Daydreaming on a Snow Day

On snowy days like today, I find myself daydreaming about the Spring and all the lovely places I would like to visit.

Today I looked through some of my old trip pictures.

I love recording music when I'm stuck inside, even if I don't know exactly what I'm doing. Colleen and I learned how to play Bob Dylan's,  'Farewell Angelina' today. I decided to put our song we recored to some Colorado images that I never really used. Please excuse its rough quality, we are not professional by any means:) 

 I will make plans after the snow melts away, today is a day for wishful thinking.  

I think I would like to explore America a little more. For some reason I really want to go out west and visit  California, Washington State, Oregon, Wyoming and Arizona. I would also like to go down south and visit Tennessee, and Georgia. We'll see what happens!  

Things I Like this Week

I Love this Free People video because it was shot in Colorado. I love love love their outfits too!

I would love to have one of these blankets. They are made from recycled sweaters, blankets, and jeans. They then embellish them with lace and other trims.

So I totally came up with this idea in my head, but I really didn't know how to make it happen. It's great to see that it actually exists already! 

 Other People's Artwork

I enjoy looking at other people's artwork for inspiration. Here are a few pieces I really liked this week. I am always drawn to artwork that is about nature.I like how both artists mixed the natural subject matter with a modern rendering technique. 

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 I really liked the western images mixed with 1970s colors.

Taking Flight

 I decided to make a mixed media picture of my own, because I was tired of my old ones:)

Things I want to Make

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As soon as it gets warm again I want to make a lake sculpture like this! 

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These are so cool! It is interesting how the artist used bright modern colors on the natural driftwood. All I have to do is go out and find some driftwood!

Plexiglass Art Free People.I am going to make t this and put it on a window.

For all of my friends who love to knit, check out this awesome website! It shows different locations from around the world where people have knitted in the most interesting of places. If public transportation looked like this, I would take it every day to work:) 

Don't let Winter Get you Down

I got tulips for my Birthday! I love how they make it feel like Springtime in my bedroom! When Winter makes you feel gloomy, buy some fresh flowers to brighten your room up.  

During the cold winter months I love to visit museums. They get me inspired and I always learn something new. I visited the BMA last weekend.I found a new Baltimore artist named, Greg Otto that I really like! I bought a couple of his postcards to frame. I love his colorful paintings of Baltimore. I also enjoyed the Native American and African art collections. 

I was so excited to find out that Free People shot their newest magazine in Paris France! Check it out at http://www.freepeople.com/january-11-catalog/

I just got their magazine in the mail today. 

I like their video too! 

I decided to put feather extensions in my hair after learning how to do it online. I totally want to try out the braid sometime soon!  

I'm totally going to try this! 

Incase you haven't noticed by now, I love free people!

I love  ColleenGraces collage!

Braids were inspired by

Rainbow Braids

.... only we used yarn!

Don't forget to scroll down and listen to my new playlist! I put together some songs that I think fit well with a winter landscape.

How I feel today. 

Window Inspirations

Some days I am inspired by just looking out my window and I just have to go with it! This week I challenge you to get inspired by the little things in life:)

 The great thing about being an art teacher is that I get some time off for the holiday season! I promised myself that I would spend my week making things and going fun places.


I have been getting into necklaces lately. Look at these cool necklaces from Vintagemint.com.

Necklaces
My sister got me a vintage necklace for Christmas!

My first project of the week, tasseled necklaces. 

I got the idea from Vintage Lune. 

Here are my creations! They are so easy to make and they take 5 minutes. 

French music goes perfectly with winter craft making. I am in love with Carla Bruni's Music. My sister bought me her C.D. for Christmas!

This week I took a trip to Fredrick. I ate lunch at this really cute restaurant called,
J T's Little Deli . It was very affordable and adorable.I felt like I was eating lunch in someone's dinning room.   

I found handmade paper from Nepal at Terressentials 115 E Patrick St Frederick Maryland. It's one of my favorite shops to go to. 

I also found a little French shop called, Evangeline-The Colors of Provence. The women gives tours in France every June and September. I would love to go some time!! Check out this website for more information. http://www.francestuf.com/etravels/. 

Old friend coffee conversations at the Bean Hollow. 

I made a pinhole camera this week! I will share with you later how the pictures turned out:) 

This week my sister and I have been daydreaming about going to Iceland someday:) Don't ask me why.

I guess all this French stuff is starting to rub off on me! For New Years Eve I decided to wear something inspired by the French. My favorite French fashion blog is, MissPandora.

Tis the Season to be Creative

December seemed to sneak up on me unexpectedly this year.  I was kind of nervous because I knew I only had a few weeks to come up with amazing gift ideas for not only Christmas, but Birthdays too! I always want to make my holiday cards and gifts. If there is one holiday out of the entire year that I need to use my creative skills for it should be Christmas! Plus I am an Art Teacher which means there is NO excuse! Of course I put a whole lot of pressure on myself to come up with new ideas different from last year. But I took it one day at a time and approached it like I would any other piece of artwork. I am proud to say that I am almost completely done! Even my Christmas cards are finished( which I will share with you later):)

I also have one celebration to check off my list. The holiday season started with my Boyfriend's Birthday which happens to fall in the month of December! So I got it in my head to  make Steeler colored cupcakes(since he is a huge Steelers fan)! I would not consider myself a baker AT ALL, but I think they turned out pretty well considering! 

I wanted my cupcakes to look like Martha Stuart made them. I knew I had to get special icing tips. When I went out in search of icing tips, I happened upon a box of cork and felt flowers that were only $5 originally priced at $14 at Tuesday Mornings! I'm super excited to use them on my gifts.  

I couldn't help attaching the flowers to everything as soon as I got home!

Christmas gift 

 

I knew my bag needed something to set it apart from all the other brown leather bags that exist in the world;) 

I have gotten into lace this winter! I absolutely love Free People's holiday boutique lookbook. Black and white can look so fab! Going out to dinner to Portalli's for a birthday dinner was a perfect excuse to wear a free people inspired outfit! 

I have about four pairs of lace stockings that I love to wear. Sometimes it is too cold to wear them so I came up with my own solution! I wear leggings or another solid pairs of tights underneath. It makes my stockings look different depending on which colored leggings I wear underneath! Now I can wear my lace stockings even on a cold snowy day:) 

I also tried Free Peoples holiday make-up idea.

I think lace looks amazing with a vintage rose ring like the one I am wearing from Vintage Girls.

My complete outfit inspired by free people holiday boutique!

Record players are so vintage! I decided to give one as a Birthday gift. Lune Vintage Girl had great tips on finding records. A thrift store just opened up near my house and I am excited to tell you that I found a Kiss record for $1.50 that went perfectly with my gift! 

 Here are my christmas cards that I decided to make this year. I got my idea from The Crafty Fox Blog. I didn't want to use typical Christmas colors so I used variations of red and green.

I also got scrap booking paper from Michael's Craft store to make my paper collage cards.

I know these songs have nothing to do with Christmas, but I am totally in love with them:)

That's it for now! To be continued....:)<3 Meags

Sometimes when I get bored I play music with my sister. It's fun to pretend we know what we're doing;) Here is one of our favorite songs by First Aide Kit. 

Have a Very Merry Christmas!