Showing posts with label Style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Style. Show all posts

11.05.2015

My Art, My Creation, My Work


I am a woman show. I live in a schizophrenic world, no pun intended but my hands are like tentacles extending everywhere.  They move around faster then birds migrating south. I am just creative so they say.

Once upon a time, I wanted to be a fashion designer so I began sewing, to the point I had my own clients, high school friends, a skill I learned from my mother at tender age of 16. I was riding high, I loved it but it all stopped when I moved to the States where you live and breathe ready to wear, and college took over. 

I was creating and it felt great to see my work on others. Undone, I moved on, dreaming on becoming a fabric designer. So, I began sketching while innocently searching for factories with no way of knowing it would come to fulfillment.

As fait would have it, I ended up in the same city the factories were to be located but as it has happened with many factories, they moved to China. However, the world today is our oyster. We live in the digital age where anything and everything is possible as long as you try.

I thought about combining my two loves, well one of many, designing and sewing and create beautiful pieces for a long, long time but kept putting it in the back burner. I had ideas, may ideas and they were that, ideas until now.

It is without further ado that I present you my first installment of my two loves. The fabric you see, it is mine and the bags, I made them from head to toe.  They are ©Ampablue Creations. Hope you love them as much as I loved making them. 

6.29.2015

It Runs In The Family



Meet Gorretti Pina, she is an author and designer in Lisbon, Portugal and also my cousin. Her brother who passed away a few years ago, was also a great and renowned artist. Yes, the arts run in my family - both parents side. So, even if I wanted to, I could not escape it. She has written two books, poetry and fiction and is making her mark across the Portuguese world. I hope to see her showcasing her collections one day in a major runway show.






With Anibal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal at Palacio Nacional de Belem


Her first book


Her second book, a collection of poetry


On a TV show in Lisbon, Portugal

5.30.2013

Clover Canyon Resort Collection 2014

With exuberant electrifying prints, "every season is Resort at Clover Canyon," said designer Rozae Nichols created a masterpiece collection. Cuba, Havana-themed motifs like classic Caddy cars, cigars, tropical fruit, jute, and vibrant mosaic tiles, was the destination but any spy would see that they dabbed a bit into African prints. The collection has my name on it. Love, love everything about it and wouldn't mind to buy the whole thing. My closet would be screaming not enough space so, I digress. Enjoy it! To view more, click on Clover Canyon


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5.15.2013

African Fabrics and Shoes

What a concept! They are colorful. They chic. They stylist. They are made of African fabrics. They are delicious and ready for summer. Way to go!

Simple | Elegante | Chic

Suggestion on what to do with your African fabric. Work of designer FenixCouture.

5.02.2013

And The Way It Was…

My art work was in display last weekend among many other artists.

 Decorative pillows on white fabric and adorned with silk.

 The newest creation. I am yet to name it. 

I love it when my work peeks anyone’s interest. It is a mix of paint, embroidery, fabric.. it is not quilt but tapestries.

They wanted to know if it was hand painted or I used something else because of the precise lines. 
It takes practice. Practice, practice, practice…


Other Artists

He uses recycled engineering fuses to make the trees and now, he began making wall decor with zippers. Cool idea right?