Steve's Stuff: journal

Edit: If you came here from Tim's website looking for my tag/card, scroll to the end!

Well, here we are. The day after election day. Now that I've started to get over the initial impact of everything and have had time to focus on work and some productive things, I thought I would take a moment and update my blog because... well... I haven't in a while.

Since June, a lot of things have happened. My roommate at the time moved to Toronto, so I had to move into a new housing situation, that then required ANOTHER move at the end of July, so there was a lot of moving going on.

Professionally I had some awesome opportunities to work with some great students in a program called Camp College that helps underrepresented kids explore college options in a weekend sleepaway camp of sorts.

A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Jul 15, 2016 at 7:55am PDT

Of course I HAVE been creating a little bit too. Here is a quick update of some of my art projects I have completed.

I made a lantern and "old passport" project for PortalBurn, a regional Burning Man event that I attend every summer:

A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Jul 24, 2016 at 9:57am PDT

Casually sewing a book together with floss because wax string isn't in my budget haha
A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Aug 2, 2016 at 4:38pm PDT

And then I went off to Burning Man in Black Rock City, Nevada, which was life changing (cliche though it is to say). Here are some of the art projects I either made or was involved with:

Well, to no one's surprise I made a fun travel document holder instead of packing for my big trip tomorrow. Oops. #BurningMan2016 #timholtz
A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Aug 21, 2016 at 7:25pm PDT

It's heeerrreeee #KindredSpirit
A video posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Aug 4, 2016 at 8:43pm PDT

And two pics of me in the desert:

My daily look basically
A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Sep 9, 2016 at 3:44pm PDT

Space whale
A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Sep 10, 2016 at 12:06pm PDT

You can check out lots of other awesome pictures and videos of my time at Burning Man here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByJiFrFAyylQeHhqM1pnNE9heEU

I also made some cards:

Up wayyyy too late, but finished building my bed and made some cards for Facility Services Appreciation Week and a colleague who got a promotion. Love that coffee die set from @tim_holtz
A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Sep 15, 2016 at 10:46pm PDT

Otherwise I haven't been super creative to be honest. Working on my penmanship and read some books (finally). But I did manage to get back on the tag challenge boat. This is my entry for the Tim Holtz tags of 2016 remix challenge for November:

A photo posted by Steve Jenks (@centaurofattn) on Nov 6, 2016 at 6:48pm PST

So with that, I hope to update you all more regularly (and perhaps use the fun blog tab I created on this thing and then decided not to use... whomp. But I guess this can go there soooo I shall tag it as such.

Get excited for the holidays and get started on your cards if you haven't already! Pro Tip: use www.Postable.com to keep track of all of your addresses. Every year you can click a refresh function and everyone gets an email to update their addresses if they moved!

Till next time,
Steve

Hey there,

If you're one of my two subscribers (haha) thanks for hanging out! I wanted to take a moment and talk about some of the changes I made to the blog. I got rid of Artist Trading Cards and Digital Designs. People weren't really coming here for that. I kept some of the designs though and just moved it to my "Other Stuff" section.

I have been making a lot of tags, so they get their own heading now. I also created a section for just general blogging. I never really BLOG in the traditional sense but I could also use a space to just vent sometimes so I created a secret journal section where I will actually blog from time to time in addition to just sharing all of my craft stuff.

That's about it. Thanks for reading and checking out my space.

-Steve