Sanguine Threads

 I have a group project that I need done as it is due next week. Now the unfortunate thing is its not even close to being done now becuase while I have been doing all of it, it’s a group project.  So where is the group? Well they aren’t there to say the least. I’m leading, heck spoon feeding them what I need done. I’ve done 80% I just need that other 20 from them, but that hasn’t happened and none of them even showed up for the last inclass meeting so that we could pull things together. Not one. If this was the real world they would be fired. As it is I now have to burn every once of oil I don’t have. Create a power point presentation, a Photoshop flier, 6 drawn models, two story boards, an actual waist coat, on top of doing 4 other final projects for other classes.

   I bark big sometimes but this is for sure, while I will not be unproffessional I will also not let them stand and present with me next week. They did nothing, saddled me with everything, and for that they will share no modecrum of my hard labor. I don;t usually do this but I will give them a stern dressing down, in the most profeesional way I know how if they for one moment try to claim any responsibility for the presentation I put together. I can work in a group just fine when the group can follow orders and pull weight.  If that group can’t do that I will cut them loose and stand on my owe. So be it.

I have had the fortune of finding two new great places that you all may want to visit. Kat Scrap Studio and Cupcake Central.

Cupcake Central (818-48-sweet), located in Hollywood on Lankershim, is not only a treat for the tastebud but a major treat for the eyes. I wandered in one day thinking “mm cupcake sounds good” and was greated with big, fluffy, beautiful cupcakes in Red Velvet, Chocolate, and Vanilla. Smooth buttercream frosting  whipped and peaked like a scene off the candyland box and decorated with chocolates, fresh lemon, and ruby red strawberry, amongst many other creations. Then what should I see but specialty cupcakes. Wedding, team logos, sunflowers, and What?? Van Gough’s starry night! I had to have one made! And made it was: Hokusai’s Great Wave on red velvet. This wonderful mini masterpiece really made my day  and never was there a more fluffly and Zen cupcake that I have eaten.

Next I would like to highlight Kat Scrap Studio in Alta Dena (2455 N Lake Avenue, Alta Dena, CA 91001) . A lovely little scrapbook studio that is just opening up it carries everything from card/paper stock, velvet flowers, decorative straight pins, beads, buttons, yarn, and even works from local artists. This really is a wonderful shop for your scrap booking needs and then some. For those of you who are intrested some of my knitted bits and blankets are there for sale and later on I may be running  classes for making bags, blankets, and shawls.

I’m also enjoying my new serger so don’t be suprised if you see the inside of my work for a change not just the finished product.

Raven.

   So today I learned that my webpage does not auto update from my deviant art page , my wonderful friend who did all this gorgeous designing has been doing that for me. But in her infinte widom she has taught me some basics so I can update all on my own! She also helped me make new business cards! Poor thing has a coxi non beuano, yet she braved discomfor just to teach me how. Thank you Dawn

     Secondly I have been out of a job for quite some time and it’s killing me, I don’t like taking money when I could be working for it. Dislike not paying debts, even small ones, in a timely manner, and just don’t like the overall stress. Ah the joy of living in SoCal and having a BA is that when you apply for low level positions suddenly I’m over qualified, I just want to work. Well I just have to keep pushing forward and looking at the commission boards a lot more. Can’t succeed unless you try.

   And a big thanks goes out to my parents, you have taken me back into the house so I would have somewhere to live while I go to school, given me a bit of cash here and there so I can eat knowing I would never ask for it myself, and today you bought me a Singer overlock machine. I have needed a serger for quite some time not so that I can work with spandexes and put a professional finish on my pieces. Even though we rarely see things at the same level thanks for supportting me.

   For all my readers out there thank you. I would like to encourage you to comment, critique, let me know what’s on your mind. I do commissions of all sorts: Clothing, costumes/cosplay, original ideas, bags, accessories; by all means suggests things you want to see. I’m hoping that next year I might be able to open a raffle/donation section where I can put original pieces up and raffle them off.  If you have contest suggestions, commissions to request, things you would like to know about me, speak your mind, I welcome it.