I saw this on the Etsy front page yesterday and actually gasped...
by flandersfield
I saw this on the Etsy front page yesterday and actually gasped...
by flandersfield
Coming this week to Manic Trout!
Ok, this feels kind of weird to be posting so many pics of myself...but my amazingly talented friend was over here today having a little photo shoot in my studio and I had to share these as she takes the most incredible photos ever!
Next week we are working on some jewelry shots...I am so excited!
Thank You Tara, you rock as usual!
I have been enjoying playing around with the few pictures taken over the 4th recently that it has really been bumming me out that I no longer seem to carry a camera around with me anymore...so I have started to again. Although I have not yet remembered that it was with me, but whatever. I did try multiple times to take a picture of Thea by the guitar wall at the Hard Rock in Times Square the other day, as she made me eat there (uck) I thought I should at least get to humiliate her a little...but no...so I will go down with her now...
That's what we call family bonding in these parts...
Its hard to create a space online that is similar to what a real studio space is, but I try to give little glimpses and tidbits that can give you a real feel of Manic Trout as much as I can. Today I thought I would show how I go through the design process...
Usually I start with either a doodle or sketch or a rough idea in my mind...then I start going through books of images that I collect as inspiration, I usually group photos with an idea in the back of my head of how they will fit together....although sometimes the way I group things will subconsciously affect the design, all the pink on these pages made the color choice hard to avoid when I started designing this necklace...
At this point I start pulling materials from the vast amount that I have in the studio...




Once I have all the materials I want to play around with I start to try different things until what is in my head is in my hands.
When the design is what I want, I draw a sketch of it with notes on measurements and materials and take a photo which I blow up and print for a binder of all designs so I can reference it when making each piece.
I lastly photo, price and name the piece and put it on Manic Trout!
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A necklace is born!
I feel like its been ages since I have written anything other then, these are beautiful...check them out. Its been a long, dramatic and eventful summer thus far, and we'll throw spring into that too...These last few days were the perfect example of my life over the past few months...
Thea and I went into Manhattan on Friday, met up with Gilly and then trekked out to the Time Out offices where I was interviewed and photographed for an upcoming article...very exciting stuff! Friday night I had to make an appearance out for an impromptu girls night...Saturday I slept alot as I have been sick for the past week...and then bartended a party. After the party I met up with Holly, a bunch of friends and my latest beau (*gasp* I have admitted there is one!) at the local carnival...how hick is that, lol! Sunday was spent as usual at my moms doing laundry, family bonding and swimming and then I went to see Hancock last night, which rocked! So now you see a glimpse of what my schedule has been like for the past few moths...I have now spent the last couple of hours catching up online, I need to grab some groceries and then its time to sit my tush down and get some new designs off of the paper and into jewelry...and the summer rolls on...