We head to Mexico City to meet longtime member eccemullier who loves to create!
Featured Member Interview
How did you find CO+K and why did you join?
My thing has always been: Costumes, T-shirts, Jewelry and Rainbows, COK is full of those, so I guess it was a matter of time for me to find you, one wonderful day I was googling costumes, in my job there is always a Costume contest during Halloween and I was out of ideas, specifically, I was looking for How to's about latex and found COK =D and then I found all the rainbow projects and then the stencil projects, and the cooking projects and I realized I was totally hooked up! I joined because I was mesmerized!! So much people looking for a place to express themselves in their most creative and unlimited way! I even found similar pages and I was not captivated by them as in COK. People really CARE about others in this page, that's almost impossible to find! I was amazed of the amount of girls (almost all of them girls) interested not only in looking pretty, or just looking fashionably, they were thinking about other people!! They were crocheting, stenciling, cooking, creating not in a selfish way, or not only for them but for their family, for their BBF's for their boy/girlfriends for the neighbor and so on! I've always been a person of vibes, and COK was making me crazy of happiness!! For the first time in my adult life I felt identified with others, I'm always the "creative one" yes, but also the "weird one" with the people that surrounds me, in COK I found out that I was not weird, I am simply Creative and that in COK, I felt at home... finally! =) And, been absolutely honest, I owe you a huge THANK YOU! I started crafting other than costumes because I found COK, finding you gave me the impulse and the confidence in myself, it made me realize that being me was not wrong, being me was (and is) absolutely awesome. =) <3
What projects are you currently working on?
First of all: my crafting space! =) It's my priority right now.
I'm working on prosthetic projects for Halloween and Zombie walks here in Mexico, my life is taking FX road really seriously ;)
I'm considering the fact of leaving behind my imitation jewelry projects, not because I don't love to create jewelry, but because I do not have enough time to make both =( I have a little FB shop https://www.facebook.com/pages/Eccemullier/437527703003990 (it's all in Spanish) but it's been a while since I worked on it =( That makes me really sad, but it's that time in my life where I have to choose between two lovely options =(.
Stats
- Joined
- August 11, 2009
- Location
- Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
- Projects
- 91
- Featured Projects
- 0
- Favorited
- 565 times
What does your craft space look like?
Sniff, sniff... good news/bad news I'm actually building up my craft space, unfortunately it's not done =( I do not have pictures of it yet =( I used to craft anywhere I could, meaning my bedroom, my living room, my bed, my kitchen, anywhere I could! My dream was to have my own space, a warehouse, a craft space, at least a desk I could call MY place! That dream is comming true after a tragedy =( My Father passed away on December 2012, after my Mother got over the mourning (I'm not sure it is well expressed, I mean the time when she started recovering from the loss) we as a family ( Mom, my brother and I) started rebuilding the house , we needed changes in here, too many of them actually, my Dad suffered a kidney failure and the treatment was really exhausting for all of us, him mainly, but still, supporting him in such an illness, made us change, when he passed away we were ready to start changing, he gave us that mision, and the values to deal with his loss, to deal with the changes and it has been an amazingly long journey! I started building up my craft space (oficially) two months ago... so I'm not ready yet! It's going to be a cozy 4x5 meters craft space, just for me!! =D
Which tool or craft supply do you use the most?
My my lucky fingerless gloves and I would say right now it is Clay and Paint brushes, but truly that's the short answer =)
What do you craft along to?
A little bit of all! It's usually music =) the problem is that, as I enjoy so much singing, I usually spend half of the time singing and the rest of the time crafting O_o... which is not good when I have due dates ;) I do not have a particular band or singer, I love them all,but I'm more eclectic... Usually contemporary pop (from 90's up to date) ... I love David Guetta, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Pink, Train, Dave Matthews Band, Shakira, Adele, Evanescence many other Latin singers like Alejandra Guzman, Ha-Ash, Rosana, La quinta estación (maybe this one is my favorite lately), Panda, and tooooooo many others, those are not all of them, not the most important, but the ones I remember, and still, when I need to really focus, I can finish a project in a record time listening to Four Season's Vivaldi's Concert... or a Bach Concert, or even Rock 'n Roll ;) when the opportunity comes, there's a particular podcast I love, and I usually listen to it when I need some dark inspirations. It's called Disección ( https://www.facebook.com/DISECCIONBYSANDYMOON ) It's a paranormal/fears/ghosts and mysteries program that is live on Wednesdays and it also has a podcast .... and, of course when I have the chance I see movies... All of them =) I love movies!!! If I have enough time to craft and watch a movie at the same time, I will =)
Ale's Most Popular Projects
Favorite Craft
I love to create, I love stencilling, but I specially love FX themes, makeup costumes, right now I'm really into that, so I would say : Art Crafts. Right now I'm studying FX courses here in my Country, I love being a future monster maker/character developer/FX artist.
Ale's Top Crafts
If you could learn one new craft or make anything, what would it be?
If I had enough time, I would like to learn crocheting =( I never did sniff sniff... I'd love to make a scarf with my own hands! =) I still hope to have the opportunity in the future ;)
Who are your crafting heroes?
Any person interested in developing their own self is a crafting heroe, I would say in my particular case, my inspirations, the people who helped me realize that are: (all of them in a different way)
My Family
My best friends Ale Arias and SandyMoon
Jet H.
Cat Morley
Crafterella
My FX professor Jorge Gomez
eccemullier's Favorite Projects
Do I really have only three options? (So unfair!! ;) ) My general perspective is that all of the projects are authentic, amazing and full of good feelings, I would say: That Rainbow Crayon Cat Morley made... Each and every project on COK! Specially, each and every Jet's Project!: Jet H. ; ) If I have to cut the list to three, then: The Rainbow Crayon ... because it's the first project I actually did based on COK ideas... not the first I published, but it truly was the first I tried, I broke my own panic to try with this one Stencil A Shirt project... Stencil A Shirt when I decided I wanted to start stencilling, I found many projects, but this is the one that really helped me, still is my favorite ;) The Inside Out project... Inside Out with this project I met Jet H. she has been my friend since that time, it's a good memory actually =)
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