Photo Shoot: Minnesota Red Dress

I went out to the lake with my friend Amelia over the fourth of July weekend, we were able to do a really fun photo shoot with the dress and wings! I'll keep this one short and just post the photos. :)

 

Beyonce Formation tour Shirts

Beyonce came to Minneapolis.  I am not one to go to big shows, but my friends and I call eachother #wearebeyonce. It came about going to a dance showcase. I had to go to the bathroom so bad, and my friends told me it was to the left.  Since rushing I ended up in the dancer only bathrooms.  When I came out there was a dance group huddled together I almost ignored it until i heard them say "we are beyonce!" It kept getting louder and louder. "We Are Beyonce, WE ARE BEYONCE! WE ARE BEYONCE!" I found great amusement in this ran back and told my friends immediately of the wonderful thing I saw.  When they came out to dance all their songs were Beyonce! That same week my friend changed our facebook chat group to #wearebeyonce. Since then we call eachother beyonces.  Such as "let me ask the beyonces about what is happening", "oh the beyonces are going here" I think you get the idea.
So when Beyonce's tour on sale of course I felt like I needed to go. 
Of course with this event I wanted to make tees.  I get it I should want to save up for a tour tee but I really wanted something customized. With lithographs and Stencils I loved how these shirts came out! A little faded and highs and lows I love the vintage feel with still being Beyonce appropriate.

Jackets

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How to draw Hair

Hello everyone, I realized it's been forever since I've done a how to step by step. So this was a fun project getting me back in the swing of things.  So enjoy!

Minnesota Red Dress Video

I posted some photos earlier and now I have finally created a video. Enjoy!

MN Red Dress: Jillian Fialko

Hello Everyone! I am so excited to share, my newest adventure with you.  I was able to do the Minnesota Red Dress, it is a charity I feel strongly to support.  They do amazing research and help out so many family's! When I was asked to do the fashion show I was so excited to say YES! Since this is for an amazing cause I wanted it to be memorable, exciting and fun for everyone.  I have been to quite a few shows and as well done the work is I feel like sometimes I leave those shows talking about a few of the outfits later on.  My goal was to make sure people to wanted to talk about it as if it was the event of the season to remember the surprise to tell everyone about the fun event.  Thus making wings, adding her dog bacon and making a dress that suits both.

Of course this was over the top and Realia by Jen helped pull it together even more with her awesome jewelry! She had the most kick ass necklace! PS I'm linking her website, seriously click the decor section to be blown away!

Laura Schara was the model she has her own show on Kare 11 and of course her side kick bacon did so well!  She is such a motivated person it was an honor to work with her.  Especially me being my super awkward self.  At the end of the show Matt Dumba from the Minnesota Wild took my wings for the finale.  That improve was the best!  It was such a fun event, I hope you enjoy what I did!

Credit: MN Red dress

Credit: MN Red dress

 

Credit: MN Red dress

Fashion Illustration: Red Dress

Hello Everyone, hope you are ready to start off this next week.  I have a treat for you! I was asked recently to participate in Minneapolis's Red Dress Collection for the American Heart Association, yes those are wings. and yes I am excited to get started on this dress! This is done in markers and pencil.  I liked to go with a darker red color because the wings will be made out of balloon material called mylar. The dress itself will be a heavier jersey material.

Leather Purse!

I should take some photos with someone wearing this but oh well! I finished a leather purse complete with hardwear. I had some trouble with some thread tension but this experiment i would say is successful.  It has brass rivets grommets and snap.  The lining is polyester and the shell is lamb leather. So Yeah I am  excited it's done!!! :)

Sister's Present

My sister got married recently, and as a result of using sequins I made 2 pieces for her to hang on the wall.  Since I always do things for other people, this is probably more girly than what I would make myself for my own apartment.  I dyed the fabric myself.  Then painted with acrylic and hand stitched the sequins on. I was hoping the zeros would look a lot like wedding rings. I hope you enjoy!

Fashion Illustration: Turkish Trousers

Hello Everyone, I haven't posted for a while because of all the trips and events this summer!
I am hoping to share some of them with you, however I did manage to draw a quick sketch of some shiny Turkish Trousers. The thing I love about these pants, western culture picked these up as something that women can exercise in.  During this time frame women's outfits were primarily dresses. Being as the first accepted pants for women to wear makes me love them even more!

That's it hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks for reading! see you next time my little creators.

Disco Helmet

Today I present to you with a recent project I did, It's not the cleanest prettiest thing I have made but it was a joke gift for my friend's 21st birthday party.  His favorite movie is Boogie Nights, and since he has a disco ball already I decided to make him into a disco ball. My friend was going to buy vintage skates but that didn't happen. So he wore the helmet all night it was a great time. 

Directions:

Buy a helmet sand it down, try to find one that looks like a horse riding helmet.

Buy a lot of mirror tiles.  I would mark off areas for it but I obviously did not and super glued it to the helmet. Then another suggestion I did not do, use caulk.  Then glitter glue inbetween and now you have your super duper cool helmet!!!!! 

That's it hope you guys enjoy because this present was AWESOME!

See you next time creators! 

How to Draw: Chowder

What a fabulous show!! I love everything about it.  It's up there with Adventure Time for me and the music is super amazing. Enough with the text and on to the video below. :) Materials: AD Markers, prisma marker, Micropen

That's it hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks for reading! see you next time my little creators.

Denim love

Sometimes I obsess over textiles. It's one of those things I really enjoy about working in the design role where it's a very important part of designing process. So Today I am sharing my current findings of denim photos.  I just love how this fabric can be manipulated so much and yet keeps amazing structure. 

Constance Jablonski in “Blues:The denim trend” by Annemarieke van Drimmelen for WSJ Magazine, February 2015.

http://morgane-nicolas.tumblr.com/post/96492051527

http://www.chloe.com/

http://secondstreet.ru/blog/kreativnaia_moda/rvaninka.html

Over-the-head denim anorak on the street of Tokyo spotted by our APAC trend analyst@shoopysharon 

That's it, see you next time lovelies!! :)

Fashion Illustration: Menswear

Sorry it's been a while guys, but I am excited to share with you my newest fashion Illustration!! :) 

It's been a while since I did a menswear piece so i think it turned out alright! So I will show you all below!

JCrew Collection

That's it hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks for reading! see you next time my little creators.

Throw Back Thursday:

Winter is a time where people feel like they have an excuse to stay in.  Though I've picked up broomball this year and have been going out.  (which is why no new videos) Reading and snuggling with my cat is an important time for me as well.  So with that I am throwing it back to some books:

That's it hope you guys enjoyed! Thanks for reading! see you next time my little creators.

Outfit Challenge Week 3

Hello Everyone, wow what a week! I have been so busy with work/and life emergencies. I almost forgot to post about last weeks outfits.  This week was difficult, I was sick on Monday so I was in pjs ALL day so this is it for the rest of the week! I added in my birthday dress though that's not how I was styled that night.  It was a I just put on makeup and I love this dress picture. I ended up having a crazy weekend not because it was my birthday either.  I ended up napping a lot too.  I am still recovering.  I am thankful it's my last week of figuring outfits I haven't copied. It was also nice to see that I have way to many clothes.  I might try to do another few weeks since I have only gone through a section of my clothes O_O

Outfit 1) Hoodie: Target Pizza camp shirt: Pizza Camp 2014 Jeans: American Eagle Flats: Target

Outfit 2) Shirt: Target Skirt: The Loft Shoes: DSW Tights: Express Braclet red: Henri Bendel Braclet Clear: Express Necklace: Irene Woods

Outfit 3) Shirt dress: Urban Outfitters Leggings: Pink Shoes: Vincent Camuto 

Outfit 4)Dress Urban outfitters Jacket: Thrifted Necklace: Irene Woods (can you tell I like these necklaces!)  Shoes: Thrifted (in my sisters throw away pile)

Outfit 5) Dress: Kate Spade Saturday Necklace Irene Woods Shoes: JC Penney

Thanks for reading hope you enjoy!!! :)

TBT: CARTOONS

I personally love animation of any sort.  I think what I love about it is that it can define all physics.  more importantly someone spends their entire days just doing animations for this as well.  It amazes me that people spend so much time and effort on making these lovely things for us to watch.  With that I leave you with three of my videos on cartoons I personally Love!

Hope you enjoy, see you next time my little creators!

Outfit Challenge: Week 2

It's much warmer this week so tights are much easier. I thought this week was a bit more fun and what I would actually normally wear and want to wear all the time.

Outfit 1) Dress: Milly, Nordstrom, Cardigan/Tights: Express Necklace: Irene Woods Shoes: Vincent Camuto 

Outfit 2) Blazer: Urban Outfitters Shirt: Target Pants: Aritizia Shoes: Toms

Outfit 3) Dress: Gap Tights: Target Boots: DSW 

Outfit 4) Shirt: Kensie, Macys Skirt: Club Monaco Bracelet: Gifted from Guatemala  Necklace: Irene Woods Tights: Express Shoes: DSW

Outfit 5) Cardigan Urban Outfitters Tee: Madewell Scarf: Banana Republic Black Denim: Urban Outfitters Shoes: DSW

Hope you enjoy, see you next time my little creators!

Things I did during work

All Photos credited to Teresa Winslow :)

Hello all since I haven't posted a  video in a while, don't worry I'm in progress for it. I decided to show you what else I have been up to through work.  It's almost like field trips during high school since you spend most of your time with people you work with. I tried to make it mostly pictures of me since I'm not getting permission from my coworkers. 

The first field trip was a volunteer event for special spaces back in November. It was for an 11 year old that lived with 7 siblings in a 3 bedroom house and shared the bedroom with her 2 sisters. She was on oxygen at all times, so there were tanks on every floor.  It was such a fun event overall and afterwards we wet to SR Harris, this is a super cool warehouse of fabrics.

The second field trip was to see the Faribault Mills! The shop and offices were beautiful and the factory had all the machines from WWII.  It was amazing to see how things are produced.  Target recently did a collaboration with them.  I have the clutch bag!  It was cool to see that they did most of the navy blankets.  They only use wool made in America, and then any scraps go into the navy blankets so not much is wasted! If you don't know this brand check them out! 

 

I know this was a bit different but it's super fun and these things are what inspire me at work.
Hope you enjoy, see you next time my little creators!

Outfit Challenge: Week 1

Finally I can show you some results!! Now this week is probably the easiest for me because it's the first one.  At the same time it was also super difficult because I didn't want to do any of my fall back lazy outfits.  Then it ended up being in the negatives this week so all I wanted to wear is sweaters and comfy things.

Outfit 1) Jacket: Gap (thrifted) Tanks: Target Skirt: White House Black Market Tights: Express Shoes: Vincent Camuto, Nordstrom 

Outfit 2) Blazer: Urban Outfitters Shirt: Nordstrom Rack Pants: TJ Maxx Shoes: Toms for Target

(such a cold day!!)Outfit 3) Buffalo Exchange in Seattle Pants: Angry Young and Poor Shoes: Sorels, Nordstrom Necklace: Anthropologie

Outfit 4)Shirt: TJ Maxx Necklace: Lanvin for H&M Dress: Aritizia Tights& socks: Target Shoes: DSW

Oufit 5) Scarf: gift from my dad when he went to Malaysia Shirt: J.Crew Jeans: Target Boots: Vincent Camuto

Hope you enjoy, see you next time my little creators!