jennifer cepeda design

Easter Moments

Wow! I have not blogged since January! I have been truly busy freelancing, working and designing now, and haven't had a chance to sink my teeth into some fun blogging.

I thought I'd share my Easter Day! I will share design work as soon as I am able. So much of what I do is confidential till it's release.

What is exciting is that I'm going to have some design work at the Surtex 2010 show through  Pink Light Design this May.

I was going to attend the show, but it is just too complicated to follow through this year. So many priorities here at home that I have to take care of, and I'm going to be working on a website to highlight my illustration & pattern work as well.

For now, here are some fun Easter pix:

Brad & Kolina "The Talls" coloring eggs at the Talls house.

 

Elliott and Nacho

 

Yours Truly

 

With the use of some embellishments, we have "Maholla" from Hawaii, and the HG egg ; )

  

  

some incredible flowers from my garden. Giant Pink Tulips, Yellow Tulips, pink ranunculus and flowering kale

 

My attempt at the Designsponge Online Terrarium. I found the perfect little ball of moss growing in my front yard, and some of this adorable clover that I bought from a neighborhood plant sale.

 

ranunculus, drumstick primrose and bonerra

 

Brad and Rosco are ready to hunt for eggs!

 

Kolina, mimosas and me

 

Elliott, Mimosa and Orbit

We're all preparing for the Easter Egg hunt!

 

  

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

sundried tomato, kalamata olive, mozerella, green onion & feta omlette,

garlic, rosemary jalepeno potatoes, veggie sausage and:

 

pepper bacon!

Nutty New Year's 2010!

Final touches for New Year's 2010

My favorite feather boa wreath, unlit for now. I tend to borrow feathers from it every year to decorate other things with....such as the party hats!

A lovely quote from TS Eliot


Mustache and hat favors ready for guests!

a splash of creativity from Seth

Elliott and I take a moment to pose:

my cute little vintage fuzzy hat...

I just felt like being all covered up! I didn't want to splash food and grease while serving and tidying up all evening. Well it just worked out anyhow.

Seth and Brad in contrasting and completely appropriate outfits!

Seth, Megan, Emily, Kolina and me

Our camera was lost for 2 hours and we missed ringing in the New Year with it. This is a reenactment of ringing in the New Year!

Liz & Jeramy 

Cami & Chris - major props for the creative mustache hanging!

K-Dog (Kolina)

Wayne

Jay

Megan, Pre drinks

Emily

Condee and Lisa

Cami

Keegan, Elliott, Jeramy, Chris

"porktache" from Jeramy

"nachotache"

It was certainly a blast and I'm exhausted from it all! Can't wait to do it again next year!

browsing beauties

Found this by way of Anne Sage's guest blogger, Michelle Long, author of the  Well Dressed Home.

I absolutely love everything about this table setting. Where can I get those plates?

via www.annesage.com

TwoHundred Two Hand Sewn Silk Mobile by KristinaMarie on Etsy

Just stunning!

via www.etsy.com

This is a cool painting from artist Valerie Galloway....

This etching from PlateInkPaper is phenomenal:

This is a darling site and artist "gollybard"

I found this image touting turquoise as the color of 2010 on blog "delight by design"

There is nothing I don't love in this interior. Just beautiful!

(images via carrier and company, january canadian house and home and scanned from Style and Substance)

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weekend browsing

via www.ninacampbell.com

I love these wonderful color schemes from Nina Campbell. The little teacups are so fresh! They make me want to throw a party just to use them.

via 4.bp.blogspot.com

I have a crush on blue....I have 3 rooms in my house that are just a bit darker than this blue. Everytime I see a blue bedroom I want it to be my room! So crisp and freshly inviting!

 

dish sets www.rossana.com

I was out at Pacific Place Nordstrom in their coffee shop this weekend and saw the little polka dot dish set as well as the graphic floral dish set. I think they are wonderful. I am not really a red dish person though. I looked through their website and found the amazing recycled glass set in green with fabulous designs all over them! I am ready for a summer day, a bbq and some lemonade using this set!

For my friends with children....the above two bedrooms. How amazing is that awesome chalk drawing?

Also, for me, the antique carnival wheel with the great illustrated horses!

http://www.atticmag.com/

paintings this week....

Here are a few paintings I've been working on this week! I have typically worked on more abstract textural paintings  you can see here but I think working small is best for now. I have been trying to work on my basement studio which is very dark with low ceilings, so I'm not quite as into it. 

Since I moved an additional desk up into my skylight design studio, I am a freak between blogging, surfing, designing, sketching, painting and dreaming!

I laugh when I see the difference between the 3 paintings I'm working on:

That's all for now!

J

beauties....

I love what RVA does with blogging 10 beautiful things articles...

I found this monotype on etsy by 

Mariann Johansen-Ellis

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This ensemble and hair for Betty on Madmen:

 

This beautiful room from a 1stdibbs posting

 

This fabulous sculpture from Greatstuffseattle.com:

 

A painting I did in 2006

I love this artist Wayne Pate : http://www.goodshapedesign.com/

I love Lincoln Park by my house:

This is when it snowed in '08... We walked around in the snow every day! So FUN! 

 

This Valentine's Line I worked on for Heidi Grace Designs is available at Joanne's in Fabric! (Heidi Rox)

 

Lastly, I can never get enough of pix of the babies.....

Getting Ready for Winter

I have had a very busy July-Sept and now it's time to brace for Fall and Winter.

No photos as both of my cameras have broken :(

Can't wait to post some awesome design work I've done for Heidi Grace Designs for Colorbok, but it's new unreleased work.....must be patient!

As soon as I get a new camera, I'll be able to post some of the cool stuff we did with the house and now garden.

Thinking seriously of concentrating on new paintings and Illustrations & just putting myself out there!

More painting...of the house

 

Not sure what the appeal was, but even through the capped evergreens, the kelly green trim and cactus green shake, I loved this house.... It has been so much work and really been a huge focus. Taking away from sketching and painting. Watch out when I'm done!

After the trees were cut down, we started a garden. I haven't fully planted along the house, because we're going to add a deck. It will replace "Stonehenge" along with a new front door.
A really amazing Green, that reads as blue. I've given up correcting my husband on the color.
It's called Narangasset Green from Benjamin Moore. It is really striking.
There is a gorgeous warm black/brown and cream on the trim.
little by little...

 

The house is very steep on the side. Very scary! It took forever to scrape down the windows.
Hopefully we'll get all the painting done this summer.
last summer we painted our garage, will post later.
Back to work!