Fall is here!!

So I haven't been here for about 2 months. Shame on me for not writing about all of things that have been happening!! It will take me a few more posts to come up with everything that's happened. First things first? Yes.

So I was very blessed to be able to know just the right people to be able to enter myself into Lubbock's Friday-Night Art Trail. Ohhhh it was so exciting to get ready for it! I would finally have my own little display, and tons of wall space to showcase everything I started making. I literally had only my cards when I first signed up, so my inventory grew to a ridiculous size very fast! My sketch book was full of new ideas I wanted to get started on immediately, so I chose mixed media canvas art first. Here's the first one that was completed. I wanted the design to fit with the upcoming season (Fall is my absolute favorite!), and I would be able to use the design in mail-outs or something...

These were the first two I made. Neither reflected what I was seeing in my head, but I loved the way they both turned out. I wanted to do more pieces that had lyrics, or verses, or quotes by famous people or my favorite music artists. People like Regina Spektor, A Fine Frenzy, or the book of Psalms. Those are just a few; I have an entire word document full of quotes I've collected over the past few years. Quotes are beautiful things. Like little pieces of a memory, thought, or perception someone else has and is able to share. I love it.

More tomorrow? Maybe? If I find a break from my mountain of homework...

I'll always remember you

Something's causing fear to fly
Rising like a dark night in silence
Traveling slow with broken boats
Heading for the sky and I'm an island

I watched you disappear into the clouds
Swept away into another town

The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be lost without you
Until the last of days

The sun is in the east
Rising for the beasts and the beauties
I wish that I could tear it down
Plant it in the ground to warm your face

And I built myself a castle on the beach
Watching as it slid into the sea

The world carries on without you
But nothing remains the same
I'll be lost without you
Until the last of days
Until the last of days

I'll always remember you my dear Grannie. I'm happy you are no longer in pain, and that you are rejoicing in Heaven with our King.

One thing I can tell you...

I've been so very busy working on so many different projects and orders, I've had no time to blog about any of it! Sadness!

Here's a few interesting new things though:

1. I now wear glasses. I've never ever had to wear them, and now I must get used to them. It really is a bother.

2. I built a website! I went ahead and did my internship this summer, and they had me build a webpage for a department on campus. As of now, it's very near completion.

3. Someone I barely know knew about my products in the shops besides the bookstore. I was so elated when she asked me about them; this whole time I've figured no one knew about it. Score!

4. My wonderful Dad found himself a part-time job as a Bible teacher!

And now for a menu of some of my latest projects, there are so many!

These small pallet canvases are a new inspiration from the girl clubs on campus, and also a development of my huge collection of club cards that are sold in the bookstore.

I won't be selling them in the bookstore, at least not now. But I hopefully will be able to sell them to individual club members, and make them customizable!

This new addition is currently on sale at Bo'Dazzled. The owner has begun to bring in many Tech-related products, and many of her sellers make Tech memorabilia. So I wanted in, and made these! Each one I make will be one of a kind.

And another... I made damask stencils and painted the back ground myself.

Then I wanted to take a twist on the same idea, and make some more inspirational canvases. This is a great quote from a Beatles song (which I constantly get stuck in my head). The canvas I used for this one had been half finished by my sister when she let me have it. So my color-palette was already set for me.

The font was fun to pick out on this one; it needed to be out of balance to go with the idea (being "hippie-ish" I suppose you could call it.) I stamped the corners with a spiral block stamp, then mod-podged over all of it to make the ink from the stamp bleed into the paper.

And yet another amazing Beatles quote that will last forever and be inspirationally iconic.

I'm still working on a few more projects, and I may get down to posting pictures. But school starts in a week, along with a musical, along with a job, etc. etc. I may not have time (oi!)

Hannah