Inspiration Friday

This Friday I spent time on two different projects inspired by people I know.

The first was inspired by a friend of mine that loves music and languages. She is fluent in Spanish and now we are learning Arabic together. She's about 36 years older than I am and she picks things up so quickly. I don't think it's really true what they say about youngsters being more absorbent of languages, at least not this youngster. I won't say I'm doing badly with it, but I know it takes effort on my part to soak it in.

My friend also plays the violin and lately she's been getting me to play. I quit orchestra after my freshman year, partly because I disliked our teacher, playing tests, our nun-ish orchestra dresses, and I wanted to replace it with an art class.

So for my friend, I am creating a violin pendant necklace out of polymer clay. I think I'll write her name in Arabic somewhere on the pendant as well, or make another pendant with her name.

The other project I'm working on is a caricature of my two instructors that I have for a 2 week course I'm taking right now. They are being our instructors completely free of charge, and they arre so genuine! So I thought to capture the fun personalities that they have in a caricature would be nice.

I will hopefully be posting pictures of what I end up with soon. :D

Inspiration!

Saw this little guy on Etsy a few months back and ran into him again today.

Check out the shop he came

from at

this link:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/44435551/news-giraffe-necklace-wood-decoupaged?ref=tre-4c69a26fc7c26d91f0aab54f-5

I thought EsmeDodsworthDesign, which is the shop's name, had a great idea when she made this. In her item listing it says she took a large wooden giraffe bead and wrapped it up with news clippings.

So I'm inspired. There are so many projects I could do using a similar method. And you can, too.

Give it a try and post some pics! Let's see what you create :)