to be a part of.

and just a list for myself.
-redo/update website.
-design postcard.
-fix resume.
-look for galleries.
-print photos।
-do/attempt ideas for somethings i have in mind. hm.
-buy frames.

more embroidery.

i think i want to do a octopus next. hm.

embroidery.

also trying to keep myself busy, instead of just sitting in my room on my computer। because seriously that's only so much fun. so i decided to go back to embroidering, at least for today.

resin.

since the weather is getting a bit hot, i am finally able to play with resin again. hooray for that. these are some new pendants i worked on today, although silly me apparently didn't coat the images well enough. mainly the edges. ek. oh well, i guess i'll just have to figure out some way to fix them, shouldn't be too hard. i hope.