Has it Been This Long?

Life has been busy here in South Korea, but I'm not complaining.  We've been enjoying traveling, eating & well living. 

Jogyesa Temple in the middle of the city of Seoul. I love this photo contrasting the old & new.

Jogyesa Temple

Chandeokgung Palace

This way to dumpling heaven! It's in Insadong.

 Special orders from the holidays. 

It's the Most Wonderful Time...

Holiday Season is upon us!  I'll be at the Osan American High School on Osan Air Base this Saturday & Sunday.  Yea, bring on bazaar season.

I'll be taking custom design orders until the end of November in time for local Christmas delivery. This will allow me time to enjoy the holiday season with my family.  

My watercolor face in the sweetest DIY print.

The beautiful Pyeongtaek Sunset that greeted us our first week here. 

I'm scrambling, as usual, to make sure I have enough "stuff" to fill my table.  As an added "bonus" from this move, most of the jewelry I had made is in storage.  (Yes, that's my sarcasm coming out.) At this point, I just have to say "See you on the other side" and look forward to that "Christmas" when we get everything back from storage one day.  I've been a military spouse for awhile now so I don't freak out quite as easily as I used to. 

Our first trip out on our own to Jinju. We went to the Lantern Festival. I'll have more info in another post.

We've had some opportunities for sightseeing in the time we've lived in Korea.  As a photographer & artist, I have loved every minute of it.  I love that I began as an artist inspired by places I hadn't been to & I now I'm inspired by everyday life.  I am so blessed by the life I lead.

I ♥heart♥ Illustrator.

Color palette & Illustrator drawing from a flower photo taken outside our apartment building.

I'm just getting started on learning Adobe Illustrator. Once I became proficient in Photoshop & understood the difference between vector & raster images, I knew I had to learn!

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Enter Creative Live's Surface Pattern Design Class with Bonnie. The class was Amazing! I learned so much within the 3 day course. The fun thing about Creative Live is that all the classes are broadcast FREE & LIVE. Since I'm on the other side of the world, it was live while I was asleep. Two of the nights I was up when it started & I didn't want to sleep.  I ended up buying the class & now I have all the videos downloaded & can watch them over & over.
I am truly an Illustrator newbie. The most I've done is open the program up & yell at it "why aren't you like photoshop?" "how do I pick things up?" "where are my layers?" - I could go on. Bonnie has fixed that! Not only is she a gifted designer, she's also a super teacher. I take a lot of classes on-line since I don't have the opportunities abroad, & this is hands down one of the best. I have my Illustrator workspace set up, I know the basics of getting around & LOOK I made some of those cool color combo boards.

Moving has always given me a fresh inspiration board to start with. I realize it more with every move & I am so grateful for the opportunities I have had abroad. This class has my mind going in a million creative directions right now. I can't quite keep up with it, but it is so fun to be this inspired!

Color palette created from a picture I took in Antalya Turkey. The spice displays are amazing! Well, shopping in Turkey in general is pretty amazing. I would have never created this palette on my own without what I learned in class.

Bonnie had a wonderful idea to do a blog hop to show what we've learned. 7 weeks of creative inspiration from my classmates - I'll be posting on 9 October. Come check it out! The blog hop starts here. If you don't already follow Bonnie, get over to her blog & social media!

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Fresh Start

Above Istanbul

It was time for me to start a new blog.  I've gone a long time without posting.  We've moved to our third country, we have a new house, kids are in a new school, hubby is working in a new way to serve the mission - it was time for a fresh blog.  With the last blog title having the word "Rant" in it, it's not quite where I am these days.  So here I am.

Korean War Memorial

These days we live in Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea & are stationed at Osan Air Base. We are so excited to be here & have just been here for over a month. This is just a quick post to say "hi". I've been hiding from blog land for the last 2 years.

Gyeongbokgung Palace