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Creative Saturday is where you take some time on the aforementioned day to create anything in the world for your creative soul, to recharge, process, shits, giggles – whatever tickles your fancy! Progress will be shared every-ish Saturday

Painting with music

July 11, 2015

I always feel everything has to mean something, it has to have a story behind it, a brilliant concept, communicates a message or solves a problem, something that drives it!!

Essentially this is design, isn’t it?  But what ever happened to creating for the heck of it?

Just letting it all out..

Over the weekend I tried a little experiment, went over to a dollar store got a $3 sketchbook some paint brushes and colors. Put my phone on airplane mode and blasted a random playlist and just painted whatever. I listened to the first minute or so pick out the colors that I felt like picking and just painted till the song ended and for once in a very long time I didn’t have to worry if my client will like it? will it sell? is the copy legible? is it balanced? should I post it? is this going in my portfolio? … and so on and so forth

it felt freakin' liberating!!!! I had to make peace with the fact that all the drawings look as if a 2 year old painted them with her toes.. but whatever let’s try to K.I.S.S it! Keep it stupidly simple

4:05 Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar

4:05 Taylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar

3:52 Sia - Chandelier

3:52 Sia - Chandelier

3:09 OMI - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)

3:09 OMI - Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)

3:20 Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband

3:20 Meghan Trainor - Dear Future Husband

3:41 Flo Rida - GDFR ft. Sage The Gemini and Lookas

3:41 Flo Rida - GDFR ft. Sage The Gemini and Lookas

3:28 Kat Dahlia - I Think I’m In Love

3:28 Kat Dahlia - I Think I’m In Love

4:55 I see Fire - Ed Sheeran

4:55 I see Fire - Ed Sheeran

3:37 Angus & Julia Stone - Paper Aeroplane

3:37 Angus & Julia Stone - Paper Aeroplane

4:29 Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne

4:29 Clean Bandit - Rather Be ft. Jess Glynne

3:51 Avicii - Waiting For Love

3:51 Avicii - Waiting For Love

3:45 Fifth Harmony - Worth It ft. Kid Ink

3:45 Fifth Harmony - Worth It ft. Kid Ink

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In Painting, Art Therapy Tags creative saturdays, jamila refky, painting, sketching, music, art therapy
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Itsy Bitsy

May 23, 2015

There was a time when I used to go on long night strolls/runs when I lived in Florida, to clear my head and get some exercise in

This one time back in 2011, I encountered a huge ginormous spider that I had to run back home pick up my camera and shoot away

A few years later on a random Saturday going through my photo archives I stumbled upon these gems and got super inspired to recreate these photos in a different medium

Some research and shopping later resulted in the Itsy Bitsy Spider Ring that is designed to embrace a dark side of you in a modern sophisticated way

In Jewelry Design, Photography Tags jewelry design, creative saturdays, spider
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National letter writing month

April 3, 2015

When was the last time you received a hand written letter from an old friend? A family member? A loved one? The kind that were so carefully crafted that lets you feel their scent through the paper and gets you lost in the perfect imperfections of their handwriting and scribbles

April is The National Letter Writing Month, so we wanted to pay homage to the long lost art of letter writing

Being a hoarder of fine things, I looked through the boxes of stuff that I have and found lots of postage stamps and got so fascinated with the endless possibilities of things I can do with them. I I was overwhelmed - I felt the need to create something as a token of appreciation to that art, and to bring more people back to it

So through Anteiqa, a little shop that creates vintage jewelry that I cofounded along with my cousin, we started looking for ways to use those stamps in our creations. We decided to make rings, I mean what is more symbolic than a ring! But after lots of failed attempts and multiple trials with paper stamps, we started looking for vintage stamps to send out the same message but perhaps with a more durable material. Luckily, we were able to locate four exquisite pieces that roughly date around the 1980s from a gentlemen who also collects stuff

With combined magical forces, we were able to create something ever so wonderful! ♥

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss.”
— J. K. Rowling
In Jewelry Design Tags Vintage, Rings, Etsy, creative saturdays, Anteiqa, Art of letter writing, Postage, Stamps, Clown, Horse, Unicorn, Camel

Give me all the tassels

March 14, 2015

Just a random Saturday afternoon makin' em tassels

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In diy, Jewelry Design Tags creative saturdays, tassels

Baby girls

January 10, 2015

Celebrated a friend's baby girl by re-purposing an antique piece into a necklace that her mommy can wear and then pass it on to her little one

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In Jewelry Design, diy Tags creative saturdays, jewelry design, anteiqa
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