Hello, candylanders! Fear not for I did not and could not forget you. *majorsensoryoverload* My time is much more precious with baby girl around, I feel she deserves every waking moment and I seem to have no problem at all giving them to her!
I’ve started a new artist project and have been scanning my old sketch/inspiration book.
Changes
Life always changes.. and the past sometimes seems amazing when you try to reminiscence about it.. but in reality you had problems then too. When you’re thinking about how wonderful things used to be you’re probably only focusing on the negatives now.. what what about the positives? I have to say I love changes because although I think I hate them and would want to be a child of the 80s forever — they’re amazing. Life changes all the time and you just have to enjoy each and every part… You only live them once!
A print I made for Colette before she was born.
Japanese Fashion Magazines
So I’ve been away from all of my goodies (aka: loot) for quite awhile now.. it’s all still boxed and labeled nicely in storage until we move. I miss it so much! I’m probably going to do an *obsessedwithjunk* post when we move and photo-shoot everything I always took for granted!
I again remember why I miss Japan and the life I had there.. so amazing and filled with health, good food and happiness. The magazines take me back to a time when I surrounded myself with everything adorable, bright and colorful so that I wouldn’t focus on the bad. I tried to focus on cute things that made me feel happy (my Hello Kitty and Sanrio goodies go back to 1981!) and squeal. Japan makes that world of cute lifestyle real to me, I feel so at peace and home when I’m sleeping there.
On a really materialistic note I miss the stores, clothes, magazines and food a lot, too. These magazines are like rainbow soup for my candy-lovers soul.
Sketching
I love sketching once more. When I started painting again recently for a show I found my sketching skills as shaky as ever and I decided to start perfecting them again for this artist feature I’m participating in. I cannot WAIT to show you because I have some great ideas!
😉 I’m doing a sort of a scrapbook in my notebooks as well.
Cotton Candy
I think that with a name like fairy floss this candy pretty much speaks for itself. It’s sweet and flavored (if you’re lucky) sugar melted and dried by a cooling fan. Usually it’s melt-on-your-fingers pink and lick-your-lips blue. I had to go to the local fair recently to snag a monster-sized bag, no questions asked!
FAMILY
The little family I have makes me happiest of all. If I didn’t have them I would be a lot crazier than I am now! 😉 Ben has always been amazing to me and Colette makes me smile more than I ever thought I could! Everyday with them is the best day.
Old inspiration sketch.
4 Comments
I’m so glad to see you’re posting here more again. I love the first sketch–that hair! It’s like, magical. You’re so unbelievably talented!
P.S. Are you still looking for guest posters/contributors? I feel like I haven’t seen any in awhile.
aww! you’re super sweet! i always look forward to your comments.
as for guest authors, yes we still accept them — we have a lot of applicants AND our writers tend to write a small amount of articles due to their other commitments. why, were you interested?
i really need to add a lot of great, new articles and get everything going smoothly again asap! 😉
Thanks–I love coming here to comment! 🙂
And yes, I’m definitely interested! I think I saw a page to apply through before?
BTW, no rush (I know you’ve been playing Mommy for awhile now–which is so much more important), but I’ll be really excited to see Miseducated putting out more content. (Oh-& with the article on IFB that mentions you, I believe you might see an influx in potential writers here very soon!)
xoxo
https://www.miseducated.com/?page_id=3193 — haha I had moved it to the bottom of the ‘authors’ page but I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking about it so I’ve put it back in the header!
I’m glad you’re excited to see more content.. that gives me motivation to create the art and put it out! <3