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. 

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

WiFi, It Is Art!

“Luis Hernan set up a system that turned the wireless signals around him into colorful, ghostlike images using long-exposure photography, allowing people to see the strength of the signals around them.”  Yes, it is art. Have fun. The works of artist Luis Hernan. Click here for some more art.

Starbucks and Moi

Starbucks had a contest going until May 11 and it said, “design a beautiful cup and if we like it, we may feature it in our next tumbler.” So, I did. Here are pictures of the three designs I submitted. Miracles do happen, I heard. So, good luck to me I guess. #WhiteCupContest

Presentation #1

Presentation #2

Presentation #3

I look Better With Braids!

Someone told me today, he is glad my braids are back on. He looked at me, gave me a kiss on the cheek and said I look pretty. I said thank you!

I look Better In A Fro!

Someone told me today she likes my Angela Davis fro. She was happy to see me. Thank God, I no longer have the braids. She was thinking about the weight on my head, they must have been heavy . I said no and she replied, oh!

I look Better In A Ponytail!

Someone told me today that I look better on a ponytail. Yeah, that's right, a ponytail. Case closed. The customer is always right, right?! But wait, hold your horses right there missy, who's talking to you horsy?! I heard the tail begging me to please not put him on a corner, oops my bad, on a pony. So, I didn't. I let him be, free as a cucumber to rejoice his glory. So there, he is a tail in a pony and feeling great about it. And... Because I am happy!