Interview, Giveaway, Newbies and Top Secret Stuff

January 22, 2010 Laura Mazurek

Things are lifting and brightening around me. After weeks of off and on sickness and pure lack of motivation and inspiration, along with feelings of anti-social anxiety...I am feeling alive again.

I went out last night with James to the wine bar for a friend's birthday. Got to see my girl Renea. Got to chat, drink a glass of wine, and eat the most amazing homeade keylime pie in the world. Good times...

Now I am about to go see my bestie and chill for the evening with her, a long overdue date! Hope her little baby boy will be awake so I can snuggle him all up.

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I wanted to give a huge shoutout and thanks to BEFORE THE BABY WAKES, for doing this interview and giveaway with me, go check it out below:

Before The Baby Wakes

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I finally got another photo done for my butterfly project!

{oh, and just as I knew, I cannot do a 365, I am already over a week behind, oh well}

Another old photo I re-edited. From the same series I posted the other day.

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I thought Id share some more of the newbies in the shop, I have so many more to post, so Ill try to keep you updated with a few of my favorites!

And for anyone who knows the lovely Amber from Hoot-n-Annie, go check out her birthday wishes, made me all giddy inside!

look here

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In top secret news, something very exciting might be happening soon with Violet Bella, all I will say is Ruche.com. Oh my!

Peace,

Laura

New Art and Jewelry

January 20, 2010 Laura Mazurek

Today has successfully come and gone without any warning. I started my day off grumpy, dont even know why. The past two days Ive been feeling irritable, I think its just my 'girl' stuff warning me she is about to slap me in the face again.

The other day I put these photos together after editing a few. I loved how they looked together, and are based on a theme. My mother, nature, nostalgia, old things, collections.

It is for sale in my photo etsy shop, and 1/2 of the proceeds will be donated to one of my local cancer organizations.

photo shop

The next two images are ones from a while back, about a year ago or more. But I re-edited them and love them alot more now. I just got some new photo textures from Michelle Black, and amazing photographer. So I had some fun with them last night.

I took a whole series of these images during a very dark time in my life. Thankfully I am past that, but the art I made was plenty and tremendous.

This is a new little beauty in the shop. I am so in love with her. She is very old, full of nostalgia and whimsy. A lucky person is thee who becomes her keeper.

find her here

I am in need of many more participants for my quilt project!

Please read here for more info, and pass it along if you can:

Quilt For Love

Much Love, xoxo

Peace,

Laura

Handmade dress, 365, Style School

January 10, 2010 Laura Mazurek

I made this dress quite a while back, but I finally decided to post it in my shop today!

Go to my shop to see better details:

click here

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To get you up to date on the 365 project:

If you look to your right you will see a link to see the project any time! And also my butterfly series project, these are both on going series, so check back daily!

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And STYLE SCHOOL started today!

I worked a bunch on my Style File, so those of you that are in class, you can see my up-to-date photos on the RVA flickr pool!

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Coming Soon

I will be announcing a community project very soon, just getting some details together!!!

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I get to go to the craft store tomorrow!

*excited*

I will get more yarn, hopefully they will have some pretty pink colors, our craft stores kind of suck. I see everyones beautiful yarn colors, and I get jealous!

Does anyone have a good recommendation for online yarn buying???

PEACE,

Laura

Nico's Feathers

January 8, 2010 Laura Mazurek

So, I almost didnt post today because my butt hurts so bad from sitting so darn much!

So much of what I do requires sitting, and after a while it drives me crazy.

So much so, you should have seen me today, my cat probably thinks Im a nut job! I was singing like a farmer, then I sang 'Oh my Darlin' in falsetto and vibrato! Mind you, I am NOT a singer, as much as I wish I was!

I started to just crack myself up, so I went with it, pretty much all afternoon. I sang and danced like a total dork and goofball all by myself here at home. I think I am going a bit homebound crazy!

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While going through images to send to the publisher of that magazine, I came across this photo.

I LOVE to play dress up.

Its been way too long since Ive done a real photoshoot like this. Photos like this one reminds me that I can be pretty. Most days I am un-bathed, in my pjs, sometimes I dont even brush my teeth! EEEK!

I wish I looked like this everyday!

(and the reason there are no pimples in this photo...photoshop baby!)