Yes I'm still alive, and have been designing up a storm since I last posted...

HI!! I know it has been a long time since I posted and even though there is probably a draft post somewhere that I haven't pressed publish on, but that doesn't really help. But I have been doing a lot since I was last on and the most exciting thing is what has made me come now to post again. I am applying for my dream job - as a Graphic designer at Te Wananga o Aotearoa. This is where I already work as a disability coordinator in Student Support. My work there is ok, there are some really good things about it and I get to fly around the country quite a bit. but when I stumbled upon the ad for the graphic designer I knew i had to apply. I may not have a hope of getting it, since I have no quals or official experience in it, but I had to give it a go.

I do have a very good eye for detail and a huge love of design. I think i have a very good instinct for design, balance, contrast too, so I went for it! Since I don't have all of the things they want I knew I had to get in there and show them what I can do, so instead of a covering letter I made a mini poster in Photoshop that was titled CHOOSE ME! I hope that catches someone's attention.

I mentioned my blog on the poster, so I figured I better update with some of my latest work. Of course it is my art that show the skills I believe I have for this kind of work. The job is only a junior/intermediate, and will be focussed mainly on layouts for adverts and stuff, but I would love to do that and start there! Honestly, I think I would be so happy doing that work, that I might actually look forward to going to work! that would be a change.

So here is some of my latest art pieces!!

These two pages are inspired by and built upon cool plastic shopping bags I got from Pagani and Shanton (?). I thought they were so pretty that I didn't want to throw them out. I checked them with my PH pen and they seem to be ok.

Most of the stuff I have been doing lately (including this one - Sleep Tight) has been for A2Z Scraplets - a design team I am on. They are an australian based manufacturing company and they make a wide variety of chipboard shapes... they are all interesting and some are absolutely beautiful. I like the doodlets the best - there are some just gorgeous swirls and shapes... go and have a look! Scraplets are a wholesale seller only, but they do have a list of online stores on their blog that you could order from.

And while it is awesome to have the pleasure of designing for them, that has been the problem for putting pages online too - I can't put pages on here until they are put on the A2Z Blog, and if I submit (I have a few coming out in up2Scrap magazine soon) then i can't add them here either, and so I just don't get round to it!

So how about a quick update on my family for those who know me well... Alyssa is on her way to Brisbane, with her boyfriend John and his family. John is already in Brisbane and Alyssa and the rest of the family are in Christchurch until they can go over. Chanelle has pulled out of year 13 to start uni a year early. She has had her first week of her degree in Early Childhood Education at Waikato University and seems to be really enjoying it. That leaves Caylah as the sole Evans at Church College in it's last year open. She seems happy about that! CJ has started High School this year and is doing well with that too. He is at Melville High and I am excited that he will be taking piano lessons!