Collection of the week {76}

Neena Creates' Shop is simply adorable.
So are her 365 days of love prints.

*This is tooo cute! Kain Na!!!!




Neena's blog is super cute to. Go check it out.

Collection of the week {75}

This guy is sooo good.

Art-o-matic 2009

Finally, a whole year has past and Artomatic is once again open. 

I've been ever so excited since last year's visit and knew I'd be in

for a real treat this year.

This time around, I ventured into South East DC {as the location changes every year} with my broder Glenn. Mind you South East DC = L.A.'s Compton ... Not the safest part of town but we got out alive. PTL.

Once we arrived we had about 9 stories of art ahead of us.

So much to do, see and explore.a

Art Whino artist rock.

From the gallery you could see the National's Baseball park a block over. If you got high enough you could even watch the game. I've yet to experience a baseball game. Another must, on my to-do list.

I'm sure this look just like scribbles, technically it is, but if you get up close you'll see how amazing this ink illustration is. I can only imagine how long it took to make.

After walking around for a few moments we finally met up with little Miss. Aimee who was one of the few to join us on this spontaneous art adventure of ours. This girl is truly amazing, another artist with amazing talent and I'm so excited that she's going into the graphic design field too.

There was so much art, all made by local talent {DC-MD-VA artists}.

There was again, a live tattoo artist. Pretty sick.

Out of all the pieces I saw that day, this piece struck up my favorite conversation of the day with Aimee. There's so much about it to analyze. Can you guess the name of the piece?

"Wasteland 2.0" Such an awesome piece.

I was sad that I was pretty disappointed by the photography through out the gallery. There were only a handful of photography installations that wowed me. I've actually been more moved and inspired by photography I've seen on blogs and online portfolios. Well anywhos, this one photography themed your installation around Greece. And man ... I dream of going to greece one day, this just made me want to go even more.

Before our day ended, we got a quick visit from Mobin & Andrew.

So sad that they didn't get to see alot of the gallery, but hopefully we can all go back again before it closes. {July 5th is the closing date so if you're in the area make sure you go out and see it!}

I miss you, Likes it's tomorrow

By Kate Neckel

Collection of the week {70}

Daily inspiration and fun freebries on A print a day's blog and now Parasol Magazine!! Love love love!

Collection of the week {63}

Christoper David Ryan's 2008 daily postings  of  his art work and his blog are this week's collection. And the idea of creating a piece of art work daily is quite inspiring. And lately on my own time and will I've been trying to do the same to spark my own creative juices though sharing them will probably take a little bit of confidence. Anywhos .. here are some of his postings last year. They are beautiful!

Christoper David Ryan's 2008 daily postings

I love love love AHAPPYENDING!!!

It's an absolute joy making new friends on Etsy, friends who craft and get creative too. It's also a great joy to make trades with these fellow Etsians. One of my most recent trades was for a painting on a deep canvas from ahappyending. And man do I love ahappyending.

Here is my "Dreamer of Dreams" print from Nichole, of ahappyending which I've placed in my window sill that sits above my headboard and couldn't have picked a lovelier place. It's sitting next to my broken alarm clock, that's sits next to a photo of my dad, that's next to a hanging bouquet of old roses {something I always do with my roses though I rarely get any}. And if you're wondering why theres a pillow in my window sill behind all this stuff, it's actually a draft pillow I made to help keep the winter chill out.

I love this print oh soo much and it's my first ever but I hope to have a large collection of painted prints one day. I picked this print because I have many dreams and aspirations and little by little God is gracious enough to allow my dreams to slowly become reality .. but as I continue to grow so do my dreams. Yet as ironic as this may sound, I rarely have dreams {scientifically I know I do, but I can never can recall a single one} ... I guess my vivid imagination and limitless aspirations make up for that.

Anyways .. on the other end of this awesome trade, Nichole got some Rini & Faith loving and man is Rini & Faith loving her! Nichole is not only super sweet and super talented, {little.miss.photographer is her blog} but she is as cute as a button!!

You make me want to chop all my hair off Nichole and be a rock star like you!!!

Thanks so much for the trade and for the pictures you're awesome and

I love love love ahappyending!!!

Have ahappyending of your own!

A day late news...HOLY CUTE!

I'm been uber busy but I did want to mention that RED VELVET ART is finally open!!! YAY! Hop on over to their amazingly awesome website and even visit their newly opened store or check out their ever so cute blog!! I absolutely love their style their products and their craftiness!

 

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Red Velvet Art!!!