I am very excited! I have got the opportunity to illustrate an article in a magazine. It will be so much fun to see my illustrations in print living its on life in a magazine in the hands of other people. Very exciting!! The article is about mindfulness and is using cakes and its different layers as a metaphor. Something like "life is like a cake" I would say it is the 2.1 version of Forest Gumps philosophy "life is like a box of chocolate". Anyhow here is my selection of cakes and a couple of them will be used. Did I say that I am excited?!
During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off. After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made the
Cute Illustrations!!
ReplyDeleteYum! Congratulations on the article!
ReplyDeleteMmmm yummy I love cake. Congrats on getting published!! Your illustrations are really cute!
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