Embracing Creativity

Try to recall your first days of school, whether it be preschool or kindergarten (I never attended preschool). You learned your ABCs, One-two-three's, nursery rhymes, and you had nap times (something we all took for granted nowadays)! My most favorite memory of kindergarten was the arts and crafts time we had. Sure they were assignments, but I never considered any art project a chore (now, some kids are really lazy). Instead, I had fun with it!

In my earlier days, I was a naive child (I suppose most children are) and wasn't very knowledgeable about this concept called "art." For all I know, I just enjoyed drawing and coloring pictures! In the second grade, I remember making lots of picture books with short stories. I wish I still had them! In the fifth grade when Pokemon was the craze, I drew pictures of Pokemon in my spare time (and I thought I was pretty darn good at it). Whatever it was, I loved working with my hands! Looking back now, I wish I had saved all of my timeless articles of precious memories. With technology nowadays, the only remnants of any recent creative work is in the form of digital photographs.

When I started high school, I was messing with Adobe Photoshop and tried to create cool looking images for my -then- website. Messing with HTML was fun, but somewhat useless at the time? It was a hobby to code and build websites back in the day; now I'm being lazy and sticking with blogging sites such as Xanga and Blogger.

In my sophomore year of high school, I made jewelery composing of mostly Swarovksi crystals and silver, which the interest was sparked from an aunt. My mom helped me sell these, as well as getting the materials for my small "business." I abandoned this hobby after a year. It became a chore for me to make these to sell. It started out as fun, but it lost its lustre.

I spent most of my high school years (and up to present times) drawing these fictional characters using only geometric figures, meaning a circle, two dots, a line, occassional curves, and rectangles. It had become a small "logo," that whenever someone saw that doodle, he/she would immediately refer it to me. In a way, it became my signature. Look at the girl on my banner. You'll see that it's pretty distinctive.

At the beginning of college, I started to take some interest in cosmetics after following Ricebunny on Xanga. Curiousity killed the cat, and in this case, it killed my wallet haha! That was also when I started to experiment with polymer clay, which was introduced to me by my boyfriend. The first thing I made was a Totoro keychain, which I later gave away to a friend. Numerous people have requested that I make something for them, but let me find the willingness and time to do so. Afterall, the results are better when I want to make it, rather than it being a chore.

What are some current projects that I'm doing? Nothing much. I'm interchangably doing clay, photography, and looking forward to learning how to crochet/knit. I also plan to take cake decorating classes. Mmm art AND food!

Speaking of photography, I really want a DSLR camera! After taking photography in high school, I want to take the content I've learned (and despite some remarks made from some students, I in fact did learn) and utilize it. /Sigh one day! For now, I'll stick with my digital camera :P

Here are some photographs of some of my previous projects!

Earrings

Hodgepodge of different stones and crystals on a silver chain.

Swarovski emerald themed crystals in an original design.

Swarovksi Jet and Crystal AB with heart clasp.

Swarovski chocolate-themed crystals bracelet.

Fish in a strawberry costume!

A brown head, and a white head; inspired from the likeness of real people.

Momo panda! See the peach?

Totoro, my first one! (and a poop on the side)!


Should I open a shop? I want to make sure the bracelets go to a nice owner, where they'll finally glisten and sparkle in the sun on the wrist of its loving owner. And I still have materials that are collecting dust. I can probably even make clay cellphone charms out of commisssion. Even if I do make extra income on the side, I have to deal with shipping and all that jazz... Rawrrr decisions decisions. Is it worth the effort?

Oh before I forget,
HAPPY SWEET SIXTEEN, JOSEPH!!!!11one