New Art and Jewelry

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.


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.

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:


Much Love, xoxo

Peace,
Laura

Handmade dress, 365, Style School

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:


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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

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!)

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Newness for today consists of:

My new 365 photo:
Sucking In The Seventies
you can find the rest of the set here ...
This is not a new photo, but I just added it to my shop
I call it:
I Hear Her Calling

I took this at my mom's house one day while missing her, so this completely reminds me of her

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These babies are my newbies in my jewelry shop:

PEACE,
Laura

Tent Party and Inspiration

First I must show off this beautiful cake my friend Shelley made! It is a chocolate esspresso chai cake! It was so yummy! It was her first try and it turned out so good!

We had a nice dinner at Fralo's pizza place. It was us, James parents and brother, James best friend and my best friend and her husband and baby.

James and his friend Joey made his mom laugh like Ive never seen her laugh, it was really precious.
THEN CAME THE TENT PARTY!!!

I wish I had better photos, but it was dark.
We took a few silly pics of ourselves :)
James sorry scrabble hand!
Needless to say, again...I won!

There is a tee shirt on Threadless that has a scabble hand just like this, I must get it for James!
Here is our tent. We pulled the sheet up a bit for the photo.
It was definitely a make shift tent. We used his mike stand, my mannequin legs, my mannequin dress form and my tripod as our four posts! We had to borrow that sheet from Shelley!

Just so you know, we loved it so much, it is still up. We are going to watch our last episode of Criminal Minds tonite with some hot chocolate under it. I may have hot tea because of my throat! Then Ill take it down tomorrow.

But I do think we are going to try to do this once a month, it was so worth it to have the place a wreck for a day!
While James played a few games, I worked on my goals. Im not done, but my lists are quite long so far!
I got my new calendar in, I love it so much!
you can find it at:
www.emilyanndesigns.etsy.com
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I was reading some today and wanted to share.

Written by Melody Beattie

Remember to be Happy

Sometimes we get so bogged down in dealing with feelings, issues, problems -- the realities and details of our lives -- we forget to be happy. Often happiness can be ours if we just remember to be happy.
Joy is a choice -- a deliberate, concious choice. That choice is available to us each day. Our joy isn't controlled by others or by outward circumstances. Joy comes from a deeper place, a place of security within ourselves. It's an attitude, not a transitory emotion.

Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all of your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.
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Updates in my shops:
(click the etsy minis below to go to the shops)

JEWELRY

Pumpkin and Petina Owl necklace
Silver wing earrings

PRINTS:

Winter is Coming
Southern December

Peace,
Laura