اربح من الانترنتadsance222.blogspot.com: May 2014

7 Quick Takes Friday

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I'm back home for the summer, and I'm working on Shealynn's Faerie Shoppe full time!

Between summer classes, volunteering, and wanting to put in a lot of time into jewelry design and artwork this summer, I wasn't looking forward to going back to my previous summer job. After talking to my parents about plans for my Shoppe and figuring how much it could hurt (or hopefully help!) me financially, I decided to jump into this thing headfirst. This is my summer of risk; this is my summer of spending my time getting to do the things I love.

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Speaking of working on my Shoppe full time, my dad built me a workroom!!! THIS IS THE BEST GIFT EVER! Well, okay, not literally ever, as my parents have given me many wonderful gifts over the years, including, you know, being a part of this family ... but... this is so exciting you don't even understand. We partitioned off a corner of the separate garage, and I have a workbench and cabinet and shelves and office space and I AM SO EXCITED. This is especially nice to have my own space to work in, with natural light-- my sister and I are in a smaller bedroom now and the "back room" in the basement is awfully musty. I've barely left my workroom since we finished building it, guys!

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I am moving from Artfire to Etsy, and in the process I am putting several items on sale! These sales still have one or two unsold pieces, so check them out. Both are for 50% off. More information on these sales are on my facebook page.

Please visit my new Etsy page, where all my items will be sold from now on.

Why am I leaving Artfire? Mostly because the monthly price is going up compared to the deal I had before. Artfire had a lot of things going for it-- they don't micromanage the way Etsy does-- but Etsy is far more well-known as an artisan marketplace and my stats have been much better there.

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Hello again, blog! Yes, I finally plan to start blogging for real this time. Now that I don't have classes, homework, meetings, and events for approximately twelve hours every day, I have enough time to breathe. It's a little disheartening to see how much I've let my blog rust recently.

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So.... Dad bought a 3D printer.

DAD BOUGHT A 3D PRINTER.

He's wanted one of these for years. My entire family is fascinated by the technology. We're going to have so much fun with this-- just as soon as we get it fully set up! Hopefully my siblings and I can all learn 3D modeling really, really quickly so we can start printing our own pieces. This technology is beyond amazing!

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I can barely believe that my freshman year of college is over. So much has happened, and so much has changed in my life, that it is overwhelming to even think of discussing it without spending hours upon hours doing so. Life is like that; it's so full that no matter what you do, you can't fully share your experiences with anyone. Sometime I'd like to write deep words about this past year, but right now my life is so full of new things to do, and old friends to get back in touch with, that I won't butcher it by attempting to.

One thing that is very, very nice about being back home: being back home. I love my family. Being away from home, our local parish, and local groups of family friends is making me realize more and more what a blessing it is to be part of a big, eccentric, sarcastic, loving, geeky family. I also love living out "in the country" (even though we aren't far from town). Cities are great and all, but nothing beats taking a hike or bike ride through honeysuckle-ridden woods any time you want.

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Today was a good work day, as evidenced by the fact that my fingertips are now very sore. I made an Eowyn inspired jewelry set, a statement necklace with vintage medals, and a replica of Queen Geuinevere's circlet in Merlin (currently I only have a picture of it on Instragram; I'm going to properly photograph it and upload it this weekend).

7 Quick Takes is a blog meme hosted at Conversion Diary.

Freshman Year -- 2D Design Art Dump!

Hey everyone! I have so much artwork from my freshman year that I'm going to have to break it up into a couple of posts. I'm pursuing a Graphic Design and Illustration major (it's a tough program to get in to and I won't know if I do until next spring) and freshman year was dedicated to the Foundations. These are the basic art classes that everyone in the art department has to take.

First semester I took 2D Design and Drawing I.

My 2D Design course was interesting... We had a textbook to learn the basics of art theory. I had honestly expected to learn more from it, considering that the only art class I had in the past was an informal one at the house of an artist who lives a few neighborhoods away. Being a bookworm pays off, though!

The textbook and lectures fairly well bored me to death, and I'm far too critical of the way that art classes handle critiques. Critiques were three hour long ordeals in which we over-analyzed the movement, balance, repetition, etc, of abstract pieces of art. There was one kid who insisted that every single piece was somehow an abstract rendition of a city, another who said "it's crap" quite a lot, and another who was so nice to everyone that her critiques were more acclamation than critique. To be fair, I did learn a lot about ways of analyzing art and how to describe things that just look "off."

However, I did come up with some pieces I was pretty excited about, and the professor was nice.

It might not look like much, but this drawing was really fun to do. It was one of those zen pieces, if you know what I mean. We had to incorporate patterns around random pieces of construction paper that we cut out. I love pen-work so spending hours doodling in class wasn't really a chore.

There is one thing I have to say about art classes-- it's weird to adjust to making art for someone else and oftentimes making things I really don't care about, yet still putting in all my best effort, work, and creativity.

Thankfully I've had some experience with that during these years of running my Shoppe (minus the "don't care about it" part because I always seem to care about jewelry-making). It's a strange mindset but I'm going to have to get used to it when I go into art and design as a career. There is a HUGE difference between personal art and work art, and I'm learning how to enjoy them both.

By the way, I hate construction paper so much now. We spent the first couple of weeks cutting out random shapes and gluing them in random ways and analyzing them. This is the only remotely interesting piece I made. One of the construction-paper pieces consisted of hand-cutting some perfect squares in three different sizes, and rearranging them until the professor approved it as "aesthetic"-- FOR SIX HOURS.

After this, we got to do some fun work.

One of the many things I've learned about art classes is that you really take out of them what you put in. It's not like math, science, or even (sometimes) the liberal arts, where you gain concrete knowledge as the end goal of the class, and there is a set amount of material to learn.

I've noticed that I get on the nerves of some fellow students because I'm always shooting for the stars, but I do like to challenge myself rather than settling for the bare minimum requirement for our assignments. 2D Design was a very basic course, but I did learn a lot simply from going overkill during the six hours a week I was in class.

The picture above was from an assignment to use perspective points and horizon lines to create a picture that incorporated visual volume. We were also allowed only three colors (of which we could only make tints and shades).

The inspiration came from M.C. Escher's "Polyhedra" (shown at right). Basically I constructed a bunch of basic shapes and had them interlock in visual 3D space. The only thing that I don't like about this piece is that my professor told me that I had to paint each face of the cubes and triangles a solid color-- no shading based on internal shadows. She said this was because it was too advanced for our class and some of the students don't know how to do it without reference photos. "Save it for dedicated painting classes."

I kind of wish that art students were less competitive. I know that competition is a big motivator (for myself included), but there are some people who can't be genuinely happy for another person's talent. I sure know that I have a hard time fighting off jealously for those insanely gifted people in my classes, and I understand the feeling 100%. However, I dislike being apologetic for trying my best at the things I do best.

Anyway-- back to art!

The colors in this photograph came out way too orange but I can't seem to Photoshop it into the real-life colors. (Did I really just verb-ify "Photoshop"?).

This was a technique in color-mixing. The piece had to incorporate transparent objects, but every change in color due to overlapping objects had to be done by MIXING the paint colors-- no easy-peasey washes. It took forever.

I couldn't come up with what design to do (abstract work requires too much thinking, darn it!), so I decided to paint a song instead. I don't think I've talked about it much on this blog, but I've recently discovered that I am not crazy. (Surprise! lol!). Ever since I can remember, I've associated colors and shapes (and sometimes textures and personalities) with different things like music, letters, and numbers. It's an actual psychological phenomenon called synesthesia.

Anyway, that is just proof that I am not crazy when I said I wanted to paint a song. I picked a cool one by Mannheim Steamroller-- below is the YouTube video. I painted snippets from the first thirty seconds or so.

(The full Fresh Aire song collection is on youtube here).

I wonder if any of you can listen to the song and see it in the painting, too? The painting is pretty meaningful to me because it's one of the ways I remember the song, but I imagine it's just a normal abstract piece to literally everyone else.

In this painting, we had to start with cutting out a small piece of a design from anything and build an entire painting off of that one little cut out, perfectly matching the colors. If you look closely at the the painting, you can see a small shiny circle smack in the middle of the red and blue in the middle. That's a cut out from a tea container.

Anyway, the design I came up with is kinda-sorta based off of Dancheong (a Korean art form I've blogged about before). Only it morphed into something else altogether.

That's all the interesting work from my 2D design class! Later this week I'll share artwork from my Drawing I class.

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P.S. I have another flash sale going on on my Shoppe right now-- I'm moving everything from Artfire to Etsy, and I'd like to clear out some of my inventory while I make that switch!

This Woodland Elf Jewelry Set is 50% off right now.

(Note-- this one just sold as I was working on this post. I'm going to keep it in the post, though, because I like Frozen. :) It's a great movie!)

Want to stay in the loop and know every time I have a sale? Follow my Facebook page or Tumblr or Twitter!

Memorial Day Sale

Hey friends! It’s time for another flash sale… As you know, I am currently moving my Shoppe from the Artfire platform over to Etsy. During this process I am doing some flash sales on the items still remaining on my Artfire page.

This weekend, in honor of Memorial Day, I am offering all the red, white, and blue items in my shoppe at 50% off. When they are gone, they are gone (although, as always, I am open to doing custom work if something you really love has sold!).

There is a nice assortment of items, including some of my most popular necklace and earring designs. See all the sale items on my Facebook photo album here.

Here’s the link to my Etsy site, which is still under construction but will soon have my entire stock available for sale.

And you can also browse on my website.

Old Glory Hair Comb

Red Autumn Flower Necklace

Red, White, and Blue Patriotic Earrings Red Leaf Earrings

Blue St. Therese Good Deed Beads Red St. Therese Good Deed Beads

Red Guitar String Ring with Freshwater Pearl, size 6

Byzantine Chainmaille Earrings in blue and sterling silver Classic Earrings

السلايدر التوأم لآخر المواضيع مع الإعدادات

أحد أشهر السلايدر المتاح لمنصة بلوجر والذي امتلأ به الإنترنت شرقاً وغرباً لكن هناك معلومتين قليل من يذكرهما عن هذا السلايدر أولهما أن لهذا السلايدر نسختين أحب ان اسميهما التوأم متشابهتان كثيراً الفرق بينهما في التنسيق فالأولى أفقية تتناسب اكثر مع الاماكن العريضة والأخرى رأسية تناسب السايدر بار والمساحات الصغيره وهناك الكثيرين من يخلطون بينهم فيركب تلك مكان هذه ويصبح المظهر غير مضبوط , المعلومة الثانية التي يتغافل الكثير عن ذكرها في الإعدادات البعض لا يذكر ان هذا السلايدر ليس فقط لآخر المواضيع ولكنه أيضاً يمكن ان يكون لآخر المواضيع من قسم محدد وليس المدونة باكملها وهنا ستكون فائدته أكبر ان كان لديك قسم عليه إقبال كبير فمن الجيد ان تستخدم السلايدر فيه وسنتطرق لتلك الأمور في موضوعنا لكن اولا يمكنك معاينة السلايدر بنسختيه من الرابط التالي

معاينة

ستلاحظون أن الاول جعلته لآخر المواضيع من المدونة كاملة والثاني جعلته ياتي بآخر مواضيع قسم القوالب فقط طبعا يمكن تخصيص الأول بالقسم أيضاً لكن فقط حتى اوضح الفرق في المعاينة

طريقة التركيب ثابته اضافة كود السلايدر في آداة HTML/JavaScript

السلايدر الأفقي

أهم الإعدادات

الرقم 4 و اللون #fff هما الخاصان بمقاس ولون إطار الصور في السلايدر
الكود المعلم بالأخضر الفاتح يمكنك ازالته ان كان قالبك يحتوي على مكتبة جي كويري
استبدل http://cnmu.blogspot.com برابط مدونتك
الرقم 15 هو عدد المواضيع التي ستظهر في السلايدر
ان اردت المواضيع من قسم محدد استبدل tagName:false
بهذا الكود tagName:"*", مع تغيير رمز * بإسم القسم الذي تريد

السلايدر الرأسي

أهم الإعدادات

الرقم 4 و اللون #DEDEDE هما الخاصان بمقاس ولون إطار الصور في السلايدر
الكود المعلم بالأخضر الفاتح يمكنك ازالته ان كان قالبك يحتوي على مكتبة جي كويري
استبدل http://cnmu.blogspot.com برابط مدونتك
الرقم 15 هو عدد المواضيع التي ستظهر في السلايدر
ان اردت المواضيع من قسم محدد استبدل tagName:false
بهذا الكود tagName:"*", مع تغيير رمز * بإسم القسم الذي تريد

ملاحظات

إن كنت تريد اظهار السلايدر في الرئيسية فقط أو في المواضيع فقط أو في جزء محدد راجع الموضوع التالي
سرع مدونتك بحذف الزيادات وإخفاء الأدوات
ان اردت ان يكون السلايدر داخل اطار وخلفية كما في مثال المعاينة اضف الكود بين الكودين التاليين

كود السلادير هنا

على أن #fff هو لون الخلفية
والرقم 2 هو مقاس الإطار واللون #777 هو لون الإطار
والرقم 400 هو مقاس مساحة السلايدر
والرقم 15 هو حجم الفراغ بين السلايدر والإطار
والرقم 10 حجم الفراغ لكن من الاسفل

{Summer is Coming}

Updates, and a tour of my dorm room.

I actually made this video a couple of days ago... FINALS ARE OVER, but I'm going back to school for a one-week intersession class, so the real summer doesn't even start until this weekend.

After that, wonderfulness.

اضافة ابتسامات كن مدون لمدونات بلوجر

الإبتسامات والرموز من الإضافات التي دائما ما انصح بعدم تركيبها نظراً لانها تسبب الكثير من الثقل في مدونات بلوجر لان غالباً إضافات الإبتسامات تتكون من صور منفرده ومتحركه وجلب كل تلك الروابط يعد عبئ اضافة حتى لطرق اظهارها كل تلك الأشياء تجعلني اخبر الكثيرين بعدم تركيبها لكن الإبتسامات والرموز من اكثر الإضافات التي تعطي حيوية للتعليقات وقد تحل محل كثير من الكلمات وتعبر بشكل طيب عن بعض ما قد لا تعطيه الكلمات من معاني لذلك كانت تلك الإضافة الحصرية بكن مدون وهي ابتسامات تعمل بتقنية CSS Sprite وهي صورة واحده يتم تجزئتها وهي فكرة وتصميم حصري وطريقة تركيبها ايضاً سهله ولا تؤثر في سرعة المدونة ويمكنك تركيبها بإتباع التالي

اضف الكود التالي فوق الوسم

مع حذف الكود الاحمر ان كانت لديك مكتبة JQuery في قالبك فعلياً

واستبدال الكود الأزرق بكود المظهر الذي يناسبك ستجد في نهاية الموضوع اكواد لعدة مظاهر اختار ما يناسبك

وأضف الكود التالي فوق الوسم ]]> إن اردت الازرار من اليمين الى اليسار كما في المعاينة

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اما الكود التالي هذا هو كود تشغيل وعمل الإضافة هذا تضيفه في موضوع طبعا بعد تغيير الموضوع من وضع التأليف الى وضع HTML أو في آداة HTML/JavaScript كما تريد