Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Blog Fail

This past weekend I had the opportunity to see my friend Andrea and her husband Sam for a quick lunch at Potbelly's (mmm yeah).

The topic of blogs came up, and as Andrea knows... I really love reading blogs. If it's someone I know well...or someone I barely know... if they are interesting in the content and manner that they write, I will sit here at my laptop and scroll through their meandering thoughts. 

And of course, with this topic of blogging, I remembered my forsaken blog. Or blogs. I have a lot of blogs people. ... People? Who is even reading this? Anyway, I will have an idea for a blog, I will make that blog, I will make that initial first-time update, and then I will never touch that blog again. That's what happened with this blog...and my cake blog. I have really got to start updating my blogs! 

I recently created a new blog with wordpress because I've been curious about wordpress in general. That blog is intended to be an informative blog, rather than a show-and-tell blog like this one.

But maybe that's what's causing me to fail. Shouldn't I just have one blog where I put everything?? The idea makes sense, yet I feel like I'm so all-over-the-place in my interests and topics that I just like the idea of keeping things separated. I don't know... all I know is I needed to update this thing and felt like doing so right now.

My goal for this blog was to showcase what I do, what I make, and what I learn. On that note, something I've done recently is make a few videos. Contest entries to win candles from my favorite candle company at the moment (Candles by Victoria).

Most recent: a contest entry for crazy-ass make-up. Inspiration came from the Carnivale Venetian masks of Venice, Italy. Boy do I miss Italy.

I ended up winning first prize with this, which I wasn't really expecting. I had fun though!

And the other contest entry was to make a "commercial" for Candles by Victoria. I decided to make a monster-truck rally commercial...for candles. I thought it was pretty funny. Unfortunately, it did not get the prize (almost did though).

So that's what Meghan's been up to!

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Mosaic Saga

My most recent creation is a mosaic that I did in Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas. The above image is a digital rendering (done with the help of photoshop) of my design submission. The Deep Ellum Foundation had a call for entries, and about 25 (?) designs were chosen to replace the old and fading paintings that were existing.

How did I decide on a mosaic design? Well, seeing as how I had no experience in outdoor painting or mosaic work, I decided it'd be a good idea to submit an entry that combines the two. Some have said this move was 'daring' or 'brave.' Looking back, I see it's just plain foolishness on my part. However, I survived, and now it's time to share! So what I think I'll do is separate the posts out according to phases. Stay tuned!
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