The Dance of Design

Hello again everyone! Today I'm gonna show you some new design sketches that I made. Hope you like them (:


  This sketch is my odd interpretation of a tango dress-as you can see, I added my own little twist to it.  This is something I would wear when I was older but I find it unique and different... (:

 This sketch is one of my absolute favorites (: I was going for a  kind of girly-ballerina look and this is what came from it :D I think it's a great mix of colors and I would DEFINATLY want to make this in the future, when I have more practice, (I want it to be perfect!) and have a sewing machine of course (:

I hope you liked the sketches guys! Have fun, inspire, and get inspired until the next Blogging!

The Deviously Delicious Powers of Brie Cheese...

Hello Everyone, sorry to say...this post won't be very relatable to the people out there who don't like (love) brie cheese so when I say "brie," pretend it's your absolute favorite cheese. So, I was at my favorite bakery with my mom and I saw that they had added something to their menu called Paris breakfast so we decided to try it. It had baguette bread and brie cheese, butter and jam and we ate it without hesitation for the next two days...On the third day, I knew I shouldn't have all that brie but there it was...staring at me, saying Eat me, eat me.... and you know what? I ate it. Yup I did... in fact I had some this morning, anyway, you have been warned of the deviously delicious powers of brie cheese (:

P.S. here's the bakery's website with more info, www.berolinabakery.com 

Count Down to Paris

Hello! So today I'm going to tell you some very important and exiting information. As you know, I am very hooked up on going to Paris... my family and I were planning on going this year, because it was my year, (the year of the Dragon) but so many things came up that we didn't have any time so now we've started planning for next summer in June. So through my impatience, I have made a count down to June 15, witch is when we plan on leaving, and it starts...wait for it, wait...almost there, hold on a second...it's gonna happen..wait, just a minute...NOW! There is now, counting today, about 335 days till I go to Paris and when I get there will try to post more than I do now and show you pictures and drawings of what's happening...am I over-planning? No, of course not. Anyway, below are some sketches of what I drew in my journal today...

 

            

          

             

          

Fun with Friends

Hey guys! So I've told you once that I dream of going to the college F.I.D.M. But I forgot one very important detail...I want to go to F.I.D.M. with a very special friend of mine. Aida and I have been friends since Junior Kindergarden and ever since 2nd grade we've dreamed of being famous fashion designers together. I'm not very sure how we found out about F.I.D.M. but we both have our eyes on it, and we are gonna stick together until we reach our dreams :) So Aida came over yesterday and after we used every fun idea we could think of, something popped into our heads. We decided to make a shirt (: I showed Aida how to cut and sew the fabric, I did one side and she did the other, but we had to go over it twice because we didn't have a sewing machine. The shirt was meant to be for Aida but we cut it a bit too small on the sides so we decided to give it as a present to her little sister. As a finishing touch, we added a dark orange flower to the side, (witch I already had) and finally preseted to her sister (: She loved the shirt we made and it fit her perfectly :D A handmade present is always appreciated and fun to make so grab a friend and get going! Have fun and I'll see you next week :)

  

                             

The Epic Tale of Ketchup, Mustard, & Pepper

Last week, my mom and I worked on a project that may or may not BLOW YOUR MIND!

I realize I'm getting just a little too exited about this but here goes. We hand painted our entire hallway! My mom found a painting by an artist named Calder and loved it. "We have to paint the hallway like this!" she said. So I got to work sketching the figures out in chalk, and when I was done my mom did the higher ones. The next day, first came the ketchups. We used the orange paint we already had for them. Then, when the ketchups were done, then came Mustard. (We also used paints we already had but there was only enough for one.) How did I come up with their names you ask? Well, while I was painting Mustard, my mom came and said, "But it's such an awful yellow, it looks like mustard..."

"Well that's perfect," I said, "Ketchup and Mustard," (:Then we left the two friends Ketchup and Mustard to dry and went to the store to get black paint for the rest of the wall, went back home and went right back to work. My mom said I could do the rest, but I knew she couldn't resist doing one or two. Soon enough she came back and did the taller ones. Then I thought, "Hmmm...what food is black..."  Pepper!And there came the pepper clan.                              

     

                                   
I think that in Calder's painting, the figures were supposed to be balloons, but my mom and I decided to to do them more like flowers or just leave the image of it a mystery. Now, you have heard, The Epic Tale of Ketchup, Mustard, & Pepper...

            

                   

Viv vrs. Mamas

 Hello Everyone! Happy July 4th! So today I'm gonna show you a drawing that is planning on going pretty far. If you guys have heard of the chocolate company, Mama's Gone Cacao, well one of the moms, is my mom (: and this is a fashion design style drawing of them. But it didn't get like this right away, first I drew it in my style with no faces and went over and showed it to the moms.
 "They need to have a face," they said. So I went ahead and drew on their faces, went back and showed it to them. "It's really good but why aren't we smiling? And where's my lipstick?" So I went back, drew smiles, (and lipstick), and at that time didn't even bother to show it to the moms until later...and when I did..."It's great Viv, but one last thing, where's the jewelry? Like earrings?"
"Both your ears are covered," I said.
"Necklaces, bracelets?" they said.
"You know what,no. you're not getting any jewelry, nope. Nu-uh" and that my friends, is the story of how this drawing, came to be...

Want to hear the Mamas' side of the story? Go to their blog at www.mamasgonecacao.blogspot.com

What is Beauty

What is Beauty? And where can we find her? Among the normals? Or locked away in a castle? Sitting amongst us, never to be noticed? And how does this beauty look? Eyes as blue as the crashing waves? Or as green as the grass beneath our feet? Skin as white as snow? Is her hair long and gracious? Or short and smooth? Is she young and graceful, or older and noble? How ever this Beauty may be, we shall all wonder if she lives inside us. Should we all be looking for Beauty? Or let her be? As the shadow of time shades our eyes, we can see clear the Beauty in us. But will we remember the mere glimpse?