Stuff - My New Boutique

Hello all!

I have begun a little boutique where I am selling my wares - including everything from clothing to jewelry, and accessories to custom orders.

Here is the link, and I plan on having many more things up soon, more jewelry, shoes, blouses, skirts, outerwear, belts, bags, and bandannas. Keep your eye out!

A Return to Monochrome

Recently, I was invited to a new website based out of Germany called ARTFlakes. Still in Beta, you can only join by invitation, but I was lucky enough to score one. After uploading your pictures, your art is available to the web for customers to buy high end prints, cards, and posters. For every sale, they are made and shipped by a a third party, without my involvement (thank god). I earn a royalty for every sale, a percentage I decide (though the higher you go, the higher your part is priced).

I am slowly building a collection to display. I get the impression this crowd is more for decoration arts, and keeping this in mind, am uploading things for a more domestic audience than necessarily an artsy one. Though we're all artists on the site, I am catering a different set of images than those I would put on places like Deviantart.

I have been primarily focusing on black and white works thus far. Though I will be uploading some of my favorite color images later, for now, these seem to add a classy edge to my gallery. I have been pulling images from Lake Placid, Carmel, Big Sur, Hobe Sound, and all over. It's very fun, and I hope to start making some sales soon. By all means, if you need an artistic gift, or some black wall space that needs to be filled - that's what I'm here for! This is my shop :)

DIY - Studs and Fringe

Recently I've been trying to build up my collection of modified clothing for the up coming critique in November for my textiles class. My ideas have changed so many times since I finished my tapestry shoes, but I have enjoyed making these next two pieces.

After a sad night out and the death of an old friend (my poor studded belt), I pried apart the studs and applied them to some old leggings that needed some new loving. I definitely will wear them now, they've improved by far! Since the studs had prongs, and were hallow and light, they were easy to insert and space on the leggings, which had a handy side panel (if you're looking to do this, get some easy studs and try Nike leggings, the side panel helps hold them in place).

I was also pleased to find some bright fringe at Walmart the other day, and added it to the bottom of this shirt. After a failed attempt to dye an old crop top, I went to H&M to find this one, and I knew just where it'd be since I have the same shirt from weeks earlier, un-altered. But, I bought another one to mod up.

I shot them together for convenience - which I would never wear out. Remember, leggings are not pants! But I still love this shot. So take a look at my recent projects!

Risingstate and Red Boots

Today I received a curious email from a clothing website I'd never heard of, prefaced by interest in my blog. I occasionally get these emails from various other blogs, clothing places, etc. but don't always have the time to check them out. However when I did this time, I was actually pretty rewarded.

Risingstate is a wholesale website for women's clothing in China. Their prices had me grabbed in a second. Being me, I went straight for the shoes. Even though I purchased a pair of shoes online today already (hey, it's been a tough few weeks), I definitely want to get my hands on these red boots sometime soon:

I know the fringe thing is a love-hate trend to many, and I've generally avoided it because sometimes wearing fringed things gets annoying, but these boots were too hard to pass up (and there will always be a soft spot in my heart for suede).