the upcoming jewelry line is being finished up and I can’t wait to get everything put together finally.

life’s been good, I chopped off all my hair. not looking forward to winter. fashion goodies tomorrow.

awesomely messy new hair

I want to buy all of elena gallen’s goods. her likes: high heels, area 51, and terry richardson. of course.

two headed bambi t shirt by fashion designer elena gallen

kate moss coke nose tote by designer elena gallen

I’ve been pretty busy keeping up with bumblesea and working on bigger projects so this art print idea is reserved for me to work on in the wee hours of the morning when I find it impossible to fall asleep. I’m currently working on an illustration of the hatched necklace (the egg only- I’d go crazy trying to paint the chain), and it’s about half way done. the photoshop file size is already up to nearly 2 gigs. luckily I have a few extra hard drives laying around that can be dedicated to holding all the original files.

bumblesea indie jewelry silver hatched egg necklace

right now I’m focusing on launching the much anticipated (and more affordable!) acrylic line. (I know I’ve been promising the new line forever..) the jewelry studio will be able to cruise on autopilot once it’s launched. I’ll still be on twitter and of course I’ll still update the blog- but it’ll give me more time to spend with friends and family.

nets photograph by femme de manille via flickr

dragon fruit photograph by femme de manille via flickr

I obsessed over dragon fruit (enough to name a bumblesea necklace after them) after seeing some photos of them on flickr. I got my hopes up about how they’d taste, spent five bucks on a single fruit, and it ended up reminding me of a mediocre kiwi. maybe it wasn’t ripe. what can you do?

at least they’re pretty.

free photoshop layer textures by les brumes via flickr

free photoshop photography filter textures by les brumes via flickr

- les brumes offers hundreds of amazing textures for photoshop geeks like myself to use for free. I can’t keep this find to myself, it’d be cruel. click on the images to check out more of her free goodies.

- house of gems is sponsoring a featured jewelry artist contest. enter to win and you could receive up to $500 to spend however you wish at their store. the contest deadline is today: august 15th and I just found out a few hours ago! fate? hurry up and enter here.

- I haven’t been posting/promoting the past few days because I’ve been spending all my time playing with PHP in order to have dynamic content on bumblesea. originally I installed joomla and skinned it to look exactly like my current site. I think I was searching for some PHP plugins when I came across indexhibit and fell in love with it. I’m scrapping the entire joomla project, it’s bloated and unnecessary for what I need. I’d prefer to support other small companies with similar taste in design if possible. is anyone still reading this? hi, mom!

bumblesea indie jewelry silver tree branch necklace on polyvore

- silver tree branch necklace by bumblesea

- off white converse all star high top chuck taylors (took me a few months to find off white but it was worth it)

- white ripped skinny jeans via topshop

- white tiger striped cashmere sequin tank top by rebecca taylor

- off white blouse via eruca japan

- crystal wedding decor tree via ethereal decor

- white marc by marc jacobs lil’ riz leather hobo bag

polaroid design challenge - lightning heart

current blog obsessions/inspiration/you know the drill:

- polaroid design challenge for all you illustrators, doodlers, photoshoppers etc via lightning heart. take the original polaroid and do what you will with it, check out the blog post for some examples/ideas/inspiration. submit your entries by the end of august!

- stephanie teague’s clothing via mint

- blushless wedding line available via aspiring couture

- buzz asked me for some input about the pros/cons of selling on etsy, mini-interview is up on the blog

- there are obviously too many hours in the day so I’m fiddling around with tumblr

behind the scenes: still tweaking the bumblesea site, the code is sloppy and unfinished. brainstorming youtube video ideas. (I might have had a breakthrough.) figuring out the best option to offer free shipping on jewelry. brainstorming ideas for squidoo, associated content, helium. eating entire cheesecakes.

speaking of eating everything, someone’s started a daily journal about their anorexia/bulimia with the name bumblesea. so if any of you happen to come across that and wonder if it’s mine, nope. I still love food. and digesting it.

steambath by sgoralnick via flickr

amalia by habablow via flickr

shades of blue by whimsical via flickr