First Posting!!! :-D

So here it be! Mine first blog post for the Joys of a Craftista! Every since I was a little girl I have loved dabbling in the arts and crafts: from scribbling in books with crayons, to making clay elephant sculptures in grade school to crochetting my own blankets in middle school, and well....creating everything else since then! Crafts have really become my passion over the past year. I take joy both in creating the things that I love, but also in sharing them. I've created quite a few things by now, and so with previous thought in mind figured....why not start to share them? So without further ado, let me introduce you to some of the things that I create! :-)

What you see below are some pictures of totes that I have been focusing on craft-wise. Basically all I do is buy a box of blank tote bags from Wal Mart, a package or two of fabric markers, and then just draw and fill in! I happen to love all things sparkly and blingy though, so in my mind some of the bags were not complete without acrylic gems added; hence the gems on some of 'em.

If you look closely at the orange, yellow and green one you will probably notice what look like little faces. That bag was inspired by some pictures of microorganisms I spotted online. The green things were supposed to be paramecium but most people who see them think that they're pickles so I just go with that. The small blue and purple circles on the other hand I do believe to resemble cells.

And apart from the bag I just talked about the only other one that's supposed to kind of resemble something from real life is the red and green one to the very left. I've been doodling red circles with black X's in them for a while imagining that they were roses, but to really make the idea clear that they are supposed to be flowers I added the stems and lines to resemble grass. And that's really about it for the time being! I have lots more things to take pictures of including pillows, dolls, placemats, stuffed animals, and flowers! Hope you enjoyed the bags and their bling and colors! :-) Keep Crafting and stay tuned for more updates!