Happy Anniversary Card

I am photographer for real, I promise

Today is my parent's 31st annivesary. WhooooooooooooHooooooooooooo and counting. So here is the story. Now my dad came home late yesterday and was like. "Oh by the way Janine can you make a card for your mom for me to give to her on our Anniversary" I was looking cross eyed at my dad because it was like 10:30pm. "Daddy are you for real" He was like " yes" So I went to my room and started pulling out my paper and weird stuff I like to use and went to work. I didn't finish until about 12:30am. So my Dad gives her the card this morning and my mom is like " I knew Janine was making me a card, I told her I don't want any more store brought cards" I said Mama for real you knew I was making the card all this time" Needless to say she liked it and is not expecting another store brought card ever, she said it's a waste of money. Pressure on, Thanks Mommy!

Mother's Day Cards

Mama love green!

I made this one for my dad to give to my mom

Well Mother's day was last weekend. I love my mommy and grandmothers so much. We had a great time. We took them out to eat and just enjoyed the company. But the night before I was up making Mother's day cards. Can I tell you my room looked like a hurricane came through, I had paper and glue and stickers everywhere. It was awesome to be in work mode like that once again. But they turned out great at least I think so and my mother and grandmother really like them and that's all that matters.

Big Bend Cares

So today my friend call me up and told me about this art competition in town. It is called Big Bend Cares artopia. It has artist from around the area donate work for it to be bid ed on by the public. You pay for a ticket to get in and then you see all this work from local artist. All of the money goes to the Big Bend Cares Big Bend Cares provides education and comprehensive support to people infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Now I have to find or make some items to enter

Senior Art Show

My two favorite people

Now Thursday Night was sweet! I went to the senior artshow competition at Leymone Art Gallery. Some of my sweeties from S.A.I.L. high school had entries and my other sweetie Ms. Sydney had a photo entry also. It's amazing to see the work that these teenagers produce. I was not thinking like this when I was 17-18 years old. I was able to see my old high school art teachers and talk with them about the work I was doing and what their kids are learning. It was a fabulous night!

Arts Market

Found this really cool website about Arts in America its called Arts market. org

Natural Beauty

Yes I had to get a picture of this, nature is amazing.

I saw this morning and Had to stop because I thought it was beautiful. Ahhhhhh

The Essential Theater Presents...

Yea! The Essential Theater on FAMU"s campus, is a about to put on their first production of the year and I am so excited. When I was a student at FAMU, I love going to the plays put on by the Essential Theater. They were so good. They had some really great actors and some of them aren't even theater majors. This is where I first saw the play Dream Girls performed and it sold out every night. I am so excited! The Essential Theater Presents Crowns , it is a gospel type play and is based off the Book Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. This outta be good. It's this weekend the 26th-28th. I think I might get my ticket and go on the 27th. (It is a pay day you know hehehe)

Rachel Stewart Earrings

I remember talking about having these wonder earrings from Rachel Stewart. She is an artist that I found on the Black Girl with Long Hair blog. I have on both earrings but I gave the peacock earrings to my cousin and she love them. I also love these really cute ones that came along with the peacock earrings

Birthday Card!

Yey she likes it!

This is the envelope I made. That Cherry is scented.

I got all this at Jo anns on sale very cool I think.

So on of my homies had a birthday on Saturday. She is a wonderful 25 years of age. She and planned a spa and dinner day for all her friends to join her. I was not able to participate in these activities but met them at dinner to give her the card that I made for her. I dusted off the craft skills and started the creative tank of ideas again. Well I turned our pretty good and she like it so that was all that matter to me. Glad you enjoy your birthday homie. YEYY!

Liberian Barbie Dolls!

All images found here and here

I saw this article and thought it was cool. I found it in two spots though. I will link both sites. I was doing some research on Liberia. ( My grandfather is from there) and stumbled on this article about Liberian barbie dolls. Here is the link to the story, it's more then 6months old but hey it's a lovely idea. LIBERIAN DOLLS GLOBAL POST SCARLETT LION: LIBERIAN DOLLS

4Q emboridery Update

Just want you to see my progress. It's going along slowly but I will finish.

4Q Embroidery Fun!

It's been a while since I have done anything Fiber related. The 4Q has taken up most of my time. So I decide to combine fibers and 4Q. Hand embroidery seem like a good idea. I am not sure what I am going to do with it but it is fun and relaxing to work on. This might take a while, because I am going to embroider the whole design. I think the hard part will be hand embroidering that tiny copyright logo and those words. Check me out! hopefully I will continually post pics to show progress.

The Asian Experience

Oh I had a great time two weeks ago with my most favorite crew to hang out with, My boyfriend and his nieces and nephew. We attended the Asian Experience in Tallahassee. It was awesome ! Who knew these wonderful events could happen in Tallahassee. There was plenty of food and lots of images and information of the Asian culture it was great. Wonderful fabrics and art! I had a blast and like always I love hanging out with my crew when I get a chance.

Graffiti Love

Hey check out the Graffiti in Tallahassee.It is located near the Art area in town. I really enjoy riding by its cool to know we have some of it in a small town like Tallahassee.