What a 'Rush'!

It's Rush time for the pledges of the Bloggerette Sorority!

Hosted by Karen at Some Days are Diamonds

I've been waiting for this my whole life...well actually just since I found out about it a few weeks ago. Either way, I'm super excited about it. If you haven't joined yet it's not to late, just pop on over to Some Days Are Diamonds and follow the simple directions.

We were given a RUSH assignment in order to proclaim the official "grand opening" of the Blogerrette Sorority. We simply had to create something using this picture.

I immediately knew what I wanted to do...play dress up! I wanted to find some vintage clothes and photoshop myself in. Unfortunately, I walked 2 miles up and down Magnolia Blvd the other day hitting up all the vintage/thrift stores and couldn't find anything suitable. I even tried making my own clothes look as close as possible, but I didn't have any success. My hair was a different story altogether. I tried to get their hairstyle, but it just flopped. All I could think was, "if I wasn't trying to get my hair to look like that, then it would". Their do's look like my bad hair days.

On Tuesday night I got another brilliant idea while catching up on Con-tain-it by Roberta. She featured folded candle shades which reminded me of folding paper fans. BINGO! I thought I'd try to make a vintage paper fan and use the photo as the paper. At 11:00 PM, I literally trashed that idea by crumpling up my 5th 'prototype' and throwing it across the room in frustration. I know, it was a little dramatic to throw it, but I was annoyed.

FYI- this is where I create- in my living room, curled up on the couch, using the coffee table as my desk. I have a real desk in the other room, but it's new and I don't want to mess it up.

When I woke up Wednesday morning I had another great idea! Make a rose/ flower out of paper and cut out each girls face from the photo and make them into petals. The paper I chose was not cooperative. It was textured velum and was not as flexible as I had wanted it to be. It ripped. I threw it in the trash.

I was having creators block so I opened the assigned picture and stared at it for longer than I care to admit. I also drank my 2nd cup of coffee and watched The Price Is Right.

At last I got my final idea. (It was my final idea b/c I would have just framed the photo if it didn't work out). After staring at the photo I realized that all the girls had two things in common... headbands and flowers. TaDa! I made a few prototypes and then settled down to create it.

I escaped the whole creative process with only one glue gun burn..thats a low number for me!

Here it is. I used green satin ribbon which was left over from my wedding last October. I used velum paper to make the pedals, also left over from my wedding. As a matter of fact, I think my wedding was the last "creative" project I worked on.

The last part of the Rush process...take a picture of myself with the creation. I can't say that I would actually wear this in public, but I think it might make a cute card embellishment!

Thank you for visiting Living & Loving in California. I look forward to seeing what all the sisters created and making new friends.

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