An amazing artist that Quills and a new card coming soon on LoveUPaperly

Hello, Hello!

It was a snowy one tonight here in Maryland!  I am just happy that it looks like no shoveling will have to take place to get out of the house tomorrow for work!

I do have a new card to show you I hope by tomorrow on LoveUPaperly and I have lots of ideas swirling around so new things should be coming soon.  I will keep you posted.

I just finished my microbiology class tonight and as you know I am immersed in medicine all day so when I found this artist I wanted to share it with you.

Her name is Lisa Nilsson and boy is she ahhhmazing!

Her work that I love the most is her quilling entitled Tissue Series. 

If you have been following my blog for awhile you know that I also love quilling and did a lot of it while recovering from my neck surgery. 

Quilling the art of rolling and manipulating strips of paper to make designs.  Lisa Nilsson takes this art to a new level by creating cross sections of the human body using paper.

This is why she started the series:
“I was out [junking] and came across an antique quilled piece of religious art. It was a very fancy filigreed crucifix-gilt. I later learned that nuns and monks used edges of old bibles to make pieces like this,” said Nilsson in an interview with ArtSake.  Around the same time, she had stumbled across a French book of hand-colored anatomical cross sections which she felt was a great way to showcase quilling.

The have a bit of a yuck factor, but at the same time are strangely beautiful, delicate, and intimate.  I thought perfectly fitting images for a day filled with medicine!

Aren't they beautiful in a strange way?  It takes the artist hours to put them together.

Until tomorrow,

Love,

Jess

Lovely Sunday Photograph

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday!

Tomorrow I start school (two classes), so with work and school and trying to keep up an etsy shop we will see how life goes!  Posts might be appearing very late in the day!

Image source unknown.  Please let me know if anyone knows creator/owner. 

Isn't this image lovely?  To wake up with hundreds of balloons around you!  I wonder if this was for a special occasion?!

Also, do you remember when I told you my amazing father wrote a book?  Original blog post can be found here.  It is entitled Forgotten Hostages and is a true first hand account of the first terrorist attack in Washington D.C. that happened on March 9, 1977.

It is now available on kindle for only $4.99!

I am actually reading the book myself right now and it is fantastic!

Until tomorrow,

Love,

Jess

Artistic block and Cleaning house

Happy Happy Tuesday my friends!

In all honesty I already think it's Wednesday, which as we all know is NOT a good thing.  Then on Thursday you think it's Friday and you come to find out that you still have another day of work!  Does that happen to anyone else out there?!

Today I wanted to talk about Artist block.  Personally, I have been on a creating high for the past month.  I have had tons of ideas, my work is flowing, i'm enjoying the process...and then BOOM!  I have about a half hour this morning before I have to go to work and I went down to see if I could finish some projects I started and I just stood there...and looked.

My mind is/was completely blank and I...got...nothing.

I think as someone that creates things, that is one of the hardest moments.  Do you guys suffer from this too?  How do you overcome the dreaded artist block?

Original image by larein at deviantart

Image by Kerry S. Boyd

Original Image found here

I thought these pictures expressed perfectly what it feels like to have artists block!

I also wanted to share with you something from pinterest that I found.  No, it's not a gorgeous photograph or a great food picture.  It's actually something really practical! 

It is a website called Home Store Solutions 101.  Each week there is a different challenge to conquer to clean out your home.  The owner of the website say's, "You cannot expect to get your home completely organized over night, even though that would be wonderful.  However, you can get organized slowly, over time. That is where The 52 Week Organized Home Challenge comes in. Each week we focus on a different challenge area in our homes and make steady forward progress".

I am seriously thinking about trying to do this.  I have a habit of starting a huge project and then losing steam somewhere where my house looks like a tornado blew through it.  It is so frustrating!
I think this is a great idea and seems manageable.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Until tomorrow,

love,

Jess