Busy busy bee.

Hey, it’s me, Donna. It’s been a few days since I last talked with you guys. I actually have been really busy. Between moving my baby brother into his college dorm on Saturday, working at Michaels on Sunday, and moving myself in, I’ve been running around.

I still have spent some time being crafty….at finding time to do art things, of course. Since I’m an artist. 😉

One of the things i found time to do (When I was supposed to be packing my makeup…oops) was to do some lovely feline costume makeups.

The first is my lioness makeup. I’m not a fan of this as much since it didn’t look right with my classes and without them I was a bit more blind than I usually am.

This makeup is done with brown eye shadow, white cream makeup, white eye shadow, and a black makeup crayon. I also put on a nude lip gloss that worked really well with it.

If you want to learn how to do it, I used  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ49TwfefVk done by the amazingly talented Summer Kellsey. This one was a lot of fun and I’ve never done an animal makeup like this before. I wore this around the house humming the Circle Of Life while holding up some of our playful kittens.

The second makeup I played with was just a basic black cat. Wish I had a pair of cat ears to go with this one. Hmm…maybe I should go make…No, I can’t go off to make cat ears in the middle of telling you about my simple cat make up that I did. I took a black makeup crayon and black and brown eyeshadow to do this. I did a basic cat eye (which is hidden by my glasses in this picture) and then made a heart shape on my nose. I filled it in with the makeup crayon as well as the line connecting my nose to my upper lip. I also filled in my top lip with the black makeup crayon.This was filled in. I then used the makeup crayon to put the dots on my cheeks.  I then took the eye shadow and brushed the black eye shadow over the darkened area. I then took the brown eye shadow and light brushed it over my cheeks. I completed this simple look by wearing a dark purplish pink lipstick.

 

I’m sure you’ll see more of my costume and makeup things here since I’m taking a costume and makeup class. I’m pretty excited. Even with the move and all that follows after not seeing people for three months, I’ve been pretty busy making things. I’ve been working on some magic pendants and here’s a picture of a few of the ones I’ve made.

 

Just a sneak peek on an upcoming post, here is my (almost) finished unicorn head. It’s made of Polymer clay and I’ll go more in-depth on him later.

 

 

Check back soon and I’ll show you some more stuff this craft….artiste has been up to. See ya later.

You found me.

Well, here I am. Finally joining the world of blogging. Not really. I have attempted a few times to have a blog, but I…failed. Miserably. The last blog I was going to do…I don’t even remember the site it was on. But this attempt is different. Why? Because I finally have some idea of what I want to share with you all.

I’m sure you’re wondering who I am and why you should care about what I have to say…er type. Well, I’m Donna and I’m the crafter who does pretty well pretending to be an artist.  In this blog, I will talk about a couple different things. My job. Writing. And the multitude of random crafty arts that I do.

I guess I’m going to start off by talking about my job which I’m sure you’ll see things about here. I am a jewelry teacher and I both love and hate my job.  Sometimes I love that I am giving lessons/projects to teach because I don’t have to come up with one, but sometimes I would dearly love to be able to share a specific project or technique with the wonderful people who take my classes. The classes are definitely getting better since the corporation I work for is taking an interest in the jewelry classes and give me new classes to teach every couple of months. I’ll post when I have  classes and what the project will be. IF the students I have allow me to, I may show pictures of what they make. It’s a lot of fun getting to share something I love with other people.

I also am a crafty artist. A jack of all trades you might say. So I’m about 200% positive that there will be pictures of projects I make. Tips and tricks I learn along the way and almost certainly tutorials about what I make. I take a lot of pictures of my processes and I will definitely (try to) share them all with you guys.

Another thing you may stumble across on here will be posts about writing. Writing is such a large part of my life that I don’t know what I’d do without it. So, times when I’m feeling insightful or after a particularly good meeting of the Writers’ Guild (the writing club I started on my college campus) I may share some of the things I’ve written or discovered about the written word.

I think that covers most of what I have planned, but you know how life is. ‘The best laid plans of mice and men’ and all that. I’m sure there’ll be some surprises along the way, and I can’t wait to discover what they are. With you. Best wishes (and good night since it’s after midnight here) from a crafter…I mean artist. 😉