Spudnik Press

A good friend of mine sent me an invitation to join her last night to attend a pattern design workshop over at a chill community printshop space called Spudnik Press.  The director Angee hosts a range of talented creatives to come and teach on a wide range of design/print workshops.  So when I heard that they were having a workshop on how to repeat patterns, I jumped at the chance to learn something new!
Megan Lee, designer and extraordinary crafty gal ran the workshop with friendliness and taught us how to turn a design into a repeating pattern that could be used as wallpaper or on fabric.  She showed us a few tricks to help turn simple designs into intricate and interesting repeating patterns that line up seamlessly (or pretty darn close, at least)!  Here is my quick pattern drawing that I came up with.

I can't wait to play around with other drawings and experiment new ways of application.  Printing on fabric and paper is my next creative goal.  And now I feel like I have a better understanding of what it takes to make it work!  Thanks Angee and Megan!  I look forward to attending next months creative workshop!  Keep em coming :)

{Jewelry Workshop}

Over the past few weeks I've been really into making and remaking jewelry tailored to fit me and my petite frame. It seems like everything these days just seems to be getting bigger and bigger in scale and size that most things in the store just drown me. So I've been taking jewelry apart with the help of my trusty tool kit from Michael's. My aunt came over the other day and saw what I was working on and asked me if I could lead a workshop on how to resize and restructure jewelry. I happily replied yes and am now in the process of organizing a girls get together to demonstrate some techniques. I am by no means an expert by any measure but through trial and error and lots of practice of the years have learned ways on how to make jewelry work in my favor. Here are some of the things that I have remade recently. Happy voting to you all today!

{Photos by EV}