Hey Guys! Just wanted to share that I recently Restocked my store with tons of my Dina-Bows. I also just marked them down because I am MOVING !! and need to get rid of as much stock as possible. I’ve also got a new studio space (finally after years!) and will be moving into that through may!
Also, just for my blog readers, i’m offering a coupon throughout April! It’s “UNICORNSUNITE” for free shipping on any items! (expires on May 1st, 2013)
I’m so happy to announce that my dream of owning a sphynx cat has finally come true. I took home my new baby, his name is Ramesses, (after the pharaoh of course) and he is a rowdy little hairless kitten…BEWARE NUDE CAT PHOTOS TO FOLLOW:
I’ve been getting so many questions on tumblr and instagram about him i’ll go ahead and FAQ it here:
1. Does he have any hair or is he completely hairless?
Yes, he has hair, on his nose and ears, and he has a velvety down on his skin. He does not have any whiskers though.
2. Why did you get a sphynx?
It’s a long story but basically a childhood dream of owning a sphynx and having the means to finally care for one. I love animals that are different looking and misunderstood. Having a sphynx is like owning a mythical animal or something, he is so unique. 3. Where did you buy him from? Retro Kitty Sphynx in Houston, Texas, and I drove to pick him up. I would recommend her, they are SO friendly and answered all my crazy questions. I had to wait a good 3 months for him to come home and she kept me updated frequently!
4. Are sphynx cats rare?
I think it depends on where you live, they are much more rare in Texas than in bigger, more domesticated cities I think.
5. Do they require special care? Yes, they need warm places, heating pads and sweaters and lots of TLC. Plus you have to clean them regularly, meaning baths and cleaning/clipping their claws because they can scratch themselves easily.
6. How big do they get?
Believe it or not, they are just cats without hair. So regular cat size (I seriously got this question 10 times, in person and online)
7. What are the advantages/disadvantages to owning a hairless cat?
Well firstly, less clean up when it comes to hair, obviously , secondly, fleas aren’t really a problem, they have no where to go! also, my brother who is allergic to cats can actually stand my cat. Disadvantages are pretty simple: he gets cold easily and requires special attention as in baths and such…Also, sphynx kittens are usually withheld longer because their immune systems need to fully develop and they can get colds and such if released too quickly… but otherwise than that it’s pretty much like having any other cat!
I just wanted to announce very quickly that I will no longer be writing personal posts on this blog. I am re-dedicating it specifically to creativity.
This isn’t a sad occasion– as I will be including much more on here that will be girly and geeky, more clay and art stuff and of course much more photography and videography!
My personal blog will be where I will continue writing about my journey in life. I have decided this once before but didn’t keep it up due to things getting too “heavy” on there…But i’ve matured since then… and now, with the popularity of this blog growing (thankfully! ) I am seeing that I need to keep it focused on my creative endeavors and my business. So! If you would like to continue following my emotional, inspirational, spiritual, and personal posts, please go follow me on that blog as well.
Thank you to everyone who reads, and much thanks to anyone that follows me! I also totally understand if you no longer want to follow this blog, please switch happily!
I wrote last week about the personal issues i’ve been through. Though that post was really taxing to write and publish online, where all people who know me or read my blog could see, I found strength in honesty…. and realized that its one thing to air dirty laundry online and another to share your struggles and be a genuine about growing more and more each day. I was attempting to do the second option by writing that post, and I stand by it.
Me and my best friend this past weekend for our friend’s bridal shower.
And now moving forward to my creative event-ures as of late
+All of February and now March I have put aside all personal projects and fun events to focus on some serious projects and client work. My Etsy store has been empty for about two months now because I was completely bought out and am still as of March 5th, making orders. One of my bigger orders is a cake topper for a wedding cake, which has been taking time and sucking my creativity dry! But I have been enjoying it and very excited to preview it soon.
+Earlier this month I presented a Photoshop demonstration at a high school art festival…I have been invited many years to do this and every year I do something different, this year I did a photo-retouching demonstration, you can see my photo results on the next post, but for now here are some pics of me presenting!
I focused on the subject that every media image has been photo-shopped in some way. I showed the group how simple it is to change the look of a person with photo-shop and then some of the simpler techniques they could use to improve a portrait. I spoke for 4 hours straight without a lunch break about photoshop, adobe products and then about polymer clay and Etsy! It was quite fun and I was grateful for the opportunity to work with the kids all day, I also got to talk to several of the young artists and loved encouraging them and talking with them about their own art.
+Then of course there is my full time job, which takes up… eight hours of my day lol. Lately i’ve been lucky enough to be illustrating a book on ancient civilizations, which is one of my FAVORITE topics… (Indiana Suzannah, remember? ) So i’ve been given the great and wonderful task of photographing many artifacts and drawing Roman and Greek landmarks…As well as ancient river civilization maps and so on…It’s been a blast.
+On the week nights I focus mainly on photography and restocking my shop, but lately it’s been about cleaning up my messes! Personally and work wise… One of them being my external hard drive, which I found many old photos that needed to be edited still…so I took a swing at it. I’ll be posting about those next, as well as the examples from my presentation!
If you’ve noticed I haven’t been around on any of my regular social networks…I am sorry, and apologize for my absence…I’ve been in a bit of funk lately. Things have been hectic and crazy in my life, lots of unnecessary drama and some very sad moments. I feel pretty disconnected from everything right now. I tend to get distant when i’m internally struggling with emotions and situations.
On a side note- this Valentines day myself, and a couple of fellow single friends, did a photo-shoot together and this was my print from it. I didn’t really like my edit of it but its okay, because the makeup I was wearing was so intense I couldn’t really do much more with editing.
Every year at this time, the beginning of spring… I feel reflective more than usual…this year has hit me even more so than the ones in the past…on a random but much built up decision I deleted my Facebook. I also made all of my social networking sites except my twitter private…I cleaned out my friends list and I decided to start completely over with my internet self.
Why…I guess is the question a lot of people asked… Several people text me “Why did you delete your facebook?” one person said “Did you block me on instagram?” Two of those people were people that I haven’t heard from literally in years…I had to ask who they were because I didn’t have them in my contact book, when they told me, I was shocked…I didn’t even know those people, hadn’t talked to them personally in years, one since before high school…And…they only had my phone number from adding me on facebook and writing it down somewhere- i’m assuming??
It surprised me…and made me even more so glad that I deleted it for now. There were many reason I did this, one because my photography was stolen, the other because the drama of facebook was just absolutely ridiculous. I didn’t need to be connected to so many people. Especially people who had once made my life a living hell in school and now were married with children and “friend requesting” me…Only to be talking about me behind my back as i’ve learned.
After this decision…. I decided, in my reflective state, to take inventory of everything around me- not just my internet life. I started realizing it was time to clean out the closet of my mind and of my physical self. It was time to clear out the junk that was pulling me down, depressing me, causing me to have to avoid situations.
So I began to think of the life I wanted for myself and what it would require to really clear out the junk in my head and my life. I started writing down all the things that I wanted to change, it came to an equal 10. I’ve put that list at the bottom of this post, feel free to read it below!
I’ve been challenging myself to read more lately, to write more, to spend less time on computers and more time outside working in nature or learning new crafts. I guess Valentines day hit me silently but deadly as well because i’ve been a bit of a sap lately. ….Thinking a lot about the future family I want to have and the things i’d like to one day teach my children. My brother is also having another child soon with his wife and this brings up tons of talk between my siblings and family about babies and pregnancy and all of that junk…It’s only junk because I have trouble imagining that future for myself…It’s hard when you’ve been single for a long period of time and don’t have that significant person to imagine your future with…It can feel almost degrading.
I was thinking about this, the kind of man i’d like to date and eventually marry, and an old but good song came on my pandora, it was “What becomes of the broken hearted”I love this song and always have, but for once, I really listened to the lyrics I was singing…It made me cry, because I could completely relate to it and I had never realized how deep the song really was…How true and how stirring the lyrics were for a song i’ve sang since childhood.
As I walk this land of broken dreams,
I have visions of many things.
Love’s happiness is just an illusion,
Filled with sadness and confusion.
What becomes of the broken hearted
Who had love that’s now departed?
I know I’ve got to find
Some kind of peace of mind
Maybe.
The fruits of love grow all around
But for me they come a tumblin’ down.
Every day heartaches grow a little stronger,
I can’t stand this pain much longer.
I walk in shadows,
Searching for light.
Cold and alone,
No comfort in sight.
Hoping and praying for someone to care,
Always moving and goin’ nowhere.
What becomes of the broken hearted
Who had love that’s now departed?
I know I’ve got to find,
Some kind of peace of mind.
Help me..
I’m searching though I don’t succeed,
For someone’s love, there’s a growing need.
Oh, he is lost, there’s no place for beginning,
All that’s left is an unhappy ending.
Now what becomes of the broken-hearted
Who had love that’s now departed?
I know I’ve got to find,
Some kind of peace of mind,
I’ll be searching everywhere,
Just to find someone to care.
I’ll be looking everyday,
I know I’m gonna find a way.
Nothings gonna stop me now,
I’ll find a way somehow.
I’ll be searching everywhere…
As always, i’ll endure. I will most definitely progress and never give up on any of the things I want in life. My point in writing this post was to give an example of myself… that everyone has the times whenever we fall down, we don’t remember the light at the end of the tunnel…We don’t acknowledge those that try to help us up, we don’t want to…And that is normal…Having down-times is normal…As long as you get back up…And take inventory of yourself; the things you’re going through, the struggles you’re enduring…and why you are doing all of these things at all.
I recently updated my website with a new page called “Mission Statement”, and i’ve added a page on here as well…Taking inventory has it’s benefits…It’s reminded me why I do all this in the first place. It’s because at one point I wasn’t anywhere close to being the person I wanted to be…And now, every day, I get closer and closer.
Much love and thanks readers,
-Su
LIST
1. Clean out all my closets, storage, in general: my stuff…. Donate all clothes that are in good condition but I can’t wear because of weight loss. Get rid of all winter clothes that I’ve had for years. Get rid of all nick knacks that I don’t need but keep for sentimental reasons… Sell anything worth selling and put money toward getting laptop fixed. Donate my second library of books to a school.
2. Go through my daily mental schedule – simplify. How many TV shows am I keeping up with? Narrow down to one, replace the rest with reading and writing time. Make a space in my mentality for downtime, instead of “go-go-go” every day until 10 pm, give myself a looser time frame to relax, such as a bath hour or something of that nature where I do not think of any work or anything business-related. Reduce computer time at home…I spend 8 hours a day on a computer, replace my hour at home with something that doesn’t involve a screen.
3. Go through studio and clean out any gear or art supplies I do not need. Throw away any excess materials or donate them.
4. Clean out all my social networks (check) spend a month without facebook.
5. Go through my weekly schedule and re-instigate solitary walking time. I used to do this all the time and now I never have “time” to. Include time to go to the park and run a while as well.
6. Repair and refinish my living space, install anything (light fixtures, sink) i’ve bought for it last year and repaint walls. Redecorate and reorganize everything.
7. Go through all my external hard drives and computer hard drives and delete anything old, reorganize and back up all important files, photos, videos, etc. Reorganize desk space.
8. Buy shelves and storage bins for room to keep papers and writings clean and protected from any kind of damage.
9. Prepare for my new hairless cat coming in April! (photos soon!!) buy any more needed accessories before he gets here (heating pads, climbing post, food bowls, collar?? etc.) get a bed for Black Jack as well.
10. Write up budget/bill plan for the next 6 months as well as including savings and monthly expenses.
TO FOLLOW:
) I am seeing that I need to keep it focused on my creative endeavors and my business. So! If you would like to continue following my emotional, inspirational, spiritual, and personal posts, please go follow me on that blog as well. 
) So i’ve been given the great and wonderful task of photographing many artifacts and drawing Roman and Greek landmarks…As well as ancient river civilization maps and so on…It’s been a blast.
