Don't forget I will be selling jewellery at the Queen's Day Orange Market in Veldhoven today! Do come round and pay a visit! I'm so very excited ^___^
<3
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Addict?
Right. I am weak.
:P
Not crafting only lasted one evening, the next day I just had to make something :P Oh well, at least I've got loads of goodies for selling now! I still have a lot to do, but I thought I'd give a little update. I'll be posting more hopefully, next week. I'll have more time then because I don't have a market to think about after Friday ;)
:P
Not crafting only lasted one evening, the next day I just had to make something :P Oh well, at least I've got loads of goodies for selling now! I still have a lot to do, but I thought I'd give a little update. I'll be posting more hopefully, next week. I'll have more time then because I don't have a market to think about after Friday ;)
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
The Elf Fantasy Fair!
I had a great day in Haarzuilens, at the Elf Fantasy Fair!
I'm posting just to show you my final outfit, this is how I looked at the EFF (pictures are taken over there, too!) I was aiming for an Emilie Autumn Plague Rat look :)
Picture time!
In the end it still looks different from what I had in mind (duh!). I think I'll edit the bustle skirt later on, since it looks a bit weird from behind imo....
I couldn't stop singing 'Rats, rats, everywhere! In your tea and in your hair! Nothing else can quite compare, to a good old-fashioned Plague-Rat!' <3
I'm posting just to show you my final outfit, this is how I looked at the EFF (pictures are taken over there, too!) I was aiming for an Emilie Autumn Plague Rat look :)
Picture time!
In the end it still looks different from what I had in mind (duh!). I think I'll edit the bustle skirt later on, since it looks a bit weird from behind imo....
I couldn't stop singing 'Rats, rats, everywhere! In your tea and in your hair! Nothing else can quite compare, to a good old-fashioned Plague-Rat!' <3
Photography: Nightly Roads
First a picture from the same day, taken not so long before the other pictures:
I wish I had had my slr camera with me!
I know these, technically seen, aren't very good pictures at all. But there's something about nightly road, driving through the night, seeing all those lights and spots and things. Anyway, these pictures are unedited (except for the obvious watermarks of course) and one of them is on it's side. Why? Because I like the way these pictures 'feel', just as they are. And turning one of them on it's side only gives it more of a sense of abstraction. I'm hoping to use these pictures as an inspiration for future paintings and perhaps drawings. If I ever get to that, that is.
I wish I had had my slr camera with me!
I know these, technically seen, aren't very good pictures at all. But there's something about nightly road, driving through the night, seeing all those lights and spots and things. Anyway, these pictures are unedited (except for the obvious watermarks of course) and one of them is on it's side. Why? Because I like the way these pictures 'feel', just as they are. And turning one of them on it's side only gives it more of a sense of abstraction. I'm hoping to use these pictures as an inspiration for future paintings and perhaps drawings. If I ever get to that, that is.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Working on a bustleskirt for the EFF
Pinned lots of layers of fabric on the base for the bustle skirt... Wonder where this is going! I really hope it will turn out like this... Or better...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
A little break on crafting
No crafting at all for me tonight! And hopefully I will be able to pull that off at least tomorrow as well. Not yet an hour ago being surrounded by such a big crafting mess and supplies, unfinished things and finished things waiting to be properly put in bags and price tagged and whatever drove me insane. So I decided I would put it all away, out of my room for a little while. Maybe now I'll be able to update more regularly ;) (And do some more things just for myself like reading and drawing, which are things I have neglected very badly the last.. year!)
Anyway, today the boyfriend and I went to a fair in my town, I bought a few lovely mouse hairclips (blue and pink) and after that, when we got home (my place) again we cleared the dinner table and experimented with filling a stand. A friend and I hired a stand on the 'Oranje markt' (orange market) at Queen's Day (30th of April) to sell stuff we made ourselves (as I told before). Although for her this is more for fun and maybe a little bit of money, for me this kinda is serious business. It will be the first time I actually get to find out if people would buy my stuff (except for my mum, grandmother, aunt and mother in law :P) and if they are willing to pay what I ask for it (though I must admit I lowered the prices VERY much for the market). After the market I'll hopefully be able to finally open a webshop :) I'm very excited! It gives me something to work for, something to do. Though it means a lot of stress as well.
But! Where was I? Ah, Kevin and I spent the whole afternoon experimenting with how I would put things on my stand. In the end 2 meters suddenly is very little space :S I thought I would have so much space left and the opposite is true! Having only two meters of space for my merchandise means I don't have any space for my left-overs (old jewellery I wanted to sell to make room for new things), cards, felt plushies and whatever I still wanted to make but had not yet started on. So, I guess this IS somehow good, namely that I've got less things to make so less to worry about. On the other hand I was pretty excited to make those things because this would be the perfect opportunity to see if people would buy them. Oh well, maybe I'll still make some little things.
Ah! This blog entry has become much longer than I anticipated! :P
So, what AM I going to do if not crafting?
I would like to..
- update my blog more often
- catch up on things I still need to blog about
- change the information on my blog, I need a new introduction fast!
- start on a nice lay-out for my website (I'll need loads of help from Kevin though since I've never made a website lay-out before)
- update and add information on my website
- Start accumulating pictures for my online portfolio!
Bye~
Anyway, today the boyfriend and I went to a fair in my town, I bought a few lovely mouse hairclips (blue and pink) and after that, when we got home (my place) again we cleared the dinner table and experimented with filling a stand. A friend and I hired a stand on the 'Oranje markt' (orange market) at Queen's Day (30th of April) to sell stuff we made ourselves (as I told before). Although for her this is more for fun and maybe a little bit of money, for me this kinda is serious business. It will be the first time I actually get to find out if people would buy my stuff (except for my mum, grandmother, aunt and mother in law :P) and if they are willing to pay what I ask for it (though I must admit I lowered the prices VERY much for the market). After the market I'll hopefully be able to finally open a webshop :) I'm very excited! It gives me something to work for, something to do. Though it means a lot of stress as well.
But! Where was I? Ah, Kevin and I spent the whole afternoon experimenting with how I would put things on my stand. In the end 2 meters suddenly is very little space :S I thought I would have so much space left and the opposite is true! Having only two meters of space for my merchandise means I don't have any space for my left-overs (old jewellery I wanted to sell to make room for new things), cards, felt plushies and whatever I still wanted to make but had not yet started on. So, I guess this IS somehow good, namely that I've got less things to make so less to worry about. On the other hand I was pretty excited to make those things because this would be the perfect opportunity to see if people would buy them. Oh well, maybe I'll still make some little things.
Ah! This blog entry has become much longer than I anticipated! :P
So, what AM I going to do if not crafting?
I would like to..
- update my blog more often
- catch up on things I still need to blog about
- change the information on my blog, I need a new introduction fast!
- start on a nice lay-out for my website (I'll need loads of help from Kevin though since I've never made a website lay-out before)
- update and add information on my website
- Start accumulating pictures for my online portfolio!
Bye~
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Crafting, Thoughts and Pictures.
Another day spent by mostly crafting jewellery and watching some episodes of Waking The Dead and Star Trek - The Next Generation. It's silly how fast a day goes by, and how easily I feel like I don't do very much even though I didn't sit still all day. Again I made a bunch of necklaces and bracelets, and I just can't get a satisfying feeling, I need to make more, more, more and more! Maybe I need a little break from crafting and do some other things like updating my blog or toying around with a lay-out for my website, or with the information, texts and even pictures I want to put on my website. If I'm going to try to sell my jewellery at Queen's Day and thereby try to promote my own work and hope to win some visitors (and customers!) on my website, I need to show something on there! Or else it won't do much good urging people to visit my website, will it? ;)
As I said, I've been crafting today... I love these pearly beads I got last week! I've got a few varieties in colour, and I might decide on buying more. I've still got quite a few of them left though, so I'll see if I can find another nice technique of working with wire :)
Here's a picture of my working space, and one of my bed. I put all the jewellery I've already finished on it. I still have a lot of things to finish though, and there's even more I still want to start making!
I don't think it'll ever be enough :P
As I said, I've been crafting today... I love these pearly beads I got last week! I've got a few varieties in colour, and I might decide on buying more. I've still got quite a few of them left though, so I'll see if I can find another nice technique of working with wire :)
Here's a picture of my working space, and one of my bed. I put all the jewellery I've already finished on it. I still have a lot of things to finish though, and there's even more I still want to start making!
I don't think it'll ever be enough :P
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Website Online!
My website www.ArtByInora.com is finally online!
It's far from completion but at least it's there! <3
It's far from completion but at least it's there! <3
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Glueing...
Usually I hate it when I have to glue things together, but sometimes it isn't that bad at all. Especially not since I found out about this brand of glue! It's called E6000 and it works perfectly! Much better than the glue I was using. I've practically used up all the adjustable rings I had (I have more than shown on the picture) and the earstuds are going fast as well.
I'm certainly keeping some rings for myself! I'll just have to make more to make up for me stealing some of my own merchandise :P
I'm certainly keeping some rings for myself! I'll just have to make more to make up for me stealing some of my own merchandise :P
Photography: Another butterfly and the garden
I took some more Spring shots!
I realise my photography has been kind of boring, consisting (lately) of almost only pictures of plants.. I guess I like them, but they're all quite the same. It's just easy to take those photographs, and it takes a lot of me to go and do something else (like photographing people) which I WILL one day do, but for now, I'm just not sure because of various reasons. We'll see. :)
I wanted to add that I really like the second photograph, I love the colours very much but I really do like the composition as well, it's been thought about and I'm think that really shows. It makes me happy.
I realise my photography has been kind of boring, consisting (lately) of almost only pictures of plants.. I guess I like them, but they're all quite the same. It's just easy to take those photographs, and it takes a lot of me to go and do something else (like photographing people) which I WILL one day do, but for now, I'm just not sure because of various reasons. We'll see. :)
I wanted to add that I really like the second photograph, I love the colours very much but I really do like the composition as well, it's been thought about and I'm think that really shows. It makes me happy.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Photography: Trees and Silhouettes
I love trees, branches, silhouettes... And I thought this was quite a good combination! I know there are quite a few photographs in this set and they all look quite the same, but they're all different at the same time, so I couldn't choose. I'm really hoping to use this as a further inspiration for future drawings and paintings.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
ArtByInora Stamp!
I ordered my very own extra special stamp from Vistaprint today!!!
It's got my logo (well, it's more my initials/signature), my name, my website and my ABI e-mail address on it. I'm going to make kind of like business cards etc with these!
It's very much like this:
It's got my logo (well, it's more my initials/signature), my name, my website and my ABI e-mail address on it. I'm going to make kind of like business cards etc with these!
It's very much like this:
Friday, April 2, 2010
Photography: Butterfly
Today the weather is lovely (unlike the past few days!) and when I was standing in the sun, looking into the front garden I saw a little butterfly. I just had to take a photograph of it! Luckily it stayed very long in the same place so I could put on my shoes and get the SLR camera in time!
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