Archive for December, 2011
Cheers!
Enjoy the last day of 2011 and cheers to the future dear friends!
Keep the inspiration moving and never cease to live, learn and grow!
Photo thanks to Tres Sugar
Behind the Seams: Featuring Brooke Reidt
Brooke Reidt explains the beautiful connection between artist and designer, and gives you an inside look at how Eden clothing design comes together!
Also, enter to win hand signed pieces from her artist collection of graphic tees!
Behind the Seams: Featuring Brooke Reidt
Brooke Reidt explains the beautiful connection between artist and designer, and gives you an inside look at how Eden clothing design comes together!
Also, enter to win hand signed pieces from her artist collection of graphic tees!
Green Tip!! Recycled watercolor newspaper…
Watercolor is one of the easiest art mediums to play around with. Color can be smeared across a paper canvas to create a beautiful wash of hues, without need for specific design or patterning!
Came across this simple DIY for a lovely paper garland. Re-use old newspapers and book pages, cutting sheets into various shapes (such as leaves), and adding some light color with watercolor paints! String the dried pieces along with twine and drape on a mantel or wall!
Idaho landscapes
Earlier this year we went to visit Amy Purdy in Idaho to shoot her new line for Element Eden called; Live Learn Grow. The weather was just warming up and the rolling hills of golden grasses smelled so beautiful. Amy said the colors of the landscape was a huge inspiration to the color pallet of her garment line.
Here are a couple of photos I took while we were there…It was pretty magical.
Check out Amy’s website to learn more about how amazing she is, here.
See more of my photography at amberbcreate.com/photography.
New growth…
Sending hugs to Advocate Beck Hickey on her new baby boy!!
What a beautiful little man, nice work dear friend.
Much love from your Element Eden family xo
We love boobies…
Breast cancer awareness has increased beautifully in recent years, and behind it all one of our favorite organizations, the Keep A Breast Foundation. Keep A Breast does an amazing job of educating young people through art exhibits, events and programs… most particularly in action sports! Their insanely amazing tag line can be found on wrists across the world, with boobies loved by the masses!
By utilizing the strength of art in communicating difficult feelings and thoughts on health, Shaney and co-founder Mona used their expertise in fashion design, photography and event planning to come up with the idea of using the female form to spread knowledge about breast cancer. They launched a series of art shows to exhibit one-of-a-kind plaster forms of the female torso, each individually customized by artists, then sold to raise funds for breast cancer programs across the globe!
It was an honor to personally meet Shaney and hear the story in her own words while she created a cast of my chest, amongst other creative and inspiring women at the Create and Cultivate event with (No Subject) LA.
Keep doing what you do ladies and know that it’s changing the world!
Big thanks to (NO SUBJECT) LA for bring us together!
Snowflakes start falling…
What’s your favorite holiday tune?
Elton John “Step into Christmas” -Alison, Eden product developer
Michael Buble “All I Want for Christmas” – Wendy, Eden design director
Matt’s version of Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Christmas Song” -Jenn, Eden product developer
George Michaels “Last Christmas” -Filipa, Eden designer
“Grandma got run over by a reindeer” -Todd, hardgoods art director
Elvis Presley “Blue Christmas” – al, marketing
DIY do gooders… Final round!!
You can’t mess up with this one. The messier the better in my opinion.
What you will need:
A few favorite beads
craft wire
needle nose pliers
wire cutters
A necklace chain
1. Pick a few beads or even just one that you wish to use as the eggs in your nest!
2. String the beads onto your wire and continue to wrap your wire around the cluster of beads until you reach the desired fulness of your nest.
3. If the beads keep acting squirrely and poking out then use your wire to hold them down as you wrap in the circular motion.
4. then to attach your necklace chain to your bird nest charm use the tail of your wire from your birds nest to wrap around the chain, connecting the two.
5. to finish simply wrap the excess wire into a ball or knot at the back of your birds nest and cut off!
Some of my close girl friends and I all made matching ones. They are simple, cheap and oh so classy!
Just a little side project…
This woman amazes me…
Artist and Advocate Brooke Reidt rarely makes it to her bed every night, as she’d rather be putting her creative mind to work with projects, commissions, collaborations and exhibits. While catching up with her over dinner the other night, she just throws into the conversation the fact she is also creating a tee pee for a friend’s back yard party… “no big deal”…
What a beautiful “side project”… I’ll say it again, this woman amazes me!