Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Pinterest Projects and Hopeful Words


So I work for Blick Art Materials and guess what happens to be one of my tasks, I get to come up with Pinterest projects!!! This is one of my favorite parts of the job, our page with all of our staff's projects just went live and these are my Cupid's Arrow Valentines! they were really fun to make, and I'm sure I'll be handing them out to people around the office. If you want to see what we've been making click here. Also it's been a long winter this year, but hope is in the air, I went to a friend's house last night for a group Bible study on Hope, and it was reassuring and makes all the little things that we complain about seem so trivial. In fact we have so many blessings that we take for granted that we really have no excuse for losing hope. So next time I start to get frustrated or irritated I'm going to picture myself shooting one of these arrows at my attitude, step over it's vanquished form and move toward hope :)

Monday, February 3, 2014

Project Revamp: Stage Three Hand Dying

 

So I'm trying my hand at hand dying, the satin from the wedding dress was still slightly yellowed so I picked up some iDye Poly dye for synthetics from Blick Art Materials. But be forewarned, if you want pastels only put like a 1/2 tsp in a big pot of hot water. Also if you leave it in for a long time the color gets way more intense. I tried just a sleeve piece first and really had to dilute it. I did the pinkish hue first and then made a blue gray mixture that I dipped the edges in and it turned lilac. Once the fabric is properly rinsed and ironed I will post some design sketches. 



NerdBlock is like Christmas every month

 

Sorry I got behind on posting my January NerdBlock, it did not disappoint! I got an Admiral Ackbar Bobblehead, how can you not smile at him!! I also received a Katniss figure from the Hunger Games, a My Little Pony, a Ninja Turtles Splat Ball and drumroll please....

 

This kick-butt Batman t-shirt that says "Ninja of Justice" in Japanese. How cool is that?! What did you get in your NerdBlock this month?