He's crafty AGAIN!

I have a love hate relationship with having Jared as a boyfriend. HAHA! This sounds bad. No, OK Jared is cool. Almost too cool :) He knows how to do everything and when it comes down to it, I am jealous. Ya I can dress a mannequin and make a mean cup cake but he even has a one up on me with the whole  grammar and spelling thing. He should be the one posting more here, not me because I am sure some of you are really starting to rethink my educational skillz!

Back to the cool factor this kid has. Recently, he was asked along with the rest of the display artists with in his company, to make an art piece to be sold for a charity event that is being held in the honor of a fellow friend and display artist.

Each D.A. through out the company was sent a canvas to create their piece and send it in before the end of September.
Always being inspired by the mid century style, Jared strayed away a bit from just a canvas painting and created a little something more apart of him.

 I am sorry that I wasn't able to get photos of the whole process. Being that it was for work, his boss lady gave him a little time there to work on it.

And thank goodness for the 138 paint samples that we have here at home! They sure do come in handy with art projects! 

And you know that  Lula had to get in on the action!

And here comes the finished project ... 

I love the driveway how it comes out as well as the globe lights! 

SO CUTE! If it only fit us.

A side project.

I was reading on Dwell's web page one day about a competition that they were holding for people to come up with fabric designs. I was beyond excited when i read about this, because for the longest time Jared has been on me about making pillows and how he really wanted to come up with our own fabric designs for things around the house. Being lazy, I still have not made a thing but it doesn't mean the I haven't thought about it.
So Jared came up with 3 ideas for fabric.

 Atomic dwelling  (get it)

 Lights on

Wood wheel

We got pretty crazy with the titles now didn't we.
I was STOKED when a few days after he had submitted the three, the Atomic Dwelling pattern was put up on the website for everyone to see.
What I was not so thrilled about was that he didn't make it in the the top 10. Oh well there will be other chances and contest for us to look forward to.
If anyone knows or comes across any that he may be able to submit some idea for, please pass it along. He is a pretty handy fellow and we got to get him out there in some sort of way.
Anyways, the top 10 are posted   HERE so check them out to see what you think for your self. 
But I really wanted to go to Dwell on Design this year :(