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What you see there is my very first silk screen test. I actually gave it a go over the weekend and it wasn’t that bad. I used Speedball’s Photo Emulsion kit and I just followed the instructions. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, especially since I’m only doing one color prints. I so guessed on the timing of the exposure. I gave it 30 minutes under a 65 watt flood light (I couldn’t find a 125 watt flood light (as the instructions suggests) anywhere. So I just had to make do with what I had. One thing, next time I’ll probably expose a tad bid longer when I have a fine line drawing. The actual printing can get a little messy.

Oh this is so cool, the possibilities are endless.

I was sorting and organizing my digital photos and found these. Remember I mentioned I was helping with setting up a new store for the company I work for? Well, they should be having their grand opening by the end of this month. There are a few people I work with that formed a band just to play at this opening so hopefully video footage will be available to show after. It should be real good. Anyways, here are a few photos. You can see the amount of boxes and stuff loaded into the space. It was crazy and it took away three weeks of my life :)

Utrecht in Carle Place, Long Island

And yet again, another one of my many shoe shots.

Here’s a sneak peek at something new for the shop. Just a few new goodies will be added this time around, it’ll be early this week. I still a few more up my sleeve that I’m trying to work out. Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.

A brand new day for a brand new beginning.

It’s super early right now and I’m on my way to work. Just wanted to pop in here to say hello. The above shot was taken one day when I was on the train headed into the city.

Have a great day!!

Hello, it’s been so long again. I’ve been busy with life in general and sort of working and brainstorming ideas for some new Jengs Shop goodies. I hope everyone has been well and thanks for those who have joined my mailing list recently. I have a mailing list by the way, if you didn’t know. You can sign up on my website. I won’t bombard you with junk so don’t worry. I’ll only inform you of product updates and sales, you know the good stuff.

So I’ve been brainstorming with ideas right now. I know I’ve been slacking physically (executing those ideas & producing final products) but my brain, along with my pen in hand, have not stopped. I’ve been toying with the idea of patterns, fabric, and illustration, all intertwined in some way along with my paper products. I’ve got some good ideas going and now I’ve just gotta sit down and make it happen. I’ve also been writing a lot. Just trying to write down everything that’s in my head (scary as it may seem, my feelings) at least once everyday. It’s working out so far and when I go back and reread them it’s a little reminder of what I felt that moment and I try to understand “How?” it all came about and the deeper meaning “Why?”. Anyways, it’s a good little exercise you should try it.

I’ll leave you with a cute little doodle, of all things it started as a coffee stain.

are what makes life so great. So cherish every minute of it all.

A surprise I received the other day. A lovely gesture from a great person.

Back at you, baby.

I’m going to tell you a secret. I get really embarrassed when someone I know reads this (meaning my blog). I don’t know why but I do. Especially when I’m right there next to them, or even when they just tell me “oh, I read your blog”. I never know what to say. It’s sort of like they’re seeing a side of me that they don’t really see. That’s not even true, It’s not like I’m not me here, but I know I hold back a lot with the things I write about and the things I show here. It’s only because this was created to promote Jengs Shop, my paper goods and other creations and that anyone anywhere in the world can be reading this.

Isn’t that crazy? That anyone can be reading this. So why are you reading this? I wish I knew why! Can you tell me? Pretty please. In my eyes, it hasn’t even been very interesting, well then again neither has my life since I’ve started this. Just little updates on my stuff and very little about me. I mean would you really want to know all the b*llsh*t that goes on in my life? I know I’ve been hinting more on that. I really need to just not care what people think. It’s been over a year now. Haven’t really been keeping track. Busy taking photos of shoes, my shoes in particular and sometimes others.

So back to the rambling, I wish I knew where I was taking this. You know, Jengs Shop, my life, just about everything. There are so many things in this world to see, do and learn. I wish I could just stop time and do ‘em all.

I can’t believe that it’s Thursday already. Where did the week go? Oh yeah, I was working my ass off helping my boss set up a new store in Long Island (the art store I work for is opening up a new location). My arms were a bit muscular for a skinny girl like me but now I think they’ve doubled and it’s making me self conscious :) Lots of lifting and putting things together. Anyways…

I forgot to mention that last week I finished up a wholesale order. Deb from Peoria, Illinois had requested some custom cards. She wanted my Umbel card set in Chocolate Brown and my Electrical Tower notebook cover as a card set instead. I liked how they turned out. The Electrical Tower cards came out really nice. I might include them in my colors in my next update.

Image above didn’t come out so good but you get the idea.

I love getting custom requests with the designs that I have so if anyone wants something a little different just ask and I’ll see what I can do. Have a great day.

Still taking photos like a maniac.
Here’s are some nice shots I can share with you at the moment.

These were taken by the Throgsneck Bridge

Lonely Guitars

Iced Tea

Reflections

For the last 5 years I haven’t really sat behind the wheel to drive somewhere, especially through crazy traffic in Manhattan. I get real nervous now, I don’t know why but before that I use to drive like a maniac and didn’t care because it was just what I had to do to get around. But then after you get use to a way of life (like someone else driving you around aka a boyfriend) you tend to forget or loose nerve because your mind plays games with you, well, mine did.

So yesterday I gave myself a pep talk and drove all the way to New Jersey to see my friends and it felt great. I didn’t think about it and just did it. I also took some pictures while in the car driving through Times Square right after the fire works. Don’t ask why I drove down that street but I ended up there. Stupid I know. But it was all ok because I got home in one piece.