Everything Mary Beth: January 2011

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Oaxacan Wood Carvings

Today I find myself very inspired by Oaxacan Wood Carvings. These beautiful figures are available to purchase at El Caracal Zaoteca.com These are definitely on my wish list.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Spring 2011 Haute Couture

It's that time of the year again!! Time for Spring Haute Couture. My favorite!

I'm in love with these beautiful outfits from the Chanel Spring 2011 Haute Couture collection.

Here are my two favorites from Maurizio Galante.

MAURIZIO GALANTE Spring 2011 Haute Couture Photos 484812

I want to go wherever these ladies are going. (Christian Dior)
CHRISTIAN DIOR Spring 2011 Haute Couture Photos 483999

All photos are from Elle.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Christmas Photos

My husband and I are into minimal decorating. Here is a picture of our Christmas tree.

The nice thing about a tree this small is that instead of trying to gather your whole family around it for a picture, you can just bring the tree to your family.

Stubby

Blizzard

Casper

About this blog

Hello and welcome! Here you will find reviews of craft classes, books, and kits mostly on the topic of crochet but also on the topics of hand sewing and jewelry making. You're in good hands. I have been working as a professional illustrator for 18 years, have won 3 LOUIE Awards, and have 17 published craft books. I'm slightly obsessed with making art and crafts (always have been and always will be). I also have a toddler who I drag to every free children's craft within a 10 mile radius. I hope you find this blog useful!

Quotes

"She gave them tiny pieces of herself and the whole world loved her." - Le petit monstre

"Be the artist you are, not the artist you want to be." - ?

"I can imagine it working out perfectly, I said. I can't she said & I said, no wonder you're so stressed." - Brian Andreas

"It's called work for a reason." - Larry Winget

“The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself” - ?

"If you fall seven times, get up eight times." - ancient proverb

"Dress like a cupcake should feel" - ?

"Get me out of here and get me to a party with people I can relate to." - Douglas Adams

“I love paper! Everything begins on paper. Without paper I would be lost!” - Karl Lagerfeld

"Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work" - Geoffrey Colvin, senior editor-at-large Fortune

"A clean house is a sign of a wasted life." - Ephemera

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Mark Twain.

"I thatched my roof when the sun was shining, & now I am not afraid of the storm." - George F. Stivens

"If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead." - Joe Tye

"It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds." - Gary Homes

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." - Picasso

"(A designer) needs to be confident in order to push the envelope." - Nina Garcia, Project Runway Season 6 Episode 1

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else." - Leonardo da Vinci

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." - Coco Chanel

"You have to do stuff the average people don't understand because those are the only good things." - Andy Warhol

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung

"A little change + a little change + a little change…= A BIG change." - ?

"Do you think 3 chains are gonna cut it?" -Heidi Klum "Dramatic, Dramatic...I think you have done something very safe. I wish you would have really gone and ran with it." - Nina Garcia, Project Runway Season 6 Episode 9

"Make it bigger; make it badder; make it awesome!" - Ace of Cakes

"Then check out the various trend reports and read them with an open mind and soul. As I’ve mentioned, it is when you fuse new trends with your own perspective and creativity that terrific new collections and profitable products based on your findings will emerge." - J'net Smith

"I’m sure many of you have read somewhere how I usually do my drawings,...first I draw them in pencil. This is my favorite part but also the most frustrating, since it NEVER goes the way I want it to at first. I have learned not to scream and throw things anymore, though, because now I know to wait and see what happens— the drawing eventually turns into what it wants to look like." - Mary Engelbreit

"Never long for anyone from your past. There is a reason why they never made it to your future!" - ?

"This is my world and I want to share it with you." - Nancy Minsky

"I think (my success) has a great deal to do with the fact that I really love what I do... I love everything I draw... It's not like: well, I think I'll draw a daisy today. There's always a reason why I draw something. It's always pure enthusiasm and enormous love. And I think, somehow, it speaks a language that knows no boundaries." - Marjolein Bastin

"Design is about shaping the future, about contemporary needs, desires, technologies, materials, and new social behaviors. Design is about revisiting and evolving our culture and physical landscape. Innovation is inseparable from design..." - Karim Rashid Quoted in Fashion Report

"Remember Kahlo. Remember Dali. The heck with them. Remember me." - Sarah Neuburger

"Success is being able to have the lifestyle you want by doing the work you love...The secret is trying to find a way to be happy with your life but unhappy enough with your work so you keep trying to improve." - James Yang

"Life depends a lot on which monsters you take in your boat." - Rebekah Joy Plett

"Follow your path." - ?

"I find that often students who struggle with an assignment are inclined to abandon the struggle and begin again. This practice unnerves me, because it's like playing roulette with one's work. What assurance does one have that the next spin of the wheel will be successful? Important learning occurs when a struggle is examined and analyzed, diagnosed, and prescription offered." - Tim Gunn

"Be yourself, that's when the magic happens." - ?

"What should be fun now is that (clothes/fashion) don't have to be practical. And they don't have to make you pretty. And they don't have to make you powerful. They just have to make you you, in your freaky imaginary headspace." - ? @ Marc Jacobs F2009 RTW

"A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. " - Jerry Saltz

"If you can get to the root of who you are and make something happen from it ... you're going to surprise yourself" - Vidal Sassoon

When asked what Pixar's secret formula is "It's really pretty simple. Everyone here loves films. And they just want to make something that they themselves want to see." - Brad Bird

"If you really look closely most overnight successes took a long time." - Steve Jobs

"There is no such thing as a creative type. As if creative people can just show up and make stuff up. As if it were that easy. I think people need to be reminded that creativity is a verb, a very time consuming verb... If you're doing it right, it's going to feel like work." - Milton Glaser

"Make the art so good they can't not buy it." - ?

"Do what you love, it's gonna lead to where you want to go." - Wayne White

"Obviously, too much standing on the edge of life looking in as an observer can be dangerous or silly-dangerous because you are missing out on actually taking part." - Peter Arkle from The Illustrated Life

"She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going…but she was on her way. " - Jodi Hills

"The way I'm doing this is right and this is my voice" - Mati Rose McDonough