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LoVe/HaTe Challenge…

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In this challenge, given to me by my blogger friend  Karen Shade But No Shade:
I have to list ten things that I love and then ten things that I hate.
Then, I have to nominate 10 bloggers to do the same.
Is not easy to do this challenge since there are too many things that I love and also many things that I hate I will try to list some of them… :-)

Things I Love:
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1.
To be Creative and I am very thankful for this gift.
2.
Interact with interesting people (Here I found many!)
3.
Share thoughts with other Artists of every kind Artistic Souls are Universal
4.
I love snow! :-) And here in Cali I miss the winter and the 4 seasons…lol  :-)
5.
I love the Ocean upper and under water and I love to paint water reflections in my paintings.
6. Looking up at the stars and Moon at night
7.
Amazing Music
8.
Travel and visit new places
9.
My Designs and Creations
10.
Read and write when I was teen ager I used to write poems

Now…..The Things I Hate:
Hate.

1. Any kind of Abuse on humans and on animals.
2. Injustice in general.
3. Poverty in the world.
4. Hanger.
5. Not trusty people.
6. To be interrupted during my creative process.
7. Smart..ass remarkable comments.
8. That our Society is not what it should be.
9. Be deprived of freedom.
10. Unconsidered and irresponsible drivers.

Wow! Right now you have more knowledge about me! :-) It wasn’t quite easy, there are of course many other things to add at this list I was happy to participate thank you again Karen ! :-)

I am going to pass this challenge to:

Bhumi
Joleene Naylor
Souldiergirl
Moxie Luster
Robin Vansal
Jo Traveller
Johncoyote
The girl in the little black dress
Mandy Moran
eatpraylovemom

Sorry I don’t know if any of you already did this but if you didn’t and you are willing to participate it would be great!! You don’t have to do it… but it’s a challenge so challenge yourself! :D

If you choose to give yours, I would love to see them!

Messages to readers

New Feature to my Blog

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Something New…a new Feature added to my Blog!

A new month just started greatly!

Especially here on WordPress with the +50 Milestone, all the Awards given to me from amazing and inspiring people who I enjoy to share thoughts daily, and  the surprise to discover new followers and their kind comments about my Art and my Blog! All this is very motivating and encouraging thanks for all the great support. I always wanted to share with the world my Art this is the purpose of starting this Blog.
My design in any form is my way to be in the world, and my job, where I am focusing on right now. I would love  for this business to grow  being able to provide all my creativity and high quality craftmanship always.

I have been working daily on organizing my online store and promoting my Jewelry Collection.
For who don’t know, I have an Etsy Shop where I sell my Jewelry online. Is for a while that I wanted to be able to sell here on my YesterdayAfter Blog and have the complete control and direct contact with my customers.

Well..great news!
I’ve been working really hard on this feature and I am pleased to announce that  have added a few brand new pages here on my menu that will guide who is willingly to purchase my Jewelry.

First of all I added a PayPal Buy Now button on my side bar

On the menu there is a drop menu when you click on Shop you will find several pages to help you. Click on How to Order this page will guide you
Click on Custom Order form  this is a form to fill in if you would like to place an order.
Click on Shipping and Policies here you find important Policies and Shipping info to absolutely read if you intend to place a Custom Order.

This is all! I just wanted to let you know about this new feature, for any questions you can always feel free to email me via my contact form here

Thanks :-)

 

Awards

What a Thunder Strike…

Today it is a great day!!!
What a nice way to start June!  After reached the #50 Followers Milestone which is growing already by the hours. Today I had a wonderful nomination for another great Blogger Award:
encouraging-thunder-e1427793461525My new friend blogger  THE V-PUB  nominated my blog for this wonderful and striking award the  “Encouraging Thunder” I am delighted and truly honored by this nomination which I accept with great joy! Thank you Rob for this beautiful and unexpected award!
THE V-PUB is a great Blog as the soul that is behind it. Rob is an amazing musician and vocalist a great Artist. His music and interesting posts will delight your visit to his Blog… make sure to click that link up there!!!

Well about this Award here there are all the rules:

The Rules:

  • Post it on your blog.
  • Grant other bloggers the award.

    What you cannot do:

    • Abuse or misuse the logo.
    • Claim that it is your own handmade logo.

    What you should do after receiving the Encouraging Thunder Award:

    • Enjoy the award!
    • At least give thanks via comments, likes and/or mentioning the blog that you received the award from.
    • Mention your purpose in blogging

    My purpose in Blogging:

    I always loved to design what I was feeling…make my own path and now my dream is to  share  my artistic creations and visions with the world. My creativity and my collections will come alive here on this Blog. The purpose is to display my Art in every form of expression I have, and interacting with other artists and inspiring people, share thoughts about art and life. I am here now…and we will see what the future brings for all of us, blogging is amazing you know where you start and you never know where you land… with positiveness great things will come!

    And….my nominees are:

    Joe Traveller
    Moxie Luster
    Erika Kind
    Shade but no Shade
    Anne Murray

    All my nominees are great bloggers and awesome people who I enjoy daily
    please visit their blogs!

Milestones

Yay…#50 just a start!

Hello everyone,
a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!!!!

I have a big celebration to announce and it means a lots to me!
Today a great Milestone came to my way…
followed-blog-50-2x#50 Followers! I am very happy and a tanks goes to all of you that in a way to another came across here stopping by  YesterdayAfter Blog and decided to Follow! I really appreciate all your kindness and beautiful words of compliments and encouragement left on my comments!
I started to work graphically on this blog at first as website only in August 2013.
I wanted to create mostly a portfolio website for my artistic creations and display my Art. I enjoyed creating all the graphics collages and images you see on here like the header image on the front page. Life events came on my way and I had to take a break for a while.
I never posted as blog anything until this year on the 03/24/2015 with my “New Update” very short post, from that day as today over only 2 months later I enjoyed this Blog very much!
I came across amazing people creative artists, musicians, writers, other jewelry makers and amazing photographers it is very inspiring be able to share  thoughts on a daily basis with amazing people I am so grateful for all the amazing journey here in this great community. Many of you become friends which I love to interact with.
I know 50 followers are not 500 or 5.000 or 50.000 but it has the same meaning to me!

It is the start of something great coming that can only evolve more and more….

Enjoy with me as you will come along the way of my journey….

welcome_msg2img copyThis is one of my graphics featuring a girl travelling over the antiques maps of Italy to California
who is that girl???
:-)

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Great Award Season – Blog Tour Award!

As part of the rules for this Award:
the Monday that Anne my nominator choose for the post nominees is June 1st so it is today! I am going to reblog this post hope that you enjoy reading again! :-)

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blogtourawardMy special thanks goes to the wonderful Anne for her nomination of the Blog Tour Award. I am very happy to accept the nomination with great honor because she decided to choose me and my Blog between millions of great other ones. Please visit her blog she is a fabulous writer of beautiful stories and novels, sure you will have a good reading time with her.

The rules:

  1. Pass the tour on up to four other bloggers.
  2. Give your nominees the rules and a specific Monday to post.
  3. Answer four questions about your creative process which lets other bloggers and visitors know what inspires you to do what you do.
    • How does my work differ from others in my genre?
    • How does my writing/creative process work?
    • Why do I write or create what I do?
    • What I’m working on at the moment?
  4. Compose a one-time post on a specific Monday…

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Watercolors

After this post about my Venice – Italy watercolor painting I came across a wonderful new blogger she shared with me her great travelling experience to Venice enjoy her post here…

https://jotraveller.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/my-place-in-time/

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Venezia - Italy


I was organizing some of my watercolors and I came across this painting I made two years ago. It is a view of Venice in Italy just painted out of my visual memory. I love to paint water, there is something about water that it is so inspiring to me in many ways, artistically and not. I like the reflections and the colors. I base my palette on the beautiful range of colors of the sea, or lakes and the reflection of the sky in it.  Thematically when I paint my artwork range from seascapes, landscapes, still life, abstract and whatever inspire me...

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Digital Art

Digital Art – Life of Courage and Truth

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“Life of Courage and Truth”

During the past days I have been working on several Artistic projects beside focusing on this Blog!

I have been working on Photography and Digital Art, Sketches and my Jewelry. Last week I did bring to life a new design I create hoops earrings with amazonite and red coral gemstones. I named the earrings  “Life of Courage and Truth” I like to write little stories for every jewelry I create. If you are one of my followers you probably remember my post otherwise you can read it here.

This is how my creativity extends from a starting hand drawing sketch, to other visual way of expression. I had several visions for this design. Created and born as jewelry sketch that become a tangible product bringing to life the beautiful earrings, and turned them in several photographs that I have been staging and shooting. Right now one of the photos inspired me to become this interesting Digital Art painting…creativity never ends!

Photography

Be like water

Be like water

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”

– Bruce Lee –

Awards

Great Award Season – Blog Tour Award!

blogtourawardMy special thanks goes to the wonderful Anne for her nomination of the Blog Tour Award. I am very happy to accept the nomination with great honor because she decided to choose me and my Blog between millions of great other ones. Please visit her blog she is a fabulous writer of beautiful stories and novels, sure you will have a good reading time with her.

The rules:

  1. Pass the tour on up to four other bloggers.
  2. Give your nominees the rules and a specific Monday to post.
  3. Answer four questions about your creative process which lets other bloggers and visitors know what inspires you to do what you do.
    • How does my work differ from others in my genre?
    • How does my writing/creative process work?
    • Why do I write or create what I do?
    • What I’m working on at the moment?
  4. Compose a one-time post on a specific Monday (date given from your nominator).

1. How does my work differ from others in my genre?

I am an Artist designer and my Art extends in many different ways. I like to have my designs and creations recognizable. I am hoping that when people see them they know it is mine  without seeing my signature. I like to stand out from the mass-produced in anything I create. In my jewelry collection I like to work on One-of-a-Kind and Limited Edition pieces only. I like “uniqueness” because  each jewel will be a little different from one another. In my artistic vision I believe that each person is different and deserves uniqueness. My jewelry is uniquely made especially for you.

2. How does my writing/creative process work?

My creative process start from my inspirations. I get inspired from almost anything, it can be all of a sudden something pops in my mind, or just looking outside the window…anything can be the start of a great creation for a painting a sketch or  jewelry. Often, while making my jewelry, I get inspired by selecting the beautiful natural gemstones, their colors, their meanings and their powers.  My creativity leads my hands to forge and hammer the metal around it creating a shape that will complete the natural stone bringing to life a wonderful creation. I like to write a little story  for each jewelry piece and give to each one a meaningful and powerful title. I always create a custom packaging including my Certificate of Authenticity.

3. Why do I write or create what I do?

I have been an artist since I was a little girl. My great inspiration started at home. Growing up I have been surrounded by my father beautiful oil paintings and more of his art.  I always had the love for drawing, create and handcrafts.  I have been following my heart and path, believing that anything is possible if you truly believe in it and in yourself. Be creative is in my genes it is what I am.  Each item I design it is special, unique and has a piece of my own story and background, there is my soul and heart in every creation I made.
I always loved to design what I was feeling…make my own path and right now my dream is to  share it with the world and with you.  I would like for you to express yourself and be able to create your own mutable story-style day by day, feeling special, beautiful and unique wearing my creations. I am happy when I can make someone happy!

4. What I’m working on at the moment?

At this moment my primary focus it is creating new designs for my “Among Nature” Jewelry Collection 2015″ jewelry inspired by nature. I will keep shooting and staging all my jewelry photos.  Working on this website blog which make me happy.  I came across to wonderful inspiring people. I love to create all the graphics that you see here. And… there are many other things that I would be doing artistically… :-)

The Monday I choose for the nominees is June 8! Post anything you want on this particular day! Just pingback your own Blog Tour Award post on that day! :) 

My nominees are:

Mihaela Beads Academy
Bruno Shooting Venice and More
Erika  Erika Kind
Wilson Storing Hope
Moxie Moxieluster
575 :)  thehappyhaikuer

These are all wonderful bloggers with great creativity, imagination and art. I choose more than requested by the rules, six bloggers insteed than four, because lately I came across several amazing blogs that I want to share. Please visit their Blogs and enjoy their posts, as I do anytime.

Congratulations to all…
Carolina

My Paintings

Watercolors

Venezia - Italy


I was organizing some of my watercolors and I came across this painting I made two years ago. It is a view of Venice in Italy just painted out of my visual memory. I love to paint water, there is something about water that it is so inspiring to me in many ways, artistically and not. I like the reflections and the colors. I base my palette on the beautiful range of colors of the sea, or lakes and the reflection of the sky in it.  Thematically when I paint my artwork range from seascapes, landscapes, still life, abstract and whatever inspire me...