Is hibernation season over yet? I swear that's what it felt like to me all December along with the offbeat attitude! Geezus. I can't believe 2014 is here. Last month I've been incredibly lazy, probably the laziest I've ever been the entire year! I didn't pick up my sketchbook once. I've also neglected the blog and instead Instagram has just been my quick go-to picture diary :( So in this post today I've decided to do a mini recap of last December, in 2013.
So, The Elf on the Shelf. This little holiday friend came outta nowhere around November and became popular overnight. Suddenly they were in every storethe whole month of December! My first time seeing one was at Barnes & Nobles with my friend A, where I talked a bunch of crap about how ugly and gross and creepy it was. {I mean I like creepy dolls, but this one was just not my type!} I basically hated it at first sight. But that night being so bothered yet curious about it, I googled the story on this "elf on the shelf" and the whole purpose of it kinda creeped me out! That's when it sparked my interest.. Especially when I saw they had a variety of different girl and boy elves to choose from! Two days later with A, I found myself buying a girl elf all of a sudden feeling inspired to re-create The Elf on the Shelf to my liking. I thought, well they're already creepy looking, maybe I can make it look better? So I decided to paint over her eyes to make her look like my illustrated dolls {wrong move}. I named her Pee Wee :). Then I tried to post a picture every day to play its role like in the elf story. I've seen a lot of people on Instagram get in on this too. I even hand made little holiday tutus and accessories for little Pee Wee. I was pretty happy with what I came up with, buuut I guess my followers didn't agree with that after I saw that I lost a little over 10 followers on Instagram, lol! I guess I scared more people with my version of the elf. It was a fun little experiment though. I thought the shocked feedback on my comments were pretty hilarious though!
I couldn't find it in me to pick up my sketchbook and work on some new stuff all month. It even felt like a hassle to pour out all my pencils, pens, and markers on the table to get started! :( And it was also just too effing cold for me to get out of bed and work! So one night while I was in bed, I randomly downloaded this interesting app on my iPhone that I found has the same functions as Photoshop. First I thought, "cool - but, man that would take up so much space! I'm gonna delete it.." but before I did I decided to explore it and do some quick sketches just for fun. Then I quickly became addicted. My iPhone suddenly became my sketchbook for the whole month. There was a time where I was just instagramming one illustration after the other in one night and spamming everyone's feed, lol. I was obsessed! And surprisingly my followers were lovin' it too! I loved the new imperfect style I came up with from using my small screened iPhone 4s {I know, old!!!} I was completely satisfied to find another medium of doing my illustrations. :)
Now for the New Year's Resolutions. I didn't have any deep thoughtful ones that people usually come up with. I just broke mines down a little bit. I think to master these little to do's listed above will help me ultimately get where I want to be. And it's just all about self love peeps! And sometimes, that's hard to do. Whenever I have a day where I feel like I wanna beat up on myself for not being good enough, I force out a laugh to cut the negativity debris! Laughing opens up the heart {even faking it!}. And that's been so hard for me to do because it's easy to get soaked up in all the sadness I create for myself and just be emo. So this year I'm practicing on mastering these tools to rid of negativity or snap out of it and turn it into love - yes, let me get all hippie-ish with you right now, lol, but this all comes down to loving yourself first. And when you do, things do fall into place! Another thing I want to do this year is to continue to consciously manifest and create my life every single day. After learning all tools of the trade and having little successes, I do it every day! I'm having so much fun! And that's one of the secrets to life. I'm even getting my friend to do it too because she's witnessed my wins :). I now never feel like a day is wasted anymore.
Happy New Year guys!
xx ss
I decided to take my muse to my mug.
