Pumpkin progress

So.. just visited my dad today and got the pumpkin. Had to ride my bike from Park to 6th with a huge pumpkin in my arms. Lets just say, this better be worth it. My friends suggested I carve it to look like the joker so that's what I'm going to do. We'll see how this turns out... tomorrow is the big night..

First exercise :)

So fashion was brought to my attention in the last class so I was researching sites about recycled fashion to post about on the main blog page. I had meant to find articles or sites about people recycling the styles of the past but instead found the literal recycling-of-materials-to-make-fashion sites. This one site that I came across struck me. click here It was about fashion designers making garments out of things like airline blankets and used clothing. "About 30% of our collection is made from old textiles." Using old textiles is actually fun and challenging for the designer and links back to class and how designers differentiate themselves even though they don't have copyrights. This is a way to see their creativity.

The sweatshirt on the right looks really cool and it is easy to determine how it was pieced together. I have seen people walking around in similar styled clothing, but I don't think that their articles were made from recycled items.

I noticed that many of the designers were from Berlin, which makes sense seeing that there were German flags for other translations of the articles. I find that these designers are quite ingenious to do this because it not only saves money, it follows with the greater awareness of "going green" and recycling. My only problem is that this is an international article, this was one of the first pop ups on Google and it wasn't from the United States. Why aren't our designers doing what the German ones are?

If our designers found it in themselves to recycle and create like the ones in Berlin, we might have the same quality clothing, but for less money, and less guilt towards the environment

Halloween!

Every Halloween we carve pumpins into scary, happy, cute, or ugly designs that are shown to the whole neighborhood. My mom bought me a pumpkin this year which I should be recieving pretty soon from my sister. This project I will actually finish.

These are some really awesome pumpkin carving ideas.

I usually end up carving my pumpkins like the first entry because its easy and effective. This year I might be a little more creative and try the technique used on the alien themed pumpkin or the skull one.

Lazy...

Have not touched that narnia dresser in forever. We just rearanged my living room and there is no space for it. My other roommates have the plan to put fireworks in it and just blow it up so I might go with that plan instead of finishing this project. (of course ill post pictures) Currently working on painting my kitchen. I drew out designs from this wrapping paper I had and my roommate and I have been painting them with our left over paint. I'm starting to realize more and more that I seriously don't finish my projects. I didn't finish the dresses because the party was a bit sketchy, and I didn't finish the dresser because it's a pain and I have no attachment to it. The kitchen wall better get finished because I have to look at it everyday.

I was serching on the internet for cool things to paint on walls before I was inspired by the wrapping paper and came across this. I was completely blown away. He paints so beautifully and with such detail that he fooled me a couple of times. It reminds me of the ways that rooms were decorated way-back-when and how much effort that was put in. We usually don't put as much effort into our homes visually besides pictures and framed paintings. I want to turn this house into my canvas almost. I won't go as far as this artist did, but there will definitly be a bit of Caitlyn on the walls when I move out.