Another great Google Chrome app I've just discovered is ColorBlendy. It let's you pick two colors and then gives you a third blended from the two. You can choose to multiply the colors, screen them, overly them, dodge or burn and then it outputs the corresponding color number. What a handy tool!

My best friend Andi and I have been friends since we were 11 years old. That's 20 years this year! I made this a few months ago to commemorate the occasion.  

It's crazy to think about all the stuff  we've been through together. I feel really lucky to have shared all this time with such a good friend. 

I was playing around with some photo editing this evening. I found a fun app for Google Chrome called Pixlr-o-matic and tried it out on these photos. I personally like more control over photo editing but this is a great program if you don't know anything about editing photos and just want to apply some cool filters.

Here are my submissions for the KALX Art contest. My entries were not chosen but it was fun to participate and be inspired to make fun KALX related art and I got the sweetest rejection letter (written in pink pen) from my friend and KALX DJ, Rubberband Girl <3

All 4 images were made using Pixelmator. 

Check out the winners of the contest here!

These mini altars are currently for sale on my Etsy site.

Originally Posted on June 23, 2011

I recently got some images off my old hard drive of mini altars I made in 2001. I hadn’t made one in a very long time, but when I finished off my Altoid minis yesterday, I grabbed the glue gun and got to work on up-cycling the tin. I just snapped a couple more pics of old altars from the early 2000′s. Sadly, some stuff has fallen off of them and they’re a bit dusty, but they still have their charm, see?

Last night I made this mini altar. It has a little medallion of Santo Niño de Atocha inside it with Santa Maria on the other side. I made it out of one of those mini Altoid tins. It’s about 2 1/2″ tall. I even attached a little wire loop on the back so it can be hung on a wall. Fun!

A while back I spent some time with my friend’s daughter and shot some photos of her. Lucky me!

Originally Posted on May 3, 2010

Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending my friends Patrick and Shannon’s beautiful wedding in Calistoga. The ceremony was lovely, the weather was perfect and the reception was good fun. I took my bff Andi as my date and we made some lovely new friends.

As a wedding gift, I painted one of their engagement photos. I found one photo in particular to be such a sweet and tender moment between them that I just had to paint it. I was initially just going for a simple high contrast image with a solid brown background, but once I finished it I wasn’t happy with how stagnant it seemed. I had a tight solid painting all planned out, but the background seemed to call for movement so I did something totally out of character and just went crazy with some red paints. I was really happy with the end result :0)

Originally Posted August 5, 2011

I finally set up an Etsy store for myself. I only have 4 items in the shop at the moment but there will be more to come soon. What do you think of my store banner? I put up the first one but wasn’t happy with it so I reworked it, much better don’t you think?