Caty's Old Blog

New Coat

2008-12-29T16:45:00.000-08:00

I got a new coat! I've been wanting a nice one for when its really cold out and I love it. Thanks to Sarah for helping me pick it out. <3 It is awesome! :D

Feathers all around.

2008-12-20T19:42:00.000-08:00

These are the feather earrings I made for my friend Kendall and her mom. And the bottom two are what I made for Miss Liz. :) I think they turned out well. I still have a ton of feathers left, so you'll probably see some more feather earrings in the future.

White Elephant

2008-12-17T10:52:00.000-08:00

Made a Christmas card for my family in Connecticut. This year we made a White Elephant game out of our gifts. I think it's fun and cute!
I also printed out 12 red ornaments with numbers on them for them to draw out of a hat. :)

Excited...duh!

2008-11-25T12:48:00.001-08:00

I HAVE A JOB! WOO! :D

The colors Duke!

2008-11-24T18:55:00.000-08:00

La de da...

I needed to make flowers today...so that's what I did. :)

Luck

2008-11-16T21:01:00.001-08:00

Atlanta here I come.....wish me luck!

SQUEE

2008-11-06T14:29:00.000-08:00

I HAVE A JOB INTERVIEW! :D

La de da

2008-11-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

More flowers...

Must be productive no matter what.

2008-11-05T00:50:00.000-08:00

While I wait...

Lots of hoping...

2008-10-24T21:17:00.001-07:00

*crosses fingers*

Flowers Galore

2008-10-17T20:49:00.001-07:00

Finally a new pattern. Colors galore.

Hello Sunshine!

2008-10-13T12:25:00.000-07:00

Hello! I have been healing and forcing myself to relax. :) How the mind races while the body lies and waits! I'm still healing but I'm hear to say I'm getting back to work. I'm going to get a part-time job to have while I search for my "dream job." *le sigh*

Also, I set up my other blog. Inspired by Jennery, I created a 'one word' blog. I plan to do one when they update, but hopefully will do one almost everyday or whenever I feel like it. I'm making a list of fun words to pull out of a jar; please feel free to make a list of suggestions and comment. I want to work on my writing and I'm debating joining NaNoWriMo. I'm not sure yet......I've always enjoyed writing as well as making art. Why not do a little of both? Hmmm. We'll see.

Ok, hopefully I'll have something new up here in the next day or two. :D

Oh, that tiles were not slippery!

2008-09-18T12:33:00.001-07:00

Opps....I slipped and fell yesterday morning and in the process sprained my ankle. Won't be doing that again any time soon! Thankfully my parents and Miss Sarah were there to help me and I am very grateful to them for taking me (crying) to the ER.

Sarah took some pics, and I did too. Here is my pitiful face in the waiting room. :P

Here you have a lovely shot of my iced ankle and bags o' stuff.

Me in a better mood. Thankfully friends and family can make me laugh when I'm sad.

A close up!

My hospital bracelets.....some how they thought I was 45. That is my mother's birthday, not mine. I am 22 years old. I don't look that old, do I?

Sarah, looking sad for me. Thanks Sarah!

My mother filling out papers for me. Joey, my stepdad, had already left to go back to work.

The Box. That nurse in there hit my right leg twice and my left once (that being the injured foot) trying to wheel me in there.

Well, that was an eventful day. I do recommend not spraining your ankle. I felt so stupid, but very grateful that I had help. It will be a day or two before I post again. I'll be resting today, but I don't plan to let this defer me from working on my portfolio. Thankfully one only has to sit to work on a computer. :) Man, I'm clumsy! lol.

Miss Sarah's Tote Bag

2008-09-14T21:35:00.000-07:00

This tote bag is for Miss Sarah. I hope her Mac Air will fit in here. It is just adorable. Brown with blue polka dots, blue lining, and blue handles. I bet it would be cute with some kind of trim at the top too, but this is what I have to work with. :) It is just too cute! I am a great admirer of tote bags, and bags in general. A collector too. You can never have too many bags to carry your yarn around in. So I hope this comes in handy for Miss Sarah.

P.S. This one only took me between 2 and 3 hours this time. :)

I had to buy this fabric....

2008-09-13T22:50:00.000-07:00

Wouldn't you buy this lovely fabric too. I just had to have it, and then naturally make a tote bag out of it. I did much better this time, only messing up a little. I also did not mess up the handles this time. A bit smaller, but a definite success. :D

I am a sewing goddess!

2008-09-13T14:46:00.000-07:00

I haven't made any new patterns since Thursday because I found my mother's brand spanking new sewing machine. Its been lost in her garage for over two years. Oh, I was soooo excited! Sarah and I made some things, but I must say my first bag is a disgrace compared to the beauty I made last night. I followed instructions, as best as I could, from a sewing book my mother recently got me. I made this awesome tote bag!

I messed up on the inside, but fixed it well. The only other mess up was the handles, which I'd sewn on the wrong way, but I went ahead and cut and fixed them. I think my next tote bag will be much more beautiful, but I must say I'm rather attached to this one. Thankfully I had fabric I bought from Hobby Lobby, way back when I worked there! Anyways, la!

Falling Flowers

2008-09-11T18:14:00.000-07:00

This pattern was fun. I had to get all the flowers to fit together without touching. I wish ya'll could click on the photos, but there's still some kind of problem. If they've fixed it and you can then yay! I really like the blue one. More to come!

Neat 1

2008-09-11T17:46:00.000-07:00

I made my first Neat Pattern, shown here in a variety of colors. I think these would be cute on some P.J.s. Those kind with the boxy texture. :)

Bird Flop

2008-09-11T00:16:00.000-07:00

I finally scanned in all my newly drawn sketch pages and I really wanted to do a pattern with the bird I drew. I like the way both of these turned out. The blue being my favorite. I started both in Illustrator and thankfully layers can be dragged to a different file in Photoshop, which is where I finished them.

New Sketch Pages!

2008-09-11T00:13:00.000-07:00

Here are the 8 new sketch pages I drew. Yay! New patterns will be posted shortly!

Bloodstream

2008-09-05T01:12:00.001-07:00

I wanted to create a pattern with these drawings and this is what I came up with. The colors were the hardest part, but for the most part I like these. I think they'd be neat on a t-shirt.

I've drawn a few more pages in my sketchbook the last two days and I'll update on that hopefully later today. :)

Textile Designs

2008-09-02T19:56:00.001-07:00

I needed new inspiration and whats better than old inspiration. So I went to Borders and got this book.

It has hundreds of textile designs from Europe and America from the past 200 years. I really like it. I'm already full of ideas. :) I highly recommend it for reference and inspiration.

Vines

2008-09-02T02:15:00.001-07:00

I got home and got inspired by a website so here's what I came up with. I'm not sure about the colors. I'll play with it more later. For now I'm going to bed.

Checkers & Sputnik

2008-09-01T12:34:00.000-07:00

These are the last two patterns I made last night. I sent Checkers to Print & Pattern, but I made Sputnik after I e-mailed them. I'm not sure about Checkers, there's just something missing for me, but Miss Sarah liked it. On Sputnik I reused some drawings but I wanted to use those together. I'm happy with my progress. I feel I'm getting better and hopefully I'll get a job soon....

Paisely

2008-08-31T14:50:00.000-07:00

My favorite colors.

Weeds

2008-08-31T13:41:00.000-07:00

Today I woke up with a clear mind and will hopefully make lots 'o patterns. I'm hoping to enter a contest on the Print & Pattern blogspot. It'd be really neat if my patterns made it into their book. So off I go to make many more patterns which I'll post as the day goes by. :)

2 Flowers

2008-08-31T01:05:00.000-07:00

Made this one too. I just liked these two flower drawings together. I'm going to make more patterns with these two flowers with other elements.

Flowers & Spores

2008-08-31T01:02:00.000-07:00

New pattern! Miss Watts has been very gracious to help Sarah and I get better at patterns. :) So I made this one. I've been drawing in my new sketchbook and actually filling up the pages. This is result number 1, in three different color variations. It looked best with white as the background. Yay!

Vase

2008-08-23T01:11:00.000-07:00

My latest pattern. I'm not sure about it, but I wanted to do something tonight. I like the colors, but I wasn't sure whether or not to leave the vase by itself. I do plan on trying another pattern with both elements by themselves.

Granny Square Patterns

2008-08-22T21:53:00.000-07:00

I love to crochet! So I learned how to crochet Granny Squares last week and I wanted to try one of my patterns. First I need to explain my Graph Book. My friend Jessica and I enjoy making patterns out of just squares (like 8-bit games). So we bought these nice graph books from Barnes and Noble in 2005. Since then we've made over 100 patterns combined. It can take a while to make one, plus I have multiple hobbies and have to make time to work on these. We use Sharpie Ultra Fine point markers for most. So combine my Graph Book with my newly learned crocheting talent and you get these examples! :D

Pattern #1:

I think the problem with this one might be all the extra grey I'll have to make. I was set on this one at first, but I'm wavering. Maybe I should make the squares blue instead of green.

Pattern #2:

I kind of like this one. But is it too simple? meh?

Pattern #3:

This is the pattern I'm working on right now. I just changed the colors based on what I crocheted.

Pattern 4:

I was mainly against doing a zig-zag because I can already do that kind of pattern with a double stitch, but it kind of looks cool. Though I like this one too I'm going to resist doing a zig-zag.

I'll come up with more examples after I crochet more Granny Squares.

Rainy Days

2008-08-19T23:20:00.001-07:00

Update: Isn't he cute! Him and a bunch of his friends were on my back porch. I did step on two of his cousins though.

Its been raining for about 3 days, which is so unusual. Is it fall yet? I've been enjoying the break from the heat though. Its given me a chance to work on the garage. I'm an organizing machine. You could hardly walk through a small clearing 2 weeks ago. Now you can almost fit a car in there.

I love the rain!

Jars

2008-08-19T23:16:00.000-07:00

Title: Jars

My new favorite. I drew this some time ago. I got the idea after seeing someone's "life" in a jar. I think I was sick at the time so I thought this would do, lol.

Starfish

2008-08-19T22:51:00.000-07:00

Title: Starfish

I wasn't sure what to do with this sketch. I think I like the end result, but I'm going to try it with different colors. (Please click on it to see a bigger version.)

Spores

2008-08-19T22:50:00.000-07:00

Title: Spores

Again, I wanted to make something more commercial but still with things from my sketches (as always). I really like these little spores.

Flowers

2008-08-19T22:47:00.000-07:00

Title: Flowers

I got inspired looking at Fifi Mandirac's site. I wanted to do something...I guess more commercial. I still like it though. All the bits are taken from my sketches.

Dashes & Dots

2008-08-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

Title: Dashes & Dots

I felt I should play with just plain shapes. I'll make a few more.

Butterflies

2008-08-19T22:43:00.000-07:00

Title: Buterflies

Not sure about this one. I was trying to make a cute pattern. Meh, really.

Zig-Zag

2008-08-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

Title: Zig-Zag

This one is so odd. It just came together so quickly.

Windmill

2008-08-19T22:33:00.000-07:00

Title: Windmill

The colors on this one just worked out so well. Again, I took the sketch from the Fish pattern. I'll probably use it a few more times, or make some new variations.

Triangle

2008-08-19T22:30:00.000-07:00

Title: Triangle

Another favorite of mine. I love the color blue. I try really hard not to use it on everything.

Swish

2008-08-19T22:28:00.000-07:00

Title: Swish

One of my first patterns. Makes me think of summer. :)

Swirl

2008-08-19T22:26:00.000-07:00

Title: Swirl

This is another pattern made from one sketch. The top one has a lace brush on the background.

Sun

2008-08-19T22:23:00.000-07:00

Title: Sun

I took the same sketch from the Fish pattern and rotated it a bunch. I particularly like the comet brush I used on the background.

Stripes

2008-08-19T22:18:00.000-07:00

Title: Stripes

Probably my least favorite. I just haven't wanted to align it better. I made this in Photoshop, but if I remake it in Illustrator I'll get a better result.

Rorschach

2008-08-19T21:02:00.000-07:00

Title: Rorschach (1, 2, & 3)

This is actually a multi-repetition of a sketch of a single stalk of wheat I did one day. The bottom two weren't really speaking to me. My favorite is the top one, much less of an eye sore. I will most likely revisit this pattern over time.

Houses

2008-08-19T20:36:00.000-07:00

Title: Houses (1,2, & 3)

The first one is with some grunge brushes added to ground. I drew these little houses last week and turned it into this pattern.

Fish, PewPewPew

2008-08-19T20:32:00.000-07:00

Title 1: Fish

Title 2: PewPewPew

I love both of these. I'm still working on getting them to work seamlessly, but that takes a lot of my patience and other inspiration comes along. So for now, this is the best.

Fire Monster

2008-08-19T20:24:00.000-07:00

Title: Fire Monster

This adorable little sketch was drawn when I was sick. Isn't he just the cutest!

Sarah suggested a double print look. I really can't decide on which one I like.

Cake, Cupcake

2008-08-19T20:13:00.000-07:00

Title 1: Cake

Title 2: Cupcake

These two I made on the same day. The cake, milk, and cupcake illustrations I made for a project in school two years ago. I like the cake one best. I know, base on some friends critic that Cupcake needs some revising.

Bacteria

2008-08-19T19:53:00.000-07:00

Pattern Title: Bacteria

I couldn't decide on a color scheme so I made three. :)