Making Fabric--Guess the Silhouette Contest

Several months ago I entered a design contest. ( I didn't win ) I enjoyed using parts of my brain that have been dormant since, well, forever. I had to break out my sketch pad.  ( No, I don't have Adobe, or Corel, or Illustrator, or anything cool and expensive like that. )  I had to run old school w/ regular old paper and pencils.

I drew and drew and drew, and finally it all mashed together. Some people just want to make something and be done and they're happy. I like to make things, and work on it until I'm happy. That could mean it takes me 5 ideas, or proto types before I like what I'm doing. Perfectionist anyone?

After the contest was over I had this really cool design and I didn't know where or what to make with it. After more months of pondering, I decided to get it made into fabric. How cool that any Joe Smoe can design something and get it printed into fabric?!

I used Spoonflower . It was fairly easy once you have your design ready. I can tell you that drawing IRL (in-real-life) and then scanning your picture, fixing little pencil marks and smudges, and then transferring that into the correct files was a lot more tedious and difficult.

I was so excited that I ordered the Basic combed Cotton instead of Canvas. But no worries here.

It's so cool. 

Wondering why I haven't told you what the design exactly is???

Well, I'm going to have a fun contest of my own! 

GUESS THE SILHOUETTE CONTEST!!

Isn't silhouette a funny word?

WHAT YOU WIN:

You'll win a custom bag made by me! Style and fabric (depending on availability) of bag is your choice. Hobo, Messenger, Recycled purse, Large Tote. ( go here to get an idea ) 

HOW TO ENTER:

*****CONTEST CLOSED!*****

For one entry: Leave me a comment here at the blog about anything. 

If you wish to comment as anonymous, please put a name/alias so it can be used when the winner is announced, and follow this blog by email to make sure you are notified when contest is over.

(HINT: Oh I just liked your FB page! -MaryJane33 )

For two entries: In your comment, leave the correct answer for this : 

The silhouettes on my fabric are my interpretation of symbols for different types of________. 

(HINT: What can you make from them? )

For multiple entries: Do you know what the silhouettes stand for? 

Each correct answer you comment  earns you another entry. 

 ( HINT: #'s 6, 11, 13, and 16 are not moustaches. ) 

Rules:

Well, I guess if you're not 18 year old get permission first. Have fun!  Follow this blog by email so you know if you won! Contest will close on SEPTEMBER 9, 2013 IF I have at least 20 individual comments. Contest will stay open until there is a minimum of 20 entrants.

 Feel free to share this with friends, on your blog, or on FaceBook. 

Winner has 1 week to claim the prize, then I pick someone else.

Photography Studio, in my dreams.

I've been asking around for feedback for my shop and a few people have mentioned that my pictures should contain a model. It's been bothering me, like an itchy tag scraping your neck, how can I take model shots? Better yet, where am I going to take these so-called model shots??

Here is my plan. I am loosely calling it a plan, because it is more of an experiment that quite possibly will have disastrous results. I would love to call this place my sun room. I would love for you to imagine me sitting in this room sipping ice tea in rattan furniture. It's not that romantic. It's an enclosed porch...see that siding? I guess it used to be outside at some point in the house's history. Anyway, I figure since it gets quite a bit of natural light, for a long part of the day, I'll try and B.S. my way into making some kind of place to shoot photos.

I was removing the carpet, just from one corner cause I'm classy like that. What? You won't even notice. I clipped out that wire. I  did call the Mister to make sure I wasn't going to get electrocuted. (You know I was the girl that wouldn't go into a swimming pool by myself because I thought I might get eaten by a shark.) Better safe than sorry.

Look at me hard at work cutting the carpet. I rolled it very nicely for the trash man too.

While I was sweating like a pig cutting up carpet, this is what I spot out the window:

 My silent reaction in my head, "What the heck are you doing up there?? You want to break your neck?" What I actually said was the mother's ultimate jinx, a washing of my hands of any guilt if anything happened, "You better be careful. If you fall, I don't want to hear any crying."

Yea right. (Nobody fell.)

Here is my all my natural light! See the siding behind me? How it's smudged in green? I "tried" to faux paint it to make it NOT look like siding. Fail. It probably would of helped to have some brown paint on hand. 

Okay, that's obviously not going to work. So I hang up some curtains.

Okay, better..much better.  Just needs some ironing...and a model.

More white fabric, and a quick test of model placement. I think this is going to be OK!

Gardening

It's that time of year when almost everyone boasts about their garden, "I can't believe I just harvested a 50lb egg plant." Or canning all sorts of things like pickled carrots and sugar syrup blah-blah in my pressurized canning oven. So I'm going to show you my garden, in all it's neglect and laziness.

 Squash blossom

Purple basil

Uh, this is the mangle of tomato plants.

And this, no-no-no, it's not weeds! It's our salad greens patch. It looked really good for the first month, in fact the whole garden looked really good. Then you realize that taking care of a garden requires constant weeding, pinching tomato vines, trimming basil. What do you think food just grows itself??

Actually, yes, yes it does. See those tomatoes there? Buried in crab grass? They were a surprise. We had about 7 or 8 surprise tomato plant pop up. We do compost, and I guess we threw out a lot of tomato seeds...

and cantaloupe seeds...(see that baby cantaloupe there?)

and squash...

and more squash. I kind of like this surprise gardening thing.

Ice Scream

Double scoop. Would you be able to eat an ice cream with a face?

Pattern: Scooped by Marcie Nishioka